• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.161-165
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• 2007

The process of selecting a small number of representative colors from an image of higher color resolution is called color image quantization. In a color quantization process, it is vet important to determine what colors should be preserve and the others not. In our study, by the idea of an image can be divided into interesting area and uninteresting area, we propose a color quantization method that preserves more colors in the interesting area of an image. We evaluated correctness of extracting interesting area and compared the quality of our method with the others.

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.111-120
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• 2004

This paper proposes a vector error diffusion method for smear artifact reduction in the boundary region. This artifact mainly results from a large accumulation of quantization errors. In particular, color bands with a smear artifact, the width of a few pixels appear along the edges. Accordingly, to reduce this artifact, the proposed halftoning process excludes the large accumulated Quantization error by comparing the vector norms and vector angles between the error-corrected vector and eight primary color patches. When the vector norm of the error corrected vector is larger than those of eight primary color patches, the quantization error vector is excluded from the quantization error distribution process. In addition, the quantization error is also excluded when the angle between eight primary color patches and error corrected vector is large. As a result, the proposed method enables a visually pleasing halftone pattern to be generated by all three color separations into account in a device- independent color space and reduces smear artifact in the boundary regions.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.126-131
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• 2001

현재 널리 사용되는 hand-held형 단말기들은 영상을 표현할 때 제한된 수의 칼라만으로 표현할 수 있다. 따라서 자연색 칼라 팔레트를 이용하여 단말기에 나타낼 때 최적의 칼라 팔레트를 구현하는 것과 원영상의 각각의 칼라로부터 팔레트 칼라로 최적으로 정합 시키는 것이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 효율적으로 칼라 팔레트를 설계하는 히스토그램 기반 영상 의존적 스칼라 양자화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 칼라 우선순위 결정 부분과 양자화 부분으로 구성되며 양자화 후 ANC(Adaptive Neighborhood-Clustering) 알고리즘을 적용하여 성능을 개선한다. 이 방법은 자연색 칼라 영상을 적은 비트로 표현했음에도 출력 영상이 인간의 눈에 적합하다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.11-18
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a discriminative color quantization algorithm depending on the degree of focus of the regions. When we take pictures, we usually focus the object that we want to emphasize. This means that focused area on the photograph contains important information. If the focused area is displayed with more colors, we can express the important information in more detail. This paper proposes a color quantization method that determines the focused area and assigns more colors for the area.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.53-59
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• 2007

A navigation system for virtual environments using low-qualify HMD(head mounted display) must quantize images when the system presents true-color image with restricted number of colors. Such navigation system quantizes an image by using fixed palette. If the system represents an image by using a variable palette which is made considering a region around the viewpoint then user can perceive a virtual environments more vividly because human visual system is sensitive to the colors variation in the region around the viewpoint. In this paper we propose a color quantization algorithm that quantize a region around the viewpoint more finely than other regions at each variation of viewpoint for virtual environments navigation system and compose virtual environments navigation system using proposed algorithm. The system quantizes an image at each variation of viewpoint and shows a quantized image to user through HMD. We tested user preferences for our proposed system and the results show that users preferred our system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.169-173
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• 2008

A navigation system for virtual environments using low-quality HMD(head mounted display) must quantize images when the system presents true-color image with restricted number of colors. Such navigation system quantizes an image by using fixed palette. If the system represents an image by using a variable palette which is made considering a region around the viewpoint then user can perceive a virtual environments more vividly because human visual system is sensitive to the colors variation in the region around the viewpoint. In this paper we propose a color quantization algorithm that quantize a region around the viewpoint more finely than other regions at each variation of viewpoint for virtual environments navigation system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.302.2-302.2
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• 2014

유기발광소자는 고휘도, 넓은 시야각, 빠른 응답속도, 높은 색재현성, 좋은 유연성의 소자 특성 때문에 디스플레이 제품에 많이 응용되고 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 최근에 저소비전력, 고휘도, 소형화 및 장수명의 장점을 가진 유기발광소자의 상용화가 진행되면서 차세대 디스플레이소자로서 관심을 끌게 되었다. 최근에는 고효율의 장점을 가지는 무기 형광체와 양자점을 이용한 백색 유기발광 소자에 대한 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있으나 색 안정성이 좋지 않은 문제점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 적색 빛을 방출하는 CdSe/ZnS 양자점과 녹색 빛을 방출하는 YAG:Ce3+ 무기 형광체를 포함하는 polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)를 색변환층으로 이용하여 청색 유기발광소자에 결합한 백색 유기발광소자를 제작하였다. CdSe/ZnS 양자점과 YAG:Ce3+ 무기 형광체의 광흡수대역은 250 nm에서 500 nm이므로 470 nm의 청색 발광소자의 청색 빛을 흡수하여 색변환층에서 재 발광할 때 색 변환 결과를 무기 형광체와 양자점의 여러 가지 혼합 비율에 따라 전계발광 스펙트럼을 통해 관측하였다. 또한, 전압을 12 V 에서 16 V까지 변화하였을 때 색좌표가 (0.32, 0.34)에서 (0.30, 0.33)으로 적은 변화를 보여 높은 색안정성을 확인 할 수 있었다. 이 연구 결과는 양자점과 무기 형광체를 혼합한 색변환층을 이용한 백색 유기발광소자의 색 변환 효율 증가와 색안정성에 대한 기초자료로 활용할 수 있다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2004

Color image quantization is a process of selecting a set of colors to display an image with some representative colors without noticeable perceived difference. It is very important in many applications to display a true color image in a low cost color monitor or printer. The basic problem is how to display 256 colors or less colors, called color palette, In this paper, we propose improved binary tree vector quantization based on spatial sensitivity which is one of the human visual properties. We combine the weights based on the responsibility of human visual system according to changes of three Primary colors in blocks of images with the process of splitting nodes using eigenvector in binary tree vector quantization. The test results show that the proposed method generates the quantized images with fine color and performs better than the conventional method in terms of clustering the similar regions. Also the proposed method can get the better result in subjective quality test and WSNR.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.772-774
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• 2008

A navigation system for virtual environments using low-quality HMD(head mounted display)must quantize images when the system presents true-color image with restricted number of colors. Such navigation system quantizes an image by using fixed palette. If the system represents an image by using a variable palette which is made considering a region around the viewpoint then user can perceive a virtual environments more vividly because human visual system is sensitive to the colors variation in the region around the viewpoint. In this paper we propose a color quantization algorithm that quantize a region around the viewpoint more finely than other regions at each variation of viewpoint for virtual environments navigation system and compose virtual environments navigation system using proposed algorithm. The system quantizes an image at each variation of viewpoint and shows a quantized image to user through HMD. We tested user preferences for our proposed system and the results show that users preferred our system.