• 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.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.74-83
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose an image compression scheme which uses a demosaicking network and a channel-wise decoder in the decoding network. For the demosaicing network, we use as the input a colored mosaiced pattern rather than the well-known Bayer pattern. The use of a colored mosaiced pattern results in the mosaiced image containing a greater amount of information pertaining to the original image. Therefore, it contributes to result in a better color reconstruction. The channel-wise decoder is composed of multiple decoders where each decoder is responsible for each channel in the color image, i.e., the R, G, and B channels. The encoder and decoder are both implemented by wavelet based auto-encoders for better performance. Experimental results verify that the separated channel-wise decoders and the colored mosaic pattern produce a better reconstructed color image than a single decoder. When combining the colored CFA with the multi-decoder, the PSNR metric exhibits an increase of over 2dB for three-times compression and approximately 0.6dB for twelve-times compression compared to the Bayer CFA with a single decoder. Therefore, the compression rate is also increased with the proposed method than with the method using a single decoder on the Bayer patterned mosaic image.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2017

This paper proposes a new haze removal method for moving image sequence. Since the conventional dark channel prior haze removal method adjusts each color component separately in RGB color space, there can be severe color distortion in the haze removed output image. In order to resolve this problem, this paper proposes a new haze removal scheme that adjusts luminance and saturation components in HLS color space while retaining hue component. Also the conventional dark channel prior haze removal method is developed to obtain best haze removal performance for a single image. Therefore, if it is applied to a moving image sequence, the estimated parameter values change rapidly and the haze removed output image sequence shows unnatural glitter defects. To overcome this problem, a new parameter estimation method using Kalman filter is proposed for moving image sequence. Experimental results demonstrate that the haze removal performance of the proposed method is better than that of the conventional dark channel prior method.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 2006년도 춘계공동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1677-1683
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• 2006

Color image segmentation is useful for fast retrieval in large image database. For that purpose, new image segmentation technique based on the probability of pixel distribution in the image is proposed. Color image is first divided into R, G, and B channel images. Then, pixel distribution from each of channel image is extracted to select to which it is similar among the well known probabilistic distribution function-Weibull, Exponential, Beta, Gamma, Normal, and Uniform. We use sum of least square error to measure of the quality how well an image is fitted to distribution. That P.d.f has minimum score in relation to sum of square error is chosen. Next, each image is quantized into 4 gray levels by applying thresholds to the c.d.f of the selected distribution of each channel. Finally, three quantized images are combined into one color image to obtain final segmentation result. To show the validity of the proposed method, experiments on some images are performed.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.120-124
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• 2017

시간적 초해상도 기법은 일반 카메라로 찍은 영상을 고속카메라로 찍은 영상과 같이 보일 수 있도록 프레임률을 증가시키는 방법이다. 전자광학 센서는 다양한 감시정찰 무기체계에 탑재되는데, 각 무기체계별 작전요구성능에 따라 필요로 하는 전자광학 센서의 공간적 해상도와 시간적 해상도가 달라진다. 대부분의 영상센서가 30~60 프레임/초로 영상을 촬영하기 때문에, 표적의 이동 및 변화가 이보다 더 빠른 경우 프레임률의 증가가 필요하다. 본 논문은 채널별 색상정보 외삽법을 활용하여 프레임률을 증가시키는 기법을 제안한다. DMD의 각 화소를 카메라 센서의 각 화소와 정합한 후, 카메라 센서의 베이어 패턴에 맞추어 각 채널별로 화소 그룹을 분리한다. DMD를 이용해 일반 카메라의 한 프레임이 채널별로 서로 다른 연속된 노출 시간을 가지도록 조절하여, 촬영한 영상을 프레임률이 증가한 단일채널 영상으로 변환한다. 옵티컬 플로우 기법을 활용하여 각 채널별로 시점에 맞는 가상의 영상을 생성하여, 프레임률이 증가한 단일채널 영상을 컬러채널 영상으로 만들었다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 시간적 초해상도 기법의 성능을 확인하였다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.143-156
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• 2014

