• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.379-385
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• 2009

The vergence control of binocular stereoscopic camera is the most essential factor for acquiring high quality stereoscopic images. In this paper, we proposed a binocular stereoscopic camera vergence control method using disparity information by the simple image processing and estimate the quantity of vergence control using the Lagrange interpolation equation. The method of extracting disparity information through image processing is as follows: first the key-object in left & right images was extracted through labeling of the central area of the image, and then a simple method was used for calculating the disparity value of the same key-object in the labeled left and right images. The vergence control method uses disparity information and keeps the convergence distance of left & right cameras and the distance of the key-object the same. According to the proposed method, variance in the distance of the key-object and application of calculated disparity information of obtained left & right images to the quadratic Lagrange interpolation equation could estimate the quantity of vergence control, which confirmed that the method of stereoscopic camera vergence control can be simplified through experiments on various key-objects and other convergence distance.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.341-344
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• 2014

This study proposes a modified sub-aperture stitching algorithm, which uses an image sharpening algorithm and particle swarm optimization to improve the stitching accuracy. In sub-aperture stitching interferometers with high positional accuracy, the high-frequency components of measurements are more important than the low-frequency components when compensating for position errors using a sub-aperture stitching algorithm. Thus we use image sharpening algorithms to strengthen the high-frequency components of measurements. When using image sharpening algorithms, sub-aperture stitching algorithms based on the least-squares method easily become trapped at locally optimal solutions. However, particle swarm optimization is less likely to become trapped at a locally optimal solution, thus we utilized this method to develop a more robust algorithm. The results of simulations showed that our algorithm compensated for position errors more effectively than the existing algorithm. An experimental comparison with full aperture-testing results demonstrated the validity of the new algorithm.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2010

Existing methods for the registration of blurred images are efficient for the artificially blurred images or a planar registration, but not suitable for the naturally blurred images existing in the real image mosaic process. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this problem and propose a method for a distortion-free stitching of naturally blurred images for image mosaic. It adopts a multi-resolution and robust feature based inter-layer mosaic together. In each layer, Harris corner detector is chosen to effectively detect features and RANSAC is used to find reliable matches for further calibration as well as an initial homography as the initial motion of next layer. Simplex and subspace trust region methods are used consequently to estimate the stable focal length and rotation matrix through the transformation property of feature matches. In order to stitch multiple images together, an iterative registration strategy is also adopted to estimate the focal length of each image. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.3364-3382
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• 2023

Remote sensing image segmentation plays an important role in realizing intelligent city construction. The current mainstream segmentation networks effectively improve the segmentation effect of remote sensing images by deeply mining the rich texture and semantic features of images. But there are still some problems such as rough results of small target region segmentation and poor edge contour segmentation. To overcome these three challenges, we propose an improved semantic segmentation model, referred to as MRU-Net, which adopts the U-Net architecture as its backbone. Firstly, the convolutional layer is replaced by BasicBlock structure in U-Net network to extract features, then the activation function is replaced to reduce the computational load of model in the network. Secondly, a hybrid multi-scale recognition module is added in the encoder to improve the accuracy of image segmentation of small targets and edge parts. Finally, test on Massachusetts Buildings Dataset and WHU Dataset the experimental results show that compared with the original network the ACC, mIoU and F1 value are improved, and the imposed network shows good robustness and portability in different datasets.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.1109-1116
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new and fast method for assigning the number of key frames to each shot. At first we segment the entire video sequence into elementary content unit called shots and then the key frame allocation is performed by calculating the accumulated value of AF(activity function). The proposed algorithm is based on the amount of content variation using DC images extracted from compressed video. By assigning the number of key frames to the shot that has the largest value of content function, one key frame is assigned at a time until you run out of given all key frames. The main advantage of our proposed method is that we do not need to use time-exhaustive computations in allocating the key frames over the shot and can perform it fully automatically.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.280-285
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• 2015

Double random phase encryption (DRPE) is one of the well-known optical encryption techniques, and many techniques with DRPE have been developed for information security. However, most of these techniques may not solve the fundamental security problem caused by using fixed phase masks for DRPE. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a key phase mask updating scheme for DRPE to improve its security, where a spatial light modulator (SLM) is used to implement key phase mask updating. In the proposed scheme, updated key data are obtained by using previous image data and the first phase mask used in encryption. The SLM with the updated key is used as the second phase mask for encryption. We provide a detailed description of the method of encryption and decryption for a DRPE system using the proposed key updating scheme, and simulation results are also shown to verify that the proposed key updating scheme can enhance the security of the original DRPE.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2008

본 논문은 plaintext 및 image encryption을 위해 암호화의 원리를 이론적으로 고찰하였다. 암호화 방법에 있어서 과거 암호화 방법은 단순히 문자를 치환(permutation cipher 또는 transposition cipher) 하거나 이동하는 방법으로 이용되어 왔으나, 현재는 key stream generator를 이용하는 방식이 이용되고 있다. 즉 평문에 key를 생성하여 암호 및 해독한다. 즉 key를 생성하는 방법에 따라서 암호화의 체계가 달라지는 것이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 암호화의 원리 및 도구를 고찰하고, 대표적으로, XOR 연산자 및 key stream generator 가정하에서 암호화 원리를 고찰하였다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 간섭계와 직렬 위상 키를 이용한 안정한 광 보안 시스템을 제안하였다. 먼저 암호화를 위해 원영상을 재생할 수 있는 이진 위상 컴퓨터형성홀로그램을 반복 알고리듬을 이용하여 설계하며, 이를 암호화할 영상으로 간주하여 랜덤하게 발생시킨 위상 키 영상과의 XOR 연산을 통해 암호화한다. 홀로그램의 복호화 과정은 암호화된 영상과 암호화시에 사용된 무작위 위상 키 영상을 직렬 정합시킨 후, 기준파와의 간섭에 의해 수행된다. 그리고 복호화된 홀로그램 영상은 위상 변조한 후, 역푸리에 변환하여 최종적으로 구한다. 이 과정동안 간섭세기는 주위 진동에 상당히 민감하다. 그래서 광굴절매질의 자기 위상공액성질을 이용하여 안정된 간섭패턴을 얻는다. 제안된 암호화 시스템에서는 암호화시에 사용된 무작위 키 영상 정보가 없으면 원영상이 전혀 복원 되지 않고, 키 영상을 달리함에 따라 복원되는 홀로그램의 패턴을 달리할 수 있으므로 차별화된 인증 시스템에 활용할 수 있다.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2023

딥러닝 기반의 이미지 세그멘테이션은 차선 인식을 위해 널리 사용되는 접근 방식 중 하나로, 차선의 키포인트를 추출하기 위한 후처리 과정이 필요하다. 일반적으로 키포인트는 사용자가 지정한 임계값을 기준으로 추출한다. 하지만 최적의 임계값을 찾는 과정은 큰 노력을 요구하며, 데이터 세트(또는 이미지)마다 최적의 값이 다를 수 있다. 본 연구는 사용자의 직접 임계값 지정 대신, 대상의 이미지에 맞추어 적절한 임계값을 자동으로 설정하는 키포인트 추출 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문의 키포인트 추출 알고리즘은 차선 영역과 배경의 명확한 구분을 위해 줄 단위 정규화를 사용한다. 그리고 커널 밀도 추정을 사용하여, 각 줄에서 각 차선의 키포인트를 추출한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 TuSimple과 CULane 데이터 세트에 적용되었으며, 고정된 임계값 사용 대비 정확도 및 거리오차 측면에서 1.80%p와 17.27% 향상된 결과를 얻는 것을 확인하였다.

• 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.