• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.60-64
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new post-processing technique that removes blocking and ringing artifacts in Block discrete cosine transformation (BDCT)-coded images using bilateral filtering. The selection of filter parameters is a key issue in the application of a bilateral filter because it significantly affects the result. An efficient method of selecting the bilateral filter parameters is presented. The experimental results show that the proposed approach alleviates the artifacts efficiently in terms of PSNR, MSDS, and SSIM.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.565-571
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• 2012

During depth data acquisition and transmission, the quality of depth maps is usually degraded by physical noise and coding error. In this paper, a new joint bilateral filter based on the common distance transform is presented to enhance the low-quality depth map. The proposed method determines the amount of exploitable color data according to distance transform values of depth and color pixels. Consequently, the proposed filter minimizes noise in the depth map while suppressing visual artifacts of joint bilateral filtering. Experimental results show that our method outperforms other conventional methods in terms of noise reduction and visual artifact suppression.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.1319-1324
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• 2013

The mean shift algorithm has achieved considerable success in object tracking due to its simplicity and robustness. It finds local minima of a similarity measure between the color histograms or kernel density estimates of the target and candidate image. However, it is sensitive to the noises due to objects or background having similar color distributions. In addition, occlusion by another object often causes a face region to change in size and position although a face region is a critical clue to perform face recognition or compute face orientation. We assume that depth and color are effective to separate a face from a background and a face from objects, respectively. From the assumption we devised a bilateral filter using color and depth and incorporate it into the mean-shift algorithm. We demonstrated the proposed method by some experiments.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.439-441
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• 2005

A kernel regression filter with adaptive bandwidth is developed and successfully applied to digital reactivity meter for neutron signal measurement in nuclear reactors. The purpose of this work is not only reduction of the measurement noise but also the edge preservation of the reactivity signal. The performance of the filtering algorithm is demonstrated comparing with well known smoothing methods of conventional low-pass and bilateral filters. The developed method gives satisfactory filtering performance and edge preservation capability.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.12
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• pp.1844-1850
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• 2016

The bilateral filter can reduce the noise while preserving details computing the filtering output at each pixels as the average of neighboring pixels. In this paper, we propose a real-time system based on window division. Overall performance is increased due to the parallel architectures which computes five rows in the kernel window simultaneously but with pipelined scheduling. We consider the tradeoff between the filter performance and the hardware cost and the bit allocation has been determined by PSNR analysis. The proposed architecture is designed with verilogHDL and synthesized using Dongbu Hitek 110nm standard cell library. The proposed architecture shows 416Mpixels/s (397fps) of throughput at 416MHz of operating frequency with 132K gates.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.39-41
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 깊이 영상의 해상도와 품질을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 2D-plus-Depth 구조의 3D 콘텐츠에서는 깊이 영상의 품질이 매우 중요하다. 최근 들어 Time-of-Flight (TOF) 방식의 깊이 센서가 깊이 영상 획득에 많이 사용되고 있는데 TOF 깊이 센서가 제공하는 깊이 영상은 저해상도이기 때문에 고해상도 3D 콘텐츠를 제작하기 위해서는 깊이 영상의 해상도를 상향 변환하는 것이 필수적이다. 또한 고품질의 깊이 영상을 얻기 위해서는 물체 간의 경계를 정교하게 보존하는 것이 중요하다. 최근에는 깊이 영상의 해상도 상향 변환을 위해서 Joint Bilateral Upsampling(JBU) 방식이 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문은 깊이 영상의 해상도를 높임에 있어서 우선 보간법을 수행하여 영상의 상향 변환 시에 생긴 빈 홀들의 값을 채워준 후 Bilateral Filtering을 수행함으로써 성능을 높인다. 일반적으로 영상을 상향 변환을 할 때 다양한 방법들이 있는데 본 논문에서는 Nearest Neighborhood(NN), Gaussian과 경계 보존 보간법, 경계 보존 보간법과 Fast Curvature Based Interpolation(FCBI)를 결합한 보간법을 사용하였다. 실험 결과 제안 방법이 기존 방법보다 우수한 성능을 가짐을 보여준다. 또한 경계 보존 보간법과 FCBI를 결합한 보간법을 이용해서 상향 변환을 수행한 결과가 다른 보간법들에 의한 결과보다 우수하다는 점을 알 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.8-10
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• 2011

