• Central facial region for finding real skin color by Kyungah

    Kyungah Choi presented a work entitled, “Skin-representative region in a face for finding real skin color” at the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2017) in Burlingame, California. The study suggests an algorithm for finding one’s skin region based on the primary calculation of the center region of the face for accurate detection and reduced…

  • Performance of the skin-colored patches for skin color estimation by Kyungah

    Kyungah Choi presented a work entitled, “Performance of the 14 skin-colored patches in accurately estimating human skin color” at the IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2017) in Burlingame, California. The study provides evidence that the skin-colored patches support more accurate estimations of skin colors than the 24 colored patches. It is expected that the…

  • Assessment of white for displays by Kyungah

    Kyungah Choi, a Ph.D. candidate at Color Lab recently published an article entitled “Assessment of white for displays under dark- and chromatic-adapted conditions” in the journal Optics Express, a top-ranked journal in the optics field. This study aims to derive an empirical model to predict the degree of whiteness as a function of position in…

  • Kyungah’s article has been highlighted by the Optics Express

    Kyungah’s article published in Optics Express is listed in the “Top Downloads” from October 2016. Because the article and related media coverage were released in April 2016, this confirms her research has obtained significant attention for the last 7 months. The article is entitled as “Dynamic lighting system for the learning environment: performance of elementary students” and…

  • Prof.Suk wrote a book chapter about “Light, enlightening colors”

    A public talk about color of Prof.Suk is published in a book chapter edited by the KAOS Foundation [카오스재단]. The book entitled, “Lecture Science KAOS 03 Light [렉처 사이언스 KAOS 03 빛]” is a collection of 10 talks broadcasted through the YTN Science in 2015. The 10 chapters cover theories and issues related to light, and the…

  • Material reconfiguration by Hyunjoo

    Hyunjoo Bae, a master candidate of Color lab, presented her recent work entitled, “The value and application of material reconfiguration of product design.” at KSDS (Korea Society of Design Science) 2016 international conference in Busan, Korea. The study provides evidence that material reconfiguration has a sufficiently impactful influence on on novelty, aesthetic preference, and overall preference…

  • How a key color creates an attractive promotional video, investigated by EunJin

    EunJin Kim, a Ph.D. candidate of Color lab, has presented her recent work entitled, “Key Color Generation for Affective Multimedia Production: An Initial Method and Its Application” at 2016 ACM Multimedia Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In the paper, the insights from designers’ color selection process were discussed and utilized to develop a key color generation…

  • Jockey Time, an onlline video editing service by Kyeong Ah

    Kyeong Ah Jeong, a Ph.D. candidate of Color Lab presented a poster about her master study entitled, “Jockey Time: Making Video Playback to Enhance Emotional Effect” at the ACM Multimedia Conference for 2016 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This study devised a web-based online video playback editing service that enhancing the emotional effect of one’s video.…

  • Assessment Tool Development for playback-edited video by Kyeong Ah

    Kyeong Ah Jeong, a Ph.D. candidate of Color Lab published an article entitled, “Affective Effect of Video Playback Style and its Assessment Tool Development [영상의 재생 스타일에 따른 감성적 효과와 감성 평가 도구의 개발]” in the Korean Journal of the Science of Emotion & Sensibility. This study investigated how video playback styles affect viewers’ emotional…

  • Enlarged words make text messages look clearer but less premium, by Do-hyeong and EunJin.

    Do-hyeong Kim, Suhong Ju and EunJin Kim presented their work entitled, “The effects of enlarged words in text messages: Look clearer, but less premium: at the 10th International Conference on Design & Emotion in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The study explored the emotional characteristics of enlarged words in text messages. The results showed that enlarging the…

  • Two new members of Color Lab.

    Color Lab has welcomed two new members, Minsun Hong and Yuchun Yan for the Master’s program. Minsun has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from KAIST and Yuchun finished her Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design at the University of Liverpool (UK) and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (P.R.China). Their contributions will be deeply appreciated in the immediate…

  • Sung-Wook has finished his master thesis

    Sungwook submitted his master thesis entitled, “The Influence of Atypical Color on Aesthetics of Product Design” in that he identified the value and impact of unusual color on consumers’ impression. He has investigate the aesthetic appeal or cognitive association when color of an object or graphical elements, such as graphic user interface(GUI) is atypical. For…