• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.109-112
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• 2007

Definition-Enhancement of the digitalized image has been being made researches continuously due to application a camera to a mobile-apparatus and the advent of a digital camera. In particular, the inputted image from a sensor goes through the process of ISP(Image Signal Process) prior to output as a visual image. The high-frequency components are offset by LPF(Low Pass Filter) that eliminates the noise of high spatial-frequency at the moment. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that outputs more vivid image by using adaptive-HPF(High Pass Filter) that has apt coefficients for diverse conditions of an image edge, nevertheless we do not employ any Edge-Detection algorithm to enhance a blurred image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2014

멀티미디어 기술의 보급 확산 및 급속한 발전으로 새로운 영상 압축 기술인 HEVC(High Efficiency Video Coding) 고화질 영상 압축 표준을 탄생시켰으며, 사용자 또한 대형 화면에 대한 선호도가 높아지고 있다. 그 결과 기존의 HD급 영상보다 4배 이상, 16배까지 선명한 초고화질 UHD(Ultra High Definition) 영상 서비스가 차세대 방송기술로 새롭게 주목받고 있다. 또한 JPEG 2000 압축도 기존 처리된 $4096{\times}4096$ 픽셀 이미지를 넘어 초고화질 해상도 이미지(8K : $7680{\times}4320$ 혹은 $8192{\times}4320$ 픽셀)를 처리 지원을 하고 있다. 따라서 초고화질 이미지의 획득 및 저장을 위해서는 고속의 처리 기술이 필요하다. 이에 본 논문은 초고화질 해상도 이미지의 고속 처리를 위한 병렬처리 기술에 대해 단계적 연구를 실행하며, 이를 위하여 1차적으로. JPEG 2000의 처리 과정을 살펴보고 전처리 단계인 색공간 변환 알고리즘 적용을 위하여 사용자 정의의 쓰레드 기반 고속처리를 수행하였다. 실험 결과 기존의 처리보다 사용자 정의 기반 쓰레드 고속처리가 초고화질 해상도 이미지(UHD 8K : $7680{\times}4320$)를 기준으로 최대 15배의 성능 향상의 결과를 보여주었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.431-436
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• 2014

Cell segmentation which extracts cell objects from background is one of basic works in bio-imaging which analyze cell images acquired from live cells in cell culture. In the case of clear images, they have a bi-modal histogram distribution and segmentation of them can easily be performed by global threshold algorithm such as Otsu algorithm. But In the case of degraded images, it is difficult to get exact segmentation results. In this paper, we developed a cell segmentation system that it classify input images by the type of their histogram distribution and then apply a proper segmentation algorithm. If it has a bi-modal distribution, a global threshold algorithm is applied for segmentation. Otherwise it has a uni-modal distribution, our algorithm is performed. By experimentation, our system gave exact segmentation results for uni-modal cell images as well as bi-modal cell images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.858-860
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• 2014

최근 영상처리 기법과 하드웨어의 발달로 의학 분야에서는 질병의 진단에 다양한 영상 시스템을 활용하고 있다. 특히 OCT 기술은 인체조직의 고해상도 이미지 획득과 혈류속도 측정을 동시에 할 수 있어 의료분야에 다양하게 적용이 가능하여 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 이에 더욱더 선명한 OCT 영상을 획득하기 위해 다양한 알고리즘과 필터를 사용함에 따라 빠른 프로세스 처리가 요구되고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 듀얼 코어 이상급의 CPU 를 탑재한 시스템에서 데이터 처리 모듈과 렌더링 모듈을 트리플 버퍼를 통해 비동기식으로 멀티스레드화 하였고, GPU 기반의 병렬처리를 통한 데이터 처리를 하여 속도를 향상시켰다. 이에 광학 카메라 촬영 시 선명한 실시간 OCT 영상을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.565-574
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• 2000

A new ground penetrating radar imaging method for the estimation of buried artificial structures location and their approximate shapes in dispersive lossy ground is investigated. Fundamental idea is based on estimating delayed time and amplitude retrieval coefficients from scattered signals by buried scatterers. Using absolute value integration of each scanning site not only improve the accuracy of measured scattered signal, but also offers convenient ways to extract the image of buried structures. Multi-term Debye model was employed to describe a dispersive and lossy ground medium. We used the finite difference time domain method to discretize the wave equation in continuous form into the machine suitable form. This imaging method uses a new wave path tracing technique in time domain, which is helpful to identify the exact position of buried structures against the ground surface fluctuations.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.57-63
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• 2017

