• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.78-87
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• 2008

Digital image find own level core media in multimedia as image restoration technology fields, which remove degradation factor for image enhancement, have been growing. Linear space-invariant image restoration algorithm often introduce ringing artifacts near sharp intensity transition areas. This paper presents a new adaptive post-filtering algorithm for reducing ringing artifact. The proposed method extracts an edge map of the image using wavelet transform Based on the edge information, ringing artifacts are detected, and removed by an adaptive bilateral filter. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently remove ringing artifacts with edge preservation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.1011-1013
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• 2014

2D/3D 입체영상의 변환을 위해 산업현장에서 아티스트가 경험적으로 양자화된 깊이 정보를 제작하고, 입력된 깊이 정보의 차이와 픽셀 간의 유사성을 이용하여 물체의 윤곽을 보존하는 한편, 실시간으로 평활화 과정을 수행하는 방법을 제안한다. 아티스트의 의도를 반영하기 위해 초기 입력한 깊이 정보를 바탕으로 적응적인 스무딩 파라미터를 할당함으로써 기존의 수작업을 반자동화하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 기존 방법의 평활화 단계에서 Domain Transformation 기법을 적용하고, 노이즈 제거 단계에서 양방향 필터를 적용하였다. 즉 산업 현장에서 문제점들을 해결하도록 알고리즘을 변형하여 기존 알고리즘의 성능을 개선하였다. 실험 결과는 제안된 방법이 기존의 제작 방법과 비교하여 적은 양자화 단계로 동일한 성능을 내는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.105-112
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• 2002

얼굴인식 기술은 접촉에 대한 거부감이나 불편함이 없이 친숙하고 편리하게 사용자를 식별하고 인식할 수 있으며, 부가적인 센서 장비가 필요없다는 측면에서 개인 인증 및 보안 시스템으로서의 활용성이 매우 높다. 본 논문에서는 여러 가지 장점들을 지닌 얼굴 인식 시스템의 구현 사례를 실시간 얼굴 검출 기술과 특징 추출 기술, 인식 기술로 구분하여 소개한다. 개발된 시스템은 얼굴 검출을 위해서 색상과 에지 성분을 이용하는 복합 알고리즘을 적응하여 실시간 얼굴 탐지를 가능하게 하였고, 추출된 사용자의 고유 얼굴 정보는 최신 인식 기법의 하나인 Support Vector Machine으로 분류, 인식된다. 또한 시스템의 성능을 테스트하고, 실용화 가능성을 모색하기 위하여 하드웨어 임베디드 시스템의 설계 및 구현과정과 조명 및 환경 변화에 따른 시스템의 성능 변화를 객관적으로 검증하기 위하여 다양한 변화 조건을 고려한 한국인 표준 얼굴 데이터베이스를 구축 과정을 소개한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.5C
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• pp.542-549
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• 2007

Recently, many research activities in the image processing area are concentrated on developing new algorithms by finding the solution of the 'diffusion equation'. The diffusion algorithms are expected to be utilized in numerous applications including noise removal and image restoration, edge detection, segmentation, etc. In this paper, at first, it will be shown that the anisotropic diffusion algorithms have the similar structure with the adaptive FIR filters with cross-shaped 5-tap kernel, and this relatively small-sized kernel causes many iterating procedure for satisfactory filtering effects. Moreover, it will also be shown that lots of modifications which are adopted to the conventional Gaussian diffusion method in order to weaken the edge blurring nature of the linear filtering process increases another computational burden. We propose a new Median diffusion scheme by replacing the adaptive linear filters in the diffusion process with the AWM (Adaptive Weighted Median) filters. A diffusion-equation-based adaptation scheme is also proposed. With the proposed scheme, the size of the diffusion kernel can be increased, and thus diffusion speed greatly increases. Simulation results shows that the proposed Median diffusion scheme outperforms in noise removal (especially impulsive noise), and edge preservation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.756-763
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• 2013

Bilateral filter (BF), functioning by two Gaussian filters, domain and range filter is a nonlinear filter for sharpness enhancement and noise removal. In infrared (IR) small target detection field, the BF is designed by background predictor for predicting background not including small target. For this, the standard deviations of the two Gaussian filters need to be changed adaptively in background and target region of an infrared image. In this paper, the proposed bilateral filter make the standard deviations changed adaptively, using variance feature of mean values of surrounding block neighboring local filter window. And, in case the variance of mean values for surrounding blocks is low for any processed pixel, the pixel is classified to flat background and target region for enhancing background prediction. On the other hand, any pixel with high variance for surrounding blocks is classified to edge region. Small target can be detected by subtracting predicted background from original image. In experimental results, we confirmed that the proposed bilateral filter has superior target detection rate, compared with existing methods.

• 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 the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.8
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• pp.87-96
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a directionally adaptive aliasing and noise removal using dictionary learning based on space-frequency analysis. The proposed aliasing and noise removal algorithm consists of two modules; i) aliasing and noise detection using dictionary learning and analysis of frequency characteristics from the combined wavelet-Fourier transform and ii) aliasing removal with suppressing noise based on the directional shrinkage in the detected regions. The proposed method can preserve the high-frequency details because aliasing and noise region is detected. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently reduce aliasing and noise while minimizing losses of high-frequency details and generation of artifacts comparing with the conventional methods. The proposed algorithm is suitable for various applications such as image resampling, super-resolution image, and robot vision.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.11b
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• pp.569-571
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose a method of restoring blurred images by an edge-sensitive adaptive filter. The direction of the edge is estimated using the properties of 2-D block FFT. Reduction of blurring due to the added noise during image transfer and the focus of lens caused by shooting a fast moving object is very important. To remove this phenomenon effectively, we can use the edge information obtained by processing the blurred images. The proposed algorithm estimates both the existence and the direction of the edge. On the basis of the acquired edge direction information, we choose the appropriate edge-sensitive adaptive filter, which enables us to get better images than images obtained by methods not considering the direction of the edge. The performance of the proposed algorithm is shown in the simulation result.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.251-252
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• 2007

The thesis proposed the Text Extraction Algorithm which is a text extraction algorithm which uses the Coiflet Wavelet, YCbCr Color model and the close curve edge feature of adaptive LoG Operator in order to complement the demerit of the existing research which is weak in complexity of background, variety of light and disordered line and similarity of text and background color. This thesis is simulated with natural images which include naturally text area regardless of size, resolution and slant and so on of image. And the proposed algorithm is confirmed to an excellent by compared with an existing extraction algorithm in same image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.43-53
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a robust deinterlacing algorithm which combines edge dependent interpolation (EDI) and global motion compensation (GMC). Generally, EDI algorithm shows a visually better performance than any other deinterlacing algorithm using one field. However, due to the restriction of information in one field, a high duality progressive image from Interlaced sources cannot be acquired by intrafield methods. On the contrary, since algorithms based on motion compensation make use of not only spatial information but also temporal information, they yield better results than those of using one field. However, performance of algorithms based on motion compensation depends on the performance of motion estimation. Hence, the proposed algorithm makes use of mixing process of EDI and GMC. In order to obtain the best result, an adaptive thresholding algorithm for detecting the failure of GMC is proposed. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional approaches with respect to both objective and subjective criteria.