• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.573-578
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• 2014

In this letter, we propose a noise reduction method for use in magnetic resonance images that is based on non-local mean and guided image filters. Our method consists of two phases. In the first phase, the guidance image is obtained from a noisy image by using an adaptive non-local mean filter. The spread of the kernel is adaptively by controlled by implementing the concept of edgeness. In the second phase, the noisy images and the guidance images are provided to the guided image filter as input in order to produce a noise-free image. The improved performance of the proposed method is investigated by conducting experiments on standard datasets that contain magnetic resonance images. The results show that the proposed scheme is superior over the existing approaches.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.42-60
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• 1992

An adaptive fuzzy system can efficiently classify subimages into four categories according to image activity level for image data compression. The system estimates fuzzy rules by clustering input-output data generated from a given adaptive transform image coding process. The system encodes different images without modification and reduces side information when encoding multiple images. In the second part, a fuzzy system estimates optimal bit maps for the four subimage classes in noisy channels assuming a Gauss-Markov image model. The fuzzy systems respectively estimate the sampled subimage classification and the bit-allocation processes without a mathematical model of how outputs depend on inputs and without rules articulated by experts.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.893-900
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• 1999

We use statistical tests which are useful for two-sample problem for detecting edges in gray-level images. An edge is detected by examining changes in gray-level value between adjacent pixel neighborhoods. Some experimental results show that nonparametric detectors such as Mann-Whitney test median test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test perform effectively in both noisy and noise-free images while parametric T test is sensitive to noise.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.13-27
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• 1991

DEM(digital elevation map) is a very useful information in various applications. In this paper, we have studied on the terrain matching algorithm using the DEM, which was proposed by Rodriguez and Aggarwal(1990) for an aircraft navigation system. We evaluated its performance using syntactic images. Cliff maps and critical points are used for the reduction of computation time and information size to be processed. The computer simulation shows that though the computational complexity is high, the technique is efficient even to noisy images.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.103-119
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a subpixel shift estimation method using phase correlation with a local region for the registration of noisy images. Phase correlation is commonly used to estimate the subpixel shift between images, which is derived from analyzing shifted and downsampled images. However, when the images are affected by additive white Gaussian noise and aliasing artifacts, the estimation error is increased. Thus, instead of using the whole image, the proposed method uses a specific local region that is less affect by noises. In addition, to improve the estimation accuracy, iterative phase correlation is applied between selected local regions rather than using a fitting function. the restricted range is determined by analyzing the maximum peak and the two adjacent values of the inverse Fourier transform of the normalized cross power spectrum. In the experiments, the proposed method shows higher accuracy in registering noisy images than the other methods. Thus, the edge-sharpness and clearness in the super-resolved image is also improved.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.170-173
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• 2000

잡음에 오염된 영상의 경계검출에 대한 퍼지연산자를 보강하였다. 제한된 방법은 데이터에 존재하는 잡음에 강인한 경계를 검출하기 위하여 퍼지 엔트로피에 의한 퍼지추론을 이용한다. 퍼지기법이 영상의 세세한 정보의 검출과 잡음에 대한 민감도의 관점에서 보았을 때 기존의 방법들보다 성능이 우수하다는 것을 여러 실험결과를 통하여 알 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.91-99
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• 1994

We proposed the regularized iterative restoration method considering relaxation parameter and regularization paramenter in order to restore the noisy motion-blurred images. We used (i-H) as a regularization operator and these two kinds of constraints were applied while conventional regularization iterative restoration method proposed by Jan Biemond et al used the 2-D Laplacian filter and a predetermined regularization parameter value and relaxation parameter to 1. Through the experimental results, we showed better results compared with those by a conventional method and or regularized iterative restoration method just considering only a regularization parameter. These two kinds of constratints have good effects when applied into the regularized iterative restoration method for noisy motion-blurred images.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.1685-1692
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• 2010

The Laplacian operator is usually used as a regularization operator which may be used as any differential operator in the regularization iterative processing. In this paper, several kinds of differential operator and proposed operator as a regularization operator were compared with each other performance. For noisy gaussian-blurred images, proposed operator worked better in the edge, while in flat region the conventional operator resulted better. In regularization, smoothing the noise and restoring the edges should be considered at the same time, so the regions divided into the flat, the middle, and the detailed, which were processed in separate and compared.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.965-970
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• 2010

In this paper, a iterative image restoration method is proposed to restore for noisy-blurred images. In conventional method, regularization is usually applied to all over the without considering the local characteristics of image. As a result, ringing artifacts appear in edge regions and the noise amplification is introduced in flat regions. To solvethis problem we proposed an adaptive regularization iterative restoration using directional regularization operator considering edges in four directions and the regularization operator with no direction for flat regions. We verified that the proposed methods showed better results in the suppression of the noise amplification in flat regions, and introduced less ringing artifacts in edge regions. As a result it showed visually better image and improved better ISNR further than the conventional methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1886-1891
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• 2017

Denoising which is one of major research topics in the image processing deals with recovering the noisy images. Natural images are well known not only for their local but also nonlocal similarity. Patterns of unique edges and texture which are crucial for understanding the image are repeated over the nonlocal region. In this paper, a nonlocal similarity based denoising algorithm is proposed. First for every blocks of the noisy image, nonlocal similar blocks are gathered to construct a overcomplete data set which are inherently sparse in the transform domain due to the characteristics of the images. Then, the sparse transform coefficients are filtered to suppress the non-sparse additive noise. Finally, the image is recovered by aggregating the overcomplete estimates of each pixel. Performance experiments with several images show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional methods in removing the additive Gaussian noise effectively while preserving the image details.