About this episode
In this episode, Paul Hanrahan interviews chemical engineer Menno Dreischor about his innovative algorithms for film restoration and visual cognition.
In this episode I interview Menno Dreischor, a chemical engineer based in Amsterdam. His company TIPb offers engineering solutions for a wide range of industries. Menno’s interest in film led him to develop an algorithm to help with restoring the faded color on old film scans. It analyses the pixel distribution of a supplied source and target image and generates a matching LUT. It is currently in a beta testing phase and has many potential applications from restoration, shot matching and creative look design. He also has a second algorithm that tries to predict the aspects of an image that will induce visual cognition effects such as simultaneous contrast, assimilation and others effects. In the interview we discuss both projects and their potential applications. Menno’s Color matching examples: https://www.youtube.com/@colormatchinghub We discuss: (00:00) - Intro. (00:53) - Menno introduction. (02:51) - Interview starts. (04:08) - Background in chemistry. (05:29) - Connection to film. (06:09) - Unofficial Star Wars restoration. (08:46) - Matlab. (10:25) - Drug analyzer. (13:49) - Color Matching Project. (15:30) - The matching process. (16:45) - Histogram matching. (21:12)…
People in this episode
Host: Paul Hanrahan
Guest: Menno Dreischor
Topics covered
- film restoration
- color matching
- chemical engineering
- visual cognition
- algorithm development
Keywords
- film restoration
- color matching
- algorithm
- visual cognition
- chemical engineering
- LUT
- shot matching
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: TIPb, Color Matching Hub
Books & works: Star Wars
Places: Amsterdam
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