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About us
We develop innovative digital imaging technologies, applied for a wide range of optical systems from high-end DSLR cameras to mobile phones. Our customers are as big as top smartphone OEMs and as numerous as millions of users of our photo applications.
We are a team of world-class professionals who are devoted to driving digital imaging to a new level and provide users with exceptional imaging features.
Super Sensor
A groundbreaking technology, improving mobile camera quality beyond physical limitations.
Increases the resolution, improves low light sensitivity, expands dynamic range, vitrually replacing the sensor with a bigger one.
Demo, examples
A Better Camera for Android
The best HDR, Panorama, Night Mode, Group Photo are combined into this all-purpose camera application.
A Better Camera is an open source project allowing developers to add their features and get instant exposure to millions of users! Open Camera on Github
Get it now!
Super Zoom in Huawei phones
Huawei's flagship smartphones, Huawei P2 and P6, utilize Almalence's SuperZoom technology for improving camera zoom quality.
We are proud to be a vendor of imaging solutions for the most advanced devices in the world!
Press release, examples
World's fastest HDR
In partnership with Cadence, Almalence has created HDR solution for Tensilica IVP32 image processor.
By now, it is world's fastest multi-frame HDR solution, providing Full HD video HDR at 30 fps.
Press release
Embedded Imaging
Almalence is a global leader in mobile imaging and a vendor to top mobile device makers.
Our solutions are aimed on delivery of exceptional imaging quality and features on mobile phones. While further physical improvement of sensors and lenses is almost impossible, sophisticated processing algorithms allow unbelievable quality improvements, such as two times effective resolution increase.
Mobile Applications
Whenever our technologies can be implemented with a standard mobile platform API, we create an end-user application to deliver technology's benefits directly to the users.
Our applications include professional-level mobile HDR camera, high resolution panoramic camera, night camera and more. We create mobile apps for Android, iOS and even Tizen.
Photo Software
Our flagship desktop product for professional photographers, PhotoAcute is a multishot photography wizard that increases image resolution beyond the camera limits, expands dynamic range and depth of field, removes chromatic aberrations.
PhotoAcute implements our most sophisticated image processing algorithms such as super resolution, image registration with sub-pixel precision, precise radiometric alignment and more.
Developer Products
We provide all of our solutions in a form of SDKs licensable to third parties. Our SDKs are licensed by such famous imaging software developers as HDRSoft and Imagic AG.
The open-source project A Better Camera is aimed to become a top-ranked all-purpose camera application for Android, allowing any developer to add their plugins and get instant exposure to millions of users.
Super Resolution
Super resolution is a method for enhancing the resolution of an image or of an optical system.
This can be done by either acquiring more graphic information (e.g. taking and merging several images of the same object) or by reconstructing details lost due to the faults of the optical system (applying knowledge of the optical system's properties).
Our technology uses both ways to achieve maximum image quality.
Almalence's super resolution technology supports automatic algorithm tuning to particular cameras and optics. That makes it possible to achieve maximal image improvement for every imaging system.
Unlike many other existing super resolution methods, our method is non-iterative. With this method, it is possible to process even 20-40 megapixel images with an ordinary desktop computer within minutes. Other methods might require enormous amounts of memory and hours of time for calculations. Moreover, our method provides the best output quality compared to other methods.
The super resolution module of PhotoAcute SDK, which is available for licensing, contains super resolution processing functions and a number of camera/lens profiles for super resolution processing. We also deliver the tool for creation of profiles.
Example of resolution enhancement with PhotoAcute
This video demonstrates PhotoAcute in action
The input set of RAW images is processed to get final image with higher resolution
Resolution improvement is best seen in the areas with regular patterns and grids, as well as small prints.
In this video you can see an amazing resolution boost. A comparable resolution increase could be achived with switching to a twice higher resolution camera with much quality lens, which in the given case would have more than ten times higher price.
Canon or Nikon?
Look at the photo and guess is it Canon or Nikon?
The answer is: the photos were taken with Motorola Droid X using HDR Camera+.
Ok, a mobile cannot beat a DSLR now, but a compact camera is probably unneeded once you have a modern camera phone with advanced imaging features like those developed by Almalence.
The photos are from tosthed's photostream on flickr. Check that photostream for probably the best mobile photos you've ever seen.