• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.33 no.6_1
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• pp.1003-1017
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• 2017

Multispectral image data of high spatial resolution is required to obtain correct information on the ground surface. The multispectral image data has lower resolution compared to panchromatic data. PAN-sharpening fusion technique produces the multispectral data with higher resolution of panchromatic image. Recently the object-based approach is more applied to the high spatial resolution data than the conventional pixel-based one. For the object-based image analysis, it is necessary to perform image segmentation that produces the objects of pixel group. Image segmentation can be effectively achieved by the process merging step-by-step two neighboring regions in RAG (Regional Adjacency Graph). In the satellite remote sensing, the operational environment of the satellite sensor causes image degradation during the image acquisition. This degradation increases variation of pixel values in same area, and results in deteriorating the accuracy of image segmentation. An iterative approach that reduces the difference of pixel values in two neighboring pixels of same area is employed to alleviate variation of pixel values in same area. The size of segmented regions is associated with the quality of image segmentation and is decided by a stopping rue in the merging process. In this study, the image restoration and segmentation was quantitatively evaluated using simulation data and was also applied to the three PAN-sharpened multispectral images of high resolution: Dubaisat-2 data of 1m panchromatic resolution from LA, USA and KOMPSAT3 data of 0.7m panchromatic resolution from Daejeon and Chungcheongnam-do in the Korean peninsula. The experimental results imply that the proposed method can improve analytical accuracy in the application of remote sensing high resolution PAN-sharpened multispectral imagery.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.87-92
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 컨텍스트 기반 계층적 열거 부호화를 이용한 무손실 이진 영상 압축 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이진 영상내에 존재하는 인접한 화소간의 상호상관성을 이용하여 이진 영상을 1차원의 수열로 재구성하고, 이에 대해 계층적 열거 부호화를 실행한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 덧셈 및 비교 연산만으로 구현이 가능하므로 그 복잡도가 매우 낮을 뿐만 아니라, CCITT 테스트 영상을 대상으로 한 부호화 성능 실험에서 우수한 성능을 나타낸다. 부호화 성능 비교에서 이진 영상 부호화 국제표준인 JBIG, G3, G4 및 GIF에 비해 우수한 압축 성능을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2000

인접한 화소들간의 상관성에 대한 오류 정보만을 추출하여 전송하는 기법인 라플라시안 피라미드는 알고리즘 구성이 간단하며, 낮은 엔트로피 전송이 가능한 무손실 예측 압축과 점진적인 전송이 가능한 이점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 라플라시안 피라미드를 효율적으고 구성하기 위하여 기존의 5$\times$5 가중치 행렬을 3$\times$3 가중치 행렬로 구성하는 새로운 기법을 보인다. 3$\times$3 가중치행렬을 이용하는 방법이 5$\times$5 가중치 행렬에 의한 알고리즘의 구성보다 간단하면서도 압축효율이 좋음을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.1494-1502
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• 1992

이 논문에서는 디지털 영상 데이터의 가역 부호화 방법을 제안하였다. 정보원 모델을 위하여 인접 화소간의 차분을 이용한 차분모델과 마르코프 모델의 구성법을 보였다. 모델링에서 얻어지는 확률 구간의 변경을 이용한 다치 산술부호화의 고속화 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 제안방식의 성능을 계산량의 비교와 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 평가하였다. 그 결과 상태의 그룹화에 의한 차분모델이 기존의 여러방식에 비하여 적은 계산량으로 동등 이상의 평균부호 길이의 달성할 수 있어 효과적임을 알 수 있었다. 또한 제안한 고속화 방식은 차분모델에 적용이 용이하며 128계조를 갖는 영상에 있어서 평균 5배 이상의 고속효과를 얻었다.

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.287-294
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• 2013

Binary connected-component labeling is widely used in the fields of the image processing and the computer vision. Many kinds of labeling techniques have been developed, and two-scan is known as the fastest method among them. Traditionally pixel-based scan masks have been used for the first stage of the two-scan. Recently, block-based labeling techniques were introduced by C. Grana et. al. and L. He et. al. They are faster than pixel-based labeling methods. In this paper, we propose a new binary connected-component labeling technique with block-based labels and a pixel-based scan mask. The experimental results with various images show that the proposed method is faster than the He's which is known as the fastest method currently. The amount of performance enhancement is averagely from 3.9% to 22.4% according to the sort of the images.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.11 s.353
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• pp.26-36
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a cost-effective color filter may (CFA) demosaicing method for digital still cameras in which a single CCD or CMOS image sensor is used. Since a CFA is adopted, we must interpolate missing color values in the red, green and blue channels at each pixel location. While most state-of-the-art algorithms invest a great deal of computational effort in the enhancement of the reconstructed image to overcome the color artifacts, we focus on eliminating the color artifacts with low computational complexity. Using spatial correlation of the adjacent pixels, the edge-directional information of the neighbor pixels is used for determining the edge direction of the current pixel. We apply our method to the state-of-the-art algorithms which use edge-directed methods to interpolate the missing color channels. The experiment results show that the proposed method enhances the demosaiced image qualify from $0.09{\sim}0.47dB$ in PSNR depending on the basis algorithm by removing most of the color artifacts. The proposed method was implemented and verified successfully using verilog HDL and FPGA. It was synthesized to gate-level circuits using 0.25um CMOS standard cell library. The total logic gate count is 12K, and five line memories are used.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.223-232
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a novel post-filtering algorithm with low computational complexity that improves the visual quality of decoded images using block boundary classification and simple adaptive filter (SAF). At first, each block boundary is classified into smooth or complex sub-region. And for smooth-smooth sub-regions, the existence of blocking artifacts is determined using blocky strength. And simple adaptive filtering is processed in each block boundary area. The proposed method processes adaptively, that is, a nonlinear 1-D 8-tap filter is applied to smooth-smooth sub-regions with blocking artifacts, and for smooth-complex or complex-smooth sub-regions, a nonlinear 1-D variant filter is applied to block boundary pixels so as to reduce the blocking and ringing artifacts. And for complex-complex sub-regions, a nonlinear 1-D 2-tap filter is only applied to adjust two block boundary pixels so as to preserve the image details. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm produced better results than those of conventional algorithms both subjective and objective viewpoints.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.78-88
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• 2003

A novel adaptive error concealment technique is proposed using a variable operating region algorithm based on MPEG-4 coding. In the algorithm, a missing block is classified as flat or edge block based on local information from the surrounding blocks extracted using a Sobel operation in a variable operating region (VOR). In this case, the VOR is determined adaptively according to the number of edge directions in the missing block. 1;sing the classification, the flat blocks are then concealed by the Proposed mean based weighted bilinear interpolation (MWBLI) method, and the edge blocks by the boundary directional interpolation (BDI) method. Consequently, the use of the Proposed VOR improves the subjective performance in a curved edge region, while the adaptive processing based on block classification improves the objective performance. Experimental results confirmed that the proposed algorithm produced better results than conventional algorithms, both subjectively and objectively.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.174-180
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• 2006

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is jointly developed by ITU-T and ISO/IEC. It provides efficient coding efficiency compared with previous video standards. It reduced the bit rate by approximately $30%{\sim}70%$ while providing the same or better image quality. And, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC supports not only lossy coding but also lossless coding. In this paper, we suggest a method to improve lossless coding efficiency. Proposed method is based on Intra residual DPCM, it has same effect with the prediction from spatially nearest pixel. Also, proposed method does not broken decoder pipe-line. Experimental results, the method reduced the bit rate by approximately 12% in comparison with the H.264 Intra lossless coding. As a result, it is adopted into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Advanced 4:4:4 profile.