• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.473-481
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose an image segmentation method preserving object's boundaries by using the number of quantized colors and merging regions using adaptive threshold values. First of all, the proposed method quantizes an original image by a vector quantization and the number of quantized colors is determined differently using PSNR each image. We obtain initial regions from the quantized image, merge initial regions in CIE Lab color space and RGB color space step by step and segment the image into semantic regions. In each merging step, we use color distance between adjacent regions as similarity-measure. Threshold values for region-merging are determined adaptively according to the global mean of the color difference between the original image and its split-regions and the mean of those variations. Also, if the segmented image of RGB color space doesn't split into semantic objects, we merge the image again in the CIE Lab color space as post-processing. Whether the post-processing is done is determined by using the color distance between initial regions of the image and the segmented image of RGB color space. Experiment results show that the proposed method splits an original image into main objects and boundaries of the segmented image are preserved. Also, the proposed method provides better results for objective measure than the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Printing Society Conference
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• 2000.12b
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• pp.17-28
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• 2000

Recently, as the prepress mainstream is changed to the digital workflow, various digital proofing systems such as high price dye sublimation printers and low price ink jet printers are widely used in printing industry. However, most of the digital proofing devices have lower resolutions than analog proofing systems and differ with actual color presses in the color gamuts. Therefore, proper color compensations are needed for digital color proofing in order to match color between the proofs and the press sheets. In this paper, we used 3-dimensional look-up table(LUT) and tetrahedral interpolation method for the color space conversion between the device independent color space(CIEXYZ or Lab) and the device dependent color space(CMY) to reduce the color differences between the original copy and digital color proofs and the press sheets.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.151-160
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• 2014

In this paper, a comparison of superpixel characteristics based on SLIC(simple linear iterative clustering) for several color feature spaces is presented. Computer vision applications have come to rely increasingly on superpixels in recent years. Superpixel algorithms group pixels into perceptually meaningful atomic regions, which can be used to replace the rigid structure of the pixel grid. A superpixel is consist of pixels with similar features such as luminance, color, textures etc. Thus superpixels are more efficient than pixels in case of large scale image processing. Generally superpixel characteristics are described by uniformity, boundary precision and recall, compactness. However previous methods only generate superpixels a special color space but lack researches on superpixel characteristics. Therefore we present superpixel characteristics based on SLIC as known popular. In this paper, Lab, Luv, LCH, HSV, YIQ and RGB color feature spaces are used. Uniformity, compactness, boundary precision and recall are measured for comparing characteristics of superpixel. For computer simulation, Berkeley image database(BSD300) is used and Lab color space is superior to the others by the experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Printing Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.25-34
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• 2000

Recently, color proofing in printing industry grow rapidly. If an order decide color from known color information in the case of color reproduction, we can reduce expenses and time. In color proofing the best important point must be closed proofed color to primary color and secondary color. Model-based approaches have the advantages of faster recharacterization and the opportunity of simulating product enhancements such as changes in ink properties and halftoning. In this paper, we transformed the dot area of CMYK to CIELAB color space using color reprodution models. Firstly, we measured spectral reflectance of primary color printed by Matchprint II and the data was used to find tone reproduction curve using regression equation, and than we applied at primary color model, such as Murray-Davies, Yule-Nilsen, and mixed color model, such as Kubelka--Munk, relaxed version of spectral Neugebauser. In such results, the Kubleka-Munk model resulted in the best spectral reconstruction accuracy followed by relaxed version of spectral Neugebauer model, color difference is 2.8401.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.179-190
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• 2011

A complete analysis of the color-viewing-angle properties of different displays is presented herein using color-viewing-angle measurements made with a Fourier-optics system. The color gamut in the CIE u'v' chromatic plane was computed for all the viewing angles. The introduction of the lightness using the $L^*a^*b^*$ color space allowed a more precise analysis of the emissive properties of each display. The displays can be directly compared using a common reference. The viewing-angle dependence can be analyzed in full detail using the on-axis values as reference. The gravity center behavior and area of the color hull were computed for a more precise evaluation and comparison.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.121-133
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• 2007

