• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.1521-1530
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• 2004

In this paper, we present effective quantization noise reduction algorithm using signal adaptive filter and linear combination between blocks in multimedia system. In the proposed method, all of the blocks are classified into low frequency blocks, high frequency blocks, and midrange blocks according to DCT coefficients. Ringing artifacts are shown in high frequency blocks. So ringing artifact reduction algorithm is performed in high frequency blocks using a signal adaptive filter. And the blocking artifact reduction is performed by replacing the pixel value of blocky blocks using linear combination between blocky block and remote unblocky block. The simulation results shows better performance in respective of the subjective and objective image quality than the conventional method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.199-205
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• 2015

This study is about ionic water generator filter Recently, a lot of people feel deep interest in health and drinking water. And there are various types of water. Ionic water generator is a system with special function, and can be classified as a medical device and should be manufactured after approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Basically ionized water is different from the packaged and stored water. When the tap water or ground water passes through the various filters of ionic water generator, it turns to the purified water of pH7 ~ 7.5 and we can electrolyze that water into anion and cation by diaphragm. And in negative electrode side, we can get alkaline water with calcium ($Ca^+$), potassium ($K^+$), magnesium ($Mg^+$), sodium ($Na^+$) for body. In general, we can change pH value from 5 to 9 of ionizer by controlling the level of electrolysis voltage in the ionizer. In general, 1stage (pH8), 2stage (pH8.5), 3stage (pH9), 4stage (pH9.5) are used as the alkaline ionized water, -1Stage (pH6.0), -2 stage (pH5.0) are used as the acidic water. But in early stage, the water that passed through filter was weakly alkaline water and that was problem. Therefore, when filter condition is stable, the pH and ORP value of water is different with the early one. the initial setting pH value of the ionizer was confirmed that changes significantly. In order to resolve this problem we need to wash filter for some period time and neutralize by acidification treatment of the filter.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.697-702
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• 2010

Contour artifact is known as the unintentional result of quantizing a flat area that has smooth gradients. In this letter, a decontouring algorithm is proposed to efficiently remove false contours that occur in typical block-based video coding applications. First, the algorithm goes through a refinement stage to determine candidate blocks probably having noticeable false contours with different kinds of features in a block. Then, pseudo-random noise masking is applied to those blocks to mitigate the contour artifacts. This block-based selective decontouring can efficiently remove the unnecessary processing of those blocks that have no false contour, which incidentally ensures a minor penalty in visual quality and computational complexity. The proposed algorithm was demonstrated, integrated into H.264/AVC, that visual quality can be significantly enhanced with an ignorable rate-distortion (RD) loss and an minor increase in computational complexity.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

Thanks to the multimedia technology development, it is possible to show image representations in high quality and to process images in various ways. Anisotropic diffusion as an effective diffusion filtering among many image preprocessing methods and postprocessing methods is used in reduction of speckle noises of ultrasound images, image restoration, edge detection, and image segmentation. However, the conventional anisotropic diffusion based on a cross-kernel causes the following problems. The problem is the concentration of edges in the vertical or horizontal directions. In this paper, a new anisotropic diffusion transform based on directions of gradient is proposed. The proposed method uses the eight directional square-kernel which is an expanded form of the cross-kernel. The proposed method is to select directions of small gradient based on square-kernel. Therefore, the range of proposed diffusion is selected adaptively according to the number of the directions of gradient. Experimental results show that the proposed method can decrease the concentration of edges in the vertical or horizontal directions, remove impulse noise. The image in high quality can be obtained as a result of the proposed method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1325-1337
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• 2008

The difference of environments between training and recognition is the major reason of degradation of speech recognition. To solve this mismatch of environments, various noise processing methods have been studied. Among them, ERN(log-Energy dynamic Range Normalization) and SEN(Silence Energy Normalization) for normalization of log energy features show better performance than others. However, these methods have a problem that they can hardly achieve normalization for the relatively higher values of log energy features and the environmental mismatch caused by this problem becomes bigger especially in low SNR environments. To solve these problems, we propose applying ARMA filter as post-processing for smoothing log energy features by calculating the moving average in auto-regression scheme. From the recognition results conducted on Aurora 2.0 DB, the proposed method shows improved recognition results comparing with conventional methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.4C
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• pp.350-357
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• 2010

