Project number
16067
Organization
Areté Associates
Academic year
2016-2017
This project has the objective of improving illumination methods for underwater photography beyond a simple array of bright white LED lights, which can produce backscattering and are not optimized optically for the subsea environment.
Based on the sponsor’s requirements, and building upon previous work done by the sponsor, the team designed a trade study to analyze and differentiate between advanced illumination methods such as off-axis illumination, linear and circular polarization of right- and left-handedness, multiple LED wavelengths, and beam shaping.
The team designed software and an experiment to quantitatively measure image contrast in order to determine which illumination method or combination of methods best improved the quality of the image.
Based on the sponsor’s requirements, and building upon previous work done by the sponsor, the team designed a trade study to analyze and differentiate between advanced illumination methods such as off-axis illumination, linear and circular polarization of right- and left-handedness, multiple LED wavelengths, and beam shaping.
The team designed software and an experiment to quantitatively measure image contrast in order to determine which illumination method or combination of methods best improved the quality of the image.