Comprehensive programming channels are based on recognition of the parent company, their parent newspaper has increased brand awareness. In this paper, the comprehensive channels to look at the structure of the channel brand architecture, a certain brand of newspapers and comprehensive channels have a effect on the formation of the image of the channel according to the future of the brand extension strategy for MPP. Referring to the brand architecture, which reveals the structural system of the brand, it is argued that TV Chosun and MBN take the integrated corporate brand strategy, while JTBC tries to mix and balance the brands of the parent corporation and its own independent one. Exceptionally, Channel A doesn't take a name of its parent corporation 'Dong-A'. It is argued that the comprehensive programming channels utilize and take the parent corporate brand, mixed brand, and independent brand in accordance with circumstances of their own parent corporates. Their parent brand of comprehensive channels give viewers a positive image and awareness of comprehensive channel brand. while building its own channel images, TV Chosun and Channel A Conservative extension of a certain brand marketers to be bound by the channel's image. Brand extension of comprehensive channels is to have the strength of their entry into the genre that is most likely higher.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.19-29
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• 2008

Underwater acoustic(UWA) communication is one of the most difficult field in terms of severe channel environments such as multipath propagation, high temporal and spatial variability of channel conditions. Therefore, it is important to model and analyze the characteristics of underwater acoustic channel such as multipath propagation, transmission loss, reverberation, and ambient noise. In this paper, UWA communication channel is modeled with a ray tracing method and applied to image transmission. Quadrature phase shift keying(QPSK) and multichannel decision feedback equalizer(DFE) are utilized as phase-coherent modulation method and equalization technique, respectively. The objective is to improve the performance of the image transmission using vertical sensor array instead of single sensor in the viewpoint of bit error rate(BER), constellation diagram, and received image quality.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 효과적이고 저 복잡도를 갖는 단일 영상 기반의 안개 제거를 위하여 dual dark channel prior (DCP)와 적응적인 밝기 보정 기법을 이용하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 작은 크기의 패치에 의한 dark channel은 영상의 에지 정보를 잘 보존하지만 국부적인 잡음 및 밝기 변화에 민감한 반면, 큰 크기의 패치에 의한 dark channel은 정확한 안개 값을 추정하는데 유리하지만 블록 현상과 이로 인한 후광 효과는 안개 제거 성능을 떨어뜨린다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 기존의 방법에서는 계산량 및 메모리 요구량이 큰 matting 기법을 활용한 반면, 제안하는 방법은 크기가 다른 패치로부터 구한 dark channel을 합성하여 dual DCP를 구성하고, 이를 이용하여 안개를 제거함으로써 적은 계산량 및 메모리 요구량을 달성한다. 또한 안개 성분을 제거한 영상에 적응적 밝기 보정 기법을 적용하여 영상에 포함된 객체가 선명하게 보존될 수 있도록 한다. 안개 성분이 포함된 다양한 영상에 대해 수행한 실험 결과 제안하는 안개 제거 기법이 기존의 방법에 비해 안개 제거 성능이 우수하면서 계산량과 메모리 요구량이 감소함을 알 수 있다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.133-141
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 무선 채널환경에서 워터마크가 삽입된 OFDM/QPSK 영상전송 시스템 시뮬레이터를 구현하였다 성능분석으로써 무선 멀티미디어 서비스를 위해 OFDM/QPSK 영상전송 시스템을 이용하여 가우시안잡음, 다중경로페이딩이 고려된 무선채널 환경에서의 정지영상 이미지와 워터마크로 사용된 정보에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 워터마크 정보는 DM-SS 이미지 워터마킹 기법을 적용하였고, 무선 채널에서 영상에 삽입된 워터마킹의 손상을 경감시키기 위해 인터리빙 기법을 도입하였다. 실험 결과, 같은 다중경로페이딩 환경에서 인터리빙을 적용하였을 때 워터마크 이미지의 PSNR이 54,2371dB로 약 1dB정도 개선된 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.31-34
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• 2000

In this paper, we proposed multispectral image compression method using CIP (classified inter-channel prediction) and SVQ (selective vector quantization) in wavelet domain. First, multispectral image is wavelet transformed and classified into one of three classes considering reflection characteristics of the subband with the lowest resolution. Then, for a reference channel which has the highest correlation with other channels, the variable VQ is performed in the classified intra-channel to remove spatial redundancy. For other channels, the CIP is performed to remove spectral redundancy. Finally, the prediction error is reduced by performing SVQ. Experiments are carried out on a multispectral image. The results show that the proposed method reduce the bit rate at higher reconstructed image quality and improve the compression efficiency compared to conventional method.