• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.67-69
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• 2010

대부분의 디지털 카메라는 컬러 필터 배열(Color Filter Array)을 가진 하나의 영상 획득 센서를 사용한다. 따라서 영상획득 이후에 컬러 보간 알고리즘이 필수적으로 진행된다. 또 영상 획득 과정에서 센서의 열화나 암전류 등과 같은 잡음이 발생하여 영상 잡음 제거 알고리즘이 필요하다. 하지만 기존의 대부분의 영상 잡음 제거 알고리즘은 컬러 필터 배열 영상의 특징인 모자이크 데이터 기반이 아닌 컬러 보간 이후의 풀 컬러영상에(YCbCr) 적용되고 있다. 따라서 잡음이 포함된 영상으로 컬러 보간을 할 경우 잡음의 공간적 상관관계(spatial correlation)가 커짐에 의한 잡음 번짐 때문에 컬러 보간 이후의 잡음제거는 더욱 어렵게 된다. 이와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해 컬러 필터 배열 영상에 대한 잡음제거 알고리즘이 연구되고 있으며, 본 논문에서도 CMOS/CCD의 이미지 센서에서 획득된 베이어 컬러 필터 배열 영상에서 잡음을 제거하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이를 위해서 베이어 컬러 필터 배열 영상 데이터에서 경계(edge)의 방향성을 고려한 LMMSE 방법을 기반으로 한 잡음제거 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 영상의 경계를 보존해주며 잡음제거 과정 다음에 진행되는 컬러 보간 과정에서의 잡음 번짐의 문제를 해결할 수 있다. 실험 결과를 통해 향상된 잡음 제거 효과를 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.70-76
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• 1996

In the case of an image corrupted with mixed noise, conventional MMSE filter can not remove such a mixed noise properly, because the impulse moise cause a certain bias of the minimum mean-square error estimate at regions close to outliers. In this paper, we proposed the new method or removal of mixed noise by combining MMSE filtering structure with local multi-windowing method according to directions and with ranked-order method. As a result, the improvement of the image quality with the proposed was obtained between about 9.7 and 35.2 times in the sense of NMSE(normalized mean square errors) evaluation than that of MMSE filter. Also, we could obtain the enhanced image in the mixed noisy image from visual and quantitative aspect.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.57-64
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• 2009

In this paper, We propose an highly efficient preprocessing technique for improving the performance of the crease extraction method, which can improve the accuracy of feature extraction within the fingerprint image. The proposed method applies the 1-dimensional directional slit for each pixel in fingerprint image. Once the direction of every pixel in crease candidate area is estimated, it is decomposed into different images depending on their direction. From the directional images, the crease clusters are estimated by utilizing the property of crease area. The proposed method finally extracts the crease from the crease clusters estimated from directional images.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.13-20
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose new smoothing filters, i.e., occluding patterns that can accurately correct disparities of occluded areas in the estimated disparity map. An image is composed of several layers and each layer presents similar disparity. Furthermore, the distribution of the estimated disparities has a specific direction around the boundary of the occlusion, and this distribution presents the different direction with respect to the left- and the right-based disparity map. However, typical smoothing filters, such as mean filter and median filter, did not take into account those characteristic. So, they can decrease some error, but they cannot guarantee the accuracy of the corrected disparity. On the contrary, occluding patterns can accurately correct disparities of occluded areas because they consider both the characteristic that occlusion occurs and the characteristic that disparities of the occlusion are ranged, from estimated disparity maps with respect to the left and the right images. We made experiments on occluding patterns with some real stereo image set, and as a result, we can correct disparities of occluded areas more accurately than typical smoothing filters did.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.11C
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• pp.940-947
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• 2010

