You may not know it, but if you use the latest versions of Photoshop, After Effects, Size or other package programs Adobe Creative Cloud, there is an AI (Artificial Intelligence) discreetly helping you with your work. The name of the technology is Sensei and it basically brings the power of image recognition to the programs that designers, illustrators and photographers are used to using. 526d1w
“A Adobe has been using image recognition technologies since 2008, when the content aware tool was launched”, says Ana Laura Gomes, an Adobe consultant. “Today this is known as Artificial Intelligence, but at the time we called it magic.”
Ana Laura demonstrated Sensei's tricks to an audience of guests at a company event called Adobe Experience House. He started by introducing the Creative Cloud image bank, Stock, which allows you to choose images using smart filters such as “images with a blurred background” or “vibrant or pastel colors”. then went to the Photoshop, which now brings features like Content Aware Scale, an evolution of the functionality launched in 2008, which now allows you to stretch an image without changing certain elements, such as people in a photo. Thanks to Sensei, the Liquify tool now recognizes human faces and lets you easily change facial expressions and features.
In programs like After Effects e Illustration Sensei allowed to include a tool that only existed in Photoshop, the puppet warp. It creates a network of points within the image that allows you to distort it in a natural way, making static people move their arms or changing aspects of a vector illustration without having to move the points that form them.
O Size, Adobe's 3D modeler, also makes intensive use of Sensei, creating textures and integrating 3D objects with photographs. The program can interpret the direction of light in photos and naturally include the 3D object within them.
The only problem with Sensei is that when comparing it to other AI technologies such as Shaping the Future do Google, it is somewhat limited. The main difference is that Sensei doesn't learn anything new. Because it is a technology built locally into programs, it cannot be trained like AIs with APIs (Application Programming Interface) that live in the cloud and have access to millions of images. In the image processing and catag program Lightroom, for example, Sensei can classify photos with tags like “child”, “dog”, “woman”, etc. But he can't put “Zé Maria” tags on all of his brother-in-law's photos.
Anyone who wants to find “real” Artificial Intelligence functions like machine learning in Sensei will have to look for them in the AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), the company's image management software for large e-commerce sites and corporations, which costs much more (much more) than the BRL 175 per month for Creative Cloud. In Brazil, it is used by TV Globo and the Ayrton Senna Institute.
According to Paulo Franqueira, customer experience manager at Adobe, the use of more sophisticated AI tools in Creative Cloud programs is a matter of time. “AEM is Sensei's testing ground. Various technologies that are in use on it will be integrated into CC at some point in the future.”
