• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.261-270
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• 2019

In order to protect secret digital documents against vulnerabilities while communicating, steganography algorithms are applied. It protects a digital file from unauthorized access by hiding the entire content. Pixel-value-difference being a method from spatial domain steganography utilizes the difference gap between neighbor pixels to fulfill the same. The proposed approach is a block-wise embedding process where blocks of variable size are chosen from the cover image, therefore, a stream of secret digital contents is hidden. Least significant bit (LSB) substitution method is applied as an adaptive mechanism and optimal pixel adjustment process (OPAP) is used to minimize the error rate. The proposed application succeeds to maintain good hiding capacity and better signal-to-noise ratio when compared against other existing methods. Any means of digital communication specially e-Governance applications could be highly benefited from this approach.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2008년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.84-87
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 Q.Wang & R.K.Ward 가 제안한 WTHE(weighted and thresholded histogram equalization)방법의 enhancement parameters를 주어진 영상의 히스토그램 분포에 따라 적응적으로 제공하는 방법을 제안한다. WTHE는 영상의 히스토그램을 weight와 threshold를 이용하여 변형한 후 히스토그램 평활화(histogram equalization : HE)방법을 수행 함으로써 화질을 개선하는 방법이다. 이 방법은 두 가지 parameters 제어로 기존의 히스토그램 평활화 방법의 단점인 과도한 밝기 변화와 불필요한 artifacts를 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 WTHE 방법을 좀 더 간편하면서 다양한 분야에 적용하기 위해서 입력 영상에 따라 달라지는 parameters 값을 자동으로 제공하는 적응형 WTHE(Adaptive WTHE : AWTHE) 방법을 제안하고, 제안된 방법의 성능을 실험으로 제시한다.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제3권7호
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• pp.871-880
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 웨이브릿 변환 영역에 제안한 알고리즘으로 여러 공격에 강인한 워터마크를 삽입하고 성능을 분석하였다. 영상의 저작권 보호를 위해 웨이브릿 변환 영역의 LH와 HL의 부대역에 이진의 워터마크를 삽입하였다. 제안한 방법의 강인성을 실험하기 위해 명도 변화, 크기 변화, 필터링, 잘라내기, 히스토그램 평활화, 손실압축과 같은 영상처리를 하였다. 실험 결과 제안한 방법은 화질의 열화를 최소로 하여 워터마크를 삽입할 수 있고 여러 공격에 대해서 추출된 워터마크는 높은 상관계수로 인지되었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.677-686
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• 2018

A novel data hiding technique based on modified histogram shifting that incorporates multi-bit secret data hiding is proposed. The proposed technique divides the image pixel values into embeddable and nonembeddable pixel values. Embeddable pixel values are those that are within a specified limit interval surrounding the peak value of an image. The limit interval is calculated from the number of secret bits to be embedded into each embeddable pixel value. The embedded secret bits can be perfectly extracted from the stego image at the receiver side without any overhead bits. From the simulation, it is found that the proposed technique produces a better quality stego image compared to other data hiding techniques, for the same embedding rate. Since the proposed technique only embeds the secret bits in a limited number of pixel values, the change in the visual quality of the stego image is negligible when compared to other data hiding techniques.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.57-68
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• 2023

Because salt and pepper noise is a type of impulse, even a small amount of noise could cause a large image degradation. In this paper, we proposed a salt-and-pepper noise removal method using the convolutional neural network. It consists of four phases. In the first step, the proposed method reconstructs noisy image using a traditional salt-and-pepper noise reduction method, and in the second step, the result image of previous step is filtered with Gaussian low pass filter. After that, we reconstruct the filtered image using convolution neural network. In the last step, the pixels with salt-and-pepper noise are replaced with the result of previous phase. Simulation results show that the proposed method yields not only objective image qualities(PSNR, SSIM) but also subjective image qualities for all SAP noise ratios.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권8호
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• pp.2851-2865
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• 2014

