• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.19-23
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 컬러 영상에 삼각형 타입의 소속 함수를 적용하여 스트레칭의 상한과 하한을 동적으로 설정하여 컬러영상을 퍼지 스트레칭 하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 퍼지 스트레칭 방법은 평균 밝기 값을 기준으로 가장 어두운 픽셀 값과 가장 밝은 픽셀 값의 거리를 계산하여 밝기의 조정률을 결정한 후, 최소 밝기 값과 최대 밝기 값을 구하고 삼각형 타입 소속 함수의 구간에 적용한다. 영상의 픽셀 값들을 소속 함수에 적용하여 소속도를 구하고 가장 낮은 픽셀 값을 스트레칭 하한으로 설정하고 가장 높은 픽셀 값을 스트레칭 상한으로 설정하여 컬러 영상을 스트레칭 한다. 다양한 영상에 적용한 결과, 앤드인 탐색 방법보다 제안된 퍼지 스트레칭 방법이 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.106-109
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• 2017

Recently, ancient documents are actively studied and discussed. However, ancient documents has a few problems on interpretation. The antique documents are too fragile to hand over. So, some studies have been carried out using terahertz to read ancient documents without damaging them. Three techniques are necessary to read letters using terahertz. First, PPEX algorithm, which distinguishes pages. Second, TGSI technique, which distinguishes text from paper on a page. Third, CCSC algorithm, which transforms signals to letters. In this paper, we will describe the preprocessing process to facilitate the recognition of letters before applying the post processing as we mentioned above. Histogram equalization, Histogram stretching and the Sobel filter were applied to the preprocessing.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.25-44
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• 2010

With the increasing popularity of mobile devices, it has become necessary to protect private information and content in these devices. Face recognition has been favored over conventional passwords or security keys, because it can be easily implemented using a built-in camera, while providing user convenience. However, because mobile devices can be used both indoors and outdoors, there can be many illumination changes, which can reduce the accuracy of face recognition. Therefore, we propose a new face recognition method on a mobile device robust to illumination variations. This research makes the following four original contributions. First, we compared the performance of face recognition with illumination variations on mobile devices for several illumination normalization procedures suitable for mobile devices with low processing power. These include the Retinex filter, histogram equalization and histogram stretching. Second, we compared the performance for global and local methods of face recognition such as PCA (Principal Component Analysis), LNMF (Local Non-negative Matrix Factorization) and LBP (Local Binary Pattern) using an integer-based kernel suitable for mobile devices having low processing power. Third, the characteristics of each method according to the illumination va iations are analyzed. Fourth, we use two matching scores for several methods of illumination normalization, Retinex and histogram stretching, which show the best and $2^{nd}$ best performances, respectively. These are used as the inputs of an SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier, which can increase the accuracy of face recognition. Experimental results with two databases (data collected by a mobile device and the AR database) showed that the accuracy of face recognition achieved by the proposed method was superior to that of other methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1904-1926
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• 2016

Iris recognition for biometric personnel identification has gained much interest owing to the increasing concern with security today. The image quality plays a major role in the performance of iris recognition systems. When capturing an iris image under uncontrolled conditions and dealing with non-cooperative people, the chance of getting non-ideal images is very high owing to poor focus, off-angle, noise, motion blur, occlusion of eyelashes and eyelids, and wearing glasses. In order to improve the accuracy of iris recognition while dealing with non-ideal iris images, we propose a novel algorithm that improves the quality of degraded iris images. First, the iris image is localized properly to obtain accurate iris boundary detection, and then the iris image is normalized to obtain a fixed size. Second, the valid region (iris region) is extracted from the segmented iris image to obtain only the iris region. Third, to get a well-distributed texture image, bilinear interpolation is used on the segmented valid iris gray image. Using contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) enhances the low contrast of the resulting interpolated image. The results of CLAHE are further improved by stretching the maximum and minimum values to 0-255 by using histogram-stretching technique. The gray texture information is extracted by 1D Gabor filters while the Hamming distance technique is chosen as a metric for recognition. The NICE-II training dataset taken from UBRIS.v2 was used for the experiment. Results of the proposed method outperformed other methods in terms of equal error rate (EER).

