• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

The image obtained from systems such as autonomous driving cars or fire-fighting robots often suffer from several degradation such as noise, motion blur, and compression artifact due to multiple factor. It is difficult to apply image recognition to these degraded images, then the image restoration is essential. However, these systems cannot recognize what kind of degradation and thus there are difficulty restoring the images. In this paper, we propose the deep neural network, which restore natural images from images degraded in several ways such as noise, blur and JPEG compression in situations where the distortion applied to images is not recognized. We adopt the channel attention modules and skip connections in the proposed method, which makes the network focus on valuable information to image restoration. The proposed method is simpler to train than other methods, and experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.430-439
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• 2019

The CNN (convolutional neural network) based single degradation restoration method shows outstanding performance yet is tailored on solving a specific degradation type. In this paper, we present an algorithm of multi-degradation classification and restoration. We utilize the CNN based algorithm for solving image degradation classification problem using pre-trained Inception-v3 network. In addition, we use the existing CNN based algorithms for solving particular image degradation problems. We identity the restoration order of multi-degraded images empirically and compare with the non-reference image quality assessment score based on CNN. We use the restoration order to implement the algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can solve multi-degradation problem.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.57-58
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• 2009

최근 MPEG에서 HD(High Definition) 해상도 이상의 초고해상도 비디오를 위한 HVC(High-performance Video Coding) 표준화에 대하여 논의가 되고 있다. 이런 흐름 속에서 ETRI에서 보유중인 베리어 방식의 CCD를 사용하여 NHK에서 제작된 RG1G2B 4K 영상은 dark current error, bias error, flat error 등에 의한 영상 자체의 열화가 많아 HVC 연구를 위한 영상으로 사용되기에는 무리가 많다. 가장 이상적인 해결방안은 NHK에서 제작한 카메라 자체에 열화제거를 위한 장치들을 설치하여 규칙적인 열화를 제거한 영상을 확보하는 것이지만, 특수 제작된 카메라여서 이 방법은 불가능하다. 본 논문은 이 NHK의 영상을 wavelet 기반의 denoise filter를 응용하여 영상의 열화를 일정부분 제거하면서 영상의 디테일이 최대한 유지되도록 하여, 기존의 영상보다 깔끔한 8K UHD 영상을 획득하는 방안을 제시한다.

• The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.57-62
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• 1994

In this paper, a system for measuring of treeing degradation in organic dielectric material by using image processing technics, is discussed. Traditionally, treeing is measured by visual method. It made difficulty to understanding for features and changes in the configlEation of the tree growth. Using image processing system, it is made to describe the characters of the tree growth, specially length of tree and area of treeing degradation. From this image processing and visual measurement, the similar results were made, an automatic measurement system was made for configuration of the tree growth.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.9
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• pp.110-117
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• 2016

Applying the contrast enhancement algorithms to luminance values of color images is a widely used approach to enhance the contrast of color images. The results obtained by this approach have reduced saturation compared with that of the original images in spite of contrast enhancement without color degradation. Applying the contrast enhancement algorithm to each channel of color images is another approach for the contrast enhancement of color images. This method produces improved images in terms of contrast and saturation while the hue of original images is changed. In this paper, main cause of color degradation is analyzed and then solving the problem based on the analysis. The channel adaptive contrast enhancement method considering characteristics of each channel is also proposed to deal with color degradation. As a result, the proposed method enhances the contrast and saturation simultaneously without color degradation. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional methods not only on subjective evaluation but on objective criteria.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.67-72
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• 2012

In this paper, we present an image enhancement method for atmospherically degraded images using atmospheric light and transmission based on color analysis. We first generate a normalized image using maximum value of each RGB color channel. Then, each atmospheric light is estimated from RGB color channel respectively by calculating reflectance of an image. We also, generate a transmission using gamma coefficients from the Y channel of the image. We can significantly enhance the visibility of an image by using the estimated atmospheric light and the transmission. The proposed algorithm can remove atmospheric degradation components better than existing techniques because the color prevents color distortion which is common problem of existing techniques. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can improve visibility be removing fog, smoke, and dust.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.89-91
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• 2019

