• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.699-702
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 anisotropic diffusion 방법의 일종인 평균곡률 확산 (Mean Curvature Diffusion) 방법을 이용하여 영상에 포함된 잡음은 제거하고 동시에 에지는 보존하는 기법을 제안한다. 평균곡률 확산은 2 차원 영상의 밝기값을 3 차원 공간상의 z 좌표에 대응시켜 영상의 밝기값에 대응하는 공간 상의 곡면을 구성하고 이 곡면을 평균곡률에 비례하는 속도로 확산시킨다. 확산이 진행되면서 평균곡률이 영이 되는 에지에서는 확산이 발생하지 않고 잡음 등의 영향이 많은 에지 이외의 영역에서는 확산이 빠른 속도로 진행된다. 기존의 평균곡률 확산 방법의 성능을 개선하기 위해 최소/최대 흐름 방법을 평균곡률 확산 방법과 결합시키고 영상의 2 차 도함수를 사용하여 d얇은 에지를 보존하였다. 실험을 통해 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법보다 잡음 제거와 에지 보존 성능이 우수함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.59-62
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 평균 밝기 부분에 가중치 맵으로써 감마 변환에 기반한 선형 결합을 제안하고자 한다. 기존의 패치를 기반으로 한 가중치 맵은 평균 밝기 부분에서 영상 내 밝기 값이 한쪽으로 치우쳐 영상의 밝은 부분이 과포화 상태가 되어 세부 정보가 손실되는 단점이 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 전역적 및 지역적 영상의 평균 밝기 값을 이용하여 감마 변환된 값을 선형 결합 시켜줌으로써 영역 내 세부 정보를 보존시키고 주관적 화질을 향상시켰다. 실험을 통해 결과를 분석하고 성능을 비교하여 기존 알고리듬에 비해 제안한 알고리듬이 우수함을 증명하였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.61-73
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• 2012

This paper proposes a histogram specification based image enhancement method, which uses the brightness mean and variance of an image to maximize the entropy of the image. In our histogram specification step, the Gaussian distribution is used to fit the input histogram as well as produce the target histogram. Specifically, the input histogram is fitted with the Gaussian distribution whose mean and variance are equal to the brightness mean(${\mu}$) and variance(${\sigma}2$) of the input image, respectively; and the target Gaussian distribution also has the mean of the value ${\mu}$, but takes as the variance the value which is determined such that the output image has the maximum entropy. Experimental results show that compared to the existing methods, the proposed method preserves the mean brightness well and generates more natural looking images.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.608-617
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• 2017

Methods of contrast enhancement have problem such as side effect of over-enhancement with non-gaussian histogram distribution, tradeoff enhancement efficiency against brightness preserving. In order to enhance contrast at various histogram distribution, segmentation to region with gaussian distribution and then enhance contrast each region. First, we segment an image into several regions using GMM(Gaussian Mixture Model)fitting by that k-mean clustering and EM(Expectation-Maximization) in $L^*a^*b^*$ color space. As a result region segmentation, we get the region map and probability map. Then we apply local contrast enhancement algorithm that mean shift to minimum overlapping of each region and preserve brightness histogram equalization. Experiment result show that proposed region based contrast enhancement method compare to the conventional method as AMBE(AbsoluteMean Brightness Error) and AE(Average Entropy), brightness is maintained and represented detail information.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.702-712
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an unsharp masking algorithm using Laplacian as a weight map for the signal structure and a gamma transformation algorithm using image mean intensity as a weight map for mean intensity. The conventional weight map based on the patch has a disadvantage in that the brightness in the image is shifted to one side in the signal structure and the mean intensity region. So the detailed information is lost. In this paper, we improved the detail using unsharp masking of patch unit and proposed linearly combined the gamma transformed values using the average brightness values of the global and local images. Through the proposed algorithm, the detail information such as edges are preserved and the subjective image quality is improved by adjusting the brightness of the light. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithm show better performance than conventional algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.1169-1174
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• 2001

A new approach for determining global threshold value of binary image is proposed in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, bit-plane information which involve the shapes of original image is used for dividing image into two parts; object and background. Optimal threshold value are selected based on difference values of average between two regions, which is considered in global binary thresholding. Proposed method is no need to set a initial value, and consequently, it is relatively simple as well as robust. Experimental results showed a good performance in preserving edge not only continuous tone images but also document image.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.1-5
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• 2001

A new approach for determining global threshold value for image binarization is proposed in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, bit-plane information which involve the shapes of original image is used for dividing image into two parts object and background, and then compared each average values. Optimal threshold value are selected in center of two averages. Proposed method is relatively simple but robust and achieved good results in continuous tone images and document image.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.2 s.105
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• pp.77-82
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• 2006

Digital halftoning is the technique to obtain a bilevel-toned image from continuous-toned image. Among halftoning methods, the error diffusion method gives better subjective quality than other halftoning ones. But it also makes edges of objects blurred. To overcome the defect, we proposes the modified error diffusion to enhance the edges using the property that human vision perceives the local average luminance and doesn't perceive a little variation of the spatial variation. The proposed method computes a spatialactivity, which is the difference between a pixel luminance and the average of its $3{\times}3$ neighborhood pixels' Iuminance weighted according to the spatial positioning. The system also usesof edge enhancement (IEE), which is computed from the normalized spatial activitymultiplied by the average luminance. The IEE is added to the quantizer's input pixel and feeds into the halftoning quantizer. The quantizer produces the halftone image having the enhanced edge. The computer experimental results show that the proposed method produces clearer bilevel-toned images than conventional methodsand the edge of objects is preserved well. Also the performance of the preposed method is improved, compared with that of the conventional method by measuring the edge correlation and the local average accordance at some ranges of viewing distance.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.189-196
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• 1994

Adaptive smoothing filter is a filter that averages out the intensities around the pixels of similar intensities while conserving the discontinuties. When human eyes rec-ognize a map, the brain can easily assign one color for each element such as road or building while computer distinguishes all the minute color differences even for one ele¬ment. We can approach to the solution by using the adaptive smoothing filter so that the machine can assign one color for each element as much as we want, and it is found to be a very essential tool foor map segmentation of urban areas. The filter is applied to a scanned map, and it is used to extract roads and residential areas.