• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.755-759
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• 2009

This paper proposes an HDR display system using multi-projectors for presentation of HDR contents to multi-users. An HDR image is resolved by luminance and the resolved images are assigned to several projectors. The proposed system projects the HDR contents onto a large screen, and the system can display the HDR contents to multi-users. The proposed system realized to output the broad luminance by emitting the light of multi-projectors onto the same screen. In addition, tonal steps of the proposed system increase so that other projectors cover the tonal steps in the region where the dynamic range is expanded. In this paper, we indicate an effectiveness of the proposed system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.11
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• pp.919-927
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• 2013

In this paper, we present a perception-based tone mapping technique using histogram modification for displaying high dynamic range image. HDR (high dynamic range) tone mapping algorithms are used to display HDR image on LDR (low dynamic rnage) devices. Although perception-based tone mapping methods provides better performance, it dose not always produce good results for a wide variety of images. The proposed method reduces dynamic range by using the perception-based tone mapping function and histogram modification. A derivative of perception-based tone mapping function is used as constraint function of histogram and additional compensation process is performed. This method not only improves contrast by adopting different constraints on each pixel value, but also preserves more visual details. In order to prevent over enhancement, histogram modification technique is applied. Furthermore, it can control the rate of image contrast using control parameters. Subjective and objective evaluations show that proposed algorithm is better than existing algorithms.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.10-17
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• 2019

In High Dynamic Range (HDR) image processing, tone mapping is the process to compress an input image into a Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image. In most cases, the reason that detail preservation is prior to take over tone mapping is that the dynamic range is significantly different between input and output images. In the case of iCAM06, details are separated by using a bilateral filter, however, it causes noise amplification at the dim surround region. Thus, we suggest that the detail signal, which is separated from the bilateral filter, is combined with the base signal after an adaptive Kalman filter is applied according to the local standard deviation. We confirmed that the proposed method enhances the HDR images quality by checking the noise reduction in a dim surround region.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.764-771
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a high-quality image acquisition algorithm using only a single image, which the high-quality image is normally referred as HDR ones. In order to acquire the HDR image, conventional methods need many images having different exposure values at the same scene and should delicately adjust the color values for a bit-expansion or an exposure fusion. Thus, they require considerable calculations and complex structures. Therefore, the proposed algorithm suggests a completely new approach using one image for the high-quality image acquisition by applying statistical difference and histogram manipulation, or histogram specification, techniques. The techniques could control the pixel's statistical distribution of the input image into the desired one through the local and the global modifications, respectively. As the result, the quality of the proposed algorithm is better than those of conventional methods implemented in commercial image editing softwares.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.69-75
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• 2017

SDR 영상과 함께 HDR 버전 제작을 함께 요청하는 프로젝트가 점점 늘어나는 추세다. 어느 정도 규모의 업체에서는 고가의 HDR 레퍼런스 모니터와 라이선스 비용을 지불하고 비교적 편리하게 작업할 수 있다. 상황이 그렇지 못할 경우 최소의 비용으로 장비를 구매하고, 기존 장비와 호환성을 점검하고, 컬러링 어플리케이션에서 지원하는 기능을 활용하여 최선의 워크플로를 구성해야 한다. 또한 SDR 버전을 HDR 버전으로 제작하거나 HDR 영상을 SDR 버전으로 변환할 때 장면마다 다시 보정하는 일을 최소화하기 위한 세심한 보정이 필요하다. 본 원고에서는 동시에 촬영된 BT.709 기반의 HD 프록시 영상과 RAW로 촬영된 UHD 원본 영상을 활용하여 변환 작업에서 주의 깊게 살펴보아야 할 사항들을 알아보도록 하겠다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.714-717
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• 2018

This paper presents a method of HDR imaging with adaptive saturation compensation for brightness change. The saturation of HDR images were lighten on dark region because conventional HDR methods have focused on brightness change. Therefore, the proposed HDR method compensates saturation adaptively according to brightness change. For experiments of several images, the proposed algorithm is superior to conventional HDR methods qualitatively and quantitatively in terms of color saturation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.108-109
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• 2015

본 논문은 low-rank 행렬의 truncated nuclear norm 최소화를 이용한 HDR (high dynamic range) 영상 합성 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법에서는 기존의 LDR (low dynamic range) 영상에서 얻은 밝기의 선형 관계에 기반하여 HDR 합성을 low-rank 행렬 완성 문제로 변환한 후, ALM (augmented Lagrange multiplier) 기법을 이용하여 효율적으로 최적의 해를 구한다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 제안하는 기법이 기존 기법에 비해서 낮은 계산 복잡도를 보이면서도 더 높은 품질의 HDR 영상을 합성하는 것을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.242-245
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 단일 노출 영상으로부터 다수의 가상 노출 영상을 생성하고, 그 영상을 한 장의 HDR 영상으로 합성하여 SDR 디스플레이 시스템에 개선된 화질의 영상을 보여주도록 하는 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법에서는 주어진 단일 노출 영상을 Retinex 이론을 적용하여 조명 성분과 반사 성분으로 분리하고, 새로운 노출 조절 알고리즘을 제안하여 다수의 가상 조명 성분과 원본 이미지의 반사 성분을 생성하며 이들을 이용하여 다수의 가상 노출 영상을 생성한다. 생성된 다수의 가상 노출 영상은 가중치 합성 함수에 의해서 암부의 세부 표현력이 개선되고 명암비가 높아져 SDR display 에서도 우수한 화질의 HDR 영상으로 변환된다. 기존에 제안된 알고리즘과 비교 실험을 통해, 본 논문에서 제안된 HDR 영상 합성 기법의 성능을 증명한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.1846-1863
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• 2016

High dynamic range (HDR) images can present the perfect real scene and rich color information. A commonly encountered problem in practical applications is how to well visualize HDR images on standard display devices. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale decomposition method using guided filtering for HDR image tone mapping. In our algorithm, HDR images are directly decomposed into three layers：base layer, coarse scale detail layer and fine detail layer. We propose an effective function to compress the base layer and the coarse scale detail layer. An adaptive function is also proposed for detail adjustment. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm effectively accomplishes dynamic range compression and maintains good global contrast as well as local contrast. It also presents more image details and keeps high color saturation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.247-257
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a scene adaptive method to obtain two LDR images with proper shutter speeds which capture the irradiance of scene effectively. The proposed method adaptively selects two shutter speeds across the video frame even when the illumination varies continuously. For the performance evaluation, we compute the PNSR to the ground truth which is obtained by the state-of-the-art HDR imaging method. It shows that the proposed method is able to select approximately optimal shutter speeds while avoiding the exhaustive search of every possible pair of shutter speeds.