• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.21-24
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• 2002

This paper presents a new method for the motion detection of vehicles using hierarchical motion estimation and parallel processing. It captures the road image by using a CMOS sensor. It divides the captured image into small blocks and detects the motion of each block by using a block-matching method which is based on a hierarchical motion estimation and parallel processing for the real-time processing. The parallelism is achieved by using the pipeline and the data flow technique. The proposed method has been implemented with an embedded system. Experimental results show that the proposed method detects the motion of vehicles in real-time.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.509-516
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• 2004

This paper proposes an image processing algorithm for detecting obstacles on road using DLI(disparity of lane-related information) that is generated by stereo images acquired from dual cameras mounted on a moving vehicle. The DLI is a disparity that is acquired using a single lane information from road lane detection. For the purpose to reduce processing time, we use small block of edge-histogram based blocking logic. This algorithm detects moving objects such as preceding vehicles and obstacles. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in a personal computer with the road image data of a typical highway. We successfully performed experiments under a wide variety of road conditions without changing parameter values or adding human intervention. Experimental results also showed that the proposed DLI is quite successful.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.605-608
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• 1999

A conventional image coder, such as JPEG, requires not only DCT and quantization but also additional pre-filtering under noisy environment. Since the pre-filtering removes camera noise and improves coding efficiency dramatically, its efficient implementation has been an important issue. Based on well-known noise removal techniques in image processing fields, this paper introduces an efficient scheme by adapting a noise removal procedure to block-based image coders. By using two-dimensional DCT factorization, the proposed image coder has only a modified DCT and a VLC, and performs pre-filtering and quantization simultaneously in the modified DCT operation.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제33A권12호
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• pp.110-119
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• 1996

A novel high speed VLSI architecture and its VLSI realization methodologies for a motion estimation processor based on full search block matching algorithm are presentd. The presented architecture is designed in order to be suitable for highly parallel and pipelined processing with identical PE's and adjustable in performance and hardware amount according to various application areas. Also, the throughput is maximized by enhancing PE utilization up to 100% and the chip pin count is reduced by reusing image data with embedded image memories. Also, the uniform and identical data processing structure of PE's eases VLSI implementation and the clock rate of external I/O data can be made slower compared to internal clock rate to resolve I/O bottleneck problem. The logic and spice simulation results of the proposed architecture are presented. The performances of the proposed architecture are evaluated and compared with other architectures. Finally, the chip layout is shown.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.417-426
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• 2023

To improve the effect of image restoration and solve the image detail loss, an image dehazing enhancement algorithm based on mean guided filtering is proposed. The superpixel calculation method is used to pre-segment the original foggy image to obtain different sub-regions. The Ncut algorithm is used to segment the original image, and it outputs the segmented image until there is no more region merging in the image. By means of the mean-guided filtering method, the minimum value is selected as the value of the current pixel point in the local small block of the dark image, and the dark primary color image is obtained, and its transmittance is calculated to obtain the image edge detection result. According to the prior law of dark channel, a classic image dehazing enhancement model is established, and the model is combined with a median filter with low computational complexity to denoise the image in real time and maintain the jump of the mutation area to achieve image dehazing enhancement. The experimental results show that the image dehazing and enhancement effect of the proposed algorithm has obvious advantages, can retain a large amount of image detail information, and the values of information entropy, peak signal-to-noise ratio, and structural similarity are high. The research innovatively combines a variety of methods to achieve image dehazing and improve the quality effect. Through segmentation, filtering, denoising and other operations, the image quality is effectively improved, which provides an important reference for the improvement of image processing technology.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.225-235
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• 2012

다양한 이유로 인하여 발생하는 영상 잡음은 영상의 화질을 악화시키므로 발생한 잡음을 제거, 감소하는 것이 영상처리 분야에서 매우 중요한 문제이다. 이러한 문제를 해결하는데 가장 근본적인 어려움은 영상 정보에서 제거해야할 잡음과 보존해야 할 신호를 구별하는 것이 쉽지 않다는 것이다. 단순평활법과 같은 잡음 제거과정은 영상을 개선하는데 사용되는 기초적이고 중요한 방법이지만 영상을 오염시키는 잡음의 크기를 고려하지 않는 결점이 있다. 즉, 이러한 방법을 사용하면 잡음을 감소시키는 효과와 함께 잡음이 적거나 없는 부분까지도 열화되어 영상이 흐릿해지는 단점을 보이게 된다. 본 연구에서는 입력 영상에서 신호와 잡음을 효과적으로 구별하여 잡음의 상대적인 크기에 따라 적응적으로 잡음을 제거할 수 있는 방법을 블록 방법을 이용하여 제안한다. 모의실험 결과, 본 연구에서 제안하는 알고리즘에 의해 적응적으로 잡음을 제거함으로써 전체적인 영상의 질이 개선되는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제7권2S호
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• pp.638-648
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• 2000