The most important, essential prerequisite for the improvement of vehicle license plate recognition is the acquisition of high-quality vehicle images. Because typical images acquired from roads are affected by different environmental factors including the time of day, sunlight, and the weather, the brightness and the shape of the license plates in the images are inconsistent. To this end, many image corrections are performed, resulting in slower recognition and lower recognition rate. Therefore, in this study, we used the images acquired from roads to test the proposed method for fast capturing of vivid, high-quality vehicle images by measuring the brightness around license plates during real-time image capturing to control in real time the factors, such as shutter speed, brightness, and gain of the camera, that affect the brightness and the quality of the images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.104-107
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• 2018

최근 촬영 기기의 기술발전으로 인해 디지털 영상의 해상도가 증가함에 따라 선명한 디지털 영상에 대한 요구가 증가하고 있다. 이러한 요구에도 불구하고 디지털 영상 내 가우시안 잡음 (gaussian noise)은 촬영기기를 통해 영상 획득 및 처리 과정에서 발생하여 화질을 열화 시킨다. 디지털 이미지에서 발생하는 가우시안 잡음을 제거하기 위해서 기존의 저대역 통과 필터 (low-pass filter: LPF)를 사용하면 잡음은 제거되지만, 블러링 현상 (blurring phenomenon)이 나타난다. 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 소벨 연산자 (sobel operator)를 사용하여 영상 내 에지 맵 (edge-map)을 생성하여 에지 영역과 동질 영역을 구분한다. 에지영역에서는 약한 저역 필터 (weak low-pass filter)를 사용하고, 그 외의 이미지 영역에서는 강한 저역 필터 (strong low-pass filter)를 사용하는 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 그리고 다양한 이미지에 대하여 기존 알고리듬과 제안한 알고리듬의 적용한 결과를 통해 주관적 화질 비교하였고 객관적 지표로 최대 신호 대 잡음비 (peak signal-to noise ratio: PSNR)와 구조 유사성 (structural similarity: SSIM)을 사용하여 성능을 평가하였다. 실험결과를 통해 제안된 알고리듬이 잡음 제거 및 외곽선 보존의 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Composites Research
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.183-189
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• 2014

Experimental considerations have been performed to obtain the clear optical microscopic images of graphene oxide which are useful to probe its quality and morphological information such as a shape, a size, and a thickness. In this study, we investigated the contrast enhancement of the optical images of graphene oxide after hydrazine vapor reduction on a Si substrate coated with a 300 nm-thick $SiO_2$ dielectric layer. Also, a green-filtered light source gave higher contrast images comparing to optical images under standard white light. Furthermore, it was found that a image channel separation technique can be an alternative to simply identify the morphological information of graphene oxide, where red, green, and blue color values are separated at each pixels of the optical image. The approaches performed in this study can be helpful to set up a simple and easy protocol for the morphological identification of graphene oxide using a conventional optical microscope instead of a scanning electron microscopy or an atomic force microscopy.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.117-123
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• 2018

In this study, we suggest a fast image reconstruction scheme using Poisson equation from image gradient domain. In this approach, using the Poisson equation, a guided vector field is created by employing source and target images within a selected region at the first step. Next, the guided vector is used in generating the result image. We analyze the problem of reconstructing a two-dimensional function that approximates a set of desired gradients and a data term. The joined data and gradients are able to work like modifying the image gradients while staying close to the original image. Starting with this formulation, we have a screened Poisson equation known in physics. This equation leads to an efficient solution to the problem in FFT domain. It represents the spatial filters that solve the two-dimensional screened Poisson model and shows gradient scaling to be a well-defined sharpen filter that generalizes Laplace sharpening. We demonstrate the results using a discrete cosine transformation based this Poisson model.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.865-876
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• 2002

The purpose of the study is to clarify yellow image and formative properties in modern fashion. For the study of formative properties 230 kinds of costume samples being visual power in yellow have been selected from photographs in fashion magazines and divided into tones: vivid(S, B, Dp), vague(L, Lgr, D), bright(Vp, P, B). For the study of image 30 kinds of costume samples is used. The Study was measured by using Semantic Differential method. The subjects were 50 students majoring in clothing and textile. The data were analyzed by factor analysis, ANOVA, MDS and regression analysis. The results of analysis are as follow: 1. Factor analysis has extracted 4 factors of yellow image in the fashion. These factor are Attractiveness, Cheerfulness, Hardness and Softness, Gorgeousness. 2. There were significant difference in visual evaluation of yellow tones. 3. Evaluative dimensions of yellow was classified as Soft-Hard, Gorgeous-Unpretentious. 4. The mage effect on Preference, Buying needs, Pleasant and Riches was consist of complicated sensibility.