To improve the rate-distortion performance of distributed video compressive sensing (DVCS), the adaptive sparse basis and nonlocal similarity of video are proposed to jointly reconstruct the video signal in this paper. Due to the lack of motion information between frames and the appearance of some noises in the reference frames, the sparse dictionary, which is constructed using the examples directly extracted from the reference frames, has already not better obtained the sparse representation of the interpolated block. This paper proposes a method to construct the sparse dictionary. Firstly, the example-based data matrix is constructed by using the motion information between frames, and then the principle components analysis (PCA) is used to compute some significant principle components of data matrix. Finally, the sparse dictionary is constructed by these significant principle components. The merit of the proposed sparse dictionary is that it can not only adaptively change in terms of the spatial-temporal characteristics, but also has ability to suppress noises. Besides, considering that the sparse priors cannot preserve the edges and textures of video frames well, the nonlocal similarity regularization term has also been introduced into reconstruction model. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can improve the objective and subjective quality of video frame, and achieve the better rate-distortion performance of DVCS system at the cost of a certain computational complexity.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.778-786
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• 2014

Buyer-seller watermarking protocol is one of the copyright protection techniques which combine a cryptographic protocol used in electronic commerce with a digital wetermarking scheme aiming at proving the ownership of multimedia contents and preventing the illegal reproduction and redistribution of digital contents. In this paper, it is proposed a new watermarking scheme in an encrypted domain in an image that is based on the block-DCT framework. In order to implement watermarking scheme in a public-key cryptosystem, it is divided that frequency coefficients exist as real number into integer and decimal layer. And the decimal layer is modified integer type through integral-processing. Also, for robustness and invisibility required in watermarking scheme, it is designed a direction-adaptive watermarking scheme based on locally edge-properties of each block in an image through analyzing distribution property of the frequency coefficients in a block using JND threshold.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2012년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.338-340
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• 2012

영상에서 에지는 영상의 특징을 분석하는 중요한 요소이며 여러 응용 분야에 선택적으로 활용되고 있다. 이러한 에지를 검출하고 활용하기 위한 많은 연구들이 지금까지도 진행되고 있으며, 초기에는 에지를 검출하기 위하여 인접한 화소들의 관계를 이용한 방법들이 제안되었다. 이러한 방법들의 특징은 알고리즘의 처리가 빠르지만 영상에 관계없이 특정 가중치가 모든 화소에 동일하게 적용되는 것이다. 이와 같은 기존의 방법의 단점을 보완하기 위하여, 최근에는 영상에 따라 적응하여 에지를 검출하는 알고리즘의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 에지를 우수한 특성으로 검출하기 위해 적응 마스크를 이용한 알고리즘을 제안하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.401-410
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• 2001

MMMF(Modified 2D Multi-shell Median Filter)를 기초로 하여 가변 문턱 조건과 홀/짝수 다중셀을 이용한 Adaptive Odd/Even MMF(Multi-shell Median Filter)를 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 MATLAB을 이용하여 연구하고 테스트하였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능은 이미 잘 알려진 이미지에 임펄스 노이즈(Impulse Noise)와 Line Missing을 적용하여 평가하였고 이를 FPGA로 구현하였다. 제안된 가변 문턱 조건은 연산 시간과 불필요한 재배치를 줄였고, 홀수 셀과 짝수 셀은 각각 십자 방향과 대각선 방향의 Line Missing을 복구하였다. 특히 짧은 연산 시간으로 실시간을 요구하는 이미지 처리 분야에서 효과적으로 이용할 수 있다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.472-478
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• 2015

The patient dose incurred from diagnostic procedures during advanced radiotherapy has become an important issue. Many researchers in medical physics are using computational simulations to calculate complex parameters in experiments. However, extended computation times make it difficult for personal computers to run the conventional Monte Carlo method to simulate radiological images with high-flux photons such as images produced by computed tomography (CT). To minimize the computation time without degrading imaging quality, we applied a deterministic adaptation to the Monte Carlo calculation and verified its effectiveness by simulating CT image reconstruction for an image evaluation phantom (Catphan; Phantom Laboratory, New York NY, USA) and a human-like voxel phantom (KTMAN-2) (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA). For the deterministic adaptation, the relationship between iteration numbers and the simulations was estimated and the option to simulate scattered radiation was evaluated. The processing times of simulations using the adaptive method were at least 500 times faster than those using a conventional statistical process. In addition, compared with the conventional statistical method, the adaptive method provided images that were more similar to the experimental images, which proved that the adaptive method was highly effective for a simulation that requires a large number of iterations-assuming no radiation scattering in the vicinity of detectors minimized artifacts in the reconstructed image.