• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.49-55
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• 2002

기존의 영상 획득 시스템들이 어느 정도의 엘리어싱을 허용하도록 제작되어왔음에도 불구하고, 고해상도 영상에 대한 요구는 점점 더 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 부정확한 부화소 단위의 위치추정 오류를 고려한 고해상도 재구성 알고리즘을 제안한다. 부정확한 부화소 위치 추정 오류로 인해 생기는 불량위치문제(ill-posedness)를 해결하기 위해 정규화된 반복 연산법을 적용하였다. 특히 여러장의 저해상도 영상들을 개별적으로 고려하기에 적합한 다중채널 영상 재구성 방법을 도입하였다. 각 저해상도 영상에서 발생하는 움직임 추정오류는 서로 다른 경향성을 나타내므로, 정규화 파라미터들은 각 채널에 맞게 결정되어야 한다. 이를 위채 정규화 파라미터들을 자동으로 결정하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 움직임 추정 오류에 매우 안정하며, 원 영상과 잡음에 대한 사전정보를 필요로 하지 않는다. 또한 주관적인 측면과 객관적인 측면에서 모두 우수한 결과를 실험적으로 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.805-807
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 영상처리기술을 이용하여 축산농가에 설치된 카메라를 통해, 소의 움직임량을 측정하여 수정적기를 파악하는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템에서는 움직임 이력 영상 기법을 이용하여 시간에 따른 움직임량을 측정하였으며, 이를 통계적으로 분석하여 정확한 소의 발정 상태를 검출하게 된다.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.214-220
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• 2016

Imaging sonars such as side-scanning sonar or forward-looking sonar are becoming fundamental sensors in the underwater robotics field. However, using sonar images for underwater perception presents many challenges. Sonar images are usually low resolution with inherent speckled noise. To overcome the limited sensor information for underwater perception, we investigated preprocessing methods for sonar images and feature detection methods for a nonlinear scale space. In this paper, we focus on a comparative analysis of (1) preprocessing for sonar images and (2) the feature detection performance in relation to the scale space composition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.106-109
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 연속된 프레임을 갖는 영상의 프레임간 움직임 추정 기법을 응용하여 고해상도 영상을 획득하는 초고 해상도 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 단일 영상을 이용한 초고해상도 기법의 경우 영상에서의 고주파 대역을 찾기 위해 확률 기반의 다양한 방법이 제시되었으나 연산에 사용할 수 있는 정보가 제한적이라는 문제가 존재한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 연속된 프레임을 이용한 다양한 초고해상도 기법이 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 주어진 영상의 전, 후의 다수 프레임을 정하여 6-tap FIR(finite impulse response) 필터를 이용하여 프레임들의 부화소(sub-pixel)를 구한 뒤에, 부화소 정밀도의 움직임 추정을 통하여 보다 정확한 고주파성분을 복원하고자 한다. 실험을 통하여 제안하는 기법이 기존의 고등차수(bi-cubic)보간법 보다 선명한 영상을 획득할 수 있었다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.133-150
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• 1997

The purpose of this paper is to develop an algorithm of classification and interpretation of seafloor based on side scan sonar data. The algorithm consists of mosaicking of sonar data using navigation data, correction and compensation of the acouctic amplitude data considering the charateristics of the side scan sonar system, and segmentation of the seafloor using digital image processing techniques. The correction and compensation process is essential because there is usually difference in acoustic amplitudes from the same distance of the port-side and the starboard-side and the amplitudes become attenuated as the distance is increasing. In this paper, proposed is an algorithm of compensating the side scan sonar data, and its result is compared with the mosaicking result without any compensation. The algorithm considers the amplitude characteristics according to the tow-fish's depth as well as the attenuation trend of the side scan sonar along the beam positions. This paper also proposes an image segmentation algorithm based on the texture, where the criterion is the maximum occurence related with gray level. The preliminary experiment has been carried out with the side scan sonar data and its result is demonstrated.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.169-178
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• 2001