In this paper, we present an auto-range fast bilateral filter (FBF) for high-dynamic-range (HDR) images, which increases computation speed by using adaptive standard deviations for range filter (RF) of FBF in iCAM06. Many images that cover the entire dynamic range of the scene with different exposure times are fused into one High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. The representative algorithm for HDR image rendering is iCAM06, which is based on the iCAM framework, such as the local white point adaptation, chromatic adaptation, and the image processing transform (IPT) uniform color space. FBF in iCAM06 uses constant standard deviation in RF. So, it causes unnecessary FBF computation in high stimulus range with broad and low distribution. To solve this problem, the low stimulus image and high stimulus image of CIE tri-stimulus values (XYZ) divided by the threshold are respectively processed by adaptive standard deviation based on its histogram distribution. Experiment results show that the proposed method reduces computation time than the previous FBF.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.685-688
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 기존의 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform)를 이용한 디지털 워터마킹 방법을 개선하여 비가시성을 향상시키는 DCT 기반의 디지털 워터마킹 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 이에 원 영상을 DCT 변환한 영역에 워터마크로 사용할 이미지를 이진화하여 얻은 픽셀 값을 기준으로 워터마크를 삽입하고자 한다. 삽입 할 워터마크는 식별하기 어려운 의사난수를 사용하지 않고 가시적으로 인지할 수 있는 문자(서명) 혹은 도장으로 구성된 이진 영상을 사용한다. 이 방법의 강인성 평가를 위해 워터마크가 삽입된 영상을 대상으로 영상처리를 수행하지 않은 경우, JPEG 영상압축, cropping, 필터링, 밝기 조절 및 대비 확장 등 기본적인 영상처리 알고리즘을 적용한 후 워터마크를 검출하였다. 실험 결과 제안된 방법의 워터마킹 영상은 기존 방법에 비하여 워터마크가 삽입된 영상의 화질이 비교적 우수하였으며 검출된 워터마크의 시각적인 인지도가 높아 가시적 효율성이 뛰어남을 검증하였다. 최종적으로, 실험에 의해 제안한 방법의 유용성을 입증하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.517-519
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• 2002

본 논문은 자동 시각 굴절력 곡률계의 전자 부문에 연동될 곡률 측정 알고리즘을 소개한다. 만약 자동화된 시스템이 광학계로부터 나오는 영상을 이용하여 내부 처리를 거친 후 정확 시각 측정치를 검사자에게 알려줄 수 있다면 잘못 측정되는 측정 횟수를 크게 줄일 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구는 형태학적 필터링(morphological filtering)과 그레이-레벨의 신호 강조(signal enhance) 기술들을 이용하여 자동시각 굴절력 곡률계에 연동될 각막 곡률 측정 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 알고리즘에서는 광학계로부터 도출된 링 모양 광원의 화상을 처리하기 위해서 새로운 방법을 사용하는 대신에 굴절력 측정을 위해서 6개의 점으로 구성된 화상을 처리하는 방식으로 변형 적용시킨다. 이 때 링의 띠를 6개의 덩어리점으로 변형하는 과정만을 제외하면 굴절력 화상을 처리하는 방식과 같게 된다. 이는 알고리즘의 간결화와 측정 시간을 줄이는 효과를 얻게 된다. 그리하여 본 각막 곡률 측정 알고리즘은 정한 측정 값 도출이 어려운 시각 영상에 적용되어 효과적으로 오차를 줄임으로써 보다 효율적인 시각 측정을 가능하게 하였다.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.289-297
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• 2011

Chirp sub-bottom profilers (SBP) data are comparatively higher-resolution data than other seismic data and it's raw signal can be used as a final section after conducting basic filtering. However, Chirp SBP signal has possibility to include various noise in high-frequency band and to provide the distorted image for the complex geological structure in time domain. This study aims at the goal to establish the workflow of Chirp SBP data processing for enhanced image and to analyze the proper parameters for the domestic continental shelf. After pre-processing, we include the dynamic S/N filtering to eliminate the high-frequency component noise, the dip scan stack to enhance the continuity of reflection events and finally the post-stack depth migration to correct the distorted structure on the time domain sections. We demonstrated our workflow on the data acquired by domestically widely used equipments and then we could obtain the improved seismic sections of depth domain. This workflow seems to provide the proper seismic section to interpretation when applied to data processing of Chirp SBP that are largely used for domestic acquisition.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8A
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• pp.1291-1297
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 DS-CDMA 환경의 다중 사용자 검출에서 문제시되는 다중 접속 간섭을 제거시켜주기 위해 사용되는 간섭 제거기에 대하여 소개한다. 기존의 간섭 제거 기술 중 병렬형 간섭 제거기는 장치적으로 복잡하고, 순차적 간섭 제거기는 지연 시간이 길다는 단점을 가지고 이다. 무엇보다도, 적응형 간섭 제거기는 수렴하기 위하여 많은 반복수가 필요하다. 우리는 이러한 간섭 제거기들의 성능을 개선시키기 위해서 CMA(Constant Modulus Algorithm)을 이용한 적응형 간섭 제거기에 간섭 제거 기법을 적용시킨 새로운 간섭 제거기를 제안한다. 제안된 간섭 제거기는 적응 필터 처리후 간섭 제거 기법을 적용시키기 때문에 동일한 BER(Bit Error Rate)을 얻고자 할 때 기존의 적응형 간섭 제거기에 비해 수렴을 위한 반복수를 줄여 준다. 그리고, 적응 필터를 사용함으로써 기존의 비선형 간섭 제거기에 비해 하드웨어적인 복잡도를 줄일 수 있는 효과가 있다.