• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.137-144
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• 1999

Error diffusion is excellent for reproducing grey-scale images to binary images. The output of conventional error diffusion produces correlated pattern. In this paper, a new error diffusion coefficient set is proposed to reduce correlated pattern and to enhance edge through frequency analysis of the error diffusion coefficients. The error diffusion coefficients of the previous line are designed to enhance the edge. The error diffusion coefficient of the previous pixel of the current pixel is selected to symmeterize the coefficient set. Because the proposed coefficient-set consists of 1 and 2, a few computations are required. As results of experiments, it is shown that the binary image using the proposed coefficients have better quality than conventional ones.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.5
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• pp.42-47
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• 1999

연속 계조도 영상을 이진 영상(하프톤 영상)으로 변환하는 하프톤 기법중 대표적인 두 방법은 순차적 디더법과 오차 확산법이 있다. 이 중에서 오차확산법은 예리한 하프톤 영상을 얻기위한 우수한 하프톤 기법으로 잘 알려져 있다. 그러나 알고리듬에 기인하는 여러 인공잡음들이 발생하므로 이를 개선하기 위한 방법으로 최적의 필터 계수를 얻기 위한 많은 연구가 진행되었다. 본 논문에서는 연속 계조도 입력 영상과 하프톤 영상사이의 양자화 오차를 영상에 적응적이며 최적으로 확산시키기 위해 양자화 오차를 초기 가능성의 퍼지 부분 집합으로 정의하였다. 이러한 퍼지 부분 집합의 중심화소에 대해 이웃한 화소의 오차 가능성을 고려한 후 FAM 규칙을 이용하여 각각 화소들의 오차 가능성을 영상에 따라 적응적으로 갱신하였으며 이를 원영상에 더하여 다시 양자화 과정을 번복하는 퍼지 이완 알고리듬을 이용한 오차 확산법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법을 이용하여 얻은 결과를 최적 필터 계수를 구하기 위한 기존의 방법의 결과 영상과 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.111-120
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• 2004

This paper proposes a vector error diffusion method for smear artifact reduction in the boundary region. This artifact mainly results from a large accumulation of quantization errors. In particular, color bands with a smear artifact, the width of a few pixels appear along the edges. Accordingly, to reduce this artifact, the proposed halftoning process excludes the large accumulated Quantization error by comparing the vector norms and vector angles between the error-corrected vector and eight primary color patches. When the vector norm of the error corrected vector is larger than those of eight primary color patches, the quantization error vector is excluded from the quantization error distribution process. In addition, the quantization error is also excluded when the angle between eight primary color patches and error corrected vector is large. As a result, the proposed method enables a visually pleasing halftone pattern to be generated by all three color separations into account in a device- independent color space and reduces smear artifact in the boundary regions.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.850-856
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• 2011

The error diffusion method is one of the digital halftoning methods that diffuses quantization errors of current processing pixel to neighboring pixels and get a high-quality black-white image. This method has the problematic case which partially increase or decrease summation of diffused errors in the process of diffusing the quantization error. In this paper, we analyze Floyd-Steinberg method, Jarvis-Judice-Ninke method, Stucki method, and Shiau-Fan method as a representative case of error diffusion methods and propose a solution method of this problem.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.17-26
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• 2006

The error diffusion method is one of the digital halftoning processes that transforms the continuous-tone image to the binary image and the method has the excellent reproduction ability. However the error diffusion method using the permanent threshold has difficulty in proper binarization, so the method has the periodic pattern and is unpleasant to the eye. In this paper, to reduce defects and to binarize properly, we propose the error diffusion method using the adaptive threshold. Depending on the intensity distribution of the input gray scale image, we decided on the adaptive threshold with the average of the intensities. The error diffusion method with the adaptive threshold has the better performance than the existing method and is evaluated with experiments and comparisons.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.29-38
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• 2009

Estimating the Bass diffusion model often creates a time-interval bias, which leads the OLS approach to overestimate sales at early stages and underestimate sales after the peak. Further, a specification error from omitted variables might raise serial correlations among residuals when marketing actions are not incorporated into the diffusion model. Autocorrelated disturbances may yield unbiased but inefficient estimation, and therefore invalid inference results. This phenomenon warrants a modified approach to estimating the Bass diffusion model. In this paper, the authors propose a modified Bass diffusion model handling autocorrelated disturbances. To validate the new approach, authors applied the method on two different data-sets: CT Scanners in the U.S, and FPD TV sales in Korea. The results showed improved model fit and the validity of the proposed model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.413-416
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• 2006

