• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.52-59
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• 2009

In general, methods based on histogram or a correction of gamma curve are usually utilized to enhance the contrast of captured image in the dark scene. These methods are efficient to enhance the contrast globally, however, they locally induced the low quality of image. Recently, to resolve the problem, the multi-scaled refiner algorithm improving the contrast with locally averaged lightness is proposed. However, estimating the locally averaged lightness, if there is the object with a high saturated color, the color distortion might be induced by the color of object. Thus, in this paper, the dominant chromaticity of image is estimated to correct the locally averaged lightness in multi-scaled retinex algorithm. Because the average chromaticity of image includes the chromaticity of illumination, the dominant chromaticity is estimated with dividing the average chromaticity of image by the estimated chromaticity of illumination from highlight region. In addition, to improve the lower chroma by multi-scaled retinex algorithm generally, the chroma was compensated preserving the hue in the CIELAB color space.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.292-303
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• 2001

Object color can be determined by the characteristic of scene illuminant and surface. In this paper, perceived illumination effect is extended and with the highlight analysis, hybrid approach is proposed to estimate the illuminant chromaticity. The perceived illumination approach provides a stable candidate range for the estimation of illuminant chromaticity, however, the accuracy is slightly degraded depending on the image contents. The highlight approach does not depend on the image contents and provides an accurate solution of the scene illuminant chromaticity, however, it is difficult to determine the final solution among many cross-points. These two approaches are in effect mutually compensating. The solution from perceived illumination can be used as a starting point or as base information for the highlight approach to get the final solution.

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

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.303-304
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• 2001

주 구성요소가 산소와 질소 기체인 대기는 백색광을 지닌 광원, 즉 태양광에 대하여 선택적으로 빛을 산란시킴으로써 파란색을 나타낸다. 이것은 Rayleigh scattering 효과가 파장의 4승에 반비례하기 때문에 450nm 부근의 파란색은 700nm 부근의 빨간색에 비하여 약 6배이상 강한 빛을 산란시키기 때문이다. 그러나 실제로 하늘은 고정된 색을 지니고 있지는 않다. 태양과 관측자 및 관측지점의 유기적 관계에 의하여 하늘의 색은 주기적이며 임의적으로 다르게 보인다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.140-142
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• 2013

최근 에너지 절감과 친환경 정책에 따라 LED조명에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 방송제작 현장에서도 LED조명의 활용이 많아지고 있다. 방송조명은 출연자의 인물을 사실적으로 재현하고, 영상의 전체적인 분위기와 느낌을 자연스럽고 감성적으로 표현하는 것이 중요하다. 특히 TV 스튜디오에서 요구되는 LED조명의 중요한 광원 특성은 연색성, 색온도, 조도의 평탄도, 색공간 균일성 등이다. 이에 본 논문은 방송현장에서 요구하는 광원특성을 기초로 제정된 TTA(한국정보통신기술협회)의 "방송용 LED조명 인증기준"에 따라서 기존의 할로겐 조명 및 국내 외 제조사별 LED조명 기구의 특성을 측정하여 비교분석 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.81-84
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• 2012

이 논문은 LED 조명을 방송용 광원으로 실용화하는 과정에서 필수적으로 고려해야 할 기술적 측면에 대한 고찰이다. 방송용 LED 광원의 실용화를 위한 기술적 개발은 사실적이고 자연스러운 영상, 특히 방송 영상의 대부분을 차지하는 인물의 얼굴색을 사실적으로 재현하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이 목표를 달성하려면 LED 조명의 고효율과 분광분포 특성이 최대한으로 자연광에 가까워야 한다. LED를 스튜디오 방송조명의 광원으로 활용하기 위해서는 조도, 연색성, 색온도, 색공간, 디밍 커브, 배광 곡선, 소음과 관계한 구체적인 기술적 특성이 요구되고 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.110-121
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• 2016

