Google has open-sourced the AI tool that makes the Pixel’s portrait mode so good

Google’s Pixel phone has one hell of a camera, and one of the reasons for this is AI. Google has used its machine learning talent to squeeze better shots and shooting modes out of a tiny smartphone lens. And now, the company is open-sourcing one of these AI tools — a piece of software that underpins the Pixel’s portrait mode.As announced in a blog post earlier this week, Google has open-sourced a lump of code name DeepLab-v3+. This is an image segmentation tool built using con