• A Fall Conference of Korean Society for Color Studies hosted by KAIST

    Prof. Suk and Prof. Kwak (UNIST) co-organised a Fall Conference of the Korean Society for Color Studies at KI Building on KAIST Campus. All members of color lab volunteered for paper presentations, staff services or both. In particular Juhee contributed to the visual communication including posters, banners, and booklets. Thanks all for your hard work!

  • Minsun is a Master of Science!

    Minsun Hong received a master of science with a thesis entitled, “Affective Image Quality for Sports Content”. Some practical insights regarding image quality on displays have led to this academic research begun. First, sports content is on live-broadcasting and there is a tendency to skip a detailed color correction process, even though the shooting is…

  • Yuchun, a Master of Science!

    Yuchun Yan is now a master of science! She submitted the thesis, entitled “Skin Balancing: Chromatic Adjustment of Multi-illuminant Portraits on One Scene using Facial Color to Reproduce Standard Image Quality”. She investigated the special situation when multiple portraits undue different scene illuminants gathered together and how people perceive the color difference in terms of…

  • Cosmax China invited Prof.Suk for a Technical Seminar Talk

    Cosmax China has invited Professor Suk for a seminar talk about “light, color, and beauty” in Shanghai, China. The biggest and best ODM based cosmetic product manufacturer, the Cosmax has a headquarter in South Korea and has expanded its business through the Cosmax China. The Cosmax China has held an international technical seminar twice a year, and…

  • How can we make persuasive presentation? The tips from Kyeong Ah

    Invited by the Department of Electrical Engineering(EE), KAIST, Kyeong Ah Jeong delivered a special lecture about ‘how to make a persuasive presentation (설득력 있는 프리젠테이션 만들기)’ for the  EE undergraduate students. During the lecture, she shared graphical tips to make an eye-catching presentation and some checklists for successful presentation preparation.

  • Yuchun won the best paper award!

    Yuchun Yan, a master student of Color lab won the best presentation award with an article entitled as “Color Mosaic: color sampling with automatic pixelation versus subjective selection.” Congratulations!

  • Color lab’s outreach service of colorimetry and statistics

    Since the AIC2017, the international color conference, Color lab has participated in color conferences not only with academic papers but also with its outreach service having an independent booth. On May 19th on the Spring conference of Korea Society of Color Studies, Color lab brought with various kinds of colorimetry equipment and offered statistical analysis…

  • A patent for the invention on image color correction using human sclera and pupil

    A patent for the invention with Estee Lauder Corporation has been registered at the Korean Intellectual Property Office. The patent is titled “System and method for correcting color of digital image based on the human sclera and pupil,” and is invented by Hayan Choi, Kyungah Choi, Hyeon-Jeong Suk, and Songyup Kim(Estee Lauder Corporation, New York). The…

  • A talk about KAIST Edu 4.0

    Organized by the KBS and KAIST, Prof. Suk delivered a talk about the Education 4.0 as an alternative teaching paradigm of university education. The Education 4.0 basically follows the frame of flipped learning, one of the well-known interactive teaching methods, but emphasizes a synergy between online lecture and offline interactions. As the 6th show of…

  • Dr. Kyungah Choi appointed research professor

    Kyungah Choi has been appointed a research assistant professor of the Industrial Design Department at KAIST. She has moved to a new office on the 2nd floor. As a research professor, she will serve the department and university in ways that demonstrate a clear commitment to students. Thanks for everyone’s support through the years and with the…

  • Color and success, Prof.Suk’s invited talk at MDC2018

    Invited by the MDC2018, 30th Mint Directors Conference, Prof.Suk gave a talk entitled as “Color and success”. Differently from her previous talks about color perception and visual ergonomics, she introduced some historic background about precious colors. For example, the pink versus blue dichotomy these days is strongly influenced by the commercial items such as Barbie dolls. In the…

  • Color Lab on air (YTN science)

    The YTN Science reported about “color (색(色), 그 풍요의 시대)”, covering both theory and practical application of color. The broadcasting station team contacted the Color lab, and the members participated in several interviews. We explained the process of perception and interpreting color, and in particular, we have introduced interesting examples of how lighting can express…