Samsung’s Object Eraser lets you remove people from your photos

Samsung revealed new One UI 3 details at today’s Unpacked event, including an interesting new photo trick called Object Eraser, which lets you remove people from backgrounds in your images. Once the photo is taken, you can just tap on the people you want to remove, and the AI ​​will (in theory) do the rest.

If it works well – and it’s a big if – it’s no small feat. Removing an element from a photo and intelligently filling the background to replace it would be similar to what Adobe does with its content-aware fill tool. We wouldn’t expect this feature to work quite at this level, but it’s a tricky issue usually left with sophisticated image editing software. If Samsung can do this convincingly, it will be a good tip.

This feature will be available first on Samsung’s S21 series phones, but it’s expected to come to Galaxy devices that are compatible with an Android 11 update early this year.