• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2009

Using the projected 2-dimensional tilted images obtained from the transmission electron microscopy, we can reconstruct the 3-dimensional structures of objects, such as cells. As a preprocessing procedure, the tilted images should be registered and compensated in terms of the spatial position and the intensity difference, respectively. In this paper, we employ the fiducial marker-based approach to perform a registration, and introduce a simple intensity compensation scheme. Based on the transmissivity image formation model, we propose an algorithm that can compensate the components of the illumination and transmissivity of each image according to the tilted angle. Numerical analysis using real images obtained from the transmission electron microscopy are shown in this paper to show the performance of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.75-82
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• 2014

This paper proposes an illuminant compensation method using a camera noise analysis without segmentation in the dichromatic reflectance model. In general, pixels within highlight regions include large amounts of information on the image illuminant. Thus, the analysis of highlight regions provides a relatively easy means of determining the characteristics of an image illuminant. Currently, conventional methods require regional segmentation and the accuracy of this segmentation then affects the illuminant estimation. Therefore, the proposed method estimates the illuminant without segmentation based on a conformity assessment of highlight regions. Furthermore, error factors, such as noise and sensor non-uniformity, can be reduced by the conformity assessment.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.190-198
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• 2001

The performance of Motion Compensated Discrete Cosine Transform (MC-DCT) video coding is improved by using the region adaptive subband image coding [18]. On the assumption that the video is acquired from the camera on a moving platform and the distance between the camera and the scene is large enough, both the motion of camera and the motion of moving objects in a frame are compensated. For the compensation of camera motion, a feature matching algorithm is employed. Several feature points extracted using a Sobel operator are used to compensate the camera motion of translation, rotation, and zoom. The illumination change between frames is also compensated. Motion compensated frame differences are divided into three regions called stationary background, moving objects, and newly emerging areas each of which is arbitrarily shaped. Different quantizers are used for different regions. Compared to the conventional MC-DCT video coding using block matching algorithm, our video coding scheme shows about 1.0-dB improvements on average for the experimental video samples.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.167-176
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• 2009

In this paper, a system that detects driver's drowsiness has been implemented based on the automatic extraction and the tracking of pupils. The research also focuses on the compensation of illumination and reduction of background noises that naturally exist in the driving condition. The system, that is based on the principle of Haar-like feature, automatically collects data from areas of driver's face and eyes among the complex background. Then, it makes decision of driver's drowsiness by using recognition of characteristics of pupils area, detection of pupils, and their movements. The implemented system has been evaluated and verified the practical uses for the prevention of driver's drowsiness.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.207-208
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• 2016

최근 차세대 비디오 코덱 기술로써 다양하게 논의 되고 있는 영상 내 지역적 밝기 보상 기술은 다수의 광원이 존재하는 영상 내 다른 영역 마다, 다른 밝기 변화 정도를 보상해주기 위한 방법이다. 상세하게는, 현재 CU의 주변 화소와 예측 블록의 주변 화소를 이용한 보상 계수를 계산하여 현재 CU의 예측 화소에 보상을 해주는 것이다. 이 때, 보상 계수를 구하기 위한 현재 CU와 예측 블록의 주변 화소들을 서브 샘플링함에 있어서, 현재 CU의 크기에 따라서 서브 샘플링율을 차등 설정하고 이에 따른 성능 변화를 분석한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.77-79
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• 2010

본 논문은 다시점 비디오의 조명 불일치 현상을 효과적으로 보상하기 위한 히스토그램 매칭 기법의 성능을 향상시키는 영상의 에지 방향성을 고려한 전처리 기법을 제안하였다. 다시점 비디오는 카메라 간 서로 다른 위치와 방위로 인해 인접한 시점 영상 간에 존재하는 동일 물체에 색상 차이가 발생할 수 있다. 히스토그램 매칭 기법은 모든 시점 영상의 히스토그램을 정해진 참조시점 영상의 히스토그램에 매칭시켜 다시점 비디오의 조명 불일치 현상을 보상하는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 히스토그램 매칭을 수행하기 전에 ELA(Edge-based Line Averaging) 선형 보간 기법과 Cosited 대표 값 추출 필터를 결합한 전처리 필터를 선행하여 조명 보상 효과와 다시점 부호화 성능을 향상시켰다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 전처리 기법이 일반적인 다시점 비디오 부호화에 비해 약 2 dB의 평균 PSNR 향상과 34%의 비트율 절감 효과를 가짐을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.4489-4501
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• 2014

We propose a novel lane detection method based on classification in image sequences. Both structural and statistical features of the extracted bright shape are applied to the neural network for finding correct lane marks. The features used in this paper are shown to have strong discriminating power to locate correct traffic lanes. The traffic lanes detected in the current frame is also used to estimate the traffic lane if the lane detection fails in the next frame. The proposed method is fast enough to apply for real-time systems; the average processing time is less than 2msec. Also the scheme of the local illumination compensation allows robust lane detection at nighttime. Therefore, this method can be widely used in intelligence transportation systems such as driver assistance, lane change assistance, lane departure warning and autonomous vehicles.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.14-25
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• 2011

Full-Color LED lighting system requires efficient control of the lighting color in order to easily achieve various color effects. In this paper, we present not only a portable color scanner using color sensors which can control lighting color directly from detected color but also methods to convert detected color to a complementary color, similar colors and so on. In addition, we propose a compensation method for measured sensor color to reduce measurement errors more than 50[%] in detected color. The developed color scanner is applied to control full-color LED ceiling light for emotional lighting.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.10-18
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• 2009

Color rendition method is necessary for improving the low contrast images which are achieved by PDA, mobile phone camera or PC camera. There are some methods for color rendition. However, after correcting the color, image quality degradations, such as graying-out, halo-artifact and color noise, may occur. In order to overcome these problems, this paper proposes a retinex-based color rendition method. The proposed method uses the HSV color coordinate system to avoid the graying-out, and the advanced image formation model to reduce the halo-artifact in which the image is divided into three components as the global illumination, the local illumination, and reflectance. The experiment results show that the proposed method yields better performance of color correction over the conveniently method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.599-607
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• 2018

This paper presents a ground-to-air bistatic radar system and its implementation algorithm, which resembles an SAR(synthetic aperture radar) reconstruction algorithm. Via cooperative working between a standoff transmitting radar and an array of ground based receiving radars, it detects and images moving targets under clutter in the air. In the proposed system, the whole receiving antenna aperture is synthesized by physical ground based radars, and thus, unlike conventional SAR, it does not require long illumination time of the target area. The reconstruction algorithm uses planewave approximation based polar format processing, which alleviates the requirement of positioning the receiving radars, which can cause grating lobes if not chosen properly. We derive a reconstruction algorithm including clutter suppression and discuss implementation issues, such as the resolution of a reconstructed image and the method of compensation for the irregularity of the receiving radars' positions. A simulation that validates the proposed algorithm is also shown.