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Human Visual System based Automatic Underwater Image Enhancement in NSCT domain

  • Zhou, Yan;Li, Qingwu;Huo, Guanying
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.837-856
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    • 2016
  • Underwater image enhancement has received considerable attention in last decades, due to the nature of poor visibility and low contrast of underwater images. In this paper, we propose a new automatic underwater image enhancement algorithm, which combines nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain enhancement techniques with the mechanism of the human visual system (HVS). We apply the multiscale retinex algorithm based on the HVS into NSCT domain in order to eliminate the non-uniform illumination, and adopt the threshold denoising technique to suppress underwater noise. Our proposed algorithm incorporates the luminance masking and contrast masking characteristics of the HVS into NSCT domain to yield the new HVS-based NSCT. Moreover, we define two nonlinear mapping functions. The first one is used to manipulate the HVS-based NSCT contrast coefficients to enhance the edges. The second one is a gain function which modifies the lowpass subband coefficients to adjust the global dynamic range. As a result, our algorithm can achieve contrast enhancement, image denoising and edge sharpening automatically and simultaneously. Experimental results illustrate that our proposed algorithm has better enhancement performance than state-of-the-art algorithms both in subjective evaluation and quantitative assessment. In addition, our algorithm can automatically achieve underwater image enhancement without any parameter tuning.

Enhancing Global Research Visibility of Faculty Staffs by the Academic libraries in Public Universities in South East, Nigeria

  • Francisca C. MBAGWU;Judith S. NSE;Jacintha EZE;Ijeoma Irene BERNARD
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.29-46
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    • 2024
  • Academic libraries are at the forefront of supporting their parent institutions in teaching and learning, research activities, and community services for the students and faculty members, but, the researchers observed that some of the research emanating from faculty members in academic institutions particularly universities remains largely unknown, unrecognized and invisible on the global scene. This present paper is therefore a modest attempt towards addressing the issue of enhancing the faculty research visibility in the institutions of higher learning by the academic libraries. It also examines the extent academic libraries in public universities in Nigeria use research visibility channels to increase the global visibility of their faculty members. Difficulties encountered by librarians and ways of tackling the visibility of the faculty were also examined. A descriptive survey research design was adopted and the population consisted of all the 162 librarians in public universities in South-East (S.E), Nigeria. Telephone calls and Online Questionnaire were used for data collection. The number of librarians was obtained through phone calls from the Heads of each of the Libraries. The Online Questionnaire was submitted to the WhatsApp platforms of librarians in Nigeria- Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) and Chartered Librarians in Nigeria Connect (CLN-Connect). The questionnaire was structured in such a way that only the Librarians in Public universities in the S.E. Nigeria will respond to it. At the end of the day only 120 librarians responded, at a response rate of 74%. The study was analysed using tables, percentages and charts. The study recommended that librarians who are unaware of RVCs and its utilization should go for training to acquire the knowledge that will enable them enhance the global visibility of faculty staff, Management of Public universities in S.E, Nigeria should in addition to addressing copyright issues by the use of disclaimer notices and creative common licensing and provision of infrastructural facilities e.g. steady power supply, High power brand Internet connectivity, establishment of an Institutional Repository, etc, also should mandate the faculty staff to release their productive work to the library for onward submission to the RVCs platforms for enhancement of their global visibility.

Visibility Enhancement of Laccase-Based Time Temperature Integrator Color by Increasing Opacity

  • Kim, Hyun Chul;Cha, Hee Jin;Shin, Dong Un;Koo, Yong Keun;Cho, Hye Won;Lee, Seung Ju
    • 한국포장학회지
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    • 제27권2호
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    • pp.101-107
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    • 2021
  • Time-temperature integrators (TTIs) based on aqueous enzyme solutions produce transparent colors which lead to difficulty in distinguishing its color change by naked eye. In this present study, this issue has been solved by increasing the opacity of laccase-based TTI without changes in the kinetics (same zero-order reaction) and temperature dependency (similar Arrhenius activation energy values) of the color change. The opacity was increased by introducing TiO2, latex, BaSO4, or ZnO, in combination with a hydrocolloid (xanthan gum, acacia gum, pectin, and CMC) into the TTI system. The combination of TiO2 and xanthan gum was the best. This finding broadened the advantages of laccase-based TTI to more practical uses for consumer convenience.

색 재현 개선을 위한 CIELAB 색 공간 기반의 향상된 Multi -scale Retinex (Enhanced Integrated Multi-scale Retinex based on CIELAB Color Space for Improving Color Reproduction)

  • 경왕준;이태형;이철희;하영호
    • 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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    • 제48권1호
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2011
  • 본 논문에서는 디지털 영상의 지역적 계조 재현과 함께 입력 영상의 색상을 유지하는 영상 향상 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 지역적 계조 재현 방법인 통합된 다중 크기의 Retinex는 영상이 가지는 어두운 영역의 가시성 향상을 통한 향상된 계조 재현 결과를 가져왔다. 그러나 IMSR을 포함한 대부분의 지역적 계조 재현 방법은 RGB 색 공간에서 수행되어 인간시각시스템에 의해 인지되는 색상의 왜곡이 발생하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 색상의 왜곡을 줄이는 계조 재현을 위하여 장치 독립적인 CIELAB 색 공간에서 색상를 유지하고 높은 대비와 자연스러운 영상을 얻기 위한 계조 재현 및 채도 보상 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 먼저 CIELAB 색 공간에서 $L^*$값에 대해 IMSR 정규화 및 단순한 사상 함수를 수행하여 가시성을 향상 시킨다. 또한, sRGB 색역 경계값을 이용하여 LC 평면에서 밝기 변화에 대한 선형적인 채도 보상을 수행하였다. 그 결과 입력 영상의 계조 재현을 통해 가시성이 향상되었고, 기존의 IMSR과 비교하여 색상의 왜곡이 줄었으며, 주관적인 평가를 수행하여 비교 평가 하였다.

