• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1233-1243
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• 2015

The contrast enhancement is great challenge in the image processing when images are suffering from poor contrast problem. Therefore, in order to overcome this problem an automatic method is proposed for contrast enhancement of natural color images. The proposed method consist of two stages: in first stage lightness component in YIQ color space is normalized by sigmoid function after the adaptive histogram equalization is applied on Y component and in second stage automatic color contrast enhancement algorithm is applied on output of the first stage. The proposed algorithm is tested on different NASA color images, hyperspectral color images and other types of natural color images. The performance of proposed algorithm is evaluated and compared with the other existing contrast enhancement algorithms in terms of colorfulness metric and color enhancement factor. The higher values of colorfulness metric and color enhancement factor imply that the visual quality of the enhanced image is good. Simulation results demonstrate that proposed algorithm provides higher values of colorfulness metric and color enhancement factor as compared to other existing contrast enhancement algorithms. The proposed algorithm also provides better visual enhancement results as compared with the other existing contrast enhancement algorithms.

• 한국의상디자인학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.117-130
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• 2010

The main objective of this research was to understand the characteristics of contrast color coordination through the analysis of modern woman fashion color coordination as they appear in the 'Collections' from '04 SS to '09/'10 AW. Data collection of 122 was done through review of '$pr{\hat{e}}t$-$\grave{a}$-porter Collections' of four cities; Milan, London, New York, Paris. Statistical analysis of frequency and qualitative interpretation of contrast color coordination characteristics were completed. The main findings were as follows; (1) The combined color type of 'red+blue' and 'yellow+blue' were the most frequently appeared in the same ratio, and followed by 'green+violet', 'red+yellow', 'green+orange', and 'orange+violet'. The contrast tone showed the most, and followed by the similarity and identity, and the type of tone harmony used differently according to the type of contrasting color combination. (2) The general characteristics of contrasting color harmony were as follows,; Some contrasting colors looked harmonious when used light colors and the contrast between light and dull colors which made the hues even more harmonious. Also combinations of dull colors which work well with other dull colors or vivid colors. Light & vivid color or light & dark color, however, often showed too much contrast and using two contrasting vivid colors presented awkward and restless look. When used one vivid color and one dark color, a little easier to looked at, but still not particularly elegance or effectively harmonious. (3) The types of contrasting color harmony showed some differences between seasons. Contrasting color harmony showed more frequently in the S/S collections than in A/W collections.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권9호
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• pp.110-117
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• 2016

컬러 영상의 콘트라스트를 향상시키기 위해서 가장 많이 사용되는 방법은 컬러 영상의 밝기 값에 콘트라스트 향상 알고리즘을 적용시키는 것이다. 이 방법은 색상 열화 없이 콘트라스트가 향상된 결과를 얻을 수 있지만, 원본 영상 대비 결과 영상의 채도가 감소되는 문제가 발생한다. 컬러 영상의 콘트라스트를 향상시키기 위한 또 다른 방법은 컬러 영상의 각 채널에 콘트라스트 향상 알고리즘을 적용시키는 것이다. 이 방법은 콘트라스트와 채도가 동시에 향상되지만 색상 열화가 발생하는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 컬러 영상의 각 채널 처리 시 발생하는 색상 열화 원인을 분석하여 이를 보상해주는 방법으로 색상 열화 문제를 해결하였다. 또한 각 채널의 특성을 고려한 채널 적응적 콘트라스트 향상 방법을 이용하여 색상 열화를 방지하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안하는 방법을 이용하면 컬러 영상의 콘트라스트 향상뿐만 아니라 색상 열화가 발생하지 않으면서 채도가 향상된 결과 영상을 획득할 수 있다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 방법이 주관적 평가뿐 아니라 객관적 평가 지표들에서도 기존 방법들보다 우수한 성능을 보이는 것을 확인 할 수 있다.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.7-15
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• 2016

