• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.510-513
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• 2002

대부분의 이진화 알고리즘은 임계치를 결정하기 위하여 히스토그램을 사용하여 밝기분포를 분석한다. 배경과 물체의 명도차이가 큰 경우에는 분할을 위해 양봉(bimodal) 히스토그램으로 표현하여 최적의 임계치를 찾기 위해 히스토그램 골짜기(valley)를 선택하는 것만으로도 양호한 임계치 결과를 얻을수 있으나, 배경과 물체의 밝기 차이가 크지 않거나 밝기 분포가 양봉 특성을 보이지 않을 때는 히스토그램 분석만으로 적절한 임계치를 얻기 어렵다. 그리고 한 영상에서는 넓은 영역에 걸쳐 명암도 변화가 일어나고 다양한 유형의 물체가 포함되어 있으므로 스케치 특징점 유무를 판별하는 임계치의 결정에는 애매 모호함이 존재한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영상에 대해 삼각형 타입의 소속함수를 적용하여 임계치를 동적으로 설정하고 영상을 이진화하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 퍼지 이진화 방법은 평균 밝기 값을 기준으로 가장 어두운 픽셀 값과 가장 밝은 픽셀값의 거리를 계산하여 밝기의 조정률을 구하여 최소 밝기값과 최대 밝기 값을 설정하고 삼각형의 소속 함수에 적용한다. 소속 함수에 적용된 소속도를 a-cut 을 적용하여 영상을 이진화한다. 다양한 영상에 적용한 결과, 기존의 이진화 방법보다 제안된 퍼지 이진화 방법이 효율적인 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.808-816
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• 2017

360 VR video systems has become important to provide immersive effect for viewers. The system consists of stitching, projection, compression, inverse projection, viewport extraction. In this paper, an efficient luminance compensation technique for 360 VR video sequences, where feature extraction and histogram equalization algorithms are utilized. The proposed luminance compensation algorithm enhance the performance of stitching in 360 VR system. The simulation results showed that the proposed technique is useful to increase the quality of the displayed image.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.748-760
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• 2012

In case brightness distribution is concentrated in a region, it is difficult to classify the image features. To solve this problem, we apply global histogram equalization and local histogram equalization to images. In case of global histogram equalization, it can be too bright or dark because it doesn't consider the density of brightness distribution. Thus, it is difficult to enhance the local contrast in the images. In case of local histogram equalization, it can produce unexpected blocks in the images. In order to enhance the contrast in the images, this paper proposes a local histogram equalization based on the Gaussian Mixture Models(GMMs) in regions of histogram. Mean and variance parameters in each regions is updated EM-algorithm repeatedly and then ranges of equalization on each regions. The experimental results performed with image of various contrasts show that the proposed algorithm is better than the global histogram equalization.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.4
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• pp.263-270
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• 2009

Histogram Equalization (HE) is a very popular technique for enhancing the contrast of an image. HE stretches the dynamic range of an image using the cumulative distribution function of a given input image, therefore improving its contrast. However, HE has a well-known problem : when HE is applied for the contrast enhancement, there is a significant change in brightness. To resolve this problem, we propose An Adaptive Contrast Enhancement Algorithm using Subhistogram Area-Ratioed Histogram Redistribution, a new method that helps reduce excessive contrast enhancement. This proposed algorithm redistributes the dynamic range of an input image using its mean luminance value and the ratio of sub-histogram area. Experimental results show that by this redistribution, the significant change in brightness is reduced effectively and the output image is able to preserve the naturalness of an original image even if it has a poor histogram distribution.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.531-534
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• 2012

기존의 히스토그램을 이용한 샷 전환 탐지 방법은 연속적인 두 프레임의 전체 또는 대응되는 동일한 크기의 소 영역의 히스토그램을 사용하며, 객체의 이동이나, 프레임의 밝기 변화에 취약한 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이 문제점들을 해결하기 위하여 연속적인 두 프레임(현재와 참조 프레임)을 소영역으로 분할한 후, 현재 프레임의 소 영역과 두 프레임사이에서 발생할 수 있는 객체의 이동을 고려한 참조 프레임에서의 소 영역의 비교, 그리고 참조 프레임의 소 영역에서 얻은 화소 밝기 히스토그램에 밝기 변화를 보상한 후, 현재 프레임의 소 영역에서 얻은 화소 밝기 히스토그램과 비교하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 영화와 뉴스 같은 비디오 데이터에 좋은 결과를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.820-823
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• 2013

