• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.313-321
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• 2005

연속 계조 영상을 이진 영상으로 변환하는 방법을 해프토닝이라 한다. 이와 같은 해프토닝 방법 중 오차확산법은 연속 계조 영상을 이진 영상으로 표현할 때 우수한 화질을 보이지만 에지 영역에서는 에지 정보가 흐려지는 특성이 있다. 이를 개선하기 위해 원영상의 국부적인 공간 정보를 이용하여 에지를 강조하는 방법을 제안한다 제안 방법은 인간의 시각이 한 점을 인식하지 않고 국부 평균을 인식함을 고려하여 한 화소와 인접 화소의 평균을 이용한 비율 값을 국부 평균에 가중치로 적용하고 에지 강조 정보량(EEI : Edge enhancement information)을 구한다. 이때 국부 평균에 적용되는 가중치는 원 화소와 3$\times$3 블록의 평균과의 차이 값과 공간 활성도(LAM : Local activity measure)의 비율을 이용하여 계산된다 공간 활성도는 국부 공간의 변화량을 표현하는 척도로 3$\times$3 블록의 평균과 블록의 화소의 차이 값의 제곱의 합으로 구한다 EEI를 양자화기 입력에 더하여 해프톤 영상의 에지를 강조한다. 제안 방법의 성능은 에지 상관도 평가 함수로 평가했으며 제안 방법을 영상에 적용한 결과 이진 영상의 에지가 강조되어 시각적으로 선명한 결과를 보이며 미세한 에지도 잘 보존되었다. 또한 눈에 거슬리는 규칙적 패턴도 줄어 개선된 화질을 보여주었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1105-1118
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• 2014

In this paper, a new reversible data hiding method based on a dual binary tree of embedding levels is proposed. Four neighborhood pixels in the upper, below, left and right of each pixel are used as reference pixels to estimate local complexity for deciding embeddable and non-embeddable pixels. The proposed method does not need to record pixels that might cause underflow, overflow or unsuitable for embedment. This can reduce the size of location map and release more space for payload. Experimental results show that the proposed method is more effective in increasing payload and improving image quality than some recently proposed methods.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.556-566
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 EBMF(Edge Based Median Filter)와 3-Step AMPDF(Adaptive Minimum Pixel Difference Filter) 기반의 움직임 적응 디인터레이싱 알고리즘을 제안 한다. 움직임 적응 방법에서 중요한 요소인 motion missing에 의한 에러를 방지하기 위해 입력 영상을 4 가지 유형으로 구분하여 각 영상에 따라 다른 임계 값을 사용하여 정확한 화소 값을 보간 하는 AMPDF를 사용하며 움직이는 대각선 에지의 효과적인 보간을 위하여 에지에 따라 가변적인 후보 픽셀을 선택하는 EBMF를 사용하여 성능을 향상시켰다. 또한 성능을 높이기 위해 입력되는 영상을 움직임 영역, 정지 영역, 경계 영역으로 나누어 적응적으로 보간 하였으며 모의 실험을 통해 기존의 방법들에 비해 성능이 우수함을 보였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1992년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국제학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 19-21 Oct. 1992
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• pp.514-519
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• 1992

To make an accurate retrieval of the proportion of each category among mixed pixels (Mixel's) of a remotely sensed imagery, a maximum likelihood estimation method of category proportion is proposed. In this method, the observed multispectral vector is considered as probability variables along with the approximation that the supervised data of each category can be characterized by normal distribution. The results show that this method can retrieve accurate proportion of each category among Mixel's. And a index that can estimate the degree of error in each category is proposed. AS one of the application of the proportion estimation, a method for image classification based on category proportion estimation is proposed. In this method all pixel in a remotely sensed imagery are assumed to be Mixel's, and are classified to most dominant category. Among the Mixel's, there exists unconfidential pixels which should be categorized as unclassified pixels. In order to discriminate them, two types of criteria, Chi square and AIC, are proposed for fitness test on pure pixel hypothesis. Experimental result with a simulated dataset show an usefulness of proposed classification criterion compared to the conventional maximum likelihood criterion and applicability of the fitness tests based on Chi square and AIC,

• 센서학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.211-216
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• 2012

Fires are the most common disaster and early fire detection is of great importance to minimize the consequent damage. Simple sensors including smoke detectors are widely used for the purpose but they are able to sense fires only at close proximity. Recently, due to the rapid advances of relevant technologies, vision-based fire sensing has attracted growing attention. In this paper, a novel visual sensing technique to automatically detect fire is presented. The proposed technique consists of multiple steps of image processing: pixel-level, block-level, and frame level. At the first step, fire flame pixel candidates are selected based on their color values in YIQ space from the image of a camera which is installed as a vision sensor at a fire scene. At the second step, the dynamic parts of flames are extracted by comparing two consecutive images. These parts are then represented in regularly divided image blocks to reduce pixel-level detection error and simplify following processing. Finally, the temporal change of the detected blocks is analyzed to confirm the spread of fire. The proposed technique was tested using real fire images and it worked quite reliably.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제52권11호
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• pp.626-633
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• 2003

