• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.5 s.311
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• pp.1-11
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• 2006

This paper presents a digital auto-focusing method using a priori estimated point-spread-functions (PSF) database. The proposed algorithm efficiently removes out-of-focus blur in a degraded input image by selecting the optimal PSF from the database. The database consists of optical characteristics of image formation system. The PSF selection Process is performed based on a novel focusing measure. The proposed method includes a spatially adaptive filter for removing both noise and ringing artifacts. Experimental results show that the proposed method efficiently removes out-of-focus blur using significantly reduced computational load compared with the existing method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.475-481
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• 2014

As the society develops to advanced digital information times, many studies are underway about digital video processing technology areas such as image restoration. There are typical methods to restore the image which have been damaged by the impulse noise like SM(standard median) filter and CWM(center weighted median) filter. These filters show excellent noise reduction capabilities in low noise density areas, but in high noise density areas, noise reduction capabilities are not sufficient. In this paper, in order to restore the degraded images in impulse(Salt & Pepper) noise environment, the image restoration filter algorithm was suggested which expands and subdivide the mask focusing on damaged pixels. And to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm used PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) as the standard of judgement.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.181-190
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• 2011

A precision measurement and digital image restoration of the 5th century's gilt bronze cap of Baekje dynasty, excavated from the ancient tomb of Andong, Goheung in 2006, was undertaken. The objective of the scanning is to preserve precise feature of the artefact in the form of digital data by embodying it in 3 dimensional space. Acquirement of the data has been undertaken in the following process : 3D scanning to obtain 3D shape and color information(original data photographing)-3D modelling(joining original data and restoring non-photographed or damaged area)-CG image production. Production of restoration CG image was based on joined shape of original data and each part's measurement on CAD. Non-photographed part and area of loss was restored referring actual measurement and research result of excavated cap from the 5th to 8th century. 3D image restoration is one of artefact restoration methods which restores artefact without risk. It is also undertaken with historical research. As result, this method can enhance aesthetic and academic value of the artefact by successful restoration.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.561-571
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• 2012

The MTF(Modulation Transfer Function) is one of quality assesment factors to evaluate the performance of satellite images. Image restoration is needed for MTF compensation, but it is an ill-posed problem and doesn't have a certain solution. Lots of filters were suggested to solve this problem, such as Inverse Filter(IF), Pseudo Inverse Filter(PIF) and Wiener Filter(WF). The most commonly used filter is a WF, but it has a limitation on distinguishing signal and noise. The L-curve-based Modified Wiener Filter(MWF) is a solution technique using a Tikhonov regularization method. The L-curve is used for estimating an optimal regularization parameter. The image restoration was performed with Dubaisat-1 images for PIF, WF, and MWF. It is found that the image restored with MWF results in more improved MTF by 20.93% and 10.85% than PIF and WF, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.727-734
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• 2014

Digital processing technologies are being studied in various areas of image compression, recognition and recovery. However, image deterioration still occurs due to the noises in the process of image acquisition, storage and transmission. Generally in the typical noises which are included in the images, there are Gaussian noise and the mixed noise where the Gaussian noise and impulse noise are overlapped and in order to remove these noises, various researches are being executed. In order to preserve the edge and effectively remove mixed noises, image recovery filter algorithm was suggested in this study which sets and processes the adaptive weight using the median values and average values after noise judgment. Additionally, existing methods were compared through simulations and PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio) was used as a judgment standard.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.953-960
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• 2007

To correctly detect muras, visual defects in TFT-LCD panels, image distortion occurring on the profess of capturing panels should be corrected. In general vision systems, there are several known methods to restore the observed image. However, the vignetting effect particularly shown only in panel images cannot be easily restored through traditional methods because it is combined with background non-uniformity due to the unique characteristic of panel. To increase the reliability of image restoration, the vignetting effect should be properly corrected after being separated from image background. Therefore, in this paper we present a new method to analyze and correct the vignetting effect of panel images using principal component analysis. Experimental results for a total of 175 test images showed that the average contrast error of the muras in the distorted images was reduced from 37% to 11% and the mura misidentification rate was decreased from 14.8% to 2.2% by image restoration.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.3D
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• pp.535-540
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• 2006

