The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory

Jeremie Gerhardt working on a printerThe Norwegian Color Research Laboratory is a research group within the Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology at Gjøvik University College. It was founded in spring 2001 to serve the rising needs for colour management solutions in the graphic arts industry.

Since its foundation the scope of interest has grown to cover colour science, colour imaging, and image processing in a broader sense, and our vision is to be one of the best research groups in this field. To achieve this vision the group employs a number of researchers with a broad competence basis in fields such as graphic arts, colour imaging science, electrical engineering, media technology, computer science, signal processing, physics, image processing. We also maintain an interactive open environment with strong national and international collaborators both in academia and industry. This has resulted in a wide range of fundamental and applied research projects which the group is actively involved in. Further, the group has a large number of well equipped laboratories and conference facilities.



News

PhD position in color imaging

We are very happy to announce a new PhD scholarship in color imaging, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. Deadline for applications is August 31, 2010. See http://www.colorlab.no/vacancies for more information.

07/29/2010

Colorlab at EUVIP 2010

EUVIPSeveral members of the Colorlab attended the 2nd European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP) in Paris. EUVIP coveres a wide range of topics, such as image and video processing and surveillance. The contribution from the Colorlab were spread out over the agend, with both oral and interactive presentation were carried out by members of the Colorlab.

Read more about EUVIP here.

07/08/2010

Colorlab research - coming soon to a conference near you!

ConferenceAfter a hectic spring semester at the Colorlab, filled with research and teaching, supervision and projects, proposals and reports, and not the least - conferences, it is good to know that our activity will NOT be decreasing next semester...

In particular, we will be presenting our recent research at several international conferences, see the list below. For more information, join us at the conferences and/or contact us.

08/09/2010

Colorlab at the CGIV

Jon Yngve CGIVThe Colorlab had a record high number of papers at the CGIV this year. Several members of the Colorlab travelled to Joensuu, Finland where the conference took place to present our research.

Jon Yngve Hardeberg gave a very interesting keynote on the topic of image quality "Color by numbers - quantifying the quality of color reproductions", where he summarized much of the research carried out in the Colorlab over the last years. The keynote was clearly appreciated by the audience, and it led to several interesting discussions during the conference.

06/20/2010

CREATE - a success

CREATE discussionThe CREATE conference was held at Gjøvik University College from the 7th of June till the 11th of June. More than 100 participated in this final conference of the CREATE series of conferences and training events. All participants presented themselfes and their work, either as an interactive poster or as an oral presentation. The program also included 3 keynote speakers and several invited speakers.
Ivar Farup, representing the colorlab in the CREATE comittee, states that "Create has created dialog and a network between different research areas." He also says that the work to continue CREATE already has started, and one should check the CREATE website at http://www.create.uwe.ac.uk/ for updates.

06/20/2010

CREATE reception

CREATE openingThe CREATE conference at Gjøvik University College has finally started. On monday the 7th of June the welcome reception took place in the Gjøvik Mountain Hall, with a guided tour of the mountain hall, followed by a welcome talk by the mayor of Gjøvik. the evening ended with a dinner in the Fjellhaven.

More information on the CREATE conference can be found at http://www.colorlab.no/events/create2010

06/09/2010

CIMET master thesis presentations

CIMET thesis presentationsOn Friday the 4th of June our CIMET master students presented their master thesis projects. The audience witnessed six excellent presentation on different topics, such as multiple camera tracking and multispectral-stereo systems. The presentations were also followed by video conference, and streamed online.

06/08/2010

New record for the Colorlab

Fargepalett2The Colorlab at GUC have eight academic papers accepted at a single international conference. -Good research and international cooperation, Professor Jon Yngve Hardeberg explains.

05/06/2010

CREATE 2010

CREATE2010

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

12/28/2009

Colorlab at the Color Imaging Conference 2009

CIC2009At 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.

11/26/2009
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