• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.273-285
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• 2007

Most stereo matching methods use intensity values in small image patches to measure the correspondence between two points. If the noisy pixels are used in computing the corresponding point, the matching performance becomes low. For this reason, the noise plays a critical role in determining the matching performance. In this paper, we propose a method for combining intensity and edge filters robust to the noise in order to improve the performance of stereo matching using high resolution satellite imagery. We used intensity filters such as Mean, Median, Midpoint and Gaussian filter and edge filters such as Gradient, Roberts, Prewitt, Sobel and Laplacian filter. To evaluate the performance of intensity and edge filters, experiments were carried out on both synthetic images and satellite images with uniform or gaussian noise. Then each filter was ranked based on its performance. Among the intensity and edge filters, Median and Sobel filter showed best performance while Midpoint and Laplacian filter showed worst result. We used Ikonos satellite stereo imagery in the experiments and the matching method using Median and Sobel filter showed better matching results than other filter combinations.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.3
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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.

• Applied Microscopy
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.132-133
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• 2018

One of the most important factors determining the properties of a material is its grain size. However, unclear grain boundaries in the image hinder an accurate measurement of grain size. We demonstrate that grain boundaries existing in the images obtained by scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) can be clearly distinguished by applying a Sobel filter to a tilting series of STEM images of a hydrogenation-disproportionation-desorption-recombination processed Nd2Fe14B magnet sample.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.687-701
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• 2020

In the production of industrial fabric, it needs automatic real-time system to detect defects on the fabric for assuring the defect-free products flow to the market. At present, many visual-based methods are designed for detecting the fabric defects, but they usually lead to high false alarm. Base on this reason, we propose a Sobel operator combined with patch statistics (SOPS) algorithm for defects detection. First, we describe the defect detection model. mean filter is applied to preprocess the acquired image. Then, Sobel operator (SO) is applied to deal with the defect image, and we can get a coarse binary image. Finally, the binary image can be divided into many patches. For a given patch, a threshold is used to decide whether the patch is defect-free or not. Finally, a new image will be reconstructed, and we did a loop for the reconstructed image to suppress defects noise. Experiments show that the proposed SOPS algorithm is effective.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.437-440
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• 2022

In modern society, the use of the image processing field is increasing rapidly due to the 4th industrial revolution and the development of IoT technology. In particular, edge detection is widely used in various fields as an essential preprocessing process in image processing applications such as image classification and object detection. Conventional methods for detecting an edge include a Sobel edge detection filter, a Roberts edge detection filter, a Prewitt edge detection filter, Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG), and the like. However, existing methods have the disadvantage of showing somewhat insufficient performance of edge detection characteristics in a low-light level environment with low contrast. Therefore, this paper proposes an edge detection algorithm based on contrast analysis to increase edge detection characteristics even in low-light level environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.136-138
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• 2022

Edge detection includes information such as the shape, position, size, and material of an object with respect to an image, and is a very important factor in analyzing the characteristics of the image. Existing edge detection methods include Sobel edge detection filter, Roberts edge detection filter, Prewitt edge detection filter, and LoG (Lapacian of Gaussian) using secondary differentials. However, these methods have a disadvantage in that the edge detection results are somewhat insufficient because a fixed weight mask is applied to the entire image area. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an edge detection algorithm that increases edge detection characteristics by considering the center pixel in the mask. In addition, in order to confirm the proposed edge detection performance, it was compared through simulation result images.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.31A no.10
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• pp.152-160
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• 1994

Two dimensional interpolation filter for HD-MAC is designed with 1.0 .mu.m CMOS standard cells and verified by logic simulation. The interpolator uses FMH(FIR-Median Hybrid) filter. The median filter, which is the most complicated part of FMH filtre, is simply implemented by modifying Hadian-Sobel algorithm. the filter generates accurately the missed pixel data of luminance and chrominance with the worst case simulation condition at 27MHz clock rates.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.106-109
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• 2017

Recently, ancient documents are actively studied and discussed. However, ancient documents has a few problems on interpretation. The antique documents are too fragile to hand over. So, some studies have been carried out using terahertz to read ancient documents without damaging them. Three techniques are necessary to read letters using terahertz. First, PPEX algorithm, which distinguishes pages. Second, TGSI technique, which distinguishes text from paper on a page. Third, CCSC algorithm, which transforms signals to letters. In this paper, we will describe the preprocessing process to facilitate the recognition of letters before applying the post processing as we mentioned above. Histogram equalization, Histogram stretching and the Sobel filter were applied to the preprocessing.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.199-209
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• 2000

This study improves the feature tracking method (FTM) in estimating the ocean current vectors from the sequential AVHRR satellite imageries by adding the objective algorithm in defining the edges and boundaries of the oceanic eddies and fronts. It was implemented by using the Sobel operator. The Sobel operator has been proved to be in effective filter in detecting the edges of any object on the image. In estimating the current vectors on the edges defined by the Sobel operator, center coordinates of the Pattern and Search tiles need to be determined by the investigator. The objective feature tracking method combined with maximum cross correlation method (MCC) is turned out to be very efficient and fast, since it uses only parts of the image containing the objects instead of searching the entire image. In the validation with the in situ ADCP measurements of currents in the East Sea, the estimated current speed values are around 35% lower than and current directions are deviated by $34^{\circ}$ from ADCP current vectors. The results are regarded as improved ones compared to the previous investigators'.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.99-103
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• 2011

The stereoscopic vision system is the algorithm to obtain the depth of target object of stereo vision image. This paper presents an efficient disparity matching method using blue edge filter and graph cut algorithm. We do recommend the use of the simple sobel edge operator. The application of B band sobel edge operator over image demonstrates result with somewhat noisy (distinct border). The basic technique is to construct a specialized graph for the energy function to be minimized such that the minimum cut on the graph also minimizes the energy (either globally or locally). This method has the advantage of saving a lot of data. We propose a preprocessing effective stereo matching method based on sobel algorithm which uses blue edge information and the graph cut, we could obtain effective depth map.