• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1944-1949
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• 2007

In this paper, a new plane-based computational reconstruction technique for three-dimensional (3D) objects in 3D internal imaging based on a lens model is proposed. For the proposed technique, computational experiments have been carried out for various test images. Resolution of the reconstructed images is analyzed and compared with that obtained by the conventional technique. From experiments, it is shown that the resolution of a 3-D reconstructed image was improved by using the proposed technique.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.382-391
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• 2019

The impact of vertical grid-nesting on the tropical cyclone intensity and track forecast was investigated using the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) version 3.8 and the initialization method of the Structure Adjustable Balanced Bogus Vortex (SABV). For a better resolution in the central part of the numerical domain, where the tropical cyclone of interest is located, a horizontal and vertical nesting technique was employed. Simulations of the tropical cyclone Sanba (16th in 2012) indicated that the vertical nesting had a weak impact on the cyclone intensity and little impact on the track forecast. Further experiments revealed that the performance of forecast was quite sensitive to the horizontal resolution, which is in agreement with previous studies. The improvement is due to the fact that horizontal resolution can improve forecasts not only on the tropical cyclone-scale but also for large-scale disturbances.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.16-18
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• 2021

미디어 기술은 사용자가 더욱 몰입감을 느낄 수 있는 방향으로 개발되어 왔다. 이러한 흐름에 따라 기존의 2D 이미지에 비해 깊이감을 느낄 수 있는 증강 현실, 가상 현실 등 3D 공간 데이터를 활용하는 미디어가 주목을 받고 있다. 포인트 클라우드는 수많은 3차원 좌표를 가진 여러 개의 점들로 구성된 데이터 형식이므로 각각의 점들에 대한 좌표 및 색상 정보를 사용하여 3D 미디어를 표현한다. 고정된 크기의 해상도를 갖는 2D 이미지와 다르게 포인트 클라우드는 포인트의 개수에 따라 용량이 유동적이며, 이를 기존의 비디오 코덱을 사용하여 압축하기 위해 국제 표준기구인 MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group)에서는 Video-based Point Cloud Compression (V-PCC)을 제정하였다. V-PCC는 3D 포인트 클라우드 데이터를 직교 평면 벡터를 이용하여 2D 패치로 분해하고 이러한 패치를 2D 이미지에 배치한 다음 기존의 2D 비디오 코덱을 사용하여 압축한다. 본 논문에서는 앞서 설명한 2D 패치 이미지에 super resolution network를 적용함으로써 3D 포인트 클라우드의 성능 향상하는 방안을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.439-441
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 국가무형문화재 기록영상의 화질 개선에 관한 연구를 진행한다. 기록영상의 화질 개선을 위해 SRGAN 기반의 초해상화 복원영상 생성 프레임워크의 적용을 제안한다. Image aumentation과 median filter를 적용한 데이터셋과 적대적 신경망인 Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)을 기반으로 딥러닝 네트워크를 구축하여 입력된 Low-Resolution 이미지를 통해 High-Resolution의 복원 영상을 생성한다. 이 연구를 통해 국가무형문화재 기록영상 뿐만 아니라 문화재 전반의 사진 및 영상 기록 자료의 품질 개선 가능성을 제시하고, 영상 기록 자료의 아카이브 구축을 통해 지속적인 활용의 기초연구가 되는 것을 목표로 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.479-481
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• 2023

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have facilitated substantial improvement in single-image super-resolution (SR) by enabling the generation of photo-realistic images. However, the high memory requirements of GAN-based SRs (mainly generators) lead to reduced performance and increased energy consumption, making it difficult to implement them onto resource-constricted devices. In this study, we propose an efficient and compressed architecture for the SR-GAN (generator) model using the model compression technique Knowledge Distillation. Our approach involves the transmission of knowledge from a heavy network to a lightweight one, which reduces the storage requirement of the model by 58% with also an increase in their performance. Experimental results on various benchmarks indicate that our proposed compressed model enhances performance with an increase in PSNR, SSIM, and image quality respectively for x4 super-resolution tasks.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.18-26
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• 2009

