Color space conversion is very important in many types of image processing applications including video compression. This operation consumes up to 40% of the entire processing power of a highly optimised decoder. Therefore, techniques which efficiently implement this conversion are desired. This paper presents four different scalable architectures for efficient implementation of two such color ...

Shadows are illuminated as a result of Rayleigh scattering phenomenon, which happens to be more effective for small wavelengths of light. We propose utilization of false color images for shadow detection, since the transformation eliminates high frequency blue component and introduces low frequency near-infrared channel. Effectiveness of the approach is tested by using several shadow-variant te...

We present an algorithm for color classification with explicit illuminant estimation and compensation. A Gaussian classifier is trained with color samples from just one training image. Then, using a simple diagonal illumination model, the illuminants in a new scene that contains some of the same surface classes are estimated in a Maximum Likelihood framework using the Expectation Maximization a...

Warm-white LEDs (WLEDs) with high spectral quality and efficiency are required for lighting applications, but current experimental performances are limited. We report on nanocrystal quantum dot (NQD) hybridized WLEDs with high performance that exhibit a high luminous efficacy of optical radiation exceeding 350lm/W(opt) and a high color rendering index close to 90 at a low correlated color tempe...

White organic light emitting diodes (white-OLEDs) have shown the potential to replace commercial sources for lighting applications because of their high effi ciency and superior color quality. The most conventional architectures used to maximize the performances of such devices consist in the employment of three kinds of emitting phosphorescent or fl uorescent molecules and modifi ed glass subs...

The relationships between molecular structures and properties of anthraquinone dichroic dyes were studied and dyes with large solubilities and dichroic ratios were developed. The yellow anthraquinone dye behaves as a quencher of the coumarin dye, and the mixture has a large absorption coefficient without fluorescence. These technologies can enlarge the color reproduction area of three-layer gue...

In this article we compare two workflows for spectral color reproduction : colorant separation (CS) followed by halftoning by scalar error diffusion (SED) of its resulting multi-colorant channel image and a second workflow by spectral vector error diffusion (sVED). Identical filters are used in both SED and sVED to diffuse the error. Gamut mapping is performed as pre-processing and the reproduc...

Previous studies on the effect of color on cognitive task performances and have led to two different views. Some researchers think that the influence of red and blue on cognitive tasks is modulated by the difficulty of the task, and other researchers suggest that the influence mainly depends on the type of task. The current study combined these factors to investigate the effect of color on cogn...

Color is the critical factor in seismic data interpretation and geological targets visualization. And recently, ideas of color blending have brought the enlightenment in attribute combinations for reservoir characterization in petroleum engineering. In this paper, we present this approach of color blending in different color modes and its application in subsurface channel detection by using sei...