• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.96-104
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• 2011

A halftoning method is used to obtain a binary image visually similar to a continuous gray-level image through the image output devices employing the limited number of gray-levels. As a halftoning method, the error diffusion method is widely used in various applications because of its low computational complexity and good image quality. However, this method weakens the edge in the process of error diffusion to the neighboring pixels. In this case, degradation of the edge quality and damage of the vivid image is expected. To solve these problems, the proposed method determines the adaptive error filter considering the error information of the present pixel and edge distribution of the neighbor pixels. Compared with the conventional methods for enhancing edges, the proposed method involves relatively a few process resources because of its simple procedure, still considerably improving the edges in the halftone image. To evaluate the objective image quality, the performance of the proposed method is compared with that of the conventional method in terms of the edge correlation and the local average accordance.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.3
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• pp.319-326
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• 2001

오차확산법은 중간조 처리에서 우수한 영상의 재현능력을 갖는 기법이다. 그러나 이의 기법은 경계재현 능력이 미약하며, 주기적인 패턴이 발생하여 영상의 화질을 저하시키는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 경계재현의 능력을 개선하기 위한 경계강조법과 주기적인 패턴 발생을 감소시키기 위한 적응형 임계값 변조를 적용하는 방법을 제안하였다. 경계강조를 위한 임계값을 변조는 원영상의 공간적 기울기 정보를 활용하여 수행하였고, 동시에 기울기 정보를 이용하여 청색잡음 마스크를 적응적으로 적용하는 임계값 변조로 주기적인 패턴의 발생을 감소시키도록 하였다. 적응형 임계값 변조를 적용한 실험에서 영상의 주기적인 패턴이 감소된 보다 선명한 경계강조의 중간조 영상을 얻을 수 있었으며, 객관적인 특성분석을 위한 표시오차의 RAPSD, 거리에 따른 경계상관도 및 로컬 평균 일치도의 분석에서 제안한 기법이 효율적임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.164-172
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• 2004

Halftoning of gray-scale image is a process to produce a binary image. The error diffusion halftoning method produces high qualify binary image but that has some defects such as sharpening and directional artifacts. We propose the threshold modulation to reduce such defects. The proposed algorithm uses thresholds reflecting local characteristic of image. We calculate thresholds which minimize errors of flat region of each gray-scale level by using a linear gain between original image and error-diffused image and then represent edge by compensating thresholds in proportion to edge information. The proposed method improves on halftone quality by minimizing an error which cause sharpening and directional artifact.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.111-120
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• 2004

This paper proposes a vector error diffusion method for smear artifact reduction in the boundary region. This artifact mainly results from a large accumulation of quantization errors. In particular, color bands with a smear artifact, the width of a few pixels appear along the edges. Accordingly, to reduce this artifact, the proposed halftoning process excludes the large accumulated Quantization error by comparing the vector norms and vector angles between the error-corrected vector and eight primary color patches. When the vector norm of the error corrected vector is larger than those of eight primary color patches, the quantization error vector is excluded from the quantization error distribution process. In addition, the quantization error is also excluded when the angle between eight primary color patches and error corrected vector is large. As a result, the proposed method enables a visually pleasing halftone pattern to be generated by all three color separations into account in a device- independent color space and reduces smear artifact in the boundary regions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.57-62
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• 2002

전송선로와 저장공간의 제약을 극복할 수 있는 영상압축기술이 발달함에 따라 인터넷과 멀티미디어 통신이 비약적으로 발전할 수 있었으며, 앞으로도 보다 높은 효율의 압축기술이 요구되고 있다. 현재 영상압축표준은 대부분 블록 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform)를 기반으로 하고 있지만, 압축 이전에 영상을 블록으로 나누어 처리하게 되므로 블록효과가 발생하게 된다 본 논문에서는 이러한 블록효과를 제거하기 위해 확산을 이용한 방법을 제시한다. 확산의 정도를 자유로이 조절할 수 있는 새로운 형태의 이방성 확산 방정식을 제안하여 이를 블록효과를 제거하는데 적용한다. 이는 평탄한 영역에서의 경계에 대해서는 등방성 확산으로, 그렇지 않은 영역에 대해서는 경계에 수직인 방향으로만 확산이 일어나는 이방성 확산으로 자유로이 조절하여 적용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 이를 이용하여 원 영상정보의 손실을 최소화하기 위해 영역에 따라 확산속도와 방향을 적응적으로 조절할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하고 기존의 블록효과 제거 알고리즘과 비교 실험을 통하여 제안한 알고리즘의 성능을 평가한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.9-16
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• 2006