This paper introduces a new technique for block is matching motion estimation. Since the temporal correlation of the image sequence, the motion vector of a block is highly related to the motion vector of the same coordinate block in the previous image frame. If we can obtain useful and enough information from the motion vector of the same coordinate block of the previous frame, the total number of search points used to find the motion vector of the current block may be reduced significantly. Using that idea, an efficient predicted direction search algorithm (PDSA) for block matching algorithm is proposed. Based on the direction of the blocks of the two successive previous frames, if the direction of the to successive blocks is same, the first search point of the proposed PDSA is moved two pixels to the direction of the block. The searching process after moving the first search point is processed according to the fixed search patterns. Otherwise, full search is performed with search area $\pm$2. Simulation results show that PSNR values are improved up to the 3.4dB as depend on the image sequences and improved about 1.5dB on an average. Search times are reduced about 20% than the other fast search algorithms. Simulation results also show that the performance of the PDSA scheme gives better subjective picture quality than the other fast search algorithms and is closer to that of the FS(Full Search) algorithm.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.1048-1056
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 낮은 비트율에서 PSNR을 향상시키고 부호화 과정에서의 계산의 복잡성을 감소시키기 위한 이산 웨이브릿 변혼 영역에서의 프랙탈 영상 압축 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 이산 웨이브릿 변환 계수에 절대치를 취한 다음 유효계수의 위치와 부호를 나타내는 유효계수 트리를 구성한다. 제안한 방법은 치역 블록의 유효계수에 대해서만 축소된 정의역 블록의 계수와 정합함으로써 PSNR을 향상시키고 정의역 블록의 집합에서 치역 블록으로의 정합에 필요한 계산의 복잡성을 감소시킨다. 또한 본 논문에서는 치역 블록과 정합되는 축소된 정의역 블록의 수를 최소화하는 분류 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 치역 블록과 축소된 정의역 블록의 비교 회수를 현저하게 감소시킨다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권10호
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• pp.108-117
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• 2015

자연 영상들을 위한 전형적인 지역적 대비 개선 기법을 X-ray 영상에 적용할 경우, X-ray 고유의 특성을 고려하지 않기 때문에 과도한 개선이 이루어지거나 부자연스러운 화질을 생성하는 화상의 결함이 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문은 지역적으로 X-ray 영상을 위한 블록 기반 대비 개선 기법을 제안한다. 먼저 블록 단위로 가중치 누적 분포 변환 함수를 도출하고, 이를 이용한 블록 단위 대비 개선을 수행한다. 다음으로, 블록 기반 중첩을 적용하여 블록화 현상이 제거된 영상을 획득한다. 후처리로 고주파 성분을 강조하여 최종 영상을 획득한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안한 블록 기반 대비 개선 기법이 일반적인 대비 개선 기법보다 정량적인 대비 개선 척도에서 최대 5배 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1886-1898
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• 2015

In today’s era of advanced technological developments, the threats to the authenticity and integrity of digital images, in a nutshell, the threats to the Image Forensics Research communities have also increased proportionately. This happened as even for the ‘non-expert’ forgers, the availability of image processing tools has become a cakewalk. This image forgery poses a great problem for judicial authorities in any context of trade and commerce. Block matching based image cloning detection system is widely researched over the last 2-3 decades but this was discouraged by higher computational complexity and more time requirement at the algorithm level. Thus, for reducing time need, various dimension reduction techniques have been employed. Since a single technique cannot cope up with all the transformations like addition of noise, blurring, intensity variation, etc. we employ multiple techniques to a single image. In this paper, we have used Fuzzy logic approach for decision making and getting a global response of all the techniques, since their individual outputs depend on various parameters. Experimental results have given enthusiastic elicitations as regards various transformations to the digital image. Hence this paper proposes Fuzzy based cloning detection and classification system. Experimental results have shown that our detection system achieves classification accuracy of 94.12%. Detection accuracy (DAR) while in case of 81×81 sized copied portion the maximum accuracy achieved is 99.17% as regards subjection to transformations like Blurring, Intensity Variation and Gaussian Noise Addition.