• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.214-220
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• 2021

In modern society, various digital communication equipments are being used due to the influence of the 4th industrial revolution, and accordingly, interest in removing noise generated in the data transmission process is increasing. In this paper, we propose a filtering algorithm to remove AWGN generated during digital image transmission. The proposed algorithm removes noise based on mask matching to preserve information such as the boundary of an image, and uses pixel values with similar patterns according to the pattern of the input pixel value and the surrounding pixels for output calculation. To evaluate the proposed algorithm, we simulated with existing AWGN removal algorithms, and analyzed using enlarged image and PSNR comparison. The proposed algorithm has superior AWGN removal performance compared to the existing method, and is particularly effective in images with strong noise intensity of AWGN.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.44-49
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• 2022

Abstract Recently, with the development of IoT technology and communication media, various video equipment is being used in industrial fields. Image data acquired from cameras and sensors are easily affected by noise during transmission and reception, and noise removal is essential as it greatly affects system reliability. In this paper, we propose a weight filter algorithm based on the pixel value distribution pattern to preserve details in the process of restoring images damaged in AWGN. The proposed algorithm calculates weights according to the pixel value distribution pattern of the image and restores the image by applying a filtering mask. In order to analyze the noise removal performance of the proposed algorithm, it was simulated using enlarged image and PSNR compared to the existing method. The proposed algorithm preserves important characteristics of the image and shows the performance of efficiently removing noise compared to the existing method.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.33 no.6_1
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• pp.1003-1017
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• 2017

Multispectral image data of high spatial resolution is required to obtain correct information on the ground surface. The multispectral image data has lower resolution compared to panchromatic data. PAN-sharpening fusion technique produces the multispectral data with higher resolution of panchromatic image. Recently the object-based approach is more applied to the high spatial resolution data than the conventional pixel-based one. For the object-based image analysis, it is necessary to perform image segmentation that produces the objects of pixel group. Image segmentation can be effectively achieved by the process merging step-by-step two neighboring regions in RAG (Regional Adjacency Graph). In the satellite remote sensing, the operational environment of the satellite sensor causes image degradation during the image acquisition. This degradation increases variation of pixel values in same area, and results in deteriorating the accuracy of image segmentation. An iterative approach that reduces the difference of pixel values in two neighboring pixels of same area is employed to alleviate variation of pixel values in same area. The size of segmented regions is associated with the quality of image segmentation and is decided by a stopping rue in the merging process. In this study, the image restoration and segmentation was quantitatively evaluated using simulation data and was also applied to the three PAN-sharpened multispectral images of high resolution: Dubaisat-2 data of 1m panchromatic resolution from LA, USA and KOMPSAT3 data of 0.7m panchromatic resolution from Daejeon and Chungcheongnam-do in the Korean peninsula. The experimental results imply that the proposed method can improve analytical accuracy in the application of remote sensing high resolution PAN-sharpened multispectral imagery.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.15-28
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• 1998

최근 영상 기반 렌더링(image-based rendering)을 위한 새로운 접근방법으로서 광학 흐름 요소 렌더링(optical flow rendering)이 제안되었다. 이 방법은 좌우 영상 대응(stereo matching)에서 발생하는 오류와 무관하게 고품질의 영상을 생성할 수 있고 깊이 정보 비교를 통해 기존의 렌더링 방법으로 생성한 영상과 광학 흐름 요소로부터 생성한 영상을 합성할 수 있는 반면에, 한 화소 당 하나 이상의 광학 흐름 요소를 필요로하기 때문에 연산량이 많아져 영상 생성이 느려지는 단점이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 영상 생성을 위한 광학 흐름 요소 구성법과 영상 생성법을 제안한다. 각각의 광학 흐름 요소가 영상 내에서 화소들의 구간에 대응되도록 개선하여 전체 광학 흐름 요소의 수를 줄였으며, 필터링 탐색법 (filtering search)을 적용하여 전체 광학 흐름 요소를 모두 탐색하는 대신 실제로 영상 생성에 사용되는 광학 흐름 요소만을 탐색함으로써 전체 연산량을 크게 줄였다. 제안된 방법을 SGI Indigo2 Impact 워크스테이션(R10000 CPU; 128 Mbytes)상에서 구현한 결과, 초당 10장 이상의 고속 영상 생성이 가능했다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.1861-1873
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• 1996

