This researcher created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images
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- 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.
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Fun fact:
Derya or Darya is a Persian name and it means "sea" or "ocean"
She was born to persue oceanography
Nokhod darya in Urdu means river. I’m from Pakistan
The same in turkish and I think the Woman in the Video is turkish aswell
Dunno if its fun but its a fact:
She is Turk.
great example of nominative determinism
Or it was a self fulfilling prophecy
People really don't understand how much of a game-changer this is. If this algorithm can be applied to active video feed just think of the active survey actions of sunken ships and submarines and rescue operations that require detail site
Jacob Jorgensen that’s awesome, thanks for putting it in perspective
Yeah, assuming it would be performant enough. We shouldn't forget that, sadly. But for pictures alone, this is great!
@@BlueTJLP it will, it just takes time for the processing power to catch up.
Judging from the footage in the video, this is basically an algorithmic version of a physical red filter used on lenses. This isn't truly adding detail or removing hazy distortion over distance, it's just producing truer colors from the underwater footage than traditional unfiltered methods. As you can see around 2:20, this method actually loses quite a bit of detail in the shadows, so I'm not sure why you would opt for this over a simple and reliable red filter, which has been used for underwater photography for quite some time.
@@ACBYT The difference is that you have the real color scale to do a color accurate correction for each photo, you don't have to guess, it's done automatically based on the color palette that's left on site prior to taking the photos.
And just like that, dehydrated water became a reality. 😂
Boneless water
It's a good thing Eddie Hall doesn't know about it.
@@DragonFellowship i second this
IKR so true.
Dumbest shit ive ever reqd
I'm gonna invent an algorithm that makes scenes on land look hazy and covered in a green blue filter, just like they would have been in the sea.
Underwater world
That would be the same algorithm as this one, just taking the complement of all the values.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 Actually, I already approximated this effect in 4th grade when I painted over my dad's camera lens
@@KaninTuzi U r a truuee geniass.
That’s like looking at a mountain from a distance
Apple : “ yea i think its time to add a fifth camera on our next phone “
Apple is so behind by this point
Circunflexo iphone 11 pro 3 in the back 1 in the front thats 4 total but go awf 🤝
@Circunflexo samsung fold has 5. Iphone 3 camera you say aren't all cameras either. One of those camera hole is actually a sensor. In Galaxy fold two of those are sensors.
Michel michel there's actually 5, there is also an infrared camera in the front. So 2 in the front and 3 in the back
but it going to be an attachment piece that cost $9999
Removing water from water, is the most 2019 thing we can do.
Dehydrated water
just wait until we ACTUALLY removes all water in the ocean by 2050 lol
Fabian Alfonso bold of you to assume we’ll all be alive by then
(it’s kinda sad i have to clarify, but i’m joking)
I used the water to destroy the water
@@cucumbersprout7491 Some will be. But they will not be living a good life... The elites will.
*This researcher created an algorithm that removes water from the world*
Now that would be a serious climate change.
Oops! Wrong algorithm.
*How dare you?!*
Africa
Hol' up...
Can't wait to do a "pip install Sea-thru".
Same here
Her site says: "We hope to make Sea-thru freely available for non-commercial use very soon; for licensing the technology, please email us at..."
Lol
I want a #include
Actually the code is already in github
github.com/jgibson2/sea-thru
I created an algorithm that prints Hello World to the screen.
stupid
you just type print("hello world") and run not just to make an algorithm.
@@nothing5819 WOOSH
@@nothing5819 In Python that is. Try with a real language next time 😜.
@@minepro1206 ugh... fine you guys win im out of this heckhole
Truly the next Ada Lovelace right here
I don’t get why she didn’t just craft a night vision potion
lol
Ikr
Yeah like duhhh
haha funny meme
Ikr so much easier 😂
This'll be real useful in 50 years when most coastline cities are underwater.
Impossible that’s not going to happen
Many ancient cities are underwater. What's your point, other than the top of your head?
I will comment on this 50 years later and tell you greta and all the doom day climate wack is were wrong! Just like the 1970's where you wackos are holding signs saying the next ice age is coming!
rapperc18 the date for the mass flooding has been and gone. There is no sign it’s coming either. They have nothing to point to other than their false and phoney science.
Good grief. Not even the worst scenarios predict anything like that. No wonder people don't take climate change seriously.
