• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.209-212
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• 2007

Digital images are corrupted by noises, during signal acquisition and transmission. Amount those noises, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and impulse noise are most representative. The conventional image restoration algorithms are mostly taken in simple noise environment, but they didn't perform very well in tempter noises environment. So a modified image restoration algorithm, which can remove complex noises by using the intensity differences and spatial distances between center pixel and its neighbor pixels as parameters, is proposed in this paper. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can't only remove AWGN and impulse noise separately, but also performs well in preserving details of images as edge.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.423-430
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• 2002

When JPEG, a standard of stopped image compression, is high compressed, the image is severely blocked. Since JPEG performs compression after taking DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform). It has a defect that the quality of image becomes low with aliasing in the case of high compression. Though transformation cipher method can have high compression rate, flame nay happen to quality of image by transformation and reverse transformation. In this paper, we use wavelet transform and fractal theory in order to solve these problems. After we apply these two methods to stopped image, we can get some good results, improvement of speed and compression rate, and elimination of blocking appearance. Besides, we show quality of restoration image is better than established one.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.3
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• pp.303-308
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• 2004

The Gabor cosine and sine transform can be applied to image and video compression algorithm by representing image frequency components locally The computational complexity of forward and inverse matrix transforms used in the compression and decompression requires O($N^3$)operations. In this paper, the length of basis functions is truncated to produce a sparse basis matrix, and the computational burden of transforms reduces to deal with image compression and reconstruction in a real-time processing. As the length of basis functions is decreased, the truncation effects to the energy of basis functions are examined and the change in various Qualify measures is evaluated. Experiment results show that 11 times fewer multiplication/addition operations are achieved with less than 1% performance change.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.155-160
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• 2006

This paper presents the hierarchical block matching algorithm using the 4 subbands of the wavelet transformation and the thresholding method. The proposed algorithm improves the PSNR performance of the reconstructed image using the 4 subbands of the wavelet transformation and reduces the computational complexity by thresholding the motion vector. The experimental results of the proposed algorithm for 'Carphone' image and 'Mother and Daughter' image show that if the thresholding value is 0, the computational complexity is increasing up to 16% and the PSNR performance of the reconstructed image improves the 0.16dB in comparison with that of the existing. hierarchical motion estimation algorithm. In addition, as the thresholding value is increasing, the computational complexity reduces up to 8% and the PSNR performance of the reconstructed image is similar.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.97-107
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• 2001

In this paper, an illuminant estimation algorithm of a chromatic digital images proposed. The proposed illumination estimation method has two phases. First, the surface spectral reflectances are recovered. In this case, the surface spectral reflectances recovered are limited to the maximum highlight region (MHR) which is the most achromatic and highly bright region of an image after applying intermediate color constancy process using a modified gray world algorithm. Next, the surface reflectances of the maximum highlight region are estimated using the principal component analysis method along with a set of given Munsell samples. Second, the spectral distribution of reflected lights of MHR is selected from the spectral database. That is a color difference is compared between the reflected lights of the MHR and the spectral database that is the set of reflected lights built by the given Munsell samples and a set of illuminants. Then the closest colors from the spectral database are selected. Finally, the illuminant of an image can be calculated dividing the average spectral distributions of reflected lights of MHR by the average surface reflectances of the MHR. In order to evaluate the proposed algorithm, experiments with artificial and real captured color-biased scenes were performed and numerical comparison examined. The proposed method was effective in estimating the spectral of the given illuminant sunder various illuminants.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.332-346
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• 2003

In this paper, a system which can compress and reconstruct the digital image was implemented using 2 dimensional DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform). The proposed system consists of the FPGA board tocompress the image and the application software(S/W) to reconstruct it. First the FPGA receives the image from AID converter and compresses the image using wavelet transform. The compressed data is transferred into the PC using the PCI interface. The compressed image is reconstructed by an application S/W inside the PC. The image compressor can compress about 60 fields per second, in which the image format was NTSC YCbCr(4:2:2) and the image size was 640${\times}$240 pixels per field. The designed hardware mapped into one FPGA occupying 11,120 LAB (Logic Array Block) and 27,456 ESB(Embedded System Block) in APEX20KC EP20K1000B652-7. It globally uses 33MHz clock and the memory control part uses 100MHz.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.426-433
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• 2002

