• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.1043-1064
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• 2020

A kind of Subjective Imaging Effect Assessment (SIEA) method and its applications on intelligent imaging terminal design in engineering site are presented. First, some visual assessment indices are used to characterize the imaging effect: the image brightness, the image brightness uniformity, the color image contrast, the image edge blur, the image color difference, the image saturation, the image noise, and the integrated imaging effect index. A linear weighted function is employed to carry out the SIEA computation and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique is used to estimate its weights. Second, a SIEA software is developed. It can play images after the settings of assessment index or assessment reaction time, etc. Third, two cases are used to illustrate the application effects of proposed method: the image enhancement system design for surveillance camera and the imaging environment perception system design for intelligent lighting terminal. A Prior Sequential Stimulus (PSS) experiment is proposed to improve the evaluation stability of SIEA method. Many experiment results have shown the proposed method can realize a stable system design or parameters setting for the intelligent imaging terminal in engineering site.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.365-371
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• 2000

카메라의 렌즈 등 광학장비의 성능 제한으로 인하여 초점이 맞지 않아 흐려지고 잡음으로 훼손된 영상을 복원하는데 일반적으로 반복복원방법이 사용된다. 이 경우에 가속변수는 훼손영상에 관계없이 영상전체에 일률적으로 적용되기 때문에 흐려짐 훼손이 심한 윤곽부분도 훼손이 작은 평면영역과 같이 일정하게 처리되어 수렴속도가 느려지고 시각적으로 중요한 윤곽부분의 복원에는 효율적이지 못하다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 흐려짐 훼손이 작은 평면영역은 가속변수를 작게 하고 훼손이 큰 윤곽영역은 가속변수를 크게 하여 영상의 국부적인 훼손특성에 따라 적응적으로 반복 복원하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 복원방법 은 기존의 방법과 비교하여 수렴속도가 빨라지고 시각적으로 중요한 윤곽부분의 복원에도 효율적임을 실험결과를 통해 알 수 있었으며, MSE면에서도 우수하였다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.172-179
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• 2015

Because of the development of computers and high-technology applications, all devices that we use have become more intelligent. In recent years, security and surveillance systems have become more complicated as well. Before new technologies included video surveillance systems, security cameras were used only for recording events as they occurred, and a human had to analyze the recorded data. Nowadays, computers are used for video analytics, and video surveillance systems have become more autonomous and automated. The types of security cameras have also changed, and the market offers different kinds of cameras with integrated software. Even though there is a variety of hardware, their capabilities leave a lot to be desired. Therefore, this drawback is trying to compensate by dint of computer program solutions. Image processing is a very important part of video surveillance and security systems. Capturing an image exactly as it appears in the real world is difficult if not impossible. There is always noise to deal with. This is caused by the graininess of the emulsion, low resolution of the camera sensors, motion blur caused by movements and drag, focus problems, depth-of-field issues, or the imperfect nature of the camera lens. This paper reviews image processing, pattern recognition, and image digitization techniques, which will be useful in security services, to analyze bio-images, for image restoration, and for object classification.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2529-2543
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• 2019

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image can link with the microscopic world through reflecting interaction between electrons and materials. The SEM images are easily subject to blurring distortions during the imaging process. Inspired by the fact that dark channel prior captures the changes to blurred SEM images caused by the blur process, we propose a method to evaluate the SEM images sharpness based on the dark channel prior. A SEM image database is first established with mean opinion score collected as ground truth. For the quality assessment of the SEM image, the dark channel map is generated. Since blurring is typically characterized by the spread of edge, edge of dark channel map is extracted. Then noise is removed by an edge-preserving filter. Finally, the maximum gradient and the average gradient of image are combined to generate the final sharpness score. The experimental results on the SEM blurred image database show that the proposed algorithm outperforms both the existing state-of-the-art image sharpness metrics and the general-purpose no-reference quality metrics.

• 센서학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.131-137
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• 2022

Crimes related to illegal cameras are steadily increasing and causing social problems. Owing to the development of camera technology, the miniaturization and high performance of illegal cameras have caused anxiety among many people. This study is for detecting hidden cameras effectively such that they could not be easily detected by human eyes. An image sensor-based module with 940 nm wavelength infrared detection technology was developed, and an image processing algorithm was developed to selectively detect illegal cameras. Based on the Android smartphone environment, image processing technology was applied to an image acquired from an infrared camera, and a detection sensor module that is less sensitive to ambient brightness noise was studied. Experiments and optimization studies were conducted according to the Gaussian blur size, adaptive threshold size, and detection distance. The performance of the infrared image-based illegal camera detection sensor module was excellent. This is expected to contribute to the prevention of crimes related to illegal cameras.