3D 콘텐츠를 획득하는 여러 가지 방법 중 2D-plus-Depth 구조는 다시점 영상을 얻을 수 있는 장점 때문에 최근 이에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이 구조를 통해서 고품질의 3D영상을 얻기 위해서는 무엇보다 고품질의 깊이 영상을 구현하는 것이 중요하다. 깊이 영상을 얻기 위해서 Time-of-Flight(ToF)방식의 깊이 센서가 활용되고 있는데 이 깊이 센서는 실시간으로 깊이 정보를 획득할 수 있지만 낮은 해상도와 노이즈가 발생한다는 단점이 있다. 따라서 깊이 영상의 특성을 보존하는 상환 변환을 하여야지만 고품질의 3D 콘텐츠를 제작할 수 있다. 주로 깊이 영상의 해상도를 높이기 위해서 Joint Bilateral Upsampling(JBU) 방식이 사용되고 있다. 하지만 이 방식은 4배 이상의 고 해상도 깊이 영상을 획득하는 데에는 적합하지 않다. 따라서 고해상도의 깊이 영상을 얻기 위해서 보간법을 수행하여 가이드 영상을 만든 후 Bilateral Filtering(BF)을 처리함으로써 영상의 품질을 향상시킨다. 본 논문에서는 2D-plus-Depth 구조에서 얻은 컬러 영상과 깊이 영상을 결합한 보간법을 통해서 깊이 영상의 특성을 살린 가이드 영상을 구현하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과는 제안 방법이 기존 보간법보다 경계 영역 및 평활한 영역에서 깊이 영상의 특성을 잘 보존하는 것을 보여준다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.4170-4188
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• 2014

In this study, we present a denoising algorithm for high-frame-rate videos in an ultra-low illumination environment on the basis of Kalman filtering model and a new motion segmentation scheme. The Kalman filter removes temporal noise from signals by propagating error covariance statistics. Regarded as the process noise for imaging, motion is important in Kalman filtering. We propose a new motion estimation scheme that is suitable for serious noise. This scheme employs the small motion vector characteristic of high-frame-rate videos. Small changing patches are intentionally neglected because distinguishing details from large-scale noise is difficult and unimportant. Finally, a spatial bilateral filter is used to improve denoising capability in the motion area. Experiments are performed on videos with both synthetic and real noises. Results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in both peak signal-to-noise ratio objective evaluation and visual quality.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.90-97
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• 2023

Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is a three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique that uses the phase information of coherent light. In the reconstruction process of DHM, a narrow region around the positive or negative sideband from the Fourier domain is windowed to avoid noise due to the DC spectrum of the hologram spectrum. However, the limited size of the window also degrades the high-frequency information of the 3D object profile. Although a large window can have more detailed information of the 3D object shape, the noise is increased. To solve this trade-off, we propose phase difference averaging (PDA). The proposed method yields high-frequency information of the specimen while reducing the DC noise. In this paper, we explain the reconstruction algorithm for this method and compare it to various conventional filtering methods including Gaussian, Wiener, average, median, and bilateral filtering methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.135-142
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• 2009

Since hold-type display systems have been developed, frame-rate up conversion (FRUC) is an essential technique to improve the temporal resolution in the display. FRUC improves the temporal resolution by interpolating one or multiple intermediate frames between two adjacent frames. In this paper, a new frame-rate up-conversion algorithm based on bilateral motion refinement with rotation is proposed. First, we perform bi-directional motion estimation between adjacent two frames to obtain a motion vector for each block. Then, we apply a modified median filtering to motion vectors for outlier-rejection and motion field smoothing. The filtered motion vectors are updated by the bilateral motion refinement with rotation. After the refined motion vector is obtained, the intermediate frame is generated by applying the overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC). Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides a better performance than the previous methods subjectively and objectively.