• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

The image obtained from systems such as autonomous driving cars or fire-fighting robots often suffer from several degradation such as noise, motion blur, and compression artifact due to multiple factor. It is difficult to apply image recognition to these degraded images, then the image restoration is essential. However, these systems cannot recognize what kind of degradation and thus there are difficulty restoring the images. In this paper, we propose the deep neural network, which restore natural images from images degraded in several ways such as noise, blur and JPEG compression in situations where the distortion applied to images is not recognized. We adopt the channel attention modules and skip connections in the proposed method, which makes the network focus on valuable information to image restoration. The proposed method is simpler to train than other methods, and experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1368-1375
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• 2013

In this paper, we presents a spatially adaptive noise detection and removal algorithm. Under the assumption that an observed image and the additive noise have Gaussian distribution, the noise parameters are estimated with local statistics, and the parameters are used to define the constraints on the noise detection process, where the first order Markov Random Field (MRF) is used. In addition, an adaptive low-pass filter having a variable window sizes defined by the constraints on noise detection is used to control the degree of smoothness of the reconstructed image. Experimental results demonstrate the capability of the proposed algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.2C
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• pp.130-138
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• 2006

In this paper, a new stereo image watermarking scheme based-on adaptive disparity estimation algorithm is proposed. That is, a watermark image is embedded into the right image of a stereo image pair by using the DWT and disparity information is extracted from this watermarked right image and the left image. And then, both of this extracted disparity information and the left image are transmitted to the recipient through the communication channel. At the receiver, the watermarked right image is reconstructed from the received left image and disparity information through an adaptive matching algorithm. a watermark image is finally extracted from this reconstructed right image. From some experiments using CCETT's 'Manege' and 'Friends' images as a stereo image and English alphabet '3DRC' as a watermark image, it is found that the PSNRs of the watermarked image from the reconstructed right images through the adaptive matching algorithm & DWT is improved 2.03 dB, 3.03 dB and robusted against various attacks. These experimental results also suggest a possibility of practical implementation of an adaptive matching also-rithm-based stereo imagewatermarking scheme proposed in this paper.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.22-31
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• 2007

