• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.351-361
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• 2003

As the launches of a series of remote sensing satellites, there are various multiresolution and multi-spectral images available nowadays. This diversity in remotely sensed image data has created a need to be able to integrate data from different sources. The C-band imaging radar of ERS-2 due to its high sensitivity to coastal wetlands holds tremendous potential in mapping and monitoring coastal wetland features. This paper investigates the advantages of using ERS-2 SAR data combined with IRS-ID LISS-3 data for mapping complex coastal wetland features of Tamil Nadu, southern India. We present a methodology in this paper that highlights the mapping potential of different combinations of filtering and integration techniques. The methodology adopted here consists of three major steps as following: (i) speckle noise reduction by comparative performance of different filtering algorithms, (ii) geometric rectification and coregistration, and (iii) application of different integration techniques. The results obtained from the analysis of optical and microwave image data have proved their potential use in improving interpretability of different coastal wetland features of southern India. Based visual and statistical analyzes, this study suggests that brovey transform will perform well in terms of preserving spatial and spectral content of the original image data. It was also realized that speckle filtering is very important before fusing optical and microwave data for mapping coastal mangrove wetland ecosystem.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.233-239
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• 2016

Color enhancement basically deals with color manipulation in digital images. Recently, the technique has become widely used as a result of the increasing use of digital cameras. Retinex-based colorenhancement algorithms are a popular technique. In this paper, retinex with bilateral filtering is proposed to improve the quality of poorly illuminated images. Generally, it consists of three main steps: first, a retinex-based algorithm with color restoration; second, transformation mapping using histogram matching; and finally, smoothing the image using a bilateral filter. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can successfully enhance image contrast while avoiding the halo effect and maintaining the color distribution in the image.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.344-354
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• 2009

Side scan sonar using acoustic wave plays a very important role in the underwater, sea floor, and shallow marine geologic survey. In this study, we have acquired side scan sonar data for the underwater man-made structures, artificial reefs and fishing grounds, installed and distributed in the survey area. We applied digital image processing techniques to side scan sonar data in order to improve and enhance an image quality. We carried out digital image processing with various kinds of filtering in spatial domain and frequency domain. We tested filtering parameters such as kernel size, differential operator, and statistical value. We could easily estimate the conditions, distribution and environment of artificial structures through the interpretation of side scan sonar.

• 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.

• 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.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권7호
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• pp.1290-1294
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• 2008

We present a novel deblurring algorithm for bi-level images blurred by some parameterizable point spread function. The proposed method iteratively searches unknown parameters in the point spread function and noise-to-signal ratio by minimizing an objective function that is based on the binariness and the difference between two intensity values of restoring image. In simulations and experiments, the proposed method showed improved performance compared with the Wiener filtering based method in terms of bit error rate after segmentation.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.172-177
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• 2009

In this paper, a new morphology-based homomorphic filtering technique is presented to enhance features in medical images. The homomorphic filtering is performed based on the morphological sub-bands, in which an image is morphologically decomposed. An evolutionary design is carried to find an optimal gain and structuring element of each sub-band. As a search algorithm, Differential Evolution scheme is utilized. Simulations show that the proposed filter improves the contrast of the interest feature in medical images.

• Journal of Ubiquitous Convergence Technology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.18-26
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• 2008

The invariance relation existing in the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is used for constructing robust image hashes in this work. The image is first re-scaled to a fixed size. Low-pass filtering is performed on the luminance component of the re-sized image to produce a normalized matrix. Entries in the normalized matrix are pseudo-randomly re-arranged under the control of a secret key to generate a secondary image. Non-negative matrix factorization is then performed on the secondary image. As the relation between most pairs of adjacent entries in the NMF's coefficient matrix is basically invariant to ordinary image processing, a coarse quantization scheme is devised to compress the extracted features contained in the coefficient matrix. The obtained binary elements are used to form the image hash after being scrambled based on another key. Similarity between hashes is measured by the Hamming distance. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is robust against perceptually acceptable modifications to the image such as Gaussian filtering, moderate noise contamination, JPEG compression, re-scaling, and watermark embedding. Hashes of different images have very low collision probability. Tampering to local image areas can be detected by comparing the Hamming distance with a predetermined threshold, indicating the usefulness of the technique in digital forensics.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.26-38
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 원격 탐사 영상에 대한 특징 기반 영상 정합 (Image Registration) 방법의 고속화를 위한 딥러닝 기반 특징점 필터링 방법인 DLKF (Deep Learning Keypoint Filtering)를 제안한다. 기존의 특징 기반 영상 정합 방법의 복잡도는 특징 매칭 (Feature Matching) 단계에서 발생한다. 이 복잡도를 줄이기 위하여 본 논문에서는 특징 매칭이 영상의 구조물에서 검출된 특징점으로 매칭되는 것을 확인하여 특징점 검출기에서 검출된 특징점 중에서 구조물에서 검출된 특징점만 필터링하는 방법을 제안한다. DLKF는 영상 정합을 위하여 필수적인 특징점을 잃지 않으면서 그 수를 줄이기 위하여 구조물의 경계와 인접한 특징점을 보존하고, 서브 샘플링 (Subsampling)된 영상을 사용한다. 또한 영상 분할 (Image Segmentation) 방법을 위해 패치 단위로 잘라낸 영상을 다시 합칠 때 생기는 영상 패치 경계의 잡음을 제거하기 위하여 영상 패치를 중복하여 잘라낸다. DLKF의 성능을 검증하기 위하여 아리랑 3호 위성 원격 탐사 영상을 사용하여 기존 특징점 검출 방법과 속도와 정확도를 비교하였다. SIFT 기반 정합 방법을 기준으로 SURF 기반 정합 방법은 특징점의 수를 약 18% 감소시키고 속도를 약 2.6배 향상시켰지만 정확도가 3.42에서 5.43으로 저하되었다. 제안하는 방법인 DLKF를 사용하였을 때 특징점의 수를 약 82% 감소시키고 속도를 약 20.5배 향상시키면서 정확도는 4.51로 저하되었다.