• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.60-67
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• 2015

This paper proposes an image-dependent color image enhancement method that uses adaptive luminance enhancement and color emphasis. It effectively enhances details of low-light regions while maintaining well-balanced luminance and color information. To compare the structure similarity and naturalness, we used the tone mapped image quality index (TMQI). The proposed method maintained better structure similarity in the enhanced image than did the space-variant luminance map (SVLM) method or the adaptive and integrated neighborhood dependent approach for nonlinear enhancement (AINDANE). The proposed method required the smallest computation time among the three algorithms. The proposed method can be easily implemented using the field-programmable gate array (FPGA), with low hardware resources and with better performance in terms of similarity.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.151-156
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• 2012

Reflective polarizers can be used as luminance enhancement films for LCD backlights via the polarization recycling process. The optical performances of a wire grid polarizer (WGP) as a reflective polarizer adopted in edge-lit backlights were investigated by luminance evaluation and a time-domain simulation technique. The results were compared to those of a commercial dielectric multilayer film. The luminance gain factor of WGP was smaller than that of the multilayer film by 18%. This was attributed to a much larger internal loss of WGP due to light absorption by metal wires. The internal losses of both reflective polarizers and the polarization conversion efficiency of the backlight were obtained numerically based on a phenomenological model. The optical performances of WGP were optimized by using a time-domain simulation technique. The luminance gain increased and was found to become comparable to, but slightly less than the case of the dielectric multilayer film with decreasing line width.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2013년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.215-218
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• 2013

In this paper, we proposed a method for enhancement of color images with sky regions. The input image is converted into HSV space and then sky and non-sky regions are separated. For sky region, saturation enhancement is performed for each pixel based on the enhancement factor calculated from the average saturation of its local neighborhood. On the other hand, for the non-sky region, the enhancement is applied only on the luminance value (V) component of the HSV color image, which is performed in two steps. The luminance enhancement, which is also called as dynamic range compression, is carried out using nonlinear transfer function. Again, each pixel is further enhanced for the adjustment of the image contrast depending upon the center pixel and its neighborhood pixel values. At last, the original H and V component image and enhanced S component image for the sky region, and original H and S component image and enhanced V component image for the non-sky region are converted back to RGB image.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.37-40
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• 2016

Performance enhancement of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is investigated in a device structure of ITO/TPD/Alq₃/LiF/Al and ITO/TPD/Alq₃/BCP/LiF/Al. Here, bathocuproine (BCP) is used as an electron-transport layer. Current density-voltage-luminance characteristics of the OLEDs show that the performance of the device is better with BCP layer than without BCP layer. The current density, luminance, luminous efficiency, and external-quantum efficiency are improved by approximately 22%, 50%, 2%, and 18%, respectively. Since the BCP layer lowers the electron energy barrier, electron transport is facilitated and the movement of hole is blocked as the applied voltage increases. This results in an increased recombination rate of holes and electrons.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.77-83
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 칼라 영상의 대조비 개선을 위한 비대칭도 특성을 이용한 적응적인 대조비 개선 레티넥스 방식을 제안한다. 입력 영상 휘도 성분의 저조도 정도를 예측하기 위해 휘도 성분의 비대칭도 함수로 표현되는 매개변수를 정의하고, 정의된 매개 변수 및 예측 반사 성분을 이용하여 반사 성분을 보정하기 위한 비선형 함수를 제안한다. 더불어, 추정된 반사 성분의 통계 특성을 이용하여 비선형 함수의 이득 및 오프셋을 결정하는 방식에 대해 기술한다. 연산량 절감을 위해 색차 성분의 보정 과정을 위해 입력 영상의 휘도 성분과 보정된 휘도 성분을 이용한다. 실험을 통해 색신호 성분의 대조비 및 색신호 왜곡의 개선이 효과적으로 이루어짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.385-388
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new saturation enhancement algorithm which is processed on the new color space, called Normalized YCbCr(NYCbCr). The algorithm consists of two processing unit. One is color space conversion from YCbCr to NYCbCr, and the other is using adaptive saturation mapping function(ASMF). NYCbCr color space is designed to prevent shortcomings such as luminance and hue shift of YCbCr color space and by saturation enhancement. ASMF is effective to enhance saturation properly for each image and to protect low saturation regions of color images from over-saturation. we verified our method using several color images. Experimental results show that the proposed method enhance the saturation with minimizing Luminance and Hue shift.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.1455-1464
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 컬러 이미지에 적합한 화질 향상 알고리듬을 제안 하였다. 제안된 알고리듬은 입력 이미지의 명도 향상을 위한 MIE기법과 채도 향상을 위한 MSE기법으로 구분된다. MIE기법은 휘도 신호 처리 시 발생하는 색 재현 문제 및 과도한 밝기 변화를 제어하기 위한 알고리듬이고, MSE기법은 색차 신호 처리 시 발생하는 De-Saturation 혹은 Over-Saturation의 발생을 제어하기 위한 알고리듬이다. 제안된 알고리듬은 인간의 시각선호색을 중심으로 연산하며, 전체 이미지에 균등하게 적용하는 것 보다 고품질의 이미지를 얻을 수 있다. 제안한 알고리듬은 고화질을 위한 모니터나 TV등의 디스플레이 장치에 적용 가능하다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.513-516
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• 2008

The luminance efficiency of the red organic light-emitting devices fabricated utilizing a double electron transport layer (ETL) consisting of an Al-doped and an undoped layer was investigated. The Al atoms existing in the ETL acted as hole blocking sites, resulting in an increase in the luminance efficiency.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.119-130
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 디지털 영상의 색상을 유지하면서 영상의 명암대비 향상과 함께 채도를 향상시키는 방법을 제시한다. 제안방법은 명암대비 향상 후 밝기 변화에 따른 시각적인 채도 변화를 보정하기 위해 최대색차신호 테이블을 이용한다. 최대색차신호 테이블로부터 휘도변화에 따른 가중치를 구하고, 입력 색차신호에 가중치를 곱하여 채도를 밝기에 적응적으로 보정한다. 또한 사용자가 입력한 만큼의 채도를 향상시키는 과정에서 과도한 채도 향상으로 인한 왜곡을 막기 위해 휘도와 색상에 따른 채도의 상관관계를 고려하여 색차신호가 올바른 색역에 사상될 수 있도록 한다. 다양한 특성을 갖는 영상에 대한 실험을 통해 제안방법은 기존방식과 비교하여 효과적으로 컬러 영상의 선명도를 향상시킴을 확인하였다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2013년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.322-324
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• 2013

Haze is an extreme reason of the reduction of contrast when capturing image in the outdoor. Recently, there are several single image dehazing techniques, but they are not robust in dynamic variations of natural environment caused by the thickness, coverage of haze and appearance of sunlight. In this paper, we propose an effective and robust method to enhance luminance for image dehazing depending on histogram analysis. Compare with conventional methods, our proposal have better performance in term of contrast, and computation time.