• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.147-159
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• 2013

In medical visualization, volume visualization is widely used. Applying 3D images to diagnose requires high resolution and accurately implement visualization techniques are being researched accordingly. However, when a three-dimensional image volume visualization is implemented using volume data, aliasing will occur since using discrete data. Supersampling method, getting lots of samples, is used to reduce artifacts. One of the supersampling methods is Catmull-rom spline. This method calculates accurate interpolation value because it is easy to compute and pass through control points. But, Catmull-rom spline method occurs overshoot or undershoot in large gradient of pixel values. So, interpolated values are different from original signal. In this paper, we propose an adaptive adjusting weights interpolation method using Gaussian function. Proposed method shows that overshoot is reduced on the point has a large gradient and PSNR is higher than other interpolated image results.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.504-510
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• 2004

The objective of this paper is to propose the image interpolation method with pseudomedian filter for Field warping and morphing, and to evaluate and analyze its subjective image quality. The Field warping relatively gives rise to more computing overhead, but it can use the control line to control the warping result with more elaboration. Due to the working characteristics of the image warping and morphing process, various complex geometrical transformations occur and a image interpolation technique is needed to effectively process them. Of the various interpolation techniques, bilinear interpolation which shows above average performance is the most widely used. However, this technology has its limits in the reconstructivity of diagonal edges. The proposed interpolation method is to efficiently combine the bilinear interpolation and the pseudomedian filter-based interpolation which shows good performance in the reconstructivity of diagonal edges. According to the proposed interpolation method, we could get more natural warping and morphing results than other interpolation methods.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.300-301
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 GPU를 이용한 고속 보간법 개발방법에 대해 제안한다. GPU는 흔히 그래픽 연산에 사용되지만 최근에는 GPGPH가 각광을 받고 있다. 특히 NVIDIA에서 발표한 CUDA를 이용하면 GPU를 쉽게 접근하여 프로세싱 할 수 있어 많은 분야에서 GPU를 활용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 실제 CUDA를 이용하여 여러 가지 보간법에 대한 알고리즘을 구현하여 CUDA의 성능을 확인하였다. CPU에서 구현한 알고리즘과 CUDA를 이용한 알고리즘을 비교했을 때 메모리 할당 및 전송부분을 제외한 수순 프로세싱 시간을 보면 CPU에서 훨씬 좋은 성능을 나타내었고, 메모리 할당 및 전송을 고려했을 때 작은 사이즈 영상에서는 오히려 역효과가 나타났고, 대용량 영상에서는 좋은 성능을 나타냄을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.1455-1461
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• 2018

This paper presents a kernel analysis of weighted linear interpolation based on even-odd decomposition (EOD). The EOD method has advantages in that it provides low-complexity and improved image quality than the CCI method. However, since the kernel of EOD has not studied before and its analysis has not been addressed yet, this paper proposes the kernel function and its analysis. The kernel function is divided into odd and even terms. And then, the kernel is accomplished by summing the two terms. The proposed kernel is adjustable by a parameter. The parameter influences efficiency in the EOD based WLI process. Also, the kernel shapes are proposed by adjusting the parameter. In addition, the discussion with respect to the parameter is given to understand the parameter. A preliminary experiment on the kernel shape is presented to understand the adjustable parameter and corresponding kernel.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.18-26
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• 2009

Image resolution enhancement algorithm is a basic technique for image enlargement and restoration. The main problem is the image quality degradation such as blurring or blocking effects. In this paper, we propose loss information estimation and image resolution enhancement method using low level interpolation method. In the proposed method, loss information is computed by downsampling -interpolation process of obtained low resolution image. We estimate loss information of high resolution image using interpolation of the computed loss information. Lastly, we add up interpolated high resolution image and the estimated loss information which is applied a weight factor. Our experiments obtained the average PSNR 1.4dB which is improved results better than conventional algorithm. Also subjective image quality is more clearness and distinctness. The proposed method may be helpful for various video applications which required improvement of image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.459-470
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a method to upsample a low-resolution depth map to a high-resolution version. While conventional camera sensors produce high-resolution color images, the sizes of the depth maps of range/depth sensors are usually low. In this paper, we consider the utilization of high-frequency components to the conventional depth map interpolation methods such as bilinear, bicubic, and bilateral. The proposed method is composed of the three steps: high-frequency component extraction, high-frequency component application, and interpolation. Two objective evaluation measures such as sharpness degree and blur metric are used to examine the performance. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly outperforms other conventional methods by a factor of 2 in terms of sharpness degree. As well, a blur metric is reduced by a factor of 14 %.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.520-522
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• 2002

오늘날 CT나 MR등을 통한 의학 영상 기술과 컴퓨터 성능의 향상으로 인체 내부 장기의 영상을 비교적 용이하게 얻을 수 있으며 얻어진 영상 정보는 컴퓨터로 수치화 되므로 데이터의 조작 및 가공이 용이하다. 그러나, 이렇게 얻어진 의학 영상들은 보통 2차원적 슬라이스 image 형태로 얻어진다. 일반적으로 슬라이스 사이의 간격은 조사량 등 여러 문제 때문에, 항상 동일한 간격을 유지하고 있지 않은 경우가 많으며 슬라이스 사이 간격이 슬라이스 내의 픽셀 간격보다 큰 경우가 대부분이다. 이러한 image로부터 3차원적 디스플레이나, 조작, 분석을 하기 위해서는 같은 간격의 image를 얻어야 한다. 이러한 이유로 인하여 보간(Interpolation) 기법이 의학 영상 분야에서 많이 사용된다. 본 논문은 명태-기반 보간 방법을 gray-scale image에 적용이 가능하도록 확장한 그레이 수준 형태 기반 보간 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 그리하여, 본 논문이 제안한 알고리즘을 슬라이스 간격이 큰 2차원 복부 CT 영상에 적용시켜 다른 보간법들보다 향상된 결과를 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.683-688
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• 2009

The purposes of this paper is to propose new techniques to reconstruct measured optical images by using the template matching and B-Spline interpolation method based on image processing technology. To do this, we detect the matching template and non-matching template from each optical image. And then, we match the overlaped images from base level by correcting roll, pitch, and yaw error of images. At last, the matching image is interpolated by B-Spline interpolation. Finally, we show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method through some experiments.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.260-262
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 gradient inverse weighted filtering(GIWF) 보간법 기반의 화면 내 디인터레이싱 알고리듬을 제안한다. 소실된 화소 줄을 보간하기 위해서 먼저 선 처리 과정을 통해 정해진 마스크의 중간 지점의 예측 값을 생성한다. 이 때는 4-tap 필터를 이용을 한다. 다음으로 이웃 픽셀들 사이에서 마스크 내의 기울기 정보를 이용하여 gradient-weighted 필터의 가중치 계수를 계산한다. 그리고 마지막으로 새롭게 제시된 GIWF 보간법을 이용하여 소실된 화소 줄을 보간하게 된다. GIWF를 이용하여 영상의 디테일을 보존하고 잡음을 제거하는 효과를 얻게 되었다. 제안된 방법의 영상 시퀀스에 대한 실험 결과는 기존의 방법들에 비하여 성능의 우수함을 보여준다.