The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory

On June 8-11, 2010, The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory organizes the second CREATE conference. This event marks the end of a very successful 4-year research training and networking project in the field of color science and technology. The project has been supported by EU through the Marie Curie programme. More information about the project, the conference, and how to apply to attend with all expenses covered can be found shortly at http://www.create.uwe.ac.uk/ or read more at http://colorlab.no/events/create2010

At the 17th Color Imaging Conference (CIC) in November 2009 two research papers from the Colorlab were presented. The first paper titled "An adaptive Bilateral Filter for Predicting Color Image Difference" was presented by Zhaohui Wang in the Color Image Quality session. The paper can be downloaded here.

The second paper was an interactive paper titled "Attributes of a New Image Quality Model for Color Prints", which as presented by Marius Pedersen. The paper can be download here and the poster is found here.

Jon Yngve Hardeberg was the session chair for the Color Manipulation session on the last day of a very intersting conference.

Recently Jean-Baptiste Thomas defended his doctoral thesis on image technological equipment and displays. Much of his research work was done at The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory (Colorlab) at GUC.

Six members of the Colorlab particiated on the fifth training course in the CREATE events. This time the event was on "Colour Heritage and Conservation" and took place in Gargnano, Italy. The event discussed and looked at recent digital techniques used for the data acquisition, collection, restoration, presentation and preservation of coloured artefacts: paintings, sculpture, glass, textiles, works on paper, film, etc …

At the 11th Congress of the International Colour Association (AIC) in September 2009 Gabriele Simone presented a new image difference metric. The paper named "Performance of a the euclidean color-difference formula in log-compressed OSA-UCS space applied to modified-image-difference metrics" can be download here.

The Colorlab is glad to announce that two research papers have been accepted to the 17th annual Color Imaging Conference (CIC) in Albuquerque, NM in November 2009. The accepted papers are:

• An Adaptive Bilateral Filter for Predicting Color Image Difference. Zhaohui Wang and Jon Yngve Hardeberg.
• Attributes of a New Image Quality Model for Color Prints. Marius Pedersen, Nicolas Bonnier, Jon Yngve Hardeberg and Fritz Albregtsen

More information on the Color Imaging Conference can be found here.

Gjøvik Color Imaging Symposium 2009 has held on the 19th of June 2009 with great success. A record high number of 44 participants attended the symposium, which contained two keynotes lectures, four invited lectures and 16 submitted papers. Eli Peli and Sabine Süsstrunk gave two very interesting keynotes and contrast and image quality, respectively. This years symposium contained presentations, poster sessions, open lab and demonstrations.

A gallery with pictures taken by Atif Mansoor and Marius Pedersen is available here, and the proceedings here.

We are happy to announce a PhD scholarship in multispectral color imaging, in collaboration with the Laboratoire d'Electronique, Informatique et Image at the University of Burgundy in
Auxerre, France. Deadline for applications is June 20, 2009. See http://www.colorlab.no/vacancies for more information.

We are proud to announce that three research papers have been accepted to the 11th Congress of the International Colour Association (AIC) 2009. The congress will take place in Sydney, Australia from the 27 September 2009 to the 2 October 2009.

The AIC 2009 covers a wide range of different color topics, such as Colour Physics, Colour Vision and Colour Imaging. More information about the AIC 2009 can be found at www.aic2009.org.

Four members (Aditya Sole, Dibakar Pant, Peter Nussbaum, and Ivar Farup) from the Colorlab attended the CREATE training course "Communicating Colour" in Veszprem, Hungary. The course was hosted by The Pannon University in Veszprem. The event included workshop sessions, both theoretical and practical, which addressed the problems relating conceptual aspects of colour, colour naming, teaching, profiling, communication, marketing, advertising, arts and pedagogic research. For more information on upcoming training courses visit the CREATE webpage.

Marius Pedersen represented the Colorlab at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting 2009 in Naples, Florida. This conference offers researchers to present new research in the field of understanding vision and brain. marius presented a research paper titled "SHAME: A new spatial hue angle metric for perceptual image difference", which is co-authored by Jon Yngve Hardeberg. The poster can be downloaded here, and abstracts from the meeting can be downloaded here.

