• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.77-83
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 칼라 영상의 대조비 개선을 위한 비대칭도 특성을 이용한 적응적인 대조비 개선 레티넥스 방식을 제안한다. 입력 영상 휘도 성분의 저조도 정도를 예측하기 위해 휘도 성분의 비대칭도 함수로 표현되는 매개변수를 정의하고, 정의된 매개 변수 및 예측 반사 성분을 이용하여 반사 성분을 보정하기 위한 비선형 함수를 제안한다. 더불어, 추정된 반사 성분의 통계 특성을 이용하여 비선형 함수의 이득 및 오프셋을 결정하는 방식에 대해 기술한다. 연산량 절감을 위해 색차 성분의 보정 과정을 위해 입력 영상의 휘도 성분과 보정된 휘도 성분을 이용한다. 실험을 통해 색신호 성분의 대조비 및 색신호 왜곡의 개선이 효과적으로 이루어짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.220-227
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• 2019

Purpose: To evaluate the usefulness of wash-in color map in detecting early enhancement of prostate focal lesion compared to whole dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DEC MRI) images. Materials and Methods: This study engaged 50 prostate cancer patients who underwent multiparametric MRI and radical prostatectomy as subjects. An expert [R1] and a trainee [R2] independently evaluated early enhancement and recorded the time needed to review 1) a wash-in color map and 2) whole DCE MRI images. Results: The review of whole DCE images by R1 showed fair agreement with color map by R1, whole images by R2, and color map by R2 (weighted kappa values = 0.59, 0.44, and 0.58, respectively). Both readers took a significantly shorter time to review the color maps as compared to whole images (P < 0.001). Conclusion: A trainee could achieve better agreement with an expert when using wash-in color maps than when using whole DCE MRI images. Also, color maps took a significantly shorter evaluation time than whole images.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.8-16
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• 2012

An image obtained from a low light environment results in a low-exposure problem caused by non-ideal camera settings, i.e. aperture size and shutter speed. Of particular note, the multiple color-filter aperture (MCA) system inherently suffers from low-exposure problems and performance degradation in its image classification and registration processes due to its finite size of the apertures. In this context, this paper presents a novel method for the color enhancement of low-exposure images and its application to color shift model-based MCA system for image refocusing. Although various histogram equalization (HE) approaches have been proposed, they tend to distort the color information of the processed image due to the range limits of the histogram. The proposed color enhancement algorithm enhances the global brightness by analyzing the basic cause of the low-exposure phenomenon, and then compensates for the contrast degradation artifacts by using an adaptive histogram specification. We also apply the proposed algorithm to the preprocessing step of the refocusing technique in the MCA system to enhance the color image. The experimental results confirm that the proposed method can enhance the contrast of any low-exposure color image acquired by a conventional camera, and is suitable for commercial low-cost, high-quality imaging devices, such as consumer-grade camcorders, real-time 3D reconstruction systems, digital, and computational cameras.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권11호
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• pp.928-937
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• 2013

본 논문은 특이값 분해와 영상 피라미드를 이용한 새로운 대비 개선 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 다음과 같이 네 단계로 진행 된다. 먼저 전역 명암대비와 지역적 디테일을 향상시키기 위해 영상 피라미드를 이용하여 영상을 기저영상과 세부영상들로 분해한다. 전역 명암대비 향상은 특이값 분해를 이용하여 영상 전체의 명암대비를 향상시키고, 지역적 디테일 향상은 가중치를 이용하여 개선시킨다. 영상 합성은 영상의 컬러 일관성을 유지하기 위해 컬러와 명암성분들을 결합한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안된 방법은 기존의 방법들보다 영상의 세부 정보를 강화하면서 전체적인 명암대비 개선을 보인다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.840-866
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• 2014

Visibility in underwater images is usually poor because of the attenuation of light in the water that causes low contrast and color variation. In this paper, a new approach for underwater image quality improvement is presented. The proposed method aims to improve underwater image contrast, increase image details, and reduce noise by applying a new method of using contrast stretching to produce two different images with different contrasts. The proposed method integrates the modification of the image histogram in two main color models, RGB and HSV. The histograms of the color channel in the RGB color model are modified and remapped to follow the Rayleigh distribution within certain ranges. The image is then converted to the HSV color model, and the S and V components are modified within a certain limit. Qualitative and quantitative analyses indicate that the proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in terms of contrast, details, and noise reduction. The image color also shows much improvement.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an adaptive color enhancement algorithm. It is used for the flat panel displays (FPDs) such as LCD, PDP, and so on. The proposed algorithm consists of an adaptive linear approximation CDF(Cumulative Density Function) algorithm and an adaptive saturation enhancement algorithm. The one is for contrast enhancement which prevents an image from the distortion by luminance transient of an input image. The other is the algorithm which improves the saturation without the contour artifact and over-saturation, whose problems are generated during the enhancing saturation. In addition, it allows to achieve the high quality image using the saturation enhancement method for a preferred color of original image. Visual test and standard deviation of their histograms have been applied to evaluate the resultant output images of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2003

