• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.173-180
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• 2004

In this paper we provide a new image restoration method based on the multiscale regularization in the redundant wavelet transform domain. The proposed method uses the redundant wavelet transform to decompose the single-scale image restoration problem to multiscale ones and applies scale dependent regularization to the decomposed restoration problems. The proposed method recovers sharp edges by applying rather less regularization to wavelet related restorations, while suppressing the resulting noise magnification by the wavelet shrinkage algorithm. The improved performance of the proposed method over more traditional Wiener filtering is shown through numerical experiments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.518-528
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• 2001

In this paper, we firstly define a new combined segmentation measure and propose a segmentation algorithm using this measure. The combined segmentation measure is a weighted sum of intensity, motion, and a change segmentation measure that is extracted from the resulting image of the proposed change detector. The change segmentation measure is defined as an absolute change value difference between an pixel and its neighboring region from the eroded image, which results from morphological erosion filtering to eliminate many inaccurate components included in the resulting image of a conventional change detector. The change segmentation measure can be used as an efficient segmentation measure for the accurate segmentation of neighboring moving objects and static background regions. Therefore, the proposed combined segmentation measure can determine exact boundaries in the segmentation process of region-based coding even though the estimated motion vectors around the boundaries of moving objects and static background regions are inaccurate and the intensities around the boundaries are similar.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.116-121
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 데이터의존성과 벡터왜곡척도를 이용하여 개선된 칼라영상을 복호화하였다. 프랙탈 칼라영상의 복원방법은 Zhang과 Po의 벡터왜곡척도를 이용한 R, G, B 칼라 성분간의 상관관계를 고려하여 부호화한 압축파일을 사용하여 수렴될 복원영상을 독립적인 반복변환에 의해 수렴되는 영역과 데이터의존성을 갖는 영역으로 분류하여 데이터의존성 부분이 차지하는 만큼 복호화 과정에서 불필요한 계산량이 제거되었고, R 영역에서 검색한 데이터 의존영역을 G, B 영역에 그대로 사용하여 고속복호화가 가능하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

Emotion recognition is defined as that machines automatically recognize human emotions. Because the human emotions is very subjective, it is impossible to measure objectively. Therefore, the goal of emotion recognition is to obtain a measure that is agreed by as many people as possible. Emotion recognition in a image is implemented as the method that matches human emotions to the various features of the image. In the paper, we propose an emotion recognition system using color features of clothing image based on the Kobayashi's image scale. The proposed system stores colors of image scale into a database. And extracted major colors from a input clothing image are compared with those in the database. The proposed system can obtain three emotions maximally. In order to evaluate the system performance 70 observers are tested. The test results shows that recognized emotions of the proposed system are very similar to the observers emotions.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.399-402
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 항공 영상에서 직선 성분을 강건하게 추출하기 위한 새로운 영상 필터링 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 지상 구조물의 추출에 유용한 직선 특징을 이루는 에지와 비직선 특징을 이루는 에지의 대비도를 증가시키기 위하여 비선형, 비등방 확산 기법 [2]을 영상에 적응적으로 적용한다. 이를 위하여 확산 매개변수를 제안하는 새로운 직선성 척도로 설정하고 영상의 각 점에서의 직선성 값에 따라 적응적으로 확산을 시킴으로써 확산 과정에서 직선 특징을 잘 보존하고 비직선 특징을 효과적으로 제거한다. 본 논문에서는 직선성 척도로서 에지 체인 위의 점들의 방향성 엔트로피를 제안하고 다양한 영상에 대한 실험을 통해서 엔트로피 척도가 영상에서의 직선 특징을 추출하는데 효율적임을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.1019-1022
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• 2012

Integral imaging is a promising technology for 3D imaging and display. Many parameters affect the performance of 3D integral imaging systems. Enhanced system performance is acquired by optimization of these system parameters with respect to defined performance metrics. In this paper, we present an approach to optimize the performance of 3D integral imaging system in terms of performance metrics under fixed resource constraints. In this analysis, system parameters such as lens numerical aperture, pitch between image sensors, the number of image sensors, the pixel size, and the number of pixels are determined to optimize performance metrics. Wave optics is utilized to describe the imaging process.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.157-168
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• 2016