Is there an algorithm that will make me enjoy living
That's on you don't you know?!
You can't not enjoy leaving if you're dead.
😂
No dice, I've tried everything
talk to god
Fun fact: She is a Turkish woman and Derya means Sea/Ocean in Turkish
The name is actually Persian..look it up
@@dr.strange6458 he didn't talk about the origins of the word, he just stated that her name means sea/ocean in her language. Learn to read.
@@herope1391 Well said 👍
Fun fact indeed
Wow. Derya means river in Sindhi and Urdu languages but ocean/sea in old poetry.
It's funny how her name is literally the Sea
I see sea
It's like the story of the hippopotamus (along came poly)
Even funnier is you enjoying sawing wood and I enjoy laying it.
Anthony Lopez ok “Anthony Lopez”
Anthony Lopez literally what a person with a common name would say
This will improve photography in the humid Southeast.
You're definitely not from south-east.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 and you definitely don't get jokes
@@mathildew2501 Your mum.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Mr. Krabs sold spongebob's soul for 67 cents
I hope this technology inspires people to keep our oceans clean. These pictures are beautiful.
Imagine going below the island of garbage, taking a picture, and applying the filter..
You do realize America's recycling goes to China? They dump it in a river
@@TheCuriousNoob they stopped buying and now we're sending excess to landfills. Fun fact.
Underwater photographers and videographers have been manually editing their photos/videos for years and it's fairly easy even with "live" video. Just need the correct red lens and lighting (see th-cam.com/video/J6kQJ4RowXA/w-d-xo.html) However, creating an AI to automatically adjust without the need for filters/lighting would be a game changer.
It is more of a color correction due to sea water filtering colors from lights spectrum depending on the depth of the water. The most pristine ocean will still need the technique. It is not reality but a hack to see what it would appear like out of water.
So she took the adjustments underwater photographers have been doing manually for years and automated it. That is very impressive and exciting.
I'm unable to control my uncontrollable enthusiasm... :-D
Most importantly, made it accurate
@@randomguy5990 Right. Or at the very least, consistent and as close to accurate as you're likely to get. I noticed there were still areas (away from the focal point mainly anyway) that had some of that haze, but the main objects looked great.
2:45 it sounds like it's something much more advanced.
I think the colour chart is there as a reference for the ai to distinguish different colours underwater and figure out what they should be like on land.
What a fantastically simple and effective idea. She's a genius!
Benjamin Charlton - simple?.... yea, pretty sure it’s no where near “simple” to create what she did.
Calling it “fantastically simple”... would be if all she did was use a color chart and color grade... she built a freakin mathematical formula to accurately remove HAZE and WATER DISTORTION... with MATH... from a distorted monotone **UNDERWATER** PHOTO.... and then with the use of freakin MAGIC... she REMOVES THE FREAKIN WATER..... ..... FROM THE FREAKIN PHOTO... BENJAMIN!
WITH MATH!
A FREAKIN MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHM!! That REMOVES WATER!! FROM THE FREAKIN OCEAN!!
She took the damn water out Benjamin!! It’s freakin GONE!.... with MATH. A freakin MATH PROBLEM!
..... “simple” 😖
@@HiThisIsMine bro you're overreacting
Many people could've done it but she came up with the idea and executed it , that's applaudable . Otherwise there is not shortage of smart people on this earth , you could've done it forgodsake if you could put in the time and effort.
wick - not overreacting... just over-exaggerating the fact that it’s not “fantastically simple”.
The world is full of smart people, yes, but to discredit the time, effort and skill that went into making this possible by calling it “simple”... that’s why I called out Benjamin for his comment.... exaggeratingly (if that’s even a word)... which I assumed would be obvious.
Getting further into my denunciation of calling this “simple”. Anyone with some know how could probably reverse engineer what she did to create this system... but nobody HAS created it on their own and reverse engineering something doesn’t take away from its complexity. I would assume Benjamin had good intent when writing his comment, but the process of creating a system that can achieve what is achieved here, is by no means a simple one.
That is the most impressive breakthrough in photography this century - a brilliant piece of work!!!
