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Directional Deinterlacing Method Using Local Gradient Features

국부 Gradient 특징을 이용한 방향성 deinterlacing 방법

  • Woo, Dong-Hun (TN business Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.) ;
  • Eom, Il-Kyu (Dept. of Information and Communications, Miryang National University) ;
  • Kim, Yoo-Shin (Research Institute of Computer and Info9rmation and Communictaion)
  • 우동헌 (삼성전자 정보통신총괄) ;
  • 임일규 (부산대학교 정보통신공학과) ;
  • 김유신 (부산대학교 컴퓨터 및 정보통신 연구소)
  • Published : 2005.09.25
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Abstract

Deinterlacing is the conversion from interlaced to progressive scan image that is considered to be 2 times image interpolation. In this paper, the simple and effective deinterlacing method is proposed based on the local gradient information of neighborhood pixels. In the proposed method, the weights for directions around the pixel to be interpolated are estimated, and the weighted sum for the neighborhood pixels is the final intensity value of the pixel to be interpolated. The proposed method has the structure suitable to practical implementation and can avoid the artifacts due to the wrong detection of edge direction. In the simulation, it showed improved subjective and objective performance than the ELA method and comparable performance compared with the variation of ELA method which has more complex structure and requires a couple of parameters that is determined by experience.

Deinterlacing은 비월 주사 영상을 순차 주사 영상으로 변환하는 방법을 뜻하며 2배의 영상 보간 문제로 볼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 보간하려는 화소의 국부 Gradient 정보를 이용한 간단하면서도 효율적인 deinterlacing 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법에서는 보간하려는 화소를 중심으로 각 방향별 가중치가 추정되며 이 가중치에 따른 평균으로 보간 할 화소의 밝기값이 결정된다. 제안 방법에서는 모든 방향에 대한 가중치를 고려함으로써 잘못된 방향 판단으로 인한 화질 열화를 피하였고 실제적인 구현에 적합한 구조를 가지고 있다. 모의실험에서 제안 방법은 대표적인 방향성 deinterlacing 방법인 ELA보다 개선된 주관적, 객관적 성능을 보여주었으며 복잡한 구조와 여러 개의 경험적인 파라미터들을 요구하는 ELA의 변형에 대해서도 대등한 성능을 보여주었다.

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