• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.60-67
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• 2015

This paper proposes an image-dependent color image enhancement method that uses adaptive luminance enhancement and color emphasis. It effectively enhances details of low-light regions while maintaining well-balanced luminance and color information. To compare the structure similarity and naturalness, we used the tone mapped image quality index (TMQI). The proposed method maintained better structure similarity in the enhanced image than did the space-variant luminance map (SVLM) method or the adaptive and integrated neighborhood dependent approach for nonlinear enhancement (AINDANE). The proposed method required the smallest computation time among the three algorithms. The proposed method can be easily implemented using the field-programmable gate array (FPGA), with low hardware resources and with better performance in terms of similarity.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.8-16
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• 2012

An image obtained from a low light environment results in a low-exposure problem caused by non-ideal camera settings, i.e. aperture size and shutter speed. Of particular note, the multiple color-filter aperture (MCA) system inherently suffers from low-exposure problems and performance degradation in its image classification and registration processes due to its finite size of the apertures. In this context, this paper presents a novel method for the color enhancement of low-exposure images and its application to color shift model-based MCA system for image refocusing. Although various histogram equalization (HE) approaches have been proposed, they tend to distort the color information of the processed image due to the range limits of the histogram. The proposed color enhancement algorithm enhances the global brightness by analyzing the basic cause of the low-exposure phenomenon, and then compensates for the contrast degradation artifacts by using an adaptive histogram specification. We also apply the proposed algorithm to the preprocessing step of the refocusing technique in the MCA system to enhance the color image. The experimental results confirm that the proposed method can enhance the contrast of any low-exposure color image acquired by a conventional camera, and is suitable for commercial low-cost, high-quality imaging devices, such as consumer-grade camcorders, real-time 3D reconstruction systems, digital, and computational cameras.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.483-489
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• 2019

True color 영상은 자연색과 유사한 색상이 표출되며 이는 복잡한 지구의 대기 현상 및 지표의 변화에 빠른 모니터링이 가능하다는 장점이 있다. 현재 다양한 기관에서 true color 영상을 생산 중이며 우리나라에서도 차세대 기상위성으로 세대교체가 이루어져 true color 영상 생산의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 Himawari-8 위성에 탑재된 Advanced Himawari Imager(AHI) 센서의 Top of Atmosphere(TOA) 자료를 이용해 true color 영상 생산을 위한 시각화 향상을 수행하였다. 시각화 향상을 위해 본 연구는 Nonlinear enhancement과 Histogram equalization 두 가지 기법을 각각 수행하였다. 이를 비교해 본 결과, Histogram equalization는 Nonlinear enhancement 대비 Solar Zenith Angle(SZA) $70^{\circ}$ 이상 지역과 해양 영역에서 청색 계열이 강한 영상이 나타났으며, Nonlinear enhancement 기법의 경우 Histogram equalization 기법과 비교했을 때 식생 영역이 붉은 특징이 나타났다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.385-388
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new saturation enhancement algorithm which is processed on the new color space, called Normalized YCbCr(NYCbCr). The algorithm consists of two processing unit. One is color space conversion from YCbCr to NYCbCr, and the other is using adaptive saturation mapping function(ASMF). NYCbCr color space is designed to prevent shortcomings such as luminance and hue shift of YCbCr color space and by saturation enhancement. ASMF is effective to enhance saturation properly for each image and to protect low saturation regions of color images from over-saturation. we verified our method using several color images. Experimental results show that the proposed method enhance the saturation with minimizing Luminance and Hue shift.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2013년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.215-218
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• 2013

In this paper, we proposed a method for enhancement of color images with sky regions. The input image is converted into HSV space and then sky and non-sky regions are separated. For sky region, saturation enhancement is performed for each pixel based on the enhancement factor calculated from the average saturation of its local neighborhood. On the other hand, for the non-sky region, the enhancement is applied only on the luminance value (V) component of the HSV color image, which is performed in two steps. The luminance enhancement, which is also called as dynamic range compression, is carried out using nonlinear transfer function. Again, each pixel is further enhanced for the adjustment of the image contrast depending upon the center pixel and its neighborhood pixel values. At last, the original H and V component image and enhanced S component image for the sky region, and original H and S component image and enhanced V component image for the non-sky region are converted back to RGB image.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.715-719
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 TV에 있어서 위상 정보를 이용하여 특정색을 조정할 경우 색신호의 천이 시간에서 발생하는 검출 오류들과 색신호의 안정화를 위한 색향상 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안한 색향상 시스템은 시간차 보정 방법을 적용하여 색신호와 색부 반송 신호의 전송 과정에서 발생하는 시간차를 보정하여 색신호 검출 오류를 줄였다. 또한 변화하는 색신호의 위상을 검출함에 있어서 실제적으로 존재하는 천이 시간에 따른 검출 오류를 개선하고자 수평 동기 시간내에서 검출 전압값의 평균 차성분을 구하여 이웃한 색신호의 최소 구별 전압값보다 큰값을 가질 때 설정 기준색을 조정하도록 하는 안정화 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 개선된 색향상 시스템은 기타의 색신호로부터 보정 범위가 중복되지 않고 특정색의 검출 및 조정이 개선되었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.122-127
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• 2004

The color gamut mapping method that is used for enhancing the color reproduction quality between PC monitor and printer devices is adopted for display quality enhancement. The high definition display devices operate at the clock speed of around $70\;MHz\;\sim\;150\;MHz$ and permit several nano seconds for real-time processing. Thus, the concept of three-dimensional reduced resolution look-up table is used. The required hardware can be greatly reduced by look-up table resolution adjustment. The proposed hardware architecture is successfully implemented in ASIC and also successfully adopted in display quality enhancement purposes.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.240-243
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 수열법을 이용하여 저품질의 호주산 천연 사파이어에 대한 색상개선을 행하였다. 호주산 천연 사파이어의 색상 개선에 대한 최적의 수열처리 조건은 다음과 같다. 즉, 수열반응온도 $320{\sim}350^{\circ}C$, 반응시간: 3일, 수열용매: 2 M NaOH 수용액이다. 이와 같은 조건하에서 수열 처리한 후에 투명한 색상의 호주산 천연 사파이어가 얻어졌으며 천연 사파이어 가치 차트로 비교한 결과, commercial 등급이 $middle{\sim}top$ 등급으로 색상이 개선되었음을 확인하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.233-239
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• 2016

Color enhancement basically deals with color manipulation in digital images. Recently, the technique has become widely used as a result of the increasing use of digital cameras. Retinex-based colorenhancement algorithms are a popular technique. In this paper, retinex with bilateral filtering is proposed to improve the quality of poorly illuminated images. Generally, it consists of three main steps: first, a retinex-based algorithm with color restoration; second, transformation mapping using histogram matching; and finally, smoothing the image using a bilateral filter. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can successfully enhance image contrast while avoiding the halo effect and maintaining the color distribution in the image.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제30B권5호
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• pp.103-108
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• 1993

An image can be largely corrupted by the ambient illuminant, so that the image enhancement to restory natural color without respect to the ambient illuminant is needed. It this paper, a new color image enhancement technique based on color constancy is proposed. To enhance the image quality, higher volues of contrast and saturation are preferred, but their excessive values make an image unnatural. Since the color constancy processing preserves only hue, while reducing the dynamic range of lightness and saturation,the technique is needed in order to compensate this phenomenon. The proposed method transforms and increases lightness and saturation simultaneously to avoid the complexity in the related transformation by analyzing the relationship between the RGB and modified IHS coordinate system.