• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.1016-1021
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• 2009

Among many factors for evaluating the performance of color printers, the color uniformity is an important factor during the stage of development and mass production. Currently the color uniformity is measured manually using densitometers and the data is analyzed by inspectors to evaluate the performance. In this paper a new method of estimating the color uniformity using scanners and average brightness is presented. The color uniformity of printouts is estimated by using the test pattern and commercially available scanner. It is shown from experiments that the estimated data are similar to the data measured by densitometers. Also, with the analysis of the color uniformity, the usefulness of the proposed approach is presented.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.47-47
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 균일한 색 분포를 위한 밝기 사상과 최대 색도 재현을 위한 색역 사상 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 밝기 사상시 발생하는 두 색역에서의 평균 밝기의 차이의 증가 및 어두운 영역과 밝은 영역에서의 색 변화의 차이가 증가하는 문제를 해결하기 위하여 각 색상의 정점에서의 밝기 차이를 최소화하고 밝은 영역과 어두운 영역에서의 균일한 색 분포를 가지는 밝기 사상 방법을 제안하였다. 또한, 최대 채도 유지 및 균일 색 분포를 위한 가변 닻점과 고정 닻점을 혼합으로 사용하는 색역 사상 방법을 제안하였다. 따라서 저가의 칼라 출력장치에서 고화질의 칼라를 재현할 수 있게 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.371-380
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• 2001

In this paper, lightness mapping for uniform color distribution and gamut mapping for maximum chroma reproduction are proposed. In the conventional lightness mapping, the average lightness difference between the two gamut is increased and different color changes in bright and dark regions are also increased. To solve these problems, a lightness mapping is proposed that minimizes the lightness difference of the cusps at each hue angle and produces same color changes in bright and dark regions. Also, gamut mapping that utilize variable anchor point and an anchor point are proposed for maximum chroma reproduction and uniform color change. Accordingly, the proposed algorithm can reproduce high quality images with low-cost color devices.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.316-323
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• 2001

Gamut mapping is a technique that acts on cross-media color reproduction to transform a color between devices for the purpose of enhancing the appearance or preserving the appearance of an image. Gamut mapping essentially produces color conversion error which depends on the gamut mapping method, source and destination devices, and sample points for gamut modeling. For color space conversion between monitor colors and printer colors, empirical representation using sample measurements is currently widely utilized. Color samples are uniformly selected in the device space such as CMY or RGB, represented as color patches, and then measured. However, in the case of printer, these color samples are not evenly distributed inside the printer gamut and the color conversion error is increased. Accordingly, this paper introduces a equally distributed color sampling method in CIELAB space, a device- independent color space, to reduce color conversion error, and the performance is analyzed via color space conversion experiments using three-dimensional interpolation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.329-341
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• 2014

Kernel-based mean-shift object tracking has gained more interests nowadays, with the aid of its feasibility of reliable real-time implementation of object tracking. This algorithm calculates the best mean-shift vector based on the color histogram similarity between target model and target candidate models, where the color histograms are usually produced after uniform color-space quantization for the implementation of real-time tracker. However, when the image of target model has a reduced contrast, such uniform quantization produces the histogram model having large values only for a few histogram bins, resulting in a reduced accuracy of similarity comparison. To solve this problem, a non-uniform quantization algorithm has been proposed, but it is hard to apply to real-time tracking applications due to its high complexity. Therefore, this paper proposes a fast non-uniform color-space quantization method using the histogram equalization, providing an adjusted histogram distribution such that the bins of target model histogram have as many meaningful values as possible. Using the proposed method, the number of bins involved in similarity comparison has been increased, resulting in an enhanced accuracy of the proposed mean-shift tracker. Simulations with various test videos demonstrate the proposed algorithm provides similar or better tracking results to the previous non-uniform quantization scheme with significantly reduced computation complexity.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.191-196
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• 2021

In this paper, we implemented an image sensor module possible of detecting color temperature in an indoor environment. The color temperature information in the video information acquired by the image sensor was matched with a color difference illuminometer to produce an LUT. An algorithm was developed so that color temperature information according to the received RGB values can be automatically calculated. As a result of measuring the color temperature with an image sensor indoors, an accurate result of less than 5.91% was obtained compared to the reference value. It was confirmed that the uniformity of 23.5% or more was excellent compared to the color temperature measurement result using a color sensor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.66.2-66.2
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• 2018

