• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.126-136
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• 2007

This paper presents an enhanced algorithm for compensating the visual quality in back-light image. Current cameras do not represent all details of scene into human's eye. Saturation and underexposure are common problems in back-light image. Retinex algorithm, derived from Land's theory on human visual perception is known to be effective in enhancing the contrast. However, its weaknesses are long processing time and low contrast of bright area in back-light scene because of compensating the details of dark area. In this paper, K-Retinex algorithm is proposed to reduce the processing time and enhance the contrast in both dark and bright area. To show the superiority of proposed algorithm, we compare the processing time, local standard deviation and contrast per pixel of each area above.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.99-107
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• 2019

Retinex-based image enhancement is a technique that utilizes the property that the human visual characteristics are sensitive to the difference from the surrounding pixel value rather than the pixel value itself. These Retinex-based algorithms show different characteristics of the improved image depending on the applied color space or gamma correction. In this paper, we set eight different experimental conditions according to the application of color space and gamma correction, and analyze the objective and subjective performance of each Retinex based image enhancement algorithm and apply it to the implementation of Retinex based algorithm. In the case of gamma correction, quantitative low entropy images and low contrast images are obtained. The application of Retinex technique in HSI color space rather than RGB color space is found to be high in overall subjective image quality as well as maintaining color.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.52-59
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• 2009

In general, methods based on histogram or a correction of gamma curve are usually utilized to enhance the contrast of captured image in the dark scene. These methods are efficient to enhance the contrast globally, however, they locally induced the low quality of image. Recently, to resolve the problem, the multi-scaled refiner algorithm improving the contrast with locally averaged lightness is proposed. However, estimating the locally averaged lightness, if there is the object with a high saturated color, the color distortion might be induced by the color of object. Thus, in this paper, the dominant chromaticity of image is estimated to correct the locally averaged lightness in multi-scaled retinex algorithm. Because the average chromaticity of image includes the chromaticity of illumination, the dominant chromaticity is estimated with dividing the average chromaticity of image by the estimated chromaticity of illumination from highlight region. In addition, to improve the lower chroma by multi-scaled retinex algorithm generally, the chroma was compensated preserving the hue in the CIELAB color space.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society Of Semiconductor Equipment Technology
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.265-268
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 레티넥스(Retinex) 이론을 이용한 영상개선 알고리즘을 분석하고, 이를 최적화하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 기존의 알고리즘이 가진 큰 단점인 수행속도를 보완하기 위해 그리고 작아진 필터 크기 때문에 충분한 면적의 조명정보를 분석하지 못하는 단점을 보완하기 위해 우리의 알고리즘에는 주변함수의 필터크기를 원래의 알고리즘과 비교하여 보다 작은 크기로 조절함으로써, 연산속도를 대폭 감소시킬 수 있었고 4번째 채널로 흑백영상을 선택하므로 써 충분한 면적의 조명정보를 분석하지 못하는 단점을 보완하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.32-39
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• 2011

The output image of the uncooled thermal infrared camera is difficult the identification of target because of the limited dynamic range and the various noises. Retinex algorithm based on the theory of the human visual perception is known to be effective contrast enhancement technique. However, the image quality is insufficient when it is adopted to the narrow dynamic range image as the infrared image. In this paper, we propose the revised retinex algorithm to enhance the contrast of the infrared image. To improve the contrast enhancement performance, we designed the new dynamic range compression function instead of log function. To reduce the noise and compensate the loss of edge, we added the contrast compensation procedure in the MSR image generation process. According to the output picture comparing and numerical analysis, the proposed algorithm shows the better contrast enhancement performance and the more suitable method for the infrared image enhancement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.376-380
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• 2015

This paper proposes new recognition method of road lanes misty day. The method enables autonomous-driving of cars and the safety of the drivers while driving with bad visibility in foggy roads. The proposed method, firstly, determines whether the foggy or not according to pixel number distributions and starting point of the fog period from input images. If it is foggy then the median filter's size of the Retinex algorithm is set to 1000 or more and it performs histogram equalization and normalization. The computer simulation results show that the proposed method can recognize better long distances and fine detection than earlier methods.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.225-230
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• 2011

This paper depict the system which reacts staly towards light changes, when object is detected using retinex. Previous interaction system does not react to transient light conditions. Since non-lighting condition was constructed in the limited space. However, if interaction contents work in the inside where the light changes, the light input is changed as the time goes by when the system detect objects with super sensitive camera few lighting transients makes system trouble. Thus, lighting is one of the most significant factors of the system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.242-245
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 단일 노출 영상으로부터 다수의 가상 노출 영상을 생성하고, 그 영상을 한 장의 HDR 영상으로 합성하여 SDR 디스플레이 시스템에 개선된 화질의 영상을 보여주도록 하는 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법에서는 주어진 단일 노출 영상을 Retinex 이론을 적용하여 조명 성분과 반사 성분으로 분리하고, 새로운 노출 조절 알고리즘을 제안하여 다수의 가상 조명 성분과 원본 이미지의 반사 성분을 생성하며 이들을 이용하여 다수의 가상 노출 영상을 생성한다. 생성된 다수의 가상 노출 영상은 가중치 합성 함수에 의해서 암부의 세부 표현력이 개선되고 명암비가 높아져 SDR display 에서도 우수한 화질의 HDR 영상으로 변환된다. 기존에 제안된 알고리즘과 비교 실험을 통해, 본 논문에서 제안된 HDR 영상 합성 기법의 성능을 증명한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.309-310
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• 2006

This paper presents an enhanced algorithm for compensating the visual quality in backlight image. Current cameras do not represent all details of scene into human's eye. Saturation and underexposure are common problems in backlight image. Retinex algorithm, derived from Land's theory on human visual perception is known to be effective in enhancing the contrast. However, its weaknesses are long processing time and low contrast of bright area in backlight scene because of compensating the details of dark area. In this paper, K-Retinex algorithm is proposed to reduce the processing time and enhance the contrast in both dark and bright area. To show the superiority of proposed algorithm, we compare the processing time and local variance of each area above.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.223-228
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• 2016

A digital micromirror system was proposed for future smart learning. This system is the compact micro-projector with a built-in CMOS sensor modules. It can provide the various interfaces. The basis of interface is to recognize the finger tip on projected image. But the recognition rate of finger tip is very low due to various image degradations. In this paper, we propose the finger tip recognition algorithm that minimize the image degradation factors by using the Retinex transform and IR structuring light. By verifying the availability of the algorithm through experiment, the performance of finger tip recognition was confirmed. Therefore, the user interface can be able to be enhanced significantly in DMS.