• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.535-538
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• 2009

Speckle noise reduction for ultrasound CT image using morphological adaptive median filtering based on edge preservation is presented in this paper. Speckle noise is multiplicative feature and causes ultrasound image to degrade widely from transducer. An input image is classified into edge region and homogeneous region in preprocessing. The speckle is reduced by morphological operation on the 2D gray scale by using convolution and correlation, and edges are preserved. The adaptive median is processed to reduce an impulse noise to preserve edges. As the result, MAM of the proposed method enhances the image to about 10% in comparison with Winner filter by Edge Preservation Index and PSNR, and 10% to only adaptive median filtering.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.329-332
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• 2009

Speckle noise reduction for ultrasound CT image using morphological adaptive median filtering based on edge preservation is presented in this paper. Speckle noise is multiplicative feature and causes ultrasound image to degrade widely from transducer. An input image is classified into edge region and homogeneous region in preprocessing. The speckle is reduced by morphological operation on the 2D gray scale by using convolution and correlation, and edges are preserved. The adaptive median is processed to reduce an impulse noise. As the result the proposed method enhances the image to about 20% in comparison with Winer filter by Edge Preservation Index and PSNR.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.539-551
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• 2018

Images are unavoidably contaminated with different types of noise during the processes of image acquisition and transmission. The main forms of noise are impulse noise (is also called salt and pepper noise) and Gaussian noise. In this paper, an effective method of removing mixed noise from images is proposed. In general, different types of denoising methods are designed for different types of noise; for example, the median filter displays good performance in removing impulse noise, and the wavelet denoising algorithm displays good performance in removing Gaussian noise. However, images are affected by more than one type of noise in many cases. To reduce both impulse noise and Gaussian noise, this paper proposes a denoising method that combines adaptive median filtering (AMF) based on impulse noise detection with the wavelet threshold denoising method based on a Gaussian mixture model (GMM). The simulation results show that the proposed method achieves much better denoising performance than the median filter or the wavelet denoising method for images contaminated with mixed noise.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.863-867
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• 1987

When digital image signals are transmitted or stored, they may be usually degraded by impulsive noise such as BSC noise. Though median filtering is a very effective method to reduce the impulsive noise, it brings non-negligible distortion after filtering. Several algorithms have been proposed to reduce such a distortion, but their reconstructed image quality are inadequate in some cases and they have a difficulty in real-time processing. In this paper, an effective filtering algorithm which can not only reduce the noise effectively but also preserve the edges well and lessen the distortion greatly, is presented. The proposed algorithm is an adaptive algorithm of median filter using local statistics, based on the characteristics of human eyes. The adaptive algorithm results shwo performance improvement of up to 3-4 dB over the nonadaptive one.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.151-165
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• 2010

영상은 잡음센서이나 채널 전송에러에 의해 생기는 임펄스 잡음에 의해 자주 오염된다. 본 논문은 영상에서 이런 임펄스 잡음을 제거하는 방법에 대해 논의하고자 한다. 제안된 잡음제거는 SVM(Support Vector Machine)과 개선된 Adaptive Median 필터에 의해 이루어진다. SVM에 의해 영상에서 잡음픽셀여부를 검출하고 검출된 잡음픽셀은 개선된 Adaptive Median 필터에 의해 새로운 픽셀값으로 대체한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 영상 실험을 통하여 salt-and-pepper 임펄스 잡음과 random-valued 임펄스 잡음을 고려하여 기존의 잡음제거 방법들과 정성적이고 MAE, PSNR를 통한 정량적인 비교를 하였다. 실험결과 제안된 방법은 잡음 제거와 미세한 부분에 대한 보존력이 뛰어나고 특히, 많이 오염된 영상에 대해서도 상당한 잡음제거 성능을 보였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.922-934
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• 1993