• 시스템엔지니어링학술지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.126-134
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• 2023

Drones are emerging as a new security threat, and the world is working to reduce them. Detection and identification are the most difficult and important parts of the anti-drone systems. Existing detection and identification methods each have their strengths and weaknesses, so complementary operations are required. Detection and identification performance in anti-drone systems can be improved through the use of artificial intelligence. This is because artificial intelligence can quickly analyze differences smaller than humans. There are three ways to utilize artificial intelligence. Through reinforcement learning-based physical control, noise and blur generated when the optical camera tracks the drone may be reduced, and tracking stability may be improved. The latest NeRF algorithm can be used to solve the problem of lack of enemy drone data. It is necessary to build a data network to utilize artificial intelligence. Through this, data can be efficiently collected and managed. In addition, model performance can be improved by regularly generating artificial intelligence learning data.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.309-316
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 초점/비초점 영상에서 깊이 지도를 효율적으로 추출하기 위하여 그래프 컷(Graph Cut)과 이산 웨이블릿 변환(Discrete Wavelet Transform)을 이용한 깊이 지도 생성 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 우선 해당 영상을 영역 별로 처리하기 위해 그래프 컷 방법으로 각 픽셀 간의 유사도를 이용하여 분할한다. 그 다음 분할 영역을 레이블링 하여 원 영상의 분할 영역 정보를 생성한다. 그리고 이산 웨이블릿 변환을 이용하여 원 영상 내의 주파수 정보를 나타내는 LL, LH, HH, HL 부대역(Subband)을 생성한다. 마지막으로 4개의 부대역 중 영상의 초점/비초점 영역을 분석할 단서가 되는 HH, HL 대역을 이용하여 주파수 지도를 생성한 뒤 분할 영역에 따라 깊이 정보를 계산함으로써 깊이 지도를 추출한다. 제안하는 방법은 초점 정보인 블러(Blur)의 양에 따라 동적인 깊이의 할당이 가능하여 효율적인 깊이 지도의 생성이 가능하였다. 실험으로 PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) 방법을 통해 제안하는 방법의 성능을 평가하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제36S권7호
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• pp.81-89
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• 1999

통신에 의한 전송 영상은 잡음이나 번짐 또는 일그러짐 등을 항상 포함한다. 본 논문에서는 적응형 일반스텍 최적화 필터(OAGSF: optimal adaptive generalized stack filter)라는 영상복원 공간 필터를 제안하였는데, 이는 영상의 복원에서 잡음 제거율과 외곽선 정보의 보존률의 증가을 위해 신경회로맘의 역전파 학습 알고리즘의 가중치 학습 알고리즘을 기반으로 적응형 일반스택 필터(AGSF)를 최적화 시킨 것이다. 적응형 일반스택 필터는 일반스택 필터(GSF: generalized stack filter)와 적응형 다단계 메디안 필터(AMMF; adaptive multistage median filter)로 구분하고, 일반스텍 필터는 스택 필너치 기능을 보완한것이고, 적응형 다단계 메디안 필터는 메디안 필터의 외곽선 정보 보존률을 높인 것이다. 신경회로망의 역전파 학습 알고리즘에 대하여 두가지 가중치 학습 알고리즘인 최소평균절대 (LMA:Least Mean Absolute) 알고리즘과 최소평균자승(LMS: Least Mean Square) 알고리즘을 이용하여 적응형 일반스택 필터를 최적화하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 신경회로망을 이용한 영상복원 공간필터에 대해 실험결과를 통해 제시하였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.77-87
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• 2013

컴퓨터 비전에서 두 영상 사이에 대응점을 찾는 영상 정합 성능은 조명 변화에 큰 영향을 받는다. 본 논문에서는 조명 변화 문제와 기존 순차 기반 기술자의 단점을 해결하기 위하여, 엄격한 순차 기반의 특징점 기술자를 제안한다. 제안하는 기술자는 관심영역내 모든 픽셀의 순차 정보를 이용하여 기술자를 추출한다. 동일한 픽셀 값의 순차 모호성을 해결하기 위하여, 제안하는 방법은 불연속 스칼라 픽셀 값을 k차수의 연속적인 벡터 값으로 변환한다. k차수의 벡터 값으로부터 계산된 엄격한 순차를 이용하여 특징점 기술자를 추출하였으며, 이를 이용하여 영상 정합을 수행하였다. 실험결과 제안한 방법은 영상의 밝기 왜곡 및 가우시안 노이즈에 기존의 방법보다 강건한 영상 정합 성능을 나타낸다. 제안한 방법은 조명 변화에 강인한 특징점을 표현하는 기술로써 영상 정합과 더불어 얼굴인식, 텍스처 검출 및 영상 분석에 활용될 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1904-1926
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• 2016

Iris recognition for biometric personnel identification has gained much interest owing to the increasing concern with security today. The image quality plays a major role in the performance of iris recognition systems. When capturing an iris image under uncontrolled conditions and dealing with non-cooperative people, the chance of getting non-ideal images is very high owing to poor focus, off-angle, noise, motion blur, occlusion of eyelashes and eyelids, and wearing glasses. In order to improve the accuracy of iris recognition while dealing with non-ideal iris images, we propose a novel algorithm that improves the quality of degraded iris images. First, the iris image is localized properly to obtain accurate iris boundary detection, and then the iris image is normalized to obtain a fixed size. Second, the valid region (iris region) is extracted from the segmented iris image to obtain only the iris region. Third, to get a well-distributed texture image, bilinear interpolation is used on the segmented valid iris gray image. Using contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) enhances the low contrast of the resulting interpolated image. The results of CLAHE are further improved by stretching the maximum and minimum values to 0-255 by using histogram-stretching technique. The gray texture information is extracted by 1D Gabor filters while the Hamming distance technique is chosen as a metric for recognition. The NICE-II training dataset taken from UBRIS.v2 was used for the experiment. Results of the proposed method outperformed other methods in terms of equal error rate (EER).