• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.253-255
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• 2022

Thanks to the 4th industrial revolution and the development of various communication media, technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation are being grafted into industrial sites in various fields, and accordingly, the importance of data processing is increasing. Image noise removal is a pre-processing process for image processing, and is mainly used in fields requiring high-level image processing technology. Various studies have been conducted to remove noise, but various problems arise in the process of noise removal, such as image detail preservation, texture restoration, and noise removal in a special area. In this paper, we propose a switching mask filter based on the noise intensity to preserve the detailed image information during the impulse noise removal process. The proposed filter algorithm obtains the final output by switching to the extended mask when it is determined that the density is higher than the reference value when noise is determined in the area designated as the filtering mask. Simulation was conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, and the performance was analyzed compared to the existing method.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.58-65
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• 2009

The paper identifies noise characteristics of a nonliner image sensor model which reflects a saturation effect of each detector pixel and extends the result to estimate an image SNR (Signla-to-Noise Ratio) distribution over all the pixels in a detector. In particular, nonlinearity of a pixel is studied from two perspectives of including asymmetry of a noise PDF (Probability Distribution Function) and enhancing a pixel SNR value, in comparison to a linear model. It is noted that the proposed image SNR distribution function is useful to effectively select new optimal operation parameter values: an integration time and an pixel-summing number, even after a launch campaign, assuming sensor gain degradation in orbit or inevitable modification of some operation parameter values due to space contingency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.37-39
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• 2012

최근 ToF(Time-of-Flight) 방식의 깊이 센서 카메라가 깊이 영상 획득에 많이 사용되고 있다. 그러나 ToF 깊이 카메라가 제공하는 깊이 영상은 센서의 물리적 한계로 인해 잡음이 존재한다. 따라서 고품질의 깊이 영상을 얻기 위해서는 깊이 영상의 잡음을 제거해 주는 것이 필수적이다. 일반적으로 깊이 영상의 잡음 제거에는 joint bilateral filter 를 사용한다. Joint bilateral filter 는 기준 화소와 그 주변 화소의 색상 영상의 밝기 차이값과 화소간 거리값에 각각 가우시안 함수를 적용하여 joint histogram 을 생성하고 그 평균값을 기준 화소의 깊이값으로 채운다. 하지만 이 과정에서 깊이 영상의 경계 영역에서 흐려짐 현상이 발생한다. 경계영역에 발생한 흐려짐 현상은 최종적인 3D 입체 콘텐츠의 품질을 저하시킨다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위해 joint histogram 의 최고점을 찾아 기준 화소의 깊이값을 채우는 기법을 제안한다. 최고점 탐색을 통해 기존 기법의 평균값을 통해 생기는 흐려짐 현상을 줄이고 깊이 영상의 경계를 보존하면서 잡음을 제거하였다. 실험을 통하여 제안하는 기법의 우수성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.35-41
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• 2002

There are many image segmentation methods having been published as the results of research so far, but it is difficult to be partitioned to each similar range that should be extracted into the accurate parameters of image information on the images with noises. Also if it is used to fractal coding, according to amount of noise in image, the image segmentation leads to decreasing of the compression ratio. In this paper, we propose the new quad-tree image segmentation using the box-counting dimension which can estimate the effective image information parameters against the noise properties and apply this method to fractal image coding. As the result of simulation, we confirm that the image segmentation is improved to 31.10% for parameter detection of image information and compression ratio is enhanced to 38.93% for fractal image coding when tested on 10% Gaussian white noise image by the proposed quad-tree method compared with method using existing quad-tree. 

