• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1231-1236
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• 2006

영상의 화질을 개선하기 위한 많은 방법 중 비교적 간단하게 사용되는 방법 중 하나는 영상의 대비를 조절하는 것이다. 이러한 대비를 조절하는 방법 중 하나인 히스토그램 균등화는 영상 계조도 값의 분포를 균등 분포로 변환함으로써 화질을 개선한다. 그러나, 기존의 방법은 영상의 히스토그램 분포가 몇개의 계조도 값에 군집화되어 있다면 영상의 계조도가 과도하게 변하는 단점을 갖는다. 본 논문은 그레이스케일 영상에 대해 히스토그램의 형태를 고려해서 가우시안 함수에 기반한 히스토그램 매칭 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 영상이 과도하게 밝아지는 것을 제한하고 히스토그램의 분포가 몇 개의 계조도에 군집화되어 있는 영상에서의 에지 및 어두운 부분의 자세한 정보를 표현하는데 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권9호
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• pp.119-128
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 이전 연구 방법에서의 UV-histogram을 확장하여 적응적 UV-histogram을 제시함으로써, 복잡한 구성의 장면에서 사람의 검출율을 높이는 방법을 제시한다. 제안 방법은 먼저 U-histogram에서 사람 영역을 1차 추출하고, 각각의 레이블링된 U에서 V-histogram을 생성함으로써, 이전 방법에서 구분할 수 없었던 사람 후보 영역을 정확하게 추출한다. 또한 제안 방법은 사람 판정시, 초점거리와 거리에 따라 적응적인 크기를 가지는 오메가 모양의 템플릿을 이용하여 검출의 정확도를 높였으며, 누적 영상을 이용하여 오검출을 템플릿 재매칭 함으로써, occlusion에도 강인한 특성을 가진다. 실험 결과는 Bae의 연구방법에 비하여 복잡한 환경에서 약 15%의 정확도 향상, 80%의 재현율 향상을 보이며, Xia의 연구방법에 비하여 20배 빠른 수행속도를 보여, 제안 방법의 성능이 우수함을 입증한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.175-179
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• 2014

The histogram specification turns the shape of a histogram into that we want to specify. This technique can be applied usefully in various image processing fields such as machine vision. However, the histogram specification technique has its basic limits. For instance, the histogram does not have location information of pixels. Also, the accuracy of the specification drops because of quantization errors of the digitized image. In this paper, we proposed a multiresolution histogram specification method in order to improve the accuracy of specification in terms of resemblance between destination and source image. The experimental results show that the proposed method enhances the accuracy of the specification compared to the conventional methods.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.691-700
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• 2015

Here, we present a new framework for histogram equalization in which both local and global contrasts are enhanced using neighborhood metrics. When checking neighborhood information, filters can simultaneously improve image quality. Filters are chosen depending on image properties, such as noise removal and smoothing. Our experimental results confirmed that this does not increase the computational cost because the filtering process is done by our proposed arrangement of making the histogram while checking neighborhood metrics simultaneously. If the two methods, i.e., histogram equalization and filtering, are performed sequentially, the first method uses the original image data and next method uses the data altered by the first. With combined histogram equalization and filtering, the original data can be used for both methods. The proposed method is fully automated and any spatial neighborhood filter type and size can be used. Our experiments confirmed that the proposed method is more effective than other similar techniques reported previously.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.189-194
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• 2017

In this study, we propose a method which is based on "Image segmentation by histogram thresholding using hierarchical cluster analysis"/HCA/ and "A nonparametric approach for histogram segmentation"/NHS/. HCA method uses that all histogram bins are one cluster then it reduces cluster numbers by using distance metric. Because this method has too many clusters, it is more computation. In order to eliminate disadvantages of "HCA" method, we used "NHS" method. NHS method finds all local minima of histogram. To reduce cluster number, we use NHS method which is fast. In our approach, we combine those two methods to eliminate disadvantages of Arifin method. The proposed method is not only less computational than "HCA" method because combined method has few clusters but also it uses local minima of histogram which is computed by "NHS".

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.431-433
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• 2006

The goal of this paper is improvement of vision inspection accuracy by using histogram specification operation. The histogram is composed of horizontal axis of image intensity value and vertical axis of pixel number in image. In appearance vision inspection, the histogram of reference image and input image are different because of minutely lighting distinction. The minutely lighting distinction is main reason of vision inspection error in many cases. Therefore we made an effort for elevation of vision inspection accuracy by making the identical histogram of reference image and input image. As a result of this area separation histogram specification algorithm, we could increase the exactness of vision inspection and prevent system error from physical and spirit condition of human. Also this system has been developed only using PC, CCD Camera and Visual C++ for universal workplace.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2010

This paper presents a histogram equalization based on the nonlinear transformation function for enhancing the quality of medical images. The nonlinear transformation function is applied to adaptively equalize the brightness of the image according to its intensity level frequency. The logistic function is used as a nonlinear transformation function, which is calculated by only using the intensity level with maximum frequency and the maximum intensity level in an histogram, and the total number of pixels. The proposed method has been applied for equalizing 8 medical images with a different resolution and histogram distribution. The experimental results show that the proposed method has the superior enhancement performances compared with the conventional histogram equalization. And the proposed histogram equalization can be used in various multimedia systems in real-time.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2014

Exact histogram specification (EHS) transforms the histogram of an input image into the specified histogram. In the conventional EHS techniques, the pixels are first sorted according to their graylevels, and the pixels that have the same graylevel are further differentiated according to the local average of the pixel values and the edge strength. The strictly ordered pixels are then mapped to the desired histogram. However, since the conventional sorting method is inherently dependent on the initial graylevel-based sorting, the contrast enhancement capability of the conventional EHS algorithms is restricted. We propose a modified EHS algorithm considering the just noticeable difference. In the proposed algorithm, the edge pixels are pre-processed such that the output edge pixels obtained by the modified EHS can result in the local contrast enhancement. Moreover, we introduce a new sorting method for the pixels that have the same graylevel. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides better image enhancement performance compared to the conventional EHS algorithms.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.304-306
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• 2007

Methods of Object recognition from camera image are to compare features of color. edge or pattern with model in a general way. SIFT(scale-invariant feature transform) has good performance but that has high complexity of computation. Using simple color histogram has low complexity. but low performance. In this paper we represent a model as a color cooccurrence histogram. and we improve performance using pyramid matching. The color cooccurrence histogram keeps track of the number of pairs of certain colored pixels that occur at certain separation distances in image space. The color cooccurrence histogram adds geometric information to the normal color histogram. We suggest object recognition by pyramid matching of color cooccurrence histogram.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2004

Image enhancement for Infrared imaging system is mainly based on the global histogram equalization. The global histogram equalization(GHE) is a method in which each pixel is equalized by using a whole histogram of an image. GHE is speedy and effective for real-time imaging system but its method fails to enhance the fine details. On the other hand, the basic local histogram equalization(LHE) method uses sliding a window and. the pixels under the window region are equalized over the whole output dynamic range. The LHE is adequate to enhance the fine details. But this method is computationally slow and noises are over-enhanced. So various local histogram equalization methods have been already presented to overcome these problems of LHE. In this paper, a new regional dynamic range histogram equalization (RDRHE) is presented. RDRHE improves the equalization quality while reducing the computational burden.