Alexandre Cardaillac / Seeing Underwater

In this presentation, Alexandre Cardaillac will address the topic of underwater vision.  In particular, how can the lack of natural light be overcome to explore and understand the oceans and their assets. Light is severely affected by the properties of water, resulting in a number of effects that considerably degrade images captured by an ordinary camera. Methods to improve underwater vision using artificial light will be discussed, but also alternative approaches, such as hyperspectral imaging and acoustic imaging which provide different ways to see underwater.

Part of “VISION CULTURES”, a lecture series about new ideas and research on seeing across the sciences and humanities, presented by the Power Institute as part of the Visual Understanding Initiative.