• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.561-564
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• 2001

잡음에 의해 훼손된 영상 신호를 복원할 때 쓰이는 Wiener filter는 국부영역의 잡음 분산과 신호 분산을 가지고 적응적으로 필터의 파라미터를 조절한다. 그러나 기존의 Wiener filter는 고정된 필터 마스크를 사용함으로써, 평탄 영역의 잡음을 크게 제거하면, 에지 부분의 잡음이 살고, 에지 부분의 잡음을 제거하면, 평탄영역의 잡음이 사는 특성이 있다. 본 논문은 Kirsh mask로 에지와 그 방향성을 판별한 후, 에지 부분의 잡음을 제거하면서 평탄 영역의 잡음도 동시에 제거하기 위해 가변적인 필터 마스크를 사용했으며, 잡음에 의해 훼손된 방향성 정보를 살러 주기위해 필터 마tm크와 훼손된 영상 이미지에 방향성 정보를 추가했다. 제안된 방법으로 실험한 결과 주관적 비교에서 에피 부분이 잡음을 제거하고 방향성을 살렸으며, PSNR을 이용한 객관적 비교에서도 기존알고리즘보다 개선된 성능을 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.77-86
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a real time post-processing visual enhancement technique to reduce the blocking artifacts in block based DCT decoded image for mobile devices that have allocation of the restricted resource. In order to reduce the blocking artifacts effectively even while preserving the image edge to the utmost, the proposed algorithm uses the deblocking filtering or the directional filtering according to the edge detection of the each pixel. After it is discriminated that the pixel to apply the deblocking filtering belongs again to the monotonous area, the weighted average filter with the adaptive mask is applied for the pixel to remove the blocking artifacts. On the other hand, a new directional filter is utilized to get rid of staircase noise and preserve the original edge component. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm produces better results than those of the conventional algorithms in both subjective and objective qualities.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.25-28
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• 2001

본 논문은 잡음에 의해 열화된 지문영상을 향상시키기 위해 화소가 가지는 다중방향성을 이용하는 방법을 제안한 다. 지문영상은 융선과 골의 규칙적인 배열로 이루어지는데 이러한 융선과 골을 구성하는 화소의 방향성들은 잡음이 가지는 방향성들과는 구별된다 방향성대역 통과 필터뱅크(Directional Filter Bank : DFB)는 입력영상이 가진 일정한 방향성 대역을 통과시켜서 다수개의 부영상들을 생성한다. 본 논문은 DFB를 이용하여 지문영상을 다수개의 특정 방향성을 가진 부영상들로 분해한 다음 이러한 부영상들을 사용하여 지문영상을 개선한다

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.369-372
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• 2011

양 방향성 필터는 이미지표면 평탄화와 잡음제거에 좋은 성능을 보이지만 특유의 연산 복잡도로 인하여 연산 시간이 오래 걸린다는 단점이 존재한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 고도의 병렬수행을 바탕으로 하는 그래픽연산장치(GPU)에 적합하도록 수정된 효율적인 양 방향성 필터를 NVIDIA 의 CUDA 를 사용하여 GTX 285 GPU 에서 구현하였다. 영상의 전 영역을 참조하는 대신 인접하고 연속된 영역으로의 근사화, 적은 메모리 사용량, 빠른 접근속도를 가지며 충돌이 최소화된 공유메모리 버퍼, Warp 를 고려한 병합된 메모리 접근방법을 바탕으로 병렬화 하였다. 그 결과, 같은 방식의 순차실행 알고리즘 대비 최소 약 34 배에서 최대 약 76 배의 속도 개선과 30dB 내외의 PSNR 을 갖는 양 방향성 필터를 구현할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.922-934
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• 1993

