• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.264-272
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• 2012

In the field of medical diagnostics, interested parties have resorted increasingly to medical imaging. It is well established that the accuracy and completeness of diagnosis are initially connected with the image quality, but the quality of the image is itself dependent on a number of factors including primarily the processing that an image must undergo to enhance its quality. This paper introduces an algorithm for medical image compression based on the quincunx wavelets coupled with SPIHT coding algorithm, of which we applied the lattice structure to improve the wavelet transform shortcomings. In order to enhance the compression by our algorithm, we have compared the results obtained with those of other methods containing wavelet transforms. For this reason, we evaluated two parameters known for their calculation speed. The first parameter is the PSNR; the second is MSSIM (structural similarity) to measure the quality of compressed image. The results are very satisfactory regarding compression ratio, and the computation time and quality of the compressed image compared to those of traditional methods.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.442-453
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• 2020

Underwater color images suffer from low visibility and color cast effects caused by light attenuation by water and floating particles. This study applied single image enhancement techniques to enhance the quality of underwater images and compared their performance with real underwater images taken in Korean waters. Dark channel prior (DCP), gradient transform, image fusion, and generative adversarial networks (GAN), such as cycleGAN and underwater GAN (UGAN), were considered for single image enhancement. Their performance was evaluated in terms of underwater image quality measure, underwater color image quality evaluation, gray-world assumption, and blur metric. The DCP saturated the underwater images to a specific greenish or bluish color tone and reduced the brightness of the background signal. The gradient transform method with two transmission maps were sensitive to the light source and highlighted the region exposed to light. Although image fusion enabled reasonable color correction, the object details were lost due to the last fusion step. CycleGAN corrected overall color tone relatively well but generated artifacts in the background. UGAN showed good visual quality and obtained the highest scores against all figures of merit (FOMs) by compensating for the colors and visibility compared to the other single enhancement methods.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.19-25
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• 2012

The accuracy of Shape From Focus (SFF) technique depends on the quality of the focus measurements which are computed through a focus measure operator. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to estimate 3D shape of an object based on Gaussian process regression. First, initial depth is estimated by applying a conventional focus measure on image sequence and maximizing it in the optical direction. In second step, input feature vectors consisting of eginvalues are computed from 3D neighborhood around the initial depth. Finally, by utilizing these features, a latent function is developed through Gaussian process regression to estimate accurate depth. The proposed approach takes advantages of the multivariate statistical features and covariance function. The proposed method is tested by using image sequences of various objects. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed scheme.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.380-390
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• 2016

화질 평가 방법은 그동안 많은 방법이 소개되어 왔다. 특히 우수한 성능을 보여주는 무참조 평가에서 기법에서 발전이 지속되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 쉬어렛 영역에서 자연영상의 통계적 특성에 기반한 무참조 영상화질 평가 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 쉬어릿 계수의 통계 특성으로부터 왜곡에 민감한 특징을 추출한다. 쉬어렛 변환의 복소수 계수로부터 위상과 크기 특징을 얻어낸다. 또한 쉬어렛 변환은 다양한 스케일로 영상을 분석할 수 있기 때문에, 스케일간의 계수의 의존성에 대한 왜곡의 영향을 분석한다. 화질 예측을 위해서 특징들은 SVM(support vector machine)을 이용하여 영상 왜곡 분류 및 화질 예측에 활용된다. 실험결과는 제안 방법이 주관적 평가와의 높은 상관도를 보여주고, 또한 기존 참조 및 무참조 방법보다 우수한 성능을 보여준다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2007

본 논문은 지문 데이터베이스를 평가하는데 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 image quality를 측정하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 image quality를 측정하는 hybrid segmentation 방법을 소개하고, 다양한 지문 데이터베이스에 대해 실험한 결과를 분석한다. 개발한 방법의 객관적인 평가를 위해 NIST에서 제공하는 NFIQ 프로그램을 통해 얻은 결과와 variance와 coherence의 fusion을 이용한 hybrid segmentation 결과를 비교한다. NFIQ는 지문 영상의 품질을 정확하게 측정하지만 결과가 $1{\sim}5$로 세분화되어 있지 못한 문제점을 가지고 있다. 반면 제안하는 hybrid 방법은 NFIQ보다 더 정확하고 세분화된 평가 결과를 제공한다. 두 방법에 의해 실험한 데이터베이스들을 평가한 결과, 동일한 영상에 대해 NFIQ와 hybrid segmentation의 결과가 유사하며 지문 영상의 품질을 세분화하여 측정할 수 있는 점에서 NFIQ보다 뛰어나다고 할 수 있다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2013

