• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.264-269
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• 2015

The chest X-ray image cannot be focused in the same manner that optical lenses are and the resultant image generally tends to be slightly blurred. Therefore, the methods to improve the quality of chest X-ray image have been studied. In this paper, the inherent noises of the input images are suppressed by adding the Laplacian image to the original. First, the chest X-ray image using an Gaussian high pass filter and an optimal high frequency emphasis filter has shown improvements in the edges and contrast of flat areas. Second, using fuzzy logic_histogram equalization, each pixel of the chest X-ray image shows the normal distribution of intensities that are not overexposed. As a result, the proposed method has shown the enhanced edge and contrast of the images with the noise canceling effect.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.698-704
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• 2013

영상개선을 위한 영상처리는 응용분야에 따라서 동일한 알고리즘이 각각 다르게 적용되므로 응용분야에 적합한 최적값이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 X선 의료영상분야에 고주파통과 필터를 적용해서 에지영역을 개선하였고, 결과영상에 상수승수와 오프셋을 더하여 에지영역 및 평탄영역의 컨트라스트를 향상시켰다. 그러므로, 의료영상을 최적화시키기 위해서는 고주파강조필터가 필요함을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 구체적인 최적화 변수값으로는 가우시안 고주파통과필터, 차단주파수의 거리=0.05, 오프셋=0.5 값이다. 마지막으로 이들 최적화 변수값을 적용시켜 시뮬레이션 한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존 방법들에 비해서 영상의 컨트라스트와 에지부분들을 향상시켰다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.131-136
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• 2017

Chest X-ray image cannot be focused in the same manner as optical lenses and the resultant image generally tends to be slightly blurred. Therefore, appropriate methods to improve the quality of chest X-ray image have been studied in this paper. As the frequency domain filters work well for slight blurring and moderate levels of additive noises, we propose an algorithm that is particularly suitable for enhancing chest image. First, the chest image using Gaussian high pass filter and the optimal high frequency emphasis filter shows improvements in the edges and contrast of the flat areas. Second, as compared to using histogram equalization where each pixel of chest image is characterized by a loss of detail and much noises, in using fuzzy logic, each pixel of chest image shows the detail preservation and little noise.

• 전자공학회논문지D
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• 제35D권8호
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• pp.82-88
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• 1998

We propose and design a new type of anrrow band-pass optical filter based on two fiber gratings with different reflection wavelength. The ripples occur in the spectra of the filter with two uniform fiber gratings. Our simulation results also show that the ripples disappear with the fiber gratings apodized to both gaussian and hyperbolic tangent function. The hyperbolic tangent function seems to be a better apodization function for improving the filter's performance in terms of narrow pass bandwidth and high transmission.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.81-88
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• 2011

Mini Double Gears Frame is critical part of PDP and also produces couple hundred thousand every month. In the process of mass production, product inspection is very important process. Double Gear, one of the part of machine, was inspected by human eyes which caused mistakes and slow progress. To achieve the speed and accuracy the system was compensated by vision system which is inspecting automatically. The focus value is measured based on the fact that high contrast images have much high frequency edge information. High frequency term of the image is extracted using the high-pass filter and the sum of the high frequency term is used as the focus value. We used a Gaussian smoothing filter to reduce the noise and then measures the focus value using the modified Laplacian filter called a Sum modified Laplacian Focus values for the various lens positions are calculated and the position with the maximum focus value is decided as the focused position. The focus values calculated in various lens position showed the Gaussian distribution. We proposed a method to estimate the best focus position using the Gaussian curve fitting. Focus values of the uniform interval lens positions are calculated and the values are used to estimate the Gaussian distribution parameters to find the best focus position.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 1985

