• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.869-878
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• 2009

Image restoration techniques such as noise reduction and contrast enhancement have been researched for enhancing a contaminated image by the noise. An image degraded by additive random noise can be enhanced by noise reduction. Sigma filtering is one of the most widely used method to reduce the noise. In this paper, we propose a new sigma filter algorithm based on noise variance estimation which effectively enhances the degraded image by noise. Specifically, the Bartlett test is used to measure the degree of noise with respect to the degree of image feature. Simulation results are also given to show the performance of the proposed algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8B
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• pp.1129-1140
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 블록기반 동영상 부호화에서 나타나는 양자화 잡음을 그 특성에 맞게 모델링을 하고, 이를 기반으로 웨이블렛 변환(wavelet transform)을 이용하여 양자화 잡음을 제거하는 후처리 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 양자화 잡음을 특정 프로화일(profile)로 표현되는 블록화 잡음과 비에지 화소(non-edge pixel)에서 백색 가우시안 특성을 가지는 나머지 잡음의 합으로 모델링 한다. 이러한 양자화 잡음의 모델을 기반으로 정칙화 미분(regularized differentiation)을 표현하는 Mallat의 1차원 웨이브렛 변환을 이용하여 영상복원 관점에서 각각의 잡음을 제거한다. 먼저, 웨이브렛 영역의 블록경계에서 임펄스로 나타나는 블록화 잡음 성분들의 크기를 추정하여 줄임으로 해서 블록화 잡음을 제거한다. 이때 임펄스 크기의 추정은 메디안 필터와 양자화 파라미터(quantization parameter), 그리고 국부 활동도(local activity)를 이용하여 이루어진다. 그리고 나머지 잡음은 비에지 화소에서 연역치화(soft-thresholding)을 수행함으로써 제거한다. 이러한 후처리 방법의 구현은 실시간 응용을 위해 웨이브렛 필터를 이용하여 근사적으로 공간 영역에서 이루어진다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법이 다양한 영상과 압축률에 대해 MPEG-4 VM(verification model) 후처리 필터(post-filter)보다 PSNR 성능뿐만 아니라 주관적 화질면에서도 우수함을 확인하였다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.595-607
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• 2010

This paper addresses the problem of reducing the speckle noise in SAR images by wavelet transformation, using a non-local means(NLM) filter originated for Gaussian noise removal. Log-transformed SAR image makes multiplicative speckle noise additive. Thus, non-local means filtering and wavelet thresholding are used to reduce the additive noise, followed by an exponential transformation. NLM filter is an image denoising method that replaces each pixel by a weighted average of all the similarly pixels in the image. But the NLM filter takes an acceptable amount of time to perform the process for all possible pairs of pixels. This paper, also proposes an alternative strategy that uses the t-test more efficiently to eliminate pixel pairs that are dissimilar. Extensive simulations showed that the proposed filter outperforms many existing filters terms of quantitative measures such as PSNR and DSSIM as well as qualitative judgments of image quality and the computational time required to restore images.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.207-213
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a modified median filter for impulse noise reduction. The proposed method based on multi-step finds noisy pixels from the corrupted image and applies filtering on the noisy pixels. Neighbor pixels for filtering are filtered by linear filter which adjusts filtering direction according to an edge. Thus, our proposed method not only preserves edge, but also reduces noise in uniform region. Experimental results show that our proposed method has better quality than those by existing modified median filtering method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.325-328
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 ToF(Time-of-Flight) 카메라의 거리 잡음을 제거하는 방법으로 거리와 진폭에 따른 거리 잡음 모델링을 이용한 적응적인 SUSAN(Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus) 필터를 제안한다. ToF 카메라의 거리 잡음 제거를 위해서 기존에 제안된 여러 가지 방법들은 거리 잡음의 특성을 고려하지 않거나 진폭에 따른 거리 잡음의 특성만을 고려하였다. 하지만 실제 ToF 카메라의 거리 영상에 포함되는 거리 잡음은 진폭과 거리에 따라서 변화하기 때문에 거리와 진폭을 모두 고려한 거리 잡음 모델링이 필요하다. 따라서 제안하는 방법은 우선 거리와 진폭의 변화에 따른 ToF 카메라의 거리 잡음 특성을 모델링 한다. 이후 제안하는 방법은 생성된 거리 잡음 모델에 의해 인자가 결정되는 적응적 SUSAN 필터를 이용하여 ToF 카메라의 거리 영상의 잡음을 제거한다. 실험 결과 제안하는 방법은 기존의 ToF 거리 영상의 거리 잡음제거 방법에 비해 보다 효과적으로 거리 영상의 잡음을 제거하면서 디테일을 잘 보존하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.113-120
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• 2020

