• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.55 no.9
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• pp.429-434
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• 2006

In this paper, detection based - adaptive windowed nonlinear filter(DB-AWNF) is proposed for removing salt-pepper noise in infrared image. This filter is composed of impulse detector and window-size-variable median filters. Impulse detector checks whether current pixel is impulse or not using range function and nonlinear location estimator. If impulse is detected, current pixel is filtered according to four kinds of local masks by use of median filter. If not, current pixel is delivered to output like identity filter. In Qualitative view, the proposed could have removed heavy corrupted noise up to 30% and reserved the details of image. In quantitative view, PSNR was measured. The proposed could have about 12-31[dB] more improved performance than those of median $(3{\times}3)$ filter and 13-29[dB] more improved performance than those of median $(5{\times}5)$ filter.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.151-165
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• 2010

Images are often corrupted by impulse noise due to a noise sensor or channel transmission errors. The filter based on SVM(Support Vector Machine) and the improved adaptive median filtering is proposed to preserve image details while suppressing impulse noise for image restoration. Our approach uses an SVM impulse detector to judge whether the input pixel is noise. If a pixel is detected as a noisy pixel, the improved adaptive median filter is used to replace it. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed filter, extensive simulation experiments have been conducted under both salt-and-pepper and random-valued impulse noise models to compare our method with many other well known filters in the qualitative measure and quantitative measures such as PSNR and MAE. Experimental results indicate that the proposed filter performs significantly better than many other existing filters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1001-1004
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• 2006

Many researches have been processed to reconstruct corrupted an image by noise in fields of signal processing such as image recognition and compute. vision, and AWGN(additive white gaussian noise) and impulse noise are representative. Impulse noise consists of fired-valued(salt & pepper) impulse noise and random-valued impulse noise, and non-linear filters such as SM(standard median) filters are used to remove this noise. But basic SM filters still generate many errors in edge regions of an image, and in order to overcome this problem a variety of methods have been researched. In this paper, we proposed an impulse noise removal algorithm which is superior to the edge preserving capacity. At this tine, after detecting a noise by using the noise detector, we applied a noise removal algorithm based on the min-max operation and compared the capacity with existing methods through simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.475-481
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• 2014

As the society develops to advanced digital information times, many studies are underway about digital video processing technology areas such as image restoration. There are typical methods to restore the image which have been damaged by the impulse noise like SM(standard median) filter and CWM(center weighted median) filter. These filters show excellent noise reduction capabilities in low noise density areas, but in high noise density areas, noise reduction capabilities are not sufficient. In this paper, in order to restore the degraded images in impulse(Salt & Pepper) noise environment, the image restoration filter algorithm was suggested which expands and subdivide the mask focusing on damaged pixels. And to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm used PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) as the standard of judgement.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.11-18
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• 2006

A new algorithm for removing salt and pepper impulse noise in image using impulse noise detector and total variation optimization is presented. The proposed two types of noise detectors which are based on the adaptive median filter, can detect impulse noise with high accuracy while reducing the probability of detecting image details as impulses. And the detectors maintain its performance independent of noise density. For removing impulses, total variation optimization is applied only to those detected noise candidate to reduces unnecessary computation. The proposed approach successfully remove impulse noise while preserving image details.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.959-962
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• 2012

In the process of image acquisition, transmission and storage, image degradation occurs due to various reason, the mainly reason is noise. To restore basic methods used images of impulse noise pollution by SM, AF, CWMF. In this paper, using the modified filter to remove impulse noise. The method consists of detection and noise filtering of the noise signal. For a non-noise signal is intact, the noise signal is filtered according to the algorithm. And then through the simulation is compared with known basic methods, with PSNR as judged by reference.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.71-76
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• 2016

Digital image processing is being utilized in various fields including medical industry, satellite photos, and factory automation image recognition. However, this kind of image data produces heat by an external cause in the course of being processed, transmitted, and stored. Most typical noises added in the images are AWGN and salt and pepper. MF, CWMF, and AWMF are methods used to restore images damaged by AWGN and the existing methods are likely to damage detailed information such as an edge. Therefore, this paper suggests an algorithm applying weight of average filter, average filter depending on pixel, and spatial weight filter based on edge size of local mask in an AWGN environment, in a different way. Also, this paper compares functions of existing methods by using PSNR to prove excellence of the suggested algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.41-45
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• 2010

