• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.2382-2390
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• 2007

A new polynomial-based predistortion method for linearizing nonlinear power amplifier is proposed. The proposed method finds the predistortion parameter directly without the help of postdistorter whereas most existing polynomial-based predistortion methods calculate the predistortion parameter indirectly from the prostdistorter. First, a new predistortion algorithm is derived based on the assumption that the characteristic of the amplifier is modeled by piecewise linear function. Then it is modified into a proposed method which does not require any assumption or prior knowledge of the amplifier. The proposed method is derived based on the RLS (recursive least squares) algorithm. The proposed technique is simpler to implement than the existing methods and the computer simulation demonstrates that the proposed method is more robust to the initial condition and the saturation region of the amplifier.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.125-135
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• 2009

Owing to its fast computing capability for fusing images, the FIHS(Fast Intensity Hue Saturation) fusion is widely used for fusion purposes. However, the FIHS fusion also distorts color in the same way such as the IHS(Intensity Hue Saturation) fusion technique. In this paper, a FIHS fusion technique(FIHS-BR) which reduces color distortion by using the ratio of each spectral band and an adaptive FIHS fusion(FIHS-SABR) using spatial information and the ratio of each spectral band are proposed. The proposed FIHS-BR fusion reduces color distortion by adding different spatial detail improvement values for each spectral band. The spatial detail improvement values are derived from the ratio of spectral band. And the proposed FIHS-SABR fusion reduces more color distortion by readjusting the spatial detail improvement values for each spectral band according to the ratio of the spectral bands. The spatial detail improvement values are derived adaptively from the characteristics of spatial information of the local image. To evaluate the performance of the proposed FIHS-BR fusion and FIHS-SABR fusion, a computer simulation is performed for IKONOS remote sensing image. Results from the experiments show that the proposed methods have less color distortion for the forest regions which reveal severe color distortion in the traditional FIHS fusion. From the evaluation results of the characteristics of spectral information for fused image, we show that the proposed methods have best results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.680-686
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• 2006

Document images captured by scanners have only skewing distortion. But camera captured document images have not only skew but also vignetting effect and geometric distortion. Vignetting effect, which makes the border areas to be darker than the center of the image, make it difficult to separate characters from the document images. But this effect has being decreased, as the lens manufacturing skill is developed. Geometric distortion, occurred by the mismatch of angle and center position between the document image and the camera, make the shape of characters to be distorted, so that the character recognition is more difficult than the case of using scanner. In this paper, we propose a method that can increase the performance of character recognition by correcting the geometric distortion of document images using a linear approximation which changes the quadrilateral region to the rectangle one. The proposed method also determine the quadrilateral transform region automatically, using the alignment of character lines and the skewed angles of characters located in the edges of each character line. Proposed method, therefore, can correct the geometric distortion without getting positional information from camera.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.489-492
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a system for robust face detection based on wavelet transform using the standard models of image distortion. In the previous works, it was known to be difficult to treat a distorting of image information such as noises and light of the images obtained by a still camera and a movie camera. we analyze the high frequence information by using wavelet transform. This information is used for testing the image distortion and constructing the standard models of image distortion. The experimental results show that our extracting method based on standard models of image distortion is very effective.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.4
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• pp.373-380
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• 2003

Most of low cost digital cameras reveal relatively high lens distortion. The purpose of this research is to compensate the degradation of image quality due to the geometrical distortion of a lens system. The proposed method consists of two stages : calculation of a lens distortion coefficient by a simplified version of Tsai´s camera calibration and subsequent image warping of the original distorted image to remove geometrical distortion based on the calculated lens distortion coefficient. In the lens distortion coefficient calculation stage, a practical method for handling scale factor ratio and image center is proposed, after which its feasibility is shown by measuring the performance of distortion correction using a quantitative image quality measure. On the other hand, in order to apply image warping via inverse spatial mapping using the result of the lens distortion coefficient calculation stage, a cubic polynomial derived from an adopted radial distortion lens model must be solved. In this paper, for the purpose of real-time operation, which is essential for embedding into an information device, an approximated solution to the cubic polynomial is proposed in the form of a solution to a quadratic equation. In the experiment, potential for real-time implementation and equivalence in performance as compared with that from cubic polynomial solution are shown.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.239-241
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• 2010