악천후로 저하된 영상 화질의 실시간 개선 (Real Time Enhancement of Images Degraded by Bad Weather)

  • 김재민;연승호
    • 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.143-151
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    • 2014
  • 악천후로 인하여 화질이 저하된 영상은 사물의 경계에 해당하는 에지 부분이 흐려진다. 본 논문에서는 에지를 최대한으로 선명하게 하여 영상의 시인성을 향상 시키는 화질 개선 방법을 제안한다. 우선 영상의 밝기 필드에서 극점들을 찾아 에지 후보 영역으로 선택하고, 선택된 에지의 측면에 있는 화소들의 밝기로 히스토그램을 형성한다. 형성된 히스토그램의 극소점을 기반으로 히스토그램을 다수의 모드로 분해한다. 모드가 구해지면, 영상 필드에서 에지에 의하여 연결된 모드들을 구하고, 연결된 모드들의 연결 고리를 구한다. 최종적으로 가장 긴 연결 고리를 형성하는 모드간의 간격을 최대한으로 벌린다. 이 때 최소 밝기 모드와 최대 밝기 모드는 화소 밝기 범위 이내에 있어야 한다. 이와 같이 모드의 간격을 벌림으로써 에지를 선명하게 하고 영상의 시인성을 향상한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 적은 연산량으로 기존의 방법만큼 좋은 성능으로 화질을 개선함을 보여준다.

Edge-Preserving and Adaptive Transmission Estimation for Effective Single Image Haze Removal

  • Kim, Jongho
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • 제12권2호
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2020
  • This paper presents an effective single image haze removal using edge-preserving and adaptive transmission estimation to enhance the visibility of outdoor images vulnerable to weather and environmental conditions with computational complexity reduction. The conventional methods involve the time-consuming refinement process. The proposed transmission estimation however does not require the refinement, since it preserves the edges effectively, which selects one between the pixel-based dark channel and the patch-based dark channel in the vicinity of edges. Moreover, we propose an adaptive transmission estimation to improve the visual quality particularly in bright areas like sky. Experimental results with various hazy images represent that the proposed method is superior to the conventional methods in both subjective visual quality and computational complexity. The proposed method can be adopted to compose a haze removal module for realtime devices such as mobile devices, digital cameras, autonomous vehicles, and so on as well as PCs that have enough processing resources.

핵발전소의 증기발생기 비파괴 평가를 위한 초음파 스펙클 감소 기술 (Ultrasonic Speckle Surpression Technique for Nondestructive Evaluation of Steam Generator in Nuclear Power plants)

  • 이영석;조현섭
    • 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국산학기술학회 2005년도 춘계학술발표논문집
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    • pp.151-154
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we present a ultrasonic speckle suppression method for centrifugal-casted stainless steel sample by computer simulations of a flaw enhancement algorithm. Because of their practical importance in welds, the ultrasonic signal obtained from heat-affected zone or welds are investigated for computer simulation. The results for computer simulation present the more enhanced flaw-visibility and speckle suppression than the compared two techniques.

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Applied Video Statistics

  • Beek, W.H.M. Van;Cordes, C.N.;Raman, N.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보디스플레이학회 2005년도 International Meeting on Information Displayvol.II
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    • pp.1584-1587
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    • 2005
  • Although the picture quality of today's displays is very good already, a continuous improvement is desirable as the new larger display sizes increase the visibility of artifacts. A contributing factor for picture quality enhancement through smart video processing and algorithm design is the information gathered from video statistics. Interesting parameters gathered from video statistics are e.g. the image- and display load, the usage of the color gamut, the estimated power consumption and the occurrence of static image parts. Examples of applications that can benefit from video statistics are power calculations, color gamut mapping algorithms, dynamic backlight control for LCD panels and LED backlights for LCD panels.

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비전기반 지능형 자동차를 위한 도로 주행 영상 개선 방법 (Road Image Enhancement Method for Vision-based Intelligent Vehicle)

  • 김승규;박대용;최영우
    • 인지과학
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    • 제25권1호
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    • pp.51-71
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    • 2014
  • 본 논문에서는 도로 주행에서 취득한 영상을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 일반적인 도로주행 영상은 다양한 조명 환경과 날씨 상태로 인하여 선명하지 못한 영상이 취득되기도 한다. 특히 역광이나 야간에는 품질이 좋은 선명한 영상을 얻기가 더욱 어려우며, 이는 비전기반 지능형 자동차 기술의 응용에 많은 어려움을 준다. 인간의 시각 인지방법은 여러 가지조명 조건을 고려하여 색을 지각한다. 하지만 기존의 영상 개선 방법들은 광원의 위치와 광도, 기하학적 관계를 고려하지 않기 때문에 완벽한 결과를 얻기가 어려우며, 오히려 영상의 질이 떨어지는 경우도 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 1) 주어진 입력 영상의 전처리 과정을 수행한 후, 2) 선명도를 추정하여 색채의 대비를 평가하고, 3) 과대 및 과소평가 결과를 전처리된 영상과 혼합하여 사람이 지각하는 색상과 같이 개선된 영상을 얻는 효과적인 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 시각적으로 개선된 결과를 보여줄 뿐만 아니라 비전기반 지능형 자동차 기술의 한 응용분야인 교통표지판 검출의 전처리 과정으로 적용되어 성능이 향상됨을 확인할 수 있었다.