• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.1395-1403
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• 2022

Lately, over 4K high definition and high dynamic range (HDR) display devices are popularized, various interpolation and HDR methods have been researched to expand the size and the dynamic range. Since most of the legacy low resolution (LR) images require both an interpolation and a HDR tone mapping methods, the two processes should be subsequently applied. Therefore, the proposed algorithm presents a HDR up-scaling algorithm using undecimated wavelet transform and Retinex method, which transfers a LR image of low dynamic range (LDR) into the high resolution (HR) with HDR. The proposed algorithm consists of an up-scaling scheme increasing the image size and a tone mapping scheme expanding the dynamic range. The up-scaling scheme uses the undecimated version of the simplest Haar wavelet analysis for the 8-directional interpolation and the change region is extracted during the analysis. This region information is utilized in controlling the surround functions' size of the proposed tone mapping using MSRCR, to enhance the pixels of around the edges that are dominant feature of the subjective image quality. As the results, the proposed algorithm can apply an up-scaling and tone mapping processes in accordance with the type of pixel.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.733-734
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• 2006

The Face Area Detection has an extensive error range of abstraction probabilities by image illuminations and background conditions. In this paper, to reduce error ranges of abstraction probabilities by factors such as illuminations and backgrounds, we made use of Retinex and the Face Area Detection algorithm together. In comparison with other previous methods[4], our proposed algorithm showed stabler and elevated detection rate.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.1761-1768
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• 2009

In this paper, we implemented online real time strategy game using hand as the mouse in augmented reality. Also, we introduced the algorithm for detecting hand direction, finding fingertip of the index finger and counting the number of fingers for interaction between users and the virtual objects. The proposed method increases the reality of the game by combining the real world and the virtual objects. Retinex algorithm is used to remove the effect of illumination change. The implementation of the virtual reality in the online environment enables to extend the applicability of the proposed method to the areas such as online education, remote medical treatment, and mobile interactive games.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.370-376
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• 2023

Aiming at the problems of low image enhancement accuracy, long enhancement time and poor image quality in the traditional robot sequence motion image enhancement methods, an adaptive enhancement method for robot sequence motion image is proposed. The feature representation of the image was obtained by Karhunen-Loeve (K-L) transformation, and the nonlinear relationship between the robot joint angle and the image feature was established. The trajectory planning was carried out in the robot joint space to generate the robot sequence motion image, and an adaptive homomorphic filter was constructed to process the noise of the robot sequence motion image. According to the noise processing results, the brightness of robot sequence motion image was enhanced by using the multi-scale Retinex algorithm. The simulation results showed that the proposed method had higher accuracy and consumed shorter time for enhancement of robot sequence motion images. The simulation results showed that the image enhancement accuracy of the proposed method could reach 100%. The proposed method has important research significance and economic value in intelligent monitoring, automatic driving, and military fields.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37A권12호
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• pp.1054-1064
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• 2012

HDR (high dynamic range) 톤 맵핑 (tone mapping) 알고리듬은 높은 다이내믹 레인지 영상을 압축하여 LDR (low dynamic range) 영상 장치에 구현하기 위해 사용된다. 대표적인 톤 맵핑 알고리듬의 한 방법인 레티넥스 (retinex)는 효과적인 다이내믹 레인지 압축과 색 항상성을 보존할 수 있는 특성을 가지고 있으며, 다중 스케일 및 휘도 성분 기반 알고리듬 등으로 발달되어왔다. 그러나 레티넥스 기반 알고리듬들은 어두운 영역에서 노이즈가 강하게 나타나고 밝은 영역에서는 채도 저하 현상이 나타나는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 명암대비 성능의 개선과 채도 저하 및 노이즈 개선을 위해 시각 밝기 함수를 기반으로 하는 다중 스케일 톤 맵핑 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리듬은 원영상의 채도 및 색상의 보존을 위해 HSV 색 공간에서 처리가 이루어지며 인간 시각 특성을 반영하기 위해 조명의 변화에 따른 최소 및 최대 휘도 레벨 예측 함수와 시각 감마 모델링 함수를 이용하였다. 그리고 주관적 및 객관적 성능 비교로부터 제안된 알고리듬의 우수성을 확인하였다. 제안된 알고리듬은 시청환경의 변화로 인해 다이내믹 레인지의 개선이 필요한 분야에서 영상화질의 효과적인 개선을 기대할 수 있을 것이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1814-1828
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• 2021

