• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.37-45
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• 2007

We propose an adaptive image enhancement method for epigraphic images, which is based on local statistics. Local statistics of the image are utilized for adaptive realization of the enhancement, that controls the contribution of the smoothing or sharpening paths. Image contrast enhancement occurs in details and noises are suppressed in smooth areas. For modeling the epigraphic image, pre~process is achieved by HSDI(Hanzi squeezed digital image). We have calculated the local statistics from this HSDI model. Application of this approach to HSDI has shown that processing not only smooths the background areas but also improves the subtle variations of edges, so that the word regions can be enhanced. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has better performance than the conventional image enhancement ones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.189-190
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• 2016

일반 영상의 영상확대를 위한 다양한 알고리즘이 존재한다. 하지만 적외선 열화상 영상의 경우 일반영상과 다른 특성을 가지고 있기 때문에 적외선 영상을 위한 영상 확대 알고리즘이 필요하다. 따라서 적외선 영상이 일반영상에 비해 디테일이 없다는 특성을 고려하여 복잡한 알고리즘을 적용시키기 보다는 ADRC 와 같은 단순한 분류 기법을 활용하여 LR-HR 패치를 분류하고 학습된 데이터를 이용하여 영상확대 알고리즘에 적용하였다. 알고리즘의 성능 향상을 위해 학습과정에 전처리 과정을 추가하여 합성과정에서 추가적인 연산량의 증가 없이 확대 영상의 선명도를 향상시키고자 하였다. 또한 확대된 적외선 영상이 동일 해상도의 가시광영상에 비해 선명도가 떨어진다는 점을 고려하여 확대된 적외선 영상에 가시광영상의 고주파 정보를 합성시켜 이전보다 영상의 선명도를 더 향상시키고자 하였다. 이와 같은 방법으로 영상 확대 알고리즘만 수행하였을 때 통상적인 영상확대 기법인 bi-cubic interpolation 기법보다 JNB 수치가 평균 0.0727 만큼 높은 결과를 확인할 수 있었고 가시광영상과 융합하였을 때 이전보다 평균 0.0742 만큼 더 선명해진 영상을 얻었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.103-113
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• 2003

We must enhance a fingerprint image to improve the performance of a fingerprint recognition. Because of this reason, many researches were achieved about the fingerprint image enhancement. Representative method is to use Gabor-Filter among them. However GF has the weakness which a processing hour takes long. In this paper, we proposed Half Gabor Filter (HGF) to enhance the fingerprint image fast in the on-line. The HGF, however, can make calculation much simpler, as well as both minutiae-extraction rate and recognition rate. On the other hand, the fingerprint image to enhance using HGF has almost same with the case effectiveness to apply GF. In this paper, we confirme it mathematically and experimentally.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.213-216
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 volume rendering 기법을 이용하여 2차원 MRI 영상들을 합성하여 3차원 영상 만들 때 보다 해상도를 높이기 위한 개선된 sampling방법을 소개한다 2차원 슬라이스 영상들이 3차원으로 재구성할 때 voxel 기반으로 렌더링을 하기 때문에 오브젝트의 내부 영역까지도 볼 수 있는 것이 volume rendering의 가장 큰 장점이다. 따라서 영상을 재구성하는 과정에서 보다 향상된 interpolation을 적용시켜서 공간 해상도를 향상시키면 보다 명확하게 오브젝트 내부 정보를 살펴 볼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 nearest neighbor 이나 linear 같은 interpolation으로 sampling한 방법보다 cubic interpolation을 3차원 공간에서 적용 시켜서 보다 resampling이 잘 되도록 하여 해상도를 향상시켜 보았다. 이렇게 향상된 Interpolation 적용시켜서 렌더링할 때 얼마나 오브젝트 내부 영역이 잘 가시화가 되었는지 transfer function을 적용시켜서 오브젝트 내부 정보를 렌더링 해보았고, 임의의 축으로 오브젝트을 잘라서 2D 단면 영상으로 출력해 보았다. 보다 향상된 interpolation을 적용시켜서 resampling을 하면 영상 해상도가 개선되었음을 볼 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.467-472
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• 2005

