• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.565-571
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• 2012

During depth data acquisition and transmission, the quality of depth maps is usually degraded by physical noise and coding error. In this paper, a new joint bilateral filter based on the common distance transform is presented to enhance the low-quality depth map. The proposed method determines the amount of exploitable color data according to distance transform values of depth and color pixels. Consequently, the proposed filter minimizes noise in the depth map while suppressing visual artifacts of joint bilateral filtering. Experimental results show that our method outperforms other conventional methods in terms of noise reduction and visual artifact suppression.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.718-720
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• 2004

일반적으로 카메라는 좁은 시각 영역(field of view)를 가짐으로 인해, 넓은 영역의 뷰를 얻기 위해서는 모터를 이용하여 카메라를 팬/틸트시키는 것이 일반적이다. 하지만, 이들은 아직까지 기계적으로 카메라를 직접 움직여 원하는 영역의 영상을 보여주기 때문에, 내구성이 떨어지며 생산 원가도 많이 든다. 또한 움직임으로 인한 모션 블러 현상도 나타난다. 본 논문에서는 한번에 보은 지역을 촬영할 수 있고, 비기계적으로 팬/틸트가 가능한 카메라 시스템을 개발하고자 한다. 한번의 촬영으로 널은 영역을 얻기 위해, 어안렌즈를 CCD 센서와 항께 사용한다. 또한, 어안렌즈(fish-eye lens)를 통해 얻은 왜곡된 영상을 와핑 기술을 이용해 편 다음, 원하는 부분의 영상을 보여준다. 본 논문은 TI사의 TMS320DSC25 프로세서로 구현하였으며, 어안 렌즈 캘리브레이션 및 실시간 왜곡 보정, 영상 출력을 위한 방법을 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.723-726
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• 2001

일반적으로 블록기반의 동영상 압축방식은 블록킹효과를 필연적으로 수반한다. 특히 저비트율의 동영상에서는 블록킹 효과가 다른 어떤 영상의 왜곡보다 많이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 블록킹효과를 효율적으로 인간 시각체계에 적합하게 실시간으로 제거하는 후처리 알고리즘을 제안한다. 우선 복원된 영상에서 인간의 시각체계와 동영상의 특성에 따라 3가지의 모드로 분리하여 QP(quantization Parameter)에 따라 임계치를 변화함으로써 각 모드의 필터링 범위를 가변시켰다. 이후에 각 모드에 알맞은 일차원 및 적응형 필터링을 적용한다. 적용된 모드별 필터링은 과도한 블러링 현상을 방지하고 영상내의 실제 에지성분읓 보호하면서 효과적으로 블록킹효과를 제거한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 알고리즘을 실험 영상에 적용하였을 경우에 주관적 화질 및 객관적 화질인 PSNR로 0.5dB 정도 향상되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.192-195
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• 2010

영상 정보의 정확성을 필요로 하는 다양한 서비스 및 여러 학문 분야의 적용성으로 인해 물리적인 한계성을 극복할 수 있는 고해상도 영상처리 기법의 요구가 대두되고 있다 뿐만 아니라, 인터넷 상의 디지털 콘텐츠 중의 하나인 동영상 UCC의 제작환경이 보편화됨으로써 비전문적인 제작으로 인한 다양한 형태의 해상도 저하 및 영상의 왜곡 현상이 발생하여 고품질의 영상을 추구하는 사용자들의 요구를 충족시키지 못하고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 압축 동영상의 개선 된 영상 정보를 획득하기 위한 연구가 이루어지고 있지만 다음과 같은 문제점이 있다. 기존의 방법은 일반적으로 저역 통과 필터 기법과 정규화 영상 복원 방식으로 구분되어 연구되고 있으며, 저역 통과 기법은 계산량 측면에서 장점이 있으나, 영상과 양자화 정도에 따라 적응적이지 못한 단점이 있다. 또한 정규화 복원 방식은 압축 영상의 시각적으로 불편한 현상의 완화 정도를 결정하는 정규화 매개변수를 일괄적으로 모든 화소에 적용해, 화소의 위치에 대한 적응도가 낮고 정규화 매개 변수 선택 시 원 영상에 대한 정보를 알고 있다는 가정을 사용했으므로 실제 사용이 불가능하며, 영상들 사이의 불균일로 인해 적응적으로 처리하지 못하는 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제점을 극복할 수 있도록 압축 정보 활용을 통한 POCS 방식을 사용한 coding artifact 제거 방식에 대해 기술한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.471-478
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• 2011

