• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.756-763
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• 2013

Bilateral filter (BF), functioning by two Gaussian filters, domain and range filter is a nonlinear filter for sharpness enhancement and noise removal. In infrared (IR) small target detection field, the BF is designed by background predictor for predicting background not including small target. For this, the standard deviations of the two Gaussian filters need to be changed adaptively in background and target region of an infrared image. In this paper, the proposed bilateral filter make the standard deviations changed adaptively, using variance feature of mean values of surrounding block neighboring local filter window. And, in case the variance of mean values for surrounding blocks is low for any processed pixel, the pixel is classified to flat background and target region for enhancing background prediction. On the other hand, any pixel with high variance for surrounding blocks is classified to edge region. Small target can be detected by subtracting predicted background from original image. In experimental results, we confirmed that the proposed bilateral filter has superior target detection rate, compared with existing methods.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.159-168
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• 2015

This paper introduces effective noise removal method for medical ultrasound volume data. Ultrasound volume data need to be filtered because it has a lot of noise. Conventional 2d filtering methods ignore information of adjacent layers and conventional 3d filtering methods are slow or have simple filter that are not efficient for removing noise and also don't equally operate filtering because that don't take into account ultrasound' sampling character. To solve this problem, we introduce method that fast perform in parallel bilateral filtering that is known as good for noise removal and adjust proportionally window size depending on that's position. Experiments compare noise removal and loss of original data among average filtered or biliteral filtered or adaptive biliteral filtered ultrasound volume rendering images. In this way, we can more efficiently and correctly remove noise of ultrasound volume data.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.9C
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• pp.863-870
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• 2009

Bilateral filter (BF) is a nonlinear filter for sharpness enhancement and noise removal. The BF performs the function by the two Gaussian filters, the domain filter and the range filter. To apply the BF to infrared (IR) small target detection, the standard deviation of the two Gaussian filters need to be changed adaptively between the background region and the target region. This paper presents a new BF with the adaptive standard deviation based on the analysis of the edge component of the local window, also having the variable filter size. This enables the BF to perform better and become more suitable in the field of small target detection Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is robust and efficient than the conventional methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.4C
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• pp.350-357
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• 2010

In this paper, we present an auto-range fast bilateral filter (FBF) for high-dynamic-range (HDR) images, which increases computation speed by using adaptive standard deviations for range filter (RF) of FBF in iCAM06. Many images that cover the entire dynamic range of the scene with different exposure times are fused into one High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. The representative algorithm for HDR image rendering is iCAM06, which is based on the iCAM framework, such as the local white point adaptation, chromatic adaptation, and the image processing transform (IPT) uniform color space. FBF in iCAM06 uses constant standard deviation in RF. So, it causes unnecessary FBF computation in high stimulus range with broad and low distribution. To solve this problem, the low stimulus image and high stimulus image of CIE tri-stimulus values (XYZ) divided by the threshold are respectively processed by adaptive standard deviation based on its histogram distribution. Experiment results show that the proposed method reduces computation time than the previous FBF.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.105-107
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 영상의 잡음제거에 주로 적용되어 왔던 양방향 필터(bilateral filter) 기법을 개량하여 에지 정보를 더 잘 살리게 하는 방법을 제안한다. 우선, 잡음 영상에서 에지의 위치를 파악하기 위한 방법으로, 이웃픽셀값들의 분산을 이용하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 에지와의 거리를 기반으로 필터의 계수를 조정하는 방법을 제시한다. 따라서 제안하는 알고리즘을 적용하여 잡음 제거를 수행하면 기존의 잡음 제거율을 유지하면서도 에지정보를 보존한 결과를 얻을 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.117-120
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• 2017

본 논문은 스테레오 영상을 이용하여 3 차원 영상을 제공하기 위한 과정에서 중요한 변위 지도 생성 과정의 개선을 목적으로 한다. 변위 지도란, 서로 다른 시점의 두 영상 내에 매칭되는 대응점을 찾고 이와 같은 대응점들 간의 차를 통해 상대적 거리정보를 얻은 후, 이를 정규화하여 픽셀 값으로 나타낸 지도이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 변위 지도 생성 시, 물체들 간 대응점 매칭율을 높이기 위해 물체들의 외곽을 보존하여 형태를 뚜렷하게 하는 전처리 과정을 제안한다. 제안하는 방안은 제한 적응 히스토그램 평활화를 통해 물체들의 세부적인 특징들을 부각시키고, 양방향 필터를 통해 외각을 뚜렷하게 하는 전처리 과정을 포함한다. 본 논문에서는 제한 적응 히스토그램 평활화와 양방향 필터의 처리 과정을 분석하고, 실험결과를 통해 제안하는 전처리 과정을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.289-291
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 VR의 발전과 함께 주목받고 있는 컴퓨터 비전 관련 기술들에 대하여 살펴보고, 가장 먼저 선행되어야 하는 이미지 필터링 알고리즘에 대하여 살펴 본다. 다양한 case에서의 여러 Image Filter를 구현, 성능을 비교 분석해 보고, 정확도를 향상 시킬 수 있는 방안에 대하여 연구한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.1337-1344
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• 2014

The objective of an echo canceller connected to any end of a communication line such as digital subscriber line (DSL) is to compensate the outgoing transmit signal in the receiving path that the hybrid circuit leaks. The echo canceller working in a full duplex environment is an adaptive system driven by the local signal. Conventional echo canceller that implement the least mean square (LMS) algorithm provides a low computational burden but poor convergence properties. The length of the echo canceller will directly affect both the degree of performance and the convergence speed of the adaptation process. To cancel long time-varying echoes, the number of tap coefficients of a conventional echo canceller must be large, which decreases the convergence speed of the adaptive filter. This paper proposes an alternative technique for the echo cancellation in a telecommunication channel. The new technique employs the bi-directional least mean square (LMS) algorithm for adaptively computing the optimal set of the coefficients of the echo canceller, which is composed of weighted combination of both feedforward and feedback algorithms. Finally, Simulation results as well as mathematical analysis demonstrates that the proposed echo canceller has faster convergence speed than the conventional LMS echo canceller with nearly equivalent complexity of computation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.333-335
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• 2012

고명암 대비(High Dynamic Range)영상을 일반 디스플레이 장치로 표현하기 위한 톤 매핑 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방식은 주성분분석(Principle Component Analysis)을 통해 구한 휘도채널을 양방향필터를 이용하여 기본 영상과 디테일 영상으로 분리한다. 기본영상은 동적영역분할과 재분배를 수행하고, 기본영상의 밝기값과 향상된 밝기값을 이용하여 후광현상을 제거한다. 실험 결과에서 제안하는 기법은 저명암대비 영상에서 명암비 향상과 동시에 디테일이 보존되는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.1175-1184
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• 2015

A depth map is an image which contains 3D distance information. Generally, it is difficult to acquire a high resolution (HD), noise-removed, good quality depth map directly from the camera. Therefore, many researches have been focused on acquisition of the high resolution and the good quality depth map by up-sampling and pre/post image processing of the low resolution depth map. However, many researches are lack of effective up-sampling for the edge region which has huge impact on image perceptual-quality. In this paper, we propose an up-sampling method, based on joint bilateral filter, which improves up-sampling of the edge region and visual quality of synthetic images by adopting different weights for the edge parts that is sensitive to human perception characteristics. The proposed method has gains in terms of PSNR and subjective video quality compared to previous researches.