• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.294-302
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a new image up-sampling method which registers low resolution images to the high resolution grid when Bayesian super-resolution image processing is performed. The proposed up-sampling method interpolates high-resolution pixels using high-frequency data lying in all the low resolution images, instead of up-sampling each low resolution image separately. The interpolation is based on B-spline non-uniform re-sampling, adjusted for the super-resolution image processing. The experimental results demonstrate the effects when different up-sampling methods generally used such as zero-padding or bilinear interpolation are applied to the super-resolution image reconstruction. Then, we show that the proposed hybird up-sampling method generates high-resolution images more accurately than conventional methods with quantitative and qualitative assess measures.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.115-118
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• 2004

Images with high resolution are desired and often required in many visual applications. When resolution can not be improved by replacing sensors, either because of cost or hardware physical limits, super resolution image reconstruction method is what can be resorted to. Super resolution image reconstruction method refers to image processing algorithms that produce high quality and high resolution images from a set of low quality and low resolution images. The method is proved to be useful in many practical cases where multiple frames of the same scene can be obtained, including satellite imaging, video surveillance, video enhancement and restoration, digital mosaicking, and medical imaging. The method can be either the frequency domain approach or the spatial domain approach. Much of the earlier works concentrated on the frequency domain formulation, but as more general degradation models were considered, later researches had been almost exclusively on spatial domain formulations. The method in spatial domains has three stages: i) motion estimate or image registration, ii) interpolation onto high resolution grid and iii) deblurring process. The super resolution grid construction in the second stage was discussed in this paper. We applied the Maximum A­Posteriori(MAP) reconstruction method that is one of the major methods in the super resolution grid construction. Based on this method, we reconstructed high resolution images from a set of low resolution images and compared the results with those from other known interpolation methods.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a consecutive-frame super-resolution method to tackle a moving object problem. The super-resolution is a method restoring a high resolution image from a low resolution image. The super-resolution is classified into two types, briefly, single-frame super-resolution and consecutive-frame super-resolution. Typically, the consecutive-frame super-resolution recovers a better than the single-frame super-resolution, because it use more information from consecutive frames. However, the consecutive-frame super-resolution failed to recover the moving object. Therefore, we proposed an improved method via moving object detection. Experimental results showed that the proposed method restored both the moving object and the background properly.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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• pp.197-200
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• 2005

Super resolution image reconstruction method refers to image processing algorithms that produce a high resolution(HR) image from observed several low resolution(LR) images of the same scene. This method is proved to be useful in many practical cases where multiple frames of the same scene can be obtained, such as satellite imaging, video surveillance, video enhancement and restoration, digital mosaicking, and medical imaging. In this paper we applied super resolution reconstruction method in spatial domain to video sequences. Test images are adjacently sampled images from continuous video sequences and overlapped for high rate. We constructed the observation model between the HR images and LR images applied by the Maximum A Posteriori(MAP) reconstruction method that is one of the major methods in the super resolution grid construction. Based on this method, we reconstructed high resolution images from low resolution images and compared the results with those from other known interpolation methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.3942-3961
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• 2019

Recently, the models of deep super-resolution networks can successfully learn the non-linear mapping from the low-resolution inputs to high-resolution outputs. However, for large scaling factors, this approach has difficulties in learning the relation of low-resolution to high-resolution images, which lead to the poor restoration. In this paper, we propose Stage Generative Adversarial Networks (Stage-GAN) with semantic maps for image super-resolution (SR) in large scaling factors. We decompose the task of image super-resolution into a novel semantic map based reconstruction and refinement process. In the initial stage, the semantic maps based on the given low-resolution images can be generated by Stage-0 GAN. In the next stage, the generated semantic maps from Stage-0 and corresponding low-resolution images can be used to yield high-resolution images by Stage-1 GAN. In order to remove the reconstruction artifacts and blurs for high-resolution images, Stage-2 GAN based post-processing module is proposed in the last stage, which can reconstruct high-resolution images with photo-realistic details. Extensive experiments and comparisons with other SR methods demonstrate that our proposed method can restore photo-realistic images with visual improvements. For scale factor ${\times}8$, our method performs favorably against other methods in terms of gradients similarity.