In image processing and computer vision fields, mean squared error (MSE) has popularly been used as an objective metric in image quality optimization problems due to its desirable mathematical properties such as metricability, differentiability and convexity. However, as known that MSE is not highly correlated with perceived visual quality, much effort has been made to develop new image quality assessment (IQA) metrics having both the desirable mathematical properties aforementioned and high prediction performances for subjective visual quality scores. Although recent IQA metrics having the desirable mathematical properties have shown to give some promising results in prediction performance for visual quality scores, they also have high computation complexities. In order to alleviate this problem, we propose a new fast IQA metric using a simple Laplace operator. Since the Laplace operator used in our IQA metric can not only effectively mimic operations of receptive fields in retina for luminance stimulus but also be simply computed, our IQA metric can yield both very fast processing speed and high prediction performance. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed IQA metric, our method is compared to some state-of-the-art IQA metrics. The experimental results showed that the proposed IQA metric has the fastest running speed compared the IQA methods except MSE under comparison. Moreover, our IQA metric achieves the best prediction performance for subjective image quality scores among the state-of-the-art IQA metrics under test.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.4 no.12
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• pp.571-576
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• 2015

Image dehazing has been extensively studied, but the performance evaluation method for dehazing techniques has not attracted significant interest. This paper surveys many existing performance evaluation methods of image dehazing. In order to analyze the reliability of the evaluation methods, synthetic hazy images are first reconstructed using the ground-truth color and depth image pairs, and the dehazed images are then compared with the original haze-free images. Meanwhile we also evaluate dehazing algorithms not by the dehazed images' quality but by the performance of computer vision algorithms before/after applying image dehazing. All the aforementioned evaluation methods are analyzed and compared, and research direction for improving the existing methods is discussed.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.934-942
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• 2013

Image scaling is used for a variety of real-life applications. In order to evaluate the performance of transform functions, the image quality are compared together before and after processing. For the objective evaluation of the transform functions, the exact criterion of image quality is required, and various aspects approaches are practically performed. However, few researches have been conducted on image quality measurement considering the position of pixels that are skipped or newly generated in the process of the image scaling. Therefore this paper focuses on the objective image quality measurement for positions of skipped or estimated pixels in the image scaling. The proposed method generated new image quality measure considering the positional changes using a conventional measure and evaluated sensitivity about positional changes. Through this experiments, it is observed that conventional image quality measurement is definitely affected by positional changes of a skipped and estimated pixels. It is also confirmed that the proposed method is an objective criterion to represent image quality for positional changes of skipped or estimated pixels. The proposed method can be used as a criterion to evaluate the performance of image restoration or enhancement functions.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1882-1883
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• 2011

서비스 로봇은 효과적인 작업 수행을 위해 장소 인식을 정확하고 빠르게 할 필요가 있다. 이러한 장소 인식을 위해 영상 센서를 사용하여 데이터베이스와 비교하여 장소를 인식하는 방식이 많이 사용되고 있다. 현재 사용 가능한 영상 데이터베이스는 하나의 공간에서 다양하게 얻을 수 있는 영상을 수집하여 갖추고 있지 않다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 SEFEX database는 병원 실내에서 촬영된 영상 데이터베이스로 총 25개 촬영장소 (회전 영상 촬영 장소 15가지, 주행 영상 촬영 장소 10가지), 기준 영상 총 100장 (회전 영상 : 60장, 주행영상: 40장)과 시험 영상 총 250장 (회전 영상 : 150장, 주행 영상: 100장)의 사진으로 구성되어 있다. 이 영상 데이터베이스를 이용하여 제조사나 연구자가 장소 인식 성능 평가의 척도나 알고리즘의 평가 척도로 사용할 수 있을 것으로 예상되며, 새로운 장소 인식 방법의 개발 등의 장소 인식 분야에 사용될 것으로 기대된다.