Use of commercial off-the-shelf digital cameras for scientific data acquisition and scene-specific color calibration

Derya Akkaynak,^1,2,3,* Tali Treibitz,⁴ Bei Xiao,⁵ Umut A. Gürkan,^6,7 Justine J. Allen,^3,8 Utkan Demirci,^9,10 and Roger T. Hanlon^3,11

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

²Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA

³Program in Sensory Physiology and Behavior, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA

⁴Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA

⁵Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

⁶Case Bio-manufacturing and Microfabrication Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Department of Orthopedics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA

⁷Advanced Platform Technology Center, Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA

⁸Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA

⁹Bio-Acoustic-MEMS in Medicine Laboratory, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Renal Division and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

¹⁰Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

¹¹Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA

^*Corresponding author: deryaa@mit.edu