No red eyes on digital photos

2003/04/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Elektronika
• Irudiak/Soinuak

The photo is perfect, but… with red eyes. This is something that happens often, but they have now introduced a system so that the eyes do not appear in red on digital photos. Cameras have long-standing red anti-eye systems, and there is also software to remove red eyes manually, but often they do not give the expected results.

The effect of red eyes occurs when the camera flash is reflected in the retina and the light returns to the camera. Consequently, when revealing the photo, the eyes appear in red. The software developed now allows to automatically identify the red parts and replace them with a natural eye color. It seems that the new technology gives excellent results and, hopefully, within a year will be on the market.