• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.923-936
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• 2014

Images can be contaminated with different types of noise, for different reasons. The neighborhood averaging and smoothing by image averaging are the classical image processing techniques for noise removal. The classical spatial filtering refers to the aggregate of pixels composing an image and operating directly on these pixels. To reduce or remove effectively noise in image sequences, it usually needs to use noise reduction filter based on space or time domain such as method of spatial or temporal filter. However, the method of spatial filter can generally cause that signals of objects as the target are also blurred. In this paper, we propose temporal filter using the piece-wise quadratic function model and enhancement algorithm of image quality for the performance improvement of target detection and tracking by heterogeneous noise reduction. Image tracking simulation that utilizes real IIR(Imaging Infra-Red) images is employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed image processing algorithm.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.225-229
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• 2021

The digital image such as medical X-ray and nuclear medicine field mainly contains noise distribution. The noise degree in image degrades image quality. That is why, the noise reduction algorithm is efficient for medical image field. In this study, we confirmed effectiveness of application for median modified Wiener filter (MMWF) algorithm for noise reduction in PET/MR image compared with median filter image, which is used as conventional noise redcution algorithm. The Jaszczak PET phantom was used by using 18F solution and filled with NaCl+NiSO4 fluids. In addition, the radioactivity ratio between background and six spheres in the phantom is maintained to 1:8. In order to mimic noise distribution in the image, we applied Gaussian noise using MATLAB software. To evlauate image quality, the contrast to noise ratio (CNR) and coefficient of variation (COV) were used. According to the results, compared with noise image and images with MMWF algorithm, the image with MMWF algorithm is increased approximately 33.2% for CNR result, decreased approximately 79.3% for COV result. In conclusion, we proved usefulness of MMWF algorithm in the PET/MR images.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.364-370
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• 2006

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is high resolution medical imaging system which is obtaining image inside biological objects with non-destructive method. OCT system is based on Michelson interferometer with a reciprocating mirror in the reference arm and a biological object in the sample arm. The obtained OCT image suffers from a granular or mottled image, called speckle. Speckle is caused by random interferences between reflected coherence waves. In this paper, we propose effective speckle reduction method that uses wavelet transform. With wavelet domain image, sub-windowing and thresholding are performed. Finally, speckle reduction experiments for Misgurnus mizolepis skin and rat eye images are shown.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2459-2463
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• 2005

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is high resolution medical imaging system which is obtaining image inside biological objects with non-destructive method. OCT system is based on Michelson interferometer with a reciprocating mirror in the reference arm and a biological object in the sample arm. The obtained OCT image suffers from a granular or mottled image, called speckle. Speckle is caused by random interferences between reflected coherence waves. In this paper, we propose effective speckle reduction method that uses wavelet transform. With wavelet domain image, sub-windowing and thresholding are performed. Finally, speckle reduction experiments for Misgurnus mizolepis skin and rat eye images are shown.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.535-538
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• 2009

Speckle noise reduction for ultrasound CT image using morphological adaptive median filtering based on edge preservation is presented in this paper. Speckle noise is multiplicative feature and causes ultrasound image to degrade widely from transducer. An input image is classified into edge region and homogeneous region in preprocessing. The speckle is reduced by morphological operation on the 2D gray scale by using convolution and correlation, and edges are preserved. The adaptive median is processed to reduce an impulse noise to preserve edges. As the result, MAM of the proposed method enhances the image to about 10% in comparison with Winner filter by Edge Preservation Index and PSNR, and 10% to only adaptive median filtering.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a method of edge detection for noisy image. The proposed method uses a progressive filter for noise reduction and a Sobel operator for edge detection. The progressive filter combines a median filter and a modified rational filter. The proposed method for noise reduction adjusts rational filter direction according to an edge in the image which is obtained by median filtering. Our method effectively attenuates the noise while preserving the image details. Edge detection is performed by a Sobel operator. This operator can be implemented by integer operation and is therefore relatively fast. Our proposed method not only preserves edge, but also reduces noise in uniform region. Thus, edge detection is well performed. Our proposed method could improve results using further developed Sobel operator. Experimental results show that our proposed method has better edge detection with correct positions than those by existing median and rational filtering methods for noisy image.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.415-425
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• 2019

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been successfully used in many image restoration tasks, including image denoising, super-resolution, and compression artifact reduction. By fully exploiting its characteristics, state-of-the-art image restoration techniques can be used to generate images with photorealistic details. However, there are many applications that require faithful rather than visually appealing image reconstruction, such as medical imaging, surveillance, and video coding. We found that previous GAN-training methods that used a loss function in the form of a weighted sum of fidelity and adversarial loss fails to reduce fidelity loss. This results in non-negligible degradation of the objective image quality, including peak signal-to-noise ratio. Our approach is to alternate between fidelity and adversarial loss in a way that the minimization of adversarial loss does not deteriorate the fidelity. Experimental results on compression-artifact reduction and super-resolution tasks show that the proposed method can perform faithful and photorealistic image restoration.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.905-914
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• 2011

영상처리 분야에서 원래의 순수 이미지를 오염시키는 잡음을 제거하는 것은 매우 중요한 문제이다. 그러나 여러 가지 원인으로 인하여 발생하는 잡음의 발생을 완벽하게 막는 것은 현실적으로 불가능하다. 따라서 영상에 포함되어 있는 잡음을 제거하거나 최대한 줄이는 것이 매우 중요한 과제이다. 본 연구에서는 이미지를 오염시키고 있는 잡음의 상대적인 크기를 측정하여 잡음의 분산의 수준을 추정하고, 이를 영상처리 분야에서 자주 사용되는 잡음제거 기법인 시그마 필터에 응용하여 잡음을 효과적으로 제거하는 통계적 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 결론적으로, 잡음의 분산의 수준에 관계없이 본 연구에서 제안한 통계적 잡음제거 방법론을 통해 기존의 시그마 필터보다 현저하게 개선된 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.1027-1030
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• 2015

항공 SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar)에서는 일반적으로 바람과 같은 외부 영향에 의해 발생한 요동으로 인해 해상도가 저하될 뿐만 아니라, 사이드로브가 증가하게 되어 영상 화질이 저하되므로 본 논문에서는 사이드로브를 감소시키기 위한 기법을 제시한다. 이를 위해 비행경로를 분할한 다음, 분할된 경로에서 획득된 각각의 데이터에 대해 스퀸트 각도를 추정하여 임무영역을 계산한다. 또한, 재설정된 임무영역 중심에 대하여 1차 요동보상을 수행한 후, 생성된 SAR 영상에서 사이드로브 영향이 두드러지는 영역을 추출한 다음에, 사이드로브 감소 필터를 반복적으로 적용한 후 전체 영상에 대해 확장하여 영상 화질을 향상시키는 방법을 제시한다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2008

This paper investigates the effects of the existing sealing methods, such as the conventional atmospheric-pressure sealing method and vacuum sealing, on temporal bright-image sticking. To produce a residual image caused by temporal brightimage sticking, the entire region of a 42-in panel with an Xe-(11%)-He(35%) gas mixture was abruptly changed to a full-white background image after displaying a square-type image at peak luminance for about 60s. From the monitoring of the difference in the display luminance, infrared emission, color temperature, and disappearing time between the cells with and without temporal bright-image sticking, it was observed that the vacuum sealing method contributes to the reduction of temporal bright-image sticking.