• 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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• 제1권1호
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• pp.8-16
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• 2012

An image obtained from a low light environment results in a low-exposure problem caused by non-ideal camera settings, i.e. aperture size and shutter speed. Of particular note, the multiple color-filter aperture (MCA) system inherently suffers from low-exposure problems and performance degradation in its image classification and registration processes due to its finite size of the apertures. In this context, this paper presents a novel method for the color enhancement of low-exposure images and its application to color shift model-based MCA system for image refocusing. Although various histogram equalization (HE) approaches have been proposed, they tend to distort the color information of the processed image due to the range limits of the histogram. The proposed color enhancement algorithm enhances the global brightness by analyzing the basic cause of the low-exposure phenomenon, and then compensates for the contrast degradation artifacts by using an adaptive histogram specification. We also apply the proposed algorithm to the preprocessing step of the refocusing technique in the MCA system to enhance the color image. The experimental results confirm that the proposed method can enhance the contrast of any low-exposure color image acquired by a conventional camera, and is suitable for commercial low-cost, high-quality imaging devices, such as consumer-grade camcorders, real-time 3D reconstruction systems, digital, and computational cameras.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.770-773
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• 2015

영상의 화질을 향상시키기 위하여 콘트라스트(contrast)를 향상시키는 기법이 많이 사용된다. 컬러 영상의 콘트라스트를 향상시키는 경우에 컬러의 saturation이 높은 순수한 색에 대해서는 과도한 콘트라스트 향상으로 인한 색 포화 현상이 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 HSI 컬러 공간에서 saturation 성분을 이용하여 순수한 색에 대한 과도한 콘트라스트 향상으로 발생할 수 있는 색 포화 현상을 방지할 수 있는 기법과 YCbCr 컬러 공간에서도 동일한 효과를 보이는 컬러 영상 화질 향상 기법을 제안한다. 다양한 영상에 대한 실험 결과 제안하는 기법이 기존의 방법에 비하여 좋은 화질의 영상을 생성하는 것을 보인다.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제30B권5호
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• pp.103-108
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• 1993

An image can be largely corrupted by the ambient illuminant, so that the image enhancement to restory natural color without respect to the ambient illuminant is needed. It this paper, a new color image enhancement technique based on color constancy is proposed. To enhance the image quality, higher volues of contrast and saturation are preferred, but their excessive values make an image unnatural. Since the color constancy processing preserves only hue, while reducing the dynamic range of lightness and saturation,the technique is needed in order to compensate this phenomenon. The proposed method transforms and increases lightness and saturation simultaneously to avoid the complexity in the related transformation by analyzing the relationship between the RGB and modified IHS coordinate system.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2007

In this paper, I propose a method which can enhance the visual quality of IRST images based on a loaded location in ship and an AOS. The IRST adjusts an AOS to detect targets with various altitudes because of its narrow vertical field of view and offers various functions to enhance images with its low contrast. In the proposed method, images are divided into two regions of sea and sky on the basis of the horizon after establishing relation between an AOS and a horizon location within an image. As a result, image enhancement of the proposed method is performed adaptively according to the divided region while that of conventional method is performed for entire image without the region division. Simulation results show that the proposed method represents higher visibility compared with conventional one.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 영상의 명암대비(contrast)를 개선시키는 언샾 마스킹 방법을 제안한다. 언샾 마스킹은 이미지가 가지고 있는 에지와 디테일 정보를 개선시키는데 일반적인 샤프닝 마스크 보다 효과적이기에 이에 관한 많은 연구가 있었다. 제안하는 방법은 방향성 정보를 이용한 블록 단위의 언샾 마스킹 방법으로 영상을 블록 단위로 분할하고 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform)를 이용하여 각 블록에서 패턴의 방향성 정보를 얻어낸다. DCT 결과로부터 해당 블록들의 방향성 타입을 결정하고 이에 따라 언샾 마스크를 적응적으로 적용한다. 블록의 분류는 평탄영역, 텍스처, 에지 그리고 나머지 형태로 구분되어 진다. 평탄 영역에 속하는 블록은 잡음에 의한 영향을 줄이기 위해 언샾 마스킹을 적용하지 않으며 텍스처와 에지영역에 대해서는 고주파 성분을 강조하기 위해 블록타입에 맞는 적응적 언샾 마스킹을 적용한다. 실험을 통하여 영상에서 평탄 영역은 잡음에 의한 훼손을 줄이며 에지들이 포함된 텍스처 영역은 적응적으로 강조하여 시각적으로 우수한 명암대비 개선 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표논문집
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• pp.209-213
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• 2006

In this paper describes image enhancement technique using deconvolution processing for ultrasonic nondestructive testing. . When flaws are detected for B-scan or C-scan, blurring effect which is caused by the moving intervals of transducer degrades the quality of images. In addition, acquisited images suffer form speckle noise which is caused by the ultrasonic components reflected from the grain boundary of material [1,2]. The deconvolution technique can restore sharp peak value or clean image from blurring signal or image. This processing is applied to C-scan image obtained from known specimen. Experimental results show that the deconvolution processing contributes to get improved the quality of C-scan images.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.122-127
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• 2004

The color gamut mapping method that is used for enhancing the color reproduction quality between PC monitor and printer devices is adopted for display quality enhancement. The high definition display devices operate at the clock speed of around $70\;MHz\;\sim\;150\;MHz$ and permit several nano seconds for real-time processing. Thus, the concept of three-dimensional reduced resolution look-up table is used. The required hardware can be greatly reduced by look-up table resolution adjustment. The proposed hardware architecture is successfully implemented in ASIC and also successfully adopted in display quality enhancement purposes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1814-1828
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• 2021

Low-light image enhancement is a key technique to overcome the quality degradation of photos taken under scotopic vision illumination conditions. The degradation includes low brightness, low contrast, and outstanding noise, which would seriously affect the vision of the human eye recognition ability and subsequent image processing. In this paper, we propose an approach based on deep learning and Retinex theory to enhance the low-light image, which includes image decomposition, illumination prediction, image reconstruction, and image optimization. The first three parts can reconstruct the enhanced image that suffers from low-resolution. To reduce the noise of the enhanced image and improve the image quality, a super-resolution algorithm based on the Laplacian pyramid network is introduced to optimize the image. The Laplacian pyramid network can improve the resolution of the enhanced image through multiple feature extraction and deconvolution operations. Furthermore, a combination loss function is explored in the network training stage to improve the efficiency of the algorithm. Extensive experiments and comprehensive evaluations demonstrate the strength of the proposed method, the result is closer to the real-world scene in lightness, color, and details. Besides, experiments also demonstrate that the proposed method with the single low-light image can achieve the same effect as multi-exposure image fusion algorithm and no ghost is introduced.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.101-106
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• 2018

Color-normal observers (CNOs) and color-deficient observers (CDOs) have different preferences and emotions for color images. A color-image quality-enhancement algorithm for a CDO is developed to easily adjust images according to each observer's preference or image quality factors. The color-perception differences between CDO and CNO are analyzed and modeled in terms of the YCbCr chroma ratio and hue difference; then the color-shift method is designed to control the degree of color difference.