• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a novel way of combining color demosaicing and the auto white balance (AWB) method, which are important parts of image processing. Performance of the AWB is generally affected by demosaicing results because most AWB algorithms are performed posterior to color demosaicing. In order to increase the performance and efficiency of the AWB algorithm, the color constancy problem is considered during the color demosaicing step. Initial estimates of the directional luminance and chrominance values are defined for estimating edge direction and calculating the AWB gain. We propose a modified edge-based AWB method that used a pre-defined achromatic region. The estimation of edge direction is performed region adaptively by using the local statistics of the initial estimates of the luminance and chrominance information. The proposed method shows significant improvements in terms of visual and numerical criteria when compared to conventional methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.92-100
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• 2006

In imaging devices such as digital cameras using a single image sensor, captured images are the sub-sampled images comprised of the pixels that have only one of the three primary colors per a pixel. This images should be restored to the color images through an image processing referred as color interpolation. In this paper, we derive relation between the average of the data from CFA image sensor and the average of each color channel data. By using this relation, a new efficient method for color interpolation is proposed. Also, in order to reduce the zipper effect in a restored image, missing luminance values are interpolated along any edges in the captured image. On the other hand, for the chrominance channel interpolation, we average difference between a chrominance value and a luminance value in a local area, and this average value is added to the pixel value of the interpolated location. The proposed method has been compared with several previous methods, and our experimental results show the better results than the other methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.86-94
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose spatially adaptive color demosaicing of noisy Bayer data. When sensor noises are not considered in demosaicing, they may degrade result image. In order to obtain high resolution image, sensor noises are considered in the color demosaicing step. We identify flat, edge and pattern regions at each pixel location to improve the performance of the algorithm and to reduce complexity. Based on the pre-classified regions, the demosaicing of the G channel is performed using the local statistics to reduce the interpolation error. The sensor noise is simultaneously removed by a modified version of non-local mean filter in the green and in the color difference domain. The R and B channels are interpolated easily using fully interpolated and denoised G and color difference values. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a significant improvement in terms of visual and numerical criteria, when compared to conventional methods.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.5
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• pp.701-706
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• 2002

A set of color features has been efficiently used to measure the similarity of given images. However, the size of the color features is too large to implement an indexing scheme effectively. In this paper a new method is proposed to retrieve similar images using an interpolated color histogram. The idea is similar to the already reported methods that use the distributions of color histograms. The new method is different in that simplified color histograms decide the similarity between a query image and target images. In order to represent the distribution of the color histograms, the best order of interpolated polynomial has been simulated. After a histogram distribution is represented in a polynomial form, only a few number of polynomial coefficients are indexed and stored in a database as a color descriptor. The new method has been applied to real images and achieved satisfactory results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.130-133
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• 2014

본 논문은 Laplacian of Gaussians (LoG)에 캐니 에지 검출 기법을 접목한 새로운 색상 보간 알고리듬을 제안한다. 캐니 에지 검출 기법은 영상 스무딩, 기울기 크기와 각도 계산, 세션화, 이중 문턱치 처리 과정으로 이루어진다. 이때 앞의 두 과정을 LoG를 이용하여 처리함으로써 기존의 캐니 애지 검출법보다 정확한 방향 정보를 얻을 수 있다. 실험결과를 통해 기존의 색상 보간 알고리듬에 비해 Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (CPSNR)이 상승함을 확인하였으며, 에지 영역 주변에서 발생하였던 무지개 에러가 현저히 감소하였음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.121-124
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• 2015

본 논문은 Multiscale Gradients (MSG)를 기반으로 한 Color Filter Array Interpolation을 배경으로 Kodak Dataset보다 실제 디지털 카메라로 촬영한 이미지에 가까운 McMaster Dataset에서 개선된 성능을 내는 알고리듬을 제안한다. MSG는 녹색 채널 보간, 녹색 채널 갱신, 빨간색, 파란색 채널 보간의 과정을 거친다. 이때 높은 스펙트럼 상관관계, 낮은 색채도, 낮은 색 경사도를 가진 Kodak Dataset과 달리 자연 이미지에서는 녹색 채널 갱신 과정의 추정방법을 사용하면 화질 및 Color Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (CPSNR)이 저하되는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 실험결과를 바탕으로 개선된 필터와 색상 보간 과정을 통해 기존의 알고리듬에 비해 향상된 성능을 보여주는 알고리듬을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.583-586
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• 2019

사진 촬영이나 영상에서의 단일이미지를 저장할 때, 결과이미지에 사용자가 중점을 둔 이미지 정보를 훼손하는 불필요한 장애물이 존재하는 경우가 있다. 본 논문에서는 훼손된 이미지의 정보를 복원하기 위해 불필요한 부분을 표시하여 제거하고, 그 결과 빈 이미지 공간을 근접한 색상 정보를 이용해서 보간하여 손상된 이미지를 최대한 복원할 수 있도록 구현했다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.110-116
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• 2017

This paper presents an effective demosaicking algorithm for color filter array (CFA) images acquired from single-sensor devices based on directional interpolation and nonlocal properties of the image. We interpolate the G channel considering diagonal directions as well as horizontal and vertical directions, using a small number of pixels to reflect local properties of the image. Then, we overcome image degradations, such as zipper effects near edges and false colors, by applying nonlocal means (NLM) filtering to the interpolated pixels. R and B channels are reproduced by using directional interpolation with information of the reconstructed G channel and NLM filtering. Experimental results for various McMaster images with high saturation and color changes show that the proposed algorithm accomplishes high PSNR compared with conventional methods. Moreover, the proposed method demonstrates better subjective quality compared with existing methods in terms of reduction of quality degradation, like false colors, and preservation of the image structures, such as edges and textures.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.431-438
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• 2016

In this paper, we present an upsampling technique for depth map image using color and depth weights. First, we construct a high-resolution image using the bilinear interpolation technique. Next, we detect a common edge region using RGB color space, HSV color space, and depth image. If an interpolated pixel belongs to the common edge region, we calculate weighting values of color and depth in $3{\times}3$ neighboring pixels and compute the cost value to determine the boundary pixel value. Finally, the pixel value having minimum cost is determined as the pixel value of the high-resolution depth image. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves good performance in terns of PSNR comparison and subjective visual quality.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.164-173
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• 2005

Painterly rendering may bring various results through the parameters that determine the characteristics of brush strokes such as, color, orientation, size, and shape. In this paper, we propose the most adaptive brush stroke generation for source images, using reference data. Our algorithm used Colors formed by actual palette colors from artists. To create the palette, we have referred mostly to colors used in Van Gogh's works and determined the color of brush strokes by transferring it to the most similar one, through comparing colors used in source images and the palette colors. Also, In order to emulate a brush stroke with dynamic properties like Van Gogh styles we have applied a brush stroke orientation that surrounds the edges by referring to the edge orientation of source images. The sizes were determined depending on the different sizes of the objects from wide to narrow brushes. Finally, we applied spline curve shapes to simulate curves and swirls like Van Gogh styles. The brush strokes created in such method, were applied separately according to its segmented images, and composed after rendering.