High resolution Pan-sharpening technique is becoming increasingly important in the field of remote sensing image analysis as an essential image processing to improve the spatial resolution of original multispectral image. The general scheme of pan-sharpening technique consists of upsampling process of multispectral image and high-pass detail injection process using the panchromatic image. The upsampling process, however, brings about image blurring, and this lead to spectral distortion in the pan-sharpening process. In order to solve this problem, this paper presents a new method that adopts image restoration techniques based on optimization theory in the pan-sharpening process, and evaluates its efficiency and application possibility. In order to evaluate the effect of image restoration techniques on the pansharpening process, the result obtained using the existing method that used bicubic interpolation were compared visually and quantitatively with the results obtained using image restoration techniques. The quantitative comparison was done using some spectral distortion measures for use to evaluate the quality of pan-sharpened image.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.337-343
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• 2012

The techniques of implementing 3D movie have been developed by stereoscopic representation methods of the scene based on human visual experience. Recently, though various novel approaches for stereo movies are proposed to produce realistic 3D image, more study have to be done for compensating keystone distortion which is generated by moving virtual camera. In this paper we propose a novel production technique which minimizes keystone distortion based on analyzing pixel distance, and is easily implemented on popular graphics environment. First, in graphics environment we categorize each objects as individual layers, and extract image data to produce 3D image. The comparison between each animation sequences from proposed and conventional production methods shows that our production technique well compensate the distortion.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.651-661
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• 2008

This paper proposes a novel contrast enhancement (CE) algorithm for color images using the modified error diffusion (ED). After conventional color histogram equalization (HE), artifacts such as false contours are produced in the contrast enhanced image. The proposed CE algorithm using the modified ED consists of two parts: CE and ED. In the first part, a low-contrast input image is enhanced by the conventional HE method. In the second part, we use the modified ED algorithm. The inputs of the second part are the average and scaled difference images of the original color input image and the HE image, in which the scaled color difference image is diffused by the ED algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, the modified ED algorithm reduces the artifacts produced in the HE image, and increases the number of color levels. Computer simulations with a number of low-contrast color images show the effectiveness of the proposed CE method in terms of the visual quality as well as the probability mass function. It can be used as a post-processing for CE with simultaneous artifact reduction in various display devices.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.47-58
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• 2008

Charts can propagate information more effectively by visualizing various types of information. Due to this reason, many web developers often use charts when they display information on the web. However, using a chart requires a special dedicated software to install and it is difficult to share the finished charts since they are usually in raster format. The raster format images are fixed in size, therefore, experience image distortion problem when their sizes are changed. In this paper, we propose a web-based chart generating system using CML(Chart Markup Language) to solve the current compatibility and sharing problems. The proposed chart generating system first analyzes XML, Text, or HTML documents to extract chart information in the documents, and then it converts collected chart information to CML. The converted CML documents are displayed on the web browser using a vector method. The vector method has an advantage of protecting its images from distortion even when image sizes are scaled. The CML, proposed in this paper, is a chart markup language based on XML for modeling charts Information. If CML is used for presenting a chart in a web, it makes easier to share and to convert the chart information.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.119-130
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a new color image enhancement method to improve the color saturation as well as luminance contrast in the YCbCr color space. The proposed method uses the maximum color difference table to compensate the perceived saturation changes due to luminance contrast changes. To improve the color saturation, the method first calculates the weighting factor by using the maximum color difference table and then multiplies the weighting factor to the input color difference signals. In this step, it maps color difference signals to proper color region to prevent the color distortion by considering the correlation of color saturations depending on the luminance and hue. The experimental results show that our method effectively improves color saturation compared to the conventional methods.

• Archives of design research
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• v.18 no.2 s.60
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• pp.335-344
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• 2005

This paper aims to examine how the history of modern design has been described and what has been turned out to be shortcomings and limitations in its description. Traditionally, description of the history of modern design shows over generalization, which means that it suppresses or distorts various and individual designs, stressing on the mainstream of design history. Also it, focusing on some selected designs in hegemony, depicts their characteristics and relations too lineally, and regards a hero-centered history as universal or absolute one. As this tradition is generalized, we are ofter reminded of 'modern design' when touched by ‘design,’ and of colonial heroes and heroism when touched by ‘modern design.’ In this context, this paper will argue that we need to accept various design histories, keeping the subjective attitudes toward history.