• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.173-185
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• 2009

This paper proposes two new image contrast enhancement methods, RSWHE (Recursively Separated and Weighted Histogram Equalization) and RSWHS (Recursively Separated and Weighted Histogram Specification). RSWHE is a histogram equalization method based on histogram decomposition and weighting, whereas RSWHS is a histogram specification method based on histogram decomposition and weighting. The two proposed methods work as follows: 1) decompose an input histogram based on the image's mean brightness, 2) compute the probability for the area corresponding to each sub-histogram, 3) modify the sub-histogram by weighting it with the computed probability value, 4) lastly, perform histogram equalization (in the case of RSWHE) or histogram specification (in the case of RSWHS) on the modified sub-histograms independently. Experimental results show that RSWHE and RSWHS outperform other methods in terms of contrast enhancement and mean brightness preservation as well.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.5127-5133
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• 2010

In this paper, an efficient contrast enhancement algorithm using histogram specification is proposed. Histogram equalization and its modified methods have been effective techniques for contrast enhancement. However, they often result in excessive contrast enhancement. Besides conventional histogram specification also has a problem to get the desired histogram. We propose a method that utilizes a simple high frequency filter to get the desired histogram. The proposed technique not only produces better visual results than conventional contrast enhancement techniques, but is also adaptively adjusted to the statistical characteristics of the image.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.61-73
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• 2012

This paper proposes a histogram specification based image enhancement method, which uses the brightness mean and variance of an image to maximize the entropy of the image. In our histogram specification step, the Gaussian distribution is used to fit the input histogram as well as produce the target histogram. Specifically, the input histogram is fitted with the Gaussian distribution whose mean and variance are equal to the brightness mean(${\mu}$) and variance(${\sigma}2$) of the input image, respectively; and the target Gaussian distribution also has the mean of the value ${\mu}$, but takes as the variance the value which is determined such that the output image has the maximum entropy. Experimental results show that compared to the existing methods, the proposed method preserves the mean brightness well and generates more natural looking images.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.11
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• pp.1298-1306
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• 2016

Backlight has a major factor in power consumption of TFT-LCDs which are most popular in portable devices. There have been a lot of attempts to achieve power savings by backlight dimming. At the same time, the researches have shown image compensation due to decreased brightness of a displayed image. However, existing image compensation methods such as histogram equalization have some limits in completely satisfying the human visual system (HVS)-awareness. This paper proposes an enhanced dimming technique to obtain both power saving and HVS-awareness by combining pixel compensation and histogram specification for TFT-LCDs. This method executes a search algorithm and an automation algorithm employing simplified calculations for fast image processing. Experimental results showed that the proposed method achieved significant improvement in visual satisfaction per power saving over existing backlight dimming.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.71-72
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• 2014

최근 들어 드라마나 영화 속 인물 들의 얼굴을 다른 얼굴로 교체하고자 하는 시도들이 주목을 받고 있고, 사용자들의 관심 또한 증가하고 있다. 이러한 연구는 오래 전부터 많이 연구되어 왔으나, 조명 변화에 강인한 피부 톤 변환 문제는 여전히 주요 이슈로 자리하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 히스토그램 명세화 기법을 응용하여 피부 톤을 자연스럽게 변환 시켜줄 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. 두 얼굴 영상의 R, G, B 채널에 대한 히스토그램을 각각 생성하고 이들을 누적분포함수로 각각 변환한다. 변환된 누적분포함수들을 이용하여 두 얼굴 영상의 히스토그램을 근사 시킬 수 있는 변환 표를 생성하고 이를 이용하여 얼굴 영상의 피부 톤을 변환시킨다. 조명 변화로 인해 발생하는 전반사 영역은 선형 보간 법을 사용하여 제거한다. 실험 결과, 제안하는 방법이 조명 변화에 적응적으로 대처하면서 자연스럽게 피부 톤을 변환 시켜줄 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.5
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• pp.265-270
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a method for intensity correction using binarization-based region segmentation in 3D stereoscopic images. In the proposed method, 3D stereoscopic right image is segmented using binarizarion. Small regions in the segmented image are eliminated. For each region in right image, a corresponding region in left image is decided through region matching using correlation coefficient. When region-based matching, in order to prevent overlap between regions, we remove a portion of the area closed to the region boundary using morphological filter. The intensity correction in left and right image can be performed through histogram specification between the corresponding regions. Simulation results show the proposed method has the smallest matching error than the conventional method when we generate the right image from the left image using block based motion compensation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.317-320
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• 2002

In this paper, an automatic histogram specification method is proposed for image enhancement, Fuzzy membership value is adopted for the representation of image histogram. The desired PDF is automatically constructed by the fuzzy membership value. Fuzzy membership value is extracted from dark membership, bright membership function and original histogram. The effectual results are demonstrated by desired PDF which meet the image enhancement requirements. The performance and effectiveness are shown by the analysis and the resultant image in comparison with histogram equalization method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose the algorithm for the AR(Augmented Reality) system, which is robust to the brightness change of light. In the proposed method, the histogram specification is achieved using the sample histogram, obtained from the frames in which the target objects could be detected successful. And When the object key-points couldn't be detected by the displacement of camera positions, the positions of non-detected key-points ware estimated using the linear KF(Kalman Filter). When the proposed algorithm is applied in the AR systems, the object key-points can be detected three times as much as the existing others. In addition, to prove the more efficiency of the proposed algorithm, we implemented the AR game, and could know that the performance is the more advanced than the others. The proposed algorithm can be used for the AR environments, which high efficiency is required such as the AR game, or the implementation of AR systems which are robust to the change of lights, etc.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.644-647
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 영역분할을 이용한 3D입체영상의 밝기 보정방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 입력된 좌우 3D입체영상 중 우 영상을 이진화를 통한 영역분할을 하고 크기가 작은 영역들은 제거한다. 영역단위의 매칭을 할 때 영역경계에서 발생하는 불연속성을 제거하기 위해서 모폴로지 필터로 영역경계지역(contour region)을 일정부분 제거한다. 우 영상의 각 영역들에 대해 대응되는 좌 영상내의 영역을 상관계수(correlation coefficient)를 이용한 정합을 통해 추출한다. 좌우 영상의 영역 간 히스토그램 명세화를 수행함으로써 우 영상의 밝기 보정을 한다. 실험에서 좌 영상으로부터 블록단위 움직임보상으로 우 영상을 생성했을 때 제안한 방법이 블록평균 정합오차가 가장 작은 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.175-179
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• 2014

The histogram specification turns the shape of a histogram into that we want to specify. This technique can be applied usefully in various image processing fields such as machine vision. However, the histogram specification technique has its basic limits. For instance, the histogram does not have location information of pixels. Also, the accuracy of the specification drops because of quantization errors of the digitized image. In this paper, we proposed a multiresolution histogram specification method in order to improve the accuracy of specification in terms of resemblance between destination and source image. The experimental results show that the proposed method enhances the accuracy of the specification compared to the conventional methods.