• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.442-453
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• 2020

Underwater color images suffer from low visibility and color cast effects caused by light attenuation by water and floating particles. This study applied single image enhancement techniques to enhance the quality of underwater images and compared their performance with real underwater images taken in Korean waters. Dark channel prior (DCP), gradient transform, image fusion, and generative adversarial networks (GAN), such as cycleGAN and underwater GAN (UGAN), were considered for single image enhancement. Their performance was evaluated in terms of underwater image quality measure, underwater color image quality evaluation, gray-world assumption, and blur metric. The DCP saturated the underwater images to a specific greenish or bluish color tone and reduced the brightness of the background signal. The gradient transform method with two transmission maps were sensitive to the light source and highlighted the region exposed to light. Although image fusion enabled reasonable color correction, the object details were lost due to the last fusion step. CycleGAN corrected overall color tone relatively well but generated artifacts in the background. UGAN showed good visual quality and obtained the highest scores against all figures of merit (FOMs) by compensating for the colors and visibility compared to the other single enhancement methods.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2008

색 정보를 흑백 영상에 숨기고 이를 다시 찾아서 흑백 영상을 칼라 영상으로 복원하는 칼라화 알고리즘이 최근 연구되고 있다. 이러한 방법에서는 색 정보를 숨기고 복원할 때 원본 영상의 정보 손실을 최소화하는 것이 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 흑백 영상에 색 정보를 숨기고 이를 다시 복원할 때, 원본 영상의 정보 손실을 최소화하기 위해 웨이블릿 패킷 변환을 이용한 칼라화 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 그리고 복원된 칼라 영상의 열화된 채도를 보상하기 위한 채도 향상 알고리즘도 함께 제안하였다. 제안한 칼라화 방법은 칼라 영상을 흑백 영상으로 변환하는 과정(color-to-gray)과 변환된 흑백 영상에서 칼라 성분을 추출하여 복원하는 과정(gray-to-color)으로 구성된다. Color-to-gray 과정에서는 입력 RGB 영상을 YCbCr 영상으로 변환한 뒤, Y 영상에 웨이블릿 패킷 변환을 수행하여 각 sub-band의 정보량을 조사한다. 그리고 원본 영상의 정보량이 가장 적은 두 개의 sub-band에 색 정보를 삽입하여, 색 정보 복원 시에 원본 영상의 정보 손실을 최소화 한다. Gray-to-color 과정에서는 프린팅 및 스캐닝에 의해 발생하는 색 채도의 열화를 보상하기 위해 프린터와 스캐너의 특성곡선을 획득하고, 이를 이용하여 변화된 화소값을 보상해줌으로써 복원된 칼라 영상의 색 채도를 향상시킨다. 또한 복원된 영상의 CbCr 범위를 확장하여 열화된 색 채도를 향상시킨다. 실험을 통해 제안된 칼라화 방법은 경계영역의 선명도 및 색 채도를 향상시킴을 확인하였다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제3권5호
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• pp.408-414
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• 2019

In this paper we propose a method to generate a true color image in scanning white-light interferometry (SWLI). Previously, a true color image was obtained by using a color camera, or an RGB multichannel light source. Here we focused on acquiring a true color image without any hardware changes in basic SWLI, in which a monochrome camera is utilized. A Fourier transform method was used to obtain the spectral intensity distributions of the light reflected from the sample. RGB filtering was applied to the intensity distributions, to determine RGB values from the spectral intensity. Through color corrections, a true color image was generated from the RGB values. The image generated by the proposed method was verified on the basis of the RGB distance and peak signal-to-noise ratio analysis for its effectiveness.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.645-652
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• 2015

양식장 또는 바다와 같은 수중은 물방울과 다양한 부유물에 의하여 탁도가 높아지므로, 깊이에 따라 빛의 감쇠가 발생하고 부유물에 의한 빛의 산란 효과도 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 수중 환경에서 획득한 수중 영상의 가시성을 개선하기 위하여, dark channel prior 개념을 이용한 안개 제거 방법과 학습된 색상 변환 모델을 이용하여 색을 복원하는 수중 영상의 가시성 개선 방법을 제안하였다. 색상 변환 모델을 학습하기 위하여 여수와 포항에서 획득한 수중 패턴 영상을 사용하였으며, 제안 방법의 제안된 방법의 성능을 측정하기 위하여 여수, 거문도, 필리핀 등에서 수집한 수중 영상을 사용하여 가시성 개선 실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과 제안 방법이 다양한 장소에서 수집된 수중 영상의 가시성을 개선시킴을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.5058-5072
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• 2015