금속의 양극산화 공정(anodizing)은 전해질 내 금속에 인위적으로 전위를 가해 금속 표면에 얇은 산화막(oxide layer)을 형성하여 금속의 내식성, 내마모성을 증가시키는 공정이다. 타이타늄은 가볍고 단단하여 산업분야에 유용하게 사용되며 이와 같은 양극산화 공정을 통해 내식성, 내마모성을 크게 높일 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 항공기 부품용 타이타늄의 최적 양극산화 조건을 찾기 위해 전압의 파형, 전해액의 조성에 따라 양극산화 실험을 진행하였다. SEM, AFM, EDS, 분광측색계, 색채색차계 등을 이용하여 각 조건에 해당하는 타이타늄의 산화막($Tio_2$)의 두께, crack 형태, pore 형태, 균일도, 표면 조도, 내전압, 색 수치를 분석하였다. 그 결과 전압 DC 140 V, 주성분이 KOH $Na_3PO_4{\cdot}12H_2O$인 전해액으로 이루어진 양극산화 조건에서 가장 균일하고 색 재현성이 우수한 타이타늄의 산화막($Tio_2$)을 형성하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.207-213
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• 2017

In order to accurately perform multispectral imaging using a multiplexed illumination, intensity of illumination in a scene must be uniform. For image acquisition that requires accurate color information, even if not multispectral imaging, the illumination information must be accurate, and a flat light source or illumination calibration is performed for accurate illumination characteristics. In this paper, we propose a method of color correction to uniformly illuminate an image with non-uniform illumination intensity. The proposed method uses multispectral imaging instead of illumination calibration for color correction. First of all, we perform multispectral imaging with two images obtained from non-uniformity illumination to acquire spectral reflectance. The obtained reflection spectrum is relit as the illumination characteristic of the image obtained from general planar light such as fluorescent light or sunlight. By comparing the image obtained by relighting with the uniformly illuminated image, the non-uniformity of the illumination is confirmed, and the color correction is performed as the image obtained from the uniform image. It is expected that the experimental results will confirm whether the non-uniformity of the illumination is uniformly corrected and reduce the restriction of illumination in obtaining the color information of the image.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.6B
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• pp.810-819
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• 2001

칼라가 물체 인식에 아주 효율적인 단서를 제공하지만 칼라 분포는 시청 조건과 카메라의 위치에 아주 큰 영향을 받는다. 생김새와 모양의 변화에 의한 칼라 분포 변화 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 밝기 값의 변화에 영향을 받지 않고, 색상(hue) 성분에 민감한 칼라 벡터각(color vector angle)을 이용하여 칼라 에지를 추출한 후, 영상의 화소들을 평탄 화소와 에지 화소로 구분하여 칼라 특징 값을 추출하였다. 에지 화소의 경우에는 에지 주위 칼라 쌍의 전체 분포를 HLS 색좌표계의 비균일 양자화를 통해 칼라 인접 히스토그램(color adjacency histogram)으로 표현하고, 평탄 화소의 경우에는 HLS 색좌표계의 비균일 양자화와 칼라 벡터각 균일 양자화를 통해 칼라 벡터각 히스토그램(color vector angle histogram)을 구성하여 공간적인 칼라분포를 표현하였다. 제안한 칼라 히스토그램을 이용하여 영상 검색에 적용하여 성능을 실험한 결과, 작은 빈의 수를 가지는 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법들보다 훨씬 효율적이고, 생김새와 모양의 변화에 아주 강건한 영상 검색이 가능하였고, 기존의 칼라 히스토그램 역투사 방법보다 훨씬 정확한 물체 위치 추정이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.33-38
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• 1999

To investigate the image-forming property of optical system having Gaussian amplitude for polychromatic source, we calculated the chromaticity variation and the illuminance distribution. Considered polychromatic sources in this paper are A light which is on incandescent-tungsten lamp, C light which is a daylight, and $D_{65}$ light which is a extend daylight to the near ultraviolet. The polychromatic sources represent the different chromaticity values at a geometrical image point. The chromaticity variation of optical system having a Gaussian amplitude is smaller than that having an uniform amplitude. The illuminance distributions for polychromatic sources present nearly the same values, and the depth of focus for optical system having a Gaussian amplitude is wider than that having an uniform amplitude. From these results, we know that the depth of focus increases and the chromaticity variation decreases, when the incident light amplitude is modulated from an uniform amplitude to a Gaussian amplitude.