Image resolution enhancement algorithm is a basic technique for image enlargement and restoration. The main problem is the image quality degradation such as blurring or blocking effects. In this paper, we propose loss information estimation and image resolution enhancement method using low level interpolation method. In the proposed method, loss information is computed by downsampling -interpolation process of obtained low resolution image. We estimate loss information of high resolution image using interpolation of the computed loss information. Lastly, we add up interpolated high resolution image and the estimated loss information which is applied a weight factor. Our experiments obtained the average PSNR 1.4dB which is improved results better than conventional algorithm. Also subjective image quality is more clearness and distinctness. The proposed method may be helpful for various video applications which required improvement of image.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.23-31
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• 2012

This paper proposes a motion estimation-based super resolution algorithm to restore input low-resolution images of large movement into a super-resolution image. It is difficult to find the sub-pixel motion estimation in images of large movement compared to typical experimental images. Also, it has disadvantage which have high computational complexity to find reference images and candidate images using general motion estimation method. In order to solve these problems for the traditional two-dimensional motion estimation using the proposed registration threshold that satisfy the conditions based on the reference image is determined. Candidate image with minimum weight among the best candidates for super resolution images, the restoration process to proceed with to find a new image registration algorithm is proposed. According to experimental results, the average PSNR of the proposed algorithm is 31.89dB and this is better than PSNR of traditional super-resolution algorithm and it also shows improvement of computational complexity.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.12spc
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• pp.463-468
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• 2021

Single image super-resolution (SISR) is an image processing technique, and its main target is to reconstruct the high-quality or high-resolution (HR) image from the low-quality or low-resolution (LR) image. Currently, deep learning-based convolutional neural network (CNN) image super-resolution approaches achieved remarkable improvement over the previous approaches. Furthermore, earlier approaches used hand designed filter to upscale the LR image into HR image. The design architecture of such approaches is easy, but it introduces the extra unwanted pixels in the reconstructed image. To resolve these issues, we propose novel deep learning-based approach known as Lightweight deep CNN-based approach for Single Image Super-Resolution (LDCSIR). In this paper, we propose a new architecture which is inspired by ResNet with Inception blocks, which significantly drop the computational cost of the model and increase the processing time for reconstructing the HR image. Compared with the other state of the art methods, LDCSIR achieves better performance in terms of quantitively (PSNR/SSIM) and qualitatively.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.13-21
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• 2001

We propose a universal image processor for a-Si TFT LCD of UXGA class that can display the full screen on the LCD panel with low resolution of video sources such as NTSC, VGA, SVGA, XGA, and SXGA by using the proposed interpolation filter. In addition, we propose a real-time contrast controller for image improvement of multi-gray scale image. The operation of the proposed methods has been verified using Synopsys VHDL and computer simulation. Results show that the proposed methods might be suitable for a UXGA LCD controller for real-time image improvement.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.303-308
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• 2020

The ReLU(Rectified Linear Unit) function has been dominantly used as a standard activation function in most deep artificial neural network models since it was proposed. Later, Leaky ReLU, Swish, and Mish activation functions were presented to replace ReLU, which showed improved performance over existing ReLU function in image classification task. Therefore, we recognized the need to experiment with whether performance improvements could be achieved by replacing the RELU with other activation functions in the super resolution task. In this paper, the performance was compared by changing the activation functions in EDSR model, which showed stable performance in the super resolution task. As a result, in experiments conducted with changing the activation function of EDSR, when the resolution was converted to double, the existing activation function, ReLU, showed similar or higher performance than the other activation functions used in the experiment. When the resolution was converted to four times, Leaky ReLU and Swish function showed slightly improved performance over ReLU. PSNR and SSIM, which can quantitatively evaluate the quality of images, were able to identify average performance improvements of 0.06%, 0.05% when using Leaky ReLU, and average performance improvements of 0.06% and 0.03% when using Swish. When the resolution is converted to eight times, the Mish function shows a slight average performance improvement over the ReLU. Using Mish, PSNR and SSIM were able to identify an average of 0.06% and 0.02% performance improvement over the RELU. In conclusion, Leaky ReLU and Swish showed improved performance compared to ReLU for super resolution that converts resolution four times and Mish showed improved performance compared to ReLU for super resolution that converts resolution eight times. In future study, we should conduct comparative experiments to replace activation functions with Leaky ReLU, Swish and Mish to improve performance in other super resolution models.