• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

In JPEG2000, the Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau (CDF) 9/7-tap wavelet filter is implemented using the conventional lifting scheme. On the other hand, this wavelet filter has two problems: the filter coefficients remain complex, and the conventional lifting scheme does not consider the image edges in the coding process. This paper proposes an effective lifting scheme to solve these problems. For this purpose, optimal 9/7-tap wavelet filters were designed in two steps. In the first step, the appropriate filter coefficients were selected. In the second step, a median operator was employed to consider the image edges. The experimental results with the median lifting scheme and the combination of filter optimization with the median lifting show that the proposed methods outperform the well-known CDF 9/7-tap wavelet filter of JPEG2000 on the edge-dominant images.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제55권9호
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• pp.429-434
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• 2006

In this paper, detection based - adaptive windowed nonlinear filter(DB-AWNF) is proposed for removing salt-pepper noise in infrared image. This filter is composed of impulse detector and window-size-variable median filters. Impulse detector checks whether current pixel is impulse or not using range function and nonlinear location estimator. If impulse is detected, current pixel is filtered according to four kinds of local masks by use of median filter. If not, current pixel is delivered to output like identity filter. In Qualitative view, the proposed could have removed heavy corrupted noise up to 30% and reserved the details of image. In quantitative view, PSNR was measured. The proposed could have about 12-31[dB] more improved performance than those of median $(3{\times}3)$ filter and 13-29[dB] more improved performance than those of median $(5{\times}5)$ filter.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a method of edge detection for noisy image. The proposed method uses a progressive filter for noise reduction and a Sobel operator for edge detection. The progressive filter combines a median filter and a modified rational filter. The proposed method for noise reduction adjusts rational filter direction according to an edge in the image which is obtained by median filtering. Our method effectively attenuates the noise while preserving the image details. Edge detection is performed by a Sobel operator. This operator can be implemented by integer operation and is therefore relatively fast. Our proposed method not only preserves edge, but also reduces noise in uniform region. Thus, edge detection is well performed. Our proposed method could improve results using further developed Sobel operator. Experimental results show that our proposed method has better edge detection with correct positions than those by existing median and rational filtering methods for noisy image.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.99-109
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• 1996

Though median filter is used for removing noise and smoothing image. But, the result of it has distortion around edge. And then, this paper proposes new noise removing algorithm by recursive morphological processing. Basic operation is same each other, but there is some different processing method between recursive morphology and general morphology theory. This recursive morphological filter can be viewed as the weighted order static filter, and then it has a weighted SE(structuring element). Especially using this algorithm to remove the 10% gaussian noise, this paper confirmed that PSNR is improved about 0.642~1.5757 db reserving edge well better than the results of the traditional median filter.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.842-851
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• 1996

Median filter(MF) has often been applied to color or gray images as a noise fiilter in image processing . Application of MF to binary images was tried in this study. For binary images, MF not only can remove noise but can also work as an indicator showing the dominant color in a region which is called window . Fro example, MF can be used to categorize clusters and to detect interested parts of an object. In other words, MF can also be used to remove unnecessary parts. The function of MF can be intensified by introducing a thresholding value, which is determined by the size of the interested part of an object. This improved MF for binary images is called the modified median filter(MMF), and its applicability to grade produce will be discussed in this paper.

• 공학논문집
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.57-64
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• 1998

VLSI로 구현 가능한 새로운 실시간 2차원 메디안필터의 VLSI구조를 제안하였다. 제안된 구조는 메디안필터의 효율적인 VLSI 구현을 위하여 작은 메모리 사용, 규칙적인 계산, 지역 데이터 전달 등의 특성을 갖고 있다. 이를 위하여 메디안필터링 알고리즘을 분석하여 메디안 필터링 알고리즘에 내재되어 있는 병렬처리 특성 중 파이프라인 가능성을 최대한 활용할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 2차원 실시간 메디안필터에 사용되는 메모리와 Latency를 줄이기 위하여 Separable 2차원 메디안필터링 알고리즘을 사용하였는데 사용된 Separable2차원 메디안필터는 기존의 메디안필터와 거의 유사한 성능을 보여주고 있다. C 언어를 이용한 행위레벨 시뮬레이션을 통하여 성능을 확인하고 분석하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2015년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.922-924
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• 2015

