Тус аппликейшн нь хиймэл оюун ухааны тусламжтайгаар хэрэглэгчийн авч буй зурагт тохирох байрлалыг санал болгож, гэрэл зураг авах үйл явцыг хялбарчилж байна
TikTok-ийн бүтээгдэхүүний багт ажиллаж байсан Мелоди Чу болон Жин Лю нар iOS үйлдлийн системд зориулсан Superpose аппликейшнийг зах зээлд нэвтрүүллээ. Энэхүү аппликейшн нь компьютерийн хараа болон үүсгэгч хиймэл оюун ухааны технологийн тусламжтайгаар зураг авахад тохиромжтой дөрвөн төрлийн байрлалыг санал болгодог. Хэрэглэгчид санал болгосон байрлалуудыг хадгалах эсвэл “match-pose” функцийг ашиглан өөрийн биеийн байрлалыг дэлгэц дээрх заавартай тааруулан зураг авах боломжтой юм.
Долдугаар сард албан ёсоор нээлтээ хийсэн уг аппликейшн 22,000 гаруй удаа татагдаж, 190,000 гаруй зураг авах байрлалыг хиймэл оюун ухаанаар үүсгэжээ. Хэрэглэгчдэд өдөр бүр таван удаагийн үнэгүй байрлал санал болгох бөгөөд нэмэлтээр төлбөр төлөн авах боломжтой. Мелоди Чу нь өөрийн гэр бүлийн хүний зураг авах чадвартай холбоотой тулгарсан бэрхшээлээс үүдэн энэхүү санааг гаргасан гэдгээ илэрхийлсэн байна.
Superpose стартап нь Khosla Ventures, Meitu болон OVTR VC-ээс нийт 2.2 сая долларын санхүүжилт татжээ. Тус компани нь хиймэл оюун ухааныг ашиглан зурагт дэвсгэр нэмэхээс илүүтэйгээр бодит амьдралын мөчүүдийг чанартай буулгахад анхаарлаа хандуулж байна. Одоогоор хөгжүүлэгчид хиймэл оюун ухааны санал болгож буй байрлалуудыг илүү бодитой болгох, хэрэглэгчийн тохиргоог сайжруулах чиглэлээр ажиллаж байна.
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Companies have been increasingly using AI’s image generation chops to teach people photography skills. Google last year released a feature called Camera Coach on Pixel phones to guide users about framing and composition, and in July, Adobe released a new feature in its experimental camera app to use AI to critique photos and suggest changes for capture.
On the same slant, two former TikTok employees, Melody Chu and Jing Liu, are launching a new iOS app called Superpose that uses an AI guide to teach people how to pose for pictures.
Superpose essentially is a camera app. Users can take a selfie or photo of a friend, and the app will generate four potential poses using AI. Some of the poses are extravagant, and, at times, the generation seems uncanny.
Users can save generated poses, or use the match-pose feature to try to place themselves in the frame based on its suggestions.
Prior to founding Superpose, Chu worked in various product roles in companies like Meta, Nextdoor, Roblox, TikTok, and Slack. Meanwhile, Liu was a founding engineer at a 3D face-scanning startup, and later worked on image and video models at TikTok.
Chu said that the idea for the app stemmed from a personal problem: her husband wasn’t able to take good photos of her.
“My husband just takes awful photos of me. It was a true pain point in our marriage where I don’t understand how he gets me to look just so terrible all the time. And I thought to myself, there has to be a way to solve this problem with advancements in computer vision and generative AI. And I decided to set out on my own,” Chu told TechCrunch.
Superpose was launched in July, and has been downloaded over 22,000 times so far. The company says its users have generated more than 190,000 poses. The app gives users five generations for free every day, but they can buy a pack of five additional generations for $2.99, or 20 generations for $9.99.
While Chu acknowledged that other companies are also entering the AI-guided photography space, she said Superpose wants to focus on becoming the best camera to take portrait photos by following directions from AI. The startup doesn’t want to get into creating AI backgrounds and images, and wants to focus on real-life photographs, she added.
“We want to lean into the core of memory capture versus, say, putting you in a fantastical place that you’ve never been. I think there are so many apps that do that well already, but we really wanna focus on actually capturing the lived moment and experience,” Chu said.
She also acknowledged that some of the pose suggestions might seem uncanny, and the company is working on improving that. The startup says it is working on improving its generation styles, personalization, and ways to better coach users directly from the viewfinder.
Superpose has raised $2.2 million in funding from Khosla Ventures, Chinese smartphone and selfie app maker Meitu, and OVTR VC.
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