• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.124-127
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• 2018

넓은 동적 영역 (High Dynamic Range: HDR) 이미지는 주관적 화질 측면에서 우수하지만 대부분의 디스플레이는 좁은 동적 영역 (Low Dynamic Rang e: LDR) 만 지원이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위해서 톤 매핑 기법 (Tone Mapping Operator: TMO) 을 사용하여 넓은 동적 영역을 압축하여 수행한다. 기존의 지역 에지 보존 (Local Edge Preserving: LEP) 필터를 적용한 이미지결과는 에지를 보존하지만, 스케일의 분해 과정 중 디테일의 손실이 발생되었다. 본 논문에서는 이미지 변화도를 기반으로 디테일을 보존하는 알고리듬을 제안한다. LEP 필터가 적용되기 전에 이미지의 변화도와 동적 영역이 압축된 후의 이미지에 대한 변화도의 차이만큼 가중하여 디테일을 보존함으로써 주관적 화질을 향상시켰다.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.633-645
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• 2023

In this paper, Completely V-Regular on semiring is defined and used to derive new theorems with some of its properties. This paper also illustrates V-Regular algebra and Completely V-Regular Algebra with examples and properties. By extending completely V-Regular to fuzzy, a new concept, fuzzy V-Regular is brought out and fuzzy completely V-Regular algebra is introduced too. It is also developed by defining the ideals of Completely V -Regular Algebra and fuzzy completely V-Regular algebra. Finally, this fuzzy algebra concept is applied in image processing to detect edges. This V-Regular Algebra is novel in the research area.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.695-696
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• 2020

CNN(CNN: Convolutional Neural Network)은 컴퓨터 비전의 많은 분야에서 뛰어난 성능을 보이고 있으며, 단일 영상으로부터 깊이(depth) 추정에서도 기존 기법보다 향상된 성능을 보이고 있다. 그러나, 단일 영상으로부터 신경망이 얻을 수 있는 정보는 제한적이기 때문에 스테레오 카메라로부터 얻은 좌/우 영상으로부터의 깊이 추정보다 성능 향상에 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 에지 맵(edge map)을 이용한 CNN 기반의 단일 영상에서의 깊이 추정의 개선 기법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 먼저 단일 영상에 대한 전처리를 통해서 에지 맵과 양방향 필터링된(bilateral filtered) 영상을 생성하고, 이를 CNN 입력으로 하여 기존 단일 영상 깊이 추정 기법 대비 개선된 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Applied Microscopy
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• v.50
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• pp.27.1-27.6
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• 2020

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD), which is composed of a transition metal atom and chalcogen ion atoms, usually form vacancies based on the knock-on threshold of each atom. In particular, when electron beam is irradiated on a monolayer TMD such as MoS₂ and WS₂, S vacancies are formed preferentially, and they are aligned linearly to constitute line defects. And then, a hole is formed at the point where the successively formed line defects collide, and metal clusters are also formed at the edge of the hole. This study reports a process in which the line defects formed in a monolayer WS₂ sheet expends into holes. Here, the process in which the W cluster, which always occurs at the edge of the formed hole, goes through a uniform intermediate phase is explained based on the line defects and the formation behavior of the hole. Further investigation confirms the atomic structure of the intermediate phase using annular dark field scanning transition electron microscopy (ADF-STEM) and image simulation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.4060-4079
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• 2020

Blur is an important type of image distortion. How to evaluate the quality of blurred image accurately and efficiently is a research hotspot in the field of image processing in recent years. Inspired by the multi-scale perceptual characteristics of the human visual system (HVS), this paper presents a no-reference image blur/sharpness assessment method based on multi-scale local features in the spatial domain. First, considering various content has different sensitivity to blur distortion, the image is divided into smooth, edge, and texture regions in blocks. Then, the Gaussian scale space of the image is constructed, and the categorized contrast features between the original image and the Gaussian scale space images are calculated to express the blur degree of different image contents. To simulate the impact of viewing distance on blur distortion, the distribution characteristics of local maximum gradient of multi-resolution images were also calculated in the spatial domain. Finally, the image blur assessment model is obtained by fusing all features and learning the mapping from features to quality scores by support vector regression (SVR). Performance of the proposed method is evaluated on four synthetically blurred databases and one real blurred database. The experimental results demonstrate that our method can produce quality scores more consistent with subjective evaluations than other methods, especially for real burred images.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1507-1514
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• 2016

