• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.63-73
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• 2015

In this paper, a quality improvement scheme is proposed for magnified image using the various curved surface characteristics of image. After testing horizontal and vertical directional surface characteristics of source image, interpolation value is calculated to have the surface characteristics such as simple convex surface, simple concave surface, and compound surface. The calculated interpolation value become the value of the interpolated pixel of magnified image. The calculated interpolation value is closer to the pixel value of real image. So, the quality of the magnified image is improved. The PSNR value of the magnified image using the proposed scheme is larger than the PSNR values of the magnified image using the existing techniques.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.45-54
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• 2014

In this paper, we proposed an effective quality improvement scheme of magnified image using the surface characteristics in image. If the surface in image is estimated as simple convex surface or simple concave surface, the interpolated value can be calculated to have the surface characteristics by using the other method in the proposed scheme. The calculated value becomes the interpolated pixel value inmagnified image. So, themagnified image reflects the surface characteristics of the real image. If the surface is not estimated as simple convex surface or simple concave surface, the interpolated value is calculated more accurately than bilinear interpolation by using the method of the proposed scheme. The PSNR values of the magnified images using the proposed schemes are greater than those of the magnified images using the previous interpolation schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.44-45
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• 2018

본 논문은 감마 보정 기반의 저조도 영상의 대조비 향상을 위한 최적의 계수 추정 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 먼저 입력 영상의 휘도 정보를 로그 함수를 이용하여 정규화 한 후, 입력 영상을 밝은 부분과 어두운 부분으로 나눈다. 그런 다음 각각의 영역에서 통계적 특성을 고려한 비용 함수를 정의하고, 컨벡스 최적화 이론을 이용하여 최적의 감마보정 계수를 얻는다. 마지막으로 과포화 현상이 발생을 억제할 수 있는 색상 복원 기법을 적용한다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 제안하는 기법이 기존 기법에 비해서 낮은 계산 복잡도를 보이면서도 향상된 대조비를 보임을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.230-233
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• 2020

영상 다운스케일링 기법은 입력 영상의 해상도를 목적으로 하는, 입력영상의 해상도보다 낮은 해상도로 조정하는 기법을 일컫는다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 다운스케일링 기법들을 커널 기반의 방법과 프레임 단위의 최적화 기반 기법으로 분류하고 각 방법들의 대표 기법들에 대해서 분석한다. 이후, 최종적으로 그 결과를 도출하여 각 방법들의 특성을 도출한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.117-118
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• 2016

최근 UHDTV(ultra high definition television)가 가정에 보급이 많이 되고 있는 추세지만, UHD급 콘텐츠가 매우 부족한 실정이다. 따라서 저해상도 FHD(full high definition) 영상을 고해상도 영상으로 변환시켜 재활용할 수 있는 초해상화(super-resolution, SR) 기술의 필요성이 커졌다. 그 중, 다층의 레이어로 구성된 다층 선형 매핑(multi-layer linear mappings, MLLM)을 기반으로 하는 제안된 초해상화 기법은 상대적으로 낮은 복잡도로 좋은 품질의 고해상도 영상을 복원할 수 있었다. 최근에는 강화 예측법을 추가하여 복원된 고해상도 영상의 품질을 더 향상시키는 기법이 등장하였는데, 이를 바탕으로 본 논문에서는 제안했었던 MLLM 기법을 위한 강화 예측법 기법을 새롭게 제안한다. 제안하는 초해상화 기법은 기존 MLLM 기법과 딥러닝 기반 초해상화 기법보다 높은 품질의 고해상도 영상을 생성하는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2693-2700
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• 2009

This paper proposes an effective compression method to utilize the 3D integral image with large amount of data obtained by a lens array in various applications. The conventional compression methods for still images exhibit low performance in terms of coding efficiency and visual quality, since they cannot remove the correlation between elemental images. In the moving picture compression methods, 1D scanning techniques that produce a sequence of elemental images are not enough to remove the directional correlation between elemental images. The proposed method effectively sequences the elemental images from an integral image by the 2D referencing technique and compresses them using the multi-frame referencing of H.264/AVC. The proposed 2D referencing technique selects the optimal reference image according to vertical, horizontal, and diagonal correlation between elemental images. Experimental results show that compression with the sequence of elemental images presents better coding efficiency than that of still image compression. Moreover, the proposed 2D referencing technique is superior to the 1D scanning methods in terms of the objective performance and visual quality.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.2D
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• pp.305-309
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• 2009

The object of image fusion is to integrate information from multiple images as the same scene. In the satellite image fusion, many image fusion methods have been proposed for combining a high resolution panchromatic(PAN) image with low resolution multispectral(MS) images and it is very important to preserve both the spatial detail and the spectral information of fusion result. The image fusion method using wavelet transform shows good result compared with other fusion methods in preserving spectral information. This study proposes a modified a'trous algorithm based wavelet image fusion method using IKONOS image. Based on the result of experiment using IKONOS image, we confirmed that proposed method was more effective in preserving spatial detail and spectral information than existing fusion methods using a'trous algorithm.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.395-401
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• 2010

Image enhancement algorithm aims to improve the visual quality of low contrast image through eliminating the noise and blurring, increasing contrast, and raising detail. This paper proposes adaptive dynamic range linear stretching(ADRLS) algorithm based on advantages of existing methods. ADRLS method is focused on generating sub-histograms of the majority through partitioning the histogram of input image and applying adaptive scale factor. Generated sub-histograms are finally applied by linear stretching(LS) algorithm. In order to validate proposed method, it is compared with LS and histogram equalization(HE) algorithm generally used. As the result, the proposed method show to improve contrast of input image and to preserve distinct characteristics of histogram by controlling excessive change of brightness.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.2
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• pp.164-173
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose multi-frame based super resolution algorithm by using motion vector normalization and edge pattern analysis. Existing algorithms have constraints of sub-pixel motion and global translation between frames. Thus, applying of algorithms is limited. And single-frame based super resolution algorithm by using discrete wavelet transform which robust to these problems is proposed but it has another problem that quantity of information for interpolation is limited. To solve these problems, we propose motion vector normalization and edge pattern analysis for 2*2 block motion estimation. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has better performance than other conventional algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.255-259
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 고해상도 위성 영상에 관한 압축을 연구하였다. 위성영상은 많은 픽셀 정보와 이루어져 있기 때문에 빠른 영상처리와 데이터 보관을 위해서 압축이 필수적이다. 특히 영상압축시 도로정보와 건물, 산림, 지형 등의 특징을 왜곡을 최소화하여 압축하여야 한다. 따라서는 본 연구에서는 함수공간에서 영상 압축이 가능한 웨이브렛을 기반하여 위성 영상의 압축기법을 제안하였으며, 일반적인 정지영상 압축 기법인 JPEG과의 압축성능을 분석하였다. 그 결과 웨이브렛 압축기법이 JPEG보다 1/10 이상의 압축 성능을 보였다.