• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.214-218
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• 1998

칼라 영상은 단색조의 영상에 비해 인간의 시각을 크게 향상시킨다. 따라서 칼라 영상 처리에 관한 연구는 매우 중요하다. 칼라 영상은 센서 잡음이나 채널 전송 에러에 의해 생기는 잡음에 의해 자주 오염되어진다. 이러한 칼라 잡음을 제거하기 위해 여러 형태의 필터들이 개발되어 왔는데 혼합된 잡음에서 벡터 $\alpha$-trimmed 평균 필터는 우수한 성능을 보였다. 그러나, 벡터 $\alpha$-trimmed 평균 필터는 필터링 과정이 영상의 전 영역에 걸쳐 균일하게 적용되어지기 때문에 윤곽선 이동이 일어나 blurring 현상이 심하게 나타나는 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 본 논문에서는 윤곽선 영역과 smooth 영역을 구분한 뒤 각 영역에 적합한 선택적인 필터링을 하는 조건적인 퍼지 클러스터 필터를 제안하였고 제안된 조건적인 퍼지 클러스터 필터는 기존의 벡터 $\alpha$-trimmed 평균 필터에 비해 혼합된 잡음에서 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.128-134
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a graphics processing unit (GPU)-based matching technique for the purpose of fast feature matching between different images. The scale invariant feature transform algorithm developed by Lowe for various feature matching applications, such as stereo vision and object recognition, is computationally intensive. To address this problem, we propose a matching technique optimized for GPUs to perform computations in less time. We optimize GPUs for fast computation of keypoints to make our system quick and efficient. The proposed method uses a self-organizing map feature matching technique to perform efficient matching between the different images. The experiments are performed on various image sets to examine the performance of the system under varying conditions, such as image rotation, scaling, and blurring. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing feature matching methods, resulting in fast feature matching due to the optimization of the GPU.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.131-136
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• 2017

Chest X-ray image cannot be focused in the same manner as optical lenses and the resultant image generally tends to be slightly blurred. Therefore, appropriate methods to improve the quality of chest X-ray image have been studied in this paper. As the frequency domain filters work well for slight blurring and moderate levels of additive noises, we propose an algorithm that is particularly suitable for enhancing chest image. First, the chest image using Gaussian high pass filter and the optimal high frequency emphasis filter shows improvements in the edges and contrast of the flat areas. Second, as compared to using histogram equalization where each pixel of chest image is characterized by a loss of detail and much noises, in using fuzzy logic, each pixel of chest image shows the detail preservation and little noise.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.250-255
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a method of detecting the region for measuring intima-media thickness (IMT). The existing methods for IMT measurement are automatic, but the region used for measuring IMT is not detected automatically but often set by the user. Therefore, research on detecting the intima-media region is needed for fully automated IMT measurement. The proposed method uses a morphological feature of the carotid artery visible as two long high-brightness horizontal lines at the upper and lower parts. It uses Gaussian blurring, ends-in search stretching, color quantization using a color-importance-based self-organizing map, and morphological operations to emphasize and to detect the morphological feature. The experimental results for evaluating the performance of the proposed method showed a 97.25% (106/109) success rate. Therefore, the proposed method can be used to develop a fully automated IMT measurement system.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.991-994
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• 2005

We have successfully commercialized a novel optical compensation film, OCB-WV film, for OCB-LCD-TVs which has fast response time and wide viewing angle. The OCB-WV film consists of a 45degree-aligned discotic layer and a high Rth biaxial TAC film, which is suited for a roll-to-roll polarizer manufacturing process. This OCB-WV has brought out the excellent features that OCB intrinsically has, making nextgeneration fast-response LCD-TVs possible and free from image blurring in conjunction with an impulsive driving scheme.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.361-362
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• 2008

Video quality is degraded by codec and transmission error. By analyses video pattern through NR(no reference) method, we get to aware that telephony video has particular blocking and blurring pattern and NR is suitable for telephony video quality testing. So NR will make contribution to enhancing video quality and monitoring video quality in advance.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.30B no.2
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• pp.59-68
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• 1993

The motion vector estimation and motion boundary detection have been briskly studied since they are an important clue for analysis of object structure and 3-d motion. The purpose of this researches is more exact estimation, but there are two main causes to make inaccurate. The one is the erroneous measurement of gradients in brightness values and the other is the blurring of motion boundries which is caused by the smoothness constraint. In this paper, we analyze the gradient measurement error of conventional methods and propose new technique based on it. When the proposed method is applied to the motion boundary detection in Schunck and motion vector estimation in Horn & Schunck, it is shown to have much better performance than conventional method is some artificial and real image sequences.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.3217-3238
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• 2018

In this paper, a depth image up-sampling method is put forward by using pixel classifying and jointed bilateral filtering. By analyzing the edge maps originated from the high-resolution color image and low-resolution depth map respectively, pixels in up-sampled depth maps can be classified into four categories: edge points, edge-neighbor points, texture points and smooth points. First, joint bilateral up-sampling (JBU) method is used to generate an initial up-sampling depth image. Then, for each pixel category, different refinement methods are employed to modify the initial up-sampling depth image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the blurring artifact with lower bad pixel rate (BPR).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06e
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• pp.211-214
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• 2002

Under a continuous manufacturing process, two dimension inspection system causes problems as blurring effect and low resolution and requires position calibration between frames. One dimension inspection system is, therefore, being researched as a substitution. In this paper, we implement mechanism of switching memory and processing data for reasonable one dimension inspection system. Redundant weft image and noise was suggested to be reduced by new method using modified morphological process and masked erosion process. From resulting image, line data and possible error information were obtained and constructed as a structure. Finally, error detecting algorithm was performed with this data structure. Processing time of error detecting was 0.625ms per line in applied system and experiment showed 94.7% of error detecting ability. This method is 20% faster in speed and 2.7% higher in error detecting ability comparing with the present method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.25-32
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• 2000

Digital watermarking has been recently proposed as the means of intellectual property right protection of multimedia data. We present a novel watermarking scheme to hide a copyright information in a digital image. The method Is based on the 2D DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform) and image statistics. Gaussian and Laplacian noises as the watermarks are added to the large wavelet coefficients at the high and middle frequency bands in the wavelet domain. Experimental results show that the proposed Laplacian watermark is stronger to several common image distortions, such as noises, JPEG coding as different qualities, Gaussian blurring, and edge enhancement.