The goal is to avoid duplicates and low-quality photos. Photo Story’s algorithm looks for technical quality, such as whether a photo is blurry or the exposure is correct, but it also evaluates how interesting and relevant a photo is. You can then share the resulting story via email or social network, just like any other video. It also uses machine learning to produce better and better stories as it learns from your choices. The app will then create a video from the best representative photos of the day, using computer vision to automatically pick the best photos but still letting you customize the choice of photos. All you have to do is choose a day, a theme, and a soundtrack. You can download it from the Windows Store.Here is how it works. Photo Story supports voice commands via Cortana, so for instance, saying 'Story from today' will make the app start sorting the photos you took today. It looks for something called 'interestingness' instead.īut how speedy is the app? Microsoft insists that the app won't take much time as it does all the processing on the device itself cutting the waiting period wasted in uploads and downloads. 'Photo Story's algorithm isn't just looking for technical quality, such as whether or not it's blurry or the exposure is correct,' the company noted in a blog post. The app will get better at recognising and sorting similar photos over time, Microsoft said. It's worth pointing out that a similar feature was introduced by Google in its Photos app at its developer conference I/O in May. Microsoft says that the app uses machine learning in the selection process. How the app categorises the images is just as interesting as the features it comes with. It also lets users add stylised music to the videos. Photo Story is a full-fledged app, which in addition to creating video albums, also offers editing and sharing tools apart a plethora of transition effects to allow users to do everything without ever needing another app. Photo Story is a product of Microsoft Garage Project. Called Photo Story, the app automatically arranges the best representative photos of an event together and makes a themed video album featuring them. Microsoft has launched a new photo app for its Windows Phone (also Windows 10 Mobile) mobile operating system.

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