• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.167-170
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• 2005

Recently, filtering methods for attenuating noise while preserving image details are in progress actively. And SM(standard median) filter showed a great performance for noise removal in impulse noise environment but, it caused edge cancellation error. So, variable methods that modified SM(standard median) filter have been proposed, and CWM(center weighted median) filter is representative. Also, there are several methods to improve the efficiency based on min/max operation in term of preserving detail and filtering speed. In this paper, we managed a pixel corrupted by impulsive noise using min/max value of the surrounding band enclosing a pixel, and compared the efficiency with exiting methods in the simulation.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.1693-1702
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• 1999

This paper proposes the use of an adaptive Wiener filter for edge-preserving image filtering. Images are partitioned into a set of blocks of pixels which is divided into five subsets of blocks according to their edge contents and orientations. Each subset of blocks is used to define a covariance matrix, from which a Wiener filter is derived. Five covariance matrices and Wiener filters are thus obtained. An image-block classifier using the five sets of covariance matrices of the class is designed to classify each incoming block of pixels according to its edge content in the presence of noise. Experimental results are included to verify the usefulness of the proposed method.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.175-182
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• 1998

Any classification process using SAR images presupposes the reduction of multiplicative speckle noise, since the variations caused by speckle make it extremely difficult to distinguish between neighboring classes within the feature space. Therefore, several adaptive filter algorithms have been developed in order to distinguish between them. These algorithms aim at the preservation of edges and single scattering peaks, and smooths homogeneous areas as much as possible. This task is rendered more difficult by the multiplicative nature of the speckle noise the signal variation depends on the signal itself. In this paper, LEE(Lee 1908) and R-LEE(Lee 1981) filters using local statistics, local mean and variance, are applied to RADARSAT SAR images. Also, a new method of speckle filtering, EPOS(Edge Preserving Optimal Speckle)(Hagg & Sties 1994) filter based on the statistical properties of speckle noise is described and applied. And then, the results of filtering SAR images with LEE, R-LEE and EPOS filters are compared with mean and median filters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.124-127
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• 2018

넓은 동적 영역 (High Dynamic Range: HDR) 이미지는 주관적 화질 측면에서 우수하지만 대부분의 디스플레이는 좁은 동적 영역 (Low Dynamic Rang e: LDR) 만 지원이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위해서 톤 매핑 기법 (Tone Mapping Operator: TMO) 을 사용하여 넓은 동적 영역을 압축하여 수행한다. 기존의 지역 에지 보존 (Local Edge Preserving: LEP) 필터를 적용한 이미지결과는 에지를 보존하지만, 스케일의 분해 과정 중 디테일의 손실이 발생되었다. 본 논문에서는 이미지 변화도를 기반으로 디테일을 보존하는 알고리듬을 제안한다. LEP 필터가 적용되기 전에 이미지의 변화도와 동적 영역이 압축된 후의 이미지에 대한 변화도의 차이만큼 가중하여 디테일을 보존함으로써 주관적 화질을 향상시켰다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.659-662
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• 2000

다양한 보간 기법을 정리해 보고 이를 통해서 기존의 보간 기법의 한계를 고찰해 본다. 보간의 효율성과 보간 결과 영상의 화질과는 Trade off 관계가 있으며, 이를 적절한 수준에서 결정하는 것은 중요한 문제이다. 본 논문에서는 Quadratic B-spline을 기저 함수로 하는 윤곽보존형 보간 필터를 사용한 영상확대 알고리즘을 제안한다. Unser의 Cardinal Cubic spline함수에 비해 적은 하드웨어만으로도 이상적인 저역 통과 필터의 특성을 가지며, 입력영상의 윤곽의 방향성을 고려한 적응적인 보간 기법의 적용으로 화질이 우수한 영상확대 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.322-326
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• 1988

The sigma filter is a nonlinear filter of modifying average filter to develop edge-preserving characteristics. However, this filter is yet weak to the impulsive noise such as BSC noise. Therefore it has not been used so highly in the image restoration area. In this paper, We propose an adaptive image restoration algorithm using the local statistic and the characteristic of human eyes in order to compensate its drawback and to improve its performance. The performance of the proposed algorithm and the vonventional ones are compared for images degraded by BSC noise. The proposed algorithm shows better performance than the median filter and yields 5 dB performance improvement over the convertional K-sigma filter on SNR gain.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.1011-1025
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• 2014

A demosaicing method for a Bayer-like W-RGB color filter array (CFA) is proposed. When reproducing images from a W-RGB CFA, conventional color separation methods for W-RGB CFA are likely to cause blurring near the edges due to rough averaging using a color ratio of neighboring pixels. Moreover, these methods cannot be applied to real-life digital cameras with W-RGB CFA because the methods were proposed under an ideal situation, W=R+G+B, not a real-life situation, $W{\neq}R+G+B$. To improve edge performance, we propose a method of constant color difference assumption with inversed weight, which uses information from all edge directions for interpolating all missing color channels. The proposed method calculates the correlation between W, R, G, and B to enable its application to real-life digital cameras with W-RGB CFA. Simulations were performed to evaluate the proposed method using images captured from a real-life digital camera with W-RGB CFA. Simulation results shows that we can demosaic by using the proposed algorithm compared with the conventional one in about +34.79% SNR, +11.43% PSNR, +1.54% SSIM and 14.02% S-CIELAB error. Thus, the proposed method demosaics better than the conventional methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.3745-3761
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• 2020

Low-rank representation methods already achieve many applications in the image reconstruction. However, for high-gradient image patches with rich texture details and strong edge information, it is difficult to find sufficient similar patches. Existing low-rank representation methods usually destroy image critical details and fail to preserve edge structure. In order to promote the performance, a new representation-based image super-resolution reconstruction method is proposed, which combines gradient domain guided image filter with the structure-constrained low-rank representation so as to enhance image details as well as reveal the intrinsic structure of an input image. Firstly, we extract the gradient domain guided filter of each atom in high resolution dictionary in order to acquire high-frequency prior information. Secondly, this prior information is taken as a structure constraint and introduced into the low-rank representation framework to develop a new model so as to maintain the edges of reconstructed image. Thirdly, the approximate optimal solution of the model is solved through alternating direction method of multipliers. After that, experiments are performed and results show that the proposed algorithm has higher performances than conventional state-of-the-art algorithms in both quantitative and qualitative aspects.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.535-538
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• 2009

Speckle noise reduction for ultrasound CT image using morphological adaptive median filtering based on edge preservation is presented in this paper. Speckle noise is multiplicative feature and causes ultrasound image to degrade widely from transducer. An input image is classified into edge region and homogeneous region in preprocessing. The speckle is reduced by morphological operation on the 2D gray scale by using convolution and correlation, and edges are preserved. The adaptive median is processed to reduce an impulse noise to preserve edges. As the result, MAM of the proposed method enhances the image to about 10% in comparison with Winner filter by Edge Preservation Index and PSNR, and 10% to only adaptive median filtering.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.393-396
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• 2010

In this paper the process of transmitting images signal restore to image corrupted by impulse noise proposed alpha-trimmed mean filter. the proposed filter first identifies the noise pixels using the morphological noise detector and then removes the detected impulse noise using the alpha-trimmed mean filter. these proposed filter can realize the accurate noise detection and it can remove impulse noise effectively while preserving edge region in the image very well. Through the simulation, we compared with the existing methods and capabilties.