We discuss main techniques to improve legibility of electroluminescent displays. Emphasis is placed on use of destructive optical interference to cancel ambient light reflected from the back electrode of the device. Basic optical principles and material composition of the optical interference contrast-enhancing stack (CES) are presented. We also describe the improved human factors of electroluminescent devices assisted with a CES. Achromatic contrast is the most important contributor to display's legibility. In some conditions color contrast may also be important. Contributing to both luminance and color contrast enhancement, the contrast-enhancing stack may play an important role in various display applications.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.130-139
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• 2013

This paper proposes a new approach for enhancing digital images based on red channel information, which has the most analogous characteristics to invisible infrared rays. Specifically, a red channel in RGB space is used to analyze the image contents and improve the visual quality of the input images but it can cause unexpected problems, such as the over-enhancement of reddish input images. To resolve this problem, inter-channel correlations between the color channels were derived, and the weighting parameters for visually pleasant image fusion were estimated. Applying the parameters resulted in significant brightness as well as improvement in the dark and bright regions. Furthermore, simple contrast and color corrections were used to maintain the original contrast level and color tone. The main advantages of the proposed algorithm are 1) it can improve a given image considerably with a simple inter-channel correlation, 2) it can obtain a similar effect of using an extra infrared image, and 3) it is faster than other algorithms compared without artifacts including halo effects. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach could produce better natural images than the existing enhancement algorithms. Therefore, the proposed scheme can be a useful tool for improving the image quality in consumer imaging devices, such as compact cameras.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.1481-1490
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• 2017

This paper presents an image quality enhancement algorithm for dark image acquired under poor lighting condition. Various retinex algorithms which are human perception-based image processing methods were proposed to solve this problem. Although MSR(Multi-Scale Retinex) among these algorithm works well under most lighting condition, it shows color degradation because their separate nonlinear processing of RGB color channels. To compensate for the loss of the color, MSRCR(Multi-Scale Retinex with Color Restoration) was proposed. However, it requires high computational load and has additional parameters that need to be adjusted according to input image. In order to overcome this problem, a new retinex algorithm based on MSR is proposed in this paper. The proposed method consists of V channel MSR, saturation correction, and separate contrast enhancement process. Experimental results show that the subjective and objective image quality of the proposed method better than those of the conventional methods.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.651-661
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 변형된 오차확산 (ED: error diffusion)을 이용한 새로운 컬러 영상의 콘트라스트 개선 (CE: contrast enhancement) 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 기존의 컬러 히스토그램 평활화 (HE: histogram equalization)를 하면 콘트라스트가 개선된 영상에 잘못된 윤곽선 (false contour)과 같은 왜곡 현상들 (artifacts)이 생긴다. 변형된 ED를 이용한 제안하는 CE 알고리즘은 HE 부분과 ED의 두 부분으로 나눌 수 있다. 첫 번째 부분에서는 기존의 HE 방법으로 낮은 콘트라스트를 갖는 입력 영상의 콘트라스트를 개선하였고 두 번째 부분에서는 제안한 변형된 ED를 사용하였다. 두 번째 부분의 입력들은 낮은 콘트라스트를 갖는 원래의 컬러 입력 영상과 HE 영상의 평균과 차 영상이다. 이 때 원래의 컬러 입력 영상과 HE 영상 간의 차는 스케일링되어 ED에 의해 주변으로 확산된다. 제안한 방법에서 변형된 ED 기법은 HE 영상에서 생긴 왜곡 현상을 줄이고 더 많은 수의 컬러 값을 사용할 수 있도록 한다. 낮은 콘트라스트를 갖는 많은 영상들에 대해 실험한 결과에서, 제안한 CE 알고리즘의 결과가 probability mass function 뿐만 아니라 시각적인 측면에서 더 좋은 화질을 가짐을 보였다. 제안한 CE 알고리즘은 낮은 콘트라스트의 컬러 입력 영상을 CE 하면서 동시에 왜곡 현상을 줄이기 위한 다양한 디스플레이 장치에서의 후처리 기법으로 사용될 수 있다.