Image processing techniques are fundamental in human vision-based image information processing. There have been widely studied areas such as image transformation, image enhancement, image restoration, and image compression. One of research subgoals in those areas is enhancing image information for the correct information retrieval. As a fundamental task for the image recognition and interpretation, image enhancement includes noise filtering techniques. Conventional filtering algorithms may have high noise removal rate but usually have difficulty in conserving boundary information. As a result, they often use additional image processing algorithms in compensation for the tradeoff of more CPU time and higher possibility of information loss. In this paper, we propose a Fuzzy Mask Filtering algorithm that has high noise removal rate but lesser problems in above-mentioned side-effects. Our algorithm firstly decides a threshold based on fuzzy logic with information from masks. Then it decides the output pixel value by that threshold. In a designed experiment that has random impulse noise and salt pepper noise, the proposed algorithm was more effective in noise removal without information loss.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.373-376
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• 2009

영상처리 기술은 인간의 시각에 기반을 둔 영상정보와 관련된 분야에서 중요한 기반 기술로써 현재 여러 분야에서 연구가 활발하게 진행 중이다. 여러 응용 분야에서 사용되는 영상처리의 세부 기술범위는 영상 변환, 영상 개선, 영상 복원, 영상 압축등과 같이 다양하며, 이런 영상처리 기술의 중요한 연구 목표 중의 하나는 정확한 정보 추출을 위한 영상정보의 개선에 있다. 영상정보의 개선은 영상의 해석과 인식을 위한 기본적인 과제이며, 영상에서 나타날 수 있는 잡음을 제거하는 영상처리 기술이 영상정보 개선의 한 분야라고 할 수 있다. 영상정보 개선을 위한 기존의 필터링 알고리즘은 잡음제거율이 높은 만큼 경계선의 보존이 어렵다는 단점이 있으며, 이를 보완하기 위해 다른 영상처리 알고리즘을 함께 응용하여 처리함으로써 처리시간이 증가되고 원 영상의 중요한 정보를 훼손할 가능성이 존재한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존의 필터링 알고리즘의 문제점을 개선하는 동시에 잡음 제거율을 높일 수 있는 Fuzzy Mask Filter 알고리즘을 제안한다. Fuzzy Mask Filter 알고리즘은 마스크에서 얻은 정보를 Fuzzy Logic에 적용하여 임계값을 구하며, 구해진 임계값을 기준으로 출력영상의 화소값을 결정하는 알고리즘이다. 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘의 효율성을 검증하기 위해 Impulse 잡음과 Salt pepper 잡음을 임의로 생성하여 기존의 알고리즘과 비교한 결과, 제안된 방법이 잡음 영상에 존재하는 픽셀 정보를 훼손하지 않고 잡음을 효과적으로 제거한 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.11-21
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• 2008

In conventional video coding, the complexity of encoder is much higher than that of decoder. However, as more needs arises for extremely simple encoder in environments having constrained energy such as sensor network, much investigation has been carried out for eliminating motion prediction/compensation claiming most complexity and energy in encoder. The Wyner-Ziv coding, one of the representative schemes for the problem, reconstructs video at decoder by correcting noise on side information using channel coding technique such as turbo code. Since the encoder generates only parity bits without performing any type of processes extracting correlation information between frames, it has an extremely simple structure. However, turbo decoding errors occur in noisy side information. When there are high-motion or occlusion between frames, more turbo decoding errors appear in reconstructed frame and look like Salt & Pepper noise. This severely deteriorates subjective video quality even though such noise rarely occurs. In this paper, we propose a computationally extremely light encoder based on symbol-level Wyner-Ziv coding technique and a new corresponding decoder which, based on a decision whether a pixel has error or not, applies median filter selectively in order to minimize loss of texture detail from filtering. The proposed method claims extremely low encoder complexity and shows improvements both in subjective quality and PSNR. Our experiments have verified average PSNR gain of up to 0.8dB.