본 논문에서는, 동영상 처리에 효과적으로 사용되고 있는 시공간 중간 가중 미디안(spatiotemporal center weighted median, CWM) 필터의 통계적 특성을 고찰한 결과, 중간 가중 미디안 필터는 잡음 감쇄 효과를 회생시킴으로써 동영상의 구조들을 보존할 수 있다는 것을 보였다. 또한 동영상에서, 보다 효과적으로 이용될 수 있는 적응 방향성 중간 가중 미디안(adaptive directional center weighted median, ADCWM) 필터를 제안하였다. 제안된 이 필터는 매 윈도우내에서 중심의 양쪽에 대칭인 한쌍의 oreder statistics를 국소 영상의 통계치에 의해 선택하는 적응 대칭성 order statistics(ASOS) 연산자에 기반을 두고 있으며 또한 다단 필터링 구조를 채택하고 있다. 적응 방향성 중간 가중 미디안 필터는 움직임 추정(motion estimation) 기술을 이용하지 않고 잡음을 줄이며 또한 동영상의 구조를 보존할 수 있다는 것을 실험을 통하여 입증하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.611-617
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• 2004

Pixel classification is one of basic image processing issues. The general characteristics of the pixels belonging to various classes are discussed and the radical principles of pixel classification are given. At the same time. a pixel classification scheme based on image direction measure is proposed. As a typical application instance of pixel classification, an adaptive multi-level median filter is presented. An image can be classified into two types of areas by using the direction information measure, that is. smooth area and edge area. Single direction multi-level median filter is used in smooth area. and multi-direction multi-level median filter is taken in the other type of area. What's more. an adaptive mechanism is proposed to adjust the type of the filters and the size of filter window. As a result. we get a better trade-off between preserving details and noise filtering.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2011

In this paper, an adaptive motion vector smoothing scheme based on weighted vector median filtering is proposed in order to eliminate the motion outliers more effectively for improving the quality of side information in frame-based distributed video coding. We use a simple motion vector outlier reliability measure for each block in a motion compensated interpolated frame and apply weighted vector median filtering only to the blocks with unreliable motion vectors. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive motion vector smoothing algorithm improves the quality of the side information significantly while maintaining low complexity at the encoder in frame-based distributed video coding.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권5C호
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• pp.542-549
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• 2007

편미분 방정식을 도입하여 새로운 영상처리 기술을 개발하려는 연구가 활발히 진행 중이며, 특히 확산 방정식을 풀어 잡음 제거, 영상 복원, 에지 검출 및 영상 분할 등에 응용할 수 있는 이미지 확산 알고리즘에 관심이 높다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 비등방성 확산 방식이 결국은 커널 크기가 작은 적응 필터링 방식과 동일한 효과를 낸다는 것을 보이고, 확산 과정에서 선형 필터의 단점을 보완할 수 있도록 가중 미디언(WM, Weighted Median) 필터를 적용한 새로운 확산 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 WM 필터가 비등방성 커널을 갖도록 필터계수에 대응하는 가중치들을 이미지의 국부적인 변화량에 따라 적응적으로 가변할 수 있는 기법을 제안하였다. 뿐만 아니라 반복 과정에서의 확산 속도를 증가할 수 있도록 커널의 크기를 증가시키기 위한 방안도 제시하였다. 실제 영상을 사용한 실험을 통하여 제안된 방식이 기존의 방식에 비해 잡음 제거 (특히 임펄스성 잡음) 특성이나 에지 보존 특성이 더 우수하다는 것을 보였다. 또한 기존의 방식에 비해 확장된 크기를 갖는 커널을 이용함으로써 확산 속도를 높일 수 있다는 것을 보였다.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.871-886
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• 2011

This paper proposes a powerful SVM-ASM filter, the adaptive switching median(ASM) filter based on support vector machines(SVMs), to effectively reduce impulse noise in corrupted images while preserving image details and features. The proposed SVM-ASM filter is composed of two stages: SVM impulse detection and ASM filtering. SVM impulse detection determines whether the pixels are corrupted by noise or not according to an optimal discrimination function. ASM filtering implements the image filtering with a variable window size to effectively remove the noisy pixels determined by the SVM impulse detection. Experimental results show that the SVM-ASM filter performs significantly better than many other existing filters for denoising impulse noise even in highly corrupted images with regard to noise suppression and detail preservation. The SVM-ASM filter is also extremely robust with respect to various test images and various percentages of image noise.