PhD Student, Color Science
I recently attended, and volunteered to help facilitate, a short course at the Imaging Science and Technology conference "Electronic Imaging" where the very famous Lena test image was used to demonstrate various image compression concepts. In its first usage in the class, there was at least some mention of the historical context. Lena's portrait, shot …
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Cup of coffee with cream, the color is a light brown. In a cup labeled "Apollo 50th Anniversary." Sitting on the author's home desk. Keyboard and coffee pot visible in the background.
I love talking about color rendering. As some of the other people in my lab will attest: I frequently say it's the most important, or at least most interesting, problems in color science. I started my trajectory towards color science very young in the theatre. I started out singing and dancing in a few shows, …
Several months ago, as part of a term project in my graduate program, I was looking for a challenging problem, in a "new" area that I previously haven't really worked in. And I wanted the problem to be "optimizer friendly" because I wanted to learn about numerical optimization. I settled on trying to answer the …
A common trend in fixture design among LED lighting fixtures targeted at the entertainment lighting market is the inclusion of a lime LED. The lime LED is a blue pump phosphor converted LED which results in a broadband emission. This broadband characteristic is typically avoided by most LED buyers, who are interested in producing products …