Purpose: There are the number of color tactile walking surface indicators installed in Korea, because of indefinite regulation in blind and vision-impaired persons' tactile walking surface indicators. In case of yellow tactile walking surface indicators, it shows a deviation severe color. In this study, the researchers suggested color and brightness reference for helping blind and vision-impaired persons' walking through analyzing the color references of tactile walking surface indicators and the color luminance between tactile walking surface indicators and sidewalk currently used. Method: Reasonable luminance contrast criteria is suggested by examining ways of improving the recognition and recognition of objects according to color contrast visually impaired through literature review and analyzing standards of tactile walking surface indicators and the Europe, Japan and Australia of color and luminance contrast criteria. And by examining the color of the tactile walking surface indicators reported in Korea currently used to derive the problem presented by the luminance contrast in the reference and comparison. Finally, the visually impaired tactile walking surface indicators is set for color selection criteria for the recognition rate improves. Results: In order to improve the recognition rate to be tactile walking surface indicators of the contrast of the visually impaired and the environment than the color of the tactile walking surface indicators itself to secure always a certain level or more of brightness contrast values in the set of the color of the tactile walking surface indicators so important. Implication: In order to set the blind tactile walking surface indicators color recognition based on the verification of the real pedestrian based on the results presented in this paper it is required. It is to be understood as an element of the barrier free configuration for securing the walking pedestrian safety.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제62권2호
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• pp.90-94
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to improve the contrast ratio, to preserve information of bright regions and to maintain the color of backlight image that appears with a great relative contrast. Backlight images of the natural environment have characteristics for difference of local brightness; the overall image contrast improvement is not easy. To improve the contrast of the backlight images, MSR (Multi-Scale Retinex) algorithm using the existing multi-scale Gaussian filter is applied. However, existing multi-scale Gaussian filter involves color distortion and information loss of bright regions due to excessive contrast enhancement and noise because of the brightness improvement of dark regions. Moreover, it also increases computational complexity due to the use of multi-scale Gaussian filter. In order to solve these problems, a linear MSR is performed that reduces the amount of computation from the HSV color space preventing the color distortion and information loss due to excessive contrast enhancement. It can also remove the noise of the dark regions which is occurred due to the improved contrast through edge preserving filter. Through experimental evaluation of the average color difference comparison of CIELAB color space and the visual assessment, we have confirmed excellent performance of the proposed algorithm compared to conventional MSR algorithm.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.184-187
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• 2014

This study examined the effects of particle size on the light scattering of a nano-sized color filter pigment used to obtain a range of colors in liquid crystal displays. The contrast ratio is one of the most important characteristics of liquid crystal displays. When a color filter is located between two crossed polarizers, the size of the pigment can give rise to a decrease in the contrast ratio due to Rayleigh scattering by the nanoparticles in the filter. The size effect of the color filter pigment on the contrast ratio was investigated in terms of the depolarization parameter. As an experimental result, the depolarization parameter increased with decreasing pigment size. Therefore, a smaller pigment size can reduce light leakage caused by light scattering in the color filter between two crossed polarizers. The depolarization function was also proposed as a useful function for predicting the decrease in the contrast ratio of the color filter.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제13B권4호
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• pp.471-478
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• 2006