Theoretical analysis of the depth measurement system with the use of a single camera and a rotating mirror has been done. A camera in front of a rotating mirror acquires a sequence of reflected images, from which depth information is extracted. For an object point at a longer distance, the corresponding pixel in the sequence of images moves at a higher speed. Depth measurement based on such pixel movement is investigated. Since the mirror rotates along an axis that is in parallel with the vertical axis of the image plane, the image of an object will only move horizontally. This eases the task of finding corresponding image points. In this paper, the principle of the depth measurement-based on the relation of the pixel movement speed and the depth of objects have been investigated. Also, necessary mathematics to implement the technique is derived and presented. The factors affecting the measurement precision have been studied. Analysis shows that the measurement error increases with the increase of depth. The rotational angle of the mirror between two image-takings also affects the measurement precision. Experimental results using the real camera-mirror setup are reported.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.147-153
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an efficient WBC 14-Diff classification which performs using the WBC-ResNet-152, a type of CNN model. The main point of view is to use Super-pixel for the segmentation of the image of WBC, and to use ResNet for the classification of WBC. A total of 136,164 blood image samples (224x224) were grouped for image segmentation, training, training verification, and final test performance analysis. Image segmentation using super-pixels have different number of images for each classes, so weighted average was applied and therefore image segmentation error was low at 7.23%. Using the training data-set for training 50 times, and using soft-max classifier, TPR average of 80.3% for the training set of 8,827 images was achieved. Based on this, using verification data-set of 21,437 images, 14-Diff classification TPR average of normal WBCs were at 93.4% and TPR average of abnormal WBCs were at 83.3%. The result and methodology of this research demonstrates the usefulness of artificial intelligence technology in the blood cell image classification field. WBC-ResNet-152 based morphology approach is shown to be meaningful and worthwhile method. And based on stored medical data, in-depth diagnosis and early detection of curable diseases is expected to improve the quality of treatment.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.513-517
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• 2013

Recently, maskless lithography (ML) systems have become popular in digital manufacturing technologies. To achieve high-throughput manufacturing processes, digital micromirror devices (DMD) in ML systems must be driven to their operational limits, often in harsh conditions. We propose an instrument and algorithm to detect DMD malfunctions to ensure perfect mask image transfer to the photoresist in ML systems. DMD malfunctions are caused by either bad DMD pixels or data transfer errors. We detect bad DMD pixels with $20{\times}20$ pixel by white and black image tests. To analyze data transfer errors at high frame rates, we monitor changes in the frame rate of a target DMD pixel driven by the input data with a set frame rate of up to 28000 frames per second (fps). For our data transfer error detection method, we verified that there are no data transfer errors in the test by confirming the agreement between the input frame rate and the output frame rate within the measurement accuracy of 1 fps.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.81.3-81.3
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• 2019

In this study, we apply conditional Generative Adversarial Network, which is one of the deep learning method, to the image-to-image translation from solar magentograms to solar UV and EUV images. For this, we train a model using pairs of SDO/AIA 9 wavelength UV and EUV images and their corresponding SDO/HMI line-of-sight magnetograms from 2011 to 2017 except August and September each year. We evaluate the model by comparing pairs of SDO/AIA images and corresponding generated ones in August and September. Our results from this study are as follows. First, we successfully generate SDO/AIA like solar UV and EUV images from SDO/HMI magnetograms. Second, our model has pixel-to-pixel correlation coefficients (CC) higher than 0.8 except 171. Third, our model slightly underestimates the pixel values in the view of Relative Error (RE), but the values are quite small. Fourth, considering CC and RE together, 1600 and 1700 photospheric UV line images, which have quite similar structures to the corresponding magnetogram, have the best results compared to other lines. This methodology can be applicable to many scientific fields that use several different filter images.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.33-43
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• 2022

This study presents a method to restore an optical satellite image with distortion and occlusion due to fog, haze, and clouds to one that minimizes degradation factors by referring to the same type of peripheral image. Specifically, the time and cost of re-photographing were reduced by partially occluding a region. To maintain the original image's pixel value as much as possible and to maintain restored and unrestored area continuity, a simulation restoration technique modified with the Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) method was developed. The accuracy of the simulated image was analyzed by comparing CycleGAN and histogram matching, as well as the pixel value distribution, with the original image. The results show that for Site 1 (out of three sites), the root mean square error and R² of CycleGAN were 169.36 and 0.9917, respectively, showing lower errors than those for histogram matching (170.43 and 0.9896, respectively). Further, comparison of the mean and standard deviation values of images simulated by CycleGAN and histogram matching with the ground truth pixel values confirmed the CycleGAN methodology as being closer to the ground truth value. Even for the histogram distribution of the simulated images, CycleGAN was closer to the ground truth than histogram matching.