Recently, the need for improving image quality of the image is increasing in various fields smartphones, cameras, and portable devices. How a significant impact on improving image quality of the image is a contrast enhancement, as a representative method to improve the contrast, the process of histogram equalization, various studies have been made. However, the method of histogram equalization general, by readjusting the only brightness, when the image histogram is biased to one side, due to changes in the excess brightness, distortions such as blocking phenomenon occurs. In this paper, we provide a contrast enhancement techniques through the compression and re-distribution of a well-balanced average brightness of the histogram distribution. By be differential compression histogram based on the histogram frequency in order to suppress the supersaturation phenomenon due to the increase in contrast ratio excessive repositioning well-balanced histogram lopsided, the proposed method, the balance of the brightness of the image I want to to take. The experimental results, the image brightness is balanced manner compared to conventional methods, the proposed method showed a good effect to improve the contrast without supersaturation phenomenon as compared with the conventional methods.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.61-73
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• 2012

This paper proposes a histogram specification based image enhancement method, which uses the brightness mean and variance of an image to maximize the entropy of the image. In our histogram specification step, the Gaussian distribution is used to fit the input histogram as well as produce the target histogram. Specifically, the input histogram is fitted with the Gaussian distribution whose mean and variance are equal to the brightness mean(${\mu}$) and variance(${\sigma}2$) of the input image, respectively; and the target Gaussian distribution also has the mean of the value ${\mu}$, but takes as the variance the value which is determined such that the output image has the maximum entropy. Experimental results show that compared to the existing methods, the proposed method preserves the mean brightness well and generates more natural looking images.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.453-467
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• 2014

A typical histogram equalization contrast enhancement effect for improving the image quality is excellent. However, because it appears that excessive changes of the brightness values, The average brightness of the image is changing in units of frames of applications such as a TV video is unsuitable. In order to solve these drawbacks, a modified method of histogram equalization on various studies have been made. But the result images of existing methods sometimes shown visual degradations such as over-enhancement and false contouring. In this paper, we propose improved contrast enhancement method through bi-histogram equalization using target mean brightness based on differential compression method. The proposed method is based on the average brightness value by dividing the histogram, the histogram for each zone, according to the frequency differential of compression. And equalize the modified histogram based on target mean brightness. This allows to suppress deterioration of picture quality, and changes in the average brightness of each frame of video, while maintaining and improving the contrast. Experimental results show that the proposed method compared to the conventional method, the average brightness of each frame from a movie well maintained, and no degradation of the image quality showed a good effect to improve the contrast.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.96-108
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• 2014

In case of contrast of the image enhancement by using the conventional histogram equalization, over-enhancement, false contouring and distortion such as the details disappearance of the image occurs due to the excessive brightness change. Especially, these distortion appears when the brightness distribution is concentrated in a particular brightness level. In order to solve these problems, improved histogram equalization methods to transform the input histogram by clipping using threshold have been proposed, but contrast enhancement effect is reduced because it does not consider the characteristics of the input image's histogram to apply the same threshold for the entire histogram, and unnatural image is obtained because it does not retain the characteristics of the image. In this paper, to solve the problems of existing methods, we propose new equalization method that suppress excessive brightness changes by applying to the differential compression according to the histogram frequency, and maintain the characteristics of the input image. In addition, we propose a more effectively method to improve contrast by controlling the strength of the compression ratio depending on the characteristics of the input image.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.527-530
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• 2012

비디오 데이터를 효율적으로 검색, 정렬, 탐색, 분류하기 위해서는 프레임 간의 샷 전환 탐지가 선행되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 비디오 데이터의 샷 전환 탐지를 위해 비디오 스트림을 구성하고 있는 각 프레임들 간의 화소 밝기 차이와 히스토그램의 변화를 이용하였다. 플래쉬 등과 같은 인위적이고 급격한 화소 밝기변화에 의한 오류를 최소화하기 위해 샷 전환 탐지 이전에 각 프레임 간의 밝기 보상을 적용하였다. 밝기 보정 된 프레임으로부터 프레임의 서브 블록 간의 지역적 화소 밝기 정보, 그리고 프레임의 화소 밝기 값 히스토그램을 비교하여 샷 전환을 탐지한다. 실험에서 제안된 알고리즘은 국가기록원 소장 비디오에 적용하여 효과가 있음을 보였다.