Objectives Mission the Territory History of the Group

Objectives • To provide high quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in colour and imaging science • To conduct research in colour and imaging science relevant to aa wide range of applications. • To work with industry and commerce in technology transfer. • To contribute to national and international standards in colour Department of Colour and imaging. and Polymer Chemistry

Mission The Territory

Digital To be a World Centre for the Colour Science Imaging Teaching, Research and Application of Colour and Imaging Science

Colour Human Design Vision

History of the Group Combined Staff Associated with CIG

Formation Dr. Ronnier Luo Dr. James Nobbs 1986 - 1993 Collaborative research (DTI/EPSRC) Professor of Colour Senior Lecturer University of Loughborough and imaging Science of Colour Physics Crosfield Electronic (FujiFilm Electronic Imaging) Dr. Peter Rhodes Dr.Alison Gilchrist Coats-Viyella Senior Research Fellow Senior Teaching Fellow (Computing) (Colour Physics) Development 1993 - 1997 Design Research Centre Dr. Changjun Li Dr. Christine Holdstock University of Derby Research Fellow Project Officer 1997 - 2004 Colour & Imaging Institute (Mathematics) (Colour Physics) University of Derby Dr. Guihua Cui Research Fellow Transfer (Optics & colour science) March 2004 Department of Colour and Polymer Chemistry Dr. Lichen Ou University of Leeds Research Fellow (Product Design)

1 Taught Course and Research Associated Professor Degree Schemes Prof. Stephen Westland Colour Imaging Existing Visiting Professors Prof. Robert Hunt Colour Science • MSc Colour and Imaging Prof. Bryan Rigg Colour Measurement • MSc Research Prof. Mike Pointer Appearance measurement • MPhil/PhD Research Visiting Fellows Proposed Dr. Arthur Tarrant Optics and Lighting Dr. Tetsuya Sato Colour Association • Undergraduate Scheme Mr. John Hutchings Food appearance

Profile of Group Facilities

MScMSc • Colour Science

• Human Vision

••Colour Colour && ImagingImaging ••Colour Colour andand AppearanceAppearance TechnologyTechnology (PT)(PT) • Digital Imaging

Colour Science: Measurement Colour Science: Visual Assessment

• Spectroradiometers: Bentham, Minolta CS1000, GretagMacbeth • Viewing Apparatus: Lightspex and PhotoResearch 650 GretagMacbeth Skylight, Luminaire and Spectra Light; • Spectrophotometers: VeriVide viewing cabinets, DTP and SB10 GretagMacbeth MS2020+, CE2180, Graphic Arts Viewers CE3100, CE7000A, CE471, XTH, Spectrolino, SPM100-11; • Colour Order Systems: X Rite MA68, SP68 and 418, 938; Munsell Book of Color and Color Tree, Datacolor SF500 and SF600. Natural Colour System (NCS), DIN system, Optical Society of America (OSA) Uniform • Colorimeters: Color Scales, LMT C1210; Sequel Chroma4, Minolta TV- Colorcurve, Pantone, PCCS Color Analyzer II • ICI Colour Map

• Calibration standards Light sources and NPL-CERAM ceramic tiles

2 Human Vision Digital Imaging • Digital Cameras: Agfa StudioCam, Canon Powershot Pro • Visual Colorimeter 70 Pro 90, Kontron ProgRes 3012, Crosfield Celsis 160, HP PhotoSmart C30, Nikon D1X, Coolpix 5700, Sanyo Digicam, • Colour Vision Tests FujiFilm FinePix 4700 zoom Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue test Ishihara colour vision test • Scanners: Crosfield Celsis 360; HP ScanJet 3c/T, City University colour vision test Network ScanJet 5, PhotoSmart; MatchPoint metameric colour rule Sharp JX600; UMAX Vista-56

• Colour Printers: HP Color LaserJet 4M and 5M; DeskJet 660C, 850C, 895Cxi, 1200C/PS and 1600CM, CopyJet M, DesignJet 755CM and 1055CM; Kodak DCP9000 Colour Proofer, Tektronix Phaser 440; Mitsubishi G650;

Profile of Research Collaboration Product Development • Product Development 1 – Digital imaging and colour communication

• Government funded project

• Industrial Support

• PhD Projects

DigiEye ColourTalk • Development of Standards

• International Links

Product Development Product Development 2 - Colorant Formulation & Optical Modelling 3 - Colour Design Ultracolour Colour Design • Textiles GretagMacbeth Colour Affects • Paint X-Rite • Ink X-Rite

b* a*-b* 120 spring • Metallic coating summer 100 autumn winter 80 • Fluorescent materials 60 40

