• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.8
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• pp.459-466
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• 2014

Fading effect of old pictures and printings is shown up differently according to the ink property, temperature, humidity, illuminants, and so on. Faded image enhancement techniques based on illuminant estimation are proposed such as the gray world algorithm and white patch retinex methods. However, conventional simple operators are not suitable for enhancing faded images because partial fading effect is appeared differently. Thus, this paper presents a color enhancement algorithm based on integrating correction coefficients for faded images. First, the proposed method adopts local process by using multi-scale average mask. The coefficients for each multi-scale average mask are obtained to apply the gray world algorithm. Then, integrating the coefficients with weights is performed to calculate correction ratio for red and blue channels in the gray world assumption. Finally, the enhanced image is obtained by applying the integrated coefficients to the gray world algorithm. In the experimental results, the proposed method reproduces better colors for both wholly and partially faded images compared with the previous methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.133-136
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 SURF 알고리즘을 이용한 직교식 스테레오 카메라 영상의 칼라 불균형 보정 방법 제안한다. 제안 방법에서는 SURF 알고리즘을 이용하여 스테레오 좌, 우 영상의 대응점을 찾은 후, 찾은 대응점들의 칼라 보정 벡터를 영상 획득 모델을 기반으로 계산한다. 영상 전체에서 다양한 칼라 대응점 정보를 추출하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 분할영상을 이용하여 칼라 대응점 정보를 추출한다. 추출된 대응점 정보는 초기 칼라 보정 벡터로 변환할 수 있으며 좌, 우 영상의 모든 픽셀에 대하여 색정보가 가장 유사한 대응점의 보정 벡터를 사용하여 칼라 불균형을 보정한다. 초기 보정 벡터를 이용한 칼라 불균형 보정 후 존재하는 노이즈을 제거하기 위하여 유사한 색공간에 위치한 칼라 보정 벡터에 가우시안 필터를 적용한다. 실험 결과로 원본 영상과 보정된 영상의 칼라 히스토그램을 비교하였으며, 분할 영역의 수에 따른 보정 결과도 비교 제시하였다. 실험 결과는 제안한 방법이 직교식 스테레오 카메라 영상에 효과적인 칼라 불균형 보정 방법임을 보여준다.

• The Journal of Natural Sciences
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.123-129
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• 1995

This paper describes the design and implementation of multimedia presentation system based on the compensative synchronization algorithm. We proposed the compensative synchronization algorithm in compensation for previously preestimated delay-time in order to minimize delay-time in multimedia presentation system. The presentation system uses compensative synchronization algorithm and have multimedia objects as text, raster graphics, geometric graphics, or audio.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.29-33
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• 2007

All pixels of image sensor do not react uniformly even if the light of same radiance enters into the camera. This non-uniformity comes from the sensor pixel non-uniformity and non-uniformity induced by the changing transmission of the telescope over the field. The first contribution to the non-uniformity has high spatial frequency nature and has an influence on the result and quality of the data compression. The second source of non-uniformity has low frequency nature and has no influence of the compression result. As the contribution resulting from the sensor PRNU(Photo Response Non-Uniformity) is corrected inside the camera electronics, the effect of the remaining non-uniformity to the compression result will be negligible. The non-uniformity correction result shall have big difference according to the sensor modeling and the calculation method to get correction coefficient. Usually, the sensor can be modeled with one dimensional coefficients which are a gain and a offset for each pixel. Only two measurements are necessary theoretically to get coefficients. However, these are not the optimized value over the whole illumination level. This paper proposes the algorithm to calculate the optimized non-uniformity correction coefficients over whole illumination radiance. The proposed algorithm uses several measurements and the least square method to get the optimum coefficients. The proposed algorithm is verified using the own camera electronics including sensor, electrical test equipment and optical test equipment such as the integrating sphere.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.67-74
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose the pointing and correction algorithm for optimized performance based on Bluetooth communication. The error from the accelerometer sensor's output must be carefully managed as the accelerometer sensor is more sensitive to data change compared to that of the gyroscope sensor. Thus, we minimize the noise by applying the Kalman filter to data for each axis from the accelerometer. In addition, we can also obtain effect compensating the hand tremor by applying the Kalman filter to the data variation for x and y. In this study, we extract data through the Quaternion mapping process on data from the accelerometer and gyroscope. In turn, we can obtain a tilt compensation by applying a compensation algorithm with acceleration of the gravity of the extracted data. Moreover, in order to correct the inaccuracy on smart sensor due to the rapid movement of a device, we propose a adaptive pointing and correction algorithm using the genetic approach to generate the initial population depending on the user.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.8C
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• pp.497-504
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• 2011

