• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.550-558
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• 1988

This paper presents laplacian pyramid vector quantization (LPVQ) approach in which a vector quantizer is used to encode a series of quasi-bandpassed images generated by the laplacian pyramid processing. Performance of the LPVQ is compared to those of DCT domain methods at the same bit rate via computer simulations. Experimental results show that the PSNR's (peak signal-to-noise ratio) for the LPVQ are almost the same as those of the DCT based methods. However, subjective study indicates the LPVQ obtains slightly higher scores than the DCT based techniques.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1561-1570
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• 1989

In this paper, we propose an image coding scheme which combines the Laplacian pyramid structure and a hierarchical finite state classified vector quantizer in the DCT domain, namely FSDCT-CTQ. First, an optimal bit allocation problem for fixed rates DCT-CVQ on the Laplacian pyramid structure is described. In an asymptotic case, with an optimal bit allocation, a coding gain over scalar quantization of each Laplacian plane is derived. Second, it is experimentallhy shown that the Laplacian pyramid structure provides a considerable codng gain in the sense of total MMSE (minimum mean squared error). Finally, we propose an FS-DCT-CVQ which exploits the hierarchicla correlation between the Laplacian planes. Simulation results on real images show that the proposed coding scheme can reconstruct an image with 30.33 dB at 0.192 bpp, 32.45 dB at 0.385 bpp, respectively.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1987년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집(II)
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• pp.1347-1351
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• 1987

This thesis aims at studying laplacian pyramid vector quantization which keeps a simple compression algorithm and stability against various kinds of image data. To this end, images are devied into two groups according to their statistical characteristics. At 0.860 bits/pixel and 0.360 bits/pixel respectively, laplacian pyramid vector quantization is compared to the existing spatial domain vector quantization and transform coding under the same condition in both objective and subjective value. The laplacian pyramid vector quantization is much more stable against the statistical characteristics of images than the existing vector quantization and transform coding.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1761-1777
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• 2021

An image with infrared features and visible details is obtained by processing infrared and visible images. In this paper, a fusion method based on Laplacian pyramid and generative adversarial network is proposed to obtain high quality fusion images, termed as Laplacian-GAN. Firstly, the base and detail layers are obtained by decomposing the source images. Secondly, we utilize the Laplacian pyramid-based method to fuse these base layers to obtain more information of the base layer. Thirdly, the detail part is fused by a generative adversarial network. In addition, generative adversarial network avoids the manual design complicated fusion rules. Finally, the fused base layer and fused detail layer are reconstructed to obtain the fused image. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can obtain state-of-the-art fusion performance in both visual quality and objective assessment. In terms of visual observation, the fusion image obtained by Laplacian-GAN algorithm in this paper is clearer in detail. At the same time, in the six metrics of MI, AG, EI, MS_SSIM, Q_abf and SCD, the algorithm presented in this paper has improved by 0.62%, 7.10%, 14.53%, 12.18%, 34.33% and 12.23%, respectively, compared with the best of the other three algorithms.

• 센서학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.133-140
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• 2020

This study proposes a method of blending visible and near infrared images to enhance edge details and local contrast. The proposed method consists of radiance map generation and color compensation. The radiance map is produced by a Laplacian pyramid and a soft mixing method based on principal component analysis. The color compensation method uses the ratio between the composed radiance map and the luminance channel of a visible image to preserve the visible image chrominance. The proposed method has better edge details compared to a conventional visible and NIR image blending method.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.140-146
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• 2016

The ultrasound imaging in medical diagnosis has become a popular modality because of its safe, noninvasive, portable, relatively inexpensive, and provides a real-time image formation. However, usefulness of ultrasound imaging is at times limited due to the presence of signal-dependent noise like as speckle. Therefore, noise reduction is very important, as various types of noise generated limits the effectiveness of medical image diagnosis. This paper introduces a speckle noise reduce algorithm using total variation denoising (TVD) in Laplacian pyramid. With this method, speckle is removed by TVD of bandpass ultrasound images in Laplacian pyramid domain. For TVD in each pyramid layer, a ${\lambda}$ is selected by trial-and-error method. The visual comparison of despeckled 'in vivo' ultrasound images from pancreas shows that the proposed method could effectively preserve edges and detailed structures while thoroughly suppressing speckle. For a Simulated B-mode image, contrast-to-noise-ratio (CNR) and signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) were obtained like 4.65 dB and 14.11 dB, respectively. The results show that the proposed method can conduct better than some of the existing methods in terms of the CNR and the SNR.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.199-204
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• 2007

