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.

Several 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.

After 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.

The 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.

The 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.

The 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

On 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.

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

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.