This Paper proposes an adaptive error diffusioThis paper proposes an adaptive error diffusion algorithm for text enhancement followed by an efficient text segmentation that uses the maximum gradient difference (MGD). The gradients are calculated along with scan lines, and the MGD values are filled within a local window to merge the potential text segments. Isolated segments are then eliminated in the non-text region filtering process. After the left segmentation, a conventional error diffusion method is applied to the background, while the edge enhancement error diffusion is used for the text. Since it is inevitable that visually objectionable artifacts are generated when using two different halftoning algorithms, the gradual dilation is proposed to minimize the boundary artifacts in the segmented text blocks before halftoning. Sharpening based on the gradually dilated text region (GDTR) prevents the printing of successive dots around the text region boundaries. The error diffusion algorithm with edge enhancement is extended to halftone color images to sharpen the tort regions. The proposed adaptive error diffusion algorithm involves color halftoning that controls the amount of edge enhancement using a general error filter. The multiplicative edge enhancement parameters are selected based on the amount of edge sharpening and color difference. Plus, the additional error factor is introduced to reduce the dot elimination artifact generated by the edge enhancement error diffusion. By using the proposed algorithm, the text of a scanned image is sharper than that with a conventional error diffusion without changing background.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.523-531
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• 2005

Existing methods for color image segmentation using diffusion can't preserve contour information, or noises with high gradients become more salient as the number of times of the diffusion increases, resulting in over-segmentation when applied to watershed. This paper proposes a method for color image segmentation by applying morphological operations together with nonlinear diffusion For an input image, transformed into LUV color space, closing by reconstruction and nonlinear diffusion are applied to obtain a simplified image which preserves contour information with noises removed. With gradients computed from this simplified image, watershed algorithm is applied. Experiments show that color images are segmented very effectively without over-segmentation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2014

3차원 영상 제작을 위해서는 장면의 색상 영상과 함께 깊이 정보가 필요하다. 일반적으로 깊이를 측정하는 TOF 카메라에 의해 획득된 깊이 영상은 컬러 영상에 비해 매우 작은 해상도의 영상을 갖게 되는 문제가 있다. 따라서 색상 영상과 함께 3차원 영상 제작에 깊이 영상을 사용하기 위해서는 저해상도 깊이 영상의 업샘플링 방법이 필요하다. 특히 컬러 영상에서 사물 간의 경계에 해당하는 부분에서 색상 차이를 인지하지 못하여 깊이 맵을 부적절하게 처리하게 되는 경우가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 색상 영상에서 경계부분에 해당하는 영역을 이용하여 저해상도 깊이 영상을 업샘플링 하는 방법을 제안한다. 깊이 영상을 업샘플링 할 때 중요하게 다루어야 할 경계 부분을, 고해상도 색상 영상과 저해상도 깊이 영상을 이용하여 찾아낸다. 색상 경계 부분을 고려하여 깊이 영상 업샘플링을 위한 에너지 함수를 MRF를 이용하여 모델링하고, 신뢰 확산(belief propagation)방법을 이용하여 에너지 함수 최적화를 수행한다. 제안한 방법은 기존의 다른 에너지 함수나 필터 기반 업샘플링 방법보다 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.331.2-336
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• 1998

In this paper, the validity for the application of the diffuse sound field theoty to the real sound field, especially on the bounding surfaces of the rooms, was reconsidered. The analytical result for directivity pattern on the bounding surfaces of the room was compared with the result of numerical simulations using ray tracing technique. Comparison results show that the distribution of the incident sound energy vs incident angles is approximated to Gaussian distribution, not to the uniform distribution.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.87-92
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• 2004

Digital halftoning is to quantize a grayscale image to binary image. The error diffusion halftoning generates high quality bilevel image. But that also has some defects such as warms effect, sharpening and etc. To reduce these defects, Kite proposed the modified threshold modulation that has a parameter to control sharpening. Nevertheless some degradation left near edges with large luminance change. In this paver, we propose a method to control the parameter in proportional to local edge magnitude. The results of computer simulation show more reductions of the sharpening in the halftone image. Especially there are great improvement of quality near edges with large luminance change.