• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.380-389
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• 2010

This paper presents a new edge-protection algorithm and its very large scale integration (VLSI) architecture for block artifact reduction. Unlike previous approaches using block classification, our algorithm utilizes pixel classification to categorize each pixel into one of two classes, namely smooth region and edge region, which are described by the edge-protection maps. Based on these maps, a two-step adaptive filter which includes offset filtering and edge-preserving filtering is used to remove block artifacts. A pipelined VLSI architecture of the proposed deblocking algorithm for HD video processing is also presented in this paper. A memory-reduced architecture for a block buffer is used to optimize memory usage. The architecture of the proposed deblocking filter is verified on FPGA Cyclone II and implemented using the ANAM 0.25 ${\mu}m$ CMOS cell library. Our experimental results show that our proposed algorithm effectively reduces block artifacts while preserving the details. The PSNR performance of our algorithm using pixel classification is better than that of previous algorithms using block classification.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.427-432
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• 1996

The primary purpose of port filming is to verify the treatment volume under treatment. Although the image quality with the megavoltage x-ray beam is poorer than with the diagnostic or the simulator film. This paper proposes an edge-adaptive Kalman filter for the image enhancement of port films. Suggested filtering procedure preserves edge information and eliminates edge noise and inside and outside treatment area preserving treatment boundary.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권11C호
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• pp.662-672
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• 2011

본 논문은 새로운 경계선 보존 알고리즘을 이용하여 블록화 현상을 제거하는 디블로킹 필터와 HD해상도의 실시간 영상처리가 가능한 디블로킹 필터의 VLSI구조를 제안한다. 기존의 블록 분류 기반의 접근 방법과 달리 제안된 알고리즘은 픽셀 분류 기반 접근을 사용한다. 또한 제안된 경계선 보존 맵은 픽셀을 경계선 영역과 평탄 영역으로 분류하며, 블록화 현상 제거에 사용되는 오프셋 필터와 경계선 보존 필터의 기반이 된다. 이를 바탕으로 제안된 디블로킹 필터의 VLSI구조는 고연산량 처리를 위하여 블록 전체에 파이프라인 기법을 적용하였다. 또한 블록 버퍼를 위한 메모리 절감 구조는 메모리의 사용을 최적화 시킨다. 본 필터는 VHDL을 이용한 설계를 통하여 CycloneII FPGA상에서 구현된 구조의 동작을 검증 후, Synopsys의 Design Compiler와 ANAM 0.25 ${\mu}m$ CMOS cell library로 합성하여 칩으로 구현하였을 때의 성능을 예측하였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 실험 결과는 세밀한 영상성분을 보존하면서 효과적으로 블록화 현상을 제거하며, 픽셀 분류 기반에서 제안된 알고리즘은 블록 분류 기반보다 PSNR 성능이 우수함을 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.564-571
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• 2012

This paper presents an algorithm for removing high-density impulsive noise that generates some serious distortions in edge regions of an image. Although many works have been presented to reduce edge distortions, these existing methods cannot sufficiently restore distorted edges in images with large amounts of impulsive noise. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a method using connected lines extracted from a binarized image, which segments an image into uniform and edge regions. For uniform regions, the existing simple adaptive median filter is applied to remove impulsive noise, and, for edge regions, a prediction filter and a line-weighted median filter using the connected lines are proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed method provides much better performance in restoring distorted edges than existing methods provide. When noise content is more than 20 percent, existing algorithms result in severe edge distortions, while the proposed algorithm can reconstruct edge regions similar to those of the original image.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.611-617
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• 2004

Pixel classification is one of basic image processing issues. The general characteristics of the pixels belonging to various classes are discussed and the radical principles of pixel classification are given. At the same time. a pixel classification scheme based on image direction measure is proposed. As a typical application instance of pixel classification, an adaptive multi-level median filter is presented. An image can be classified into two types of areas by using the direction information measure, that is. smooth area and edge area. Single direction multi-level median filter is used in smooth area. and multi-direction multi-level median filter is taken in the other type of area. What's more. an adaptive mechanism is proposed to adjust the type of the filters and the size of filter window. As a result. we get a better trade-off between preserving details and noise filtering.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.535-538
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• 2009

