• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
• /
• 2013.06a
• /
• pp.258-259
• /
• 2013

광원 및 조명이 미약한 환경에서 획득된 저조도 영상은 인지적 및 색 왜곡적 측면에서 취약점을 가진다. 영상의 색 복원을 위한 연구인 색 항등성 기법은 저조도 환경에 적합하지 않기 때문에 저조도 영상을 대상으로 적용할 경우에는 좋은 성능을 내지 못한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 저조도 영상의 색 복원을 위한 톤 매핑 및 색 항등성 기법에 대해 분석한다. 톤 매핑 기법은 저조도 영상의 밝기를 개선해 색 항등성 기법의 적용을 가능하도록 하기 위해 사용되며, 이후 다양한 색 항등성 기법을 밝기 조절된 저조도 영상에 적용해 색 복원에 적합 여부를 판단한다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
• /
• 2011.12b
• /
• pp.683-685
• /
• 2011

저조도 환경에서 획득된 영상은 대부분의 픽셀이 낮은 RGB 값을 가지기 때문에 물체가 가지는 색의 식별 및 물체 간의 구별이 어렵다는 문제점을 갖는다. 이러한 문제는 이론적으로 영상 내 존재하는 광원의 영향을 제거하는 것을 목적으로 하는 색 항등성 기법을 적용하여 해결이 가능하다. 저조도 영상에 적합한 색 항등성 기법을 찾기 위하여 본 논문에서는 Barnard 데이터 셋을 바탕으로 하는 저조도 합성 영상을 생성하고 이를 기반으로 다양한 색 항등성 기법을 평가한다. 저조도 합성 영상은 원하는 장면을 가지는 영상과 GTD를 생성할 수 있는 장점이 있기 때문에 실험 영상으로 사용된다. 성능 평가는 색 항등성 기법을 적용한 결과 영상과 GTD 영상을 비교하여 수행된다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
• /
• v.36 no.10C
• /
• pp.621-628
• /
• 2011

The skin color has been used as important cues in the systems for detecting or recognizmg the face. However, the color difference in images under different illuminants makes it difficult to find out the skin in these systems. For solving the problem, this paper proposes a method of recovering skin colors based on well-known color constancy approaches, such as Retinex, Gray World, White Patch, and Simplified Horn. To acquire experimental images under the colored scene illumination, the effects of colored illuminants were added to source images. Next, result images, having the corrected skin color by the constancy methods, were derived from the source images. The experiment results showed that most of the skin colors in our experiments were recovered into some steady range in the color space, and that Gray World had higher performance than the other methods compared.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
• /
• v.12 no.7
• /
• pp.3207-3213
• /
• 2011

Most methods of color constancy, which is the ability to determine the object color regardless of the scene illuminant, have failed to meet our expectation of their performance especially about low-illuminated scenes. Some methods with high performance need to be developed, but we must, above all else, obtain experimental images for analyzing the required circumstances or evaluating the methods. Therefore, the paper produces new sets of images so that they can be used in the development of color constancy methods suitable for low-illuminated scenes. These sets are composed of two parts: one part of images which are synthesized with spectral power distribution(SPD) of illuminants, spectral reflectance curve of reflectances, and sensor response functions of camera; the other part of images where the intensity of each image is adjusted at the uniform rate. In an experiment, the use of the sets takes an advantage that its result images are analyzed and evaluated quantitatively as their ground truth data are known in advance.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
• /
• v.48 no.4
• /
• pp.59-66
• /
• 2011

In this paper, we propose a face detection method based on color constancy and geometrical analysis. With the problem about the various colors of skin under scene illuminant, a color constancy method is applied to input images and geometrical analysis is used to detect face regions. At first, the candidates of face or hair are extracted from the image that a color constancy method is applied to, and are classified by some geometrical criterions. And then, face candidates which have some intersectional regions whose total is over a certain size, with hair candidates are selected as faces. Caltech Face DB was used to compare the performance of our method. Also, performance about scene illuminant was evaluated by images which have some illumination effects. The experiment results show that the proposed face detection method was applicable to various facial images because of high true-positive and low false-negative ration.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
• /
• v.18B no.2
• /
• pp.51-56
• /
• 2011

Algorithms for intrinsic images reduce color differences in RGB images caused by the temperature of black-body radiators. Based on the reference light and detecting single invariant direction, these algorithms are weak in real images which can have multiple invariant directions when the scene illuminant is a colored illuminant. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a method of acquiring an intrinsic image by omnidirectional projection of an ROI and a translation of white patch in the ${\chi}$-chromaticity space. Because it is not easy to analyze an image in the three-dimensional RGB space, the ${\chi}$-chromaticity is also employed without the brightness factor in this paper. After the effect of the colored illuminant is decreased by a translation of white patch, an invariant direction is detected by omnidirectional projection of an ROI in this chromaticity space. In case the RGB image has multiple invariant directions, only one ROI is selected with the bin, which has the highest frequency in 3D histogram. And then the two operations, projection and inverse transformation, make intrinsic image acquired. In the experiments, test images were four datasets presented by Ebner and evaluation methods was the follows: standard deviation of the invariant direction, the constancy measure, the color space measure and the color constancy measure. The experimental results showed that the proposed method had lower standard deviation than the entropy, that its performance was two times higher than the compared algorithm.