Due to increasing interest for the PSO certification in the norwegian printing industry, The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory plans for a workshop course on PSO (Process standard offset) on Wednesday 10th June 2009 from 9:15 in building A, Høgskolen I Gjøvik. The course is titled ”Sertifisering i henhold til PSO (Process Standard Offset)”. This course will be an introduction to PSO method for implementing the Graphic Arts standards in the Graphic Print Industry. Peter Nussbaum will give a detail talk on all the functions in PSO and implementation of the respective standards in those functions. In the afternoon session a demo workshop will be conducted on the soft proofing and hard proofing functions of PSO.

To see the program and register please click here.

Four research papers from the Colorlab have been accepted to the 16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2009). SCIA will take place in Oslo, Norway in June 2009, and Gjøvik Color Imaging Symposium is organized in collaboration with SCIA. The papers accepted from the Colorlab covers a wide range of topics, from contrast to multispectral images.

Two research papers were accepted and presented at the 2009 Computational Color Imaging Workshop in St. Etienne in France. The workshop focus on the methods and applications of digital color image processing and analysis. Jean-Baptiste Thomas and Marius Pedersen represented the Colorlab on the 26th and 27th of March.

We are very happy to announce that Gjøvik Color Imaging Symposium 2009 will take place in Gjøvik, Norway, on June 19, 2009. This wiill be the fifth time that the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory at Gjøvik University College organizes this event. The symposium will be organized in conjunction with the 16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA2009.

As a part of the ICC meetings in Paris in March 2009, a one day conference on digital printing was held. Many different topics related to digital printing were discussed, and presentations from both researchers and students were given in order to discuss recent work on the subject.

Marius Pedersen represented the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory, and he gave a talk on an ongoing research project titled "Towards a New Image Quality Model for Color Prints".

We are happy to announce that a total of five papers from the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory have been presented at the Electronic Imaging 2009, which took place in San José, California in the end of January 2009.

Jon Yngve Hardeberg and Gabriele Simone represented the Colorlab in San José. Electronic Imaging has 24 technical conferences covering all aspects of electronic imaging, from image sensing to display and hardcopy.

The Colorlab presents a new workshop, this time on high dynamic range imaging. The workshop is titled: "Dynamic range of light, contrast and perception in digital images" and contains interesting talks from Alessandro Rizzi, Carinna Parraman, Vien Cheung and many other. The workshop is held on Wednesday November 26th from 0900 in K113.

To see the programme and register, click here.

Three members (Peter Nussbaum, Aditya Sole and Marius Pedersen) of the colorlab attended the CREATE training course on "New Ways to use Print Technology" in Bristol, UK. The specialist training course, was hosted by the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, was delivered through a combination of lectures delivered by industry experts (including Xerox and Apple) and studio based workshops (including traditional, commercial and wide format printing).

Two research papers from the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory were accepted to CIC 16, IS&T's and SID's Sixteenth Color Imaging Conference. The conference took place in Portland, Oregon on November 10-15, 2008.

The accepted papers were:

• Software with Visual Phenomena, Tests, and Standard Colorimetric Computations for Didactics and Laboratory, Gabriele Simone and Claudio Oleari.
• Saliency Map for Human Gaze Prediction in Images, Puneet Sharma, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, and Jon Yngve Hardeberg.

They are six people from six different countries, and all into colors. The master programme Color in Informatics and Media Technology (CIMET) started this week.

We are happy to present more information on PSO Certification on our website www.colorlab.no/psoinfo. Please click on the link for more detail information on PSO certification and to view the list of the Printing companies being PSO certified by the Colorlab in collaboration with UGRA. Currently there are a number of Printing companies in the process of being PSO Certified by the Color Lab.

Please join us for the 11th International Symposium on Multispectral Colour Science MCS'09 as part of the 16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA2009, in Oslo, Norway on June 15-18, 2009.

Submissions will be handled through SCIA’s electronic submission system. Important dates are December 7, 2008 for submissions of electronic abstracts, and December 14, 2008 for submission of full papers of up to 10 pages length. Detailed submission instructions will be posted on www.scia2009.org.

We present new a workshop, this time on face detection and recognition. Invited speaker is Sebastian Marcel (), who will give a tutorial on face detection and recognition. The workshop is held on Thursday, June 19th from 1000.

To see the programme and register, click here.

