• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.357-358
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• 2007

Contrast enhancement in the field of ultrasound imaging contributes to improve the accuracy of medical diagnosis by enhancing the visibility of ultrasound images. This paper proposes a contrast enhancement method that improves the contrast of ultrasound images both globally and locally by fusing global and adaptive contrast enhancement methods. Experimental results show that our approach yields more competitive results than the existing global and adaptive contrast enhancement methods in enhancing the visibility of ultrasound images.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.287-296
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• 2012

Although low spatial resolution satellite images like MODIS and GOCI can be important to observe land surface, it is often difficult to visually interpret the imagery because of the low contrast by prevailing cloud covers. We proposed a simple and adaptive stretching algorithm to enhance image contrast over land areas in cloudy images. The proposed method is basically a linear algorithm that stretches only non-cloud pixels. The adaptive linear stretch method uses two values: the low limit (L) from image statistics and upper limit (U) from low boundary value of cloud pixels. The cloud pixel value was automatically determined by pre-developed empirical function for each spectral band. We used MODIS and GOCI images having various types of cloud distributions and coverage. The adaptive contrast stretching method was evaluated by both visual interpretation and statistical distribution of displayed brightness values.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.319-328
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 고해상도 FPD(Flat Panel Display)에서 동영상의 화질 향상을 위한 콘트라스트 향상 알고리즘을 제안하고 이를 구현하였다. 또한 입력되는 영상신호의 밝기 분포에서 영상의 평균과 분산을 이용하여 적응적으로 처리하는 적응형 콘트라스트 제어 기법을 제안하였다. 설계된 Contrast Enhancer는 기존화면과 비교하여 정량적으로 측정하였으며, 실제 유용성을 검증하기 위해 30인치 TFT-LCD TV에 인터페이스하여 구현하였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2007년도 7th International Meeting on Information Display 제7권1호
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• pp.794-797
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• 2007

We have developed the adaptive contrast ratio enhancement algorithm for mobile LCD. This algorithm aims at effective contrast ratio enhancement with minimizing degeneration of color and white balance. It also is very simple to fit mobile LCD system.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.395-401
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• 2010

영상 강조 기법은 영상의 낮은 명암 대비(contrast)를 노이즈나 블러링(blurring)의 제거, 명암 대비의 증가, 세밀함의 확장 등을 통해 시각적으로 향상시키는 작업을 말한다. 본 논문에서는 기존에 제안되어 온 여러 영상 강조 기법들의 장점을 기반으로 한 Adaptive dynamic range linear stretching(ADRLS) 영상 강조 기법을 제안한다. ADRLS 기법은 입력 영상의 히스토그램 분할과 동시에 adaptive scale factor를 적용하여 다수의 서브 히스토그램을 생성하는 것에 초점을 맞추고 있으며, 생성된 서브 히스토그램은 최종적으로 선형 강조(Linear Stretching, LS) 기법이 적용되어 영상 강조를 수행하게 된다. 제안된 기법의 성능을 검증하기 위해 기존의 히스토그램 선형 강조 기법, 히스토그램 평활화(Histogram Equalization, HE) 기법과 비교 평가하였으며, 그 결과 기존의 기법들에 비해 영상의 과도한 밝기 변화를 억제함으로써 영상의 시각적인 특성을 유지하고, 입력 영상이 갖고 있는 히스토그램의 특성을 보존하는 효과를 보였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2007년도 7th International Meeting on Information Display 제7권1호
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• pp.1035-1038
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a color image improvement method. The proposed algorithms are classified with the adaptive contrast stretching method for contrast enhancement and the adaptive saturation enhancement method for saturation enhancement. The adaptive contrast stretching method is to compensate a significant change of brightness while luminance is processed. The adaptive saturation enhancement method inhibits its saturation from de-saturation and oversaturation while chrominance is processed. The proposed algorithms are focused on a preference color processing in order to generate better image quality than the algorithms focused on a uniform color processing for human vision.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an adaptive contrast enhancement method using dynamic range segmentation. Histogram Equalization (HE) method is widely used for contrast enhancement. However, histogram equalization method is not suitable for commercial display because it may cause undesirable artifacts due to the significant change in brightness. The proposed algorithm segments the dynamic range of the histogram and redistributes the pixel intensities by the segment area ratio. The proposed method may cause over compressed effect when intensity distribution of an original image is concentrated in specific narrow region. In order to overcome this problem, we introduce an adaptive scale factor. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm suppresses the significant change in brightness and provides wide histogram distribution compared with histogram equalization.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.913-914
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• 2008

This paper presents a method of adaptive image enhancement with dynamic range compression and contrast enhancement. The dynamic range compression is to adaptively enhance the dark area using illumination component of DCT compression block. The contrast enhancement is to modify the image contrast using retinex theory that uses the HVS properties. The block artifacts and other noises, caused by processing in the compression domain, were removed by after processing.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.361-362
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• 2007

We propose a contrast-controlled feature detection approach for steel radiograph image. X-ray images are low contrast, dark and high noise image. So, It is not simple to detect defects directly in automated radiography inspection system. Contrast enhancement, histogram equalization and median filter are the most frequently used techniques to enhance the X-ray images. In this paper, the adaptive control method based on contrast limited histogram equalization is compared with several histogram techniques. Through comparative analysis, CLAHE(contrast controlled adaptive histogram equalization) can enhance detection of defects better.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.806-817
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• 2015

The contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization(CLAHE) is an advanced method for the histogram equalization which is a common contrast enhancement technique. The CLAHE divides the image into sections, and applies the contrast limited histogram equalization for each section. X-ray images can be classified into three areas: skin, bone, and air area. In clinical application, the interest area is limited to the skin or bone area depending on the diagnosis region. The CLAHE could deteriorate X-ray image quality because the CLAHE enhances the area which doesn't need to be enhanced. In this paper, we propose a new method which automatically determines the clip limit of CLAHE's parameter to improve X-ray image quality using fuzzy logic. We introduce fuzzy logic which is possible to determine clip limit proportional to the interest of users. Experimental results show that the proposed method improve images according to the user's preference by focusing on the subject.