• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.575-586
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• 2022

Uneven light in real-world causes visual degradation for underexposed regions. For these regions, insufficient consideration during enhancement procedure will result in over-/under-exposure, loss of details and color distortion. Confronting such challenges, an unsupervised low-light image enhancement network is proposed in this paper based on the guidance of the unpaired low-/normal-light images. The key components in our network include super-resolution module (SRM), a GAN-based low-light image enhancement network (LLIEN), and denoising-scaling module (DSM). The SRM improves the resolution of the low-light input images before illumination enhancement. Such design philosophy improves the effectiveness of texture details preservation by operating in high-resolution space. Subsequently, local lightness attention module in LLIEN effectively distinguishes unevenly illuminated areas and puts emphasis on low-light areas, ensuring the spatial consistency of illumination for locally underexposed images. Then, multiple discriminators, i.e., global discriminator, local region discriminator, and color discriminator performs assessment from different perspectives to avoid over-/under-exposure and color distortion, which guides the network to generate images that in line with human aesthetic perception. Finally, the DSM performs noise removal and obtains high-quality enhanced images. Both qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves favorable results, which indicates its superior capacity on illumination and texture details restoration.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.82-84
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• 2022

최근 자율주행에서 안전한 주행을 위해 영상 기반 다중객체 검출 기술이 활발히 연구되고 있다. 이때, 저해상도 영상은 객체 검출 단계에서 정확도가 떨어지는 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 초해상화와 객체 검출을 위한 방법을 함께 사용하는 기법을 제안한다. 더 나아가 초해상화 단계에서 하나의 구분자만 사용하는 기존의 방법과 다르게 이미지 생성 과정 중간에서 추가의 구분자를 사용하여 총 두 개의 구분자를 사용하여 성능을 향상하고자 하였다. 본 논문은 한국 고속도로 교통 데이터를 사용하여 실험하였으며, 그 결과 제안된 방법의 성능이 mAP@0.5 및 F1 점수 측면에서 기존 방법보다 우수하다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.341-347
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• 2017

As the amount of document data increases, the user needs summarized information to understand the document. However, existing document summary research methods rely on overly simple statistics, so there is insufficient research on multiple document summaries for ambiguity of sentences and meaningful sentence generation. In this paper, we investigate semantic connection and preprocessing process to process unnecessary information. Based on the vocabulary semantic pattern information, we propose a multi-document summarization method that enhances semantic connectivity between sentences using VAE. Using sentence word vectors, we reconstruct sentences after learning from compressed information and attribute discriminators generated as latent variables, and semantic connection processing generates a natural summary sentence. Comparing the proposed method with other document summarization methods showed a fine but improved performance, which proved that semantic sentence generation and connectivity can be increased. In the future, we will study how to extend semantic connections by experimenting with various attribute settings.