• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.2161-2166
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• 2015

This paper analyzes the straight line detection using the principal component analysis (PCA) and proposes its improved algorithm to which two new functions are added. The first function removes invalid pixels through the detected straight line and detects a line again. The second function detects lines from non-overlapped blocks, selects valid line candidates, and detects a valid line from pixels adjacent to each line candidate. The proposed algorithm detects a more accurate straight line with a low computation in comparison with the conventional algorithm in an image with somewhat refined lines.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.376-384
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• 1997

In this paper, we propose a coding method of remotely sensed satellite image with edge region compensation. This method classifies each pixel vector considering spectral reflection characteristics of satellite image data. For each class, we perform classified intraband VQ and classified interband prediction to remove intraband and interband redundancies, respectively. In edge region case, edge region is compensated using class information of neighboring blocks and gray value of quantized reference bands. Then we perform classified interband prediction using compensated class information to remove interband redundancy, effectively. Experiments on LANDSAT-TM satellite images show that coding efficiency of the proposed method is better than that of the conventional methods.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.175-182
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• 2017

Noises are usually generated by various external causes and low quality devices in image data acquisition and recording as well as by channel interference in image transmission. Since these noise signals result in the loss of information, subsequent image processing is subject to the corruption of the original image. In general, image processing is performed in the mixed noise environment where common types of noise, known to be Gaussian and impulse, are present. This study proposes an iterative weighted mean filter for reducing mixed type of noise. Impulse noise pixels are first turned off in the input image, then $3{\times}3$ sliding window regions are processed by replacing center pixel with the result of weighted mean mask operation. This filtering processes are iterated until all the impulse noise pixels are replaced. Applied to images corrupted by Gaussian noise with ${\sigma}=10$ and different levels of impulse noise, the proposed filtering method improved the PSNR by up to 12.98 dB, 1.97 dB, 1.97 dB respectively, compared to SAWF, AWMF, MMF when impulse noise desities are less than 60%.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.362-371
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• 2009

The key technology for developing high quality LCDs is about manufacturing BLUs with homogeneous dot distributions. Commonly, homogeneous dot distributions are obtained by the halftoning methods which convert a gray-scale image to a binary image. Among many halftoning algorithms, the error-diffusion technique based on the principle distance is known to show homogeneous dot distributions. However, this technique has a drawback; the extent of the principle distance at each pixel with respect to those of the neighboring pixels can be too small or big creating a gap or overlap. In this paper, we propose a new error diffusion algorithm based on the variable principle distance which improves the existing error diffusion technique based on the principle distance. The variable principle distance at a given pixel is calculated with gray-scale values of the pixel and its neighbors and thus the principle distance value is variable depending on the direction from that pixel. This variable principle distance technique helps BLUs obtain homogeneous dot distributions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1867-1873
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• 2015

Edge detection is one of image processing techniques applied for a variety of purposes in a number of areas and it is used as a necessary pretreatment process in most applications. In the conventional edge detection methods, there are Sobel, Prewitt, Roberts and LoG, etc using a fixed weights mask. Since conventional edge detection methods apply the images to the fixed weights mask, the edge detection characteristics appear somewhat insufficient. Therefore in this study, an algorithm for detecting the edge is proposed by applying the cross mask based on the center pixel and up, down, left and right mask based on the surrounding pixels of center pixel in order to solve these problems. And in order to assess the performance of proposed algorithm, it was compared with a conventional Sobel, Roberts, Prewitt and LoG edge detection methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.4C
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• pp.371-379
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed new de-interlacing algorithm for video data using intensity gradient filter and median filter with texture detection in the image block. We first introduce the texture detection. According to texture detection, the current region is determined into smooth region or texture region. In case that the smooth region interpolated by median filter. In addition, in case of the texture region, we calculate missing pixel value using intensity gradient filter. Therefore, we analyze the local region feature using the texture detection and classify each missing pixel into two categories. And then, based on the classification result, a different de-interlacing algorithm is activated in order to obtain the best performance. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs well with a variety of moving sequences compared with conventional intra-field method in the literature.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.1217-1230
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• 2010

The dynamic programming based methods, a kind of globally optimizing stereo matching methods, has the inherent advantage that the occlusion regions can be found during the process. But it also has a serious drawback of streaking phenomena. This paper focuses on reducing the streaking phenomena by adjusting the penalties in calculating the cost matrix and re-establishing the optimal path in the back-tracing process using the boundary information of the image. Especially we use a pixel expansion method in re-establishing the path, which is the results from expanding the pixel information of the ones just left the boundaries. Experiments with the four image pairs provided by the Middlebury site showed the results that the proposed method has the disparity error ratio of 6.33% and the rank is 29, which is competitive to the best method among the previously published dynamic programming based methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.315-316
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• 2019

전투복, 군용 천막 등에 사용되는 위장무늬는 군 작전 수행 시 주변 환경의 색상, 패턴을 모사하여 개인병사 및 무기체계의 위장 기능을 극대화하고, 이를 통해 아군의 생명과 시설피해를 최소화하기 위한 목적으로 사용된다. 특히 최근 들어 군의 작전환경과 임무가 복잡하고 다양해짐에 따라, 작전환경에 대한 데이터의 취득 및 정량적 분석을 통해 전장 환경에 최적화된 위장무늬 패턴 및 색상 추출에 대한 연구의 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 한반도 자연환경 영상에 대한 자기 조직화 지도(SOM, Self-organizing Map) 기반의 한반도 자연환경 대표 색상 군집화 연구 방법에 대해 서술한다. 이를 위해 한반도 내 위도를 고려한 장소에서 시간별, 계절별 자연환경 영상 수집을 진행하며, 수집된 영상 내 다수의 화소의 군집화를 위해 2차원 SOM을 활용한다. 영상 내 각 화소의 색상 값에 대한 SOM의 학습 시, RGB공간상의 색차/색상 인지 왜곡을 피하기 위하여 CIEDE2000 색차 식을 통해 군집화를 진행한다. 실험결과에서는 온라인상으로 수집한 여름 및 가을철 대표 색상 군집화 결과와, 현재까지 수집된 계절별 자연환경 사진 내 6억 7648개 화소에 대한 대표 색상 군집화 결과를 보여준다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.965-972
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• 2020

Depth maps have distance information of objects. They play an important role in organizing 3D information. Color and depth images are often simultaneously obtained. However, depth images have lower resolution than color images due to limitation in hardware technology. Therefore, it is useful to upsample depth maps to have the same resolution as color images. In this paper, we propose a novel method to upsample depth map by shifting the pixel position instead of compensating pixel value. This approach moves the position of the pixel around the edge to the center of the edge, and this process is carried out in several steps to restore blurred depth map. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves both quantitative and visual quality compared to the existing methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.1868-1873
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• 2021

This paper proposes the Hough transform(HT) using an extended lookup table(LUT) to reduce the computational burden of the HT that is a typical straight line detection algorithm, and analyzes its performance. The conventional HT also uses a LUT to the calculation of the parameter 𝜌 of all straight lines passing through an edge pixel of interest(ePel) in order to reduce the computational burden. However, the proposed HT adopts an extended LUT that can be applied to straight lines across the ePel as well as its peripheral edge pixels to induce more computational reduction. This paper proves the validity of the proposed algorithm mathematically and also verifies it through simulation. The simulation results show that the proposed HT reduces the multiplication computation from 49.6% up to 16.1%, depending on the image and the applied extended LUT, compared to the conventional HT.