With the recent development of communication equipment, the demand for communication equipment is gradually increasing. Accordingly, various signal processing has been studied. In the case of an image, noise removal is an indispensable step because noise propagation problems may occur if noise is not removed in the pre-processing process. Salt and Pepper noise is a typical impulse noise with two extremes. Various studies have been conducted to remove such noise, and there are CWMF, MF and MMF. However, the existing methods are somewhat insufficient in the high-density noise region. Therefore, in this study, we have proposed an algorithm that filters the size of the mask according to the number of noises inside the 7×7 mask and filters it with a modified switching filter using the histogram distribution of the image. In the case of the proposed algorithm, noise can be effectively removed in a high-density noise region. For objective judgment, PSNR was used to compare and analyze with existing algorithms.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.167-173
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• 2003

Measuring subtle neuromagnetic signals requires eliminating background noises. Especially, a SQUID magnetometer is very sensitive to the magnetic noise even from a distant source. As typical software methods, we use the synthetic gradiometer of the adaptive filtering to reduce the noises. In this article, we present noise reduction effects in our 37-channel SQUID magnetometer system by applying each method including the frequency-domain adaptive filtering and discuss a selective application of the methods to the detection of clinical magnetoencephalogram signals.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.2447-2453
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• 2013

The digital images are being degraded by noise in the process of acquisition, storage and transmission, Gaussian or impulse noise is the representative noise. Meanwhile, the image has lots of tendency to be degraded by complex noise, so various researches are being conducted for reducing these complex noise. In this paper, to remove complex noise, the algorithm processed by modified switching median filter and modified adaptive weighted filter according to the result after judging the kinds of noise is proposed. In the simulation result, excellent denoising capabilities. Furthermore, we compared proposed algorithm with existing methods for objective judgement, and PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio) is used by the criterion of judgement.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.945-951
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• 2007

Noise cancellation is essential for the devices which use speech as an interface. In real environments, speech quality and recognition rates are degraded by the auditive noises coming near the microphone. In this paper, we propose a noise cancellation algorithm using stereo microphones basically. The advantage of the use of multiple microphones is that the direction information of the target source could be applied. The proposed noise canceller is based on the Wiener filter. To estimate the filter, noise and target speech frequency responses should be known and they are estimated by the spectral classification in the frequency domain. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with that of the well-known Frost algorithm and the generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) with an adaptation mode controller (AMC). As performance measures, the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ), which is the most widely used among various objective speech quality methods, and speech recognition rates are adopted.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.418-428
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• 2007

In the calculation of wave propagation by Boussinesq equation model, it is very common to experience numerical noises generated from nonlinear interaction and breaking wave occurrence, and the numerical solution is rapidly diverged unless the noises are properly controlled. A comparative study was here undertaken for the characteristics of three different lowpass filters (FFT filter, Gaussian filter and Shapiro filter) which are all designed to be applied to the interim results of numerical calculation. The numerical results obtained with application of respective filter techniques were compared with the results of an existing hydraulic experiment for the aspects of noise suppression, conservation of main signal and altering time. The results show that the Shapiro filter can be best applied with optimal choices of its element number, pass number and filtering tune interval. The combination of the number of filter element off, pass number of 50 or less, and application interval of 100 to 200 time steps generally showed good performance in both accuracy and efficiency of the numerical calculation.