• 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.4
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• pp.32-39
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• 2012

This paper develops a robust image enhancement method by adjusting image signal energy according to the direction and the variation of image signal in DCT domain. To accomplish this, we measure the gradient of image signal directly in DCT domain and then adjust frequency components involved in sharpness, local contrast and global contrast using the direction and the magnitude of the measured gradient The experiment showed that the proposed method produces the best quality of an image without causing blocking, ringing artifacts and boosting noise.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.218-219
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.695-696
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• 2020

CNN(CNN: Convolutional Neural Network)은 컴퓨터 비전의 많은 분야에서 뛰어난 성능을 보이고 있으며, 단일 영상으로부터 깊이(depth) 추정에서도 기존 기법보다 향상된 성능을 보이고 있다. 그러나, 단일 영상으로부터 신경망이 얻을 수 있는 정보는 제한적이기 때문에 스테레오 카메라로부터 얻은 좌/우 영상으로부터의 깊이 추정보다 성능 향상에 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 에지 맵(edge map)을 이용한 CNN 기반의 단일 영상에서의 깊이 추정의 개선 기법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 먼저 단일 영상에 대한 전처리를 통해서 에지 맵과 양방향 필터링된(bilateral filtered) 영상을 생성하고, 이를 CNN 입력으로 하여 기존 단일 영상 깊이 추정 기법 대비 개선된 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.65-84
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• 2006

In this paper, we present an improved image formation model and propose a color image enhancement based on the model. In the presented image formation model, an input image is represented as a product of global illumination, local illumination, and reflectance. In the proposed color image enhancement, an input RGB color image is converted into an HSV color image. Under the assumption of white-light illumination, the H and S component images are remained as they are and the V component image only is enhanced based on the image formation model. The global illumination is estimated by applying a linear LPF with wide support region to the input V component image and the local illumination by applying a JND (just noticeable difference)-based nonlinear LPF with narrow support region to the processed image, where the estimated global illumination is eliminated from the input V component image. The reflectance is estimated by dividing the input V component image by the estimated global and local illuminations. After performing the gamma correction on the three estimated components, the output V component image is obtained from their product. Histogram modeling is next executed such that the final output V component image is obtained. Finally an output RGB color image is obtained from the H and S component images of the input color image and the final output V component image. Experimental results for the test image DB built with color images downloaded from NASA homepage and MPEG-7 CCD color images show that the proposed method gives output color images of very well-increased global and local contrast without halo effect and color shift.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.59-62
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 사다리꼴 형태의 소속 함수를 적용하여 스트레칭 하는 과정에서 상한과 하한을 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하여 동적으로 조정하는 퍼지 스트레칭 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 퍼지 스트레칭 기법은 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하여 각 클러스터를 생성하고 생성된 각 클러스터의 중심에 해당되는 명암도를 이용하여 사다리꼴 형태의 소속 함수의 구간을 설정한다. 그리고 설정한 구간 정보를 이용하여 스트레칭을 위한 상한과 하한을 구하여 영상을 스트레칭 한다. 제안된 FCM 양자화 기반 퍼지 스트레칭 기법의 성능을 분석하기 위해서 명암도 분포가 좁고 명암 대비가 낮은 결절종 초음파 영상과 컨테이너 영상을 대상으로 실험하였다. 실험 결과에서도 알 수 있듯이 기존의 히스토그램 스트레칭 기법과 삼각형 형태의 소속 함수를 적용한 퍼지 스트레칭 기법보다 명암 대비가 향상되었다. 결절종 초음파 영상에서는 결절종 영역과 그 외의 영역 간의 명암 대비가 뚜렷하게 나타나서 결절종 추출에 효과적인 것을 확인하였고 컨테이너 영상에서는 컨테이너 데미지를 추출하는데 필요한 컨테이너 굴곡선 등과 같은 특징이 다른 기법들에 비해 선명하게 나타났다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.453-467
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• 2014

A typical histogram equalization contrast enhancement effect for improving the image quality is excellent. However, because it appears that excessive changes of the brightness values, The average brightness of the image is changing in units of frames of applications such as a TV video is unsuitable. In order to solve these drawbacks, a modified method of histogram equalization on various studies have been made. But the result images of existing methods sometimes shown visual degradations such as over-enhancement and false contouring. In this paper, we propose improved contrast enhancement method through bi-histogram equalization using target mean brightness based on differential compression method. The proposed method is based on the average brightness value by dividing the histogram, the histogram for each zone, according to the frequency differential of compression. And equalize the modified histogram based on target mean brightness. This allows to suppress deterioration of picture quality, and changes in the average brightness of each frame of video, while maintaining and improving the contrast. Experimental results show that the proposed method compared to the conventional method, the average brightness of each frame from a movie well maintained, and no degradation of the image quality showed a good effect to improve the contrast.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.140-143
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• 2004

The mage enhancement of dental On image using wavelet coefficients is presented. The processing is that make gray image from On image by preprocessing, extract high frequency from detail coefficient after acquisition detail coefficient by wavelet transform and emphasize edge appling input image. Experimental results show that enhanced contrast of dental On image, improved mage quality.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.10-21
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• 2009

In order to enhance the contrast in the regions where the pixels have similar intensities, this paper presents a new histogram equalization scheme. Conventional global equalization schemes over-equalizes those regions so that too bright or dark pixels are resulted and local equalization schemes produce unexpected discontinuities at the boundaries of the blocks. The proposed algorithm segments the original histogram into sub-histograms with reference to brightness level and equalizes each sub-histogram with the limited extents of equalization considering its mean and variance. The final image is determined as the weighted sum of the equalized images obtained by using the sub-histogram equalizations. By limiting the maximum and minimum ranges of equalization operations on individual sub-histograms, the over-equalization effect is eliminated. Also the result image does not miss feature information in low density histogram region since the remaining these area is applied separating equalization. This paper includes how to determine the segmentation points in the histogram. The proposed algorithm has been tested with more than 100 images having various contrast in the images and the results are compared to the conventional approaches to show its superiority.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.144-154
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• 2013

This paper proposes a new super-resolution algorithm where sharpness enhancement is merged in order to improve overall visual quality of up-scaled images. In the learning stage, multiple dictionaries are generated according to sharpness strength, and a proper dictionary among those dictionaries is selected to adapt to each patch in the inference stage. Also, additional post-processing suppresses boosting of artifacts in input low-resolution images during the inference stage. Experimental results that the proposed algorithm provides 0.3 higher CPBD than the bi-cubic and 0.1 higher CPBD than Song's and Fan's algorithms. Also, we can observe that the proposed algorithm shows better quality in textures and edges than the previous works. Finally, the proposed algorithm has a merit in terms of computational complexity because it requires the memory of only 17% in comparison with the previous work.