• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.450-470
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• 2023

Traditional cloud computing faces some challenges such as huge energy consumption, network delay and single point of failure. Edge computing is a typical distributed processing platform which includes multiple edge servers closer to the users, thus is more robust and can provide real-time computing services. Although outsourcing data to edge servers can bring great convenience, it also brings serious security threats. In order to provide image retrieval while ensuring users' data privacy, a privacy preserving image retrieval scheme in edge environment is proposed. Considering the distributed characteristics of edge computing environment and the requirement for lightweight computing, we present a privacy-preserving image retrieval scheme in edge computing environment, which two or more "honest but curious" servers retrieve the image quickly and accurately without divulging the image content. Compared with other traditional schemes, the scheme consumes less computing resources and has higher computing efficiency, which is more suitable for resource-constrained edge computing environment. Experimental results show the algorithm has high security, retrieval accuracy and efficiency.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an efficient edge preserving smoothing filter for Infrared image that can reduce noise while preserving edge information. Infrared images suffer from low signal-to-noise ratio, low edge detail information and low contrast. So, detail enhancement and noise reduction play crucial roles in infrared image processing. We first apply a guided image filter as a local analysis. After the filtering process, we optimization globally using relativity of guided image filter. Our method outperforms the previous methods in removing the noise while preserving edge information and detail enhancement.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.1164-1171
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• 2015

The edge preserving method is important for image storage and geometric transformation. In this paper, we propose a new edge preserving method using HOG-Guide filter for image segmentation. In our approach, we extract edge information using gradient histogram to set HOG guide line. Then, we use HOG guide line to smooth image. With two to four iterations of smoothing operations, we finally obtain desirable edge preserved image. Our experimental results showed good performances showing that our proposed method is better than other methods.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1998년도 학술대회
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• pp.33-36
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• 1998

Most image restoration problems are ill-posed and need to e regularized. A difficult task in image regularization is to avoid smoothing of image edges. In this paper, were proposed an edge-preserving image restoration algorithm using block-based edge classification. In order to exploit the local image characteristics, we classify image blocks into edge and no-edge blocks. We then apply an adaptive constrained least squares (CLS) algorithm to eliminate noise around the edges. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can preserve image edges during the regularization process.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.380-389
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• 2010

This paper presents a new edge-protection algorithm and its very large scale integration (VLSI) architecture for block artifact reduction. Unlike previous approaches using block classification, our algorithm utilizes pixel classification to categorize each pixel into one of two classes, namely smooth region and edge region, which are described by the edge-protection maps. Based on these maps, a two-step adaptive filter which includes offset filtering and edge-preserving filtering is used to remove block artifacts. A pipelined VLSI architecture of the proposed deblocking algorithm for HD video processing is also presented in this paper. A memory-reduced architecture for a block buffer is used to optimize memory usage. The architecture of the proposed deblocking filter is verified on FPGA Cyclone II and implemented using the ANAM 0.25 ${\mu}m$ CMOS cell library. Our experimental results show that our proposed algorithm effectively reduces block artifacts while preserving the details. The PSNR performance of our algorithm using pixel classification is better than that of previous algorithms using block classification.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권11C호
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• pp.662-672
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• 2011

본 논문은 새로운 경계선 보존 알고리즘을 이용하여 블록화 현상을 제거하는 디블로킹 필터와 HD해상도의 실시간 영상처리가 가능한 디블로킹 필터의 VLSI구조를 제안한다. 기존의 블록 분류 기반의 접근 방법과 달리 제안된 알고리즘은 픽셀 분류 기반 접근을 사용한다. 또한 제안된 경계선 보존 맵은 픽셀을 경계선 영역과 평탄 영역으로 분류하며, 블록화 현상 제거에 사용되는 오프셋 필터와 경계선 보존 필터의 기반이 된다. 이를 바탕으로 제안된 디블로킹 필터의 VLSI구조는 고연산량 처리를 위하여 블록 전체에 파이프라인 기법을 적용하였다. 또한 블록 버퍼를 위한 메모리 절감 구조는 메모리의 사용을 최적화 시킨다. 본 필터는 VHDL을 이용한 설계를 통하여 CycloneII FPGA상에서 구현된 구조의 동작을 검증 후, Synopsys의 Design Compiler와 ANAM 0.25 ${\mu}m$ CMOS cell library로 합성하여 칩으로 구현하였을 때의 성능을 예측하였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 실험 결과는 세밀한 영상성분을 보존하면서 효과적으로 블록화 현상을 제거하며, 픽셀 분류 기반에서 제안된 알고리즘은 블록 분류 기반보다 PSNR 성능이 우수함을 보였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.273-273
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• 2000

We present a new scheme to increase the performance of edge-preserving image smoothing from the parameter tuning of a Markov random field (MRF) function. The method is based on automatic control of the image smoothing-strength in MRF model ing in which an introduced parameter function is based on control of enforcing power of a discontinuity-adaptive Markov function and edge magnitude resulted from discontinuities of image intensity. Without any binary decision for the edge magnitude, adaptive control of the enforcing power with the full edge magnitude could improve the performance of discontinuity-preserving image smoothing.

• 전자공학회논문지T
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• 제36T권4호
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• pp.24-29
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• 1999

In this paper, a simple contour-preserving filtering algorithm is proposed. The goal of the contour-preserving filtering method is to remove noise ad granularity as the preprocessing for the image segmentation procedure. Our method finds edge map and separates the image into the edge region and the non-edge region using this edge map. For the non-edge region, typical smoothing filters could be used to remove the noise and the small areas during the segmentation procedure. The result of simulation shows that our method is slightly better than the typical methods such as the median filtering and gradient inverse weighted filtering in the point of view of analysis of variance (ANOVA).

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2020

This paper presents an effective single image haze removal using edge-preserving and adaptive transmission estimation to enhance the visibility of outdoor images vulnerable to weather and environmental conditions with computational complexity reduction. The conventional methods involve the time-consuming refinement process. The proposed transmission estimation however does not require the refinement, since it preserves the edges effectively, which selects one between the pixel-based dark channel and the patch-based dark channel in the vicinity of edges. Moreover, we propose an adaptive transmission estimation to improve the visual quality particularly in bright areas like sky. Experimental results with various hazy images represent that the proposed method is superior to the conventional methods in both subjective visual quality and computational complexity. The proposed method can be adopted to compose a haze removal module for realtime devices such as mobile devices, digital cameras, autonomous vehicles, and so on as well as PCs that have enough processing resources.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1303-1310
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 안개 및 스모그 등의 조건에 의해 열화된 실외영상의 화질을 개선하기 위하여 에지 근처에서 패치(patch) 단위 및 픽셀 단위의 dark channel을 비교하여 에지 정보를 보존하는 전달량 추정 방법을 제안한다. 또한 영상의 객체와 배경의 자연스러운 복원을 위하여 라플라시안 연산을 이용한 에지 정보에 Guided Image Filtering (GIF)을 적용하는 정련 과정을 통해 효과적인 단일 영상 기반 안개 제거 방법을 제안한다. 안개가 포함된 다양한 실외영상에 대해 수행한 실험 결과는 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비해 적은 계산 복잡도를 갖는 동시에 후광효과와 같은 왜곡이 감소하고 우수한 안개 제거 성능을 보여 실시간성이 요구되는 기기를 포함한 다양한 분야에 적용될 수 있음을 확인할 수 있다.