Two new specialist print courses on the latest developments and new applications in print technology have been organised by 'CREATE' at the University of the West of England.

The short courses, aimed at researchers and postgraduate students interested in colour and technology relating to print on paper and the textile industry are expected to attract international interest. CREATE (Colour Research for European Advanced Technology Employment) is an international group set up to promote research and knowledge in this field through a series of international conferences and courses which started in 2007. See: CREATE

We are happy to announce that EKH Trykk, Molde has been successfully PSO Certified by The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory in Collaboration with UGRA. This makes them the first company in North Europe to accomplish the prestigeous PSO Certification. Handover of the PSO certificate to EKH Trykk will take place on 5th June 2008 at Gjøvik University College.

We are very proud to present new a workshop, this time on psychophysical experiments for image quality". Invited speaker is Nicolas Bonnier (Océ, France), who will give a presentation titled "Evaluating gamut mapping algorithms - experiences with psychophysical experiments". The workshop is held on Wednesday, June 4th from 0900.

To see the programme and register, click here.

We are very proud to present a workshop on Vision, Imaging and Eye Movements. Two invited speakers, Claudio de'Sperati and Alessandro Rizzi, will hold interesting talks on eye movements. The workshop is held on Wednesday, 30th april at Gjøvik University College.

To see the programme and register, click here.

We are happy to launch the newly redesigned website of the CIMET master (Color in Informatics and Media Technology), designed and implemented by staff and students of Gjøvik University College, see http://www.master-erasmusmundus-color.eu/.

We also remind prospective European students about the application deadline of April 14, 2008. With already a first group of non-European students selected after a very competitive selection process, we now seek qualified European students, with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, physics, optics, imaging science, or a related field.

A record number of four research papers from the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory have been accepted to CGIV 2008, IS&T's Fourth European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision. The conference will take place in Terassa near Barcelona in Spain on June 9-13, 2008.

Océ Print Logic technologies and Gjøvik University College have entered into a agreement on a four year research collaboration. Océ agrees to provide funding Marius Pedersen's PhD studies, in return he will research on problems with relevance for Océ.

On October 25th 2007 at 10:00, Mr. Jérémie Gerhardt, a PhD scholar at the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory, defended his thesis entitled "Spectral Color Reproduction: Model Based and Vector Error Diffusion Approaches" The defence took place at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) in Paris; where Jérémie was formally enrolled as a PhD student.

We are happy to announce that a total of four papers from the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory have been presented at the Electronic Imaging Symposium 2008, which took place in San José, California in the end of January 2008.

Three of the papers are based on master theses carried out in the color lab in the spring semester of 2007, by our own Media Technology students and by international exchange students, while one is based on PhD student research.

Gjøvik University College and three other European universities have been approved by the EU to deliver a new master programme entitled Color in Informatics and Media Technology (CIMET) within the Erasmus Mundus programme. This is a very prestigious programme and it is a great achievement for Gjøvik University College to be a part of it.

In the present issue of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the following paper by members of the color lab appears:

Ivar Farup, Carlo Gatta and Alessandro Rizzi. A Multiscale Framework for Spatial Gamut Mapping. IEEE Trans. Image Proc., 16(10), 2423-2435, 2007.

Today, Jeremie Gerhardt presented his paper entitled "Spectral color reproduction versus color reproduction" at the 34th International Research Conference of iarigai, in Grenoble, France.

The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory is happy to announce that two papers from the group have been accepted for presentation at the renowned Color Imaging Conference, which will be organized by IS&T and SID in Albuquerque, New Mexico on November 5-9, 2006.

The papers are on the topics of Spatial Gamut Mapping, and Color Memory, and will be presented by Associate Professor Ivar Farup, and ex-exchange student Ondrej Panak, respectively.

An image gallery containing some photos taken by Astrid Lind at the Gjøvik Color Imaging Symposium is now available here.

We are very proud to present a very rich program of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, contributed papers and student presentations. Don't forget to register before noon at June 4th - the most popular workshops are already starting to fill up! To see the programme and register, click here.

The Norwegian Color Reseach Laboratory receives two new members: Faouzi Alaya Cheikh and Katrin Franke

The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory receives two renowned invited researchers, Dr. Alessandro Rizzi from Milano University, Italy, and Dr. Norimichi Tsumura from Chiba University, Japan.