• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.8B
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• pp.1480-1489
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a new post-processing method which can solve a problem of MSDS(Mean Squared Difference of Slope) method. Using that method the blocking artifacts can significantly be reduced without any restriction, which is a major drawback of block-based DCT compression method. In this approach, the OSLD(Overlapped Sub-Laplacian Distribution) of dequantized block boundary pixel difference values is defined and used to categorize each block of an image into one of four types. Those types are also classified into one of two classes: an edge and a non-edge classes. A slope across the block boundary is used to quantify discontinuity of the image. If an absolute estimated quantization error value of a DCT coefficient is greater than the corresponding quantization step size, it is saturated to the step size in the edge class. The proposed post-processing method can improve not only the PSNR value up to 0.1~O.3 dB but visual quality without any constraints determined by ad-hoc manner.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.161-164
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 고정된 카메라에서 초기 프레임을 참조하여 현재 프레임에 새롭게 유입된 물체의 실시간 분류 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘의 실시간 분류 처리를 위하여 복잡도를 최소화 하였다. 먼저 전경과 배경을 구분하는 이진 분류 영상을 추출하기 위하여 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) 기법을 사용한다. DCT는 기존 공간영역에서 Texture를 분석하는 방식보다 더욱 정확하게 Texture를 분석할 수 있다. 이는 주파수 영역에서 Texture 특징 분석이 더욱 용이하고 각 요소 안에 intensity와 texture 정보를 종합적으로 고려할 수 있기 때문이다. 또한 DCT 계산 복잡도를 최소화하기 위하여 DCT 수행 전에 색 정보를 이용하여 미리 분류 영역을 분석함으로써 처리 효율을 극대화 하였다. 마지막으로 생성된 이진 분류 영상을 자연스럽게 matting하기 위하여 Guided 필터 사용을 제안한다. Guided 필터는 guidance 정보를 통해 입력 영상을 전반적으로 개선할 수 있지만 intensity가 평탄한 영역 등에서 그 한계를 보여주므로 본 논문에서는 Guided 필터의 단점을 개선하는 방법을 추가적으로 제안한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.383-391
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• 2005

In this paper, a new anisotropic diffusion based on Alvarez, Lions, and Morel (ALM) diffusion model is proposed for the suppression of blocking artifact caused by discrete cosine transform (DCT) based image compression. The proposed diffusion model, which incorporates a 'rate control parameter' (RCP), makes it possible to reduce blocking artifacts while to preserve the edge. The RCP controls the rate between isotropic and anisotropic diffusion. Isotropic diffusion is encouraged to eliminate the blocking artifacts in a block boundary of a smooth region, while anisotropic diffusion is encouraged to keep the edge or texture sharp in edge and a block boundary within an edge region. Additionally, to avoid oversmoothness of the texture region, a 'speed control parameter' (SCP), which makes diffusion process slow in the texture region, is employed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.140-146
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• 1989

An efficient quantization and encoding of BTC (Block Truncation Coding) parameters {($Y_{\alpha},\;Y_{\beta}),\;P_{{\beta}/{\beta}}$} are investigated, In our algorithm 4${\times}$4 blocks are classified into flat or edge block. While edge block is represented by two approximation level $Y_{\alpha},\;Y_{\beta}$ with label plane $P_{{\beta}/{\beta}}$, flat block is represented by single approximation level Y. The approximation levels Y, $Y_{\alpha}$ and $Y_{\beta}$ are encoded by predictive quatization specially designed, and the label plane $P_{{\beta}/{\beta}}$ is tried to be encoded using stored 32 reference plantes. The performance of the proposed scheme has appeared comparable to much more complex transform coding in terms of SNR, although it requires more study on the representation of small slope in background.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.257-264
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• 2019

This paper presents a single image haze removal method via a pixel-based joint BDCP (bright and dark channel prior) and a hierarchical bilateral filter in order to reduce computational complexity and memory requirement while improving the dehazing performance. Pixel-based joint BDCP reduces the computational complexity compared to the patch-based DCP, while making it possible to estimate the atmospheric light in pixel unit and the transmission more accurately. Moreover the bilateral filter, which can smooth an image effectively while preserving edges, refines the transmission to reduce the halo effects, and its hierarchical structure applied to edges only prevents the increase of complexity from the iterative application. Experimental results on various hazy images show that the proposed method exhibits excellent haze removal performance with low computational complexity compared to the conventional methods, and thus it can be applied in various fields.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.39-42
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• 2005