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.94-97
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• 2003

In this Paper, propose for MLP(multilayer perception) neural network that uses optimization recognition training scheme for the wavelet transform and the numeral image add to noise, and apply this system in Numeral Recognition. As important part of original image information preserves maximum using the wavelet transform, node number of neural network and the loaming convergence time did size of input vector so that decrease. Apply in training vector, examine about change of the recognition rate as optimization recognition training scheme raises noise of data gradually. We used original image and original image added 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50㏈ noise (or the increase of numeral recognition rate. In case of test image added 30∼50㏈, numeral recognition rate between the original image and image added noise for training Is a little But, in case of test image added 0∼20㏈ noise, the image added 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 , 50㏈ noise is used training. Then numeral recognition rate improved 9 percent.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.7
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• pp.1980-1987
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• 1999

Restored image is always lower quality than original one due to distortion and noise. The purpose of image restoration is to improve the image quality by fixing the noise or distortion information. One category of spatial filters for image restoration is linear filter. This filter algorithm is easily implemented and can be suppressed the Gaussian noise effectively, but not so good performance for spot or impulse noise. In this paper, we propose the nonlinear spatial filter algorithm for image restoration called the optimal adaptive multistage filter(OAMF). The OAMF is used to reduce the filtering time, increases the noise suppression ratio and preserves the edge information. The OAMF optimizes the adaptive multistage filter(AMF) by using weight learning algorithm of back-propagation learning algorithm. Simulation results of this filter algorithm are presented and discussed.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1153-1154
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 ELA(Edge Line based Average) 알고리즘이 잡음 영상에서 IPC할 때 생기는 문제점을 개선하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 먼저 잡음을 제거하는 필터링과 동시에 잡음이 없는 원화소의 크기와 잡음의 크기를 추정한다. 이에 따라 잡음의 크기를 고려하여 ELA 방법과 수직보간 방법에 가중치를 주어 보간값을 구한다. 이 후 잡음이 존재할 경우 포스트 필터링(Post Filtering)을 거쳐 잔재해 있는 잡음을 제거해준다. 실험결과 제안하는 알고리즘이 기존 ELA 알고리즘들 보다도 향상된 결과를 보인다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.181-188
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• 2003

In this paper, we introduce a magnetic noise shielding method to reduce the noise effects in permanent magnet based MRI systems. Through FEM electromagnetic analyses, we have shown that the magnetic noise component parallel to the main magnetic field is the major component that makes various artifacts in the images obtained with a permanent magnet based MRI. Based on the FEM analyses, we have developed an active magnetic noise shielding system composed of a magnetic field sensor, compensation coils, and a coil driving system. The shielding system has shown a noise rejection ratio of about 30dB at the frequency below several Hz. We have experimentally verified that the shielding system greatly improves the image quality in a 0.3 Tesla MRI system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.41-45
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• 2010

Image processing techniques are fundamental in human vision-based image information processing. There have been widely studied areas such as image transformation, image enhancement, image restoration, and image compression. One of research subgoals in those areas is enhancing image information for the correct information retrieval. As a fundamental task for the image recognition and interpretation, image enhancement includes noise filtering techniques. Conventional filtering algorithms may have high noise removal rate but usually have difficulty in conserving boundary information. As a result, they often use additional image processing algorithms in compensation for the tradeoff of more CPU time and higher possibility of information loss. In this paper, we propose a Fuzzy Mask Filtering algorithm that has high noise removal rate but lesser problems in above-mentioned side-effects. Our algorithm firstly decides a threshold based on fuzzy logic with information from masks. Then it decides the output pixel value by that threshold. In a designed experiment that has random impulse noise and salt pepper noise, the proposed algorithm was more effective in noise removal without information loss.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.9
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• pp.128-137
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• 2012

When a CCD camera acquires images in the low light level environment, not only the image signals but also noise components are amplified by the AGC (auto gain control) circuit. Since the noise level in the images acquired in the dark is very high, it is difficult to remove noise with existing denoising algorithms that are targeting the images taken in the normal light condition. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive denoising algorithm that can efficiently remove significant noises caused by the low light level. First, the window including a target pixel is transformed to the frequency domain. Then the algorithm compares the characteristics of equally divided four frequency bands. Finally the noises are adaptively removed according to the frequency characteristics. The proposed algorithm successfully improves the quality of low light level images than the existing algorithms do.