

DxO Optics Pro v5’s new RAW conversion engine has been fine-tuned and optimized with the rest of the software’s automated image enhancement features (optical corrections, color rendering, exposure optimization, highlight recovery, etc.) to produce best-in class results.ĭust/Blemish Removal now available in version 5ĭxO Optics Pro v5 now incorporates a new tool to remove dust and blemishes from any digital image.

The other key characteristic of DxO Optics Pro’s new RAW Engine is that instead of applying noise reduction techniques after demosaicing, a newly-developed noise reduction is performed upfront, before noise has a chance to be amplified by the RAW conversion process and absorb important fine details.Ĭombined with other proprietary techniques, DxO Optics Pro v5’s new RAW Engine produces both the most detailed and most natural looking images yet – its very fine and homogenous grain translating into subtle shades and textures. Performing noise removal directly on the RAW data for best lowlight performance This significantly reduces demosaicing artifacts,” said Frédéric Guichard, Chief Scientist at DxO Labs. “DxO Labs’ approach to demosaicing turned a number of classical solutions on their head: instead of only considering pixels with respect to their direct neighbors, DxO’s new RAW Engine uses a ‘non local’ approach looking much further than is usual from each pixel in the image in order to reconstruct detail. These artifacts, particularly visible and unsightly, are compounded at high ISO settings and are in large part responsible for what is deemed the unnatural look of digital images.

The quality of demosaicing determines the amount of detail and artifacts in the final image. Inherently, demosaicing involves trade-offs between image sharpness, details, noise, processing time and conversion artifacts. Demosaicing is the crucial step of RAW conversion during which the camera’s image sensor pattern is reconstructed as a visible image for the human eye. All purchasers of DxO Optics Pro v4.5 on or after Augare eligible for a free upgrade to DxO Optics Pro v5.Ī breakthrough in demosaicing the ‘holy grail’ of RAW conversionĭxO Optics Pro v5’s RAW conversion engine includes a completely new demosaicing algorithm which produces images with much more detail and fewer artifacts, setting a new standard in image quality. Due to be released later in the fall, DxO Optics Pro v5 sets a new standard for image quality with its new RAW conversion engine. DxO Labs today announced DxO Optics Pro v5, the latest version of its award-winning flagship software application for automatic image quality enhancement for Digital SLR camera users.