The demand for high-resolution images is gradually increasing, whereas many imaging systems have been designed to allow a certain level of aliasing during image acquisition. Thus, digital image processing approaches have recently been investigated to reconstruct a high-resolution image from aliased low-resolution images. However, since the sub-pixel motion information is assumed to be accurate in most conventional approaches, the satisfactory high-resolution image cannot be obtained when the sub-pixel motion information is inaccurate. Therefore, in this paper we propose a new algorithm to reduce the distortion in the reconstructed high-resolution image due to the inaccuracy of sub-pixel motion information. For this purpose, we analyze the effect of inaccurate sub-pixel motion information on a high-resolution image reconstruction, and model it as zero-mean additive Gaussian errors added respectively to each low-resolution image. To reduce the distortion we apply the modified multi-channel image deconvolution approach to the problem. The validity of the proposed algorithm is both theoretically and experimentally demonstrated in this paper.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.2
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• pp.123-130
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• 2009

Motion estimation (ME) plays an important role in digital video compression. But it limits the performance of image quality and encoding speed and is computational demanding part of the encoder. To reduce computational time and maintain the image quality, integer pel and fractional pel ME methods are proposed in this paper. The proposed method for integer pel ME uses a hierarchical search strategy. This strategy method consists of symmetrical cross-X pattern, multi square grid pattern, diamond patterns. These search patterns places search points symmetrically and evenly that can cover the overall search area not to fall into the local minimum and to reduce the computational time. The proposed method for fractional pel uses full search pattern, center biased fractional pel search pattern and the proposed search pattern. According to block sizes, the proposed method for fractional pel decides the search pattern adaptively. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over Unsymmetrical cross Multi Hexagon grid Search (UMHexagonS) and Full Search (FS) can be up to around $1.2{\sim}5.2$ times faster. Compared to image quality of FS, the proposed method shows an average PSNR drop of 0.01 dB while showing an average PSNR gain of 0.02 dB in comparison to that of UMHexagonS.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.121-129
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• 2021

This paper deals with a super-resolution that improves the resolution of side scan sonar images using learning-based compressive sensing. Learning-based compressive sensing combined with deep learning and compressive sensing takes a structure of a feed-forward network and parameters are set automatically through learning. In particular, we propose a method that can effectively extract additional information required in the super-resolution process through various initialization methods. Representative experimental results show that the proposed method provides improved performance in terms of Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structure Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) than conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.266-268
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• 2012

영상신호의 보간을 위해서 다양한 기법이 제안되었고 H.264와 HEVC 동영상 부호화 표준 기법에서는 움직임 추정의 정확성을 높이기 위해서 1/2과 1/4 위치의 부화소 보간을 위한 보간 필터를 사용한다. 본 논문에서는 lapped transform을 이용하여 1/2과 1/4 위치의 부화소 보간을 위한 효율적인 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 영상의 크기 변환과 보간과의 관계를 이용하여 부화소를 효율적으로 보간하는 기법이다. 제안하는 기법 및 H.264, HEVC에서 사용되는 보간 필터를 사용하여 영상을 보간한 경우의 성능을 비교한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.370-376
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• 2023

In the underwater image, it is not clear to distinguish the shape of the target due to underwater noise and low resolution. In addition, as an input of deep learning, underwater images require pre-processing and segmentation must be preceded. Even after pre-processing, the target is not clear, and the performance of detection and identification by deep learning may not be high. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish and clarify the target. In this study, the importance of target shadows is confirmed in underwater images, object detection and target area acquisition by shadows, and data containing only the shape of targets and shadows without underwater background are generated. We present the process of converting the shadow image into a 3-mode image in which the target is white, the shadow is black, and the background is gray. Through this, it is possible to provide an image that is clearly pre-processed and easily discriminated as an input of deep learning. In addition, if the image processing code using Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV)Library was used for processing, the processing speed was also suitable for real-time processing.