10: Chapter 10: Reclaiming Shares!

"The battery prices purchased by the company over the past three years have all been 15% higher than the average market price. The actual controller of the supplier, Xinghai Electronics, is your younger brother..."

When all the evidence was laid out on the table, the conference room fell into dead silence immediately.

"I can hand these materials over to the police, or I can act as if I never saw them. The choice is in your hands."

Vice President Zhang Mingyuan's hands were trembling, and Manager Li Xiuyun had already slumped into her chair...

They truly hadn't calculated that Old Shen would have taught Shen Fei so well... and that he would hide it so deeply.

"I want to see your resignation letters by tomorrow."

Shen Fei stood up: "Out of consideration for the years you followed my father, hand over your shares, and this matter ends here. But there is no longer a place for you at Transsion."

After finishing, he walked out of the conference room without looking back.

The moment the door closed, the sound of Vice President Zhang Mingyuan's hysterical roaring and things being smashed came from behind it.

Transsion was supposed to be his! That good-for-nothing Shen Fei, wouldn't it be better to just be a leisurely prince? Now everything was gone... gone.

Shen Fei outside the door: "Vice President Zhang, if you smash things, you will have to pay the original price for them."

After saying that, Shen Fei laughed heartily and walked toward his office. Of course, he wasn't that merciful.

This was just the beginning.

Returning to his office, he rubbed his eyebrows wearily, and a notification sound echoed in his mind again...

[Monitoring: Host has successfully stabilized the domestic base and cleared out internal pests. Task Evaluation: B+. Reward Issued: Dark Skin Tone Optimization Algorithm. Additional Reward: 30 professional investment team operators. Note: This team is proficient in global financial market operations and excels in crisis arbitrage.]

Shen Fei's eyes lit up. September 2008... If he remembered correctly, Lehman Brothers was about to go bankrupt.

Originally, with Huang Tianya, he could have become a harvester in this crisis.

But now with more people, he could earn a bit more...

Shen Fei thought for a moment and sent this news to Huang Tianya, who replied with an "OK," sent over a brief report, and continued with the operation.

Shen Fei's original 10 million had now become 42 million.

Less than a week, a 420% return... It seemed that Huawei Terminals might indeed be within reach.

After reading the detailed report sent by Huang Tianya for a while, Shen Fei's eyes felt a bit tired, so he simply closed the report and continued to focus on the matter at hand.

The algorithm had arrived, and the next step was to turn it into a product.

"Engineer Chen, summon all image algorithm engineers. Meeting in one hour."

"Yes!"

At the same time, on Wall Street.

The lights were bright in the Lehman Brothers headquarters office. Although the expressions of the executives were a bit heavy, there was more relief or perhaps joy.

Although this investment bank with a 158-year history was standing on the edge of a cliff, about to fall over, they had already gotten what they needed to get. As for the consequences caused, that was the responsibility for those leeks to bear.

After all, investment has risks.

What kind of impact it would cause had nothing to do with them; they were already enjoying themselves...

But what no one knew was that in far-off China, a Chinese company on the verge of bankruptcy was using an initial capital of 10 million to try to get a sip of soup, and had already harvested quite a lot.

[Investment team operation record: September 8th, established a short position on Lehman Brothers Credit Default Swaps (CDS). Nominal principal 5 million USD, leverage ratio 20 times...]

5 million USD of capital leveraging 100 million; once successful, it would mean massive profits. A financial crisis is a disaster for some, but a feast for others.

And what Huang Tianya needed to do was to earn enough ammunition for his boss before the feast ended.

Transsion R&D Center. Calling it an R&D center, it was actually just a few offices.

The conference room was full of people. Besides the hardware team led by Chen Hai, there were more than 10 software engineers poached from other mobile phone manufacturers or internet companies.

Everyone's face carried weariness and a hint of skepticism. They had been urgently summoned, and it was said that this young President Shen was going to personally explain a revolutionary algorithm.

Shen Fei stood in front of the projection screen, rolling his sleeves up to his elbows, but his eyes were very excited.

"Everyone, no nonsense, let's look at the results directly."

He opened his computer, connected the projector, and two photos appeared on the screen, both portraits of the same Black model.

The one on the left was taken with a Nokia N95, which was one of the phones with the best photography effects on the market right now. But the model's skin tone was dull, the details were blurry, and it was almost impossible to see in dim light.

The one on the right was equally disappointing...

"This was taken by our T100," Shen Fei said. "Same lighting, same model, same shooting distance, we are indeed quite inferior."

"But I hope that in the future, we can achieve the effect of the one below."

Immediately after, another photo appeared on the big screen. A gasp sounded in the conference room, accompanied by a burst of self-deprecating laughter.

"Can we really do this?"

After all, in this new photo, the model's skin tone was naturally bright, the facial features were clear, and even the details of the eyelashes could be seen. The photo was completely transparent, with none of the problems of ordinary phones where dark skin tones make the portrait look like a black blob.

"This is impossible..." murmured an algorithm engineer who had jumped ship from Nokia.

"Actually, our team has studied the impact of racial skin tone differences on imaging. Solving this problem is very complex, requiring a redesign of the entire ISP pipeline, and even modification of the sensor's color filters."

"The whole process is very complex and even requires the cooperation of upstream manufacturers. If customized separately, it would significantly increase costs, so our team eventually chose to give up."

"Correct."

Shen Fei nodded: "So we didn't modify the hardware, but rather, we are going to solve this problem at the algorithm level."

He switched the PPT, and a complex algorithm flowchart appeared on the screen.

"Traditional image processing flows are designed and trained based on the skin tones of white and Asian people." Shen Fei pointed at the flowchart with a laser pointer, and the engineers below were now slightly convinced.

"White balance correction, skin tone detection, exposure compensation... every link is unfriendly to dark skin tones, for example, here..."

He zoomed in on a module: "The face detection algorithm uses a Haar feature classifier, and Black samples in the training data are less than 5%."

"So under moonlight, it often fails to detect Black faces, making subsequent exposure optimization impossible to talk about."

Several engineers nodded. This was an industry consensus; after all, Black people who could afford phones were ultimately a minority, and giving them 5% of the samples was already...

"Our next solution is mainly divided into three steps..."

Shen Fei flipped the page again. When everyone saw the detailed flowchart, they immediately frowned. This plan was too...