분산 비디오 기술의 대표적인 기술 중 하나는 와이너 지브 부호화 기술이다. 와이너 지브 부호화 구조에서 보조정보는 인트라 복호화된 키 픽처들을 이용하여 생성한다. 키 픽처의 객관적 화질은 보조정보의 성능에 많은 영향을 끼치고, 잡음이 많은 보조정보를 복호화에 이용할 경우 부호화로부터 많은 패리티 비트를 요구하게 되어 율 왜곡 성능을 저하된다. 기존의 부호화 기술은 키 픽처 부호화 시 Quantization Matrix에 따라 미리 정의된 양자화 계수를 이용한다. 본 논문에서는 미리 정의된 양자화 계수 보다 낮은 계수 값을 사용하여 부호화 하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 키 픽처의 객관적 화질이 높아짐에 따라 보조정보의 화질을 향상시킨다. 잡음이 적은 보조정보는 와이너 지브 복호화 시 율 왜곡 성능을 향상시킨다. 실험결과는 기존 방법에 비해 최대 0.7dB에 이르는 성능향상을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.784-786
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• 2004

프로젝션 화면(projection display) 상에 보여지는 가상의 물체를 사용자가 직접 조작할 수 있는 인터페이스를 제공하기 위해서는 전경 물체를 검출해내는 과정이 필수적이다. 이전의 색상 정보만을 이용하는 방법은 몇 가지 제약 조건을 가지고 있었다. 본 논문은 색상 보정 (color calibration)과 스테레오 정보(stereo information)를 이용하여 프로젝션 화면 내의 전경물체를 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험에서는 프로젝터를 통해 책상 표면에 투사되는 영상과 일반 캠코더를 통해 얻어진 영상 사이의 왜곡을 기하 왜곡과 색상 왜곡으로 정의하여 모델링 하였고, 스테레오 정보를 이용하여 얻어진 최종 결과를 통해 제안된 방법의 실효성을 입증할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.48-58
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• 2012

New digital predistortion technique is proposed for power amplifier linearization in multi-band transmission systems. We consider a system where muli-band signals are combined and amplified by a single power amplifier (PA). In this system, the PA output is distorted by the nonlinear cross-products between different band signals as well as their own nonlinear self-products. To compensate these nonlinear effects, we propose a multiple PD structure. Each PD removes the nonlinear cross-products and self-products to mitigate the spectral regrowth for the corresponding band. Since the PD parameters for different bands are linked together, it is difficult to find the PD parameters separately. Thus, we propose an iterative method for finding the PD parameters jointly. For demonstration of the proposed method, multi-band characteristics of PA are extracted from a commercial power amplifier. Computer simulation was executed based on the PA parameters. The simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively linearize the PA and remove spectral regrowth at each signal band.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.4 no.9
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• pp.377-384
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• 2015

In this paper we propose a visualization tool for distortion-free time-series matching. Supporting distortion-free is a very important factor in time-series matching to get more accurate matching results. In this paper, we visualize the result of time-series matching, which removes various time-series distortions such as noise, offset translation, amplitude scaling, and linear trend by using moving average, normalization, linear detrending transformations, respectively. The proposed visualization tool works as a client-server model. The client sends a user-selected time-series, of which distortions are removed, to the server and visualizes the matching results. The server efficiently performs the distortion-free time-series matching on the multi-dimensional R*-tree index. By visualizing the matching result as five different charts, we can more easily and more intuitively understand the matching result.

• 한국지형공간정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.177-181
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• 2003

최근 고해상도의 영상과 컬러항공영상의 출현과 더불어 도심지역의 지물 지모에 대한 상세한 묘사가 가능해지고 있다. 하지만 도심지역의 지물 지모의 복잡성으로 인하여 지물의 추출이 쉽지 않다. 특히, 건물에 의한 가림, 그림자에 의한 정보 왜곡 등의 발생으로 지형정보 추출의 어려움을 겪고 있다. 건물에 의한 폐색은 다른 위치에서 촬영을 하므로서 보정을 할 수 있지만 그림자에 의한 영향은 촬영위치에 상관없이 항상 발생한다. 본 연구에서는 도심지역에서 촬영한 컬러항공사진에서 그림자에 의한 정보 왜곡을 LIDAR 자료와 수치지도를 이용하여 보다 자동화된 과정으로 처리하므로서 그 판독력을 증대시키고자 한다.