• Speech Sciences
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.5-15
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• 1998

This paper proposes a speech state-dependent spectral subtraction method to regulate the blind spectral subtraction for improved enhancement. In the proposed method, a modified subtraction rule is applied over the speech selectively contingent to the speech state being voiced or unvoiced, in an effort to incorporate the acoustic characteristics of phonemes. In particular, the objective of the proposed method is to remedy the subtraction induced signal distortion attained by two state-dependent procedures, spectrum sharpening and minimum spectral bound. In order to remove the residual noise, the proposed method employs a procedure utilizing the masking effect. Proposed spectral subtraction including state-dependent subtraction and residual noise reduction using the masking threshold shows effectiveness in compensation of spectral distortion in the unvoiced region and residual noise reduction.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.9C
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• pp.1289-1297
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• 2004

Digital watermarking is a technique which blends intellectual property right with security Blind watermarking 1S one of the difficult watermark technique because original data or inserted watermark is not needed. In this paper, we propose a new blind watermarking method using energy quantization in wavelet domain to insert watermark. The proposed method is robust for various attacks and attack strength because watermark strength is adaptively changed for energy variation of attacks. Simulation results show the proposed method is robust to various attacks such as noise addition, cropping, blurring, sharpening, maintaining imprescriptibility.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2521-2524
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• 2002

In this paper, We propose an Image processing algorithm for a paper-cup inner defect inspection. First, we devide a cup image to four sections considering the characteristic of a cup and filter noises limit by using the flood-fill algorithm and median filter. Second, to obtain the clearer inspection result of the edge point inner cup, We apply the sharpening convolution filer to the objected inspect the edge points by using the LOG edge detector. Third, executing sub-pixel operation with the orignal image, we find the defect parts in the cup. Finally, denoting the inspected defect parts as rectangular, we recompose the images of the defected ones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.239-241
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 클러스터 개수를 동적으로 생성하는 개선된 FCM을 적용하여 초음파 영상에서 충수염을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 초음파 영상에서 ROI 영역을 추출한 후, Max-Min 기반 이진화 기법을 적용한다. 이진화된 영상에서 근막 영역의 크기가 ROI 영역의 1/3이상을 차지한다는 정보를 이용하여 Labelling 기법을 적용하여 근막 영역을 추출한다. 근막의 최하단 좌표를 이용하여 근막의 하단 영역을 추출한 후, 근막의 하단 영역에서 객체들의 선명도를 높이기 위해 Blurring 기법과 Sharpening 기법을 적용한다. 충수염의 후보 영역을 추출하기 위해 FCM 알고리즘을 개선하여 양자화를 수행한다. 개선된 FCM 알고리즘으로 양자화를 수행하여 충수염의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 충수염의 후보 영역에서 8방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 적용하여 객체들을 추출한다. 추출된 객체들 중에서 낮은 명암도를 가지고 초음파 전체 영상 크기의 1/3이하 되는 객체를 충수염으로 추출한다. 초음파 영상을 대상으로 제안된 방법을 적용하여 실험한 결과, 기존의 방법보다 충수염 영역의 추출률이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.39-46
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• 2015

When host images are watermarked with CRT (Chinese Remainder Theorem), the watermark images are still robust in spite of the damage of the host images by maintaining the remainders in an unchanged state within some range of the changes that are incurred by the attacks. This advantage can also be attained by "zero-watermarking," which does not change the host images in any way. This paper proposes an improved zero-watermarking scheme for color images on the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) domain that is based on the CRT. In the scheme, RGB images are converted into YCbCr images, and one channel is used for the DCT transformation. A key is then computed from the DC and three low-frequency AC values of each DCT block using the CRT. The key finally becomes the watermark key after it is combined four times with a scrambled watermark image. When watermark images are extracted, each bit is determined by majority voting. This scheme shows that watermark images are robust against a number of common attacks such as sharpening, blurring, JPEG lossy compression, and cropping.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.97-100
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a watermarking technique that embeds a digital watermark into digital images for the proof of owner or copyright protection. Proposed algorithm is based on discrete wavelet transform. Zerotree structure defined by Shapiro's embedded zerotree wavelet(EZW) algorithm is used. In the proposed algorithm, a digital watermark is embedded on only significant wavelet coefficients chosen by QSWT for the robustness of the algorithm. In other words, only the values of significant wavelet coefficients are modified in accordance with the given watermark pattern. We use the relationship among neighboring coefficients when modifying chosen coefficients to keep good image quality. Visual recognizable patterns such as binary images are used as a watermark. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has robustness under a variety of attacks such as JPEG compression, sharpening and blurring and also show that it has a better performance in PSNR comparing with other algorithms.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.31B no.8
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• pp.181-191
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• 1994

A new method for enhancing blurred images using fuzzy logic concepts is proposed. Blurred images contain blurred boundaries which make it difficult to detect edges and segment areas in images. In order to sharpen blurred edges local contrast information of an image and erosion/dilation properties of local min/max operations are used in which local min/max operations are fuzzy logic operations. so that given images are transformed to fuzzy images and then these operations are applied on them. In this method the sharpening operation can be iteratively applied to the image to get better deblurring effect and gray-scale "salt-and-pepper" noises are suppressed. the efficiency of our algorithm is demonstrated through experimental results obtained with artificially-made blurred images and real blurred images.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.8-12
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 영상에 간단한 공간 필터를 적용하여 연필 해칭 효과를 갖는 영상을 만들어 내는 방법을 제안한다. 해칭 스타일의 톤 생성을 위하여 모션 블러링을 이용해서 입력 영상에 방향성을 주고, 샤프닝과 블러링으로 연필 해칭 효과를 만들어 낸다. 이렇게 만들어진 영상은 영상 전체에 같은 방향으로 해칭한 것 같은 효과를 가진다. 모션 블러링을 각기 다른 방향으로 적용한 영상들을 합성하면 크로스 해칭의 효과를 만들 수 있다. 여기에 소벨 필터를 사용해서 원본 영상의 에지를 검출해서 함께 합성하여 해칭을 이용한 연필화를 생성한다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.89-95
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• 1987

Historically, one of the most famous and endless controversies in science and science education is on the origin of life. Since 1859, when the 1st edition of 'On The Origin Of Species' written by Charles Darwin had been published in London. evolutionism had the support of the public and scholars Creationists. however, argue recently that the scientific creationism is supported by the vast geological, biological, palaeontological biochemical and even astronomical evidences. Strong arguments of creationists stirred up the sharpening critiques of evolutionists. In this paper. the author summarizes three recent evolutionary critiques on creationism and refutes them from creationist view. After examing the critiques. we find that they are not based on the decisive evolutionary evidences but considerable conjectures And we show that the majority of critiques stem from the lack of communication in the academic communities.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.62-68
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a watermarking method for protecting the ownership of three-dimensional (3D) content generated from depth and texture images. After selecting the target areas to preserve the watermark by depth-image-based rendering, the reference viewpoint image is moved right and left in the depth map until the maximum viewpoint change is obtained and the overlapped region is generated for marking space. The region is divided into four subparts and scanned. After applying discrete cosine transform, the watermarks are inserted. To extract the watermark, the viewpoint can be changed by referring to the viewpoint image and the corresponding depth image initially, before returning to the original viewpoint. The watermark embedding and extracting algorithm are based on quantization. The watermarked image is attacked by the methods of JPEG compression, blurring, sharpening, and salt-pepper noise.