I'm a biophysicist specializing in optics & photonics for my PhD, and this is so right up my alley. Cool stuff. :)
EDIT: Just sharing because it's not often that something shows up in the mainstream that encompasses all my different areas of study and does it so specifically--So it's exciting for me. Whenever somebody asks what I majored in, they always ask "What's that?" or "What do you actually do?" It's this sort of thing and more. Most people don't know what type of scientists do this sort of stuff, so I figured I'd share what sort of education I had for anyone who might want to know what's involved, do this sort of thing for a career, or go into similar fields.
Ephyne which university? :)
Big words.....
@@trojan5514 They study how light affects living stuff.
@@misterrogerroger5537 ok
claps
Derya Akkaynak. The hero we didn't know we needed.
Adobe: Ladies and gentlemen, we found her
Just drain the water from the ocean and then take the picture.
Have they never played Mario?
I expect this to be built-in in Sony, Canon and Nikon mirrorless in 5 years. Lol just jk. See you in my next cell phone.
It relies on the data from the color chart. So not likely.
@@wedding_photography It does not. The training of the AI relies on color charts in the training data sets.
For your fyi, just jk is redundant
@@wedding_photography as craigsj said, the chart serves to provide training data for the AI model to learn, after it has finished learning (i.e., it reached satisfying results) the model can be applied to any picture without reference.
Andrew Areva yes, it uses distance data. So, in phones with that depth vision camera, it could be processed right away
Anyone else was expecting it to be no water at all lol
I thought maybe there were water droplets in the way that were blurring the image and her algorithm got rid of them
Yeah like the gta mod that removes all water
🙋🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
We all know that this is another overblown shit project because it was made by a femoid.
@@nakedbeekeeper9610 could you elaborate? Or is it just misogyny?
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
1:09
Ohhh
I always wondered why the movie Nemo seemed too beautiful. I thought that If there really was an ocean with so much color.
Oh I get it! The color chart will determine what each pixel must be turned to since it’s own colors are distorted in the same way! Fascinating
That's been known and used for decades. It is part of the technique but not what is new. The result, though, is not meaningfully different. What is new is an estimation of backscatter using the card and an assertion that color correction depends on knowing that.
She’s said no coor chart is needed, although that wasnt well explained in the video
Quote from Reddit - 'And this is Erik, the filmmaker who made the video. I should have made it clear you don't need a color chart. My bad. There are lots of interesting details about the program that are hard to fit into a 4-minute story. Thank god for reddit.'
@@Cedric1234_ how without a color chart, there is no base. That means that the algorithm just estimates the most likely base color.
@@Martin-X uses a computer vision approach fitting the correction to a huge amount of data.
The ocean really is one the most amazing things on earth
No, your mom is
I pee in the sea
@@monkeydust100 high five bro
This video is amazing. It’s inspiring when people can explain their work in simple terms. As an amateur diver/photographer I’m looking forward to trying this out in the future!
Good for her! It is so wonderful to get to see the colors that we could have never imagined in our oceans! I was stunned by the images. Who ever thumbed down this video should be ashamed of themselves!
We've had this technology in North Korea for at least 30 years already.
lol ur funny
....so ready to spout the latest tripe you don't even wait for a suitable situation....
@ryan. Well done 'Milli'. You had one line, just a single one liner and you wasted it on the next comments thread you saw..
Tell Putin i said whasupp and feed your fucking ppl already
Lmao hats frunny
0:58 for a second I thought that was a makeup palette just chilling at the bottom of the ocean lol
Even sirens have the need to use make up duh!
Marine Camera Engineer: How many underwater algorithms would you like?
Apple: Yes
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!
Well done, Derya Akkaynak.
“And that’s how I became a multi-millionaire.”
Or "and that's how my multi million dollar software got stolen and improved upon, and profited by a huge corporation"
@@lurkingsoldi2107 I assume it's just a more or less complicated photoshop script. With enough data and knowledge, many people could recreate it.
Yep she better just sell the algorithm to Adobe now and cash the check before it's too late.
she better get that patent asap. lots of scientists who are just in it for the science get screwed over when someone else realizes the how much money could be made off their discoveries and steals it
Assuming she gets all kinds of patents on this, try billionaire. Google, canon, Nikon, etc will be all over this
Bravo!!! Nice and inspiring work. Good to see our people doing science over"seas"... It gives us "hope".
this is going to be such a helpful tool in studying the health of reefs through finding the extent of coral bleaching
I vote for a picture of a camoflauged squid or cuttlefish.
zambot3 or have multiple camera setup
Try Flambouyant Cuttlefish. They don't swim away/panicking when you're around them as long as you're calm. And their colours are just simply Amazing !