신제품이나 서비스의 수요 예측을 Bass 확산 모형을 토대로 수행할 때의 가장 큰 문제점은모형의 파라미터 추정에 필요한 데이터가 충분치 않다는 것이다. 따라서 Bass 확산 모형의 핵심적인 두 파라미터인 혁신 계수(p)와 모방 계수(q)의 추정을 시도할 때, 어느 정도의 데이터 개수가 요구되는 지를 파악하는 것은 매우 현실적인 중요성을 갖는 문제이다. 이제까지의 연구는 주로 기존의 판매 데이터를 토대로 Bass 모형의 파라미터를 추정할 때, 생기는 다양한 문제점 파악에 집중되었다. 시뮬레이션의 경우는 Bass 모형에 랜덤 오차를 추가하여 실시하였다. 이 경우 데이터 개수가 계수추정에 미치는 영향은 도출되나 각 계수별 민감도 분석이 제대로 이루어지지 못하는 한계를 가지고 있다, 따라서 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션에서 예측치를 발생시킬 때 랜덤 오차 대신, 혁신 계수와 확산 계수의 변동을 주는 방법을 도입한다. 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, p 변동보다는 q 변동이 예측치의 오차에 대해 보다 중요하다. 둘째, 오차가 잠재수요의 30%이하로 떨어지기 위해서는 수요가 최대로 도달하는 시점이 $t^*$ 일 경우, $t^*\;+1$까지 데이터가 요구된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.884-889
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 원영상의 주파수특성 성형에 의한 오차확산 영상이진화 기법을 제안하였다. 오차확산에 의한 영상이진화 처리에서 이진화영상에 내재하고 있는 에지정보의 열화를 감쇄하기 위한 방법으로 원영상의 주파수특성을 활용하는 기법을 도입하였다. 주파수특성은 원영상에서 수평방향과 수직방향으로 얻고, 이들 각각에 가중치를 부여하였다. 수평과 수직의 주파수특성을 성형한후, 영상이진화 기법에서 양자화처리 수행시 이를 활용하였다. 주파수특성 성형을 위한 필터는 2종을 제안하여 적용하였다. 제안한 필터를 적용한 오차확산 영상이진화 처리를 수행한 후, 실험결과를 고찰시 이진화영상의 평탄영역은 기본특성을 유지하면서 에지정보의 특성이 부각되는 주관적인 화질특성이 얻어짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.20-28
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• 2000

The error diffusion algorithm is good for reproducing continuous image to binary image. However the reproduction of edge characteristic is weak in power spectrum analysts of display error. In this paper, an error diffusion method which include pre-filter algorithm for edge characteristic enhancement is proposed Pre-filter algorithm is organized horizontal and vertical directional differential value and weighting function of pre-filter First, it is obtained the horizontal and vertical differential value from the peripheral pixels in original image using $3{\times}3$ Sobel operator Secondly weighting function of pre-filter is composed by function including absolute value and sign of differential value The improved Error diffusion algorithm using pre-filter, present a good result visually which edge characteristic is enhanced. The difference between orignal image and halftoning image is compared with edge-enhanced error diffusion algorithm by measuring the radially averaged power spectrum density.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.2565-2574
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• 2000

The error diffusion method is good for reproducing continuous image to binary image. However the reproduction of edge characteristic is weak in power spectrum analysis of display error. In this paper. we present an edge-enhanced error-diffusion method which include pre-processing algorithm for edge characteristic enhancement. Pre-processing algorithm consists of the difference value between current pixel and local average of original image and weighting function of pre-filter. First. it is obtained the difference value between current pixel and the local average of peripheral pixels(5x5) in original image. Second, weighting function of pre-filter is composed by function including absolute value and sign of difference value. The improved Error diffusion algorithm using pre-processing algorithm, present a good result visually which edge characteristic is enhanced. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with that of the conventional edge-enhanced error diffusion by measuring the RAPSD of display error, the egde correlation and the local average accordance.