This researcher created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images
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- Published on Nov 13, 2019
- Why do all the pictures you take underwater look blandly blue-green? The answer has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak, an oceangoing engineer from the University of Haifa, has figured out a way to recover the colorful brilliance of the deep.
Read the full story at SciAm: www.scientificamerican.com/article/sea-thru-brings-clarity-to-underwater-photos/
Video by Erik Olsen: erikolsen.com/ 
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Turkey proud of you Derya Akkaynak 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
All you need is a kodak CC30r filter and it will take out all the blues and greens out of your pics and videos.no need for a complicated computer program.
birinin sonunda bunu yaptığını görmek güzel! helal olsun!
Stunningly brilliant!
Instagram has this "algorithm" built in already since long ago, but they named it "filters" rather than "see through" 😂
Nice. If you can create a training set of a couple thousand images we can train a neural network to do a very passable job on images without the colorchecker in the image.
The most weird thing about this is, that this actually only came up now. In 2019. O.o How the hell didn't adobe invest in this kind of thing. Seems so easy. Of course, considering you know what you are doing. Amazing idea. Hope she will get paid for this enough and not being bought by adobe or others.
How long till they have it in video? It would be weird to see sharks just floating.
Run it on Finding Nemo
What the hell. I can't believe this has many negative comments. She has done an amazing job. She had created this for researchers and scientists who do research on underwater life and not for those losers who can't even grasp the importance of this
a slide show would have been much better smh. so many unnecessary scenes
Like a filter?!🤷♂️
Very cool!
Can you make me disappear as I'm ready to end it?
Slick.
1.2K people are cunts
So, the chart with known color values is put in frame to provide the algorithm with the info needed to "back out" the effects of diffusion. It's (in effect) the same as using a sheet of clean white paper to reset the white balance on a DSLR before a photo shoot... just using more colors to finely tune the adjustment. Bravo! Sometimes the best inventions aren't totally new, just a new take or application of an existing idea!
Abla helal olsun sana. Başlar!
It is called “white balance”, If you are an underwater photographer you should know this.
I don’t see anything new
She should have a talk to President Trump so they can combine an algorithm to "drain the swamp." 😲🤣🇦🇺
The government won't allow this. They're afraid mankind will discover strange secrets in the ocean
Wow👏👍👌
Researcher spent 4 years creating algorithm that does same job as my finger in Photoshop in a mater od seconds
not really
.... ok so they discovered color grading...
Remarkable 👌🏽🏖🌊
This honestly just looks like setting the white balance properly. I've got photos from aquariums that look just like the before and after just by doing that.
This is just color correction, that chart is actually a color checker and is used in filmaking, the computer knows the colors of that chart so when you upload the image to the program, it kind of automatically matches the colors of the image to the colors of the chart, thats why the images is corrected that way.
this researcher color-corrected images - now your skateboard hovers! thank you science!
genius woman invents photoshop color correction?
what?
@gracefool The video is not clear in many aspects, which leads to simplistic interpretations. And the actual scientific paper on the method is too complex for most people. I don't understand half of it, but I'm pretty sure it's not even close to anything we do with Photoshop or Lightroom :)
@KK Foto good point, it uses distance too. If she's really just using the color palette for checking, then cool - it doesn't seem clear from the video.
All them silly scientists are no match for you guys. The method uses photogrammetry to implement a pixel by pixel distance dependent correction that includes scattering parameters and color attenuation. The color chart plays no role in the process. It is used only to check the results.
@strider yeah you're right. All she does is place a color reference in the shot.
@gracefool uh, it's basically a filter. What do you mean?
So glad I went to school to be part of this AI explosion.
NASA is so grateful
And now it's an app on the AppStore.
This is what happens when hippies stop smoking and go to college
Not taking away your brilliant work but they been using that algorithm in NASA space videoes for 40 years
This would be very cool for shipwreck diving! WOW this is cool!
ummm not so fast Derya...ruclip.com/user/results?search_query=how+to+color+correct+underwater+photos+in+photoshop
Helal len Derya
Remarkable, must be some trade offs.
Salute!
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I created an algorithm that took the oxygen out of my kitchen. ..... Don't go in my kitchen.
Fireproof kitchen tell me more.
That's child's play, I made an algorithm *that removes air from aerial photography*
Hit Like if you got thirsty af after watching this 😂 💦
Sooooo photoshop
Super Excellent Best video we have seen all she is AMAZING. and knows her field
Ooohhh you mean photoshop right?
Can we get an algorithm that lets me "see through" that down blouse? She's hot!
Get it together
If the objects never see enough light to be the colours in the altered versions of the photo, is it really genuine?
It’s cool though. Like a fish-tank view of the ocean.
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Some pictures look great. Other seem to have many noises
This can be implement for Military use, 🤔
Bravo
Nothing new, just a 3 points color balance from raw images
I congratulate Derya Akkaynak for this work. But I must say that the images that are generated from the non-visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum are "False colour (or pseudo colour)" images.
Settings>Options>Graphics>View Distance:Far Haze:Off Biome Colors:Off
Amazing. No underwater photographer has ever corrected white balance before. Neither through filter, strobe, nor digital correction in post. /sarcasm
Great video but what use is the algorithm if you are not sharing it or letting your viewers know how to go about using it for their underwater photography?
Smh... This is not an accomplishment worthy of recognition. Graphic artist have been doing this kind of thing to images for quite some time.
she is very beautiful