• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.145-155
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• 2015

Noise reduction has been actively studied in the digital image processing and recently, block-based denoising algorithms are widely used. In particular, a low rank approximation employing WNNM(Weighted Nuclear Norm Minimization) and block-based approaches demonstrated the potential for effective noise reduction. However, the algorithm based on low rank a approximation generates the artifacts in the image restoration step. In this paper, we analyzes the image content using the STFT(Short Time Fourier Transform) and proposes an effective method of minimizing the artifacts generated from the conventional algorithm. To evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, we use the test images containing a wide range of noise levels and compare the results with the state-of-art algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.47-53
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• 2023

Devices such as X-Ray, CT, MRI, scanners, etc. can generate S&P noise from several sources during the image acquisition process. Since S&P noise appearing in the image degrades the image quality, it is essential to use noise reduction technology in the image processing process. Various methods have already been proposed in research on S&P noise removal, but all of them have a problem of generating residual noise in an environment with high noise density. Therefore, this paper proposes a filtering algorithm based on a three-dimensional plane equation by setting the grayscale value of the image as a new axis. The proposed algorithm subdivides the local mask to design the three closest non-noisy pixels as effective pixels, and applies cosine similarity to a region with a plurality of pixels. In addition, even when the input pixel cannot form a plane, it is classified as an exception pixel to achieve excellent restoration without residual noise.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.11
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• pp.175-182
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• 2012

The scattered radiation always occurs when X-ray strikes the object. To absorb the scattered X-rays, the antiscatter grids are used, however these grids images are superimposed in the projection radiography images. When those images are displayed on the monitor, moir$\acute{e}$ patterns are overlapped over the images and disturb the anatomical informations. Most of the researches performed to date removed the grid noises by calculating or observing those frequencies in one dimensional frequency domain, two dimensional wavelet transform or Fourier transform. Those methods filtered not only the grid noises but also diagnostic informations. In this paper, we proposed the combined wavelet packet-Fourier method to remove the grid artifact in CR images. For the phantom image, the proposed method achieved from 5.2 to 7.4 dB better than others in SNR and for CR images by rejecting the grid noise bands effectively while leaving the remaining bands unchanged, the loss of images could get minimal results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.1759-1771
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• 1994

We proposed the iterative image restoration method based on the method of steepest descent with a regularization constraint for restoring the noisy motion-blurred images. The conventional method proposed by Jan Biemond et al, had drawback to amplify the additive noise and make ringing effects in the restored images by determining the value of regularization parameter experimentally from the degraded image to be restored without considering local information of the restored one. The method we proposed had a merit to suppress the noise amplification and restoration error by using the regularization parameter which estimate the value of it adaptively from each pixels of the image being restored in order to reduce the noise amplification and ringing effects efficiently. Also we proposed the termination rule to stop the iteration automatically when restored results approach into or diverse from the original solution in satisfaction. Through the experiments, proposed method showed better result not only in a MSE of 196 and 453 but also in the suppression of the noise amplification in the flat region compared with those proposed by Jan Biemond et al. of which MSE of 216 and 467 respectively when we used 'Lean' and 'Jaguar' images as original images.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.8A
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• pp.679-688
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• 2012

In this paper, performance improved hole-filling algorithm including boundary noise removing pre-process which can be used for an arbitrary view synthesis with given two views is proposed. Boundary noise usually occurs because of the boundary mismatch between the reference image and depth map and common-hole is defined as the occluded region. These boundary noise and common-hole created while synthesizing a virtual view result in some defects and they are usually very difficult to be completely recovered by using only given two images as references. The spiral weighted average algorithm gives a clear boundary of each object by using depth information and the gradient searching algorithm is able to preserve details. In this paper, we combine these two algorithms by using a weighting factor ${\alpha}$ to reflect the strong point of each algorithm effectively in the virtual view synthesis process. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs much better than conventional algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.2239-2246
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• 2011