객체 추적 기술은 컴퓨터 비전 분야에서 활발하게 연구되고 있는 분야로, 인간-컴퓨터 상호작용(HCI)이나 로보틱스, 그리고 자율주행 자동차와 같은 곳에 유용하게 사용될 수 있다. 그중에서도 열화상 객체 추적 기술은 빛이 전혀 없는 어두운 밤에도 적용 가능하기 때문에, 감시 시스템이나 사고 현장의 구조 상황, 또는 군사적 응용에 더욱 유용하다. 그러나 일반적으로 열화상 영상은 컬러 영상보다 해상도가 낮고, 객체의 경계가 흐릿하며, 텍스쳐가 거의 없다는 점 때문에 기존 추적 방법들의 성능 저하의 원인이 된다. 이에 본 논문은 기존 Correlation Filter 기반 추적기에 객체성 특징을 함께 이용하여, 열화상 영상에서의 객체 추적 성능을 향상 시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 또한 실험을 통해 기존 방법보다 열화상 영상에서의 객체 추적 성능이 향상된 것을 보였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.109-117
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• 2014

This paper presents a superresolution restoration technique that can restore high-resolution images from differently blurred low resolution images rather than using the motion information between low-resolution images. In order to restore the super-resolution image the rotatable aperture mask lens system is proposed. The proposed technique does not need to estimate point spread function at each frame. In addition, it does not require image registration because there is no global translational motion between low resolution images. By using a rotatable rectangular aperture, two consecutive captured images provide sufficiently exclusive information for superresolution. Therefore, the proposed method can reduce the registration error between the low-resolution image as well as the calculation amount for superresolution restoration. The existing lens system of the camera can be extended to obtain a superresolution image by only adding an rotatable rectangular aperture mask. Finally, in order to verify the performance of the proposed system, experimental results are performed. By comparing with the existing superresolution methods, the proposed method showed the significant improvements in the sense of spatial resolution.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.281-289
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• 2000

While acquiring images, the relative motion between the imaging device and the object scene seriously damages the image quality. This phenomenon is called motion blur. The peak-trace approach, which is our recent previous work, identifies important parameters to characterize the point spread function (PSF) of the blur, given only the blurred image itself. With the peak-trace approach the direction of the motion blur can be extracted regardless of the noise corruption and does not need much Processing time. In this paper stochastic peak-trace approaches are introduced. The erroneous data can be selected through the ML classification, and can be made small through weighting. Therefore the distortion of the direction in the low frequency region can be prevented. Using the linear prediction method, the irregular data are prohibited from being selected as the peak point. The detection of the second peak using the proposed moving average least mean (MALM) method is used in the Identification of the motion extent. The MALM method itself includes a noise removal process, so it is possible to extract the parameters even an environment of heavy noise. In the experiment, we could efficiently restore the degraded image using the information obtained by the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.87-90
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• 1998

움직임 열화(motion blur)현상은 카메라와 피사체간의 상대적임 움직임에 발생되는 영상의 번짐 현상으로, 본 논문에서는 새롭게 제시한, 노이즈의 분산을 산출해 내기 위한 노이즈 지배영역과, 움직임 열화와 각도와 길이를 추정해내기 위한 신호 지배영역을 통하여 움직임 열화의 파라메터를 효율적으로 추정할 수 있는 방법을 제시하였다. 또한, 새롭게 제안한 가변가중치(weight)를 적용한 최소자승법(Least Man Square)은 극점 자취의 방향 추정에 있어 정밀한 측정이 가능케 한다. 열화의 방향이 얻어지면, 1차원 셉스트럼(Cepstrum)방법으로 빠르게 움직임 열화의 길이를 구할 수 있게 된다. 이러한 방법으로 얻어진 정보들을 이용하여, 실제 손상되어진 영상을 효과적으로 복원할 수 있었다.