I read this and thought you said "stupid cuttlefish". I was like damn, they aren't the cutest fish but why the hostility? 😑
@zambot3 low expectations. Aim higher. Go the extra mile and desire the cuttlefish.
Music sounds like it's from the Spyro soundtrack.
I was about to say the same thing.
Dude it is from spyro. I just had a crazy childhood flash back. Pure nostalgia brother. Great series of games
only real gods remember spyro
The Smash God
A small price to pay for salvation
I feel like you all are my kind of people if you thought the same thing 😭❤️
Pretty neat process and the resulting images are gorgeous!
The idea is simple enough - it's the amount of work that went into making it reality is what's impressive!
imagine getting a highly accurate interpretation of underwater industrial or electrical equipment. you can see a clear picture of the condition of pipes, cables, fiber optic lines etc not to mention the applications this will have for bridges, protected areas, aquatic farming etc.
Easy to imagine. This doesn't do that.
Critical Confusion yeah hate to break it to you but those applications are a little further down the road, but I see this invention as something to help achieve that
Not yet, probably not anytime soon, now we've got to guess
This is like the potion of night vision from Minecraft IRL
Minecraft was ahead of its time
YES
BLUE DOG you okay?
2:53
"This method is not Photoshoping..."
Well, i agree with that. Maybe adobe photoshop not able to remove water from underwater, but Adobe WaterRoom can.
Thank you Derya for this contribution in oceanographic science. For a better word ❤️
Is there an algorithm that adds water in non-water images? I want to look like Aquaman.
loads of image filters exist for that. quality of the filter depends on where you get it from ig
you can use a transparent plastic.
Maybe you could apply the algorithm she uses backwards. And she what happens.
Ironically that's exactly what they developed as an initial state for the Aquaman VFX.
@@Ignasimp probably a bit more complicated than that :× itd be impossible to retrieve the multiple original images input in the algorithm from the output image
1:26 for example
Gotta love those timestamps
Ok, so basically we get to catch pokemons in the water too....
Rahul thukaram lol
Wow ...Thank You Derya for developing and bringing us this technology.
I'd like to see the output images from her algorythm as input images for photogrammetry.
I wouldn't.
Lmao wooo
3D scan all the things.
Underwater moddeled 3D Google Earth.
@@rachelslur8729 exabyte moment
the name of the method has a pun in it, 10/10
What's that? (TL;DR :-p)
@@coenraadloubser5768 SEA-thru
Using puns in a second language. 12/10
The title should be "Researcher removes water from the ocean! How dare!"
Thanks for all you do Derya and thanks for putting this up.
This will eventually be used in real time. I can easily see this as being incorporated into a scuba mask.
@@Zworri it would feel the same, it would look like flying
That would be such a deepening visual experience. Seeing all the true colours!!
Real time, maybe. But not in a mask. That is not practical.
@@Bierstadt54 with micro cameras, new display technology, and micro processors like this phone it could be done. Its an algorithm that process digital files. You would only need to adapt it..could be done in short time.
@@EdTube444 What you propose would appeal to the military if they could afford it. Recreational divers or scientific divers wouldn't be able to afford it. Plus if it flooded the mask would be useless. Also the closest thing to this are vr goggles, which are quite bulky. Finally, the computing power to run this algorithm in real time is not going to fit in a mask, or even on a diver with the required power supply. Maybe in the future, but we don't have the technology to do it now. I don't think you realize just how demanding this device would be to create.
As someone who dives often, I find this sooo amazing. This has so much potential for science and rescuers!!
Thank you for your work in creating this amazing visual tool!
It's nice to see Derya Akkaynak in such a great project.
I wonder if she's attempted to use the images she takes for photogrametry. Especially if they did it after the correction, you could get fully accurate 3D renders of reef structures.
Ohhh, that would be super cool!
For what it’s worth, though, I can’t help but suspect that the entire reason you thought of this is because you want to see Subnautica 2 one day. In VR.