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2011년도 제43차 동계학술발표논문집 19권1호
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• pp.89-92
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 컬러 영상에 대해 삼각형 타입의 소속 함수를 적용하여 스트레칭의 상한과 하한을 동적으로 설정하고 영상을 스트레칭 하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 퍼지 스트레칭 방법은 평균 밝기 값을 기준으로 가장 어두운 픽셀 값과 가장 밝은 픽셀 값의 거리를 계산하여 밝기의 조정율을 결정한 후, 최소 밝기 값 및 최대 밝기 값을 구하고 삼각형 타입 소속 함수의 구간에 적용한다. 영상의 픽셀 값들을 소속 함수에 적용하여 소속도를 구하고 cut를 적용하여 가장 낮은 픽셀 값을 스트레칭 하한으로 가장 높은 픽셀 값을 스트레칭 상한으로 설정하여 컬러 영상을 스트레칭 한다. 다양한 영상에 적용한 결과, 기존의 스트레칭 방법보다 제안된 퍼지 스트레칭 방법이 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2013

In this paper, to control the existing headlamp control system using steering wheel angle more efficiently and more actively, image processing algorithm which improved the detection rate of lane at night based on camera was suggested. And to recognize road lane more clearly in the conditions of low illumination, new algorithms were developed in the aspects of improving brightness, extracting clear lane edge and using the characteristics of lane. Through this research, it turned out that lane detection ability by using the normalized stretching, angular mask and expected-area scan have good performance in the night compare to existing algorithms.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.1059-1067
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• 2021

In this paper, a HDR algorithm for a single image is proposed using the exposure fusion, that adaptively calculates gamma correction coefficients according to the image distribution. Since typical HDR methods should use at least three images with different exposure values at the same scene, the main problem was that they could not be applied at the single shot image. Thus, HDR enhancements based on a single image using tone mapping and histogram modifications were recently presented, but these created some location-specific noises due to improper corrections. Therefore, the proposed algorithm calculates proper gamma coefficients according to the distribution of the input image and generates different exposure images which are corrected by the dark and the bright region stretching. A HDR image reproduction controlling exposure fusion weights among the gamma corrected and the original pixels is presented. As the result, the proposed algorithm can reduce certain noises at both the flat and the edge areas and obtain subjectively superior image quality to that of conventional methods.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.859-864
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 여러 대의 저화질 카메라를 이용하여 두 영상을 합성 후 명암비 증가와 윤곽선 강조법을 이용한 영상 개선을 하였다. 두 대의 라즈베리 카메라를 이용하여 각각의 영상을 촬영한 후 매트랩을 이용하여 합성하였다. 합성 영상에 평균 연산(산술, 기하, 조화)을 적용한 후 교차영역을 추출하였다. 본 논문의 실험에서는 추출된 합성 영상에 윤곽선 강조 방법(언샤프마스크 필터, 하이부스트 필터)과 명암비 증가 방법(히스토그램 균등화, 히스토그램 스트레칭)을 적용하여 영상 개선 결과를 확인 및 비교하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2016

본 논문은 블랙박스 적용을 위한 적응형 히스토그램 스트레칭 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 본 알고리즘은 자동차 개인 저장장치 영상을 이용한 차량 번호판 검출을 위한 전처리 단계로 사용하였다. 제안 방식은 확률밀도함수(PDF: Probability Density Function)와 누적분포함수(CDF: Cumulative Density) 이용하여 영상의 밝기 분포도를 분석하였다. 이 두 함수는 일정한 간격을 두고 샘플링 한 영상을 사용하여 구하였다. 두 함수를 이용하여 영상의 특성을 분석하여, 특정 인자를 검출하였다. 검출된 인자를 분포도에 따라 각각 다른 스트레칭을 수행하였다. 알고리즘 검증은 촬영 된 자동차 개인 저장장치 영상을 사용하였다. 기존 알고리즘 비교는 시각적인 평가, 히스토그램 분포, 표준 및 표준 편차 값을 분석하였다. 또한 시뮬레이션 결과를 자동차 번호판 인식 알고리즘에 적용하여 번호판 인식율을 분석하였다. 기존 알고리즘보다 열화 현상이 적게 나타났고, 향상된 콘트라스트 값을 통하여, 차량 번호판 검출에서 기존 알고리즘보다 정확한 위치가 나타났다.