• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.166-173
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• 2005

Preserving image features, edges and details in the process of impulsive noise filtering is an important problem. To avoid image blurring, only corrupted pixels must be filtered. In this paper, we propose an effective impulse noise detection method using Self-Organizing Neural Network(SONN) which applies median filter selectively for removing random-valued impulse noises while preserving image features, edges and details. Using a $3\times3$ window, we obtain useful local features with which impulse noise patterns are classified. SONN is trained with sample image patterns and each pixel pattern is classified by its local information in the image. The results of the experiments with various images which are the noise range of $5-15\%$ show that our method performs better than other methods which use multiple threshold values for impulse noise detection.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.128-134
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• 2014

A real-time, continuous-scale image interpolation method is proposed based on a bilinear interpolation with directionally adaptive low-pass filtering. The proposed algorithm was optimized for hardware implementation. The ordinary bi-linear interpolation method has blocking artifacts. The proposed algorithm solves this problem using directionally adaptive low-pass filtering. The algorithm can also solve the severe blurring problem by selectively choosing low-pass filter coefficients. Therefore, the proposed interpolation algorithm can realize a high-quality image scaler for a range of imaging systems, such as digital cameras, CCTV and digital flat panel displays.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.394-401
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• 1991

B-spline function is generally used for an image interpolation because of its smoothness and continuity, but it accompanies a large amount of blurring effect. In this paper, a space-variant B-spline interpolation function is proposed through deblurring process followed by de-aliasing process. The proposed function has parametric expression and performs smoothing and edge-enhancement adaptively in the interpolation process according to local property of the image. Application of this function to image enlargement, rotation, and curve representation producted good results. Even in the presence of noise, noise smoothing effect as well as edge-enhancement were observed in the image interpolation process.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.645-650
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• 2015

영상 획득 시 렌즈의 부정확한 초점이나 영상 획득 시스템의 흔들림 등으로 인해 영상 복원이 요구된다. 이런 영상 복원 문제는 하나의 열화 영상에서 원 영상을 추출해야 하는 부적절하게 정립된 역 문제 (ill-posed reverse problem)이다. 본 논문은 기준 영상을 도입하여 기존의 영상 복원 방법과 비교할 때 복원 영상의 신호잡음비를 유사하게 유지하면서 계산 속도를 향상시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 새로운 비용 함수를 통해 영상과 커널을 몇 단계의 갱신을 통해 영상 열화에 사용되었다고 추정되는 커널을 얻는다. 위너 필터는 전 단계에서 구한 커널과 기준 영상을 이용하여 원 영상의 추정치를 구하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2009년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.865-869
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• 2009

영상 해상도 향상 기술은 다양한 영상처리를 위한 전처리 기술로 주로 사용되며, 블러링과 같은 화질 저하 발생을 최소화하는 것에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 하위 레벨 보간을 이용한 영상 해상도 향상 기술을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 하위 레벨 보간을 이용하여 에러를 계산하고, 계산된 에러를 보간하여 에러를 추정한다. 추정된 에러는 보간된 고해상도 영상과 더해져서 최종적으로 해상도가 향상된 영상으로 복원된다. 동일한 영상을 이용한 실험을 통해서 기존 방법들보다 평균 약 1dB의 PSNR이 향상된 것을 알 수 있었고, 윤곽선을 비롯한 주관적 화질 향상을 역시 확인하였다. 제안하는 방법은 영상 복원과 같은 다양한 멀티미디어 응용 환경에서 활용될 수 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.340-347
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• 2017

A watermark is a signal added to the original signal in order to preserve the copyright of the owner of the digital content. The basic challenge for designing a watermarking system is a dilemma between transparency and robustness. If we want a higher rate of transparency, there has to be a compromise in terms of its robustness and vice versa. Also, until now, watermarking is generalized, resulting in the need for a specialized algorithm to work for a specialized image processing application domain. Our proposed technique takes into consideration the image characteristics for watermark insertion and it optimizes transparency and robustness. It achieved a 99.98% retrieval efficiency for an image blurring attack and counterfeits other attacks. Our proposed technique counterfeits almost all of the image processing attacks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.3217-3238
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• 2018

In this paper, a depth image up-sampling method is put forward by using pixel classifying and jointed bilateral filtering. By analyzing the edge maps originated from the high-resolution color image and low-resolution depth map respectively, pixels in up-sampled depth maps can be classified into four categories: edge points, edge-neighbor points, texture points and smooth points. First, joint bilateral up-sampling (JBU) method is used to generate an initial up-sampling depth image. Then, for each pixel category, different refinement methods are employed to modify the initial up-sampling depth image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the blurring artifact with lower bad pixel rate (BPR).

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.316-320
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• 2009

In this paper, a reference-free perceptual quality metric is proposed for image assessment. It measures the amount of overall blockiness and blurring in the image. And edge-oriented artifacts, such as ringing, mosaic and staircase noise are also considered. In order to give a single quality score, the individual artifact scores are adaptively combined according to the difference between the edge-oriented artifacts and other artifacts. The quality score obtained by the proposed algorithm shows strong correlation with the MOS values by VQEG.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose three compensation methods to solve problems in high-resolution airborne infrared camera and to improve long-range target information acquisition performance. First, image motion and temporal noise reduction technique which is caused by atmospheric turbulence. Second, thermal blurring image correction technique by imperfect performance of NUC(Non Uniformity Correction) or raising the internal temperature of the camera. Finally, DRC(Dynamic Range Compression) and flicker removing technique of 14bits HDR(High Dynamic Range) infrared image. Through this study, we designed techniques to improve the acquisition performance of long-range target information of high-resolution airborne infrared camera, and compared and analyzed the performance improvement result with implemented images.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1993년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.418-420
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• 1993

In this paper, we proposed a new FMS Landmark recognition algorithm using color images. Firstly, a NTSC image fame is captured, and then it is converted to a field image in order to reduce the image blurring from the AGV motion. Secondly, the landmark is detected via the comparison of the color vectors of image pixels with the landmark color. Finally, the identification of FMS landmark is executed using a newly designed landmark pattern with a set of reference points. The landmark pattern is normalized against its translation, rotation, and scaling. And then, its vertical projection data are fisted for the pattern classification using the standard data set. Experimental results show that our scheme performs well.