I mean, that, or you’re looking to 3D-print an entire coral reef to just... have in your living room. I have to tell you, I don’t think this is a very practical idea, but I also don’t think it’s a bad idea, either.
@@deadfr0g I wanted subnautica, but haven't had much spare money since the baby. I was thinking of VR though, just maybe in a documentary type situation. The NYT VR app for the Gear VR and Oculus Go was actually pretty awesome.
@@davidp886 Subnautica is one of my favorite games of all time. I've tried it on the proper Oculus Rift and it was one of the most beautiful and terrifying things I've ever seen in my life, as I have a fascination with and major fear of the deep sea, but you gotta try it on the legit rig if you want to have your mind blown right out of your skull. You won't forget it.
Humans to the ocean: "you look wrong, let's fix that"
ok boomer
It is all about perception
TH-cam watchers to snowflake poster.... you look butthurt, go wipe that chip off your butt crack....or quit smoking it....or both!
Thank you. When she said they are "correcting" the images....so it was incorrect that an underwater object was underwater to begin with?
efini_fc bro she meant that we could see it clearly as if it weren’t underwater; to see it without the blurring water in the way
That's pretty cool. As an optical systems engineer, I have a pretty good idea how she's doing that--and she's brilliant to have put these ideas together!
This is beautiful, cant wait to see what groundbreaking discoveries will be made thanks to this technology
This has never occurred to me. Now I want to see all the colours of the oceans! So cool.
Me: You could do this in photosh-
Her: This method is not Photoshoping an image.
Me: Oh.
Ah yes, the old, I am going to type what they said in the video comment....
@@orc001Ah, the good ol "I'm going to bring up that what you said was in the video" comment.
@@tadsimes5808 ah the good old guy who replys in seconds
@@SomethingSomethingAirsoft Ah, the good ol comment.
Ah, the comment where someone makes a comment. This is not what comments are for!
Homie really created “Night Vision potion effect while looking at ocean minecraft Vibe”
I'm just blown up by the idea itself, wow!
Sick!
I can't wait to see how this scientific breakthrough impacts future technology. I'd rather live underwater that in space.
I'm here from the year 3000 not much has changed but we live underwater~
@@trojan5514 i bet your great great grandaughter is pretty fine
@@zhain0 yessssss
This is pretty fucking awesome!
No swearing on my christian Minecraft server or I will be forced to ban you.
@@zomboss8008 Que???
@al Davis lol it's a meme
@@bestbirdbuds6746 No shit.
*ṜṒῩΛⱢṪῩ* the guy obviously didn’t know that...
This is the best piece of news I've heard in a while, very interesting!
Bravo! Well done! Very Cool!
As a former diver, I hope your algorithm helps people to better visualize the beauty beneath the waves and the sickening tragedy that is ongoing with our oceans.
So, she using a colour passport and found an average adjustment from the multiple pictures she took?
Bet she sells her algorithm to Google and becomes filthy rich.
Sergio Lopez , i hope so
But such algorithms already for decades in public, used for photos from Venus as example.
So what if she does she developed it.
if she can do it without a reference color pallette to fix her image before she takes her photos she would be rich
I would. Lots of people “sell out”
Why it took so long to discover something so simple?!?
My congratulations for the Inventor!
Amazing break through with sea-through
So we get about five seconds of this new effect in action, and the rest of this video is her talking or swimming around? Interesting technique, but this video is poorly edited. I really wanted to see more of the enhanced images.
wjfox2006 isn’t that how annoying it always ends up being ?Omg !!! I totally agree with u
I've got an idea. Why don't you type *Derya Akkaynak* into a search engine, google perhaps, and see what else you can find out.
Yazılım müh. öğrencisi olarak beni düşündüren, aydınlatan ve gururlandıran bir çalışma olmuş. Tebrik edip, başarılarınızın devamını diliyorum. "Sea-thru" ismi de çok hoşmuş :)
INCREIBLE !!!!! Es la primera vez que veo alguien hace esto !!
Great technology. This is why I love night diving. It's really the only time you can see the true color of coral, creatures, etc.
Wow!!! How does one even Begin such a thought process? That's amazing.
By thinking
@@rayh755 Well... You're not wrong.
Read how scientists analyzed photos from Venus over 40 years ago? :) similar algorithms.
