• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.3C
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• pp.158-166
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• 2005

Even though post-processing methods based on projections onto convex sets (POCS) have shown good performance for blocking artifact reduction, it is infeasible to implement POCS for real-time practical applications. This paper proposes DCT domain post-processing method based on POCS. The proposed method shows very similar performance compared to the conventional POCS method, while it reduces tremendously the computational complexity. DCT domain POCS performs the lowpass filtering in the DCT domain, and it removes the inverse DCT and forward DCT modules. Through the investigation of lowpass filtering in the iterative POCS method, we define kth order lowpass filtering which is equivalent to the lowpass filtering in the kth iteration, and the corresponding kth order DCT domain POCS. Simulation results show that the kth order DCT domain POCS without iteration gives very similar performance compared to the conventional POCS with k iterations, while it requires much less computations. Hence the proposed DCT domain POCS method can be used efficiently in the practical post-processing applications with real-time constraints.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.78-87
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• 2008

Digital image find own level core media in multimedia as image restoration technology fields, which remove degradation factor for image enhancement, have been growing. Linear space-invariant image restoration algorithm often introduce ringing artifacts near sharp intensity transition areas. This paper presents a new adaptive post-filtering algorithm for reducing ringing artifact. The proposed method extracts an edge map of the image using wavelet transform Based on the edge information, ringing artifacts are detected, and removed by an adaptive bilateral filter. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently remove ringing artifacts with edge preservation.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 1998

The purpose of simple abdomen erect projection is to see the fluid level which indicates gastrointestinal ileus or free air due to perforation. we do not have to insist on low kVp technique in simple abdomen erect position as long as we can detect the fluid level and free air shadow. Therefore, the author tried to decrease patient dose by high kVp technique and to improve the image quality due to motion artifact by reduction of exposure time. [Methods] Experiment 1. * screen/film SRO1000/HRH * exposure factor : $140\;kvp{\pm}5\;kv$ with added filters, 200 mA, 0.01 sec * phantom : Acryles : 15.0 cm(equivalent to 17 cm body thickness) 17.5 cm(equivalent to 21 cm body thickness) 20.0 cm (equivalent to 25 cm body thickness) With the exposure factor for same film density($D=0.8{\pm}0.1$) and with the materials above, we tried to find out entrance skin dose and gonad dose for both male and female. Experiment 2. Burger's phantom radiography were checked to see whether there was any change of image quality according to the kVp and the added filters. Experiment 3. Using rotating meter(self made), we examined the motion artifact and the exposure time limitation. [Results and conculution] 1. Using high voltage technique of 140 kVp with added filter, Skin dose, testicle dose and ovary dose decrease to 89.3%, 47% and 71.4% respectively compare to 70 kVp technique, 2. No great changes of Burger's phantom image has detected as from 70 kVp to 140 kVp and the air hole size of Burger's phantom over 0.028 cc(Diameter 3 mm, hight 4 mm) can be distinghished. 3. 0.01 sec(1 pulse) exposure time is possible in the single phase full wave rectification that why we can quitely reduce the unsharness caused by patient's movement.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.13-20
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• 1994