Motion Compensated Frame Interpolation(MCFI) has been used to reduce motion jerkiness for dynamic scenes and motion blurriness for LCD-panel display as post processing for high quality display. However, MCFI that directly uses the motion information often suffers from annoying artifacts such as blockiness, ghost effects, and deformed structures. So in this paper, we propose a novel edge-based adaptively weighted vector median filter as post-processing. At first, the proposed method generates an edge direction map through a sobel mask and a weighted maximum frequent filter. And then, outlier MVs are removed by average of angle difference and replaced by a median MV of $3{\times}3$ window. Finally, weighted vector median filter adjusts the weighting values based on edge direction derived from spatial coherence between the edge direction continuity and motion vector. The results show that the performance of PSNR and SSIM are higher up to 0.5 ~ 1 dB and 0.4 ~ 0.8 %, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.133-137
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 영상의 콘트라스트를 개선시키는 언샵 마스킹 방법을 제안한다. 언샵 마스킹은 이미지가 가지고 있는 에지와 디테일 정보를 개선시키는데 일반적인 샤프닝 마스크 보다 효과적이기에 이에 관한 많은 연구가 있었다. 제안하는 방법은 방향성 정보를 이용한 블록 기반 업샵 마스킹 방법으로 영상을 블록 단위로 분할하여 각 블록에 대한 DCT를 수행한다. DCT 결과를 토대로 블록들의 방향성 타입을 결정하여 각 블록의 타입에 따라 적합한 언샵 마스킹을 취할 수 있는 유연함을 제공 한다. 블록의 분류는 평탄영역, 텍스쳐, 에지 그리고 나머지 형태로 구분되어 진다. 평탄 영역에 속하는 배경 및 평이한 표면에서는 결과물을 시각적으로 훼손시키지 않기 위해 언샵 마스킹을 적용하지 않는다. 텍스쳐와 에지 영역에 대해서는 고주파 성분을 보존하기 위해 블록 타입에 맞는 적합한 언샵 마스킹을 적용한다. 이에 사용되는 언샵 마스킹은 선명화의 기여도를 제어하는 적응적 필터를 사용하여 디테일이 많은 부분은 콘트라스트를 개선시키고 평탄 영역에 대해서는 선명화를 약하게 하여 최대의 영상 개선 효율을 유도한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.1734-1739
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• 2014

Currently, with the rapid development of the digital age, multimedia-related image devices become popular. However, images are susceptible to corruption in processing image data due to the impulse noise and active researches have been conducted to restore these images. This paper, in order to restore the damaged images in impulse noise environments, suggested an image restoration algorithm which applies weights depending on spatial distance between directionality and pixel by focusing on damaged pixels. Additionally, this algorithm was compared with existing methods by using the PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) as the objective standard to judge whether there were improved effects.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.353-359
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• 2006

As for the characteristic of elements for a lot of communication used in light communication systems, it is affected according to structure of directional coupler. We carried out study on a characteristic of the directional coupler which had waveguide structure to have perturbation phenomenon in this paper and ran simulation on the characteristic that we changed structure of directional coupler too, and was got. Confirmation was able to do that it operated with an optical filter, and the directional coupler which added waveguide structure to produce perturbation phenomenon by the results was able to confirm what we adjusted duty ratio of waveguide structure too, and operated with a more excellent optical filter. Through simulation, the case that duty ratio changed than the case that duty ratio of waveguide structure was $50\%$ was able to get an excellent answer characteristic of a -l8dB degree.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06e
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• pp.55-58
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 해석적인 모델에 기초한 고장 검출 기법의 하나인 fault detection filter를 적용한 고장 검출 알고리듬을 개발하고 이를 적용하여 고장검출 필터의 유효성을 보이고자 한다. Fault detection filter는 특수한 형태의 observer로써 특정한 고장의 발생시 잔차가 출력 공간에서 일정한 방향을 유지함으로써 고장 개소의 판별이 가능하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 fault detection filter에 기초한 고장 감지 시스템을 적용하기 위한 다이나믹 시스템 모델링과 고장감지 시스템의 설계과정 및 이를 적용 모의시험 결과를 수록하였다. 결과를 통하여 fault detection filter가 갖는 방향성에 대한 sensitivity 효과를 고장 감지 목적에 유효하게 적용할 수 있음을 보였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.873-882
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an efficient deinterlacing algorithm which interpolates the missing scan lines by weighted summing of the intra and the inter interpolation pixels according to the spatio-temporal variation. In the spatial interpolation, we adopt a new edge based spatial interpolation method which includes edge directional refinement. The conventional edge dependent interpolation algorithms are very sensitive to noise due to the failure of estimating edge direction. In order to exactly detect edge direction, our method first finds the edge directions around the pixel to be interpolated and then refines edge direction of the pixel using weighted maximun frequent filter. Futhermore, we improve the accuracy of motion detection by reducing the possibility of motion detection error using 3 tab median filter. In the final interpolation step, we adopt weighted sum of intra and inter interpolation pixels according to spatio-temporal variation ratio, thereby improving the quality in slow moving area. Simulation results show the efficacy of the proposed method with significant improvement over the previous methods in terms of the objective PSNR quality as well as the subjective image quality.