The CMS(color management system) software was to enable consistent color reproduction from original to reproduction. The CMS was to create RGB monitor and printer characterization profiles and then use the profiles for device independent color transformation. The implemented CMM(color management module) used the CIELAB color space for the profile connection. Various monitor characterization model was evaluated for proper color transformation. To construct output device profile, SLI(sequential linear interpolation) method was used for the color conversion from CMYK device color to device independent CIELAB color space and tetrahedral interpolation method was used for backward transformation. UCR(under color removal) based black generation algorithm was used to construct CIELAB to CMYK LUT(lookup table). When transforming the CIE Lab colour space to CMYK, it was possible to involve the gray revision method regularized in the brightness into colour transformation process and optimize the colour transformation by black generation method based on UCR technique. For soft copy colour proofing, evaluating several monitor specialism methods showed that LUT algorithm was useful. And it was possible to simplify colour gamut mapping by constructing both the look-up table and the colour gamut mapping algorithm to a reference table.

• 대한치과보철학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.61-62
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• 1996

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.264-265
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• 2008

기존 영상감시 시스템의 물체 탐지 알고리즘은 주로 배경 모델링 기법을 기반으로 하고 있다. 이 기법은 차영상 기법보다는 성능이 뛰어나기는 하지만 여전히 정지 카메라에서만 활용이 가능하고, 주변 환경에 따라 알고리즘 상의 많은 임계값을 현재 상황에 맞춰 일일이 조절해 주어야 한다는 한계점이 있다. 따라서 이 논문에서는 배경모델링 기법을 사용하지 않고 입력되는 영상의 Color 정보를 이용하여 영상 내에 있는 여러 대상을 직접 판단하여 관심 있는 물체를 탐지하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 먼저 현재의 영상을 하나의 물체로 추정되는 영역이 하나의 영역으로 구분되어지게 간단하게 분할해낸다 그리고 나누어진 영역마다 대표 Color 값을 계산하여 미리 학습된 데이터를 기준으로 Support Vector Domain Description (SVDD) 알고리즘을 사용하여 구별해내고 그 결과를 바탕으로 영역이 무엇인지를 판별해낸다. 이 방법은 정지되어 있는 카메라뿐만 아니라 움직이는 카메라 상에서도 사용되어질 수 있으며 알고리즘 상에서 사용되는 임계값의 종류가 적기 때문에 많은 상황에서 일반적으로 쓰일 수 있다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.9-16
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• 1997

This paper describes the design of a multistandard video encoder. The proposed encoder accepts conventional NTSC/PAL video signals, It also processes he PAL-plus video signal which is now popular in Europe. The encoder consists of five major building functions which are letter-box converter, color space converter, digital filters, color modulator and timing generator. In order to support multistandard video signals, a programmable systolic architecture is adopted in designing various digital filters. Interpolation digital filters are also used to enhance signal-to-noise ratio of encoded video signals. The input to the encoder can be either YCbCr signal or RGB signal. The outputs re luminance(Y), chrominance(C), and composite video baseband(Y+C) signals. The architecture of the encoder is defined by using Matlab program and is modelled by using Veriflog-HDL language. The overall operation is verified by using various video signals, such as color bar patterns, ramp signals, and so on. The encoder contains 42K gates and is implemented by using 0.6um CMOS process.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.9-15
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a method to segment a color image into several meaningful regions. We suppose that the meaningful region has a set of colors with high frequency in the color image. To find these colors, the color image is represented as several sets of color points in RGB space. And when we use the density of points defined in this method, color belonging to a dense region of color points in RGB space refers to the color that appeared frequently in the image. Eventually, we can find meaningful regions by looking for regions with high density of color points using our level set function in RGB space. However, if a meaningful region does not have a contiguous region of the sufficient size in the image, this is not a meaningful region but meaningless region. Thus, the pixels in the meaningless region are assigned to the biggest meaningful region belonging to its neighboring pixels in the color image. Our method divides the color image into meaningful regions by applying the density of color points to level set function in RGB space. This is different from the existing level set method that is defined only in 2D image.