현재 영화, TV, 카메라, 광고 등과 같은 대중 매체를 이용한 영상 처리 기술들이 급속도로 발전되고 있다. 그러나 영상은 데이터를 처리 전송 및 저장하는 과정에서 열화가 발생하며, 주요한 원인은 salt and pepper 잡음이 대표적이다. salt and pepper 잡음을 제거하기 위한 대표적인 필터는 CWMF(center weighted median filter), AMF(adaptive median filter) 등이 있으며, 이러한 필터들은 잡음 밀도가 높아짐에 따라 잡음제거 특성이 다소 미흡해지고 시각적인 오류를 나타낸다. 따라서 본 논문은 salt and pepper 잡음을 효과적으로 제거하기 위해, 4개의 영역으로 세분화된 국부마스크를 적용한 메디안 필터를 제안하였으며, 판단 기준으로 PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio)를 사용하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.711-714
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• 2015

영상 복원을 위해서 에지(edge) 검출 알고리즘을 갖는 가중 격자형 메디안필터(median filter)를 사용한 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 에지를 검출하기 위한 시험들로 구성되어 있으며 격자형 창을 사용하였다. 잡음에 의해서 손상된 영상에 제안한 방법을 적용 하였으며 그 결과를 일반 메디안 필터와 격자형 메디안 필터의 결과들과 비교 하였다. 에지 검출 알고리즘을 갖는 가중격자형 메디안 필터를 사용하는 것이 다른 메디안 필터를 사용한 결과보다 매우 우수한 성능을 가짐을 확인하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.222-228
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• 2023

This study aimed to analyze the applicability of the improved median filter in positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR) fusion images based on parallel imaging using generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition (GRAPPA). In this study, a PET/MR fusion imaging system based on a 3.0T magnetic field and ¹⁸F radioisotope were used. An improved median filter that can set a mask of the median value more efficiently than before was modeled and applied to the acquired image. As quantitative evaluation parameters of the noise level, the contrast to noise ratio (CNR) and coefficient of variation (COV) were calculated. Additionally, no-reference-based evaluation parameters were used to analyze the overall image quality. We confirmed that the CNR and COV values of the PET/MR fusion images to which the improved median filter was applied improved by approximately 3.32 and 2.19 times on average, respectively, compared to the noisy image. In addition, the no-reference-based evaluation results showed a similar trend for the noise-level results. In conclusion, we demonstrated that it can be supplemented by using an improved median filter, which suggests the problem of image quality degradation of PET/MR fusion images that shortens scan time using GRAPPA.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1185-1198
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• 1992

본 논문에서는 기존의 메디안필터와 메디안혼성필터의 잡음 제거 특성을 개선하기 위하여 차등가중치 알고리즘을 제안하였고, 이 알고리즘을 적용한 메디안혼성필터와 기존의 메디안필터 및 메디안혼성필터를 단순 영상과 실제 영상에 적용하여 영상의 잡음 제거 특성과 미세 부분 및 경계보존 특성을 비교, 검토하였다. 본 논문에 사용된 단순 영상은 임펄스, 가우스, 지수 및 라플라션 잡음이 첨가된 Lenna 영상이며, 실제 영상은 임펄스 잡음이 첨가된 Urological영상이다. 본 연구의 실험 결과 차등가중치 알고리즘이 적용된 메디안혼성필터가 기존의 메디안필터 및 메디안혼성필터보다 비교적 양질의 영상을 구현할 수 있었으나, 필터의 차수가 증가할수록 영상처리에 많은 시간이 소요되었다. 그러나 영상의 형태에 따라 적절한 필터링을 선택하여 적용하면 향후 컴퓨터를 이용한 여러 응용 분야 및 의학 영상 처리 분야등에 상당한 도움이 되리라고 사료된다.