• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.371-380
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• 2001

In this paper, lightness mapping for uniform color distribution and gamut mapping for maximum chroma reproduction are proposed. In the conventional lightness mapping, the average lightness difference between the two gamut is increased and different color changes in bright and dark regions are also increased. To solve these problems, a lightness mapping is proposed that minimizes the lightness difference of the cusps at each hue angle and produces same color changes in bright and dark regions. Also, gamut mapping that utilize variable anchor point and an anchor point are proposed for maximum chroma reproduction and uniform color change. Accordingly, the proposed algorithm can reproduce high quality images with low-cost color devices.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.316-323
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• 2001

Gamut mapping is a technique that acts on cross-media color reproduction to transform a color between devices for the purpose of enhancing the appearance or preserving the appearance of an image. Gamut mapping essentially produces color conversion error which depends on the gamut mapping method, source and destination devices, and sample points for gamut modeling. For color space conversion between monitor colors and printer colors, empirical representation using sample measurements is currently widely utilized. Color samples are uniformly selected in the device space such as CMY or RGB, represented as color patches, and then measured. However, in the case of printer, these color samples are not evenly distributed inside the printer gamut and the color conversion error is increased. Accordingly, this paper introduces a equally distributed color sampling method in CIELAB space, a device- independent color space, to reduce color conversion error, and the performance is analyzed via color space conversion experiments using three-dimensional interpolation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.1
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• pp.38-50
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• 1999

Currently many devices reproduce electronic images in the various ways. However the color that is reproduced in any device is different from the original color due to the difference in the gamut between devices. In this paper, an image dependent gamut mapping method is proposed. This method clips the chroma with compensating for the change of lightness caused by the lightness scaling. The anchor point, which is the center point in the mapping, is set as a lower point by the proposed method than a point by the conventional mapping method. This reduces the color difference between point. In addition, to heighten the color contrast on the constant hue, the different two mapping methods are applied to the printer gamut which is divided in two region, bright region and dark region. Consequently, the printer output image was highly consistent with the corresponding monitor image.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.300-310
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• 2001

In this paper, new gamut-mapping algorithm (GMA) that utilizes variable anchor points (center of gravity on the luminance axis) is proposed. The proposed algorithm increases luminance range, which is reduced from conventional gamut mapping toward an anchor point. In this process, this algorithm utilizes multiple anchor points with constant slopes to both reduce a sudden color change on the gamut boundary of the printer and to maintain a uniform color change during the mapping process. Accordingly, the proposed algorithm can reproduce high quality images with low-cost color devices.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.317-320
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• 2004

디스플레이 장치간의 색 재현 차이를 극복하기 위하여 다양한 색역폭 사상 기법이 사용되고 있다. 기존 색역폭 사상 방법은 일반적으로 색 공간 변환과 같은 복잡한 비선형 변환을 여러 단계 거치므로 실시간 처리 구현이 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 신경 회로망을 이용하여 기존의 색역폭 사상 방법을 학습하고 근사화한 방법을 이용한다. 이를 위해 주어진 디스플레이 장치의 표현 가능한 모든 색상에 대해 미리 색역폭 사상을 수행하고 그 결과를 학습 데이터로 이용하게 되며, 학습된 신경망은 이종 디스플레이 장치간의 색역폭 사상에 사용된다. 제안된 색역사상을 실시간 처리하기 위해서 학습 과정은 오프라인을 통해서 이루어지게 되고, 구해진 신경망은 프로세서의 메모리를 이용, 1차원의 Look-Up Table로 구성한다. 제안한 방법을 색역폭 사상에 적절하도록 최적화시키면 고속의 색역폭 사상이 가능하다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.8
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• pp.55-64
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• 1999

In this paper, new gamut-mapping algorithm (GMA) that utilizes variable anchor points (center of gravity on the luminance axis) is proposed. The proposed algorithm increases luminance range, which is reduced from conventional gamut mapping toward an anchor point. In this process, this algorithm utilizes multiple anchor points with constant slopes to both reduce a sudden color change on the gamut boundary of the printer and to maintain a uniform color change during the mapping process. Accordingly, the proposed algorithm can reproduce high quality images with low-cost color devices.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.6
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• pp.137-146
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• 1998

Recently many devices print electronic images in a variety of ways. The reproduced color, however, is different from the original color because of the difference of hardware characteristics. To maintain device independent color, gamut mapping method is proposed. The proposed color gamut mapping uses nonlinear intensity mapping and clipping for saturation mapping on HSI color space. In the dithering operation, expanded nonlinear ordered dithering and modified error diffusion are proposed. The proposed ordered dithering uses expanded nonlinear quantization which considers overlapping phenomena of neighbored printing dots. In the modified error diffusion, quantization errors to be diffused are adjusted to improve both image blur and color change produced in the error diffusion. So, the printed image is similar to the image of monitor. Our results indicate that proposed algorithm can produce high quality image in the low bit color devices.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.45-54
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• 2006

This paper proposed color matching technique, including display characterization, chromatic adaptation model, and gamut mapping and extension, to generate consistent colors for the same input signal in each display device. It is necessary to characterize the relationship between input and output colors for display device, to apply chromatic adaptation model considering the difference of reference white, and to compensate for the gamut which display devices can represent for reproducing consistent colors on DTV display devices. In this paper, 9 channel-independent GOG model, which is improved from conventional 3 channel GOG(gain, offset gamma) model, is used to consider channel interaction and enhance the modeling accuracy. Then, the input images have to be adjusted to compensate for the limited gamut of each display device. We proposed the gamut mapping and extension method, preserving lightness and hue of an original image and enhancing the saturation of an original image in xy chromaticity diagram. Since the hmm visual system is more sensitive to lightness and hue, these values are maintained as the values of input signal, and the enhancement of saturation is changed to the ratio of input and output gamut. Also the xy chromaticity diagram is effective to reduce the complexity of establishing gamut boundary and the process of reproducing moving-pictures in DTV display devices. As a result, reproducing accurate colors can be implemented when the proposed method is applied to LCD and PDP display devices

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.111-120
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• 2005

A cost effective three-dimensional color gamut mapping architecture is described. The conventional three-dimensional reduced resolution look-up table is considered and the concept of three-dimensional reduced resolution difference look-up table is introduced for cost effective and real-time color gamut mapping. The overall architecture uses one-dimensional memory decomposition of three-dimensional gamut mapping look-up table, three-dimensional interpolation and simple addition operation for generating the final gamut mapped colors. The required computational cost is greatly reduced by look-up table resolution adjustment and further reduced by the gamut mapping rule modification. The proposed architecture greatly reduces the required memory size and hardware complexity compared to the conventional method and it is suitable for real-time applications. The proposed hardware is suitable for FPGA and ASIC implementation and could be applied to the real-time display quality enhancement purposes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Printing Society Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.78-91
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• 2001