• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.1773-1778
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• 2012

Nowadays, the high quality of image is required with the demand for digital image processing devices is rapidly increasing. But image always damaged by many kinds of noises and it is necessary to remove noise and the denoising becomes one of the most important fields. In many cases image is corrupted by AWGN(additive white Gaussian noise). In this paper, we proposed an improved denoising algorithm with edge preservation. The proposed algorithm averages values processed by spatial weighted filter and self adaptive weighted filter. Then we add the value which is computed by the equation considering variance of mask and the estimated noise variance. Through the experience, the proposed filter performs well on noise suppression and edge preservation properties and improves the image visual quality.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.735-741
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• 2014

Edge in images appears when a great difference shows up in light and shade between pixels and includes data of the subject's size, location direction and etc. The edge is generally detected by the methods such as Sobel, Roberts, Laplacian, LoG(Laplacian of Gaussian) and etc. However, in AWGN(additive white Gaussian noise) added images, quality of the edge becomes slightly uncertain. Therefore, this paper proposed edge detection algorithm using modified mask of weighting to improve the quality of the existing methods. And in order to verify the performance efficiency of the proposed method, processed image and PFOM(Pratt's figure of merit) has been used as valuation standard for a comparison with the existing methods.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.78-84
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• 2015

Depth estimation is often required for robot vision, 3D modeling, and motion control. Previous method is based on the focus measures which are calculated for a series of image by a single camera at different distance between and object. This method, however, has disadvantage of taking a long time for calculating the focus measure since the mask operation is performed for every pixel in the image. In this paper, we estimates the depth by using the focus measure of the boundary pixels located between the objects in order to minimize the depth estimate time. To detect the boundary of an object consisting of a straight line and a circle, we use the Hough transform and estimate the depth by using the focus measure. We performed various experiments for PCB images and obtained more effective depth estimation results than previous ones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.404-406
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• 2021

In modern society, artificial intelligence and automation are being applied in various fields due to the development of the 4th industrial revolution and IoT technology. In particular, systems with a high proportion of image processing, such as automated processes, intelligent CCTV, medical industry, robots, and drones, are susceptible to external factors noise. In this paper, we propose a digital filter based on noise estimation and weights to reconstruct an image in a complex noise environment. The proposed algorithm classifies the types of noise using noise judgment, and determines the noise level of the filtering mask to switch the filtering process to obtain the final output. In order to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, simulation was conducted, compared with the existing filter algorithm, and the results were analyzed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.4 s.310
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• pp.58-66
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• 2006

In this paper, we apply DCM(Dilation of Color and Motion information) mask and Active Contour Models(Snakes) to extract facial outline in moving pictures with complex background. First, we propose DCM mask which is made by applying morphology dilation and AND operation to combine facial color and motion information, and use this mask to detect facial region without complex background and to remove noise in image energy. Also, initial curves are automatically set according to rotational degree estimated with geometric ratio of facial elements to overcome the demerit of Active Contour Models which is sensitive to initial curves. And edge intensity and brightness are both used as image energy of snakes to extract contour at parts with weak edges. For experiments, we acquired total 480 frames with various head-poses of sixteen persons with both eyes shown by taking pictures in inner space and also by capturing broadcasting images. As a result, it showed that more elaborate facial contour is extracted at average processing time of 0.28 seconds when using interpolated initial curves according to facial rotation degree and using combined image energy of edge intensity and brightness.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.1052-1055
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 3D 메시 정보, RGB-D 손 자세 및 2D/3D 손/세그먼트 마스크를 포함하여 인간의 손과 관련된 다양한 컴퓨터 비전 작업에 사용할 수 있는 새로운 다중 모달 합성 벤치마크를 제안 하였다. 생성된 데이터셋은 기존의 대규모 데이터셋인 BigHand2.2M 데이터셋과 변형 가능한 3D 손 메시(mesh) MANO 모델을 활용하여 다양한 손 포즈 변형을 다룬다. 첫째, 중복되는 손자세를 줄이기 위해 전략적으로 샘플링하는 방법을 이용하고 3D 메시 모델을 샘플링된 손에 피팅한다. 3D 메시의 모양 및 시점 파라미터를 탐색하여 인간 손 이미지의 자연스러운 가변성을 처리한다. 마지막으로, 다중 모달리티 데이터를 생성한다. 손 관절, 모양 및 관점의 데이터 공간을 기존 벤치마크의 데이터 공간과 비교한다. 이 과정을 통해 제안된 벤치마크가 이전 작업의 차이를 메우고 있음을 보여주고, 또한 네트워크 훈련 과정에서 제안된 데이터를 사용하여 RGB 기반 손 포즈 추정 실험을 하여 생성된 데이터가 양질의 질과 양을 가짐을 보여준다. 제안된 데이터가 RGB 기반 3D 손 포즈 추정 및 시맨틱 손 세그멘테이션과 같은 품질 좋은 큰 데이터셋이 부족하여 방해되었던 작업에 대한 발전을 가속화할 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.474-480
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• 2013

