• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.449-450
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 영상에서의 물체 인식에 주로 사용되었던 공간 피라미드를 변형시킨 각도 피라미드를 이용한 bag-of-features 방법으로 회전 변화에도 강한 물체 인식에도 적용할 수 있도록 한다. 기존의 공간 피라미드에서 수직의 격자 모양으로 영상을 나누었던 것에 비해 각도 피라미드는 영상의 중심을 기준으로 동일한 각도로 영상을 분할하여 피라미드로 만든다. 각 영역 안에서 특징들의 히스토그램으로 영상을 표현하고 영상간의 유사도는 각도 피라미드를 단계별로 순환적 자리옮김을 통해 회전시켜가며 히스토그램 교집합을 구하여 측정한다. 이 방법을 Caltech-101 데이터베이스에 적용해본 결과 회전 변환을 준 테스트 영상에 대해 기존의 공간 피라미드를 사용한 방법에 비해 높은 성능을 보이는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 이 방법을 통하여 다양한 상황의 일반적인 물체 분류할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.1407-1416
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• 2007

This paper describes an algorithm for arbitrary point tracking using pyramidal optical flow. The optical flow is calculated based on the Lucas-Kanade's optical flow estimation in this paper. The image pyramid is employed to calculate a big motion while being sensitive to a small motion. Furthermore, a rectification process is proposed to reduce the error which is increased as it goes down to the lower level of the image pyramid. The accuracy of the optical flow estimation was increased by using some constraints and sub-pixel interpolation of the optical flow and this makes our algorithm to track points in which they do not have features such as edges or corners. The proposed algorithm is implemented and primary results are shown in this paper.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1250-1260
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• 2013

The contrast enhancement techniques based on Laplacian pyramid image fusion have a benefit that they can faithfully describe the image information because they combine the multiple resource images by selecting the desired pixel in each image. However, they also have some problem that the output image may contain noise, because the methods evaluate the visual information on the basis of each pixel. In this paper, an improved contrast enhancement method, which effectively suppresses the noise, using image fusion is proposed. The proposed method combines the resource images by making Laplacian pyramids generated from weight maps, which are produced by measuring the difference between the block-based local well exposedness and local homogeneity for each resource image. We showed the proposed method could produce less noisy images compared to the conventional techniques in the test for various images.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.1239-1247
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• 1993

Mathematical morphology based on the set theory has been applied to various areas in image processing. In this study, we propose a new pyramid structure for binary images based on the morphological operations. We use a specific class of structuring elements to shrink or expand images, and prove that the whole operations are separable to construct the pyramid. Through a simulation study, we show that the pyramid can be used as a progressive image coding.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.355-357
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 라플라시안 피라미드를 이용하여 컬러 영상의 밝기 및 색상을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 입력 영상을 라플라시안 피라미드로 구성한 후 저해상도 근사 영상을 이용하여 영상의 전체적인 밝기를 개선하고 대역 통과 영상들을 이용하여 대비를 개선한 후 입력 영상의 밝기 값에 따라 적응적으로 색상을 재현함으로써 최종적으로 컬러 영상의 화질을 개선한다. 실험 결과 제안하는 방법은 영상 조명 특성에 강인한 화질 개선 성능을 보여주었으며 동영상에 적응시에도 자연스러운 화질 개선 결과를 얻을 수 있었고 실시간 처리가 가능한 수행 속도를 보여주었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.181-197
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• 2003

Notion Compensation(MC) technique using Sub-Band Coding with the hierarchical structure is efficient to estimate real motion. In the hierarchical pyramid method, low-band MC pyramid method is popular, where the upper layer estimate the glover motion and next lower layer estimate the local motion. The low-band MC pyramid scheme has two problems. First, because the quantization errors at lower layer are accumulated when using coding and quantizing, it is impossible to search the exact Motion Vector(MV) Second, because of the top-down search problem in the hierarchical structure, MV mismatch in upper layer causes serious MV in lower layer So. we propose new hierarchical MC pyramid method based on edge classification. In this Paper, we show that the performance of proposed Pass-band motion compensation pyramid technique is better than low-band motion compensation pyramid. Also, in the pyramid motion estimation, we propose initial MV estimation scheme based on the edge-pattern classification. As a result, we find that PSNR was increased.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2021

The hologram pyramid is an application of floating holograms, allowing the observer to see three-dimensional holograms from various angles without wearing wearable devices. Due to the low cost and ease of manufacturing, it has been used in a wide variety of fields as diverse as education, prototyping, showcase, and etc. But, when the observer looks at the hologram from the place where each side of the hologram pyramid is connected, the hologram looks cut and distorted. Also, the observer can see the only hologram of angles viewed head-on from each side. In this paper, we propose a method of generating a hologram image corresponding to the observer's gaze angle by tracking the observer's position and conducting reverse distortion. It provide a hologram of the angle viewed by the observer without cutting and distortion. In addition, the existing method and the proposed method were applied and compared in the hologram pyramid.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.24-29
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• 2014

Digital mammography is the most common technique for the early detection of breast cancer. To diagnose the breast cancer in early stages and treat efficiently, many image enhancement methods have been developed. This paper presents a multi-scale contrast enhancement method in the Laplacian pyramid for the digital mammogram. The proposed method decomposes the image into the contrast measures by the Gaussian and Laplacian pyramid, and the pyramid coefficients of decomposed multi-resolution image are defined as the frequency limited local contrast measures by the ratio of high frequency components and low frequency components. The decomposed pyramid coefficients are modified by the contrast measure for enhancing the contrast, and the final enhanced image is obtained by the composition process of the pyramid using the modified coefficients. The proposed method is compared with other existing methods, and demonstrated to have quantitatively good performance in the contrast measure algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.934-936
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 피라미드 계층간에 나타나는 잡음 신호의 특성을 바탕으로 라플라시안 피라미드를 이용한 X-ray 영상의 잡음 제거 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 잡음 제거를 위해 X-ray 영상 신호의 지역적 표준 편차와 신호의 영역적 특징을 이용하였다. 지역적 표준 편차는 영상의 경계선 정도와 비례하는 특징을 가지기 때문에 지역적 표준 편차를 이용하여 경계 정보의 손실을 막았다. 또한 라플라시안 피라미드의 각 계층에 잡음 신호가 좁은 면적을 가지며 분포되는 영역적 특징을 이용하여 평평한 지역에서 잡음 신호의 제거 성능을 높였다. X-ray영상 및 잡음이 첨가된 표준 영상에 대한 실험을 통해 제안된 방법이 경계 정보의 유지와 잡음 제거에서 기존의 방법보다 향상된 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.11
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• pp.928-937
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• 2013

This paper presents a novel contrast enhancement method based on singular value decomposition and image pyramid. The proposed method consists mainly of four steps. The proposed algorithm firstly decomposes image into band-pass images, including basis image and detail images, to improve both the global contrast and the local detail. In the global contrast process, singular value decomposition is used for contrast enhancement; the local detail scheme uses weighting factors. In the final image composition process, the proposed algorithm combines color and luminance components in order to preserve the color consistency. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves contrast performance and enhances detail compared to conventional methods.