@@juliap.5375 no
The ocean is beautiful and she helps it look more clear.🙌😀
I created an algorithm that took the oxygen out of my kitchen. ..... Don't go in my kitchen.
Fireproof kitchen tell me more.
Wow fantastic work Ms. Akkayna. Thank you for sharing SA. Many are not aware but certain cameras offer extreme in-camera image calibration that can create a similar result. These are the types of cameras we use when filming with natural light in challenging underwater environments.
This is incredible, imagine not o only the research purposes of this, but also the creative uses for artists. Imagine posing under water, floating, and removing the water haze 🤯
YES!!! Now I know how to make the perfect Thanksgiving Pie! Thank you so much!
ImOnTheWrongVideo was so damn confused until i read your name LOL
Jibbity jam
Creampie you say?
Well, you see, no. This is a video for how to apply motor oil to your hot dog while doing a backflip. Sorry man.
Wow, thanks madam. Very good idea you had and very nice pictures you do with your technique.
Amazing what technology can do. Beautiful images.
Helal olsun sana Derya!
Erdoğan olmasa daha fazla türk mesur olur
Water Lady: “I take the RAW images and open them in Lightro... I mean, I apply a secret mathematical formula developed deep underground in my private research cave.”
Adobe: “...get Legal on the line.”
You want fries with that, Chad?
@@kolorfool But Epstein still did not kill himself
@@chibiga1353 But how? Hes dead, killed by Hilla..... I mean suicide...
@@chibiga1353 You're too old
@@fabiankonrath2804 I'm still in high school but ok 😬😬😬
I can see how it works when you have a calibration color chart - it gives you a way to see how the different colors are scattered at different angles, and then correct for that. But how this will work "in the wild" when you don't have the calibration chart remains to be seen. I guess you have to hope that the effect is the same in all situations, regardless of water temperature, depth, salinity, sunlight, etc and just do a "standard correction". Anyway, it looks very cool and kudos to her for coming up with it.
The science behind this technique is photogrammetric depth mapping with the added component of calibrated colour correction. The tricky bit is reverse calculation of Rayleigh scattering and probably can only be a summation due to the variability of localised salinity in the water.
I'm struggling to help my 14 & 15 year olds with Algebra... This woman is amazing!!!
Kate J sameeee
Khan academy...
@basket 123 That's rich coming from someone who can't use capital letters, commas, or a full stop.
@@Syklonus its the fucking internet. Not a fucking college essay
Imagine if the Nautilus had a camera with this algorithm.
you can use the algorithm on existing images - no need to change cameras.
@@actiaintYes but not really, the color chart at 1:35 is there to see how the predefined colors get distorted by the scene.
When you're underwater you don't always get the same color deformations due to the large amount of variables at play.
I'm sure the Nautilus or other deep sea cameras already use a decent color correction algorithm but what makes the difference between that and her's is that ...
They do not have a reference for what the colors would be in the scene in order to back track it.
They can at most take liberties with the colors and make a semi believable for the public.
To all those who do not understand the whole "it's calculated" part:
She stated on Reddit and Twitter that the color chart is only for checking her calculation works. It is 100% an automated process based on water properties.
If anyone is curious, she has put the specifics for her method here:
openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/papers/Akkaynak_Sea-Thru_A_Method_for_Removing_Water_From_Underwater_Images_CVPR_2019_paper.pdf
Brilliant idea !
Now we may count down to when they bring out the first suvnautical VR-gear that implements this algorithm in realtime !
Can someone explain how this is better than the existing ability in Lightroom to color-correct when there is a color chart in shot?
I think it's because it also includes some distance information? I was thinking the same thing
The only difference seems to be correction for scatter caused by distance to the photographed object. Although I have no clue how the algorithm would know the distance of each region of the picture
The color loss would be somewhat dependant on distance, so her version seems to use multiple images to create a depth pass so that the right amount of tint is removed and the right amount of contrast is added.
It is exactly the same as that technique except that it uses AI to choose the slider values. The AI has been trained using data sets collected that contain color charts, but color charts and multiple images are not used to perform color correction on the image itself, it's literally just an educated guess input into "Lightroom".
It’ll be easier to find the rest of the sea life we haven’t fished out yet. Yay!
They coming for you, Loch Ness!
Amazing what engineers and scientists can do
This is wonderful. I wonder what other applications this may have!