This Incredible Algorithm Can Remove the Water From Photographs

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s photos. Anyone who has tried capturing the beauty of the ocean has experienced the blue hue of the water in all of their photos, but recently an expert came along who taught a computer to capture underwater moments without capturing the water…

Open Your Eyes and Sea

Have you ever noticed how underwater photos look a bit weird? They’re always very green and dull, making it difficult to really see what coral and fish actually look like in their natural habitat.

An Expert to the Rescue

Enter Derya Akkaynak, an oceanographer and engineer who’s spent the past few years coming up with the computer algorithm to fix murky photos from below the depth of the sea.

Picture Fix

Akkaynak’s innovative program relies on an advanced artificial intelligence that can strip away the murky, muddy color of ocean water to present pristine, accurate photos from under the sea.

Years of Work

To get this right, Akkaynak has been relying on a standard commercially available camera and a color chart – the logic being that if her algorithm can fix relatively inexpensive photos, it’ll be of use to the most people possible.