• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.6_1
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• pp.1245-1254
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• 2023

Significant research has been conducted on the W-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system that utilizes the 77 GHz frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) radar. To reconstruct the high-resolution W-band SAR image, it is necessary to transform the point cloud acquired from the stereo cameras or the LiDAR in the direction of 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) and apply them to the SAR signal processing. However, there are difficulties in matching images due to the different geometric structures of images acquired from different sensors. In this study, we present the method to extract an optimized depth map by obtaining 6 DOF of the point cloud using a gradient descent method based on the entropy of the SAR image. An experiment was conducted to reconstruct a tree, which is a major road environment object, using the constructed W-band SAR system. The SAR image, reconstructed using the entropy-based gradient descent method, showed a decrease of 53.2828 in mean square error and an increase of 0.5529 in the structural similarity index, compared to SAR images reconstructed from radar coordinates.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.192-210
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• 2024

Most frequency-domain remote sensing image watermarking algorithms embed watermarks at random locations, which have negative impact on the watermark invisibility. In this study, we propose an adaptive watermarking scheme for remote sensing images that considers the information complexity to select where to embed watermarks to improve watermark invisibility without affecting algorithm robustness. The scheme converts remote sensing images from RGB to YCbCr color space, performs two-level DWT on luminance Y, and selects the high frequency coefficient of the low frequency component (HH^Y₂) as the watermark embedding domain. To achieve adaptive embedding, HH^Y₂ is divided into several 8*8 blocks, the entropy of each sub-block is calculated, and the block with the maximum entropy is chosen as the watermark embedding location. During embedding phase, the watermark image is also decomposed by two-level DWT, and the resulting high frequency coefficient (HH^W₂) is then embedded into the block with maximum entropy using α- blending. The experimental results show that the watermarked remote sensing images have high fidelity, indicating good invisibility. Under varying degrees of geometric, cropping, filtering, and noise attacks, the proposed watermarking can always extract high identifiable watermark images. Moreover, it is extremely stable and impervious to attack intensity interference.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.202-209
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• 2004

Quality control is essential to the final product in BGA-type PCB fabrication. So, many automatic vision systems have been developed to achieve speedy, low cost and high quality inspection. A multiple threshold selection algorithm is a very important technique for machine vision based inspection. In this paper, an inspected image is modeled by using fuzzy sets and then the parameters of specified membership functions are estimated to be in maximum fuzzy entropy with the probability of the fuzzy sets, using the exhausted search method. Fuzzy c-partitions with the estimated parameters are automatically generated, and then multiple thresholds are selected as the crossover points of the fuzzy sets that form the estimated fuzzy partitions. Several experiments related to flip chip BGA images show that the proposed algorithm outperforms previous ones using both entropy and variance, and also can be successfully applied to AVI systems.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.201-206
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• 2009

The focus of this work is placed on the analysis of the mixture formation process under the evaporative diesel-free spray conditions. In order to examine homogeneity of mixture within the vapor phase region of the injected spray, image analysis was carried out based on the entropy of statistical thermodynamics. As an experimental parameter, the injection pressure and ambient gas density were selected, and effects of the injection pressure and density variation of ambient gas on the mixture formation process in the evaporative diesel spray were investigated. In the case of application of the thermodynamic entropy analysis to evaporative diesel spray, the value of the dimensionless entropy always increases with increase in time from injection start. Consequently, the dimensionless entropy in the case of the higher injection pressure is higher than that of lower injection pressure during initial injection period.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.209-213
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• 2010

In this paper, an efficient predictor for entropy coding is proposed. It adaptively selects one of two prediction errors obtained by MED(median edge detector) or GAP(gradient adaptive prediction). The reduced error is encoded by existing entropy coding method. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can compress higher than existing predictive methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2024.05a
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• pp.709-710
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• 2024

Super resolution에서 High-frequency Details를 개선하는 것이 최근 문제이다. 기존에는 Super resolution을 Regression task로 접근하므로써 L2 Loss를 사용하여 이미지가 흐릿하게 되었다. 이를 해결하기위해, Classification task로 바꾸므로써 Cross Entropy Loss을 적용하여 Cross-entropy Super-resolution (CS)를 설계한다. CS를 통해 선명도와 Details이 개선되지만, 저주파의 CE Loss 학습으로인한 Black Artifacts가 발생한다. 그래서, L2 Loss는 저주파와 같이 큰 신호에 더 초점을 맞추므로, 성능 개선을 위해 저주파를 L2 Loss에서, 고주파를 CE Loss에서 학습시킨 Frequency-specific Cross-entropy Super-resolution (FCS)을 제안한다. 우리는 왜곡에 강하며 Human의 인식과 유사한 측정지표인 Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity (LPIPS)로 평가한다. 실험한 모든 데이터 셋에서 우리의 FCS는 Baseline보다 LPIPS가 약 1.7배 정도 개선되었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1988.10a
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• pp.725-728
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• 1988

Image restoration technique using dual sensor is presented in this paper. Digital Radiography image (1024xlO24) is obtained by conventional resolution sensor. We also obtain local DR image data by high resolution sensor. Two dimensional maximum entropy power spectrum estimation (2-D ME PSE) is applied to low resolution image and high resolution image for the purpose of the power spectrum estimation of each image. A class of linear algebraic restoration filter, parametric projection filter (PPF), is derived from the power spectrums of each image. It is shown that the noise energy may be considerably reduced through the PPF.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.133-142
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• 2012

This paper presents a salient region detection algorithm for auto-focusing based on the characteristics of a human's visual attention. To describe the saliency at the local, regional, and global levels, this paper proposes a set of novel features including multi-scale local contrast, variance, center-surround entropy, and closeness to the center. Those features are then prioritized to produce a saliency map. The major advantage of the proposed approach is twofold; i) robustness to changes in focus and ii) low computational complexity. The experimental results showed that the proposed method outperforms the existing low-level feature-based methods in the sense of both robustness and accuracy for auto-focusing.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 1980

In this paper several basic techniques for signal processing and analysis are surveyed. Firstly by the intervention of the uncertainty principle, an equality sign may have different degree of precision if non commutable operators are applied. Seconds y maximum entropy estimate and randam process based viewpoint must be enhanced to get rid of the well established and reigning deterministic image of science. Thirdly techniques for the analysis of a signal namely detection. ess]motion and modulation are explained as well as the positive definiteness of a covariance function, Karhunen-Loeve expansion and SVD of an image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.159-163
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• 1996

In this paper, a new image compression technique, which uses lifting scheme and pyramid vector quantization, is proposed. Lifting scheme is a new technique to generate wavelets and to perform wavelet transform, and pyramid vector quantization is a kind of vector quantization which dose not have codebook neither codebook generation algorithm. For the purpose of realizing more compression rate, an arithmetic entropy coder is used. Proposed algorithm is compared with other wavelet based image coder and with JPEG which uses DCT and adaptive Huffman entropy coder. Simulation results showed that the performance of proposed algorithm is much better than that of others in point of PSNR and bpp.