• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.415-416
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 대역 제한된 색도 신호에 의해 발생하는 컬러번짐 현상을 TV 수신단이나 MPEG 디코더에서 효과적으로 개선하는 방법을 제시한다. 제안하는 컬러 번짐 개선 알고리즘은 비디오 신호에 포함된 색도 신호의 천이를 개선하기 위하여, 색도 신호의 일정 윈도우 영역에 존재하는 주변 화소들의 국부 최대값 및 국부 최소값을 바탕으로 얻어낸 계단 신호를 사용한다. 대역 제한된 색도 신호에서 이웃에 존재하는 화소들간의 색도 차를 계산하여 에지 특성을 분석하고 계산된 색도 차를 바탕으로 입력 신호와 계단신호와의 공간 적응적 가중치를 결정한다. 실험 결과에서는 제안하는 컬러 번짐 개선 알고리즘이 컬러 번짐 효과를 효과적으로 제거하여 선명하면서도 자연스러운 영상을 얻어내는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.123-131
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• 2005

Among the digital halftoning, the error diffusion halftoning gives better subjective quality than other halftoning techniques. But it also makes edges of objects blurred. To overcome the defect, this paper proposes the modified error diffusion halftoning algorithm to enhance the edges using the spatial perceptual properties of the human visual system. Using the properties that the human eyes perceive not the pixel's luminance itself but the local average luminance and the information that human eyes perceive spatial variation, the proposed method computes information of edge enhancement(IEE). The IEE is added to the quantizer's input pixel and feeds into the halftoning quantizer. The quantizer produces the halftone image having the enhanced edge. Also this paper proposes the technique that the coefficients of the error diffusion filter are adapted according to the correlation among color components. The computer simulation results show that the proposed method produces finer halftoning images than conventional methods due to the enhanced edges. And the proposed method also preserves similar in edges to original image and reduces some defects such as color impulse and false contours.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12C
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• pp.1138-1146
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• 2009

Digital cameras adopting a single CCD detector collect image color by subsampling in three color planes and successively interpolating the information to reconstruct full-resolution color images. Therefore, to recovery of a full-resolution color image from a color filter array (CFA) like the Bayer pattern is generally considered as an interpolation issue for the unknown color components. In this paper, we first calculate luminance component value by combining R, G, B channel component information which is quite different from the conventional demosaicing algorithm. Because conventional system calculates G channel component followed by computing R and B channel components. Integrating the obtained gradient edge information and the improved weighting function in luminance component, a new edge sensitive demosaicing technique is presented. Based on 24 well known testing images, simulation results proved that our presented high-quality demosaicing technique shows the best image quality performance when compared with several recently presented techniques.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.11-21
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• 2003

In computer vision, the goal of stereopsis is to determine the surface structure of real world form two or more perspective views of scene. It is similar to human visual system. We can avoid obstacles, recognize objects, and manipulate machine using three-dimensional information. Until recently, only gray-level images have been used as input to computation for depth determination, but the availability of color can further enhance the performance of computational stereopsis. There are many models to provide efficient color system. The simplest model, RGB model treats color as if it were composed of separate entities. Each color channel is processed individually by the same stereopsis module as used in the gray-level model. His Model decouples intensity component from color information. So it can deal with color properties without defect intensity information. Opponent color model is based on human visual system. In this model, the red-green-blue colors are combined into three opponent channels before further processing.

• KSCI Review
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.9-14
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 새로운 칼라 모폴로지 피라미드를 제안하고. 제안된 칼라 모폴로지의 유용성 평가를 위해 이미지에서 중요한 에지를 검출하고자 한다. 여기서 이미지 피라미드 구조는 최초 컬러 이미지의 반복적인 필터링과 샘플링의 순차적인 실험 과정의 단계를 본 논문에서 제안한 CMP를 이용하여 연속적인 필터링 처리로 불필요한 크기의 물체 및 잡음을 제거하여. 효율적인 특징 추출의 유효성을 검증하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.40-43
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• 2009

