• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.74-82
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• 2008

This paper investigates chrominance reconstruction methods that reconstruct subsampled chrominance information efficiently using the correlation between luminance and chrominance components in the decompression process of compressed images, and analyzes drawbacks involved in the adaptive-weighted 2-dimensional linear interpolation among the methods, which shows higher efficiency in the view of computational complexity than other methods. To improve the drawback that the spatial frequency distribution is not considered for the decompressed image and to support the application on a low-performance system in behalf of 2-dimensional linear interpolation, this paper proposes the multi-mode reconstruction method which uses three reconstruction methods having different computational complexity from each other according to the degree of edge response of luminance component. The performance evaluation on a development platform for embedded systems showed that the proposed reconstruction method supports the similar level of image quality for decompressed images while reducing the overall computation time for chrominance reconstruction in comparison with the 2-dimensional linear interpolation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.561-565
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• 2011

This paper presents an imaging system for reconstruction of enhanced color images using the conventional Bayer CFA. By extracting various colors such as RGBCY from two sequential images which consist of a image by broadband G channel lens filter and the other image captured without one, the proposed color image reconstruction system can reduce the computational complexity for demosaicking and make high resolution color information without aliasing artifacts. Because the proposed system uses the common Bayer CFA image sensor, fabricating a new type of CFA is not necessary for obtaining a multi-spectral image, which can be easily extensible for applications of multi-spectral imaging. Finally, in order to verify the performance of the proposed system, experimental results are performed. By comparing with the existing demosaicking methods, the proposed camera system showed the significant improvements in the sense of color resolution.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.33-38
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• 2008

본 논문은 핀홀 카메라 모델에 의해 렌더링한 컬러와 깊이 이미지의 후처리에 의한 실시간 필드심도 렌더링 방법을 제안한다. 필드심도 렌더링은 최근의 향상에도, 큰 스케일의 블러링에 필요한 계산 때문에 실용적으로 사용되지 못해 왔다. 본 방법은 이방성 가우시안 필터로 생성된 밉맵 이미지들을 비선형으로 보간하여 필드심도 효과에 필요한 블러링을 수행한다. 모든 계산 과정은 GPU로 가속되어, 안정적이고 확장 가능한 실시간 수행 성능을 확보한다. 또한, 후처리 방식의 두 가지 결점인 강도 누출과 블러링 불연속성을 이방성 가우시안 필터와 블러링 정도를 부드럽게 하여 제거한다. 본 방법은 뛰어난 실시간 성능과 함께 고품질의 필드심도 효과를 생성한다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.481-486
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 깊이 영상을 개선하는 방법으로 깊이 영상 획득 시 손실된 영역을 복원하는 기법을 제안한다. 대상 객체의 동적인 3차원 정보는 적외선 깊이 센서가 장착된 깊이 비디오 카메라를 통하여 실시간으로 획득한다. 이때, 깊이 비디오뿐만 아니라 각 프레임마다 컬러영상이 동시에 획득된다. 그러나 대상 객체의 일부 또는 전체가 반짝이는 검은 재질로 되어있을 경우, 획득된 깊이 영상에 손실이 발생한다. 특히 방송용 콘텐츠로서 연기자의 3차원 정보를 획득할 때 머리카락 영역이 손실되는 심각한 문제가 발생한다. 이를 해결하기 위해 먼저 컬러 영상을 이용하여 손실된 영역의 위치 정보를 알아낸다. 손실된 영역 내 경계부분의 깊이 정보를 복원한 후 2차 베지어 커브로 보간하여 내부의 깊이 정보를 복원한다. 개선된 깊이 영상을 기반으로 일련의 모델링 과정을 수행하면 보다 자연스러운 3차원 모델을 생성할 수 있다. 생성된 3차원 모델은 실감방송용 콘텐츠로 사용될 수 있으며, 시청자에게 시각상호작용과 촉각상호작용 등 다차원 감각의 상호작용을 제공할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.847-848
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed a novel edge-oriented color interpolation method which determine the edge direction with hard-decision based on high correlation between different channels. The novel edge direction estimation criterion improves the color interpolation method especially on edges by considering high frequencies between channels.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.103-111
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a VLSI architecture of hardware optimized high quality image signal processor for a Single-chip CMOS Image Sensor(CIS). The Single-chip CIS is usually used for mobile applications, so it has to be implemented as small as possible while maintaining the image quality. Several image processing algorithms are used in ISP to improve captured image quality. Among the several image processing blocks, demosaicing and image filter are the core blocks in ISP. These blocks need line memories, but the number of line memories is limited in a low cost Single-chip CIS. In our design, high quality edge-adaptive and cross channel correlation considered demosaicing algorithm is adopted. To minimize the number of required line memories for image filter, we share the line memories using the characteristics of demosaicing algorithm which consider the cross correlation. Based on the proposed method, we can achieve both high quality and low hardware complexity with a small number of line memories. The proposed method was implemented and verified successfully using verilog HDL and FPGA. It was synthesized to gate-level circuits using 0.25um CMOS standard cell library. The total logic gate count is 37K, and seven and half line memories are used.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.57-66
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• 2014

This paper presents a low-complexity barrel distortion correction processor for wide-angle cameras. The proposed processor performs the barrel distortion correction jointly with the color demosaicking, so that the hardware complexity can be reduced significantly. In addition, to reduce the required memory bandwidth, an efficient memory interface is proposed by utilizing the spatial locality of the memory access in the correction process. The proposed processor is implemented with 35K logic gates in a $0.11-{\mu}m$ CMOS process and its correction speed is 150 Mpixels/s at the operating frequency of 606MHz, where the supported frame size is $2048{\times}2048$ and the required memory bandwidth is 1 read/cycle.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.53-59
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• 2009

Multi-view video is necessary to develop a new compression encoding technique for storage and transmission, because of a huge amount of data. Layered depth image is an efficient representation method of multi-view video data. This method makes a data structure that is synthesis of multi-view color and depth image. This paper proposed enhanced compression method by presentation of efficient layered depth image using real distance comparison, solution of overlap problem, and interpolation. In experimental results, confirmed high compression performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.111-113
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• 2012

KINECT is a gesture recognition camera produced by Microsoft Corp. KINECT SDK are widely available and many applications are actively being developed. Especially, KIET (Kinect Image Extraction Technique) has been used mainly for extracting moving objects from the input image. However, KIET has difficulty in extracting the human head due to the absorption of light. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes a new method for improving the KIET performance by using both color-image and depth image. Through experimental results, it is shown that the proposed method performs better than the conventional KIET algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.5023-5028
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• 2010

In this paper, an image based LED design simulator is proposed to reduce LED design cost mostly contingent on a design expert. Current techniques about LED design schemes have mostly treated text-based LED simulators. The proposed method is to provide novel and easy simulator for LED designers. At first, image filters including histogram equalization, bicubic interpolation. and scaling are employed. Color mapping and special effects are added as well. Experimental results classified into several categories along with running times are shown to validate the proposed methods.