Multispectral Imaging
Spectricity’s technology for a multispectral camera is ideal for mobile devices such as smartphones or AR headsets. The miniaturized multispectral imaging solutions are fully compatible with the size, power consumption and cost requirements of mobile devices. These multispectral cameras can act as companion sensors, cooperating and fusing data with other sensors in the devices (such as other image sensors or 3D depth sensors) to provide augmented data. This enables more robust applications, enhancing the user experience.
Thanks to the accurate measurement of colour using the spectrum of light, applications that would be impossible with standard RGB cameras become possible, from truer colors in color photography, to accurate detection of materials.
Our sensors are also ideal for other applications demanding high-volume, miniaturized spectral imaging solutions, such as the automotive, IoT or security camera markets.
Accurate Color Matching through Multispectral Imaging
Ever wanted to capture that lovely color you just saw, using you phone? Forget it, phones cannot measure color accurately. ❌ With Spectricity’s S1 multispectral camera, this becomes possible. Spectricity’s multispectral camera gets color right. ✅
According to our tests, in 85% of the cases, Spectricity’s detected colours cannot be distinguished from the true colour, as opposed to only 30% with a normal camera. This means that in 70% of cases, a normal camera outputs a color that’s just not right. Unlike standard RGB cameras, Spectricity’s multispectral camera enables significantly more accurate color identification.
True Colors through Multispectral Imaging AWB
Smartphone cameras are essentially color blind. Their automatic white balancing (AWB) algorithms often fail to resolve the correct white point, resulting in poor color fidelity (see the benchmark example across different lighting conditions using world’s most popular flagship phone). This is especially problematic in the presence of multiple illuminants or challenging scenes.
Spectricity’s multispectral imaging AWB detects illuminants more accurately in each area of the scene through their spectral signature. This results in true colors: improved color photography, accurate, unbiased skin tones, and personalized cosmetics for mobile devices. Check out more information about our AWB.
AI-Powered Skin Analysis:Next Generation of Smart Skin Care
Step into the future of personalized skincare with our enhanced skin analysis demonstration. Witness how the fusion of our multispectral camera and lululab’s AI algorithms provides a revolutionary approach to understanding your skin. This innovative solution empowers users to capture skin data (biomarkers, skin tone, etc.) with their mobile devices and unlock tailored skincare advice from the comfort of their homes.
The Future of Smartphone Cameras: RGB + Multispectral
Smartphones are evolving—and so are their cameras. By integrating a multispectral camera alongside the traditional high-resolution RGB camera, future smartphones can deliver a new level of visual intelligence.
Fusing multispectral and RGB images enables true color accuracy, robust white balancing, and enhanced camera algorithms that perform reliably in diverse and uncontrolled environments.
This dual-camera approach opens the door to innovative mobile applications—from next-gen photography and personalized skincare to wellness monitoring and smart gardening.
Example Applications
Accurate Color Photography
Capture true object colors in any environment. Enable spatial white balancing and precise color matching for e-commerce, printing, and richer, more lifelike photography.
Skin Health
Analyze skin conditions like eczema, melanoma, dryness, or UV damage. Support personalized treatment recommendations and enable remote monitoring through accurate multispectral imaging.
Augmented Reality
Achieve realistic relighting of real and virtual objects, with improved detection of organic and inorganic materials, enabling smarter, more immersive augmented reality experiences.
Smart Gardening
Monitor plant health with spectral data. Detect watering and fertilization needs, identify early signs of disease, and provide actionable care recommendations.
Anti-Counterfeit
Verify product authenticity and material composition using spectral signatures. Enhance security systems, including facial recognition with advanced anti-spoofing capabilities.
Food Analysis
Evaluate food freshness, ripeness, and nutritional quality with precision. Enable smarter decisions in food safety, storage, and consumption.
Read more about the underlying chip technology enabling high-volume spectral imaging.
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Finally accurate colors with Spectricity’s multispectral image sensors
Cameras are the centerpiece of today’s smartphones, and play a key selling point to many consumers. Picture quality is paramount. Yet, despite tremendous camera advances, the color fidelity of state-of-the-art smartphones remains relatively poor. Smartphones are essentially color blind.
Multispectral imaging with advanced Auto White Balancing (AWB) enables smarter white point estimation and more precise color inspection.
Spectricity’s new mobile device multispectral image sensor finally empowers true color photography, which will open the door to a host of applications including personalized cosmetics, and new e-commerce applications on the phone.
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Download this white paper to learn more about:
- The market trend of image sensors on smartphones
- Why your smartphone is color blind? Dive in the problem of AWB
- How multispectral imaging can solve the issue and enable better white point estimation
- Spectricity’s solution and applications: mobile multispectral image sensor for the camera of the future