• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.274-279
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• 2006

대부분의 컬러 영상들은 코드북의 일부분만으로 표현할 수 있는 영상의 영역이 상당히 크므로 이러한 특징을 이용하는 효율적인 Reversible 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 팔레트(컬러맵) 영상에서의 워터마킹 기술에 대한 연구는 많이 있지만 Reversibility에 대한 관심은 상대적으로 낮았다. 제안하는 기법은 가상적으로 확장한 코드북에 의한 압축 영역에서 동작한다. 확장된 코드북은 높은 Payload 용량을 가진다. Reversibility를 구현하면서 왜곡(Distortion)과 삽입용량(Embedding capacity)사이의 절충점을 실험을 통해 보인다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.651-661
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• 2008

This paper proposes a novel contrast enhancement (CE) algorithm for color images using the modified error diffusion (ED). After conventional color histogram equalization (HE), artifacts such as false contours are produced in the contrast enhanced image. The proposed CE algorithm using the modified ED consists of two parts: CE and ED. In the first part, a low-contrast input image is enhanced by the conventional HE method. In the second part, we use the modified ED algorithm. The inputs of the second part are the average and scaled difference images of the original color input image and the HE image, in which the scaled color difference image is diffused by the ED algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, the modified ED algorithm reduces the artifacts produced in the HE image, and increases the number of color levels. Computer simulations with a number of low-contrast color images show the effectiveness of the proposed CE method in terms of the visual quality as well as the probability mass function. It can be used as a post-processing for CE with simultaneous artifact reduction in various display devices.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.376-377
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• 2011

일반적으로 저조도 환경에서 촬영된 영상에서 컬러의 정보를 식별하는 것은 어렵다. 기존의 대표적인 영상 개선의 방법인 레티넥스(Retinex)는 연산량이 많고 원본 영상의 컬러 정보를 정확히 반영하지 못하는 문제점이 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 저조도 환경에서 촬영된 영상에 대해 컬러의 왜곡 문제를 개선하기 위하여 비선형 함수와 RGB 컬러 공간에서의 벡터 상수곱을 이용한 실시간 영상 개선 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.260-272
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a simple auto calibration method for a CCD camera with wide an91e lens that causes high degree of distortion. We formulate a cubic warping equation for the relationship between the cross points on the distorted calibration target and the corresponding points from the standard grid image, and calibrate distorted images using the computed parameters. The experiment has been performed with the distorted images resulted from wide angle CCD camera. The experimental results show that the proposed method, in terms of the average and maximum distorted error, has higher accuracy than the existing methods because of maintaining the calibration ratio more than 95 percent. The proposed method is applicable to wide variety of images regardless a type of lens or distortion.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.239-242
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• 2009

본 논문은 최근에 휘도 영상 부호화를 위해서 제안된 에지 선 기반의 쿼드트리 영상 압축 기법을 기초로 해서 이를 컬러 영상을 압축하도록 확장하고, 확장된 알고리즘을 C-언어를 사용해서 실제로 구현한 쿼드트리 영상 코덱을 소개한다. 개발된 코덱의 부호율-왜곡 성능과 복원영상의 주관적 화질을 JPEG과 비교할 때, 컬러 영상을 고화질로 부호화하는 경우에 개발된 쿼드트리 코덱의 성능이 특히 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.1075-1078
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 무선선로상의 제약과 무선 단말기의 제한된 자원을 이용하여 무선 인터넷 서비스를 좀 더 효율적으로 제공하기 위한 WBMP(Wireless BitMaP) 변환기와 해석기의 설계 및 구현에 대하여 기술한다. WBMP 변환기는 기존의 이미지를 단색의 압축되지 않은 형태인 WBMP 이미지로 변환하고, 단말기 내의 WBMP 해석기는 WBMP 이미지를 해석하여 브라우저를 통해 나타낸다. WBMP 이미지는 헤더의 구조가 간단하고, 이미지 표현에 사용되는 데이터의 양이 적으므로 무선 환경에 적합한 형태이다. 그러나 컬러 이미지를 변환하면 이미지 정보가 손실되거나 왜곡될 수 있고, 표현된 컬러의 수가 많을수록 손실률은 높아진다. 따라서 향후 그레이-레벨 이미지 또는 컬러 이미지로의 변환 및 해석 기능을 확대 적용할 필요가 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.431-442
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• 2018

2-dimensional barcode, QR code has been used for containing various information such as image, video, map, and business cards. Currently, a smartphone is used as a QR code scanner, displaying the code and converting it to a standard URL for a website. However, QR codes are not very common in encrypted application and so have a few applications. This paper proposes a new color-code, which integrates the conventional QR code and color design, and can be effectively used in some product certification system. The proposed method exploits the fact that genuine code is produced by CMYK color model, but the counterfeit is captured by RGB color model and during this process, color information of the code is changed. This paper introduces the color matrix model to measure the distortion between genuine code and counterfeit code. By investigating the statistical characteristics of color matrix, an effective detection of print image forgeries are designed. Various experiments with color codes show that the proposed system can be effectively used in product certification systems.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.455-463
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• 2008

The shadows, which is generated when acquiring data using optical sensor, mutilates consistency of brightness for same objects in the images. Hence, it makes a trouble to interpret the ground information. This study is focused on detecting the shadowing area in the images. And only single image is used without any other data which is acquired from different source. Also, This study presents the method using HSI color model, especially, using I(intensity) information, and the intensity clustering algorithm. Then, we illuminate the effects of shadow by FFT(Fast Fourier Transform).

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.281-289
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• 2013

The iCAM06 has been used as an image appearance model for HDR image rendering. The iCAM06 goes through the color space conversions and scale conversions of the several steps to present HDR images. The dynamic range of an HDR image needs to be mapped on the range of output devices, which is called the tone mapping. However, tone compression process of the iCAM06 causes color distortion because of color-clipping and cross-stimulus. Therefore, we proposed that a color correction method in IPT space which compensates the color distortion in tone compression process. Through the experimental results, we conformed that proposed color correction method had better performance than the iCAM06 and enhanced models.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.11-20
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• 2015

Digital watermarking provides electronic means for proving the copyrights of distributed digital media copies. Research on digital watermarking for images is recently directed toward that for color images extensively used in real life, based on the substantial results in digital watermarking for gray-scale images. Color images have multiple channels, each of which corresponds to a gray-scale image. While there are some watermarking techniques for color images that just apply those for gray-scale images to one channel of the color images, the correlation characteristics between the channels are not considered in them. This paper proposes a zero-watermarking technique that makes keys via combining an image dependent watermark, created through comparing two channels of the color image and copyright watermark scrambled. Due to zero-watermarking, it does not change anything of cover(host) images. Watermark images are robust against some common attacks such as sharpening, blurring, JPEG lossy compression, scaling, and cropping.