The primary aim of the color constancy algorithm is to estimate illuminant chromaticity. There are various statistical-based, learning-based and combinational-based color constancy algorithms already exist. However, the statistical-based algorithms can only perform well on images that satisfy certain assumptions, learning-based methods are complex methods that require proper preprocessing and training data, and combinational-based methods depend on either pre-determined or dynamically varying weights, which are difficult to determine and prone to error. Therefore, this paper presents a new optimization based illuminant estimation method which is free from complex preprocessing and can estimate the illuminant under different environmental conditions. A strong color cast always has an odd standard deviation value in one of the RGB channels. Based on this observation, a cost function called the degree of illuminant tinge(DIT) is proposed to determine the quality of illuminant color-calibrated images. This DIT is formulated in such a way that the image scene under standard illuminant (d65) has lower DIT value compared to the same scene under different illuminant. Here, a swarm intelligence based particle swarm optimizer(PSO) is used to find the optimum illuminant of the given image that minimizes the degree of illuminant tinge. The proposed method is evaluated using real-world datasets and the experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.13-18
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• 2000

In this paper, we use the C light which is a daylight and consider the incident beam having the Gaussian amplitude. We investigated the illuminance distributions and the variation in chromaticity of optical system having the truncated Gaussian amplitude on the focal plane and along the optical axis using the C light source. We also use the three sensitivity functions of human eye(CIE 1931) for wavelengths which are from 380nm to 780nm. When the truncation grade of incident beam having Gaussian amplitude decreases, the size of central spot on the focal plane and the depth of focus along the optical axis decrease, and the variation in chromaticity on the focal plane and along the axis increases rapidly. As the illuminance on the focal plane decreases the variation in chromaticity of optical system increases rapidly, and as the depth of focus increases the variation in chromaticity of optical system decreases.

• The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.49-57
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• 1991

A simple system to measure the correlated color temperature ($T_c$) and color rendering index ($R_a$) oflight sources was developed. And the T, and R, of incandescent lamps (I/L) and various fluorescent lamps(F/L) were measured with varying source voltage and power frequency. As results, $T_c$ variations of I/L and F/L with varying source voltage were relatively large, but $R_a$, variations were small. And $T_c$, $R_a$, variations of F/L under 5OkHz of power frequency were small, but over 50kHz, it is supposed that $T_c$, and $R_a$, will vary significantly.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.396.2-396.2
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• 2014

백색 유기발광소자는 전색 디스플레이, 조명으로서의 잠재적인 특성으로 차세대 디스플레이 소자 기술로 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 백색 유기발광소자는 주로 R-G-B 영역의 다양한 발광층을 적층하여 제작한다. 하지만 여러 발광층을 적층해야하기 때문에 제작할 때 공정 과정이 복잡해지고, 높은 생산단가를 가지게 된다. 이런 문제를 해결하기 위해 형광체를 이용한 백색 유기발광소자의 연구가 진행되고 있지만, 아직 색순도와 색좌표에 대한 많은 연구가 미흡한 상태이다. 본 연구에서는 무기물 형광체를 활용하여 백색 유기발광소자의 전기적 특성과 광학적 특성을 관찰하였고, 광원으로 사용된 청색 유기발광소자에 녹색과 적색의 무기물 형광체를 결합하는 방법으로 백색 유기발광소자를 제작하였다. 광원으로 사용한 청색 유기발광 소자는 투명전극으로 ITO를 사용하였고, 정공 수송층으로 N,N'-bis-(1-naphthyl)-N,N'-diphenylbenzidine, 발광층으로 4,4-bis(2,2-diphenylethen-1-yl)biphenyl, 정공 저지 층과 전자 수송 층은 각각 bathocuproine 과 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline 을 사용 하였다. 전자 주입 층으로는 lithium quinolate를 사용하였으며 음극으로는 Al을 사용하였다. 색 변환 층으로 사용된 유기물 형광체는 sol-gel 방법으로 제작된 녹색 형광체 Y3Al5O12:Ce, 적색 형광체 Ca2AiO19:Mn 을 사용하였다. Sol-gel 방법으로 제작된 형광체는 X선 회절 분석기를 통해 JCPDS cards를 확인하였고, 형광체의 녹색과 적색의 혼합비율에 따른 색좌표를 확인하여 백색 유기발광소자를 제작 하였다.