• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.463-471
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• 2019

This paper proposes a method for reducing the complexity of LIC (Local Illuminance Compensation) for bi-directional inter prediction. The LIC performs local illumination compensation using neighboring reconstruction samples of the current block and the reference block to improve the accuracy of the inter prediction. Since the weight and offset required for local illumination compensation are calculated at both sides of the encoder and decoder using the reconstructed samples, there is an advantage that the coding efficiency is improved without signaling any information. Since the weight and the offset are obtained in the encoding prediction step and the decoding step, encoder and decoder complexity are increased. This paper proposes two methods for low complexity LIC. The first method is a method of applying illumination compensation with offset only in bi-directional prediction, and the second is a method of applying LIC after weighted average step of reference block obtained by bidirectional prediction. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, BD-rate is compared with BMS-2.0.1 using B, C, and D classes of MPEG standard experimental image under RA (Random Access) condition. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the average of 0.29%, 0.23%, 0.04% for Y, U, and V in terms of BD-rate performance compared to BMS-2.0.1 and encoding/decoding time is almost same. Although the BD-rate was lost, the calculation complexity of the LIC was greatly reduced as the multiplication operation was removed and the addition operation was halved in the LIC parameter derivation process.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.280-289
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• 2010

The H.264/AVC standard uses efficient inter prediction technologies improving the coding efficiency by reducing temporal redundancy between images. However, since H.264/AVC does not efficiently encode a video sequence that occurs a local illumination change, the coding efficiency of H.264/AVC is decreased when a local illumination change happens in video. In this paper, we propose an improved motion compensation using adjacent pixels and motion vector refinement to efficiently encode local illumination changes. The proposed method always improves the BD-PSNR (Bj$\o$ntegaard Delta Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 0.01 ~ 0.21 dB compared with H.264/AVC.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.809-817
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• 2014

The loss in contrast-discrimination ability of the human visual system under high ambient illumination level can cause image quality degradation in mobile phones. In this paper, we propose a perceived contrast compensation method by processing the original displayed image. With consideration that the perceived contrast significantly varies across the image, this method extracts the local band contrast from the original image; it then compensates these contrast components to counteract the perceived contrast degradation. Experimental results demonstrate that this method can maintain most contrast details even in high ambient illumination levels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.165-166
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 LIC(Local Illumination Compensation) 방법의 pipeline 문제를 완화하고 계산 복잡도를 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. LIC 는 현재 코딩하는 블록과 해당 블록의 참조블록의 주변에 존재하는 복원 샘플을 이용하여 선형 모델을 구한다. 따라서, 주변 샘플의 복원이 완료되기 전까지 LIC 를 수행할 수 없다는 pipeline 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 복원이 완료된 주변 샘플을 사용하지 않고, 차분 신호를 사용하여 LIC를 수행하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 VTM 2.0.1 과 BD-rate 비교를 한다. 실험 결과로써 VTM 2.0.1 대비 Y 성분에 대해 평균 0.13%, U 성분에 대해 평균 -0.08%, V 성분에 대해 평균 -0.09%의 BD-rate 이득을 보인다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.10
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• pp.816-824
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• 2009

In the face space, face images due to illumination and pose variations have a nonlinear distribution. Active Appearance Models (AAM) based on the linear model have limits to the nonlinear distribution of face images. In this paper, we assume that a few clusters of face images are given; we build local AAMs according to the clusters of face images, and then select a proper AAM model during the fitting phase. To solve the problem of updating fitting parameters among the models due to the model changing, we propose to build in advance relationships among the clusters in the parameter space from the training images. In addition, we suggest a gradual model changing to reduce improper model selections due to serious fitting failures. In our experiment, we apply the proposed model to Yale Face Database B and compare it with the previous method. The proposed method demonstrated successful fitting results with strongly illuminated face images of deep shadows.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.207-208
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• 2016

최근 차세대 비디오 코덱 기술로써 다양하게 논의 되고 있는 영상 내 지역적 밝기 보상 기술은 다수의 광원이 존재하는 영상 내 다른 영역 마다, 다른 밝기 변화 정도를 보상해주기 위한 방법이다. 상세하게는, 현재 CU의 주변 화소와 예측 블록의 주변 화소를 이용한 보상 계수를 계산하여 현재 CU의 예측 화소에 보상을 해주는 것이다. 이 때, 보상 계수를 구하기 위한 현재 CU와 예측 블록의 주변 화소들을 서브 샘플링함에 있어서, 현재 CU의 크기에 따라서 서브 샘플링율을 차등 설정하고 이에 따른 성능 변화를 분석한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.4489-4501
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• 2014

We propose a novel lane detection method based on classification in image sequences. Both structural and statistical features of the extracted bright shape are applied to the neural network for finding correct lane marks. The features used in this paper are shown to have strong discriminating power to locate correct traffic lanes. The traffic lanes detected in the current frame is also used to estimate the traffic lane if the lane detection fails in the next frame. The proposed method is fast enough to apply for real-time systems; the average processing time is less than 2msec. Also the scheme of the local illumination compensation allows robust lane detection at nighttime. Therefore, this method can be widely used in intelligence transportation systems such as driver assistance, lane change assistance, lane departure warning and autonomous vehicles.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.10-18
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• 2009

Color rendition method is necessary for improving the low contrast images which are achieved by PDA, mobile phone camera or PC camera. There are some methods for color rendition. However, after correcting the color, image quality degradations, such as graying-out, halo-artifact and color noise, may occur. In order to overcome these problems, this paper proposes a retinex-based color rendition method. The proposed method uses the HSV color coordinate system to avoid the graying-out, and the advanced image formation model to reduce the halo-artifact in which the image is divided into three components as the global illumination, the local illumination, and reflectance. The experiment results show that the proposed method yields better performance of color correction over the conveniently method.