In image signal processing, image signal is corrupted by various noises and caused the degradation phenomenon. And Images often corrupted by AWGN(additive white gaussian noise) and impulse noise which called mixed noise. In this paper, the algorithm is proposed to remove mixed noise while keeping edge information. The proposed algorithm first classifies the noise type, if the classify result is AWGN, then the mean of the output after using self-adaptive weighted mean filter and median value will be the outfiltering value. And if the noise type is impulse noise, then the noise is removed by a modified nonlinear filter. Also we compare existing methods through the simulation and using PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio) as the standard of judgement of improvement effect. The result of computer simulation on test images indicates that the proposed method is superior to traditional filtering algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.302-305
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• 2016

This paper proposes a boundary artifacts reduction method for synthesized views in 3D video system using Projection onto Convex Sets (POCS). In 3D video system, boundary artifacts are occurred in synthesized views by distorted depth map. In this paper, we analyze boundary artifacts, and show the experimental results by the proposed algorithm on various situations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.352-354
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• 2001

컴퓨터 기술과 정보통신 기술의 발달로 인터넷 사용이 손쉬워 짐에 따라 청소년들에게 무제한으로 유해 사이트가 공개되어 많은 사회적인 문제가 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 인터넷 사용자에게 음란 정보를 담고 있는 웹사이트 접근을 차단하는 방법에 관한 것으로 칼라 영상에서 인체를 검출하는 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 효율적인 인체 검출을 위해 인체의 특징의 하나인 피부색을 HSI(Hue, Saturation, Intensity)의 공간에서 조명의 강도 및 각도 차에 영향이 적은 H값과 피부색을 이루는 RGB(Red, Green, Blue)공간에서 R값의 비를 이용하여 추출하고, 미디언 필터를 사용하여 1차적으로 잡음 제거를 하고, 라벨링을 통하여 임계값보다 작은 라벨을 제거함으로써 2차적인 잡음을 제거한다. 다양한 자세의 전신을 템플릿으로 DB화하고, 유형을 2차적인 잡음을 제거한 영상의 크기와 동일하게 확대 한 다음, 템플릿 매칭으로 유사성을 비교하여 인체를 검출하는 방법을 제안하였다. 실험 결과, 피부색을 검출하는 제안 방법이 명암 차를 극복하였고, 다양한 피부색 검출에 양호한 방법임을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 다양한 템플릿을 만들어, 1차 잡음제거와 라벨링으로 2차 잡음제거를 한 입력 영상과의 템플릿 매칭으로 다양한 자세의 인체를 검출할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.216-218
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 기존의 퍼지 필터링 알고리즘의 문제점을 개선한 퍼지 필터링 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 퍼지 필터링 알고리즘은 컬러 영상에서 R, G, B 채널을 각각 분리한다. 분리된 각 채널에서 마스크 정보를 추출하여 채널에 대한 평균값과 중간값의 명암도를 제안된 퍼지 기법의 소속 함수에 적용하여 소속도를 구한 뒤, 추론 규칙에 적용한다. 그리고 R, G, B 각각의 소속도 값을 이용하여 잡음 가능성 여부를 판별한다. 제안된 퍼지 기법에서 소속 함수 구간은 세 개 구간으로 설정하였다. 잡음이라고 판단되는 경우에는 그 잡음 정도에 따라 중간값이나 평균값을 해당 픽셀 값으로 설정하여 잡음을 제거한다. 제안된 기법을 컬러 영상에 적용한 결과, 제안된 기법이 기존의 퍼지 필터링 기법보다 잡음 제거에 있어서 효과적인 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2810-2812
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 독립성분해석을 이용한 영상분리에 있어서의 잡음에 대한 강인성에 대한 주성분해석과 비교 연구를 함으로써, 독립성분해석(Independent Component Analysis, ICA)기법의 효율성을 고찰하고 분석하고자 한다. 원래의 인식 시스템 모델에 잡음을 주었을 때, ICA를 이용한 영상 분리의 잡음에 대한 강인성은 주성분 해석(Principal Component Analysis, PCA)기법에서 보다 더 잡음에 강인한 성질을 내포하고 있는데, 이는 PCA 보다 ICA가 분리하려는 영상정보의 상호관계를 더 약화시키는 작용을 하기 때문이다. 이러한 특성은 모의실험을 통해 확인되었다.