Honor CIO Luo Wei Interview: How Honor Is Evolving Photography With AIMAGE

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Ewan Spence
Taking to the stage at Mobile World Congress, Honor CEO James Li announced Honor’s Alpha Plan, intending to transform the company into an AI Device Ecosystem.
That plan starts with “an intelligent phone”, and while that wasn’t on show at MWC, the four building blocks were a mobile AI agent, an all-ecosystem file transfer, deepfake AI detection and a new suite of photography tools in the AIMAGE suite.
I talked with Honor's Luo Wei, Chief Imaging Architect at Honor, to learn more about the modern-day challenges of imaging, where imaging data is processed, and how Honor’s AI software can impact consumers and professional photographers.
Honor’s Imaging History
Going back to the likes of Honor 6 Plus, Honor has been leaning heavily into photography as both a differentiator and an illustration of technical ability. The 6 Plus was in the first wave of smartphones featuring a dual-lens main camera, something de rigueur today but brand new and seen as experimental a decade ago.
CNet’s Andrew Laxon in 2014: " Although the three images are all taken from the same single picture, I've been able to change the focus to feature either Lego Milhouse in the background, the robot at the front, or keep all parts of the scene in focus. It's only a digital effect, but it's done well and will help lend some creative background blur for closeup shots of flowers or food."