• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.207-209
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• 2021

In recent years, with the development of artificial intelligence and IoT technology, automation and unmanned technology are in progress in various fields, and the importance of image processing such as object tracking, medical images and object recognition, which are the basis of this, is increasing. In particular, in systems requiring detailed data processing, noise reduction is used as a pre-processing step, but the existing algorithm has a disadvantage that blurring occurs in the filtering process. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a filter algorithm using modified spatial weights to minimize information loss in the filtering process. The proposed algorithm uses mask matching to remove AWGN, and obtains the output of the filter by adding or subtracting the output of the modified spatial weight. The proposed algorithm has superior noise reduction characteristics compared to the existing method and reconstructs the image while minimizing the blurring phenomenon.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.96-104
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a no-reference objective Quality assessment metrics of image. The blockiness and blurring of edge areas which are sensitive to the human visual system are modeled as step functions. Blocking and blur metrics are obtained by estimating local visibility of blockiness and edge width, For the blocking metric, horizontal and vertical blocking lines are first determined by accumulating weighted differences of adjacent pixels and then the local visibility of blockiness at the intersection of blocking lines is obtained from the total difference of amplitudes of the 2-D step function which is modelled as a blocking region. The blurred input image is first re-blurred by a Gaussian blur kernel and an edge mask image is generated. In edge blocks, the local edge width is calculated from four directional projections (horizontal, vertical and two diagonal directions) using local extrema positions. In addition, the kurtosis and SSIM are used to compute the blur metric. The final no-reference objective metric is computed after those values are combined using an appropriate function. Experimental results show that the proposed objective metrics are highly correlated to the subjective data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.357-360
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• 2007

초해상도 영상 복원은 저해상도 이미지를 고해상도 이미지로 변환하는 기술이다. 저해상도를 고해상도로 변환 시 정보가 없는 화소에 대한 정확한 화소값을 예측하는 보간법을 이용하게 되며 영상의 스케일링에 따른 앨리어싱 (aliasing) 이 발생하는 문제를 해결해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 Sobel 연산자를 통해 구한 에지 성분의 크기와 방향성을 이용하여, 초해상도 영상의 앨리어싱과 블러링(blurring) 을 줄이는 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1707-1710
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a method of decision on blurring for business card images using block classification. In the proposed method, an input image is partitioned into 8${\times}$8 blocks and each block is classified into character block or background block using a block energy calculated in DCT domain. Whether the input image is blurring or non-blurring is determined using a ratio of low frequency energy and high frequency energy in DCT domain. Experimental results show that the proposed block classification classifies block well and the proposed decision on blurring decides well for various business card images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.253-256
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 전처리 과정에서 잡음의 효과적 처리를 위해 기존의 필터 방식들이 가지는 단점인 경계 부분의 블러링 현상을 줄이고 정확한 에지 위치를 보존할 수 있는 비등방성 확산 필터를 사용하여 CT나 MRI 2차원 영상 슬라이스들을 만들어내고 이 슬라이스들을 3차원 데이터 셋으로 구성하여 3차원 공간의 볼륨 데이터로 시각적인 영상정보를 얻는데 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.410-412
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• 2000

본 논문은 맘모그램(유방X선 사진)에서 종양의 추출에 관한 연구로서, 맘모그램의 특성을 파악하여 종양의 자동적인 추출을 시행하였다. 처리과정에서 맘모그램의 texture를 분석하여 shake 영상을 생성하였고, 8-연결성 관계에 있는 화소들의 평균값을 이용하여 블러링 영상을 생성, 두 종류의 영상을 사용하여 후보를 추출하여 일반적 종양의 특성과 일치하는 후보를 종양으로 선택하였다. 추출된 종양의 원형성 비율을 계산하고, spiculation 부분의 특징을 파악하여 추출된 종양을 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.84-90
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• 2020

As the uploading and downloading of data through the Internet is becoming more common, data including personal information are easily exposed to unauthorized users. In this study, we detect a target area in images that contain personal information, except for the background, and we protect the detected target area by using a blocking method suitable for the surrounding situation. In this method, only the target area from color image input containing personal information is segmented based on skin color. Subsequently, blurring of the corresponding area is performed in multiple stages based on the surrounding situation to effectively block the detected area, thereby protecting the personal information from being exposed. Experimental results show that the proposed method blocks the object region containing personal information 2.3% more accurately than an existing method. The proposed method is expected to be utilized in fields related to image processing, such as video security, target surveillance, and object covering.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.139-148
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• 2015

The purpose of image fusion is to combine the relevant information from a set of images into a single image, where the resultant fused image will be more informative and complete than any of the input images. Image fusion techniques can improve the quality and increase the application of these data important applications of the fusion of images include medical imaging, remote sensing, and robotics. In this paper, we suggest a new method to generate a fusion image using the close relation of image features obtained through maximum entropy threshold and mutual information. This method represents a good image registration in case of using a blurring image than other image fusion methods.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.249-255
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an algorithm to detect scale invariant object from IR image obtained in the sea environment. We create horizontal edge (HL), vertical edge (LH), diagonal edge (HH) of images through 2-D discrete Haar wavelet transform (DHWT) technique after noise reduction using morphology operations. Considering the sea environment, Gaussian blurring to the horizontal and vertical edge images at each level of wavelet is performed and then saliency map is generated by multiplying the blurred horizontal and vertical edges and combining into one image. Then we extract object candidate region by performing a binarization to saliency map. A small area in the object candidate region are removed to produce final result. Experiment results show the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.454-460
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• 2020

In recent years, the rapid increases in video distribution and viewing over the Internet have increased the risk of personal information exposure. In this paper, a method is proposed to robustly identify areas in images where a person's privacy is compromised and simultaneously blocking the object area by blurring it while rapidly tracking it using a prediction algorithm. With this method, the target object area is accurately identified using artificial neural network-based learning. The detected object area is then tracked using a location prediction algorithm and is continuously blocked by blurring it. Experimental results show that the proposed method effectively blocks private areas in images by blurring them, while at the same time tracking the target objects about 2.5% more accurately than another existing method. The proposed blocking method is expected to be useful in many applications, such as protection of personal information, video security, object tracking, etc.