• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.209-212
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 영상을 확대할 경우에 발생하는 영상의 품질 저하를 최소화하기 위하여 원본 영상 픽셀과 확대된 결과 영상 픽셀 간의 명암도 차이와 보간 수행시 적용되는 가중치 값을 퍼지 기법에 적용하여 영상을 확대하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 기존의 양선형 보간법으로 도출된 결과 영상 픽셀과 원본 영상 픽셀 간의 명암도 차이와 보간 수행시 네 개의 픽셀 값에 곱하게 되는 가중치 값을 퍼지 소속 함수에 적용하여 원본 영상의 픽셀 정보와 가장 근접한 특징을 가진 확대된 결과 영상의 픽셀 정보를 최종적으로 도출한다. 제안된 방법을 실험한 결과, 기존의 양선형 보간법에 비해 영상 확대시, 발생하는 문제점인 흐림 현상이 상대적으로 감소하여 영상의 품질이 개선되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.95-102
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• 2011

Interpolation schemes are used widely in image magnification. Magnified image generated by interpolation scheme is composed of the known pixels in input image and the interpolated pixels estimated from the known pixels in input image. So, as the interpolated pixels are estimated to have locality which exists in real images, the magnified image is much closer to the real image. In this paper, an efficient interpolation scheme was proposed to provide locality for the interpolated pixels by using the characteristics of adjacent pixels in input image. The quality of magnified image using the proposed scheme was improved. In experiment, PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) was used to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme. The PSNR's of the magnified images generated by the proposed scheme were greater than those of the magnified images generated by the previous interpolation methods.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.57-66
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• 2008

An adaptive optimization of parametric cubic convolution for image interpolation is derived in this paper. The proposed technique is based on optimizing the standard cubic convolution interpolation formula at each interpolated pixel. Conventional parametric cubic convolution methods use a fixed parameter in an image, so properties of each pixel cannot be incorporated into the interpolation. The proposed method optimizes the interpolation kernel by obtaining parameters adaptively on each pixel. A new cost function is introduced to reflect frequency properties of the original data. The proposed technique produces noticeably sharper edges than traditional techniques and exhibits an average PSNR improvement of traditional techniques.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.45-54
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• 2014

In this paper, we proposed an effective quality improvement scheme of magnified image using the surface characteristics in image. If the surface in image is estimated as simple convex surface or simple concave surface, the interpolated value can be calculated to have the surface characteristics by using the other method in the proposed scheme. The calculated value becomes the interpolated pixel value inmagnified image. So, themagnified image reflects the surface characteristics of the real image. If the surface is not estimated as simple convex surface or simple concave surface, the interpolated value is calculated more accurately than bilinear interpolation by using the method of the proposed scheme. The PSNR values of the magnified images using the proposed schemes are greater than those of the magnified images using the previous interpolation schemes.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.23-28
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• 2011

Ultrasound images for the abdominal muscles are complicated enough to have difficulty in interpreting their results. For better interpretation, magnifying the original image is necessary but its magnified image could be deteriorated and suffer from information loss. Thus, in this paper, we propose a magnifying method that reduces the gap between the original image and the magnified one in quality using a fuzzy method with weights for its brightness and interpolation. The proposed method extracts information of pixels in magnified image that have most similar characteristics of the original one by applying fuzzy membership function. In the process, the difference in the brightness between pixels of the magnified image and the original one using bilinear interpolation method and the weight value using the interpolation from multiplied values of four pixels are supplied to the fuzzy membership function. In this experiment, the proposed method reduces the cloudy phenomenon appears commonly compared to the bilinear interpolation method among those qualitative issues of image interpretation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.59-67
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• 2012

In this paper, an efficient interpolation scheme using gradient information between adjacent pixel values was proposed to estimate the value of interpolated pixel to have the locality which exists in real image and the characteristic of simple convex surface and simple concave surface which exist partially in the real image. PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) was used to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme. The PSNR values of the magnified images using the proposed scheme are greater than those of the magnified images using the previous interpolation schemes.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.95-101
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• 2017

In natural images, there is generally locality, and the values of adjacent pixels are similar. It is possible to estimate the curved surface characteristics of the original image using adjacent pixels having similar pixel values. In this paper, after precisely estimating the characteristics of the curved surface existing in the image, interpolation values are obtained so as to faithfully reflect the estimated characteristics of the curved surface, We propose an effective image enlarging method that generates an enlarged image using the obtained interpolation values. The image enlarged by the proposed method maintains the curved surface characteristics of the original image, and thus the image quality of the enlarged image is improved. Experimental results show that the image quality of the proposed method is superior to that of the conventional techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.353-356
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• 2007

chamfer 정합(matching)은 많은 응용분야에서 사용되온 에지(edge) 기반 정합기법으로, 변환된 모델에지와 영상에지간의 거리를 최소화하는 과정이다. 이 거리는 보통 거리변환을 이용하여 픽셀분해능으로 계산된다. 본 논문에서는 서브픽셀(subpixel) 거리계산을 위해 거리계산시 보간법을 사용하여, 정확한 chamfer 정합을 구현한, 개선된 chamfer 정합 방법을 제안한다. 또한, 보다 정밀한 정합을 위해, 최소거리를 갖는 픽셀위치의 주변영역을 이용하여 최적의 위치를 추정하지 않고, 서브픽셀로 실제 거리계산을 통해 최소 거리를 찾기 위해 Powell 의 최적화기법을 이용하였다. 실험결과는 제안된 방법의 타당성을 보여주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.303-306
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• 2009

영상 표시장치의 화소수가 다양화됨에 따라, 영상 보간법은 더욱 중요한 역할을 하게 되었다. 3차 콘볼루션 보간법(Cubic Convolution Interpolation)은 간단하지만, 적용하는데 제한이 없고, 좋은 성능을 보이기 때문에 널리 쓰이고 있다. 이 논문은 3차 콘볼루션 보간법을 이용한 적응적 방법을 제안한다. 예측하려는 픽셀의 이웃 화소 값의 차이를 고려해서, 3차 콘볼루션 커널에 있는 'a' 값을 적응적으로 선택한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.362-367
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• 2010

As the resolution of the image display devices has been diversified, the image interpolation methods has played a more important role. The cubic convolution interpolation method has been widely used because it is simple but it has no limitation of using and a good performance. This paper suggests an adaptive method to the cubic convolution interpolation. Considering the difference of the neighbored pixels values to a prediction pixel, a parameter value in the cubic convolution interpolation kernel is chosen.