• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.57-66
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• 2017

Emotional image quality optimization methodologies are investigated using technological image quality controls based on the eye tests of various image samples. The images are evaluated based on various contrast, lightness and saturation image quality metric tone curves. The order of importance to image quality enhancements is contrast, saturation and brightness. The slopes of emotional image qualities with respect to technical image quality metric changes are found to be composed of mathematical function modelling with nearly zero, intermediate and maximum slope regions in general, which can reflect well known log and saturated as well as conventional reverse U shape natures. Image quality improvements are analyzed not only with just single but also with multiple image quality metrics. To ease the unified image quality metric analysis and control, a new function is presented to utilize both the newly found and conventional emotional image quality behaviors. It is found that the overall image quality enhancement can be realized only in a few limited cases of multiple image quality metric controls. It is also found that the kinds of image quality enhancement methodologies are not strongly dependent on image contents (genre).

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.851-863
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• 2012

Retinex algorithm enhances the contrast of image through visibility improvement. However, the conventional Retinex methods may produces color distortions due to error of hue representation and over-saturation since the methods work in RGB color space. In this paper, we propose a new Retinex algorithm with color correction, which improves contrast by using MSR(Multi-Scale Retinex) working in YCbCr color space and adaptively compensates the color saturation based on the maximum color difference table. Our algorithm maps the color difference signals to the correct gamut to prevent over-saturation phenomenon by considering the correlation between luminance and hue dependent saturation. Simulations results show that the proposed method gives better color improvement compared to the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 1994.03b
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• pp.133-140
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• 1994

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose the digital image enhancement method including local tone reproduction and preservation of the hue. In recent studies, an integrated multi-scale retinex (IMSR) has produced great naturalness in the resulting images through enhancement of visibility in dark area in input images. However, most methods, including IMSR, work in RGB color spaces. As such, this produces hue distortion from the perspective of the human visual system, that is, hue distortion in CIELAB color space. Accordingly, this paper proposes an tone reproduction and enhancement of saturation method in a device-independent color space, CIELAB, to preserve the hue and obtain a high contrast and naturalness. First, to achieve the desired objectives, the IMSR is then applied to only the $L^*$ values in CIELAB color space, normalization, and simple mapping function, thereby preserving the balance of the color components and enhancement of visibility. Then, saturation adjustment is performed by applying the ratio of the chroma variation at the sRGB gamut boundary according to the corrected luminance. In experiments, the proposed method is shown to improve the visibility in dark shadows and bright regions in the resulting images and reduce any color distortion then preference test are performed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bio-Environment Control Conference
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• 1997.05a
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• pp.28-30
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• 1997

식생활 수준의 향상과 함께 맛과 향을 추구하는 소비자의 수요가 늘어남에 따라 고품질 향신채의 재배 및 이응에 관심이 높아지고 있다. 그러나 양액재배에 의한 향신채 생산은 비교적 최근에 시작된 것으로 각각의 향신채에 대한 최적 배양액 개발은 아직 시작단계에 불과하다. 따라서 본 실험은 각종 샐러드, 피클 및 생선요리에 이용되는 dill(소회향)의 생육 및 품질에 적합한 최적의 배양액을 개발하고자 수행하였다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.19-22
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 영상의 Intensity와 색상의 채도 분석을 통한 안개 강도 측정과 제거, 그리고 색상을 보정하는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 영상에서 안개가 많은 지역과 적은 지역을 히스토그램을 통해 분석하고 안개 강도 맵을 만들어 안개의 양에 따라 안개를 제거한다. 안개로 인하여 악화된 영상의 색상은 HSI 공간에서 분석하여, 안개 강도에 따른 보정을 한다. 색상뿐만 아니라 전달량에 따른 Intensity를 보정하여 영상의 전체적인 밝기와 Contrast를 향상시킨다. 제안하는 기법은 기존의 기법들과 비교하여 색상의 편향성을 보정하여 가시성뿐만 아니라 영상 내에 색상이 자연스럽게 조화된 결과를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.358-358
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• 2007

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.513-521
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• 2002

This paper proposes a gamut mapping algorithm based on color space division for cross media color reproduction. As each color device has a limited range of producible colors, reproduced colors on a destination device are different from those of the original device. In order to reduce the color difference, the proposed method divides the whole gamut into parabolic shapes based on intersecting lightness by the just noticeable difference (JND) and the original device gamut boundary. Dividing the gamut with parabolic shapes and piecewise mapping of each region not only considers gamut characteristics but also provides for mapping uniformity. Also the lightness variations are more sensitive to the human visual system and by using lightness JND it can restrict lightness mapping variations that are unperceivable to enhance lightness contrast and chrominance. As a result, the proposed algorithm is able to reproduce high quality images using low-cost color devices.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Poultry Science Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.107-108
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• 2004

산란계 육성기 제한시기 및 제한강도가 육성기 발육형태 및 산란생산성 반응을 구명하고자 1일령 갈색 산란 실용계 Isa-brown 1,000수를 공시하여 70주간 사양시험을 실시하였다. 사료급여 방법은 자유채식구와 제한급이구 9처리를 두었는데, 제한시기는 4, 6 및 8주령으로 하였고 제한강도는 각 시기별 70 %, 85 % 및 12주령 기준으로 70 %에서 85 %로 하는 처리를 두었다. 육성기 사료섭취량은 제한급이시기가 빠를수록 제한강도가 강할수록 자유채식구에 비하여 유의적으로 낮게 나타났다(P<0.05). 산란생산성은 4주령, 85 %구와 6주령 70 % 및 6주령 70 $\longrightarrow$ 85 % 전환구가 가장 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 계란 난각의 품질은 제한급이구가 산란후기에 자유채식구 대비 양호한 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 결과에서 육성기 제한급이는 육성기 사료섭취량을 절감할 수 있으며 생산성과 난각질 향상에 기여할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.63-73
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• 2007

This paper proposes an illuminant-adaptive reproduction method using light adaptation and flare conditions for a mobile display. Displayed images in daylight are perceived as quite dark due to the light adaptation of the human visual system, as the luminance of a mobile display is considerably lower than that of an outdoor environment. In addition, flare phenomena decrease the color gamut of a mobile display and de-saturating the chroma. Therefore, this paper presents an enhancement method composed of lightness enhancement and chroma compensation. First, the ambient light intensity is measured using a lux-sensor, then the flare is calculated based on the reflection ratio of the display device and the ambient light intensity. To improve the perceived image, the image's luminance is transformed by linearization of the response to the input luminance according to the ambient light intensity. Next, the displayed image is compensated according to the physically reduced chroma, resulting from flare phenomena. This study presents a color reproduction method based on an inverse cone response curve and flare condition. Consequently, the proposed algorithm improves the quality of the perceived image adaptive to an outdoor environment.