Quaternions have been commonly employed in color image processing, but when the existing pure quaternion representation for color images is used in perceptual hashing, it would degrade the robustness performance since it is sensitive to image manipulations. To improve the robustness in color image perceptual hashing, in this paper a full quaternion representation for color images is proposed by introducing the local image luminance variances. Based on this new representation, a novel Full Quaternion Discrete Cosine Transform (FQDCT)-based hashing is proposed, in which the Quaternion Discrete Cosine Transform (QDCT) is applied to the pseudo-randomly selected regions of the novel full quaternion image to construct two feature matrices. A new hash value in binary is generated from these two matrices. Our experimental results have validated the robustness improvement brought by the proposed full quaternion representation and demonstrated that better performance can be achieved in the proposed FQDCT-based hashing than that in other notable quaternion-based hashing schemes in terms of robustness and discriminability.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.5583-5604
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• 2016

In this paper, we present a novel image operator to extract textual information in natural scene images. First, a powerful refiner called the Stroke Color Extension, which extends the widely used Stroke Width Transform by incorporating color information of strokes, is proposed to achieve significantly enhanced performance on intra-character connection and non-character removal. Second, a character classifier is trained by using gradient features. The classifier not only eliminates non-character components but also remains a large number of characters. Third, an effective extractor called the Character Color Transform combines color information of characters and geometry features. It is used to extract potential characters which are not correctly extracted in previous steps. Fourth, a Convolutional Neural Network model is used to verify text candidates, improving the performance of text detection. The proposed technique is tested on two public datasets, i.e., ICDAR2011 dataset and ICDAR2013 dataset. The experimental results show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.1464-1468
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• 2004

본 논문은 그레이 영상을 컬러영상으로 변환하고 컬러농도를 변환하여 출력영상을 향상시킨 연구이다. RGB 컬러성분을 추출하기 위한 의사컬러링은 2D고속웨이브릿 변환(FWT)에 의한 필터뱅크 재배열을 적용하고 후처리에서 각각의 모노컬러는 노이즈제거와 영상향상을 위해 이산 컬러농도변환(CIT)을 적용한다. 실험결과 출력영상은 일반 웨이블릿 변환 적용보다 PSNR 30dB이상 개선된다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.570-595
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• 2017

Robust and perceptually-adaptive image watermarking algorithms have mainly targeted gray-scale images either at the modeling or embedding levels despite the widespread availability of color images. Only few of the existing algorithms are specifically designed for color images where color correlation and perception are constructively exploited. In this paper, a new perceptual and high-capacity color image watermarking solution is proposed based on the extension of Tsui et al. algorithm. The $CIEL^*a^*b^*$ space and the spatio-chromatic Fourier transform (SCFT) are combined along with a perceptual model to hide watermarks in color images where the embedding process reconciles between the conflicting requirements of digital watermarking. The perceptual model, based on an emerging color image model, exploits the non-uniform just-noticeable color difference (NUJNCD) thresholds of the $CIEL^*a^*b^*$ space. Also, spread-spectrum techniques and semi-random low-density parity check codes (SR-LDPC) are used to boost the watermark robustness and capacity. Unlike, existing color-based models, the data hiding capacity of our scheme relies on a game-theoretic model where upper bounds for watermark embedding are derived. Finally, the proposed watermarking solution outperforms existing color-based watermarking schemes in terms of robustness to standard image/color attacks, hiding capacity and imperceptibility.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.921-936
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• 1990

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.192-194
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• 2003

Since the details in quasi-homogeneous region will be destroyed from the conventional global image enhancement method such as histogram equalization. This defect is caused by the saturation of gray level in equalization process. So the local histogram equalization for each quasi-homogeneous region will be used in order to improve the details in the region itself. To obtain the quasi- homogeneous regions, the original image must be segmented. Here we applied the watershed transform to the interesting image. Since the watershed transform is based on mathematical morphology, therefore, the regions touch can be effectively separated. Hence two adjacent regions which have the similar gray pixels will be split off. The process will be independently applied to three different spectral images. Then three different colors are assigned to each processed image in order to produce a color composite image. By the proposed algorithm, the result image shows the better perception on image details. Therefore, the high efficiency of image classification can be obtained by using this color image.