• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.765-778
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• 2016

In watermarking schemes, the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is broadly used because its frequency component separation is very useful. Moreover, LU decomposition has little influence on the visual quality of the watermark. Hence, in this paper, a novel blind watermark algorithm is presented based on LU transform and DWT for the copyright protection of digital images. In this algorithm, the color host image is first performed with DWT. Then, the horizontal and vertical diagonal high frequency components are extracted from the wavelet domain, and the sub-images are divided into $4{\times}4$ non-overlapping image blocks. Next, each sub-block is performed with LU decomposition. Finally, the color image watermark is transformed by Arnold permutation, and then it is inserted into the upper triangular matrix. The experimental results imply that this algorithm has good features of invisibility and it is robust against different attacks to a certain degree, such as contrast adjustment, JPEG compression, salt and pepper noise, cropping, and Gaussian noise.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.345-351
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• 2014

This paper presents pedestrian recognition to improve performance for vehicle safety system or surveillance system. Pedestrian detection method using HOG (Histograms of Oriented Gradients) has showed 90% recognition rate. But if someone takes a picture in the rain, the image may be distorted by rain streaks and recognition rate goes down by 62%. To solve this problem, we applied image decomposition method using MCA (Morphological Component Analysis). In this case, rain removal method improves recognition rate from 62% to 70%. However, it is difficult to apply conventional image decomposition method using MCA on vehicle safety system or surveillance system as conventional method is too slow for real-time system. To alleviate this issue, we propose a rain removal method by using low-pass filter and DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform). The DCT helps separate the image into rain components. The image is removed rain components by Butterworth filtering. Experimental results show that our method achieved 90% of recognition rate. In addition, the proposed method had accelerated processing time to 17.8ms which is acceptable for real-time system.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.474-483
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 가이디드 이미지 필터를 이용한 다중 스케일 넓은 동적 영역 톤 매핑 알고리듬을 제안한다. 가이디드 이미지 필터는 이미지를 베이스 레이어와 디테일 레이어로 나누기 위해 사용된다. 이때 디테일 레이어의 동적 영역을 줄이기 위해 압축 함수가 사용된다. 하지만 대부분의 경우의 이미지는 다양한 스케일의 디테일과 에지 정보를 포함하고있다. 즉, 특정 스케일로 디테일 특성을 표현하는 것은 불가능하며 단일 스케일 이미지 분할 방법은 에지 주변에서 열화 현상을 야기시킨다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 다중 스케일 이미지 분할 방법을 제안한다. 다중 스케일의 디테일 레이어들을 이용하여 에지 보존 정도를 조절한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 알고리듬이 기존의 알고리듬 보다 에지 보존의 정도가 더 우수함을 보인다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제48권9호
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• pp.1167-1174
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• 1999

In this paper, we present a new technique for the local decomposition of convex structuring elements for morphological image processing. Local decomposition of a structuring element consists of local structuring elements, in which each structuring element consists of a subset of origin pixel and its eight neighbors. Generally, local decomposition of a structuring element reduces the amount of computation required for morphological operations with the structuring element. A unique feature of our approach is the use of linear integer programming technique to determine optimal local decomposition that guarantees the minimal amount of computation. We defined a digital convex polygon, which, in turn, is defined as a convex structuring element, and formulated the necessary and sufficient conditions to decompose a digital convex polygon into a set of basis digital convex polygons. We used a set of linear equations to represent the relationships between the edges and the positions of the original convex polygon, and those of the basis convex polygons. Further. a cost function was used represent the total processing time required for computation of dilation/erosion with the structuring elements in a decomposition. Then integer linear programming was used to seek an optimal local decomposition, that satisfies the linear equations and simultaneously minimize the cost function.

