• 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.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.111-120
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• 2020

Research should be actively conducted for the ability of X-ray equipment and Retrospective image analysis of X-ray equipment used in hospitals. Retrospective image analysis of X-ray machines, CT and MRI of radiology and medical equipment has been actively conducted. However, image quality measurement using angiography equipment of angiography room is mostly measured with phantom, and image quality measurement on image after being taken by actual patient is insufficient and researches on accurate image quality measurement method are remarkable. It is in short supply. Therefore, through this study, the researcher devised a method to measure the image quality of the acquired image after coronary angiography, and to provide a high quality image to the operator. The equipment and programs used were angiographic examination equipment (Axiom Artis Zee Ceiling) and Image J program. Subjects were images automatically saved in PACS program after coronary angiography.For image quality measurement, selected the AP Caudal 30° image that show the LCA vessel well and the LAO 30° image that show the RCA vessel well during the coronary angiography. In order to measure the background and ROI of the selected image by selecting an image, a criterion on how to find and measure a section where the overlap of the shadow, such as blood vessel, liver and lung is minimized, is presented. In conclusion, there is no exact standard for analyzing an image quality measurement method of angiography image. Therefore, in order to provide quality images to the practistioners, not only the technicians of the equipment but also the users who actually use them should become researchers and conduct research on image quality measurement in various ways. Thus, it is expected to provide excellent images to patients.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.65-68
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• 2006

카메라로 촬영한 문서 영상의 분석 및 인식을 위한 적응적 이진화 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 카메라 영상의 화질을 분석하여 정량화하는 방법을 제안한다. 그 후 다양한 화질의 카메라 영상에 대하여 제안한 방법으로 측정한 화질과 그 화질에 적합한 이진화 파라미터간의 상관 관계를 통계적으로 분석한다. 그 후 그들간의 상관 관계를 이용하여 입력 영상의 화질에 적합한 이진화 파라미터를 자동으로 추정하도록 함으로써 화질 변화에 대한 적응력을 강화하였다. 실험을 통해 초점 및 잡영의 상태에 따라 적절한 파라미터를 추정함으로써 화질 변화에 적응하는 결과를 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.621-628
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• 2021

Prior studies on frequency-related image quality analysis of intravascular ultrasound catheters are lacking both in Korea and abroad. Therefore, this study was conducted to prepare a standard for measuring the image quality using the program and to suggest a measuring method to researchers related to the quality analysis of intravascular ultrasound images. For the target, the vessel lumen size is 3.0 - 4.0 mm. Before using intravascular ultrasound, thoroughly clean the ultrasound catheter so that no air or foreign substances enter it. Normal vascular images and lesion vascular images of sufficiently dilated images were used. As a standard image acquisition method, the image of the end-systolic section, which has the best evaluation of vascular lesions when using intravascular ultrasound, was acquired retrospectively through the DCAS PACS program to set the standard. When setting the measurement method criteria, we proposed a standard setting method that corresponds to the concentric and eccentric circles of normal and lesion vessels. By applying this criterion, we proposed a method for measuring the lumen and lateral cavities of normal and lesion vessels of interest and background area. In conclusion, if the image quality of intravascular ultrasonography is measured through the method devised by these researchers, consistent quality measurement is possible regardless of the type of intravascular ultrasound catheter. Therefore, it is thought that it can be applied as a guideline for the actual image quality measurement method in the study related to intravascular ultrasound image quality.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.78-88
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• 2016

멀티미디어 시스템에 있어서 제공하는 영상 콘텐츠의 화질은 우선적으로 보장되어야 할 요소이다. 화질에 최적화된 시스템을 설계하고 평가하기 위해서는 화질의 측정 기술이 필수적인데, 기존의 신호 기반 화질 평가가 갖는 한계 때문에 최근에는 시청자가 실제로 인지하는 화질을 평가하는 기술의 중요성이 높아지고 있다. 특히 UHD 시대에는 단순 화질뿐만 아니라 실감성 등의 인지적 요소도 주목을 받고 있기 때문이다. 본 글에서는 인지 화질 측정에 관련된 기술 동향을 살펴보고, UHD의 인지 화질 측정 관련 최신 연구를 살펴본다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.3-6
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• 2006