Speckle noise reduction for ultrasound CT image using morphological adaptive median filtering based on edge preservation is presented in this paper. Speckle noise is multiplicative feature and causes ultrasound image to degrade widely from transducer. An input image is classified into edge region and homogeneous region in preprocessing. The speckle is reduced by morphological operation on the 2D gray scale by using convolution and correlation, and edges are preserved. The adaptive median is processed to reduce an impulse noise to preserve edges. As the result, MAM of the proposed method enhances the image to about 10% in comparison with Winner filter by Edge Preservation Index and PSNR, and 10% to only adaptive median filtering.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.439-441
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• 2005

A kernel regression filter with adaptive bandwidth is developed and successfully applied to digital reactivity meter for neutron signal measurement in nuclear reactors. The purpose of this work is not only reduction of the measurement noise but also the edge preservation of the reactivity signal. The performance of the filtering algorithm is demonstrated comparing with well known smoothing methods of conventional low-pass and bilateral filters. The developed method gives satisfactory filtering performance and edge preservation capability.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.631-643
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• 2016

Due to the block-based discrete cosine transform (BDCT), JPEG compressed images usually exhibit blocking artifacts. When the bit rates are very low, blocking artifacts will seriously affect the image's visual quality. A bilateral filter has the features for edge-preserving when it smooths images, so we propose an adaptive-weighted bilateral filter based on the features. In this paper, an image-deblocking scheme using this kind of adaptive-weighted bilateral filter is proposed to remove and reduce blocking artifacts. Two parameters of the proposed adaptive-weighted bilateral filter are adaptive-weighted so that it can avoid over-blurring unsmooth regions while eliminating blocking artifacts in smooth regions. This is achieved in two aspects: by using local entropy to control the level of filtering of each single pixel point within the image, and by using an improved blind image quality assessment (BIQA) to control the strength of filtering different images whose blocking artifacts are different. It is proved by our experimental results that our proposed image-deblocking scheme provides good performance on eliminating blocking artifacts and can avoid the over-blurring of unsmooth regions.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.1693-1702
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 화상의 에지를 보존하면 가법성 백색잡음제거를 수행하는 적응 위너 필터를 제안한다. 학습용의 복수의 화상을 준비하여 각 화상을 블록으로 분할하여 블록내부의 에지의 성질에 의해 평탄, 수직, 수평, 대각선 방향(45도, 135도)의 5개의 클래스로 분류한다. 그리고, 클래스마다 공분산 행렬을 구하여 위너 필터를 설계한다. 잡음제거에 의한 블록의 클래스 분류는 각 클래스의 공분산 행렬의 고유 벡터를 이용하여 이루어진다. 각 클래스의 고유 벡터와 노이즈가 부가된 관측화상의 블록과의 내적을 구하여 얻어진 내적 값을 근거로 입력 블록을 적절한 클래스로 분류한다. 클래스 분류 후, 입력 블록의 클래스에 대응한 위너 필터로 교체하는 것으로 에지를 보존한 고정밀도의 화상 복원이 가능하였다. 또한 여러 가지 시뮬레이션을 행하여 제안 방법의 유용성도 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.322-326
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• 1988

The sigma filter is a nonlinear filter of modifying average filter to develop edge-preserving characteristics. However, this filter is yet weak to the impulsive noise such as BSC noise. Therefore it has not been used so highly in the image restoration area. In this paper, We propose an adaptive image restoration algorithm using the local statistic and the characteristic of human eyes in order to compensate its drawback and to improve its performance. The performance of the proposed algorithm and the vonventional ones are compared for images degraded by BSC noise. The proposed algorithm shows better performance than the median filter and yields 5 dB performance improvement over the convertional K-sigma filter on SNR gain.