In this paper, statistical properties of the spatiotemporal center weighted median(CWM) filter for image sequences are investigated. It is statistically shown that the CWM filter preserves image structures under motion at the expense of noise suppression. To improve the CWM filter, a filter which can be effectively used in image sequence processing, the adaptive directional center weighted median filter (ADCWM), is proposed. This filter utilizes a multistage filtering structure based on adaptive symmetric order statistic(ASOS) operators which produce a pall of order statistics symmetric about the median. The ASOS's are selected by using adaptive parameters adjusted by local image statistics. It is shown experimentally that the proposed filter can preserve image structures while attenuating noise without the use of motion estimation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.4A
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• pp.345-355
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• 2002

This paper describes a new method of directional filter-based analysis for fingerprint enhancement. Fingerprint cages can be represented by direction field of regular structure of ridge patterns. The dominant directional component of ridge plays a very important role in pre-processing steps of fingerprint image analysis such as ridge's linking and noise removal for minutiae extraction. A directional filter bank analyzes input image into directional subband images and synthesizes them to the perfectly reconstructed image. In this paper, a new fingerprint enhancement algorithm based on a directional filter bank is proposed. The algorithm decomposes the fingerprint image into subband images in the analysis stage, accomplishes an enhance procedure by processing subband images in the enhance stage and synthesizes them to the enhanced image in the synthesis stage.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.996-1003
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• 2003

There are critical drawbacks in fabricating MMIC transversal filters because the length of the conventional transversal filter structure is much longer than the width. In order to solve this structural problem, a transversal filter using multiple-coupled-line directional couplers which can achieve tight coupling is proposed. The length of the proposed transversal filter can be made short using multiple-coupled-line couplers so that the structure of the proposed filter is applicable to MMIC technology. Because of the dielectric and conductor losses, the excited signal at the input port becomes smaller when it progresses through each directional coupler. Therefore, the strength of the coupled signals at the latter directional couplers becomes smaller than the designed one and this, in turn, gives rise to performance aggravation. A modified coupling coefficient formula to prevent frequency characteristic degradation is introduced. The proposed filter structure and the design method are verified by the calculated result and 3D full-wave analysis.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.8A
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• pp.796-804
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• 2002

This paper presents a new algorithm of fingerprint image analysis and processing using directional filter bank(DFB). The directional components of ridge is very important in pre-processing steps of fingerprint image processing such as image enhancement by directional filtering followed by estimationg the directional image of ridge patterns. The DFB analyzes input image into directional subband images and synthesizes them to the perfectly reconstructed image. In this paper, a new fingerprint processing algorithm using the DFB is proposed. The algorithm decomposes the fingerprint image into directional subband images and performs directional map generation, foreground segmentation, singular points extraction and image enhancement based on local directional energy estimate.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.151-156
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• 2010

This paper is a study on image noise reduction of modified sigma filter by image decomposition using directivity. Conventional sigma filter has been shown to be a good solution both in terms of filtering accuracy and computational complexity. However, the sigma filter does not preserve well small edges especially for high level of additive noise. In this paper, we propose here a new method using a modified sigma filter. In our proposed method the input image is first decomposed in two components that have features of horizontal, vertical and diagonal direction. Then, two components are applied HPF and LPF. By applying a conventional sigma filter separately on each of them, the output image is reconstructed from the filtered components. Added noise is removed and our proposed method preserves the edges from the image. Comparative results from experiments show that the proposed algorithm achieves higher gains, on average, 2.6 dB PSNR than the sigma filter and 0.5 dB PSNR than the modified sigma filter. When relatively high levels of noise added, the proposed algorithm shows better performance than two conventional filters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.930-933
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• 2011

This paper addresses an adaptive postprocessing method applied in the spatial domain for block-based discrete cosine transform (BDCT) coded images. The proposed algorithm is designed by a serial concatenation of a 1D simple smoothing filter and a 2D directional filter. The 1D smoothing filter is applied according to the block type, which is determined by an adaptive threshold. It depends on local statistical properties, and updates block types appropriately by a simple rule, which affects the performance of deblocking processes. In addition, the 2D directional filter is introduced to suppress the ringing effects at the sharp edges and the block discontinuities while preserving true edges and textural information. Comprehensive experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm outperforms many deblocking methods in the literature, in terms of PSNR and subjective visual quality evaluated by GBIM.