• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.163-171
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• 2008

In this paper, we present an adaptive parametric cubic convolution technique in order to enlarge the low resolution image to the high resolution image. The proposed method consists of two steps. During the first interpolation step, we acquire adaptive parameters in introducing a new cost-function to reflect frequency properties. And, the second interpolation step performs cubic convolution by applying the parameters obtained from the first step. The enhanced interpolation kernel using adaptive parameters produces output image better than the conventional one using a fixed parameter. Experimental results show that the proposed method can not only provides the performances of $0.5{\sim}4dB$ improvements in terms of PSNR, but also exhibit better edge preservation ability and original image similarity than conventional methods in the enlarged images.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.1000-1009
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• 2006

We propose an adaptive linear interpolation locating sub-pixels. We utilize a pixel-based parameter in the conventional linear interpolation. To optimally obtain the parameter, we propose a generic interpolation structure including a low pass filter and minimum mean square error. We also propose a simple version of the generic interpolation method, which obtain a closed-form solution. Simulation results show that the proposed method is superior to the state-of-the-art methods such as warped distance linear interpolation and shifted linear interpolation, as well as the conventional method such as the linear interpolation and the cubic convolution interpolation in terms of the subjective and objective image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.303-306
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• 2009

영상 표시장치의 화소수가 다양화됨에 따라, 영상 보간법은 더욱 중요한 역할을 하게 되었다. 3차 콘볼루션 보간법(Cubic Convolution Interpolation)은 간단하지만, 적용하는데 제한이 없고, 좋은 성능을 보이기 때문에 널리 쓰이고 있다. 이 논문은 3차 콘볼루션 보간법을 이용한 적응적 방법을 제안한다. 예측하려는 픽셀의 이웃 화소 값의 차이를 고려해서, 3차 콘볼루션 커널에 있는 'a' 값을 적응적으로 선택한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.9-16
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• 2008

Recently, there are a lot of multimedia products using image interpolation system. However, most interpolation systems in existence suffer visually to some extents from the effects of blurred edges and jagged artifacts in the image. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive linear interpolation system that uses the sub-pixel. The proposed system calculate the warped distance among the pixels of an image by optimizing length parameter. A new cost function is introduced to reflect frequency properties of the origin data in order to improve image quality. Experimental results show that our new algorithm significantly outperforms conventional interpolation methods in subjective quality, and in most cases, in terms of PSNR as well.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.362-367
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• 2010

As the resolution of the image display devices has been diversified, the image interpolation methods has played a more important role. The cubic convolution interpolation method has been widely used because it is simple but it has no limitation of using and a good performance. This paper suggests an adaptive method to the cubic convolution interpolation. Considering the difference of the neighbored pixels values to a prediction pixel, a parameter value in the cubic convolution interpolation kernel is chosen.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.12C
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• pp.1184-1193
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• 2006

Image interpolation has been widely used and studied in the various fields of image processing. There are many approaches of varying complexity and robustness. In this paper, a new distance weight is proposed for the conventional linear interpolation. In comparison with the conventional linear weight, the new distance weight uses a quadratic or cubic polynomial equation to reflect that the interpolated value should be influenced more by the value of closer pixels in an input image. In this paper, the new adaptive linear (NAL) interpolation, which considers patterns near the interpolated value, is also proposed. This algorithm requires a pattern weight, which is used to determine the ratio of reflection on local patterns, to obtain an interpolated image that exhibits better quality at various magnification factors (MF). In the computer simulation, not only did the NAL interpolation exhibit much lower computational complexity than conventional bicubic interpolation, it also improved peak signal-to-noise ratios (PSNR).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.26-28
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 깊이 영상의 해상도를 향상시키는 기법을 제안한다. 최근 TOF(time-of-flight) 방식의 깊이 센서가 깊이 영상 획득에 많이 사용되고 있다. 그러나 TOF 깊이 센서가 제공하는 깊이 영상은 대부분 저해상도이기 때문에 고해상도의 콘텐츠 제작을 위해서는 깊이 영상의 해상도를 향상시켜주는 것이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 깊이 영상의 해상도를 높이기 위하여 적응적 가중치 보간법을 적용한 후, Bilateral 필터링을 수행하여 품질을 높인다. 일반적으로 영상의 해상도를 높일 때 보간법을 많이 사용하는데, 본 논문에서는 이러한 보간법들을 사용하여 깊이 영상의 해상도를 높였을 때보다 제안하는 기법의 성능이 우수함을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.39-45
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a new postprocessing algorithm using interpolation and signal adaptive filter according to the each block characteristic which is acquired in block classification process. We applied blocking artifact reduction algorithm for four neighbor low frequency block and ringing artifacts is removed with preserving edges by applying a signal adaptive filter in high frequency block based on edge map. The computer simulation results confirmed a better performance by the proposed method in both the subjective and objective image qualities.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.3
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• pp.240-248
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a super-resolution algorithm using an adaptive weighted interpolation(AWI) and discrete wavelet transform(DWT). In general, super-resolution algorithms for single-image, probability based operations have been used for searching high-frequency components. Consequently, the complexity of the algorithm is increased and it causes the increase of processing time. In the proposed algorithm, we first find high-frequency sub-bands by using DWT. Then we apply an AWI to the obtained high-frequency sub-bands to make them have the same size as the input image. Now, the interpolated high-frequency sub-bands and input image are properly combined and perform the inverse DWT. For the experiments, we use the down-sampled version of the original image($512{\times}512$) as a test image($256{\times}256$). Through experiment, we confirm the improved efficiency of the proposed algorithm comparing with interpolation algorithms and also save the processing time comparing with the probability based algorithms even with the similar performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.208-213
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 디지털 영상의 해상도를 부화소 기반의 새로운 적응적 선형보간법으로 변경하는 방법을 제안한다. 일반적 선형보간법에서 고정된 위치로 쓰이는 거리계수를 왜곡된 거리 계산에 의한 화소 가중치를 주는 방법으로 개선한다. 이를 계산하기 위하여 최소 평균 자승 에러(minimum mean square error, MMSE)를 이용한다. 원영상과의 차이를 최소화하는 왜곡 거리 계산을 위하여 이웃한 보간 화소와 왜곡거리를 참조하게 된다. 이를 사용하면 복잡도가 높지 않은 효과적인 화소 보간을 할 수 있고 실험 결과 일반적인 보간법과 비교할 때 PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio)과 주관적 화질 면에서 우수함을 알 수 있었다.