In this paper, we have studied the images which have been reconstructed by using combination of images acquired by the variation of operating frequency. When inner images have been reconstructed, they have been superposed by the surface state effect. In this case, the images of the phase object can be enhanced by the contrast of inner images. In this experiment, there are two kinds of specimens, one is a reference block haying 1/4T, 1/2T, 3/4T side drilled holes as main run piping material 111 the steam generator in NPP(Neuclear Power Plant)s and the another is a part of a hemisphere type specimen having about 1-2㎜ distance gap. It has been shown that the two results of defect shapes have better than before in this processing and phase contrast grow about twice. And we have constructed the acoustic microscope by using a quadrature detector that enables to acquire the amplitude and phase of the reflected signal simultaneously Further more ore have studied the reconstruction method of the amplitude and phase images and the enhancement method of the defect images contrast.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.650-652
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• 2022

Frame rate up-conversion (FRUC) algorithm is an image interpolation technology that improves the frame rate of moving pictures. This solves problems such as screen shake or blurry motion caused by low frame rate video in high-definition digital video systems, and provides viewers with a more free and smooth visual experience. In this paper, we propose a video compression technique using deep learning-based FRUC algorithm. The proposed method compresses and transmits after excluding some images from the original video, and uses a deep learning-based interpolation method in the decoding process to restore the excluded images, thereby compressing them with high efficiency. In the experiment, the compression performance was evaluated using the decoded image and the image restored by the FRUC algorithm after encoding the video by skipping 1 or 3 pages. When 1 and 3 sheets were excluded, the average BD-rate decreased by 81.22% and 27.80%. The reason that excluding three images has lower encoding efficiency than excluding one is because the PSNR of the image reconstructed by the FRUC method is low.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.204-205
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• 2019

영상 보안 시스템에 사용되는 일반적인 CCTV 로 획득한 영상에서의 움직이는 피사체의 화질은 좋지 않다. 본 논문에서는 주변광을 정의하고 이를 통해 외부조명 조건하에 획득한 영상의 모션 디블러링을 위한 PSF 패턴을 최적화하여 영상의 화질을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 외부조명 동작 패턴에 주변광을 분석한 패턴을 더하여 영상복원을 수행하기 위한 PSF 패턴을 생성한다. 제안한 방법으로 최적화된 PSF 패턴을 사용하여 영상을 복원한 결과 기존에 사용된 방법에 비해 주관적 화질이 향상됨을 확인할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.265-268
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• 2002

가상광고는 실제 영상에 존재하지 않는 정보를 추가함으로써 영상의 정보 제시 능력을 향상시키는 것으로 폭넓고 다양한 정보가 영상에 더해질 수 있다. 이러한 가상광고를 보다 현실감 있게 구현하기 위해서는 여러 가지 환경이 갖추어져야 하는데, 그 중 하나가 사물에 대한 조명 효과이다. 본 논문에서는 가상광고 영상으로부터 조명을 고려한 그래픽 정보를 삽입함으로서 좀 더 현실감 있는 증강현실을 구현하고자 한다. 제안된 방법은 카메라로 촬영한 영상으로부터 3차원적인 위치정보를 알고 있는 고정된 4개 이상의 특징점 추출 및 추적을 통하여 카메라의 프로젝션(Projection) 행렬을 복원하고, 이를 이용하여 범용적인 크로마키(Chroma-Key) 기법으로 영상합성을 하였다. 행렬복원 과정에서는 카메라의 프로젝션 행렬로부터 QR-Decomposition 을 통해 카메라의 회전과 이동 성분을 분리해 내어 가상 물체가 카메라에 의해 움직임 보정을 받을 수 있도록 하였다. 그리고 인의의 위치에 조명을 주었을 때 생기는 변화를 그래픽에 반영하여 실사와 합성하는 실시간 시스템을 구축하고 실험으로 확인하였다.