• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.851-854
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• 2000

Digital halftoning is a technique to make an equivalent binary image from scanned photo or graphic images. Low pass filtering characteristic of human visual system can be applied to get the effect of spatial averaging of local area consisted of black and white pixels for gray image. The overlapping of black dot decreases brightness and black dot is very sensitive to human visual system in the bright region. In this paper, for gray-level expression, only bright gray region in the color image is considered for blue noise mask (BNM) approach. To solve this problem, BNM with CMY dot is used for the bright region instead of black dot. Dot-on-dot model with single mask causes the problem making much black dot overlap, color distortion. Therefore approach with three masks for C, M and Y each is proposed to decrease pixel overlap and color distortion.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.265-268
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• 2001

In this paper, we designed one-dimensional VLSI array with high speed processing in Fractal image compression. fractal image compression algorithm partitions the original image into domain blocks and range blocks then compresses data using the self similarity of blocks. The image is partitioned into domain block with 50% overlapping. Domain block is reduced by averaging the original image to size of range block. VLSI array is trying to search the best matching between a range block and a large amount of domain blocks. Adjacent domain blocks are overlapped, so we can improve of each block's processing speed using the reuse of the overlapped data. In our experiment, proposed VLSI array has about 25% speed up by adding the least register, MUX, and DEMUX to the PE.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.875-878
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• 1998

In this paper, an adaptive event detection algorithm is proposed, for which we use the statistics of subblock image and adaptive threshold levels. The adaptive threshold level for a parameter binarization is taken by averaging the corresponding paramerter obtained from several input images. As simulation results, it is shown that the proposed algorithm is much more adaptive to the input images and effective in event detection rate than the conventional difference based algorithms.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.3
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• pp.159-165
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• 1998

In bitrate control of MPEG-2 TM5, $Q_{j}$, N-act, and mquant, of present macroblock are predicted from those of previous macroblock. It results in poor image quality because of abrups change of them. We proposed a method predicting $Q_{j}$, N-act, and mquant, of present macroblock by averaging those parameters of adjacent previous macroblocks. As a results, it shows improved PSNR compared to bitrate control of MPEG-2 TM5.TM5.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.219-222
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new blind image watermarking method in wavelet domain. It is necessary to find out watermark insertion location in blind watermark. We use horizontal and vertical difference of LL components to select watermark insertion location, because increment or decrement of successive components is rarely changed in LL band. A pseudo-random sequence is used as a watermark. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to various kinds of attacks such as JPEG lossy compression, averaging, median filtering, resizing, histogram equalization, and additive Gaussian noise.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.285-288
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 카메라 플랫홈의 흔들림 등으로 인한 외부 영향으로 출렁이는 비디오를 전자적으로 안정화시키는 방법을 제안한다. LOG operator〔1〕을 이용하여 특징점을 잡고 그 특징점을 중심으로 일정크기의 subblock에 대해서만 correlation을 구한다. Least Square를 이용하여 모션 파라메타를 측정하고 모션 보상을 행하는데 현재의 영상을 기준 좌표계로 변환하고 명암값 보간을 하게된다. 이 때 기존 연구에서 많이 사용한 bilinear 보간법의 단점인 대비가 첨예한 곳에서의 averaging 효과를 없애기 위해 본 연구에서는 대비가 첨예한 곳에서는 nearest neighbor 보간을 사용하고 그렇지 않은 곳에서는 bilinear 보간을 사용하는 hybrid한 방법을 채택하였다. 그 결과 사람이 카메라를 손에 들고 움직일 때 생기는 출렁이는 비디오에 대해 대부분의 카메라 움직임을 안정화시킬 수 있었다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.2994-3001
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• 2000

In this paper. a method for color image segmentation using region merging is proposed. A inhomogeneity which exists in image is reduced by smoothing with non-linear filtering. saturation enhancement and intensity averaging in previous step of image segmentation. and a similar regions are segmented by non-uniform quantization using zero-crossing information of color histogram. A edge strength of initial region is measured using high frequency energy of wavelet transform. A candidate region which is merged in next step is selected by doing this process. A similarity measure for region merging is processed using Euclidean distance of R. G. B color channels. A Proposed method can reduce an over-segmentation results by irregular light sources et. al, and we illustrated that the proposed method is reasonable by simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.24 no.10
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• pp.54-63
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• 2007

To measure water levels from remote cites using a narrowband channel, this paper developed a difference image based JPEG communication scheme and a water level measurement scheme using the sparsely sampled images in time domain. In the slave system located in the field, the images are compressed using JPEG after changed to difference images, among which in a period of data collection those showing larger changes are sampled and transmitted. To measure the water level from the images received in the master system which may contain noises caused by various sources, the averaging scheme and Gaussian filter are used to reduce the noise effects and the Y axis profile of an edge image is used to read the water level. Considering the wild condition of the field, a simplified camera calibration scheme is also introduced. The implemented slave system was installed at a river and its performance has been tested with the data collected for a month.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.635-651
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• 2012

To produce a level-3 monthly composite image from daily level-2 Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) chlorophyll-a concentration data set in the East Sea, we applied four average methods such as the simple average method, the geometric mean method, the maximum likelihood average method, and the weighted averaging method. Prior to performing each averaging method, we classified all pixels into normal pixels and abnormal speckles with anomalously high chlorophyll-a concentrations to eliminate speckles from the following procedure for composite methods. As a result, all composite maps did not contain the erratic effect of speckles. The geometric mean method tended to underestimate chlorophyll-a concentration values all the time as compared with other methods. The weighted averaging method was quite similar to the simple average method, however, it had a tendency to be overestimated at high-value range of chlorophyll-a concentration. Maximum likelihood method was almost similar to the simple average method by demonstrating small variance and high correlation (r=0.9962) of the differences between the two. However, it still had the disadvantage that it was very sensitive in the presence of speckles within a bin. The geometric mean was most significantly deviated from the remaining methods regardless of the magnitude of chlorophyll-a concentration values. Its bias error tended to be large when the standard deviation within a bin increased with less uniformity. It was more biased when data uniformity became small. All the methods exhibited large errors as chlorophyll-a concentration values dominantly scatter in terms of time and space. This study emphasizes the importance of the speckle removal process and proper selection of average methods to reduce composite errors for diverse scientific applications of satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentration data.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.3
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• pp.233-238
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a multiple classifier combination method based on image degradation modeling to improve recognition performance on low-quality images. Using an image degradation model, it generates a set of classifiers each of which is specialized for a specific image quality. In recognition, it combines the results of the recognizers by weighted averaging to decide the final result. At this time, the weight of each recognizer is dynamically decided from the estimated quality of the input image. It assigns large weight to the recognizer specialized to the estimated quality of the input image, but small weight to other recognizers. As the result, it can effectively adapt to image quality variation. Moreover, being a multiple-classifier system, it shows more reliable performance then the single-classifier system on low-quality images. In the experiment, the proposed multiple-classifier combination method achieved higher recognition rate than multiple-classifier combination systems not considering the image quality or single classifier systems considering the image quality.