• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.501-509
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an edge profile adaptive bi-directional diffusion interpolation method which consists of shock filter and level set. In recent years many interpolation methods have been proposed but all methods have some degrees of artifacts such as blurring and jaggies. To solve these problems, we adaptively apply shock filter and level set method where shock filter enhances edge along the normal direction and level set method removes jaggies artifact along the tangent direction. After the initial interpolation, weights of shock filter and level set are locally adjusted according to the edge profile. By adaptive coupling shock filter with level set method, the proposed method can remove jaggies artifact and enhance the edge. Experimental results show that the average PSNR and MSSIM of our method are increased, and contour smoothness and edge sharpness are also improved.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권12호
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• pp.2529-2531
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• 2009

A simple multimodal fingerprint recognition method based on two types of feature vectors such as minutiae points and directional features is proposed, where Directional Filter Bank (DFB) is used to extract directional features. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively combine minutiae- and DFB-based methods and produce a better matching capability in the poor quality fingerprint image.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.353-359
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• 2006

광통신시스템들에서 사용되는 많은 통신용 소자들의 특성은 방향성 결합기(directional coupler)의 구조에 따라 영향을 받게 된다. 본 논문에서는 방향성 결합기 구조에 섭동현상을 일으킬 수 있는 도파로 구조를 포함시켜 그 특성에 대해 연구를 수행하였고, 또한 도파로 구조를 변화시켰을 때, 얻어지는 특성에 대해 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 결과로써, 섭동현상을 일으키는 도파로 구조를 첨가한 방향성 결합기가 광 필터로 동작함을 확인 할 수 있었고, 또한 도파로 구조의 듀티 비를 조절하여 보다 우수한 광 필터로 동작함을 확인할 수 있었다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 도파로 구조의 듀티 비가 $50\%$인 경우보다 듀티 비가 변화하는 경우가 -l8dB정도의 우수한 응답특성을 갖게 됨을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.25-28
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• 2001

본 논문은 잡음에 의해 열화된 지문영상을 향상시키기 위해 화소가 가지는 다중방향성을 이용하는 방법을 제안한 다. 지문영상은 융선과 골의 규칙적인 배열로 이루어지는데 이러한 융선과 골을 구성하는 화소의 방향성들은 잡음이 가지는 방향성들과는 구별된다 방향성대역 통과 필터뱅크(Directional Filter Bank : DFB)는 입력영상이 가진 일정한 방향성 대역을 통과시켜서 다수개의 부영상들을 생성한다. 본 논문은 DFB를 이용하여 지문영상을 다수개의 특정 방향성을 가진 부영상들로 분해한 다음 이러한 부영상들을 사용하여 지문영상을 개선한다

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1988

A new type broadband channel dropping filter which has a potential use as a millimeter-wave multiplexer has been realized by properly connecting 3-dB directional couplers and bandstop filters. 90\ulcorner3-dB directional couplers have been designed using two nonuniformly coupled dielectric image guides, while bandstop filters with Chebyshev passbands have been designed using dielectric image-guide grating structure. Effective dielectric constant method has been aplied to the image-guide dispersion analysis and to the design of bandstop gratings and 3-dB couplers. Experimental results in excellent agreement with computed responses are demonstrated.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권11C호
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• pp.1098-1110
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 스펙클 잡음으로 열화 된 영상을 복원하기 위하여 에지 영역을 고려한 호모모르픽 웨이브렛 기반 MMSE 필터를 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 스펙클 잡음이 섞인 영상을 로그 영역으로 변환한 다음 호모모르픽 방향성 MMSE 필터로 복원된 영상에 DIP 연산자를 적용하여 각 화소를 평탄 영역과 에지 영역으로 분류한다. 평탄 영역에서는 호모모르픽 웨이브렛 기반 MMSE 필터링을 수행하고 에지 영역에서는 호모모르픽 웨이브렛 기반 MMSE 필터링의 결과와 호모모르픽 방향성 MMSE 필터링의 결과를 가중하여 합하는 가중 평균 필터링을 수행한다. 그런 다음 지수 함수를 이용하여 공간 영역으로 역 변환하여 복원된 영상을 얻는다. 실험 결과 제안된 방법으로 복원된 영상은 기존의 호모모르픽 평균 필터와 메디안 필터에 의하여 복원된 영상에 비하여 3.3-4.0 ㏈의 ISNR 성능 향상을 보였다. 또한 0.0103-0.0126의 에지 보존도 측정 파라미터 $\beta$ 성능 향상을 보이고, 에지가 잘 보존되면서 잡음이 잘 제거된 우수한 주관적 화질을 보였다.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제24권A호
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• pp.59-65
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• 2004

Personal identification using fingerprints needs much calculational effort. Generally, there are various methods for fingerprint-based identification. In this paper, an identification method is proposed which is based on direction distribution of fingerprint ridges. An 8-directional Gabor filter bank is used for extracting the feature vector from the given fingerprint. Then, it is compared with those of registered fingerprints for matching. This method is simple and fast to implement because it uses the information of ridge directions only. An experiment on 532 fingerprints from NIST database and some other source shows its usefulness.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.833-839
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• 1986

This paper describes the development of a new type of an integrated optical filter using the frequency characteristics of a directly-connected directional coupler with a Rib waveguide. It has been designed for multiplexing and demultiplexing light froups in different wavelength regions. Also, the effects of higher modes, couplings between input waveguides or output waveguides, and dispersion of material are considered.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.101-108
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• 2003

This paper proposes an improved vascular pattern extraction algorithm for person verification applications. The proposed direction-based vascular pattern extraction (DBVPE) algorithm is based on the directional information of vascular patterns. It applies two different filters to the input images: row vascular pattern extraction filter (RVPEF) for effective extraction of the abscissa vascular patterns and column vascular pattern extraction filter (CVPEF) for effective extraction of the ordinate vascular patterns. We use the combined output of both filters to obtain the final hand vascular patterns. Unlike the conventional hand vascular pattern extraction algorithm, the directional extraction approach prevents loss of the vascular pattern connectivity. To validate the DBVPE algorithm, we used a prototype system with a DSP processor. The prototype system shows approximately a three-times better false acceptance rate (FAR) than the conventional single filter algorithm.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.55-59
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• 2007

Wavelet Transform is amenable to efficient algorithms. So wavelet transform was adopted many signal processing and communication applications. For example, the wavelet transform was adopted as the transform for JPEG2000. However, Wavelet has weakness about smoothness along the contours and limited directional information. Hence, recently, some new transforms have been introduced to take advantage of this property. So we use to other transform, called contourlet transform in compression. In this paper, we propose a new method for image compression based on the contourlet transform, which has been recently introduced. Contourlet transform has a good result about images with smooth contours. Moreover, Contourlet is feasible multiresolution and multidirection expansion using non-separable filter bank. This treatise shows a good image representation after compressing using contourlet transform.