본 연구는 감상자가 선호하는 화질의 파라미터를 정량화하기 위하여 선행 연구를 기반으로 한 물리적인 화질 평가 항목과 인지적 특성을 반영한 화질 평가 항목을 다이내믹 레인지, 컬러, 콘트라스트로 설정하였다. 그리고 이미지 감상자가 선호하는 콘텐츠별 화질의 재현 성능 범위를 구체화하였다. 그 결과 다이내믹 레인지를 의미하는 디지털 존시스템은 인물사진, 야경사진, 풍경사진이 6~10 stop의 범위를 나타냈다. 전체 RGB 평균은 인물사진(67.2~215.2), 야경사진(46~142), 풍경사진(52~185)으로 인물사진이 RGB 컬러 범위가 가장 넓게 나타났으며, 다음으로 풍경사진, 야경사진의 순서대로 나타났다. 전체 콘트라스트의 범위는 인물사진(196~589), 야경사진(131~575), 풍경사진(104~767)으로 나타났다. 특히 인물사진의 경우, 노출의 기준이 되는 피부톤이 ZONE V로 나타났지만 실제로 감상자들이 선호하는 피부톤의 밝기는 ZONE IV에 해당하였다. 또한 인물사진 전체 장면과 메인 피사체의 콘트라스트 비율이 1:1.2를 나타내어 감상자가 아웃포커스 효과를 선호한다고 판단할 수 있었다. 이와 같은 결과를 통하여 일반 감상자들이 선호하는 디지털 이미지의 화질 재현 성능 범위를 수치화시킬 수 있었다. 또한 디지털 카메라의 개발자에게 감상자가 선호하는 실제 다이내믹 레인지, 컬러, 콘트라스트의 구체적인 정보 범위를 제공하여 제품 개발에 반영될 수 있기를 기대한다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.350-359
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• 2007

In this paper we present a simple, efficient method for detection of sharp digital images. Recently many digital cameras are equipped with various autofocusing functions to help users take well-focused pictures as easily as possible. However, acquired digital pictures can be further degraded by motion, limited contrast, and inappropriate amount of exposure, to name a few. In order to decide whether to process the image or not, or whether to delete it or not, reliable measure of image quality to detect sharp images from blurry ones is needed. This paper presents a blurriness/sharpness measure, and demonstrates its feasibility using extensive experiments. This method is fast and easy to implement, and accurate. Regardless of the detection accuracy, existing measures are computation-intensive. However, the proposed measure in this paper is not demanding in computation time. Needless to say, this measure can be used for various imaging applications including autofocusing and astigmatism correction.

• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2004년도 춘계학술발표회논문집
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• pp.171-176
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• 2004

Image matching is fundamental process in photogrammetry and computer vision to identify and to measure corresponding features on the multiple images. Uniqueness of the matching entities and robustness of the algorithm are the key issues that have influence on quality of the matching result. The optimal solution could be obtained by utilizing appropriate matching entities in the first place. In this study, candidate matching points were extracted by interest operator, and an area-based matching method was applied with characteristics of the gray value distribution as the matching entities. The characteristic information is based on the concept of "intrinsic image" (or parameter image). The information was utilized as additional and/or complementary matching entities. Matching on interest points with the characteristic information resulted in high quality of matching because matching windows were created with surrounding pixels of the interest points that contain distinct and unique features. The experiment shows that matching quality and reliability increase by exploiting interest operator, and the characteristic information has potential to be matching entity.

• 여성건강간호학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.290-298
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• 2007

Purpose: This study was to measure the quality of life(QOL) and to identify the related factors in gynecological cancer patients during chemotherapy. Method: The subjects of this study were the patients who had undergone a hysterectomy and were admitted for chemotherapy at S university hospital between November 2006 and April 2007. Data was collected from 106 gynecological cancer patients with the use of a structured questionnaire which measured the QOL(FACT-G), body image, the presence of anxiety & depression, uncertainty, and family support. The data was analyzed by the SPSS win 12.0 program. Results: The mean FACT-total score was 62.1$({\pm}16.7)$ (range; 26-107). Positive correlations were found between QOL and body image(r= .67, p= .00), and QOL and family support(r= .32, p= .00), whereas there were negative correlations between QOL and anxiety(r= -.54, p= .00), QOL and depression(r= -.70, p= .00), and QOL and uncertainty(r= -.59, p= .00). Fifty seven pre cent of the variance in subjective overall QOL can be explained by depression, body image, and uncertainty(Adj $R^2$= .57, F=47.00, p= .00). Conclusion: Our patients had a relatively low QOL score. Factors significantly affecting quality of life were depression, body image and uncertainty. Nursing interventions, therefore, should be focused on improving QOL in gynecological cancer patients during chemotherapy, particularly so in patients with depression, uncertainty or poor body image.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제27권3E호
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• pp.84-94
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• 2008

Displacement estimation is a crucial step in ultrasonic strain imaging. The displacement between a pre- and postcompression signal in the current data window is estimated by first shifting the postcompression signal by the displacement obtained in the previous data window to reduce their decorrelation and then determining the remaining part of the displacement through autocorrelation and conversion of phase difference into time delay. However, since strain image quality tends to vary with the amount of compression applied, we propose two new methods for enhancing strain image quality, i.e., displacement normalization and adaptive persistence. Both in vitro and in vivo experiments are carried out to acquire ultrasound data and produce strain images in real time under the application of quasi static compression. The experimental results demonstrate that the methods are quite effective in improving strain image quality and thus can be applied to implementing an ultrasound elasticity imaging system that operates in real time.