• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.244-246
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• 2014

Edge detection is a technique that obtains the particular information of the image using the brightness variation of pixel values and utilized for preprocessing in various image processing sectors. The conventional edge detection methods such as Sobel, Prewitt and Roberts are processed by applying the same weighted value to the entire pixels regardless of pixel distribution and provides somewhat insufficient edge detection results. Therefore, this paper has proposed an edge detection algorithm considering the direction and size of pixels by applying a modified directional mask.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.377-381
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 내용기반 이미지 검색을 위한 에지 히스토그램 분석기법을 제안하여 20종류의 다양한 에지에 대한 에지 히스토그램을 분석한다. 전체영역에 대한 수평방향 에지 히스토그램을 분석하고, 전체 영역을 몇 개의 부분영역으로 분할하고 각 부분영역에 대한 에지 히스토그램을 수행하여 영역별 특징을 추출한다. 그리고 각각의 수평방향 에지 히스토그램에서 20종류의 에지 성분의 발생 패턴을 추출한다. 본 연구에서 제안한 에지 히스토그램 분석기법은 일반적으로 사용되는 5종류의 에지 성분을 사용한 방법보다 다양한 형태의 에지를 분석을 가능하게 함으로서 내용 기반 이미지 검색을 수행하는데 있어서 다양한 에지 특징을 추출함으로서 내용 기반 이미지 검색을 효과적으로 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.89-96
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an efficient deinterlacing algorithm which is an edge dependent interpolation based on edge direction refinement. The conventional edge dependent interpolation algorithms have a visually better performance than any other Intra-field deinterlacing algorithms. However they are very sensitive to noise due to the failure of estimating edge direction. In order to exactly detect edge direction, our method detects edge direction of around interpolated pixel and refines the edge direction using weighted median filter. Simulation results have shown the efficacy of the proposed method with significant improvement over the previous methods in terms of the objective PSNR quality as well as the subjective image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.377-380
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• 2007

본 논문은 에러블록에 대해 인트라 프레임 예측모드를 이용하여 효율적인 공간적 에러 은닉 방법을 제안한다. 먼저, 에러블록내 픽셀값 복원을 위한 에러블록의 에지방향 예측은 주변 블록의 변환영역 예측모드를 이용한다. 예측된 에러블록의 정확한 에지방향은 인접한 두 에지방향과 비교하여 결정한다. 에러블록의 에지방향 예측을 주변블록의 예측모드를 이용함으로써, 기존의 에지방향 계산을 단축시킴으로써 효율적인 에러 은닉을 가능하게 한다

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.92-96
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• 2010

Deinterlacing methods are usually divided into inter-field deinterlacing and intra-field deinterlacing. The most common method of intra-field deinterlacing is the linear method which uses line doubling or line averaging. There are also some edge-enhancement methods such as ELA(Edge Based Line Average) and modified ELA. However, the linear interpolation generates edge blurring or staircase artifacts. The methods using ELA or modified ELA show poor deinterlacing at various types of edges because of insufficient edge information in a certain direction. This paper presents an intra-field deinterlacing algorithm that considers the interpolation based on edges in 7 directions and an edge line in the horizontal direction. It demonstrates better picture quality by reducing the staircase phenomenon of object in the conventional methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.492-500
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new deinterlacing algorithm which is an edge dependent Interpolation (EDI) algorithm based on a horizontal edge pattern. Generally, a conventional EDI algorithm has a visually better performance than any other deinterlacing algorithm using one field. However, it produces unpleasant results due to the failure of estimating edge direction. In order to exactly detect edge direction, we use not only simple difference but also edge patterns. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm outperforms conventional approaches with respect to both objective and subjective criteria. Index Terms I-to-P conversion, deinterlacing, edge dependent interpolation, edge pattern.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.1329-1336
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• 2005

We propose an optimal edge detection algorithm adaptive to the various widths of edges. In order to construct this algorithm, we introduce an alternative definition of edge point and generalize the directional derivatives in the pixel space to obtain an extended directional derivatives beyond scaling. The result from applying our algorithm to a 2D image is analyzed comparing to that from the other algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.312-313
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 고해상도 팬크로매틱 영상과 저해상도 다중분광 영상을 융합하기 위하여 고해상도 팬크로매틱 영상에서 MRF 모델링을 기반으로 에지 방향 정보를 추출하는 방식파 추출된 에지 방향 정보 및 고해상도 팬크로매틱 영상의 기울기 정보를 이용하여 위성영상을 융합하는 방법을 제안한다. 에지 방향 추출은 레이블링(labeling) 문제로 다루어 처리하는데, 이는 MRF 모델링을 통하여 에너지 함수를 설계하고 최소화시킴으로써 풀 수 있다. 또한 고해상도 다중분광영상 합성 시, 저해상도 다중분광영상의 픽셀 값을 정계조건으로 하고 팬크로매틱의 기울기 및 에지 정보를 이용하여 선형방정식을 세워서 풀어내는데, 이를 용하여 색상왜곡을 줄일 수 있으며 영상의 세부 부분을 더 잘 표현할 수 있다 실험 결과, 제안하는 방법이 기존방식에 비하여 좋은 성능을 보임을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.494-499
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• 2012

In this paper, a new method for detecting various objects that can be risks to safety navigation in sea environment is proposed. By analysing Infrared(IR) images obtained from various sea environments, we could find out that object regions include both horizontal and vertical direction edges while background regions of sea surface mainly include vertical direction edges. Therefore, we present an approach to detecting object regions considering horizontal and vertical edges. To this end, in the first step, image enhancement is performed by suppressing noises such as sea glint and complex clutters using a statistical filter. In the second step, a horizontal edge map and a vertical edge map are generated by 1-D Discrete Cosine Transform technique. Then, a combined map integrating the horizontal and the vertical edge maps is generated. In the third step, candidate object regions are detected by a adaptive thresholding method. Finally, exact object regions are extracted by eliminating background and clutter regions based on morphological operation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.873-882
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose an efficient deinterlacing algorithm which interpolates the missing scan lines by weighted summing of the intra and the inter interpolation pixels according to the spatio-temporal variation. In the spatial interpolation, we adopt a new edge based spatial interpolation method which includes edge directional refinement. The conventional edge dependent interpolation algorithms are very sensitive to noise due to the failure of estimating edge direction. In order to exactly detect edge direction, our method first finds the edge directions around the pixel to be interpolated and then refines edge direction of the pixel using weighted maximun frequent filter. Futhermore, we improve the accuracy of motion detection by reducing the possibility of motion detection error using 3 tab median filter. In the final interpolation step, we adopt weighted sum of intra and inter interpolation pixels according to spatio-temporal variation ratio, thereby improving the quality in slow moving area. Simulation results show the efficacy of the proposed method with significant improvement over the previous methods in terms of the objective PSNR quality as well as the subjective image quality.