• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.583-593
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• 2015

Today, caused by the growth of computer and communication technology, multimedia, especially image data are being used in different application divisions. JPEG2000 that is widely used these days provides a Region-of-Interest(ROI) technique. The extraction of ROI has to be rapidly executed and automatically extracted in a huge amount of image because of being seen preferentially to the users. For this purpose, this paper proposes a method about preferential processing and automatic extraction of ROI using the distribution of edge in the code block of JPEG2000. The steps are the extracting edges, automatical extracting of a practical ROI, grouping the ROI using the ROI blocks, generating the mask blocks and then quantization, ROI coding which is the preferential processing, and EBCOT. In this paper, to show usefulness of the method, we experiment its performance using other methods, and executes the quality evaluation with PSNR between the images not coding an ROI and coding it.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.342-356
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• 2009

This paper presents a vote decision-based deinterlacing scheme for false directional error correction(VDD) to convert interlaced signal into non-interlaced signal using only one fields. The VDD using the vote decision goes through four steps process. The first step extracts regions having doubt of false edge using MM-ELA method. In these regions, the edge direction is decided by the majority vote using upper adjacent pixels's information through the second step. But, we still have undecided directions, which will be decided by the majority vote and the directional average decision at the third step. This step preserves the edge directions and minimizes visual degradation. Finally, the last step interpolates undecided pixels using DOI method which can consider the fine edge direction. Although the VDD with hierarchical structure has a high complexity, it can extract delicate edge compared to other pixel-by-pixel or window-by-window deinterlacing algorithms. Simulation results show that it has significantly improved both the subjective and objective qualities of the reconstructed images.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.77-86
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a real time post-processing visual enhancement technique to reduce the blocking artifacts in block based DCT decoded image for mobile devices that have allocation of the restricted resource. In order to reduce the blocking artifacts effectively even while preserving the image edge to the utmost, the proposed algorithm uses the deblocking filtering or the directional filtering according to the edge detection of the each pixel. After it is discriminated that the pixel to apply the deblocking filtering belongs again to the monotonous area, the weighted average filter with the adaptive mask is applied for the pixel to remove the blocking artifacts. On the other hand, a new directional filter is utilized to get rid of staircase noise and preserve the original edge component. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm produces better results than those of the conventional algorithms in both subjective and objective qualities.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.12B
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• pp.2342-2348
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• 1999

DCT-based codebook design using binary tree was proposed to reduce computation time and to solve the initial codebook problem. In this method, DCT coefficient of training vectors that has maximum variance is to be a split key and the mean of coefficients at the location is used as split threshold, then balanced binary tree for final codebook is formed. However edge degradation appears in the reconstructed image, since the blocks of shade region are frequently selected for codevector. In this paper, we propose DCT-based vector quantization codebook design using unbalanced binary tree. Above all, the node that has the largest split key is splited. So the number of edge codevector can be increased. From the simulation results, this method reconstructs the edge region sincerely and shows higher PSNR than previous methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

This paper presents a procedure to extract lane line models using a set of proposed methods. Firstly, an image warping method based on homography is proposed to transform a target image into an image which is efficient to find lane pixels within a certain region in the image. Secondly, a method to use the combination of the results of edge detection and HSL (Hue, Saturation, and Lightness) transform is proposed to detect lane candidate pixels with reliability. Thirdly, erroneous candidate lane pixels are eliminated using a selection area method. Fourthly, a method to fit lane pixels to quadratic polynomials is proposed. In order to test the validity of the proposed procedure, a set of black-box images captured under varying illumination and noise conditions were used. The experimental results show that the proposed procedure could overcome the problems of color-only and edge-only based methods and extract lane pixels and model the lane line geometry effectively within less than 0.6 seconds per frame under a low-cost computing environment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.1546-1552
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• 1993

