• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.94-102
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• 2007

잠음감소에 있어서 웨이브렛 임계처리 알고리즘은 미니맥스 관점에서 거의 최적의 성능을 보이는 것으로 알려져 있다. 그러나 웨이브렛 임계처리 알고리즘은 웨이브렛 함수의 복잡성으로 인해 FPGA와 같은 하드웨어 상에 구현이 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 이진트리 구조 필터뱅크에서 전체 신호전력에 대한 각 부밴드 신호 전력비에 기반한 새로운 잡음감소 기법을 제안한다. 그리고 이 기법을 FPGA 상에 구현한다. 간단한 구현을 위해 필터뱅크는 하다마드 변환 계수로 설계된다. 시뮬레이션과 하드웨어 실험결과 제안방법이 간단하지만 웨이브렛에 기반한 소프트 임계처리 잡음감소 알고리즘과 성능이 유사함을 보인다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.156-160
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• 2014

Thresholding in frequency domain is a simple and effective noise reduction technique. Determination of the threshold is critical to the image quality. The optimal threshold minimizing the Mean Square Error (MSE) is chosen adaptively in the wavelet domain; we utilize an equation of the MSE for the soft-thresholded signal and the histogram of wavelet coefficients of the original image and noisy image. The histogram of the original signal is estimated through the deconvolution assuming that the probability density functions (pdfs) of the original signal and the noise are statistically independent. The proposed method is quite general in that it does not assume any prior for the source pdf.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1995년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automation Control Conference, 10th (KACC); Seoul, Korea; 23-25 Oct. 1995
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• pp.311-314
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• 1995

This paper presents a method for measuring tool wear parameters based on two dimensional image information. The tool wear images were obtained from an ITV camera with magnifying and lighting devices, and were analyzed using image processing techniques such as thresholding, noise filtering and boundary tracing. Thresholding was used to transform the captured gray scale image into a binary image for rapid sequential image processing. The threshold level was determined using a novel technique in which the brightness histograms of two concentric windows containing the tool wear image were compared. The use of noise filtering and boundary tracing to reduce the measuring errors was explored. Performance tests of the measurement precision and processing speed revealed that the direct method was highly effective in intermittent tool wear monitoring.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2010

영상에 존재하는 잡음을 제거하는 방법은 공간영역과 변환영역에서 많은 연구가 되어 왔다. 초기에는 공간영역에서 저역통과필터를 많이 사용하였으나, 최근에는 변환영역에서 이산 웨이브릿 변환이 탁월한 에너지 집중도와 다분해능 성질에 기인하여 영상압축 뿐만 아니라 잡음제거에도 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문은 인간시각필터로 고려되는 Gabor 코사인과 사인 함수를 이용한 변환을 소프트 문턱치 기법으로 영상 잡음제거 응용에 적용하고자 한다. 기존 소프트 문턱치 기법을 이용하는 우수한 웨이브릿 변환과 PSNR 성능을 비교하고, 잡음 제거된 결과 영상을 시각적으로도 비교한다. 4가지 Gaussian 분포 잡음을 첨가한 여러 실제 영상의 실험으로부터 제안한 변환이 PSNR 성능에서 최대 1.18dB 우수하고, 시각적 인지에서도 분명한 차이를 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.945-961
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• 2019

Tongue diagnosis is one of the most important diagnostic methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Tongue image segmentation aims to extract the image object (i.e., tongue body), which plays a key role in the process of manufacturing an automated tongue diagnosis system. It is still challenging, because there exists the personal diversity in tongue appearances such as size, shape, and color. This paper proposes an innovative segmentation method that uses image thresholding, gray projection and active contour model (ACM). Specifically, an initial object region is first extracted by performing image thresholding in HSI (i.e., Hue Saturation Intensity) color space, and subsequent morphological operations. Then, a gray projection technique is used to determine the upper bound of the tongue body root for refining the initial object region. Finally, the contour of the refined object region is smoothed by ACM. Experimental results on a dataset composed of 100 color tongue images showed that the proposed method obtained more accurate segmentation results than other available state-of-the-art methods.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed a downscaled 3D object technique using medical images for telediagnostic use. The proposed system consisted of downscaling/thresholding processes for building a downscaled 3D object and a process for obtaining 2D images at specific angles for diagnosis support. We used 80 slices of Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine(DICOM) CT images as sample images and the platform-independent Java language for the experiment. We confirmed that the total image set size and transmission time of the original DICOM image set using a down-scaled 3D object decreased approximately $99\%\;and\;98.41\%,$ respectively. With additional studies, the proposed technique obtained from these results will become useful in supporting diagnosis for home and hospital care.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.207-214
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• 2004

This study focused on providing a methodology to utilize temporal information obtained from remotely sensed data for monitoring a wide variety of targets on the earth's surface. Generally, a methodology in understanding of global changes is composed of mapping, quantifying, and monitoring changes in the physical characteristics of land cover. The selected processing and analysis technique affects the quality of the obtained information. In this research, feature extraction methodology is proposed based on segmentation. It requires a series of processing of multitempotal images: preprocessing of geometric and radiometric correction, image subtraction/thresholding technique, and segmentation/thresholding. It results in the mapping of the change-detected areas. Here, the appropriate methods are studied for each step and especially, in segmentation process, a method to delineate the exact boundaries of features is investigated in multiresolution framework to reduce computational complexity for multitemporal images of large size.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전력기술부문
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• pp.214-216
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• 2005

This paper introduces a compression technique for power quality disturbance signal via MRA. The proposed approach is based on a energy at each resolution level. The compression effect can be achieved by thresholding the energies.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.29-39
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• 2020

Forest fire is a critical disaster that causes massive destruction of forest ecosystem and economic loss. Hence, accurate estimation of the burned area is important for evaluation of the degree of damage and for preparing baseline data for recovery. Since most of the area size damaged by wildfires in Korea is less than 1 ha, it is necessary to use satellite or drone images with a resolution of less than 10m for detecting the damage area. This paper aims to detect wildfire-damaged area from a Kompsat-3 image using the indices such as NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) and FBI (fire burn index) and to examine the classification characteristics according to the methods such as Otsu thresholding and ISODATA(iterative self-organizing data analysis technique). To mitigate the salt-and-pepper phenomenon of the pixel-based classification, a gaussian filter was applied to the images of NDVI and FBI. Otsu thresholding and ISODATA could distinguish the burned forest from normal forest appropriately, and the salt-and-pepper phenomenon at the boundaries of burned forest was reduced by the gaussian filter. The result from ISODATA with gaussian filter using NDVI was closest to the official record of damage area (56.9 ha) published by the Korea Forest Service. Unlike Otsu thresholding for binary classification,since the ISODATA categorizes the images into multiple classes such as(1)severely burned area, (2) moderately burned area, (3) mixture of burned and unburned areas, and (4) unburned area, the characteristics of the boundaries consisting of burned and normal forests can be better expressed. It is expected that our approach can be utilized for the high-resolution images obtained from other satellites and drones.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 제14회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.223-226
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a robust and fragile watermarking technique for tamper proofing of still images. Robust watermarks are embedded by quantization with a robust quantization step-size, and it is imperceptible value for human visual system. Fragile watermarks are embedded by thresholding and quantization with EW(Embedded Zerotree Wavelet) algorithm. The proposed method enables us to distinguish malicious change from non-malicious change. Futhermore this technique enables us to find tampering regions and degrees.