• 천문학회지
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2019

The New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) is the largest solar telescope in China. When using CCDs for imaging, equal-thickness fringes caused by thin-film interference can occur. Such fringes reduce the quality of NVST data but cannot be removed using standard flat fielding. In this paper, a correction method based on multi-scale decomposition and adaptive partitioning is proposed. The original image is decomposed into several sub-scales by multi-scale decomposition. The region containing fringes is found and divided by an adaptive partitioning method. The interference fringes are then filtered by a frequency-domain Gaussian filter on every partitioned image. Our analysis shows that this method can effectively remove the interference fringes from a solar image while preserving useful information.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.475-482
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• 2022

Signal pre-processing and post-processing are some areas of study around electrical resistance tomography due to the low spatial resolution of pixel-based reconstructed images. In addition, methods that improve integrity and noise reduction are candidates for application in ERT. Lately, formulations of image processing methods provide new implementations and studies to improve the response against noise. For example, compact variational mode decomposition has recently shown good performance in image decomposition and segmentation. The results from this first approach of C-VMD to ERT show an improvement due to image segmentation, providing filtering of noise in the background and location of the target.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.462-470
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• 2000

This paper proposes a visual servoing method based on QR decomposition and disturbance observer. The QR decomposition factors the image feature Jacobian into a unitary matrix and an upper triangular matrix. And it is shown that several performance indices such as measurement sensitivity of visual features, sensitivity of the control to noise and controllability can be improved for any general image feature Jacobian by QR decomposition and disturbance observer. To show the validity of the proposed approach, visual servoing with stereo vision is carried out for a Samsung FARAMAN 6-axis industrial robot manipulator.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1046-1057
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 호모모프변환과 다중 스케일 분해를 이용하여 영상의 생동폭과 명암대비를 모두 개선시킬 수 있는 영상향상기법을 제안한다. 원 영상은 로그를 취하여 호모모프영역으로 변환하고, 이를 다중 스케일로 분해한 후 각 대역에 가중치를 가해 조합한다. 이 조합된 신호는 지수를 취하여 밝기영역으로 변환한다. 호모모프영역에서 저주파대역의 크기조절은 생동폭을 변환시키고, 고주파대역의 크기조절은 명암대비의 향상에 기여한다. 다중 스케일 분해는 계산이 간단하고 효율적인 구조를 가진 "${\AA}$ trous" 알고리듬을 사용하며, 이의 타당성은 시뮬레이션을 통해서 확인한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.6043-6062
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• 2019

Low-rank matrix decomposition has shown its capability in many applications such as image in-painting, de-noising, background reconstruction and defect detection etc. In this paper, we consider the texture background of rail track images and the sparse foreground of the defects to construct a low-rank matrix decomposition model with block sparsity for defect inspection of rail tracks, which jointly minimizes the nuclear norm and the 2-1 norm. Similar to ADM, an alternative method is proposed in this study to solve the optimization problem. After image decomposition, the defect areas in the resulting low-rank image will form dark stripes that horizontally cross the entire image, indicating the preciselocations of the defects. Finally, a two-stage defect extraction method is proposed to locate the defect areas. The experimental results of the two datasets show that our algorithm achieved better performance compared with other methods.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 구조-텍스처 분할 기법을 기반으로 위성영상을 분할 융합하여 공간 해상도를 개선시키는 프레임워크를 제시한다. 위성영상은 센서가 감지하는 파장에 따라 다양한 공간해상도를 가진다. 전정 영상 (panchromatic image)은 일반적으로 높은 공간해상도를 가지지만 단일 흑백컬러를 가지고 있는 반면, 다중분광 영상 (multi-spectral image)나 적외선 영상은 전정 영상에 비해 낮은 공간해상도를 가지지만 다양한 분광 밴드정보와 열 정보를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중분광 영상이나 적외선 영상의 공간 해상도를 향상시키기 위해 영상의 디테일이 텍스처 영상에만 존재한다는 것에 착안하여 본 프레임워크를 고안하였다. 고안된 프레임워크에서는 저해상도 영상과 고해상도 영상이 구조 영상과 텍스처 영상으로 분할된 뒤, 저해상도 구조영상은 고해상도 구조 영상을 참조하여 가이디드 필터링 된다. 구조-텍스처 영상 모델에 따라 필터링된 저해상도 영상의 구조 영역과 고해상도 영상의 텍스처 영역을 픽셀 단위로 더해져서 최종 영상이 생성된다. 생성된 영상은 저해상도 영상의 밴드와 고해상도 영상의 디테일을 포함한다. 제시하는 방법은 분광해상도와 공간해상도를 모두 보존할 수 있음을 실험적으로 확인하였다.