In digital radiography, to improve the contrast of digital radiography image, the multi-scale nonlinear amplification algorithm based on unsharp masking is one of the major image enhancement algorithms. In this paper, we used the Laplacian pyramid to decompose a digital radiography(DR) image. In our simulation, the DR image was decomposed into seven layers and the coefficients of the each layer was amplified with nonlinear function. We also imported a noise containment algorithm to limit noise amplification. To enhance the contrast of image, we proposed a new adaptive non-linear gain amplification coefficients. As a result of having applied to some clinical data, a detail visibility was improved significantly without unacceptable noise boosting. Images that acquired with the proposed adaptive non-linear gain coefficients have shown superior quality to those that applied similar gain control method and expected to be accepted in the clinical applications.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2014

X-선 유방촬영술은 유방암의 조기발견을 위해 가장 일반적으로 이용되고 있다. 유방암의 조기 발견과 진단의 효율성을 증가시키기 위하여 많은 영상향상 방법들이 연구개발 되었다. 본 논문은 디지털 맘모그램을 위하여 라플라시안 피라미드에서 대비척도를 이용한 다중 스케일 대비 향상 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 입력 영상을 가우시안 피라미드와 라플라시안 피라미드로 분해하고, 분해된 다해상도 영상의 피라미드 계수들은 저주파수 성분들과 고주파수 성분들의 비율로 대역 제한된 국부 대비척도를 정의한다. 대비 향상을 위하여 정의된 대비척도를 이용하여 분해된 피라미드 계수들을 수정하고, 수정된 계수들로 피라미드 복원 과정을 거처 최종 향상된 영상을 얻는다. 제안된 방법의 성능은 실험을 통하여 기존 방법들과 향상결과를 비교하고, 대비 측정 알고리즘을 이용한 정량적인 평가결과에서 우수한 성능을 확인하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1250-1260
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• 2013

라플라스 피라미드 영상 융합 기반의 대조비 강화기법은 각 자원 영상에서 바람직한 화소를 선택하여 융합할 수 있기 때문에 영상 정보를 충실하게 표현하는 장점이 있다. 하지만 정보 평가를 화소 단위로 수행하기 때문에 영상 잡음에 취약한 문제점을 갖고 있다. 본 논문에서는 영상잡음을 억제하는 개선된 영상 융합기반의 대조비 개선 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 자원 영상에 대해 블록 기반의 지역적 노출 적절성과 지역적 동질성의 차를 측정하여 이를 기반으로 가중치 맵을 생성하고 라플라스 피라미드를 구축하여 영상을 결합한다. 다양한 영상에 대한 실험을 통해 종래의 기법에 비해 영상 잡음을 배제된 영상을 만들어 낼 수 있음을 보였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.1618-1625
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• 1993

비손실 라플라시안 파라미드를 이용한 영상 전송에서 최종 재생 영상의 화질은 각 계층별 부호화율과는 상관없이 거의 일정하게 나타난다. 그러나 저 해상도를 갖는 상위 계층에서 재생 영상의 화질은 각 계층별 부호화율에 따라 큰 차이를 나타낸다. 본 논문에서는 상위 계층에서는 우수한 재생 영상을 얻으며, 최종 재생 영상에서는 왜곡을 최소화할 수 있는 계층별 최적 비트 배정 방식을 제안하였다. 제안된 방식에 의한 재생 영상은 기존의 방식에 비해 저 해상도를 갖는 계층에서의 높은 PSNR과 우수한 화질을 나타내므로 보다 효율적인 점진적 영상 전송이 가능하였다.