20 • Multi-flux modelling 0 a* -20

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-60 • Multispectral imaging -80-60-40-200 20406080

3 UK Government and EU Support Industrial Support

• Colour and Translucency of • Adaptive Colour gamut mapping Samsung –SAIT (Korea) Liquid Foods (LINK-DEFRA) • Image classifier development Samsung –SAIT (Korea) • Image quality of various size displays Samsung –SAIT (Korea) • A universal colour harmony • Quality evaluation for moving images ETRI (Korea) model for industrial • Smart printer driver & IQ Oki Printer (Japan) applications (AHRB) applications (AHRB) • Colour Selection Methods Benjamin Moore (US) • BM Colour Communication System Benjamin Moore (US) • Investigation of uncertainty of • Investigation of uncertainty of • Total appearance measurement DigiEye (UK) colour matching (EPSRC) human film cinematographic eye • Coats ColourTalk system Coats (UK) digital viewing conditions master • Smart digital target Proctor & Gamble (US) • Cinematographic Colour • Colour appearance for car coatings Akzo Nobel (Holland) Management (EU) Appearance Calibration Model “film look” human eye • Paint simulation viviaa data projectors ICI Dulux (UK) Validation platform target viewing conditions • Soft-proofing using LCD monitors ICI Dulux (UK)

MPhil/PhD Projects MPhil/PhD Projects

• Year 1 (1) 2005/2006 Year 4 (2) 2002/2003 X Li Colour gamut for real objects W Lee Colour emotion for colour/form/texture • Year 2 (6) 2004/2005 J. Kim Colour appea. modelling for moving images Y. Wang Adaptive gamut mapping algorithms Z. Wang Smart ICC and colour simulation Year 5 (2) 2001/2002 C. Li LED sources and its application W. Ji Measuring gloss and liquid using camera Y. Kim Image enhancement for displays R. Ho Crispening effect J. Yoo Image quality for displays Year 6 (4) 2000/2001 Y. Park Colour appearance for displays B. Han Simulating appearance on CRT • Year 3 (5) 2003/2004 T. Song Colour differenced for images C. Fu Measuring viewing conditions C. Lam Parametric colour differences B. Oicherman Colour matching function S. Choi Image quality for PFD K. Xiao Modelling the appearance of dissimilar sizes D. Lee Image quality for FPD S. Kitaguchi Quantifying textures for effect coatings

Development of Standards International Links

• Rochester Institute of Technology (USA) • International Standards • Chiba University (Japan) CIE International Commission on Illumination ISO International Standards Organization • Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea) • National Standards • Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (China) BSI British Standards Institute CMC Colour Measurement Committee of the SDC • Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing (China) NPL National Physical Laboratory ORM club • South-Western Joutung University, Chendu (China)

4 Track Record The Colour Image Science Triangle PhD research at University (21/42)-6 years (1998-2003) 1. Tao Song – University of Derby 2. Vien Cheung – University of Leeds 3. Michelle Chen – Hong Kong Polytechnic University 4. Samira Bouzit – University of Derby 5. Kaida Xiao – University of Derby 6. Bing Han – University of Derby 7. Raymond Ho – University of Leeds 8. Wei Ji – University of Leeds 9. Yazhu Lin – University of Newcastle 10. Alexis Gatt – University of Leeds 11. Niu Chen – University of Loughborough 12. Lufei Huang- University of Derby 13. Qiao Chen –University of Leeds 14. Jiang Duan – University of Nottingham 15. Wen Luo – University of Leeds 16. Saori Kitaguchi – University of Leeds 17. Peter Lumd – University of London 18. YonJin Kim – University of Leeds Distributed Image Preference Experiment? 19. Zhaohui Wang – University of Leeds Shared Access to Image Simulation System? 20. Zidon Zhang – University of Newcastle 21. YungKung Park – University of Leeds Industry • On-Lite; Sony; LienShan; LandRover; HP,

Track Record PhD Graduates 1. Xiaohong Gao (University of Loughborough) 2. Meichun Lo 3. Wengui Kuo 4. Shingshan Guan (University of Derby) 5. Jan Morovic 6. Helen Huang 7. Grace Luyin Juan 8. Peggy Zhu 9. Suchitra Sueeprasan 10. Guihua Cui 11. Byoung-Ho Kang 12. Hong Xu 13. Phil Green 14. WenLung Chou 15. Lichen Ou The future is digital imaging!! MPhil 1. XiaoiPei Lee 2. Masaori Iwase [email protected]

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