• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.28 no.A
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• pp.27-34
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• 2008

The purpose of this paper is an adaptive image interpolation using parametric cubic convolution. Proposed method derive parameter of adapting the frequency from adjacent values. The parameter optimize the interpolation kernel of cubic convolution. Simulation results show that the proposed method is superior to the conventional method in terms of the subjective and objective image quality.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1259-1262
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a modified cubic convolution interpolation for the enlargement or reduction of digital images using a pixel difference value. The proposed method has a low complexity: the number of multiplier of weighted value to calculate one pixel of a scaled image has seven less than that of cubic convolution interpolation has sixteen. We use the linear function of the cubic convolution and the difference pixel value for selecting interpolation methods. The proposed method is compared with the conventional one for the computational complexity and the image quality. The simulation results show that the proposed method has less computational complexity than one of the cubic convolution interpolation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.12-15
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• 2013

최근 UHD TV 출시와 HD급 영상의 보편화로 영상에 대한 해상도 변경 기술의 중요성이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 cubic convolution 기법을 응용하여, 영역별 특성에 따라 적응적인 가변 커널 길이의 cubic convolution으로 화면 해상도를 변환하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 영상의 화질을 개선시키면서도 상황에 따라 하드웨어의 line memory를 절약할 수 있도록 설계를 하여 화질 개선뿐만이 아니라 하드웨어적으로도 더 효율적으로 사용이 가능하다. 또 tuning parameter 를 최적화 하는 방법을 통해 기존의 cubic convolution 기법보다 더 좋은 화질의 영상을 얻을 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.385-387
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 Cubic Convolution 보간 알고리즘을 변형하여 연산량을 감소시키고 에지를 강조하는 보간 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 디지털 영상의 확대 또는 축소에 필요한 연산량을 줄이기 위해 두가지 방법을 사용하였다. 기존의 Cubic Convolution 알고리즘의 고차항의 가중치 연산을 일차원으로 변환하였다. 인접한 픽셀의 차이값을 사용하여 Bilinear 알고리즘을 제한적으로 적용하였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 화질 평가를 위해 원영상의 확대-후-축소와 축소-후-확대를 하여 RMSE를 사용하였고, 연산량을 평가하기 위해 픽셀별 곱셈기와 덧셈기를 기존의 알고리즘과 비교하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 기존 Cubic Convolution 알고리즘보다 연산량이 감소하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.838-845
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a modified cubic convolution scaler for the enlargement or reduction of digital images. The proposed method has less computational complexity than the cubic convolution method. In order to reduce the computational complexity, we use the linear function of the cubic convolution and the difference value of adjacent pixels for selecting interpolation methods. We employ adders and barrel shifts to calculate weights of the proposed method. The proposed method is compared with the conventional one for the computational complexity and the image quality. It has been designed and verified by HDL(Hardware Description Language), and synthesized using Xilinx Virtex FPGA.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.707-718
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• 2008

We derive a modified version of the cubic convolution scaler to enlarge or reduce the size of digital image with arbitrary ratio. To enhance the edge information of the scaled image and to obtain a high-quality scaled image, the proposed scaler is applied along the direction of an edge. Since interpolation along the direction of an edge has to process nonuniformly sampled data, the kernel of the cubic convolution scaler is modified to interpolate the data. The proposed scaling scheme can be used to resize pictures in various formats in a transcoding system that transforms a bit stream compressed at one bit rate into one compressed at another bit rate. In many applications, such as transcoders, the resolution conversion is very important for changing the image size while maintaining high quality of the scaled image. We show experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed interpolation method. The proposed scheme provides clearer edges, without artifacts, in the resized image than do conventional schemes. The algorithm exhibits significant improvement in the minimization of information loss when compared with the conventional interpolation algorithms.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.362-367
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• 2010

As the resolution of the image display devices has been diversified, the image interpolation methods has played a more important role. The cubic convolution interpolation method has been widely used because it is simple but it has no limitation of using and a good performance. This paper suggests an adaptive method to the cubic convolution interpolation. Considering the difference of the neighbored pixels values to a prediction pixel, a parameter value in the cubic convolution interpolation kernel is chosen.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.9C
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• pp.867-880
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• 2007

We derive a modified version of cubic convolution interpolation for the enlargement or reduction of digital images by arbitrary scaling factors. The proposed scaling scheme is used to resize various format pictures in the transcoding system, which transforms the bitstream compressed at a bit rate, such as the HD bitstream, into another bit rate stream. In many applications such as the transcoder, the resolution conversion is very important for changing the image size while the scaled image maintains high quality. We focus on the modification of the scaler kernel according to the relation between formats of the original and the resized image. In the modification, various formats defined in MPEG standards are considered. We show experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed interpolation method.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.57-66
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• 2008

An adaptive optimization of parametric cubic convolution for image interpolation is derived in this paper. The proposed technique is based on optimizing the standard cubic convolution interpolation formula at each interpolated pixel. Conventional parametric cubic convolution methods use a fixed parameter in an image, so properties of each pixel cannot be incorporated into the interpolation. The proposed method optimizes the interpolation kernel by obtaining parameters adaptively on each pixel. A new cost function is introduced to reflect frequency properties of the original data. The proposed technique produces noticeably sharper edges than traditional techniques and exhibits an average PSNR improvement of traditional techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.122-124
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• 2014

보간 기법은 영상의 해상도를 변경하는 것이다. 멀티미디어 기기의 해상도가 다양하기 때문에 원 영상은 각각에 맞는 해상도로 변경되어야 한다. 해상도 변경은 존재하지 않는 값을 임의로 만들어 채우는 것이기 때문에 왜곡이 발생한다. 대부분의 scaler에서는 수평과 수직 방향으로 해상도 변경을 하는데, 이 때문에 edge 영역에서는 왜곡이 더 많이 발생하며 쉽게 눈에 띈다. 본 논문에서는 edge 방향에서 발생하는 왜곡을 극복하기 위해 영상의 edge 정보와 Cubic Convolution을 이용해 임의의 배율로 해상도를 변경하는 방법을 제안한다.