Low-light image enhancement is a key technique to overcome the quality degradation of photos taken under scotopic vision illumination conditions. The degradation includes low brightness, low contrast, and outstanding noise, which would seriously affect the vision of the human eye recognition ability and subsequent image processing. In this paper, we propose an approach based on deep learning and Retinex theory to enhance the low-light image, which includes image decomposition, illumination prediction, image reconstruction, and image optimization. The first three parts can reconstruct the enhanced image that suffers from low-resolution. To reduce the noise of the enhanced image and improve the image quality, a super-resolution algorithm based on the Laplacian pyramid network is introduced to optimize the image. The Laplacian pyramid network can improve the resolution of the enhanced image through multiple feature extraction and deconvolution operations. Furthermore, a combination loss function is explored in the network training stage to improve the efficiency of the algorithm. Extensive experiments and comprehensive evaluations demonstrate the strength of the proposed method, the result is closer to the real-world scene in lightness, color, and details. Besides, experiments also demonstrate that the proposed method with the single low-light image can achieve the same effect as multi-exposure image fusion algorithm and no ghost is introduced.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39A권8호
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• pp.459-466
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• 2014

오랜 시간 보관된 사진 및 인쇄물의 색 바랜 현상은 염료의 특성, 보관 온도, 습도 및 광원 등의 환경적 요인에 따라 다르게 나타난다. 이러한 바랜 영상의 보정을 위해 회색계 알고리즘(gray world algorithm) 또는 WR(white patch retinex)과 같은 전역적 광원 추정을 기반으로 한 방법이 제안되었다. 그러나 색 바랜 현상은 지역적으로 다르게 나타나므로 기존의 전역적 방법으로는 잘 보정되지 않는다. 이에 본 논문에서는 바랜 영상의 지역적 보정을 위해 보정계수 통합 기반 색 보정 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 먼저, 제안한 방법은 다중 크기의 평균 필터를 적용해 지역적인 처리를 수행하고, 회색계 알고리즘을 기반으로 한 영상의 보정계수를 얻는다. 다음으로, R과 B 채널에 적용하기 위해 계산된 다중 크기의 보정계수들을 가중처리하여 합하고, 이 가중처리된 보정계수를 회색계 알고리즘 처리를 통해 결과 영상을 얻는다. 그 결과 제안한 방법은 전역적, 지역적으로 바랜 영상들에 대해 기존의 방법들보다 나은 보정 결과를 보였다.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 학술발표 논문집 제15권 제1호
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• pp.269-272
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• 2005

The principal objective of enhancement methods is to process an image so that the result is more suitable than the original image for a specific application. Images taken in the night can be low-contrast images because of poor environments. In this paper, we compare the structure of ICECA(Image Contrast Enhancement technique using Clustering Algorithm) with the structures of HE(Histogram Equalization), BBHE(Brightness preserving Bi-Histogram Equalization), and Multi -Scale Retinex(MSR). We compared performances of image enhancement methods by applying these methods to a set of diverse images.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.87-90
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• 2018

Various approaches have been proposed to convert low dynamic range (LDR) to high dynamic range (HDR). Of these approaches, the Multi Scale Fusion (MSF) algorithm based on Laplacian pyramid decomposition is used in many applications and demonstrates its usefulness. However, the pyramid fusion technique has no means for controlling the luminance component because the total number of pixels decreases as the pyramid rises to the upper layer. In this paper, we extract the reflection light of the image based on the Retinex theory and generate the weight map by adjusting the reflection component. This weighting map is applied to achieve an MSF-like effect during image fusion and provides an opportunity to control the brightness components. Experimental results show that the proposed method maintains the total number of pixels and exhibits similar effects to the conventional method.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.1365-1372
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• 2011

본 논문은 어두운 영상의 낮은 인지적인 대비를 향상하기 위해 비선형 마스킹 기법을 이용한 영상의 인지적 대비 향상 방법을 제안한다. 영상의 주요 속성인 색도의 변화를 최소화 하면서 어두운 영역의 밝기를 향상시키기 위해, 비선형 마스킹 기법 기반으로 영상에 적응적인 파라미터를 이용한 대비 향상방법을 제안하 였다. 제안하는 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 테스트 영상에 대해 SSR(Single-Scale Retinex), MSR(Multi-Scale Retinex), 기존의 비선형 마스킹 기법의 결과와 색도 및 채도에 대한 정량적인 평가와, z-score를 이용한 정성적 평가를 수행하였다. 결과 제안한 방법이 낮은 색도 변화와 향상된 인지적 대비를 보임을 확인하였다.