• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.192-201
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• 2023

The band-limited angular spectrum method (BL-ASM) causes aliasing errors due to spatial frequency control problems. In this paper, a sampling interval adjustment technique for phase holograms and a technique for reducing speckle noise and improving image quality using a deep-learningbased U-net model are proposed. With the proposed technique, speckle noise is reduced by first calculating the sampling factor and controlling the spatial frequency by adjusting the sampling interval so that aliasing errors can be removed in a wide range of propagation. The next step is to improve the quality of the reconstructed image by learning the phase hologram to which the deep learning model is applied. In the S/W simulation of various sample images, it was confirmed that the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index measure (SSIM) were improved by 5% and 0.14% on average, compared with the existing BL-ASM.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.758-761
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• 2003

금석문의 영상데이터를 디지털 형태로 검출하고, 영상신호처리 알고리즘을 사용하여 신호의 특성을 분석하고 그 결과를 제시하였다. 대상체는 비석에 음각된 문자로 하였다. 대전 주변의 백제권에서 몇몇 유형의 음각 문자를 형태별로 분류하여 디지털 이미지화한 다음, 문자가 각인된 정보영역과 바탕영역의 신호패턴을 추출하였다. 먼저 칼라 이미지를 grey tone으로 변환한 후, 전처리 과정을 거쳐 이미지의 노이즈나 불명확성을 제거하고 히스토그램 전 영역에 걸쳐 스케일 확장시켰다. 문자가 각인된 정보영역과 바탕영역을 구분하여 무작위로 소이미지 샘플을 취득하고 각 소이미지의 신호패턴을 분석하였다. 그 결과를 중첩의 원리를 이용하여 합성한 후 영역별 신호분석 패턴을 정형화하였다. 유형별로 다소 차이를 보이나 두 영역의 이미지 분석 결과는 차별성을 보였다. 문자 영역은 grey level 범위가 좁고 한정되며 일관성을 보이는데 비해, 바탕영역은 범위가 넓고 광범위하였다. 두 영역의 교차 레벨 범위는 극히 제한적이었으며 패턴 분리에 큰 영향을 끼치지 못하였음이 밝혀졌다. 이 일련의 과정은 알고리즘화되어, 1-2분 정도의 사전 작업만 하면 프로그램에 의해 문자를 추출할 수 있다. 이러한 사실들은 종래 무리한 탁본 작업에만 전적으로 의존하던 금석학 분야의 디지털화를 가능케 할 수 있다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.8
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• pp.835-840
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• 2016

Monte Carlo ray tracing has been widely used for simulating a diverse set of photo-realistic effects. However, this technique typically produces noise when insufficient numbers of samples are used. As the number of samples allocated per pixel is increased, the rendered images converge. However, this approach of generating sufficient numbers of samples, requires prohibitive rendering time. To solve this problem, image filtering can be applied to rendered images, by filtering the noisy image rendered using low sample counts and acquiring smoothed images, instead of naively generating additional rays. In this paper, we proposed a Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimator (SURE) based $\grave{A}$-Trous wavelet to filter the noise in rendered images in a near-interactive rate. Based on SURE, we can estimate filtering errors associated with $\grave{A}$-Trous wavelet, and identify wavelet coefficients reducing filtering errors. Our approach showed improvement, up to 6:1, over the original $\grave{A}$-Trous filter on various regions in the image, while maintaining a minor computational overhead. We have integrated our propsed filtering method with the recent interactive ray tracing system, Embree, and demonstrated its benefits.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.165-168
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• 2008

With the development of the information technology in recent years, the innovation of multimedia information technology also has been accelerated. Many fields of the digital image processing technologies as image data compression, recognition. restoration, etc. are now being studied actively. When transmitting and saving digital images, noise would be made, and we are using the image filters to remove the noise. The Image Filter used Digital Image Process basically has a two-dimensional structure. There are two methods of the filter's creation - One is reiterating one dimension, and the other is using an indivisible two-dimension image filter. The space domain method using mask is the latter one. That is inserting the value-multiplied pixels values faced each other when the two-dimension filter overlapped on input image- to the filter value's center position and the same position in the image. The image filter is being used widely along with one-dimension filter, according each noise. Most people are using various median filters to remove the impulse noise. However, in this paper, I suggested a powerful switching median filter and compared with conventional method for verification.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.728-735
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• 2017

With the proliferation of digital devices, the devices have generated considerable additive white Gaussian noise while acquiring digital images. The most well-known denoising methods focused on eliminating the noise, so detailed components that include image information were removed proportionally while eliminating the image noise. The proposed algorithm provides a method that preserves the details and effectively removes the noise. In this proposed method, the goal is to separate meaningful detail information in image noise environment using the edge strength and edge connectivity. Consequently, even as the noise level increases, it shows denoising results better than the other benchmark methods because proposed method extracts the connected detail component information. In addition, the proposed method effectively eliminated the noise for various noise levels; compared to the benchmark algorithms, the proposed algorithm shows a highly structural similarity index(SSIM) value and peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR) value, respectively. As shown the result of high SSIMs, it was confirmed that the SSIMs of the denoising results includes a human visual system(HVS).