웹 접근성 평가를 위하여 기존의 문서의 배경색과 문자 색 사이의 색 대비 정의에 대한 알고리즘을 조사하고, 비교하였다. 색 조합에 대한 기존의 색 대비에 대한 정량적 정의는 가독성 측면에서 불완전하며, 사용자에 대한 시험 평가에서도 무시하지 못할 불일치를 드러내고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 W3C와 미국 토양조사센터(NSSC)의 색 대비 평가 알고리즘을 웹 안전 색의 조합에 적용하여 비교 분석하였고, 이를 위하여 NSSC의 알고리즘을 실수 영역으로 확장하였다. W3C의 알고리즘을 보완하여 색 온도 느낌을 고려한 알고리즘을 제안하며, 해당 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 시험 결과 W3C의 알고리즘과 NSSC의 알고리즘은 모순된 결과가 없었으나, W3C의 기준이 미국 토양조사센터의 기준보다 너무 엄격하며, 전체 색조합의 94.7%가 부적절한 색 대비를 제공하는 것으로 판정되었다. 본 연구에서 제안한 색 대비 알고리즘은 W3C의 방식에 비하여 색 대비와 가독성의 관계 사이의 선형성이 개선되었다. 따라서 색 대비의 정량적 요소로써 색 온도 느낌이 추가되어야 한다는 타당성이 입증되었다. 그러나 색 대비 알고리즘에 색 온도 느낌에 대한 최적의 반영 비율 및 가독성을 보장하는 적장 값의 설정은 좀 더 연구가 필요하며, 문자의 스타일과 크기에 따라 요구되는 색 대조 정도에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 색 대비는 일반 데스크톱 컴퓨터에서의 색에 의한 화면 접근 장애뿐만 아니라 휴대용 디스플레이 장치의 소형화에 따른 가독성 저하 문제가 더욱 심각해지면서 더욱 중요한 접근성 지표가 될 것이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.2737-2753
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• 2013

In this study, we propose a novel salient object detection strategy based on regional contrast and relative spatial compactness. Our algorithm consists of four basic steps. First, we learn color names offline using the probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) model to find the mapping between basic color names and pixel values. The color names can be used for image segmentation and region description. Second, image pixels are assigned to special color names according to their values, forming different color clusters. The saliency measure for every cluster is evaluated by its spatial compactness relative to other clusters rather than by the intra variance of the cluster alone. Third, every cluster is divided into local regions that are described with color name descriptors. The regional contrast is evaluated by computing the color distance between different regions in the entire image. Last, the final saliency map is constructed by incorporating the color cluster's spatial compactness measure and the corresponding regional contrast. Experiments show that our algorithm outperforms several existing salient object detection methods with higher precision and better recall rates when evaluated using public datasets.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.373-379
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• 2007

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of used color and tone on harmony perception by applying contrast coloration of shirt and necktie. This experiment designed by shirt color(red, blue, purple, green), tie color(green or blue tie with red shirt, yellow or red tie with blue shirt, yellow or green tie with purple shirt, purple or red tie with green shirt), shirt tone(vivid, light, dull, dark), tie tone(vivid, light, dull, dark), and perceiver gender(a male, a female). The experimental materials developed for this study were a set of stimulus and response scales, we harmonized those colors of shirts and neckties contrast, then made shirt and necktie tone differently. The subjects of this research were 640 male and 640 female college students. The data was analyzed by using SPS program. Shirt color, tie color, shirt tone, tie tone, perceiver gender influenced on harmony perception independently. Shirt color and tie color, shirt color and shirt tone, shirt color and perceiver gender, tie color and tie tone, tie color and perceiver gender, shirt tone and tie tone influenced on the harmony perception by interaction.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.29-41
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• 2013

디지털 카메라는 제한된 크기의 다이내믹레인지를 갖는 이미지 센서의 한계로 인하여 인간의 눈으로 보는 것과 동일한 화질의 영상을 얻을 수 없기 때문에 이를 개선해야 할 필요성이 있다. 기존의 화질개선방법으로는 Land의 인간의 시각적 모델을 바탕으로 한 Retinex 알고리즘이 대표적이다. Retinex 알고리즘은 칼라의 일관성과 시각적인 개선을 제공하지만, 전역적인 contrast 감소와 후광효과 및 색왜곡 문제를 발생시키기도 한다. 이러한 문제를 개선하기 위해 본 논문에서는 YCbCr 색공간에서 휘도성분의 주파수성분에 대한 처리를 통해 전역적 contrast를 향상시키고, 색차성분에 대한 처리를 통해 칼라 선명도를 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과영상의 비교를 통해 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 알고리즘에 비해 연산량 감소효과가 뛰어나며 전역적 contrast 향상과 색상 보전 성능이 우수하고 후광효과를 효과적으로 제거함을 확인하였다.