The paper is on the record of radiography the patients with SIEMENS ANGIOSTAR/POLYTRON S PLUS angiosystem with DSA system in the Chonbuk National University Hospital from October 1993 to June 1994. The results are as follow : 1. Among the total No, 836 case of utilization, angiography are 316(37.8 %), interventional radiography are 256(34.2 %), and dacryocystography and sialography are 168(20/1 %). Therefore non-angiogrlphy procedure are incerasing. 2. The aomunt of contrast material used are half as much as conventional angiovascular system. 3. The amount of film consumed are $10{\sim}15%$ of that of conventional angio vascular system and reduction of procedure time are $40{\sim}50%$. 4. Admitting that dignostic utility is in the utilization by examination region, there should be technological study which deal with fine vessel and motion artifact problem.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.192-193
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 비디오 영상 압축 왜곡 제거를 위해 Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)을 적용한 컨벌루션 뉴럴 네트워크 (CNN) 모델을 제안한다. GAN 모델의 생성 모델 (Generator)은 노이즈가 아닌 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)로 압축된 영상을 입력 받은 뒤, 압축 왜곡이 제거된 영상을 출력하며, 분류 모델 (Discriminator)은 원본 영상과 압축된 영상을 입력 받은 뒤, 원본 영상과 압축 왜곡이 포함된 압축된 영상을 분류한다. 분류 모델은 5 개 층을 쌓은 컨벌루션 뉴럴 네트워크 구조를 사용하였고, 생성 모델은 5 개 층을 쌓은 SRCNN 구조와 VDSR 구조를 기반으로 한 두 개의 모델을 이용한 실험을 통해 얻은 결과를 비교하였다. 비디오 영상 압축 왜곡 제거 실험을 위해 원본 비디오 영상을 HEVC 을 이용하여 2Mbps, 4Mbps 로 압축된 영상을 사용하였으며, 압축된 영상 대비 왜곡이 제거된 영상을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.306-307
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 제한적인 자원이 할당된 모바일 환경에서 블록기반의 압축방식을 사용하여 영상을 복원할 때에 나타나는 블록화 연상을 제거하기 위해 효율적인 실시간 후처리 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 후처리 기법은 영상에 존재하는 블록화 현상으로 인해 나타나는 다양한 인공물에 대해 디블록킹 필터링와 방향성 필터링를 적용하여 효율적으로 블록화 현상을 제거한다. 후처리 과정 중 영상에 존재하는 고유의 고주파 성분과 인공물로 인한 고주파 성분을 구분하여, 필더링 과정으로 고유의 고주파 성분이 함께 제거되지 않도록 보호해준다. 다양한 영상을 통해 본 논문에서 제안한 후처리 기법과 기존에 알려진 후처리 기법들을 비교하는 실험을 하였고, 도출된 실험 결과를 객관적인 지표로 제시하여 제안하는 기법의 우수함을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.28 no.B
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• pp.129-133
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• 2008

A method to reduce seam line artifact in spatial compounding of ultrasonic images is presented. Spatial compounding is a speckle reducing imaging technique in which a number of ultrasound images of a given target that have been obtained from multiple view angles are combined into a single compounded image by combining the data received from each data point in the compounded image. Since different view angle results in different view area, and the images of different view arms are combined into an image, the compounded image consists of regions with different signal to noise ratio, and the boundary lines between these regions are visible as seam lines in the compounded images. In this paper, we present an algorithm that reduces the visibility of this seam line in the spatially compounded images. Design procedure for a FIH filter is described and the results of applying the filter to in-vivo ultrasonic images are analyzed.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.63-75
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• 2020

Transport is the central ingredient of all numerical schemes for hyperbolic partial differential equations and in particular for hydrodynamics. Transport has thus been extensively studied in many of its features and for numerous specific applications. In more than one dimension, it is most commonly plagued by a major artifact: mesh imprinting. Though mesh imprinting is generally inevitable, its anisotropy can be modulated and is thus amenable to significant reduction. In the present work we introduce a new definition of stencils by taking into account second nearest neighbors (across cell corners) and call the resulting strategy "co-mesh approach". The modified equation is used to study numerical dissipation and tune enlarged stencils in order to minimize transport anisotropy.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1997 no.11
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• pp.435-438
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• 1997

One of the main techniques or diagnosing heart disease is by examining the electrocardiogram(ECG). Many studies on detecting the QRS complex, P, and T waves have been performed because meaningful information is contained in these parameters. However, the earlier detecting techniques can not effectively extract those parameters from the ECG that is severely contaminated by noise source such 60Hz powerline interference, motion artifact and baseline drift. in this paper, we performed the extracting parameters from and recovering the ECG signal using wavelet transform that has recently been applying to various fields.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.138-141
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• 2006

Blood flow is one of vital signals related to human physiological information. Photoplethysmograph (PPG) has been used to measure indirectly heart rate, blood oxygen saturation ($SpO_2$), and so on. Because PPG signal is weak and sensitive to motion artifacts, it is very important to continuously obtain stable PPG signal during free movement. In this study, we applied the scaled Fourier linear combiner (SFLC) using both the adaptive filter and FLC to remove effectively the motion artifacts as well as background noise in the real time without additional signal correlated with motion from a accelerometer. The proposed method would be useful to reduce the movement and background noise which are not synchronized with heart rate.