• 센서학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.118-123
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• 2010

This paper proposes super-resolution reconstruction algorithm for image enhancement. Super-resolution reconstruction algorithms reconstruct a high-resolution image from multi-frame low-resolution images of a scene. Conventional super- resolution reconstruction algorithms are iterative back-projection(IBP), robust super-resolution(RS)method and standard Papoulis-Gerchberg(PG)method. However, traditional methods have some problems such as rotation and ringing. So, this paper proposes modified algorithm to improve the problem. Experimental results show that this proposed algorithm solve the problem. As a result, the proposed method showed an increase in the PSNR for traditional super-resolution reconstruction algorithms.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.2204-2212
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• 2022

Recently, the demand for alpha imaging detectors for quantifying the distributions of alpha particles has increased in various fields. This study aims to reconstruct a high-resolution image from an alpha imaging detector by applying a super-spatial resolution method combined with the maximum-likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) algorithm. To perform the super-spatial resolution method, several images are acquired while slightly moving the detector to predefined positions. Then, a forward model for imaging is established by the system matrix containing the mechanical shifts, subsampling, and measured point-spread function of the imaging system. Using the measured images and system matrix, the MLEM algorithm is implemented, which converges towards a high-resolution image. We evaluated the performance of the proposed method through the Monte Carlo simulations and phantom experiments. The results showed that the super-spatial resolution method was successfully applied to the alpha imaging detector. The spatial resolution of the resultant image was improved by approximately 12% using four images. Overall, the study's outcomes demonstrate the feasibility of the super-spatial resolution method for the alpha imaging detector. Possible applications of the proposed method include high-resolution imaging for alpha particles of in vitro sliced tissue and pre-clinical biologic assessments for targeted alpha therapy.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2020

기상과 기후는 인간의 생활과 밀접하게 연관되어 있다. 특히 고해상도 기상 데이터를 활용하여 정밀한 연구나 실생활에 유용한 서비스가 가능하므로, 고해상도 기상·기후 데이터를 생산해야할 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 기존의 고해상도 기상 데이터는 적절한 보간법에 따라 데이터를 생산하지만, 본 논문에서는 SRCNN을 이용하여 기온 데이터를 초해상화 하는 방안을 제안한다. 기온 데이터 초해상화에 가장 적절한 SRCNN 모델을 구축하고, 기온 데이터를 초해상화 한다. 결과 데이터를 평가하기 위해 역거리 가중법을 이용하여 비 관측 지점에 대한 기온을 구하고, 제안한 방법을 적용한 기온 데이터와 보간법을 이용한 기온 데이터를 비교한다. 비교 결과, 기온 데이터를 초해상화하기 위한 적절한 SRCNN 모델을 구축하였고, 제안한 방법이 보간법을 이용한 방법보다 약 10.8% 더 높은 예측 성능을 보였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.659-669
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• 2015

Face Recognition assumes much significance in the context of security based application. Normally, high resolution images offer more details about the image and recognizing a face from a reasonably high resolution image would be easier when compared to recognizing images from very low resolution images. This paper addresses the problem of recognizing faces from a very low resolution image whose size is as low as $8{\times}8$. With the use of CCTV(Closed Circuit Television) and with other surveillance camera-based application for security purposes, the need to overcome the shortcomings with very low resolution images has been on the rise. The present day face recognition algorithms could not provide adequate performance when employed to recognize images from VLR images. Existing methods use super-resolution (SR) methods and Relation Based Super Resolution methods to construct from very low resolution images. This paper uses a learning based super resolution method to extract and construct images from very low resolution images. Experimental results show that the proposed SR algorithm based on relationship learning outperforms the existing algorithms in public face databases.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제56권10호
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• pp.641-653
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• 2023

기후변화와 도시화의 영향으로 인해 자연재해의 발생빈도와 규모가 증가하고 있다. 특히 도시 침수는 발생 시간이 짧고 막대한 인명 및 경제적 손실을 초래할 수 있기 때문에 신속하고 정확도 높은 예측 정보 생산이 중요하다. 하지만, 기존 물리과정 및 인공지능 기반 기법은 고해상도 침수 해석을 위해 많은 전산 자원이나 데이터가 요구되는 한계가 있다. 본 연구에서는 딥러닝 기반 초해상화(Super-Resolution) 기법을 통한 고해상도 도시 침수 해석 방법을 제안하고 적용성을 평가한다. 제안된 방법은 고해상도 물리 모형의 결과로 훈련된 초해상화 딥러닝 모형을 이용하여 저해상도 침수 해석 이미지를 고해상도로 변환한다. 미국 포틀랜드 도심지의 두 가지 침수 사례에 대해 적용, 4 m 공간해상도 물리 모의 결과를 1 m 급 고해상도 침수 해석 정보로 초해상화 하였으며, 초해상화 이미지와 고해상도 원본 간 높은 구조적 유사성이 확인되었다. 성능 지표로 평가한 결과, 전체 검증 대상 이미지에 대한 평균 PSNR 22.77 dB, SSIM 0.77로 우수하여, 초해상화 기법의 도시 침수 해석 적용성이 검증되었다. 제안된 방법은 적은 양의 침수 시나리오만으로도 효율적인 딥러닝 모형 훈련이 가능하고, 물리 모형의 정보를 최대한 활용할 수 있기 때문에, 고해상도 도시 침수 정보 생산에 효과적으로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.