We proposed an adaptive block truncation coding(BTC) using gradient and a new initial value. We used gradient of sobel operator as a new category classification coefficient to reduce Jagged appearance at edge part. We defined a new initial value to reduce large quantization error in the 4-level quantizer block including edge part. By computer simulations, we showed that the proposed method less computation load, reduced jagged appearance at edge part, also improved PSNR more than the conventional adaptive BTC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.192-197
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 수평ㆍ수직 에지의 형태학적 정보를 이용한 차량 번호판 추출과 개선된 RBF 네트워크를 이용한 차량 번호판 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 번호판 영역은 수평ㆍ수직 에지의 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 추출하고 개별 문자는 히스토그램 방법과 위치 정보를 이용한 방법에 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 병합하여 추출한다. 개별 문자 인식은 ARTI 알고리즘을 개선하여 지도 학습 방법과 결합한 개선된 신경망을 제안하여 차량 번호판 인식에 적용한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 확인하기 위하여 트루 컬러 차량 영상 155개와 그레이 컬러 차량 영상 100개를 대상으로 실험한 결과, 수평ㆍ수직 에지의 형태학적 정보를 이용한 차량 번호판 추출 방법이 임계화를 이용한 차량 번호판 추출 방법, RGB와 HSI 컬러 정보를 각각 이용한 차량 번호판 추출 방법보다 추출률이 개선되었으며, 인식 성능도 개선된 신경망의 학습 알고리즘이 기존의 학습 알고리즘들보다 우수한 성능이 있음을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.155-161
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• 2009

Any classification process using SAR images presupposes the reduction of multiplicative speckle noise, since the variations caused by speckle make it extremely difficult to distinguish between neighboring classes within the feature space. This paper focus an argument of effective filter for preserving the weak boundaries by using the proposed method. To reduce speckle noise without blurring the edges of reconstructed image use wavelet-based sigma filter. As a result, the edge information of reconstructed image reduce blurring. Simulation results show that proposed method gives a better subjective quality than conventional methods for the speckle noise.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.489-493
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• 2006

이 논문에서는 커널 에지 방식의 얼굴의 특징점을 추출하는 방법과 Adaboost를 이용한 얼굴의 특징점을 추출하는 방법에 대해서 비교 한다. 커널 에지를 이용한 방법은 10개의 커널을 이용하여 추출된 에지를 이용하여 얼굴의 특징점을 추출해 낸다. 커널의 개수를 줄여 사용한다면 실시간에 가능하고, 정확성을 높이기 위해서는 이미지의 전처리 단계에서 자극적인 효과를 준다면 정확성 또한 높아 질 것이다. 반면에 Adaboost를 이용한 방법은 각각의 특징점들을 오프라인 상에서 학습을 하고 온라인상에서 실시간으로 특징점을 추출하는 방법을 사용하였다. 각 각의 학습과정에 있어서 positive, negative 이미지를 더 많이 사용한다면 정확성이 더 높아질 것이다. 한 가지 주목할 만 한 점은 입과 같은 특징점을 추출하기 어려운 영역에서도 높은 정확성을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.81-85
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• 1998

점확산 함수(point spread function; PSF)의 정확한 추정은 복원결과가 원 영상에 얼마나 근접할 수 있는가를 결정한다는 점에서 영상처리의 중요한 연구 주제중의 하나가 된다. 본 논문에서는 PSF를 추정하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안하고, 이를 영상복원에 적용한 후 이를 기반으로 디지털 자동초점시스템을 제안한다. 초점불안전 열화시스템을 구현하기 위한 과정은 두 단계로 구성되어 있는데, 즉 입력 영상에서 에지분류를 통한 PSF 추정과, 이를 이용한 영상복원이다. 보다 구체적으로, 입력 영상에 특정 에지가 있는 임의의 크기의 블록을 선정해부면, 그 블록으로부터 자동으로 에지방향이 기저영상을 이용해서 구해지며 확산원의 크기를 추정하여 1차원 단위 계단응답과 영역을 구하여 평균한 후, 2차원 등방성 PSF를 추정한다. 마지막으로 추정된 PSF를 사용하여 복원을 수행함으로써 초점이 맞는 영상을 구한다.