• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2000

인접한 화소들간의 상관성에 대한 오류 정보만을 추출하여 전송하는 기법인 라플라시안 피라미드는 알고리즘 구성이 간단하며, 낮은 엔트로피 전송이 가능한 무손실 예측 압축과 점진적인 전송이 가능한 이점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 라플라시안 피라미드를 효율적으고 구성하기 위하여 기존의 5$\times$5 가중치 행렬을 3$\times$3 가중치 행렬로 구성하는 새로운 기법을 보인다. 3$\times$3 가중치행렬을 이용하는 방법이 5$\times$5 가중치 행렬에 의한 알고리즘의 구성보다 간단하면서도 압축효율이 좋음을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1814-1828
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• 2021

Low-light image enhancement is a key technique to overcome the quality degradation of photos taken under scotopic vision illumination conditions. The degradation includes low brightness, low contrast, and outstanding noise, which would seriously affect the vision of the human eye recognition ability and subsequent image processing. In this paper, we propose an approach based on deep learning and Retinex theory to enhance the low-light image, which includes image decomposition, illumination prediction, image reconstruction, and image optimization. The first three parts can reconstruct the enhanced image that suffers from low-resolution. To reduce the noise of the enhanced image and improve the image quality, a super-resolution algorithm based on the Laplacian pyramid network is introduced to optimize the image. The Laplacian pyramid network can improve the resolution of the enhanced image through multiple feature extraction and deconvolution operations. Furthermore, a combination loss function is explored in the network training stage to improve the efficiency of the algorithm. Extensive experiments and comprehensive evaluations demonstrate the strength of the proposed method, the result is closer to the real-world scene in lightness, color, and details. Besides, experiments also demonstrate that the proposed method with the single low-light image can achieve the same effect as multi-exposure image fusion algorithm and no ghost is introduced.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.1225-1233
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• 1988

In this paper, several simple approaches to Laplacian pyramid coding have been presented for obtaining reasonably acceptable image quality even at low bit rates of 0.3-0.5 bits/pel. For this purpose, the feedback construction of each Lapliacian plane, 3-dimensional prediction and three-level center-clipping quantization are introduced into the coding procedures. For greatly reducing the bit rate of the bottom layer, two new schemes of conditional transmission and edge sharpening without transmission are used. In experiments, our latter sheme has yielded the total bit rate of about 0.3 bits/pel while retaining reasonably acceptable image quality.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.55-59
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• 2007

Wavelet Transform is amenable to efficient algorithms. So wavelet transform was adopted many signal processing and communication applications. For example, the wavelet transform was adopted as the transform for JPEG2000. However, Wavelet has weakness about smoothness along the contours and limited directional information. Hence, recently, some new transforms have been introduced to take advantage of this property. So we use to other transform, called contourlet transform in compression. In this paper, we propose a new method for image compression based on the contourlet transform, which has been recently introduced. Contourlet transform has a good result about images with smooth contours. Moreover, Contourlet is feasible multiresolution and multidirection expansion using non-separable filter bank. This treatise shows a good image representation after compressing using contourlet transform.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.57-61
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• 2010

The wavelet transform was adopted as the transform for JPEG2000. However, wavelet has weakness about smoothness along the contours and limited directional information. So we use to other transform, called contourlet transform in compression. Objective quality assessment methods currently used Peak signal to noise Ratio(PSNR). But that is not very well matched to perceived visual quality. So new image quality assessment is required. In this paper, we propose a new method for image compression based on the contourlet transform, which has been recently introduced. In addition we evaluated compression image quality using PSNR and SSIM. Finally contourlet transform has a good result about images with smooth contours and SSIM is good method for image evaluation compared to PSNR.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.355-357
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 라플라시안 피라미드를 이용하여 컬러 영상의 밝기 및 색상을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 입력 영상을 라플라시안 피라미드로 구성한 후 저해상도 근사 영상을 이용하여 영상의 전체적인 밝기를 개선하고 대역 통과 영상들을 이용하여 대비를 개선한 후 입력 영상의 밝기 값에 따라 적응적으로 색상을 재현함으로써 최종적으로 컬러 영상의 화질을 개선한다. 실험 결과 제안하는 방법은 영상 조명 특성에 강인한 화질 개선 성능을 보여주었으며 동영상에 적응시에도 자연스러운 화질 개선 결과를 얻을 수 있었고 실시간 처리가 가능한 수행 속도를 보여주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1491-1493
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 GPU를 이용하여 x-ray영상의 질을 개선시키기 위해 라플라시안 피라미드 방법을 제시한다. 의료영상에서 중요시하는 특징의 추출을 위해 원영상을 다중레벨의 부영상으로 신호를 분해하며, 각 레벨에서 가우시안 스무딩 함수를 사용하여 영상의 대비를 확장시킨다. 분해된 영상을 기반으로 전체영상을 재구성하여 영상의 질을 향상시키게 된다. 이러한 과정은 많은 계산을 필요로하며, 효과적이고 바른 처리를 위해 GPU를 사용한다., 결과에서 GPU를 이용한 cuda 프로그램이 효과적으로 동작하며, 영상의 질을 향상시킴을 보인다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.39-47
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• 2023

This study compares various transformation techniques for multifocus image fusion. Multi-focus image fusion is a procedure of merging multiple images captured at unalike focus distances to produce a single composite image with improved sharpness and clarity. In this research, the purpose is to compare different popular frequency domain approaches for multi-focus image fusion, such as Discrete Wavelet Transforms (DWT), Stationary Wavelet Transforms (SWT), DCT-based Laplacian Pyramid (DCT-LP), Discrete Cosine Harmonic Wavelet Transform (DC-HWT), and Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT). The objective is to increase the understanding of these transformation techniques and how they can be utilized in conjunction with one another. The analysis will evaluate the 10 most crucial parameters and highlight the unique features of each method. The results will help determine which transformation technique is the best for multi-focus image fusion applications. Based on the visual and statistical analysis, it is suggested that the DCT-LP is the most appropriate technique, but the results also provide valuable insights into choosing the right approach.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.321-330
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• 1999

Automation of observation and positioning of fiducial marks is made possible with the application of image matching technique, developed through the cooperative research effort of computer vision and digital photogrammetry. The major problem in such automation effort is to minimize the computing time and to increase the positional accuracy. Except for scanning and ground control surveying, the interior orientation process was automated in this study, through the development of an algorithm which applies the image matching and image processing techniques. The developed system was applied to close-range photogrammetry and the analysis of the results showed 54% improvement in processing time. For fiducial mark observation during interior orientation, the Laplacian of Gaussian transformation and the Hough transformation were applied to determine the accurate position of the center point, and the correlation matching and the least squares matching method were then applied to improve the accuracy of automated observation of fiducial marks. Image pyramid concept was applied to reduce the computing time of automated positioning of fiducial mark.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.7
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• pp.1671-1689
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• 2013

The key issue of block-based multi-focus image fusion is to determine the size of the sub-block because different sizes of the sub-block will lead to different fusion effects. To solve this problem, this paper presents a novel genetic algorithm (GA) based multi-focus image fusion method, in which the block size can be automatically found. In our method, the Sum-modified-Laplacian (SML) is selected as an evaluation criterion to measure the clarity of the image sub-block, and the edge information retention is employed to calculate the fitness of each individual. Then, through the selection, crossover and mutation procedures of the GA, we can obtain the optimal solution for the sub-block, which is finally used to fuse the images. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the traditional methods, including the average, gradient pyramid, discrete wavelet transform (DWT), shift invariant DWT (SIDWT) and two existing GA-based methods in terms of both the visual subjective evaluation and the objective evaluation.