• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.155-164
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a new color interpolation method based on trilateral filter approach, which not only preserve the high-frequency components(image edge) while interpolating the missing raw data of color image(bayer data pattern), but also immune to the image noise components and better preserve the detail of the low-frequency components. The method is the trilateral filter approach applying a gradient to the low frequency components of the image signal in order to preserve the high-frequency components and the detail of the low-frequency components through the measure of the freedom of similarity among adjacent pixels. And also we perform Gaussian smoothing to the interpolated image data in order to robust to the noise. In this paper, we compare the conventional demosaicing algorithm and the proposed algorithm using 10 test images in terms of hue MAD, saturation MAD and CPSNR for the objective evaluation, and verify the performance of the proposed algorithm.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.164-173
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• 2016

Demosaicing, or color filter array (CFA) interpolation, estimates missing color channels of raw mosaiced images from a CFA to reproduce full-color images. It is an essential process for single-sensor digital cameras with CFAs. In this paper, a new demosaicing method for digital cameras with Bayer-like W-RGB CFAs is proposed. To preserve the edge structure when reproducing full-color images, we propose an edge direction-adaptive method using color difference estimation between different channels, which can be applied to practical digital camera use. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method in terms of CPSNR, FSIM, and S-CIELAB color distance measures, we perform simulations on sets of mosaiced images captured by an actual prototype digital camera with a Bayer-like W-RGB CFA. The simulation results show that the proposed method demosaics better than a conventional one by approximately +22.4% CPSNR, +0.9% FSIM, and +36.7% S-CIELAB distance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.5C
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• pp.286-294
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• 2011

In most digital cameras, images are obtained by a sensor overlaid by the color filter array (CFA) such as Bayer, demanding a demosaicking procedure to rebuild the full resolution color images. However, due to the nature of sensor, it is necessary to consider denoising step to remove the noise. In this paper, we analyze demosaicking and denoising jointly and show that the proposed method can solve the denoising issue by simple manner, well suppress different level of noises. The proposed algorithm yields comparable performances measured by several image quality assessment (CPSNR, SCIELAB, and FSIM), while the computational cost is low.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.121-124
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• 2015

본 논문은 Multiscale Gradients (MSG)를 기반으로 한 Color Filter Array Interpolation을 배경으로 Kodak Dataset보다 실제 디지털 카메라로 촬영한 이미지에 가까운 McMaster Dataset에서 개선된 성능을 내는 알고리듬을 제안한다. MSG는 녹색 채널 보간, 녹색 채널 갱신, 빨간색, 파란색 채널 보간의 과정을 거친다. 이때 높은 스펙트럼 상관관계, 낮은 색채도, 낮은 색 경사도를 가진 Kodak Dataset과 달리 자연 이미지에서는 녹색 채널 갱신 과정의 추정방법을 사용하면 화질 및 Color Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (CPSNR)이 저하되는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 실험결과를 바탕으로 개선된 필터와 색상 보간 과정을 통해 기존의 알고리듬에 비해 향상된 성능을 보여주는 알고리듬을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.130-133
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• 2014

본 논문은 Laplacian of Gaussians (LoG)에 캐니 에지 검출 기법을 접목한 새로운 색상 보간 알고리듬을 제안한다. 캐니 에지 검출 기법은 영상 스무딩, 기울기 크기와 각도 계산, 세션화, 이중 문턱치 처리 과정으로 이루어진다. 이때 앞의 두 과정을 LoG를 이용하여 처리함으로써 기존의 캐니 애지 검출법보다 정확한 방향 정보를 얻을 수 있다. 실험결과를 통해 기존의 색상 보간 알고리듬에 비해 Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (CPSNR)이 상승함을 확인하였으며, 에지 영역 주변에서 발생하였던 무지개 에러가 현저히 감소하였음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.69-72
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• 2018

본 논문은 Multiscale Gradients (MSG)를 기반으로 한 Color Filter Array Interpolation을 토대로 개선된 필터와 보간 과정의 알고리듬을 제안한다. MSG는 초록색 채널 보간, 초록색 채널 갱신, 빨간색 및 파란색 채널 보간 과정으로 이루어진다. 이때, 더욱 정교한 보간을 위해 필터의 크기를 증가시키고, 보간 과정에 이용되는 주변 픽셀의 개수를 늘렸다. 이러한 실험을 통해 높은 스펙트럼 상관관계, 낮은 채도, 낮은 색 경사도를 가진 Kodak dataset과 자연 영상과 유사한 특성을 갖는 McMaster dataset 모두의 경우에서 Color Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (CPSNR)이 향상되는 것을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.3245-3271
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• 2016

To obtain well-dehazed images at the receiver while sustaining low bit rates in the transmission pipeline, this paper investigates the effects of image dehazing methods using dehazing contrast-enhancement filters on image compression for surveillance systems. At first, this paper proposes a novel image dehazing method by using a new method of calculating the transmission function—namely, the direct denoising method. Next, we deduce the dehazing effects of the direct denoising method and image dehazing method based on dark channel prior (DCP) on image compression in terms of ringing artifacts and blocking artifacts. It can be concluded that the direct denoising method performs better than the DCP method for decompressed (reconstructed) images. We also improve the direct denoising method to obtain more desirable dehazed images with higher contrast, using the saliency map as the guidance image to modify the transmission function. Finally, we adjust the parameters of dehazing contrast-enhancement filters to obtain a corresponding composite peak signal-to-noise ratio (CPSNR) and blind image quality assessment (BIQA) of the decompressed images. Experimental results show that different filters have different effects on image compression. Moreover, our proposed dehazing method can strike a balance between image dehazing and image compression.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12C
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• pp.1138-1146
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• 2009

Digital cameras adopting a single CCD detector collect image color by subsampling in three color planes and successively interpolating the information to reconstruct full-resolution color images. Therefore, to recovery of a full-resolution color image from a color filter array (CFA) like the Bayer pattern is generally considered as an interpolation issue for the unknown color components. In this paper, we first calculate luminance component value by combining R, G, B channel component information which is quite different from the conventional demosaicing algorithm. Because conventional system calculates G channel component followed by computing R and B channel components. Integrating the obtained gradient edge information and the improved weighting function in luminance component, a new edge sensitive demosaicing technique is presented. Based on 24 well known testing images, simulation results proved that our presented high-quality demosaicing technique shows the best image quality performance when compared with several recently presented techniques.