• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.288-299
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• 2001

In transcoding, simply reusing the motion vectors extracted from an incoming video bit stream may not result in the best quality because the incoming motion vectors become non-optimal due to the reconstruction errors. To achieve the best video quality possible, a new motion estimation should be performed in the transcoder. An adaptive motion vector refinement is proposed that refines the base motion vector according to the activity of macroblock using intermediate data extracted from an incoming video bit stream. Experimental results shows that the proposed method can improve the video quality to the level achieved by using the full-scale motion estimation with minimal computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.306-309
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• 2019

The damage to farms due to wild animals such as wild boars and elks increases every year, but, in the current system, the catchers from government hunt animals by using guns at night as making an effort to detect wild animals personally by using flashlights. This is very time-inefficient and immediate follow-up action on being damaged is not possible. In this paper, we introduce a system which can detect and recognize the wild animals or the people with high accuracy using thermal imaging camera and infrared camera in company with deep learning technology, so that could kick out or catch the wild animals more quickly than current system.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.1121-1131
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• 1997

In video coding at high compression rate, factal compression schemes in spatial domain have outstanding blocking artifacts and compression schemes in wavelet transform domain have rinfing artifacts at edges. In order to compensate these disadvantages, we propose a fractal video coding in wavelet transrorm domain which leads to clear edges without blocking atrifacts even at high bompression rate. The proposed method performs variable block sized motion estimation by using correlation among different subbands. Then the wavelet coefficients which are not enoded dffectively by the motion estimation are compressed by inter-frame fractal coding which predicts fine scale subbands hierarchically from the next coarser scale subbands. Computer sumulations with sev-eral test images wequences show that the proposed method shows better performance than the conventional video coding methods using fractal and wavelet.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.1-7
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• 2004

The rapid growth of digital media and communication networks has created an urgent need for self-contained data identification methods to create adequate intellectual property right(IPR) protection technology. In this paper we propose a new watermarking method that could embed the gray-scale watermark logo in low frequency coefficients of discrete wavelet transform(DWT) domain as the marking space by using our Linear Bit-eXpansion(LBX) interleaving of gray-scale watermark, to use lots of watermark information without distortion of watermarked image quality and particularly to be robust against attack which could remove a part of image. Experimental results demonstrated the high robustness in particular against attacks such as image cropping and rotation which could remove a part of image.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.283-289
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• 2010

Recent advance of digital camera results in that image signal processing techniques are widely adopted to railroad security management. However, due to the nature of railroad management many images are acquired in low light level environment such as night scenes. The lack of light causes lots of noise in the image, which degrades image quality and causes errors in the next processes. 3D noise reducing techniques produce better results by using consecutive sequence of images. On the other hand, they cause degradation such as motion blur if there are motions in the sequence. In this paper, we use an adaptive weight filter to estimate more accurate motions and use the result of the adaptive filter to 3D result to improve objective and subjective mage quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.933-935
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• 2015

Currently, image processing is being utilized in various fields and many studies on the image restoration is being progressed in order to eliminate the noise being generated during the process of transmitting, processing and storing of image. There are various types of noises included in the image according to the causes and types but AWGN is the most representative. In this paper, an algorithm was proposed which applies the variables differently according to the differences in surrounding pixels and central pixels within the local mask in order to mitigate the AWGN included in the image.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.103-110
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a deblurring method using 1/4 selective filter. Deblurring methods require a lot of processing time for deblurring. In order to enhance execution speed, we propose a novel 1/4 selective filter. The proposed 1/4 selective filter restores major edge, but it distorts minor edge and texture. To solve this problem, we apply 1/4 selective filter to restore major edge and DOG(Difference of Gaussian) filter to restore minor edge and texture. Experimental results show that the proposed method removes the blur effectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.471-478
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• 2011

High resolution Pan-sharpening technique is becoming increasingly important in the field of remote sensing image analysis as an essential image processing to improve the spatial resolution of original multispectral image. The general scheme of pan-sharpening technique consists of upsampling process of multispectral image and high-pass detail injection process using the panchromatic image. The upsampling process, however, brings about image blurring, and this lead to spectral distortion in the pan-sharpening process. In order to solve this problem, this paper presents a new method that adopts image restoration techniques based on optimization theory in the pan-sharpening process, and evaluates its efficiency and application possibility. In order to evaluate the effect of image restoration techniques on the pansharpening process, the result obtained using the existing method that used bicubic interpolation were compared visually and quantitatively with the results obtained using image restoration techniques. The quantitative comparison was done using some spectral distortion measures for use to evaluate the quality of pan-sharpened image.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.291-300
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• 2015

In the steel manufacturing process heat-endurance deterioration of a ladle used to cause a big accident. In this paper, an infrared imaging system and image analyzing procedure are proposed for inspecting refractory bricks of a ladle. The proposed algorithm contains following three parts: two-stage image selection procedure, reference point detection, and analysis of heat-endurance deterioration. Experiments were conducted with real data from a steel plant and detailed configuration of infrared imaging system was presented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.7-10
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• 2006

격행 주사 방식은 제한된 대역폭을 효율적으로 사용찬 수 있기 때문에 NTSC(National Television System Committee), PAL(Phase Alternation Line), 그리고 SECAM(Sequentiel couleur a Memoire)을 포함한 다양한 TV 방송 표준에서 넓게 이용되어지고 있다. 격행 주사 방식을 이용하면 같은 대역폭을 사용하는 동안에 프레임 율을 2배로 늘일 수 있으나 이 방식은 주사 방식의 특징 때문에 영상의 화질 열화를 가져온다. 이러한 화질 열화를 방지하기 위해 기존의 많은 디인터레이싱(De-interlacing) 기법들이 소개 되었다. 본 논문에서는 정교한 DOI(Direction Oriented Interpolation)기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 기존의 알고리즘보다 안정적이고 에지의 방향을 좀 더 정교하게 찾는 특징이 있다. 실험 결과 제안한 방식은 주관적인 화질뿐만 아니라 객관적인 성능도 우수함을 알 수 있다.