2020

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

Image Color Lab. December 9, 2020

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…

Color lab’s research in KAIST archives

Image Color Lab. December 1, 2020

The award-winning research from Color Lab leaves a mark in KAIST archives and released on Youtube. The highlighted research is mainly related to the awakening effect of blue-enriched light led by the doctoral work of Dr. Kyungah Choi. In the Youtube video, Prof. Suk puts an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration to discover novel ideas and…

Hyeonju reported about the excessive light from home appliances

Image Color Lab. November 25, 2020

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…

Is “Hi… Kia…” sufficient to express sad mood? Yes. Deep learning driven investigation by Youngwoo and Taesu

Image Color Lab. November 21, 2020

Youngwoo Kim, an undergraduate intern has presented a paper entitled, “Hi, Kia, HI… Kia…, HI, KIA!” at the 2020 Fall Conference of Korea Society for Emotion and Sensibility. This study investigated the affective quality from the Wake-Up Words(WUW) in a passenger car. Having collaborated with Kia Design Center, Color lab has carried out a series…

Skin color perception in portrait and emoji by Yuchun Yan at CIC28

Image Color Lab. November 17, 2020

Yuchun Yan, a Ph.D. student of Color lab made an interactive and poster presentation entitled “Skin Color Perception in Portrait Image and AR-based Humanoid Emoji.” A user study was conducted with 20 graduate students majoring in design, and 24 portrait images in four skin tone categories were employed. Through the user study, we observed skin colors…

Lighting design for the Premium bus by Taesu

Image Color Lab. November 14, 2020

Taesu Kim, a Ph.D. student of Color lab, delivered an online presentation entitled as, “Bus Interior Lighting Design Using Detachable Ceiling Light Module” at the 2020 Fall International Conference of Korea Society of Design Studies(KSDS). This study introduced the use of scale mockups to prototype the lighting design quickly but much more realistic than drawings…

Boram’s Material Network presented at KSDS Fall conference

Image Color Lab. November 14, 2020

Boram Kim, a master student of Color lab, made an oral presentation entitled as, “Color and Material Visualization of MoMA Chairs Using Social Network Analysis” at the 2020 Fall International Conference of Korea Society of Design Science(KSDS) in Seoul. Presented ‘Color and Material Network’ is about visualizing relations between different materials to nurture potentials for…

Yuchun revealed the truth. The darkening effect is no more the rumor

Image Color Lab. October 12, 2020

Yuchun, the Ph.D. candidate of Color lab has published a research article, entitled “Measuring and describing the discoloration of the liquid foundation”, in Color Research & Application (doi.org/10.1002/col.22584). The article reports the phenomena of discoloration of liquid foundation spread over time through repeated measures along 24 hours. Indeed the discoloration occurred and in particular, all…

Selected as a Featured Cover of Color Research & Application Vol.45, issue 6

Image Color Lab. October 10, 2020

Juhee’s article about the effect of light chromaticity on the fabric style has been nominated and selected as a featured cover of the Color Research & Application, 45(6) : https://doi.org/10.1002/col.22537. Congratulations!

The Skintone Finder on YouTube

Image Color Lab. October 5, 2020

Amore Pacific launched the documentary video about the Skintone Finder, one of the outcomes from industry-academia collaboration with Color lab. The service consists of an apparatus that captures a target spot and an algorithm that analyzes the captured image to estimate the true color of the target spot. Colorlab owns the intellectual property registered in…