블록기반의 비디오 부호화 표준은 비디오 신호의 압축방식으로 가장 널리 쓰이는 구조이지만 무선 환경과 같은 저 비트율 응용에서는 양자화에 의한 고주파 성분의 손실로 인해 블록킹 현상 및 링잉 현상이 두드러져 화질열화의 주된 원인이 된다. 이러한 화질열화를 제거하기 위해서 디블록킹 필터와 디링잉 필터를 사용하지만, 영상에 따라 블륵 경계의 모서리 부분과 대각선 에지가 만나는 부분에서 나타나는 corner outlier 현상으로 인해 화질이 충분히 개선되지 못하는 경우가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 저 비트율 비디오에서 에지의 방향과 그 에지를 포함하는 블록의 평탄한 정도를 이용하여 corner outlier 현상을 검출하고, 이를 제거할 수 있는 비선형 필터를 제안한다. MPEG-4 호화 영상 및 MPEG-4 디블록킹 필터를 적용한 영상에 대해서 제안한 비선형 필터를 적용하여 주관적 화질이 개선됨을 실험을 통하여 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.12-13
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• 2017

자율 주행 자동차에서 스테레오 카메라를 이용하여 실시간으로 깊이 정보를 추출하는 것은 매우 중요한 문제 중 하나이다. 널리 사용되는 방법 중에 하나인 Semi-Global Matching (SGM)은 영상에서 여러 방향에 대한 비용 함수를 이용하여 평탄한 변이 지도를 획득하는 알고리즘이다. 알고리즘의 특성 상 병렬화가 용이하기 때문에 실시간으로 구동해야 되는 어플리케이션에 자주 사용되는 알고리즘이다. 하지만 픽셀 단위로 표현되는 dense한 특성은 영상 내의 관심 객체를 추출하고 추적하기에는 부적합하다. 따라서 제안하는 기법에서는 픽셀과 객체 레벨 사이의 표현인 stixel을 이용하여 관심 객체들을 추출하고 NVIDIA에서 출시한 Jetson TX1을 이용하여 실시간으로 구동한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.11
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• pp.89-94
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• 1999

In vector quantization (VQ), mean squared error (MSE) is widely used as a distance measure between vectors. But the distance between averages appears as a dominant quantity in MSE. In the case of image vectors, the coincidence of edge pattern is also important considering human visual system (HVS). Therefore, this paper presents a new distance measure using the variance of difference (VD) as a criterion for the coincidence of edge pattern. By using this in the VQ encoding, we can reduce the degradation of edge region in the reconstructed image. And applying this to the codebook design, we can obtain the final codebook that has a lot of various edge codevectors instead of redundant shade ones.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.346-354
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• 2007

Interpolation methods to get the magnified image from an image with low resolution use known pixels to make an interpolated pixel. This interpolation process usually generates blurred edges and blocking effect in the result image. To improve these defects, conventional methods multiply proper weights reflecting neighborhood pixels and add the values during interpolating process. The proposed method changes input pixels in consideration of information of neighborhood pixels, gets interpolated pixels by using these values and improves the quality of interpolated image. Firstly, we compute difference values of the diagonal directions of a pixel and classify flat regions and complex regions according to these values. If the regions is complex ones, the proposed method changes an original pixel into a new value using a input pixel and a median value of it's neighbor pixels. Therefore, the proposed method applies bilinear method to the original pixels in flat regions and the changed ones in complex regions and produces the interpolated images. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method with existing methods by using PSNR and the quality of enlarged image. The results show that the proposed method improves PSNR in comparing with conventional methods and that is superior to the existing methods in terms of the quality of the interpolated image.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.166-172
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• 2018

To develop and evaluate the real-time SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) motion measurement system, true antenna phase center(APC) positions during SAT(Synthetic Aperture Time) are needed. In this paper, CDGPS(Carrier phase Differential Global Positioning System) post processing method is proposed to get the true APC position for spotlight SAR image formation. The CDGPS position is smoothed to remove high frequency noise which exists inherently in the carrier phase measurement. This paper shows smoothed CDGPS data is enough to provide the true APC for high-quality SAR image formation through motion measurement result, phase error estimation and IRF(Impulse Response Function) analysis.