• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.375-380
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• 2017

This paper has proposed a single image based fog degree quantification method by measuring both transmission and local contrast. The proposed method estimates the foggy expected regions from transmission, and then assesses the size of regions of which transmission values are foggy expected ones and the range of local contrast value on such regions. Compared with fog degree gauged by the scattering coefficient measurement sensor, the proposed method quantifies the fog degree with more than 95% accuracy for images containing various objects and environments. We also developed a technique that measures the local contrast values in process of measuring transmission values. So, the proposed method does not increase complexity compared to the existing transmission method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.3
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• pp.119-128
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• 2014

This paper presents a new method for improving the quality of images corrupted by an external source that generates an attenuation and scattering of light like dust, water droplets and fog. Conventional defog methods typically encounter a distortion such that the restored image has low contrast and oversaturation of color in some regions because of the mis-estimated airlight and wrong media transmission. Therefore, in order to mitigate these problems, we propose a robust airlight selection method and local saturation evaluation method for estimating media transmission. The proposed method addresses the wrong media transmission and over-saturation problems caused by the mis-estimated airlight and thereby improves the restored image quality. The results of relevant experiments of the proposed method against conventional ones confirm the improved accuracy of atmospheric light estimation and the quality of restored images with regard to objective and subjective performance measures.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.11
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• pp.165-173
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• 2014

This paper presents a fast and high-quality haze removal method by the modification of the conventional transmission estimation process. In the conventional haze removal method, the halo and blocking artifacts arises while estimating the transmission. In order to effectively reduce the artifacts, the proposed method employs the maximum filter after the calculation of the dark channel. Because of the reduction of the artifacts, the proposed method can simplify the transmission refinement process without sacrificing the quality of the results: this paper proposes to use the single-channel guided filter instead of the multi-channel guided filter. The experimental results demonstrate that the quality of the dehazed results by the proposed transmission correction process is improved and the haze removal speed is increased by up to 59.6%, when compared to the conventional ones.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1303-1310
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• 2021

We propose an edge-preserving transmission estimation by comparing the patch-based dark channel and the pixel-based dark channel near the edge, in order to improve the quality of outdoor images deteriorated by conditions such as fog and smog. Moreover, we propose a refinement that applies the Guided Image Filtering (GIF), a kind of edge-preserving smoothing filtering methods, to edges using Laplacian operation for natural restoration of image objects and backgrounds, so that we can dehaze a single image and improve the visibility effectively. Experimental results carried out on various outdoor hazy images that show the proposed method has less computational complexity than the conventional methods, while reducing distortion such as halo effect, and showing excellent dehazing performance. In It can be confirmed that the proposed method can be applied to various fields including devices requiring real-time performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.133-133
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• 2017

홍수에 의해 유역에서 발생하는 유사량을 정량적으로 평가하고 예측할 수 있는 방안을 마련하는 것은 통합적인 유역 유사 관리 계획에 있어서 중요하다. 하천에서의 부유사량과 소류사량을 포함한 총유사량의 추정은 하천 유사연구의 기본과제이다. 미계측 유역의 효과적인 총유사량 관리를 위해 유실된 토양 중 얼마나 유역의 최종 유출구로 유입되는지 모의하기 위해 유사전달율(Sediment Delivery Ratio: SDR) 회귀식을 개발할 필요성이 있다. 본 연구에서는 유량조사사업단에서 운영 중인 수위측정소를 대상으로 토양침식량과 유량-총유사량 관계곡선식을 통해 총유사량을 산정하였다. 또한 유역의 다양한 유사전달특성과 유사전달율과의 상관관계분석을 통해 최종적으로 유의한 인자를 바탕으로 유사전달율 다중회귀공식을 개발하였다. 본 연구 결과 실측 기반으로 산정된 연도별 유사전달율과 회귀식을 통해 예측된 연도별 유사전달율 상관분석 결과 $R^2$, NSE 모두 0.80 이상을 보여 높은 상관관계를 나타내었으며 예측된 유사전달율을 통해 산정된 총유사량 또한 실측 총유사량과 상관분석 결과 $R^2$, NSE 모두 0.80 이상을 보여 높은 상관관계로 나타나 본 연구에서 개발된 회귀식의 적용 가능성이 있는 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구는 국내 유역 및 하도유사 관리의 방향성 설정차원에서 의미가 있으며 국토관리 및 하천관리를 위한 관련 기술이 한 단계 빨리 나아갈 수 있는 좋은 연구로 사료된다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.738-747
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• 2015

