• Byeongjin’s article about what if color light comes from behind the display

    Byeongjin’s article about what if color light comes from behind the display

    Byeongjin Kim published an article entitled, “Preference for the Background Lighting of a Display Influenced by Media and Image Features [배경 조명을 이용한 미디어 확장과 선호도 평가]” in the Archives of Design Research (AODR). In the article, a visual assessment was conducted on display expansion technology, and the Philips Hue Play Light Bar was used…

  • Donggun and Taesu’s Pokemon research EI 2022

    Donggun and Taesu’s Pokemon research EI 2022

    Donggun and Taesu joined the conference, the Color Imaging XXVII: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications in the Electronic Imaging 2022(EI2022). Their article was entitled “Pokemon color adjustments for augmented reality contents”, which investigated the color adjustment level of Pokemon while users’ consumed augmented reality content. Abstract The methods for rendering content realistic in Augmented Reality…

  • The color tolerance of vehicular instrument panels presented at EI 2022

    The color tolerance of vehicular instrument panels presented at EI 2022

    Taesu made a presentation entitled “A method proposal for evaluating color tolerance in viewing multiple white points focusing on the vehicle instrument panels” at Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 2022. The study proposed a method with an analysis protocol for evaluating the color and illuminance uniformity in the vehicle. It addresses the relevance of color…

  • Taesu’s machine learning article won the best paper award

    Taesu’s machine learning article won the best paper award

    Taesu’s article received the best paper award from the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility. The article is entitled, “Hi, KIA! Classifying Emotional States from Wake-up Words Using Machine Learning [Hi, KIA! 기계 학습을 이용한 기동어 기반 감성 분류]” published in April 2021(see the paper). He introduced the dataset and machine learning model that extract…

  • Byeonjin won the best paper presentation. Congrats!

    Byeonjin won the best paper presentation. Congrats!

    Byeongjin received the best paper presentation award from the 2021 Fall Conference of Korea Society of Color Studies. The award-winning article was entitled, “Optimal Luminance for Television Viewing in the Dark Room[어두운 환경에서 TV 시청 시의 적정 휘도 탐색]”, which investigated users’ visual comfort when watching the television in a dark. Taesu participated in the…

  • Comfortable Brightness for Watching Television in the Dark by Byeongjin at AIC2021

    Comfortable Brightness for Watching Television in the Dark by Byeongjin at AIC2021

    Byeongjin made an oral presentation entitled, “Comfortable Brightness for Watching Television in the Dark” on AIC 2021. In his study, he investigated the appropriate brightness of the display when users watching them in the dark. For this study, he conducted the experiment for the cognitive evaluation using six video stimuli with different levels of brightness…

  • Is blue still a representative for future vehicles by Gyunpyo at AIC2021

    Is blue still a representative for future vehicles by Gyunpyo at AIC2021

    At the 14th AIC Congress 2021 held in Milan, Italy, Gyunpyo Lee delivered an oral presentation entitled “Is Blue Still a representative for Future Vehicles?”. The study shows how the marketing norm for eco-consciousness represents color for future vehicles, encompassing both battery electric vehicles and hydrogen-powered electric vehicles. Furthermore, the study revealed that heritage brands…

  • Taesu’s investigation about drivers’ emotional responses to in-car light

    Taesu’s investigation about drivers’ emotional responses to in-car light

    Taesu KIM, a Ph.D. candidate of Color Lab has published an article entitled, “EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO IN-CAR DYNAMIC LIGHTING” in volume 22, the 4th issue of International Journal of Automotive Technology. In the study, cluster lightings were designed by combining five colors and five dynamic patterns, and the emotional responses were assessed. The empirical evidence…

  • Qinyue’s “Bubble Coloring” at CHI 2021

    Qinyue’s “Bubble Coloring” at CHI 2021

    Qinyue presented an extended abstract entitled, “Bubble Coloring to Visualize the Speech Emotion” at CHI 2021 virtual conference, and Yuchun has co-authored the paper. As a part of Qinyue’s master thesis, the study explored the emotional effect of the chat bubble’s background color on voice messages. The empirical result demonstrated that the bubble color intensified…

  • Wake-Up Word recognizes your mood, investigated by Taesu

    Wake-Up Word recognizes your mood, investigated by Taesu

    AI speaker is now everywhere. For example, if you are in a KIA car, “Hi, Kia!’ should boot the car’s system. When most of the technical studies have focused on accuracy, we were curious about the emotional state contained in the voice. Led by Taesu, a Ph.D. candidate constructed a voice database recorded in various…

  • Yuchun’s Deep learning study on face color published in JIST

    Yuchun’s Deep learning study on face color published in JIST

    Yuchun Yan, a Ph.D. candidate of Color Lab has published an article entitled, “Exploring the Facial Color Representative Regions Using the Humanae Images” in the December issue of Journal of Imaging Science and Technology(JIST). The article was submitted to the journal-first track of the Electronic Imaging 2021(EI 2021) conference and accepted for publication. In the…

  • Hyeonju reported about the excessive light from home appliances

    Hyeonju reported about the excessive light from home appliances

    As an invited talk to the 17th China International Forum on Solid-State Lighting (SSL China 2020) held in Shenzhen, China, Hyeonju delivered a video presentation entitled “Thoughts and Approaches toward the Guideline of Light Interface of Home Appliances”. The study introduced three approaches: a review of domestic legal guidance concerning outdoor light pollution, a consumer…