• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.189-192
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• 2009

This paper presents comparison and analysis of various CFA patterns which are used in single sensor digital camera. There are several patterns which are already used, however, images are sometimes darker or brighter than what human see in real life. Also, images show some noise and blurring. To overcome this problems, many studies on the patterns have been discussed. We carry out experiment with seven patterns including the Bayer pattern. The bilinear method is selected for a interpolation method. The experimental result indicates that image quality is not affected by individual patterns and each pattern requires its own interpolation method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.130-133
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• 2014

본 논문은 Laplacian of Gaussians (LoG)에 캐니 에지 검출 기법을 접목한 새로운 색상 보간 알고리듬을 제안한다. 캐니 에지 검출 기법은 영상 스무딩, 기울기 크기와 각도 계산, 세션화, 이중 문턱치 처리 과정으로 이루어진다. 이때 앞의 두 과정을 LoG를 이용하여 처리함으로써 기존의 캐니 애지 검출법보다 정확한 방향 정보를 얻을 수 있다. 실험결과를 통해 기존의 색상 보간 알고리듬에 비해 Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (CPSNR)이 상승함을 확인하였으며, 에지 영역 주변에서 발생하였던 무지개 에러가 현저히 감소하였음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.41-48
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• 2010

In this paper, we present an efficient demosaicking method using the difference between color channels in the wavelet domain. In our method, the low frequency wavelet coefficients are obtained by an edge-directive interpolation using the observed high frequency coefficients. The missing high frequency coefficients are obtained by the estimated low frequency coefficients. In order to reduce artifacts in high frequency domain and to improve visual quality, we update the high frequency coefficient using the color difference rule in the wavelet domain. We simulate our demosaicking method in the wavelet domain and compare our algorithm to the existing demosaicking schemes. Experimental results illustrate that the proposed method can generate enhanced demosaicking results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.86-94
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose spatially adaptive color demosaicing of noisy Bayer data. When sensor noises are not considered in demosaicing, they may degrade result image. In order to obtain high resolution image, sensor noises are considered in the color demosaicing step. We identify flat, edge and pattern regions at each pixel location to improve the performance of the algorithm and to reduce complexity. Based on the pre-classified regions, the demosaicing of the G channel is performed using the local statistics to reduce the interpolation error. The sensor noise is simultaneously removed by a modified version of non-local mean filter in the green and in the color difference domain. The R and B channels are interpolated easily using fully interpolated and denoised G and color difference values. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a significant improvement in terms of visual and numerical criteria, when compared to conventional methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.770-781
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• 2016

As a result of reducing color information and edge information, object distinction in haze image occurs with difficulty. One of the famous defogging algorithm is haze removal by using 'Dark Channel Prior(DCP)', which is used to predict for transmission rate using color information of an image and eliminates haze from the image. But, In case that haze rate is estimated under color information, there is a miscalculated issue which is posed by haze rate and transmission in area with high brightness such as a white object or a light source. In this paper, We deal with a miscalculated issue by correcting from around haze rate, after application of color normalization used by main white part of image haze. Moreover, We calculation improved transmission based on the result of improved haze rate estimation. And then haze image quality is developed through refining transmission.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.60-65
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a high-resolution disparity map generation method using a low-resolution time-of-flight (TOF) depth camera and color camera. The TOF depth camera is efficient since it measures the range information of objects using the infra-red (IR) signal in real-time. It also quantizes the range information and provides the depth image. However, there are some problems of the TOF depth camera, such as noise and lens distortion. Moreover, the output resolution of the TOF depth camera is too small for 3D applications. Therefore, it is essential to not only reduce the noise and distortion but also enlarge the output resolution of the TOF depth image. Our proposed method generates a depth map for a color image using the TOF camera and the color camera simultaneously. We warp the depth value at each pixel to the color image position. The color image is segmented using the mean-shift segmentation method. We define a cost function that consists of color values and segmented color values. We apply a weighted average filter whose weighting factor is defined by the random walk probability using the defined cost function of the block. Experimental results show that the proposed method generates the depth map efficiently and we can reconstruct good virtual view images.