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Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images
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Seeing through the Sea

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, has figured out a way to recover the colorful brilliance of the deep...

November 13, 2019 — Erik Olsen
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