This paper presents an adaptive retinex algorithm, In order to solve typical problems of retinex algorithm such as expensive computational cost, halo artifact, and color distortion, a function of skewness that represents a statistical distribution of pixels is defined to compensate contrast and color distortion. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm leads to subjectively better performance than typical retinex algorithm, and that the proposed algorithm has the capability to reduce approximately 40% computational cost than typical retinex algorithm.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.63-67
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• 2016

Recently, BLE beacons are widely used in indoor precision positioning systems because of their low battery consumption and low infrastructure cost. However, existing BLE beacon based indoor positioning algorithms are difficult to compensate for position errors due to the user's moving speed. Therefore, we proposed a position error correction algorithm that combines bounced cancellation and minimum distance maintenance algorithm with a positioning error correction method using direction vectors. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm guarantees superior positioning performance than the existing indoor positioning algorithm and also improves the performance of position error compensation.

• Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.275-282
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• 2008

Water hardness is a significant parameter as related to aquatic toxicity of some heavy metals. Hardness dependent metals include cadmium, copper, chromium (III), nickel, lead, zinc and silver. Developed countries have applied the hardness correction procedure to derive the water quality criteria for protecting the aquatic organisms. In the present study, we investigated the hardness correction algorithms used in United States of America, European Union, Australia/New Zealand, and Canada, and analyzed the details associated with those algorithms. Toxicity values of heavy metals were definitely different after hardness correction for all of algorithms analyzed. We found that the hardness corrected toxicity values followed by the algorithms of USA and Australia/New Zealand were very similar or same, however they were slightly different for cadmium at the hardness less than 30 mg $CaCO_3\;L^{-1}$. Among the hardness correction algorithms studied, the algorithm used in Australia/New Zealand appears to be a good choice to apply in Korean situation due to its simplicity compared to the algorithm of USA.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.541-544
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 서라운드 패닝알고리즘에서의 음색보정필터 설계기법에 대한 것으로 기존 패닝알고리즘에 음색보정필터를 추가하여 가상음원의 음색왜곡을 보정하는 알고리즘을 제안한 다. 가상음상과 실제 라우드 스피커의 머리전달함수 분석을 통해 기존 일정파워패닝알고리즘의 음색왜곡 문제점을 지적하고 이를 완화시키기 위한 새로운 패닝알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.789-792
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• 2011

자동차를 위한 전방향(omnidirectional) 감시 시스템, 교통 정보 수집 시스템 등 다양한 비젼 시스템에 카메라가 장착되어 사용되고 있다. 최근에는 운전자의 편의를 위하여 광각 카메라의 비선형적인 방사 왜곡을 해결하는 왜곡 보정 작업 등의 영상처리 시스템이 많이 발전하여 운전자의 사각지대를 효율적으로 최소화하고 있다. 그러나 기존의 연구에서는 카메라로부터 입력되는 왜곡 영상을 보정하는데에 별도의 H/W인 DSP(Digital Signal Processes) 또는 SOC(System On Chp) 형태의 전용 H/W를 추가하여 임베디드 시스템의 성능을 보완하고 있다. 하지만 위와 같은 별도의 H/W를 추가하여 임베디드 시스템의 성능을 보완할 경우 시스템이 복잡해지고 가격이 비싸진다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 보완하기 위하여 왜곡 보정 알고리즘과 호모그래피(Homography) 알고리즘의 연산량을 감소시켜 임베디드 시스템 환경에서 추가의 H/W 비용없이 왜곡 보정을 수행하는 알고리즘을 제안하고, 제안한 알고리즘을 구현하여 실제 시스템에 적용한 결과를 제시하여 구현 타당성을 검증한다.