Samsung has offered a closer look at its long-term AI vision, highlighting how visual intelligence is reshaping the mobile experience on the Galaxy S25 series and beyond. As part of its Galaxy AI strategy, the company is leveraging powerful on-device models to make everyday tasks, like searching thousands of photos or editing multiple videos, smarter, faster, and far more intuitive. Some of these enhancements could come with One UI 8.
Smarter Gallery search with Vision and Language AI technologies
One of the standout insights is Samsung’s focus on natural language-powered photo search. On the Galaxy S25 series, users can now describe a memory using conversational phrases, like “the picnic with Emma last spring” or “sunset at the beach with dogs,” and Galaxy AI will analyze contextual details such as objects, faces, actions, and locations to instantly find the relevant photos.
This is made possible by a major upgrade to Samsung’s image recognition engine, which now includes tripled tag types and improved clustering for better people recognition. The company also introduced zero-shot learning to help the system recognize new objects it hasn’t encountered before.
“By developing an image analysis engine and using zero-shot technology, we improved the performance so that the Galaxy S25 series can recognize object data it encounters for the first time,” said Hongpyo Lee from the Visual Technology Team at Samsung Research. “For people, we expanded analysis beyond facial features to include clothing, time, and location, making it easier to group photos of the same person.”
Samsung also introduced Auto Trim, a new feature that uses on-device AI to automatically edit long videos or combine key scenes from multiple clips into a single short-form video. This could be a game changer for users who want to share highlights from events, trips, or even just their pets, without manually trimming each video. This feature involved deep collaboration between Samsung Research and the mobile division.
Samsung is looking ahead to multimodal AI and immersive content
These developments already sound impressive, but they are just the beginning. Samsung is already exploring multimodal AI technologies, combining visual understanding with other sensory inputs, for future AR and VR applications. This means Samsung’s vision AI might eventually extend into XR headsets, context-aware video editing, AI-powered effects, and even searchable video content.
“We’re actively utilizing AI technology for fast, easy, and high-quality editing in the video domain,” said Seonghwan Kim from the MX Business’ Visual Solution Team. “Samsung will focus on further developing the technology so that AI can better understand the context of video content, helping users reduce editing time effectively and generate edited videos that reflect the user’s intent — all without requiring professional editing skills.”
With record R&D investments and next-gen devices like the Galaxy S25 Edge, Fold 7, and new XR hardware on the horizon, Samsung is laying the foundation for a more context-aware and AI-driven mobile future.