Full-image guided filter reflects all pixels of image in filtering by using weight propagation and two-pass model, whereas the existing guide filter is processed based on the kernel window. Therefore the computational complexity can be improved while maintaining characteristics of guide filter, such as edge-preserving, smoothing, and so on. In this paper, we propose an efficient VLSI architecture for the full-image guided filter by analyzing the data dependency, the data frequency and the PSNR analysis of the image in order to achieve enough speed for various applications such as stereo vision, real-time systems, etc. In addition, the proposed efficient scheduling enables the realtime process by minimizing the idle period in weight computation. The proposed VLSI architecture shows 214MHz of maximum operating frequency (image size: 384*288, 965 fps) and 76K of gates (internal memory excluded).

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.1282-1295
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• 2006

This paper proposes a method of image tile mosaics to preserve detailed depiction of the source image. This method enhance the shortcoming of the previous mosaic methods that cannot express the detailed depiction because of the gap between tiles. Our method is implemented by the usage of image tiles to preserve detailed depiction of the source image, as well as the usage of 2-layered tiles to.eliminate the gap between tiles. The method suggested in this paper are composed of following process. First of all, the position of the upper layer tile is located through a centroidal voronoi diagram to which an edge avoidance technique is applied, and the position of the lower layer tile is calculated using Delaunay triangulation. Secondly, discover the size and direction field of the tile considering the relation between tiles. Thirdly, adopt a photomosaic technique to use the image tiles. At this time, the technique of multi-level indexing is used to accelerate the speed of image searching. Through above process, the gap between tiles is minimized against other methods and a mosaic image with a maximized detailed description is achieved.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.12
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• pp.2270-2277
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• 2016

In modern society, creation and distribution of multimedia contents is being actively conducted. These multimedia information have come out the enormous amount daily, the amount of data is also large enough it can't be compared with past text information. Since it has been increased for a need of the method to efficiently store multimedia information and to easily search the information, various methods associated therewith have been actively studied. In particular, image search methods for finding what you want from the video database or multiple sequential images, have attracted attention as a new field of image processing. Image retrieval method to be implemented in this paper, utilizes the attribute of corner patches based on the corner points of the object, for providing a new method of efficient and robust image search. After detecting the edge of the object within the image, the straight lines using a Hough transformation is extracted. A corner patches is formed by defining the extracted intersection of the straight line as a corner point. After configuring the feature vectors with patches rearranged, the similarity between images in the database is measured. Finally, for an accurate comparison between the proposed algorithm and existing algorithms, the recall precision rate, which has been widely used in content-based image retrieval was used to measure the performance evaluation. For the image used in the experiment, it was confirmed that the image is detected more accurately in the proposed method than the conventional image retrieval methods.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.400-407
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• 2019

In this paper, the shadow detection and reconstruction method are proposed using intrinsic image, which does not change the essential characteristics under the influence of various illuminance, and multi-scale gamma correction. The shadow detection was estimated by the pixel change information between a grayscale and an intrinsic image of the color image, and the brightness of the image were adjusted by gamma correction in the shadow restoration process. Multi-scale gamma correction is performed for each channel of a color image due to the fact that the saturation can be changed by nonlinear adjustment to individual pixel values. Multi-scale gamma values are estimated based on the information of the crossed edge between shadows and non-shadowed regions in the color image, as a result, the shadows are reconstructed by correcting different region features with multi-scale gamma values. Experimental results show that the proposed method effectively reconstructs shadows in a single natural image.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.6
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• pp.421-428
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• 2010

It takes a long time for the users to view a whole image from the image server under the low-bandwidth internet environments or in case of a big sized image. In this case, as there needs a technique that preferentially transfers a part of image, JPEG2000 offers a ROI(Region-of-Interest) coding. In ROI coding, the users see the thumbnail of image from the server and specifies some regions that they want to see first. And then if an information about the regions are informed to the server, the server preferentially transfers the regions of the image. The existing methods requested a huge time to compute the mask information, but this thesis approximately computes the regions and reduces the creating time of the ROI masks. If each code block is a mixed block which ROI and background are mixed, the proper boundary points should be acquired. Searching the edges of the block, getting the two points on the edge, to get the boundary point inside the code block, the method searches a mid point between the two edge points. The proposed method doesn't have a big difference compared to the existing methods in quality, but the processing time is more speedy than the ones.