The proposed algorithm in this paper is based on the wavelet decomposition and the energy computation of composed blocks so the amount of calculation and complexity is minimized by adaptively replacing the DWT coefficients and managing the resources effectively. We are now living in the world of a lot. of multimedia applications for many digital electric appliances and mobile devices. Among so many multimedia applications, the digital image compression is very important technology for digital cameras to store and transmit digital images to other sites and JPEG2000 is one of the cutting edge technology to compress still images efficiently. The digital cm technology is mainly using the digital image compression features so that those images could be efficiently saved locally and transferred to other sites without any losses. JPEG2000 standard is applicable for processing the digital images usefully to keep, send and receive through wired and/or wireless networks. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is one of the main differences to the previous digital image compression standard such as JPEG, performing the DWT to the entire image rather than splitting into many blocks. Several digital images m tested with this method and restored to compare to the results of conventional DWT which shows that the proposed algorithm get the better result without any significant degradation in terms of MSE & PSNR and the number of zero coefficients when the energy based adaptive DWT is applied.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.4
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• pp.45-54
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 웨이브렛 변환 대역에서 영역분할 기법을 적용하여 얻어진 각 영역을 중요 영역과 비 중요 영역으로 분류하고 각각의 영역을 그의 특성에 적합한 방식으로 부호화 하는 기법을 제안하였다. 중요 영역은 전체 영역가운데 매우 작은 부분을 차지하지만 영상 복원에 매우 큰 영향을 주기 때문에 이러한 영역 부호화를 위해 기존의 EZW 방식보다 성능이 우수하며 단일계수 전송에 성능이 뛰어난 SPIHT 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 그러나 비 중요영역은 영상복원에 미치는 영향이 적을 뿐만 아니라, 매우 큰 동질 영역을 형성하기 때문에 텍스춰 모델링을 이용할 경우 높은 압축률을 얻을 수 있다. 또한 이 방식을 이용할 경우 인위적인 에러가 거의 없기 때문에 이용할 경우 높은 압축률을 얻을 수 있다. 또한 이 방식을 이용할 경우 인위적인 에러가 거의 없기 때문에 시각적으로도 좋은 영상을 복원 할 수 있다. 실험결과 제안한 시스템은 다양한 영상에 대하여 적응성이 있음을 보였고 특히 0.2bpp 이하의 매우 낮은 비트 율에서도 EZW 와 같은 기존의 웨이브렛 기반 부호화기보다 좋은 성능을 나타내었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.3A
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• pp.249-257
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 스테레오/다시점 영상을 효율적으로 압축할 수 있는 차 영상 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 예측된 영상과 원 영상의 차이 정보를 보다 효율적으로 전송하기 위하여 DCT를 기반으로 차 영상 부호화를 하게 되는데 DCT 계수들의 방향성을 이용하여 양자화 및 스캔 방법을 각 블록의 특성에 따라 다르게 적용하였다. 특히 다시점 영상의 부호화는 첫 번째 시점 영상을 기준 영상으로 정하여 나머지 시점 영상을 기준 영상으로부터 변이를 추정하여 복원하는 방식과 다시점 영상 중 가려진 영역의 비율을 고려하여 가려진 영역이 상대적으로 제일 적은 영상을 기준 영상으로 설정하여 나머지 영상을 변이 추정하여 복원하는 방법으로 나누어 실험하였다. 실험 결과 모든 압축률에 대하여 제안 방식이 기존의 차 영상 부호화 방법보다 우수함을 확인하였고, 가려진 영역의 상대적인 비율을 고려하여 다시점 영상을 부호화한 제안 방식이 기존의 방식 및 첫 번째 시점을 기준 영상으로 설정하여 부호화한 제안 방식보다 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.131-134
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 시공간 적응적 기반영역 (Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Support Region : ASTSR)을 바탕으로 하는 일반화된 Auto-Regressive(AT)모델을 제안한다. 시공간 적응적 기반 영역은 영상 내 경계선의 특성과 동영상에서의 시간적 불연속 (temporal discontinuity) 개념을 이용하여 구성되어질 수 있다. 설정된 시공간 적응적 기반영역은 기존의 AR 모델에 적용되어지는 직사각형 형태의 기반영역에 비하여 보다 정상상태(stationarity)의 특성을 가지며 이로 인해 더 정확한 모델 파라미터들을 추출해 낼 수 있을 뿐 아니라 데이터의 처리량에서도 큰 이득을 얻을 수 있다. 제안된 방법은 손상된 동영상 데이터를 복원(motion picture restoration)하는 측면에 응용되어 실험되어졌으며 기존의 모델과 비교하여 우수한 성능을 보여주었다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.658-665
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• 2015

In the production of medical images, noise reduction and contrast enhancement are important methods to increase qualities of processing results. By using the edge-based denoising and adaptive nonlinear histogram stretching, a novel medical image enhancement algorithm is proposed. First, a medical image is decomposed by wavelet transform, and then all high frequency sub-images are decomposed by Haar transform. At the same time, edge detection with Sobel operator is performed. Second, noises in all high frequency sub-images are reduced by edge-based soft-threshold method. Third, high frequency coefficients are further enhanced by adaptive weight values in different sub-images. Finally, an adaptive nonlinear histogram stretching method is applied to increase the contrast of resultant image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can enhance a low contrast medical image while preserving edges effectively without blurring the details.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.271-280
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• 2004

This paper presents a new iterative image restoration algorithm with removal of boundary/object-oriented ringing, The proposed method is based on CGM(Conjugate Gradient Method) iterations with inter-wavelet shrinkage. The proposed method provides a fast restoration as much as CGM, while having adaptive do-noising and do-ringing by using wavelet shrinkage. In order to have effective do-noising and do-ringing simultaneously, the proposed method uses a space-dependent shrinkage rule. The improved performance of the proposed method over more traditional iterative image restoration algorithms such as LR(Lucy-Richardson) and CGM in do-noising and do-ringing is shown through numerical experiments.