This paper presented an effective strategy to extract the buildings and to reconstruct 3-D buildings using high-resolution multispectral stereo satellite images. Proposed scheme contained three major steps: building enhancement and segmentation using both BDT (Background Discriminant Transformation) and ISODATA algorithm, conjugate building identification using the object matching with Hausdorff distance and color indexing, and 3-D building reconstruction using photogrammetric techniques. IKONOS multispectral stereo images were used to evaluate the scheme. As a result, the BDT technique was verified as an effective tool for enhancing building areas since BDT suppressed the dominance of background to enhance the building as a non-background. In building recognition, color information itself was not enough to identify the conjugate building pairs since most buildings are composed of similar materials such as concrete. When both Hausdorff distance for edge information and color indexing for color information were combined, most segmented buildings in the stereo images were correctly identified. Finally, 3-D building models were successfully generated using the space intersection by the forward RFM (Rational Function Model).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 집적 영상 (integral imaging) 방식과 픽셀 스크램블링 (pixel scrambling) 기술을 이용한 광 영상 암호화 (optical image encryption) 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법의 부호화 과정에서는 먼저 입력영상을 여러 개의 작은 사이즈의 블록으로 나누어 픽셀 스크램블링을 한 다음 집적 영상 기술을 이용하여 요소 영상(elemental image)을 생성하고, 이 영상의 안정성을 위하여 2차 픽셀 스크램블링을 수행하여 최종 암호화된 영상을 얻는다. 그리고 복호화 과정에서는 암호화된 영상에 광학적인 집적 영상 복원 기법과 역 픽셀 스크램블링 방법을 사용하여 원 영상을 복원한다. 제안하는 광 암호화 방법에 대해서 크로핑과 같은 데이터 손실 및 노이즈에 대한 컴퓨터 적으로 모의실험을 수행하여 강인성과 유용성을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.705-708
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• 2005

최근의 지구관측 위성들은 많은 양의 정보를 제한된 시간안에 지상으로 전송하기 위해 영상처리 과정에서 손실 압축 방법을 많이 사용한다. 따라서 이들 영상 압축 알고리즘들은 위성 발사전 충분히 검증되어야 하며, 현재까지는 일반적으로 압축 복원된 영상의 품질 평가를 위해 RMSE, SNR 또는 PSNR 등이 많이 이용되어왔다. 그러나 이들 방법은 원 영상과 복원된 영상의 각 화소 간의 차이를 단순 비교해서 영상 품질을 평가 하는 방법이다. 따라서 이들 방법은 각 화소 간의 차이에 의한 영상 품질은 평가가 가능 하지만 한 화소와 주변 화소와의 관계 까지는 확인 할 수 없다. 그러나 인간의 인지 능력은 한 화소 와 주변 화소 사이의 상호 관계에 매우 민감하며 특히 위성 영상의 경우 주변 물체와의 상관 정보가 무엇보다 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 기존 영상 품질 평가 방법들의 단점을 보완하기 위해 주변 화소와의 상관 관계를 포함하는 절대 모멘트를 이용한 영상 품질 평가 방법을 제안하고 제안된 방법을 고해상도의 지구관측 영상에 적용하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a video enhancement method using generative adversarial networks to remove raindrops and restore the background information on the removed region in the coastal wave video imagery distorted by raindrops during rainfall. Two experimental models are implemented: Pix2Pix network widely used for image-to-image translation and Attentive GAN, which is currently performing well for raindrop removal on a single images. The models are trained with a public dataset of paired natural images with and without raindrops and the trained models are evaluated their performance of raindrop removal and background information recovery of rainwater distortion of coastal wave video imagery. In order to improve the performance, we have acquired paired video dataset with and without raindrops at the real coast and conducted transfer learning to the pre-trained models with those new dataset. The performance of fine-tuned models is improved by comparing the results from pre-trained models. The performance is evaluated using the peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity index and the fine-tuned Pix2Pix network by transfer learning shows the best performance to reconstruct distorted coastal wave video imagery by raindrops.