• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.933-935
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• 2015

Currently, image processing is being utilized in various fields and many studies on the image restoration is being progressed in order to eliminate the noise being generated during the process of transmitting, processing and storing of image. There are various types of noises included in the image according to the causes and types but AWGN is the most representative. In this paper, an algorithm was proposed which applies the variables differently according to the differences in surrounding pixels and central pixels within the local mask in order to mitigate the AWGN included in the image.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.251-258
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• 2004

This paper proposes a method for estimating the illuminant chromaticity using the distributions of the camera responses obtained by a CCD camera in a real-world scene. Illuminant estimation using a highlight method is based on the geometric relation between a body and its surface reflection. In general, the pixels in a highlight region are affected by an illuminant geometric difference, camera quantization errors, and the non-uniformity of the CCD sensor. As such, this leads to inaccurate results if an illuminant is estimated using the pixels of a CCD camera without any preprocessing. Accordingly, to solve this problem the proposed method analyzes the distribution of the CCD camera responses and selects pixels using the Mahalanobis distance in highlight regions. The use of the Mahalanobis distance based on the camera responses enables the adaptive selection of valid pixels among the pixels distributed in the highlight regions. Lines are then determined based on the selected pixels with r-g chromaticity coordinates using a principal component analysis(PCA). Thereafter, the illuminant chromaticity is estimated based on the intersection points of the lines. Experimental results using the proposed method demonstrated a reduced estimation error compared with the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.274-276
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• 2015

The image processing is recognized as an important field as Internet develops. The image is deteriorated in the process of obtaining, storage and transmission with various causes. Many studies have been carried out to restore the image by mainly removing the impact of salt and pepper noise added to the image. Thus, this paper proposed a modified median filter using pixel distribution in order to remove the impact of salt and pepper noise added to the image and compared it with the current methods using PSNR(peak signal to n oise ratio) as a criterion of judgment for objective judgment.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.411-417
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• 2006

Motion Estimation (ME) is an important part of video coding process and it takes the largest amount of computation in video compression. Half-pixel and quarter-pixel motion estimation can improve the video compression rate at the cost of higher computational complexity In this paper, we suggest a new efficient low-complexity algorithm for half-pixel and quarter pixel motion estimation. It is based on the experimental results that the sum of absolute differences(SAD) shows parabolic shape and thus can be approximated by using interpolation techniques. The sub-pixel motion vector is searched from the minimum SAD integer-pixel motion vector. The sub-pixel search direction is determined toward the neighboring pixel with the lowest SAD among 8 neighbors. Experimental results show that more than 20% reduction in computation time can be achieved without affecting the quality of video.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2004.03a
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• pp.511-516
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• 2004

수치표고모델, 정사영상과 같은 공간영상정보를 구축하기 위해서는 입체영상을 이동한 영상정합(image matching)의 과정이 필수적이며, 단영상 또는 스테레오 영상을 이용하여 대상물의 3차원 정보를 재구성하고 복원하는 기술은 사진측량 및 컴퓨터 비전 분야의 주요 연구 중의 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 화소값의 유사성과 상호관계성을 고려하는 MRF 모델을 이용하여 영상정합을 수행하였다. MRF 모델은 공간분석이나 물리적 현상의 전후관계(contextural dependencies)의 분석을 위한 확률이론의 한 분야로 다양한 공간정보를 통합할 수 있는 방법을 제공한다. 본 연구에서는 기준영상의 화소에 시차를 할당하는 접근 방법으로 확률모델의 일종인 마르코프 랜덤필드(MRF)모델에 기반한 영상정합기법을 제안하였고, 공간내 화소의 상호관계를 고려해주므로 대상물의 경계부분에서의 매칭 정확도를 향상시켰다. 영상정합문제에서의 MRF 기본가정은 영상 내 특정화소의 시차는 그 주위화소의 시차에 의한 부분정보에 따라 결정이 가능하다는 것이다. 깁스분포(gibbs distribution)를 사용하여 사후(posteriori) 확률값을 유도해내고, 이를 최대사후확률(MAP: Maximum a Posteriori)추정법을 이용하여 에너지함수를 생성하였다. 생성된 에너지함수의 최적화(Optimization)를 위하여 본 연구에서는 전역최적화기법인 multiway cut 기법을 사용하여 영상정합에 있어 에너지함수를 최소로 하는 이미지화소에 대한 시차레이블을 구하여 영상정합을 수행하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.234-235
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 최근 표준화 활동이 진행 중인 HEVC(high efficiency video coding) 표준의 무손실 부호화 모드를 위한 효율적인 계수 주사 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 무손실 비디오 부호기에서는 부호화 손실을 없애기 위해 변환 및 양자화 모듈이 제거된다. 이 경우 부호화해야 할 잔여데이터는 양자화된 변환 계수가 아닌 예측 후의 차분 화소이므로 잔여데이터의 확률 분포가 변화된다. 제안한 방법에서는 무손실 부호화에서 화면내 예측 모드 별 잔여데이터의 발생 확률을 분석하고, 이를 고려해 역방향 모드 기반 차분 화소 주사 방법을 사용한다. 일반적으로 참조 화소와의 거리가 멀어질수록 예측 정확도가 떨어져 잔여데이터의 발생 확률이 높아지기 때문에 제안한 역방향 주사 방법을 사용하면 잔여데이터 부호화에서 이득을 얻을 수 있다. 실험을 통해, 제안한 방법이 HEVC 무손실 부호화에 비해 약 1.7%의 부호화 성능을 향상시키는 것을 확인했다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.337-343
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• 2009

