• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.361-369
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• 2002

In order to extract motion features from an input image acquired by a static CCD-camera in a restricted area, we need a robust algorithm to cope with noise sensitivity and condition change. In this paper, we proposed an efficient algorithm to extract and track motion features in a noisy environment or with sudden condition changes. We extract motion features by considering a change of neighborhood pixels when moving objects exist in a current frame with an initial background. To remove noise in moving regions, we used a morphological filter and extracted a motion of each object using 8-connected component labeling. Finally, we provide experimental results and statistical analysis with various conditions and models.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.342-356
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• 2009

This paper presents a vote decision-based deinterlacing scheme for false directional error correction(VDD) to convert interlaced signal into non-interlaced signal using only one fields. The VDD using the vote decision goes through four steps process. The first step extracts regions having doubt of false edge using MM-ELA method. In these regions, the edge direction is decided by the majority vote using upper adjacent pixels's information through the second step. But, we still have undecided directions, which will be decided by the majority vote and the directional average decision at the third step. This step preserves the edge directions and minimizes visual degradation. Finally, the last step interpolates undecided pixels using DOI method which can consider the fine edge direction. Although the VDD with hierarchical structure has a high complexity, it can extract delicate edge compared to other pixel-by-pixel or window-by-window deinterlacing algorithms. Simulation results show that it has significantly improved both the subjective and objective qualities of the reconstructed images.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.9
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• pp.786-791
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• 2012

This paper presents a depth boundary sharpening method for improved view synthesis in 3D video. In depth coding, distortion occurs around object boundaries, degrading the quality of synthesized images. In order to encounter this problem, the proposed method estimates an edge map for each frame to filter only the boundary regions. In particular, a window-based filter is employed to choose the most reliable pixel as the replacement considering three factors: frequency, similarity and closeness. The proposed method was implemented as post-processing of the deblocking filter in JMVC 8.3.Compared to the conventional methods, the proposed method generated 0.49 dB PSNR increase and 16.58% bitrate decrease on average. The improved portions were subjectively confirmed as well.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.2927-2936
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a noise reduction and hole removal algorithm in order to improve the quality of depth images when they are used for creating 3D contents. In the proposed algorithm, the depth image and the corresponding color image are both used. First, an intensity image is generated by converting the RGB color space into the HSI color space. By estimating the difference of distance and depth between reference and neighbor pixels from the depth image and difference of intensity values from the color image, they are used to remove noise in the proposed algorithm. Then, the proposed hole filling method fills the detected holes with the difference of euclidean distance and intensity values between reference and neighbor pixels from the color image. Finally, we apply a parallel structure of GPGPU to the proposed algorithm to speed-up its processing time for real-time applications. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs better than other conventional algorithms. Especially, the proposed algorithm is more effective in reducing edge blurring effect and removing noise and holes.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.43-51
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• 2014

TFT-LCD image includes a defect of various properties. TFT-LCD image have a recognizable defects in the human inspector. On the other hand, it is difficult to detect defects that difference between the background and defect is very low. In this paper, we proposed sequentially detect algorithm from pixels included in the defect region to limited defects. And blob analysis methods using the blob size and gray difference are applied to the defect candidate image. Finally, we detect an accurate defect blob to distinguish the noise. The experimental results show that the proposed method finds the various defects reliably.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.89-96
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an efficient deinterlacing algorithm which is an edge dependent interpolation based on edge direction refinement. The conventional edge dependent interpolation algorithms have a visually better performance than any other Intra-field deinterlacing algorithms. However they are very sensitive to noise due to the failure of estimating edge direction. In order to exactly detect edge direction, our method detects edge direction of around interpolated pixel and refines the edge direction using weighted median filter. Simulation results have shown the efficacy of the proposed method with significant improvement over the previous methods in terms of the objective PSNR quality as well as the subjective image quality.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.81-88
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• 2002

This paper proposes an extraction method which extracts two different thematic maps, which have different line thickness from each other in a raster image that contains the two thematic maps. In the proposed method, the depth of each pixel is calculated according to the amount of pixels in its surrounding neighborhood, and then the thinning is performed. By using depth threshold, two thematic maps are first extracted from the thinning result. There are noise images and skeleton disconnection in the lines of each extracted thematic map. Each thematic map extraction is finally completed after removing the noise images and connecting the disconnected lines. Through the experiment, we showed that the proposed method could be used for the extraction of each thematic map of a raster image which included two thematic maps.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.294-298
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• 2009

In this study, we proposes the method to improve the quality of the image through the edge extraction more delicately. Our method is named ESII(Edge Sensitive Image Interpolation) and doesn't use the fixed parameter of the interpolation kernel. However, it changes the parameter of pixel which is interpolated to the high definition image using the proper information from the surrounding pixels. It reconstructs the image by using the LSE(Least Square Error) and determining the pixel values to make the CME(Camera Modelling Error) minimized. Compared to the conventional methods, suggested method shows the higher quality of subjective and objective image definition and lessons the computational complexity by separating the image into 1-D data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.229-232
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 공간적 보간을 응용하여 손상된 영상 구획의 데이터를 복원하는 기법을 제시한다. 이러한 기법은 손상된 영상을 부가 정보 없이 복원하는 오류 은폐의 핵심으로 Park[3], Wang[4], Sun[9], Lee[7], Hemami[8] 등에 의해서 여러 가지 기법들이 제안되었다. 그러나 이러한 기법들은 단순히 주변 구획과의 경계면에서의 연속성만을 고려하여 복원하므로 구획 내부의 데이터를 복원하는데 한계가 있으며 계산량도 많은 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 기존의 기법들의 단점을 극복하기 위하여 Non-Unform Rational B-Spline(NURBS)을 응용한 복원 기법을 제안한다. 제시된 주변 구획의 오류 유무와 윤곽선의 방향에 따라 주변 구획의 화소 정보에 할당되는 가중치를 적절히 변경하여 NURBS를 적용한다. 따라서 윤곽선의 방향을 더욱 견실하게 복원함으로써 주관적, 객관적 관점에서 기존의 기법보다 우수한 영상 구획 복원 성능을 얻을 수 있다. 정지 영상에 대한 컴퓨터 모의 실험 결과 제안하는 알고리듬을 기존의 기법보다 30% 구획 손실율에서 0.5 dB이상 성능 향상을 얻을 수 있음을 관찰하였다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.909-914
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• 2007

본 논문은 조명변화가 심한 주변환경에서 동적객체의 특징정보를 안정적으로 추출하는 기법을 제시한다. 제안기법에서는 우선 조명변화의 효과를 최소화 하기위해 HSI 컬러공간에서 색상(Hue) 강도 및 색상기울기에 대한 평균값과 표준편차 값으로 이루어진 배경모델을 생성한다. 실시간으로 입력되는 동적 객체를 포함한 연속영상에 대하여 각 화소에 대한 색상(Hue) 성분을 추출하고 이웃 화소와의 색상성분에 대한 기울기 크기를 계산한다. 이를 기구축된 배경모델과 비교하여 그 차분값이 일정 임계값을 초과하는 경우 동적 객체의 영역으로 판별한다. 마지막으로 모폴로지 연산을 수행하여 배경영상의 노이즈 영역을 제거한다. 본 논문에서는 기존 동적객체 추출기법과 제안기법을 핸드 트래킹과 전체 몸 움직임 추적의 비교실험을 통하여 제안 기법의 안정성을 보였다. 제안 기법은 극심한 조명변화에 강건하게 동적 객체의 영역정보를 실시간 추출하였다.