This paper describes the content-based image retrieval system that is implemented to retrieve images using constituent rate of lines and Bezier curves. We proposed the line and Bezier curve extraction algorithm which extracts lines and curve that are fitted on the contour information of images. For this extration, it was necessary to remove internal area of the proprocessed object within images and to approximate its contour to polygon, and proposed retrevial algorithm which gets the simularity using the consitituent rate of lines and curves and perform the simularity matching.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.109-110
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 홀로그램을 실시간으로 생성하기 위하여 수정된 디지털 홀로그램(computer-generated hologram, CGH) 수식을 재정의 하여 3단계로 나누고 2차원 블록 단위 기반의 컴퓨터 생성 홀로그램 생성기의 하드웨어 구조를 제안하였다. 유효광원의 대한 z축 항에 대하여 연산하는 공통항 연산기와 x,y축을 연산하는 죄표값 연산기 마지막으로 각 화소의 대하여 연산하는 화소값 연산기로 이루어진 하드웨어를 제안하고 구현 하였다. 구현한 하드웨어는 $32{\times}32$ 중간 블록의 구조를 가질 때 기존 연구에 비하여 86%이상의 DSP블록을 줄일 수 있다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.806-808
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 자동화 시대에 맞춰 실시간 영상처리 기반의 모니터 품질검수 시스템을 구현하고자 한다. 작동하는 컨베이어벨트 위에 모니터가 놓이면 아두이노(Arduino)와 웹캠(Webcam), 각종 모터, 센서 등 다양한 부품으로 영상처리를 진행하여 불량 화소 기준에 따라 불량 여부를 판별한 후 자동으로 분류된다. 기존에 노동자가 직접 불량 화소를 판별하는 방식에서 모든 과정을 ICT 기술로 통합하여 최소 비용과 시간의 효과를 발현시키는 첨단 지능형 공장으로의 변화를 주고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.321-326
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• 2019

Image denoising methods based on block matching are founded on the experimental observations that neighboring patches or blocks in images retain similar features with each other, and have been proved to show superior performance in denoising different kinds of noise. The methods, however, take into account only neighboring blocks in searching for similar blocks, and ignore the characteristic features of the reference block itself. Consequently, denoising performance is negatively affected when outliers of the Gaussian distribution are included in the reference block which is to be denoised. In this paper, we propose an expanded block matching method in which noisy images are first decomposed into a number of bit-planes, then the range of true signals are estimated based on the distribution of pixels on the bit-planes, and finally outliers are replaced by the neighboring pixels belonging to the estimated range. In this way, the advantages of the conventional Gaussian filter can be added to the blocking matching method. We tested the proposed method through extensive experiments with well known test-bed images, and observed that performance gain can be achieved by the proposed method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8B
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• pp.1129-1140
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 블록기반 동영상 부호화에서 나타나는 양자화 잡음을 그 특성에 맞게 모델링을 하고, 이를 기반으로 웨이블렛 변환(wavelet transform)을 이용하여 양자화 잡음을 제거하는 후처리 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 양자화 잡음을 특정 프로화일(profile)로 표현되는 블록화 잡음과 비에지 화소(non-edge pixel)에서 백색 가우시안 특성을 가지는 나머지 잡음의 합으로 모델링 한다. 이러한 양자화 잡음의 모델을 기반으로 정칙화 미분(regularized differentiation)을 표현하는 Mallat의 1차원 웨이브렛 변환을 이용하여 영상복원 관점에서 각각의 잡음을 제거한다. 먼저, 웨이브렛 영역의 블록경계에서 임펄스로 나타나는 블록화 잡음 성분들의 크기를 추정하여 줄임으로 해서 블록화 잡음을 제거한다. 이때 임펄스 크기의 추정은 메디안 필터와 양자화 파라미터(quantization parameter), 그리고 국부 활동도(local activity)를 이용하여 이루어진다. 그리고 나머지 잡음은 비에지 화소에서 연역치화(soft-thresholding)을 수행함으로써 제거한다. 이러한 후처리 방법의 구현은 실시간 응용을 위해 웨이브렛 필터를 이용하여 근사적으로 공간 영역에서 이루어진다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법이 다양한 영상과 압축률에 대해 MPEG-4 VM(verification model) 후처리 필터(post-filter)보다 PSNR 성능뿐만 아니라 주관적 화질면에서도 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.45-52
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• 2009

We proposed a new pixel circuit and driving method for the large-area, high-luminance AMOLED applications in this study. We designed with the low-temperature poly-silicon(LTPS) thin film transistors(TFTs) that has poor uniformity but stable characteristic. To improve the uniformity of an image, the threshold voltage($V_{TH}$) and the mobility of the TFTs can be compensated together. The proposed method overcomes the previous methods for mobility compensation, and that is profitable for large-area applications. Black data insertion was introduced to improve the characteristics for moving images. AMOLED panel can operate in two compensation mode, so the luminance degradation by mobility compensation can be released. The scan driver for controlling the pixel circuits were optimized, and the compensation mode can be controlled simply by that. Final driving signal has large timing margin, and the panel operates stably. The pixel circuit was designed for 14.1" WXGA top-emission ANGLED panel. The non-uniformity of the designed panel was estimated under 5% for the mobility compensation time of 1us.