최근 모바일 영상기반 응용 분야에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으며 모바일기기로 촬영된 영상에서 문자정보를 추출하고자 하는 많은 연구도 진행되고 있다. 자연이미지로부터 문자정보를 추출을 위한 전단계로 문자영역 검출이 필수적이다. 본 연구는 문자영역의 지역적 에지 및 연결요소 특징을 고려하여 조명 및 복잡한 배경에서도 문자영역을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 에지 검출은 캐니-에지 검출기로 추출하고, RGB 컬러분포 패턴을 분석하여 컬러 양자화를 함으로서 연결성분을 추출한다. 각각 추출된 에지 및 연결성분으로부터 문자후보 영역을 검출하고, 각각의 결과를 결합하여 최종적인 문자 후보 영역을 검출하고, 문자 후보 영역에 대한 검증을 수행함으로서 최종적인 문자영역을 검출한다. 제안한 방법은 다양한 환경에서 얻어진 자연이미지를 대상으로 실험한 결과, 에지 및 연결성분의 두 가지 특징을 결합함으로서 자연이미지에 존재하는 다양한 형태의 문자영역을 효과적으로 검출하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1581-1588
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• 2010

Most digital cameras use a single image sensor with Color Filter Array(CFA) for the advantage of costs and speed. The various color interpolation(demosaicing) algorithms are researched to reconstruct a full representation of the image. In this paper, we proposed a method of demosaicing about using weighted directional filter for vertical, horizontal, and diagonal direction edge. The method considered the efficiency of hardware resources for hardware implementation. The performance of proposed method was confirmed by comparing the conventional method in experiments using 24 Kodak test images. The proposed method was designed by Verilog HDL and was verified by using Virtex4 FPGA boards and CMOS Image Sensor.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.847-852
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• 2010

Text in natural images has a various and important feature of image. Therefore, to detect text and extraction of text, recognizing it is a studied as an important research area. Lately, many applications of various fields is being developed based on mobile phone camera technology. Detecting edge component form gray-scale image and detect an boundary of text regions by local standard deviation and get an connected components using Euclidean distance of RGB color space. Labeling the detected edges and connected component and get bounding boxes each regions. Candidate of text achieved with heuristic rule of text. Detected candidate text regions was merged for generation for one candidate text region, then text region detected with verifying candidate text region using ectilarity characterization of adjacency and ectilarity between candidate text regions. Experctental results, We improved text region detection rate using completentary of edge and color connected component.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.7
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• pp.205-215
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• 2013

In digital imaging system, Bayer pattern is widely used and the observed image is degraded by optical blur during image acquisition process. Generally, demosaicing and deblurring process are separately performed in order to convert a blurred Bayer image to a high resolution color image. However, the demosaicing process often generates visible artifacts such as zipper effect and Moire artifacts when performing interpolation across edge direction in Bayer pattern image. These artifacts are emphasized by the deblurring process. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a deblurring algorithm combined with edge directional color demosaicing method. The proposed method is consisted of interpolation step and region classification step. Interpolation and deblurring are simultaneously performed according to horizontal and vertical directions, respectively during the interpolation step. In the region classification step, characteristics of local regions are determined at each pixel position and the directionally obtained values are region adaptively fused. Also, the proposed method uses blur model based on wave optics and deblurring filter is calculated by using estimated characteristics of local regions. The simulation results show that the proposed deblurring algorithm prevents the boosting of artifacts and outperforms conventional approaches in both objective and subjective terms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.179-182
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 영상으로부터 손금을 추출하기 위해서 획득된 영상을 YCbCr 컬러 공간으로 변환한다. YCbCr 컬러 공간에서 Y:65~255, Cb:25~255, Cr:130~255에 해당되는 피부색 정보를 추출하고 이 피부색 정보를 임계치로 설정하여 손 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손 영역에서 내부 픽셀의 3:1 이상, 전체 영상의 2:1 이상인 손의 형태학적 정보와 8 방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 이용하여 잡음을 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 영상에서 손금을 추출하기 위해서 스트레칭 기법과 소벨 마스크를 이용하여 에지를 추출한다. 추출된 에지 영상에서도 미세한 잡음이 존재하므로 퍼지 이진화 기법을 이용하여 효과적으로 이진화 한다. 이진화된 영상에서 손금의 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 손의 윤곽선을 제외한 손금 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손금 영역은 동치 테이블을 이용하는 연결 영역 검색 기법과 퍼지 추론 기법을 적용하여 개별 손금의 중요선을 추출하고 분석한다. 다양한 손금 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 손금 추출 방법보다 손금을 분석하는데 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.