• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.193-204
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• 1997

In this research we propose the design of the Order Statistic-Adaptive Weighted Average Hybrid(OS-AWAH) filter which can suppress noise from the corrupted image sequence effectively while preserving the image structure. The proposed filter combines the desirable properties of the order static based spatial filter which can preserve the image structure while reducing noise and the adaptive weighted average based temporal filter which can adapt the filtering weights according to the amount of motion without motion estimation. Performance characteristics of the OS-AWAH filter in noisy sequences containing moving step edges are investigated throuth computer simulations and compared with the median based filters such as 3-D WM(weighted median) filter, MMF (multistage median filter), ADCWM(adaptive directional center weighted median) filter. The visual evaluations are also carried out by applyin gthe filters to the real images. The statistical analysis and experimental reslts show that the OS-AWAH filter is effective in preserving image structures while suppressing noise effectively without motion compensation preprocessing.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.139-147
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• 2001

Since various noises degrade not only image quality but also compression efficiency in MPEG and H.263, pre-processing is necessary to reduce spatial and temporal noise and to increase ceding efficiency as well. In this paper, we propose a simplified method for noise detection, spatial and temporal noise reduction. Noise detection is based on correlation of the current pixel with its neighboring 4 pixels. Spatial noose reduction utilizes a non-rectangular median filter that is less complex than the conventional rectangular median filter. The proposed temporal filter is an IIR average filter using LUT(Look-up Table) to enhance subjective video quality. The proposed pre-processing method is very simple and efficient.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.255-261
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• 2013

Scene-based nonuniformity correction techniques for infrared focal-plane arrays have been widely considered as a key technology, and various algorithms have been proposed to compensate for fixed-pattern noise. However, the existed algorithms' capability is always restricted by the problems of convergence speed and ghosting artifacts. In this paper, an effective scene-based nonuniformity correction method is proposed to solve these problems. The algorithm is an improvement over the constant statistics method and a temporal median is utilized with the Gaussian kernel to estimate the nonuniformity parameters. Also theoretical analysis is conducted to demonstrate that effective ghosting artifacts elimination and superior convergence speed can be obtained with the proposed method. Finally, the performance of the proposed technique is tested with infrared image sequences with simulated nonuniformity and with infrared imagery with real nonuniformity. The results show the proposed method is able to estimate each detector's gain and to offset reliably and that it performs better in increasing convergence speed and reducing ghosting artifacts compared with the conventional techniques.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.371-374
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 움직임 보상을 이용한 Motion-Adaptive De-interlacing Method를 제안 한다. 정확한 움직임 추정을 위해서 Pre-filter로서 EBMF(Edge Based Median Filter)를 사용하며 새로운 Block Matching Method를 제안한다. Temporal Filter로서 Motion Missing Error를 제거하기 위해 입력 영상의 움직임 영역에 따라 각각 다른 임계 값을 적용하는 AMPDF(Adaptive Minimum Pixel Difference Filter)를 적용하였으며 MMD(Maximum Motion Detection)와 SAD(Sum of Difference)를 이용하여 빠른 움직임 영역에서 화질을 향상시켰다. 최종적으로 잘못된 움직임 보상에 기인하는 화질의 열화를 방지하기 위한 Motion Correction Filter를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.889-892
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 효과적인 De-interlacing을 위한 Edge based Median Filter와 3-Step AMPD(Adaptive Minimum Pixel Difference Filter)를 제안한다. Motion Adaptive De-interlacing 방법에서 중요한 요소인 Motion Hissing에 의한 에러를 방지하기 위해 입력 영상을 4 가지 유형으로 구분하여 각 영상에 따라 다른 임계 값을 적용하여 정확한 화소 값을 보간 하는AMPD(Adaptive Minimum Pixel Difference) Filter를 사용하며 Moving Diagonal Edge의 효과적인 보간을 위해서 방향 필터를 사용하여 Edge Map을 추출한 뒤 Edge에 따라 가변적인 후보 화소를 선택하는 Edge based Median Filter를 사용하여 성능을 향상시켰다. 또한 입력되는 영상을 움직임 영역, 정지 영역, 경계 영역으로 나누어 적응적으로 보간 하여 연산 효율을 높였다. 제안된 방법은 다양한 영상에 대한 모의실험을 통해 기존의 방법에 비해 뛰어난 성능 개선을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.556-566
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• 2001

This paper proposes a motion-adaptive de-interlacing algorithm based on EBMF(Edge Based Median Filter) and AMPDF(Adaptive Minimum Pixel Difference Fillet). To compensate 'motion missing'error, which is an important factor in motion-adaptive methods, we used AMPDF which estimates an accurate value using different thresholds after classifying the input image to 4 classes. To efficiently interpolate the moving diagonal edge, we also used EBMF which selects a candidate pixel according to the edge information. Finally, we, to increase the performance, adopted an adaptive interpolation after classifying the input image to moving region, stationary region, and boundary region. Simulation results showed that the proposed method provides better performance than the existing methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.418-428
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a motion-adaptive de-interlacing method using motion compensated interpolation. In a conventional motion compensated method, a simple pre-filter such as line averaging is applied to interpolate missing lines before the motion estimation. However, this method causes interpolation error because of inaccurate motion estimation and compensation. In the proposed method, EBMF(Edge Based Median Filter) as a pre-filter is applied, and new matching method, which uses two same-parity fields and opposite-parity field as references, is proposed. For further improvement, motion correction filter is proposed to reduce the interpolation error caused by incorrect motion. Simulation results show that the proposed method provides better performance than existing methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.87-97
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for interlaced-to-progressive conversion by the weighted summation of the information collected from spatial do-interlacing method, in which the weighted edge based line average is applied, and the temporal method in which the motion compensation is employed by using hi-directional BMA (block matching algorithm). We employed time-recursive and motion adaptive processing as motion detection is involved. Also, a median filter is used to deal with limitation of the linear summation in which only an intermediate of values being involved is determined. The main goal of the approach is to overcome the shortcomings of each of the do-interlacing techniques without significant increment of the computational complexity, and the proposed method is apt to implement in hardware for real-time processing.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.9-12
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• 2002

In this Paper, we propose an efficient de-interlacing algorithm using temporal and spatial domain information. In the proposed scheme, motion estimation is performed same parity fields, i.e., if current field is even field, reference fields are previous even field and forward even field. And then motion vector refinement is performed to improve the accuracy of motion vectors. In the interpolating step, we use median filter to reduce the interpolation error caused by incorrect motion vector. Simulations conducted for various video sequences have shown the efficiency of the proposed interpolator with significant improvement over previous methods in terms of both PSNR and perceived image quality.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.873-882
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an efficient deinterlacing algorithm which interpolates the missing scan lines by weighted summing of the intra and the inter interpolation pixels according to the spatio-temporal variation. In the spatial interpolation, we adopt a new edge based spatial interpolation method which includes edge directional refinement. The conventional edge dependent interpolation algorithms are very sensitive to noise due to the failure of estimating edge direction. In order to exactly detect edge direction, our method first finds the edge directions around the pixel to be interpolated and then refines edge direction of the pixel using weighted maximun frequent filter. Futhermore, we improve the accuracy of motion detection by reducing the possibility of motion detection error using 3 tab median filter. In the final interpolation step, we adopt weighted sum of intra and inter interpolation pixels according to spatio-temporal variation ratio, thereby improving the quality in slow moving area. Simulation results show the efficacy of the proposed method with significant improvement over the previous methods in terms of the objective PSNR quality as well as the subjective image quality.