In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system (OFDM), rapid channel variation caused by fast moving receiver leads to a loss of subcarrier orthogonality which results in inter-carrier interference (ICI) and receiver performance degradation. In conventional receivers, performance is enhanced by estimating ICI and removing it from received signals. In this paper, an ICI reduction scheme using a time-domain mask and adding is proposed. The proposed scheme is applied to DVB-T receiver to prove the Doppler mobile performance enhancement.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Environmental Toocicology Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.163-163
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• 2002

국내에서 사용중인 농약에 대한 농민의 농약 노출량 및 양상을 조사하고자 내분비계 장애 물질로 추정되는 Mancozeb의 살포 시 작업자의 피부 노출량 및 호흡 노출량 측정을 감귤농장에서 실시하였다. 피부노출 측정은 Patch법(50$\textrm{cm}^2$)을 사용하였고 손 노출은 순면장갑을 사용하였다. 호흡노출은 XAD-2 resin 흡착제와 Personal air monitor(2L/min)를 이용, 측정하였다. Mancozeb 분석은 CS$_2$법을 이용하였고 patch, resin, 장갑, 마스크, 소변에서 Mancozeb의 회수율 및 포장회수율 모두 90%이상이었다. 감귤 재배시 Mancozeb 사용에 따른 피부노출량은 여자가 약 1800mg/hr, 남자는 약 1300mg/hr 이었고 주로 배, 등, 상박 그리고 허벅지에 노출량이 많았다. 호흡노출은 관찰되지 않았고 소변에서도 Mancozeb는 관찰되지 않았다. 위해성 평가를 위해 PDE, AQE 및 MOS를 구하였으며 MOS는 Severn의 공식을 이용하였다. MOS는 여자가 0.37, 남자가 0.58이었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.7-11
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• 2002

This paper estimates defect and outbreak probabilities of each individual component from some subset of masked data where the exact component causing system failure might be unknown. A system consists of k components that fails whenever there is a defect in at least one of the components. Due to cost and time constraints it is not feasible to learn exactly which components are defective. Because, test procedures ascertain that the defective components belong to some subset of the k components. This phenomenon is termed masking. We describe a, b, c type in which a sample of masked subsets is subjected to intensive failure analysis. This recorded data of a, b, c type enables maximum likelihood estimation of defect probability of each individual component and leads to outbreak of the defective components in future masked failures.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.116-129
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• 2001

To improve the performance of the inverse halftoning, smoothing masks should be designed optimally by using the accurate information of halftone cells. In this thesis, the method of energy minimization is so defined as to determine the exact information of halftone cell. A heuristic search method is proposed to obtain efficiently the parameters of halftone cells which determine the minimum energy. A halftone-peak modeling method with several functions is proposed and used to get initial values of the parameters. The dimension decomposition technique is also adopted to speed up the search process of energy minimization. Several experiments show that the proposed method extracts correct location of the seed pixel of the halftone cell and the extracted information of the halftone cell can be used to get more exactly smoothed color images. The proposed method can be applied to extract the texture patterns, to separate channel images of a scanned color halftone image, and to extract the moire area in an image.