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.62-71
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• 2009

Recently, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has demonstrated considerable promise for the noninvasive assessment of biological tissues. However, OCT images difficult to analyze due to speckle noise. In this paper, we tested various image processing techniques for speckle removal of human and rabbit cartilage OCT images. Also, we distinguished the images which get with methods of image segmentation for OCT images, and found the most suitable method for segmenting an image. And, we selected image segmentation suitable for OCT before image reconstruction. OCT was a weak point to system design and image processing. It was a limit owing to measure small a distance and depth size. So, good edge matching algorithms are important for image reconstruction. This paper presents such an algorithm, the chamfer matching algorithm. It is made of background for 3D image reconstruction. The purpose of this paper is to describe good image processing techniques for speckle removal, image segmentation, and the 3D reconstruction of cartilage OCT images.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.122-128
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• 2007

The electric part of thermal SEM(Scanning Electron Microscopy) consists of high voltage generation, lens control, and image processing. Several methodologies for enhancing SEM image are addressed and those results are verified through analyses and experiments. The controller employes a DSP(Digital Signal Processing), making the system more flexible and convenient than the classical analogue based controller. In some parts based the analog circuit, there are inevitable sources of noise and image distortion. The experimental investigation is provided along with analytical proof to enhance the SEM image.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.16-17
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• 2006

적외선 이미지 센서용으로 사용되는 마이크로 볼로미터 센서는 process variation으의 인하여 모든 볼로미터 센서의 셀이 정확한 저항값을 갖지 못하여 입력신호에 왜곡을 가져 온다. 본 논문에서는 적외선 이미지 센서용 CMOS 검출회로를 설계하는 데 있어, 이러한 볼로미터 셀 어레이의 고정패턴잡음(Fixed Pattern hoise)을 최소화하는 방법에 대해 연구하였다. 기존의 단일 입력 방식 검출회로는 볼로미터 셀어레이의 고정패턴잡음을 보정하기 위하여 추가적인 보정 회로를 필요로 하였다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 차동 입력 방식 검출회로를 제안하였으며, 이를 적용하여 출력을 살펴본 결과 추가적인 보정회로 없이 20%의 노이즈 감쇠효과를 얻을 수 있다. 연구 결과를 바탕으로 32${\times}$32 크기를 갖는 셀어레이의 볼로미터를 구성하여 전체 칩을 설계하였으며 컴퓨터 시물레이션을 통해 결과를 분석하였다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.8-13
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• 2010

Shape form focus (SFF) is a technique that reconstructs 3D shape of an object using image focus. Although many SFF methods have been proposed, there are still notable inaccuracy effects due to noise and non-optimization of image characteristics. In this paper, we propose a noise filter technique for noise reduction and genetic algorithm (GA) for focus measure optimization. The proposed method is analyzed with a statistical criteria such as Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and correlation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.574-576
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• 2002

2D 영상을 가지고 인식 작업을 수행하는데 있어서 입력 영상의 질은 매우 중요한 요소이다. 특히 얼굴 인식과 같은 실시간 입력 데이터와 미리 등록되어진 데이터와 비교하는 경우는 입력 영상과 등록 영상의 상태 차이가 크면 좋은 알고리즘이라 할지라도 높은 성능을 내기는 힘들다. 즉, 테스트를 위한 입력 영상을 등록 영상의 수준과 유사하게 만들어 전체적인 성능을 높일 수 있는 적응형 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 유전 알고리즘을 이용하여, 하나의 샘플 이미지에서 환경 의존적인 요소를 제거 하기 위한 최적의 필터 조합과 특징 추출 마스크를 생성하였으며, 그것을 사용하여 인식 테스트를 수행하였다. 가상의 편향조명 노이즈를 첨가한 실험에서 진화 전의 약 25% 인식율은 진화 후 약 92% 까지 향상되었으며, 임의의 임펄스 노이즈에 관한 실험에서도 진화 전의 약 47%의 인식율에서 진화 후 약 84%의 높은 인식율 향상 결과를 보여주었다.