• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.573-577
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• 2010

Image resolution improvement is commonly technique for applications such as image reconstruction or enlargement. It is important to remove image quality degradation such as blocking effect or artificiality occurrence. In this paper, we propose image resolution improvement method using loss information of image. The proposed compute and estimate by low level interpolation of obtained low resolution image, it is applied by interpolated high resolution as 1-stage interpolation. We generate last interpolation image by iteration of error computation and application between obtained low resolution image and 1-stage interpolation image. By experiments using same test images, we confirmed improvement over 3.2dB of average PSNR and enhancement of subject image quality. Also, we can reduce more than 85% computation complexity. The proposed image resolution improvement method may be helpful for various applications of image processing.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.11A
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• pp.1880-1888
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• 2001

In wireless communication systems, transmission errors degrade the reconstructed image quality severely. Among various techniques which reduce the degradation, the error concealment technique yields good performance without overheads and the modification of the encoder. In this paper, we have proposed the technique for recovering the corrupted motion vector using the edge direction of blocks which surround the corrupted block, when the video information is compressed by H.263 standard. We uses the property that each object in video sequences shows the same motion. For the estimation of edge directions, the first AC coefficients of blocks are used. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed technique yields good performance with a reduced computational complexity.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Information Technology
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.131-136
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• 2019

People with compromised visual ability suffer from many inconveniences in daily life, such as distinguishing colors, identifying currency notes and realizing the atmospheric temperature. Therefore, to assist the visually impaired people, we propose a system by utilizing optical and infrared cameras. In the proposed system, an optical camera is used to collect features related to colors and currency notes while an infrared camera is utilized to get temperature information. The user is enabled to select the desired service by pushing the button and the appreciate voice information are provided through the speaker. The device can distinguish 16 kinds of colors, four different currency notes, and temperature information in four steps and the current accuracy is around 90%. It can be improved further through block-wise input image, machine learning, and a higher version of the infrared camera. In addition, it will be attached to the stick for easy carrying and to use it more conveniently.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.49-57
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• 2021

Digital Signage and multi-view image system are used as the 4th media to deliver stories and information due to their strong immersion. A content image displayed on large Digital Signage is produced with the use of computer graphics, rather than reality image. That is because the images shot for content making have an extremely limited range of production and their limitation to high resolution, and thereby have difficulty being displayed in a large and wide Digital Signage screen. In case of Screen X and Escape that employ the left and right walls of in the center a movie theater as a screen, images are shot with three cameras for Digital Cinema, and are screened in a cinema with multi-view image system after stitching work is applied. Such realistic images help viewers experience real-life content. This research will be able to display high-resolution images on Digital Signage without quality degradation by using the multi-view image making technique of Screen X and Chroma key technique are showed the high-resolution Digital Signage content making method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.131-141
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• 2012

This paper proposes a method of analyzing unrecognizable numbers of license plate images, which are degraded by various factors such as low resolution, low light level, geometric distortion, and periodic noise, to name a few. With existing vehicle license plate recognition methods, it is difficult to recognize license plate if images are not recognizable in the pre-process of removing degradation factors. Although images of license plate have not been improved to be recognizable in the pre-process, the proposed method makes it possible to recognize numbers of license by distorting pre-saved reference images of license plate numbers same as sample plates, and by assuming likelihood ratio using statistical methods. The proposed method also makes it possible to identify suspect vehicle license plate under unstable light conditions and with low resolution images that are unrecognizable by the naked eye. This method has been used in real criminal investigation to recognize numbers of license plate of criminal vehicle, and has proved to be useful as criminal evidence through experiments under various conditions.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.25-30
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• 2012

This study examined the use of LIT (lock-in infrared thermography) to detect defects in the welded parts of ships and offshore structures. A quantitative analysis was used with the filtering and texture measurement of image processing techniques to find the optimized experimental condition. We verified the reliability of our methods by applying image processing techniques in order to normalize the evaluations of comparative images that showed a phase difference. In addition, it was found that a low to mid-range intensity of light exposure on the surface showed good results, whereas high exposure did not provide significant results. A lock-in frequency of around 0.1 Hz was satisfactory regardless of the intensity of the light source. In addition, making the integration time of the thermography camera inversely proportional to the intensity of the exposed light source during the experiment provided good results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.113-121
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a sub-pixel rendering algorithm using learning-based 2D FIR filters. The proposed algorithm consists of two stages: the learning and synthesis stages. At the learning stage, we produce the low-resolution synthesis information derived from a sufficient number of high/low resolution block pairs, and store the synthesis information into a so-called dictionary. At the synthesis stage, the best candidate block corresponding to each input high-resolution block is found in the dictionary. Next, we can finally obtain the low-resolution image by synthesizing the low-resolution block using the selected 2D FIR filter on a sub-pixel basis. On the other hand, we additionally enhance the sharpness of the output image by using pre-emphasis considering RGB stripe pattern of display. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can provide significantly sharper results than conventional down-sampling methods, without blur effects and aliasing.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.291-300
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• 2015

In the steel manufacturing process heat-endurance deterioration of a ladle used to cause a big accident. In this paper, an infrared imaging system and image analyzing procedure are proposed for inspecting refractory bricks of a ladle. The proposed algorithm contains following three parts: two-stage image selection procedure, reference point detection, and analysis of heat-endurance deterioration. Experiments were conducted with real data from a steel plant and detailed configuration of infrared imaging system was presented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.321-322
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 수배전반에서 부하 설비 또는 외부의 영향을 확인할 수 있는 장치 및 보호설비가 설치되어 있으나 자체 사고를 신속히 검출하고 판단할 수 있는 기술의 확보를 위하여 해상도가 낮은 저가의 열화상 센서에 고속 DSP(Digital Signal Process)를 사용하여 영상 처리 기법인 이차원 보간법 기술을 이용하여 아크플래시에 의해 발생되는 열 특성을 검출하고 검출된 데이터를 전송하여 전기화재사고를 미연에 방지할 수 있는 장치 개발을 위한 기초 특성 연구를 수행하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.453-454
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• 2019

본 논문은 ESS(Energy Storage System)의 과충전, 과방전으로 인한 열 폭주 현상을 방지하기 위한 사전 연구로 원통형 리튬이온 단일 셀의 충/방전에 따른 열 분포를 열화상 카메라로 촬영하여 분석하였다. 실험을 통한 열 분포 이미지를 학습 데이터로 구성하여, SOC(State of Charge)를 추정하는 CNN(Convolution Neural Network) 모델을 제안한다.