It is difficult to use a recognition algorithm of an image in a foggy environment because the color and edge information is removed. One of the famous defogging algorithm is haze removal by using 'Dark Channel Prior(DCP)' which is used to predict for transmission rate using color information of an image and eliminates fog from the image. However, in case that the image has factors such as sunset or yellow dust, there is overemphasized problem on the color of certain channel after haze removal. Furthermore, in case that the image includes an object containing high RGB channel, the transmission related to this area causes a misestimated issue. In this paper, we purpose an enhanced fog elimination algorithm by using improved color normalization and haze rate revision which correct mis-estimation haze area on the basis of color information and edge information of an image. By eliminating the color distortion, we can obtain more natural clean image from the haze image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.118-127
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• 2017

We propose the dehazing algorithm which consists of two main parts, the derivation of the Atmospheric light and adaptive transmission map. In the getting the Atmospheric light value, we utilize the quad-tree partitioning where the depth of the partitioning is decided based on the difference between the averaged pixel values of the parent and children blocks. The proposed transmission map is adaptive for each pixel by using the parameter ${\beta}(x)$ to make the histogram of the pixel values in the map uniform. The simulation results showed that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional methods in the respect of the visual quality of the dehazed images and the computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.98-98
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 유입량의 불확실성을 고려하여 미래 저수량을 확률론적으로 예측하였다. 월별 유입량을 표본으로 한 확률밀도함수를 핵밀도함수(kernel function)를 이용하여 추정하고, 추정된 확률분포로 월별 유입량을 모의 발생하였다. 모의 발생된 유입량을 통해 연속적인 조건부 확률을 산정하였고, 이의 누적확률분포(F(x))는 해당 저수량에 도달하지 못할 확률, 즉 실패확률을 의미하므로 1-F(x)로 해당 저수량 이상을 확보할 수 있는 확률을 산정하였다. 보령댐을 대상으로 분석한 결과 2016년 2월 말 저수량 27.8 백만$m^3$ 기준으로 3월부터 6월까지 정상용수공급환원 기준 저수량을 만족할 확률이 각각 2.3%, 12.5%, 24.2%, 33.5%로 나타났다. 지역적 가뭄에 대응하기 위해 하천유지용수 감량, 용수 대체공급, 자율 급수조정 및 금강-보령댐 도수로를 이용한 용수공급으로 20.6만$m^3/day$의 용수가 비축될 경우, 정상용수공급환원 기준 저수량을 만족할 확률이 10.2%, 40.3%, 73.8%, 78.7%로 용수비축의 효과가 크게 나타나는 것을 확인하였다. 저수량의 확률론적 예측을 통해 미래 저수량의 확률적 발생가능성을 추정할 수 있으며, 가뭄이 발생할 경우, 가뭄 대응효과를 정량적으로 나타낼 수 있어 가뭄 위험 상황 전달 및 용수공급조정 의사결정 시 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.10
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• pp.58-65
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• 2016

This paper presents optimization techniques to reduce the processing time of the dehazing method and proposes an efficient dehazing method based on them. In the proposed techniques, the atmospheric light is estimated based on the distributed sorting of the dark channel pixels, so as to reduce the computations. The normalization process required in the transmission estimation is simplified by the assumption that the atmospheric light is monochromatic. In addition, the dark channel is modified into the median dark channel in order to eliminate the transmission refinement process while achieving a comparable dehazing quality. The proposed dehazing method based on the optimization techniques is presented and its performance is investigated by developing a prototype system. When compared to the previous method, the proposed dehazing method reduces the processing time by 65% while maintaining the dehazing quality.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.163-170
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• 2013

In general, images of outdoor scenes often contain degradation due to dust, water drop, haze, fog, smoke and so on, as a result they cause the contrast reduction and color fading. Haze removal is not easier problem due to the inherent ambiguity between the haze and the underlying scene. So, we propose a novel method to solve single scene dehazing problem using the region segmentation based on graph algorithm that has used a gradient value as a cost function. We segment the scene into different regions according to depth-related information and then estimate the global atmospheric light. The medium transmission can be directly estimated by the threshold function of graph-based segmentation algorithm. After estimating the medium transmission, we can restore the haze-free scene. We evaluated the degree of the visibility restoration between the proposed method and the existing methods by calculating the gradient of the edge between the restored scene and the original scene. Results on a variety of outdoor haze scene demonstrated the powerful haze removal and enhanced image quality of the proposed method.