1997년 9월부터 2007년 12월까지 인공위성 해색센서 SeaWiFS의 클로로필-$\alpha$ 농도가 가지는 오차 특성을 분석하고 그 원인을 조사하였다. 동해의 클로로필-$\alpha$ 월별 분포에는 비정상적으로 높은 농도값이 스펙클(speckle) 형태로 출현하였다. 스펙클들은 시공간적으로 연계성이 없이 산발적으로 분포하였으며 주변 평균에 대해 $10mg/m^3$ 이상의 편차를 보였다. 스펙클들은 주로 겨울철에 나타났으며 구름 분포와 관련이 있었다. 10년간 월별 운량 분석 결과 겨울철 운량은 다른 계절과 달리 남동해상에 집중적으로 분포하였으며, 운량이 클수록 스펙클의 농도가 크게 나타나는 통계적 특성을 보였다. 특히 스펙클이 나타나는 화소의 각 밴드별 정규화된 수출광량을 분석해 본 결과 짧은 파장 영역(443, 490, 510 nm)은 전체적으로 수출광량이 낮게 나타난 반면 550 nm 밴드는 정상 화소와 유사한 분포를 보였다. 짧은 파장 영역의 낮은 수출광량은 555 nm 밴드에 대한 비율로 구해지는 클로로필-$\alpha$ 농도값을 비정상적으로 증폭시켰으며 SeaWiFS 자료에 스펙클을 유발하였다. 본 연구는 동해의 SeaWiFS 클로로필-$\alpha$ 농도자료가 지니는 스펙클 오차에 대한 문제점을 제기하고 오차 특성 분석을 통해 좀 더 신뢰도 있는 자료를 해양 응용 연구에 사용해야 함을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2001

In order to generate the gray scale image by the binary state imaging devices such as a digital printer, the gray scale image needs to be converted into the binary image by the halftoning techniques. This paper presents a new error diffusion technique to achieve the homogeneous dot distributions on the binary images. In this paper,'the minimum pixel distance'from the current pixel under binarization to the nearest minor pixel is defined first. Also, the gray levels of the input image are converted into a new variable based on the principal distance for the error diffusion. In the proposed method, the difference in the principal distances is utilized for the error propagation, whereas the gray level difference due to the binarization is diffused to the neighboring pixels in the existing error diffusion techniques. The quantization is accomplished by comparing the updated principal distance with the minimum pixel distance. In order to calculate the minimum pixel distance, MPOA(Minor Pixel Offset Array) is employed to reduce the computational loads and memory resources.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.75-84
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• 1998

To achieve more accurate information from satellite image data, a research on a technique for mixed pixel ex-traction has been produced. The mixed pixels with only two land covers have been experimented. By analyzing canonical vector in canonical correlation classification, the mixed pixels have been classified. The ratio of the two canonical weighted values-the elements of canonical vector have been used as a threshold to discriminate mixed pixels. In case of the classification for the mixed pixels of bridge and water class in TM data before or after the 1st of September, the threshold for the optimal classification of the mixed pixels is 4.0. That is, if the ratio of the two canonical weighted values is less than 4.0, the pixel is a mixed pixel. Also, using the distribution of canonical weighted values, the constitution percentages of land covers within one mixed pixel can be approximately deducted. The accuracy of mixed pixel extraction for experimental area is 90％ and quite acceptable. Conclusively, a technique for mixed pixel extraction by canonical vector analysis is effective.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.362-371
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• 2009

The key technology for developing high quality LCDs is about manufacturing BLUs with homogeneous dot distributions. Commonly, homogeneous dot distributions are obtained by the halftoning methods which convert a gray-scale image to a binary image. Among many halftoning algorithms, the error-diffusion technique based on the principle distance is known to show homogeneous dot distributions. However, this technique has a drawback; the extent of the principle distance at each pixel with respect to those of the neighboring pixels can be too small or big creating a gap or overlap. In this paper, we propose a new error diffusion algorithm based on the variable principle distance which improves the existing error diffusion technique based on the principle distance. The variable principle distance at a given pixel is calculated with gray-scale values of the pixel and its neighbors and thus the principle distance value is variable depending on the direction from that pixel. This variable principle distance technique helps BLUs obtain homogeneous dot distributions.