The principal objective of enhancement methods is to process an image so that the output image is more suitable than the original image lot a specific application. Images taken in the night can be low-contrast images because of poor environments. In this paper, we compared the performance of Image Contrast Enhancement Technique Using Clustering Algorithm(ICECA) with those of color adjustment methods such as Histogram Equalization(HE), Brightness Preserving Bi-Histogram Equalization(BBHE), and the Multi-Scale Refiner(MSR). We compared these methods by applying the image enhancement methods to a set of diverse images.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07d
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• pp.3160-3162
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• 2000

변화 부호화는 기존에 부호화 되어있는 영상의 비트율을 더 낮은 비트율의 영상으로 재 부호화하거나. 다른 부호화 표준으로 재 부호화 하는 기법이다. 변환 부호화기의 설계에서 가장 중요시되는 문제는 화질 향상과 부호화 속도의 향상이다. 변환 부호화기의 많은 응용분야에서 실시간 변환을 필요로 하기 때문에 변환 속도를 향상시키면서 화질을 높이는 방법이 연구되어 왔다. 비트율 변환비가 매우 클 때에나 표준화 방법의 목적 영상 사이즈가 다를 때엔 비트율의 변환과 함께 영상의 크기를 함께 변환(1/2)해 주어야할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 경우에 적합한 변환 부호화기법을 제안한다. 우선 영상의 크기를 다운스케일링 해 준후, 기존 영상의 움직임 벡터들로부터 AWW기법을 이용해 1차 추정 벡터를 추출하여 속도를 향상시키고, 1차 추출 벡터 부근의 한정된 영역으로부터 움직임 벡터 추정과정을 거쳐 최종 추정 벡터를 정제하여 화질을 향상시킨다. 실험 결과 기존의 재 부호화 기법에 비해 속도가 향상됨을 확인 할 수 있었으며. AWW 기법에 비해 연산량은 조금 많아지나 정제 과정을 통하여 약 1dB 정도의 화질 향상이 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.865-869
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• 2009

An image resolution enhancement is mainly utilized as pre-processing technique for various image processing application. It requires to decrease image quality deterioration such as blurring. In this paper, we propose an image resolution enhancement algorithm using low level interpolation. In the proposed algorithm, we calculate an error using low level interpolation, estimate an error image from the calculated error. The estimated error image is added interpolated high resolution image, it become lastly reconstruction image. Our experiments obtained the average PSNR about 1dB which is improved results better than conventional method for sensitive image quality. Also, subjective image quality with edge region is more clearness. The proposed method may be helpful for applications in various multimedia systems such as image restoration.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.15-24
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• 2008

This paper proposes a scheme of global image contrast enhancement using local contrast improvement. Methods of global image contrast enhancement redistribute the image gray level distribution using histogram equalization without considering image properties, and cause the result image to include image pixels with excessive brightness. On the other hand, methods of the block-based local image contrast enhancement have blocking artifacts and a problem of eliminating important image features during an image process to reduce them. In order to solve these problems, the proposed method executes the block-based histogram equalization on temporary images that an input image is divided into various fixed-size blocks. And then it performs the global contrast enhancement by applying the global histogram equalization functions to the original input image. Since the proposed method selects the best histogram equalization function from temporary images that are improved by the block-based local image contrast enhancement, it has the advantages of both the local and global image contrast enhancement approaches.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.3 s.113
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• pp.145-152
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose an automatic extraction model for unknown translations and implement an unknown translation extraction system using the proposed model. The proposed model as a phrase-alignment model is incorporated with three models: a phrase-boundary model, a language model, and a translation model. Using the proposed model we implement the system for extracting unknown translations, which consists of three parts: construction of parallel corpora, alignment of Korean and English words, extraction of unknown translations. To evaluate the performance of the proposed system, we have established the reference corpus for extracting unknown translation, which comprises of 2,220 parallel sentences including about 1,500 unknown translations. Through several experiments, we have observed that the proposed model is very useful for extracting unknown translations. In the future, researches on objective evaluation and establishment of parallel corpora with good quality should be performed and studies on improving the performance of unknown translation extraction should be kept up.