Image Understanding arrives in Opera for Android

September 3rd, 2024

We’re introducing a new AI feature into your Android mobile device for you to use on-the-go: Image Understanding. This feature allows you to upload any image to the Aria browser AI and get information and context about it. You can upload images from your gallery, or access your camera directly from the chat with Aria. Not long ago we added Image Understanding to the desktop version of Opera, and now we’re bringing this feature right into your pocket.

Now, you can use this powerful feature anywhere! For example, when you’re traveling and want to know more about the places you’re visiting, you can take a picture directly from the chat with Aria and ask about it. Or, maybe you find something interesting you want to know more about on your daily commute and your curiosity gets the better of you, Aria’s Image Understanding is right at your fingertips.

To access the Image Understanding feature, open a chat with Aria in the browser by tapping the menu icon and then on “Aria Browser AI”. Then, tap on the “+” sign to the left of the chat input field, upload an image or take a picture by accessing your camera. Additionally, you can take a picture directly by tapping on the camera icon to the right of the chat input field.

The buttons that let you access image understanding.

We’re rolling out this feature in Opera Beta for Android version 85 first, and expect to introduce it in the stable version of Opera for Android in the near future.

Get to know more with Image Understanding on the go

With Image Understanding you can know more about what’s around you no matter where you are. Let’s say you’re traveling and you found a cool-looking monument that caught your attention, so you take out your phone, open your Opera browser, and start a chat with Aria.

Aria recognizes what's on the image and gives you information about it.

Aria uses Image Understanding to identify the elements in the image and provides the information that you’ve requested in the prompt. Now you know what that monolith-like monument in Stockholm is called, what it’s made of, where it’s located, and we’ve also got some general information about that location.

Now, the use you give to Image Understanding is up to you, for example I got a bit angsty the other day due to an unexpected visitor while I was having lunch, so I asked Aria about it to get some answers:

Aria can recognize images, understand them and then give you context about it. Here, it recomends not getting near the animal.

I’m glad I asked Aria about this, since I was tempted to interact with the goose and maybe pet it – I guess peace was never an option in this case. In the end, this just shows how it’s useful to have Aria available to help with anything while on-the-go. And now, Image Understanding adds up even more to Aria’s capabilities for Android users.