최근 들어 주관적인 화질 측정을 대체할 객관적 화질 측정에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 휴대용 단말장치에서 주로 사용되는 CIF와 QCIF 영상을 대상으로 하여 VQEG (Video Quality Experts Group)에 제안된 모델 중 NTIA(National Telecommunications and Information Administration) 모델에 대한 객관적 화질 측정의 방법을 실험하였다. 사전 연구로서 CIF와 QCIF 영상을 대상으로 하여 주관적 화질 측정을 실시하였으며, 그 결과를 토대로 NTIA에서 제안한 VQM 모델의 파라미터 값에 새로운 가중치를 추출하였다. 본 논문에서는 휴대단말용 비디오를 위한 NTIA 모델의 객관적 화질 측정방법의 결과를 제시하고 분석하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.797-803
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• 2007

Adaptive binarization is very important for the camera-based document recognition. This paper proposes a binarization method which can effectively adapt to the variation of image Qualify. Firstly, it analyzes the effect of binarization parameters to the result and proposes a method to measure the image quality. Then, it statistically analyzes the relationship between the image quality and the binarization parameter. Finally, it proposes a binarization method that automatically adapts to the quality of the input image, using the analysis result. The experiment results show that there is a meaningful relationship between the image quality and the binarization parameter, and therefore, the proposed method can effectively adapt to the variation of image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.183-186
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• 2009

인터넷의 발전과 비디오 압축 코덱의 발전으로 인해 실시간 영상 스트리밍 (Streaming) 서비스가 가능해졌다. 하지만, 패킷 손실로 인한 비디오 화질 열화는 여전히 문제가 되고 있다. 이 때문에 부호화기 에서는 에러에 강한 내성을 가지는 부호화방법으로 압축하며, 복호화기 에서는 에러 은닉기법을 통하여 패킷 손실에 의한 화질열화를 최소화한다. 이런 기법들을 활용하기 위해서는 패킷손실을 보정한 정확한 화질 열화를 측정 할 수 있는 방법이 필요하다. 영상의 화질을 평가하는 방법은 어떤 정보를 기준으로 평가하느냐에 따라서 전체 기준법 (Full Reference), 부분기준법 (Reduced Reference) 그리고 무기준법 (No Reference)으로 나눌 수 있다. 이중에서 무기준법은 수신 영상만을 가지고 측정하기 때문에, 다른 방법보다 활용범위가 넓다. 본 논문에서는 패킷 비디오 네트워크 환경에서의 발생할 수 있는 다양한 패턴의 패킷 손실에 따른 비디오의 화질 열화를 무기준법에 의해 측정하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 수신된 영상의 움직임 정보를 이용하여 패킷 손실에 따른 각 프레임당 초기 에러 값을 예측 한다. 실험 결과를 통하여 제안한 방법이 상당히 높은 피어슨 상관도 (Pearson Correlation)를 보여준다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.5
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• pp.383-390
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• 2008

Block based transform coding is most popular approach for image and video compression. However it suffers from severe quality degradation especially from blocking artifacts. The subjective quality degradation caused by such blocking artifacts in general does not agree well with an objecive quality measurement such as PSNR. Hence new quality evaluation technique is necessary. We propose a new image quality assessment method by measuring blocking artifacts for block based transform coded images. In order to characterize blocking artifacts, proposed method utilizes the facts that, blocking artifacts, when occur, have different pixel values along the block boundaries and such differences usually continuously span along the whole boundaries. This method does not require the original uncompressed image. It operates on single block boundary and quantifies the amount of blocking artifacts on it. Experiments on various compressed images various bitrates show that proposed quantitative measure of blocking artifacts matches well with the subjective quality of them judged by human visual system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.963-965
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 위성 영상과 같은 원격 센싱 영상 등의 저 대비 영상의 화질을 개선하기 위하여 SVD (singular value decomposition)를 이용한 적응적 히스토그램 평활화 기법을 제안한다. 저 대비 영상의 특이값과 히스토그램 평활화 영상의 특이값을 결합하되, 사용자 파라미터를 통해 영상의 화질을 조절할 수 있도록 적응적 화질 개선 기법을 제안한다. 위성 영상을 비롯한 다양한 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과 제안하는 방법이 기존의 히스토그램 평활화 기법 및 이를 개선한 방법에 비해 GSD (global standard deviation)으로 측정한 객관적 수치 측면에서 우수한 성능을 나타내고, 주관적 화질 측면에서 자연스럽고 영상의 어두운 영역 및 밝은 영역에서의 디테일 보존 성능이 우수함을 확인할 수 있다.