Defocussed된 정지화상은 그 PSF(point spread fufction)이 rectangular 혹은 Gaussian등의 2차함수가 되며 이것과 입력화상과의 convolution으로 모델링 할 수 있음이. 알려져 있다. 그런데 이를 TV카메라의 주사선을 이용한 analog 방식으로 개선코자 할 경우에는 매 수평주사선에 관한한 1차원적인 처리가 가능하며 이 defocussed된 화상은 원래의 화상과 일정한 폭을 가진 펄스와의 수평방향으로 convolution된 결과로 해석 할 수 있음을 밝혔다. 또한 TV 카메라의 analog compound high pass filter를 사용한 복구 실험으로써 현저히 개선된 사진을 얻을 수 있있다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.456-466
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• 2015

We investigated an anti-aliasing (AA) filter for digital camera photography by which the excessively high-frequency components of the image signal are suppressed to avoid the aliasing effect. Our optomechanical AA filter was implemented by applying rapid relative motions to the imaging sensor. By the engineered motion blur of the mechanical dithers, the effective point-spread function (PSF) of the imaging system could be tailored to reject the unwanted high-frequency components of the image. For optimal operations, we developed a spiral filter motion protocol that could produce a Gaussian-like PSF. We experimentally demonstrated that our AA filter provides an improved filtering characteristic with a better compromise of the rejection performance and the signal loss. We also found that the pass band characteristic can be enhanced further by a color-differential acquisition mode. Our filter scheme provides a useful method of digital photography for low-error image measurements as well as for ordinary photographic applications where annoying $moir{\acute{e}}$ patterns must be suppressed efficiently.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 제14회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.747-750
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• 2001

The paper presents an algorithm for estimating the variance of additive zero mean Gaussian noise in an image. The algorithm uses the wavelet transform which is a good tool for energy compaction. The algorithm consists of three steps. At first, high frequency components, wavelet coefficients in HH band, are generated from a noisy image by the wavelet transform. In a second step, high frequency components which are out of the noise range ate eliminated. Finally, if the image has many components eliminated in the previous step, then its noise estimated value is reduced. Experimental results show that the wavelet filter has better performance than the other high pass filters such as a Laplacian filter, residual from a median filter, residual from a mean filter, and a difference operator. In various images, the algorithm reduces 50% of estimated error on an average.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.1121-1126
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• 2003

본 논문에서 트랜지스터를 이용하여 Ultra Wide Bandwidth(UWB)통신 시스템의 구성 요소의 하나인 임펄스 발생기를 설계하였다. 이 펄스 발생기는 두 가지 스텝으로 이루어져 있다. 첫 번째 스텝에서 트랜지스터 스위칭 동작과 스위칭 동작에 걸리는 시간을 이용하여 트랜지스터의 가우시안 펄스를 만든다. 두 번째 스텝에서 고 대역 통과 필터를 이용하여 모노싸이클 임펄스로 변환시킨다. 결과인 임펄스의 크기는 약 +/-250 ㎷ 정도이고, 펄스의 폭은 0.9 ns로서 펄스폭은 트랜지스터의 동작 시간과 일치하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제43권12호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 노이즈에 둔감한 4*4 밴드패스 이산 코사인 (MF-DCT) 초점 값 연산자를 제안하였다. 제안된 연산자는 DCT 결과 중 중간 주파수 성분을 사용하는 8*8 MDCT 연산자를 노이즈에 둔감하도록 4 형태로 개선한 것으로써 연산자를 180도 회전하여도 같은 구조를 같도록 하였다. 이 연산자는 샘플링 주파수의 절반 부분지 주파수를 통과시키는 밴드패스 필터와 같이 동작하여 초점 정보를 가지고 있지 않는 저주파 신호와 노이즈에 의해 많은 영향을 받는 고주파 신호를 억제함으로써 노이즈에 둔감한 특성을 가진다. 또한 밴드패스 필터를 통과한 성분의 에너지를 초점 값으로 사용함으로써 초점 합의 선형성을 보장받게 된다. 실험 결과에서는 MF-DCT 연산자의 가우시안 노이즈 및 임펄시브 노이즈 특성을 살펴보기 위해 기존의 초점 값 연산자들과의 Autofocusing Uncertain Measure (AUM)비교를 통해 우수성을 검증하였다.