• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.293-296
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• 2003

The enhancement of fingerprint image is necessary to improve the performance of fingerprint recognition. The enhancement of fingerprint image with Gabor Filter(GF) is widely used. However GF has the weakness such as long processing time and the sensitivity to ridge frequency. To overcome these weaknesses, we propose a Modified Anisotropic Gaussian Filter(MAGF) which is modified from Anisotropic Filter proposed by S. Greenburg's(SAF). This proposed MAGF can reduce the calculation time of ridge frequency and improve the weakness of sensitivity to ridge frequency. We also explained that MAGF is better than others mathematically and experimentally.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.2928-2947
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• 2015

Adaptive Gaussian filter (AGF) is a recently developed switching filter to remove salt and pepper noise. AGF first directly identifies pixels of gray levels 0 and 255 as noise pixels, and then only restored noise pixels using a Gaussian filter with adaptive variance based on the estimated noise density. AGF usually achieves better denoising effect in comparison with other filters. However, AGF still fails to obtain good denoising effect on images with noise-free pixels of gray levels 0 and 255, due to its severe false alarm in its noise detection stage. To alleviate this issue, a modified version of AGF is proposed in this paper. Specifically, the proposed filter first performs noise detection via an image block based noise density estimation and sequential noise density guided rectification on the noise detection result of AGF. Then, a modified Gaussian filter with adaptive variance and window size is used to restore the detected noise pixels. The proposed filter has been extensively evaluated on two representative grayscale images and the Berkeley image dataset BSDS300 with 300 images. Experimental results showed that the proposed filter achieved better denoising effect over the state-of-the-art filters, especially on images with noise-free pixels of gray levels 0 and 255.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.2261-2268
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• 2010

대부분의 이미지 센서로 촬영된 영상 정보는 데이터의 저장 혹은 전송 과정에서 외부 잡음이 유입되며, 그로 인하여 원 영상의 훼손이 발생한다. 노이즈 리덕션 (Noise Reduction, NR)은 이러한 훼손된 영상을 원 영상에 가깝도록 복원하는 기법의 하나이다. 본 논문은 기존에 제안하였던 모디파이드 시그마 필터 (Modified Sigma Filter, MSF)를 이용한 노이즈 리덕션의 성능을 검증하기 위한 것으로, 가우시안 필터 (Gaussian Filter, GF)와 로컬 시그마 필터 (Local Sigma Filter, LSF)를 이용한 노이즈 리덕션과의 성능을 비교하였다. 입력영상에 임의의 가우시안 노이즈를 추가하여 테스트 영상을 생성하였으며, PSNR 수치 비교를 통하여 세 가지 필터를 이용한 노이즈 리덕션의 성능을 비교하였다. PSNR뿐 아니라 시뮬레이션 결과 영상의 1D plot을 통하여, 평탄 영역의 노이즈 제거 기능뿐 아니라 윤곽선영역의 훼손 방지에 있어서 모디파이드 시그마 필터를 이용한 노이즈 리덕션의 성능이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.54-60
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• 2021

Various digital devices were supplied throughout the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Accordingly, the importance of data processing has increased. Data processing significantly affects equipment reliability. Thus, the importance of data processing has increased, and various studies have been conducted on this topic. This study proposes a modified Gaussian filter algorithm based on a fuzzy membership function. The proposed algorithm calculates the Gaussian filter weight considering the standard deviation of the filtering mask and computes an estimate according to the fuzzy membership function. The final output is calculated by adding or subtracting the Gaussian filter output and estimate. To evaluate the proposed algorithm, simulations were conducted using existing additive white Gaussian noise removal algorithms. The proposed algorithm was then analyzed by comparing the peak signal-to-noise ratio and differential image. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has superior noise reduction performance and improved performance compared to the existing method.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.179-181
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 국부 통계 특성을 이용한 임펄스 노이즈 영상의 적응적 노이즈 검출 및 변형된 형태의 Gaussian 노이즈 제거 기법에 대해 제안한 다. 노이즈 검출을 위한 제약 조건을 결정을 위하여 국부 평균, 국부 분산 그리고 국부 최대값을 이용하였다. 또한 검출된 노이즈 제거를 위한 변형된 형태의 Gaussian 필터를 사용하기 위해 노이즈 정도를 조절하기 위한 튜닝 매개변수(tuning parameter)를 사용하였다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안된 방식이 기존 방식보다 효과적으로 노이즈 검출 및 제거 되었음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권10호
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• pp.2328-2333
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• 2020

The filter technique was applied to noise images, as noise is the significant factor that cause poor image quality due to lower photon counting. The purpose of this study is to confirm that image quality can be improved using the median modified Wiener filter (MMWF) technique; this is achieved via a National Electrical Manufacturers Association International Electrotechnical Commission body phantom with four large spheres that are filled with the ^99mTc radioisotope when evaluating the image quality. Conventional filters such as Wiener, Gaussian, and median filters were designed, and signal to noise ratio, coefficient of variation, and contrast to noise ratio were used as the evaluation parameters. The improvement in the image quality was in the following order, from the least to the highest improvement, in all cases: Wiener filter, Gaussian filter, median filter, and the MMWF technique. The results show that the image quality was improved from 20.6 to 65.5%, 7.4-40.3%, and 12.7-44.7% for the SNR, COV, and CNR values, respectively, when using the MMWF technique, compared with the use of conventional filters. In conclusion, our results demonstrated that the MMWF technique is useful for reducing the noise distribution in gamma camera images.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.591-596
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• 2011

Image denoising is a key issue in all image processing researches. Generally, the quality of an image could be corrupted by a lot of noise due to the undesired conditions of image acquisition phase or during the transmission. Many approaches to image restoration are aimed at removing either Gaussian or impulse noise. Nevertheless, it is possible to find them operating on the same image, which is called mixed noise and it produces a hard damage. In this paper, we proposed noise type classification method and a mixed nonlinear filter for mixed noise suppression. The proposed filtering scheme applies a modified adaptive switching median filter to impulse noise suppression and an efficient nonlinear filer was carried out to remove Gaussian noise. The simulation results based on Matlab show that the proposed method can remove mixed Gaussian and impulse noise efficiently and it can preserve the integrity of edge and keep the detailed information.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2019

We present an explicit numerical algorithm for surface reconstruction from unorganized points using the Gaussian filter. We construct a surface from unorganized points and solve the modified heat equation coupled with a fidelity term which keeps the given points. We apply the operator splitting method. First, instead of solving the diffusion term, we use the Gaussian filter which has the effect of diffusion. Next, we solve the fidelity term by using the fully implicit scheme. To investigate the proposed algorithm, we perform computational experiments and observe good results.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 학술대회지
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• pp.663-666
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• 2004

In this paper, a modified-SOYA (soft output viterbi algorithm) of turbo codes is proposed for quantized channel receiver filter outputs. We derive optimum branch values for the Viterbi algorithm. Here we assume that received filter outputs are quantized and the channel is additive white Gaussian noise. The optimum non-uniform quantizer is used to quantize channel receiver filter outputs. To compare the BER (bit error rate) performance we perform simulations for the modified SOYA algorithm and the general SOYA

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.81-88
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• 2011

Mini Double Gears Frame is critical part of PDP and also produces couple hundred thousand every month. In the process of mass production, product inspection is very important process. Double Gear, one of the part of machine, was inspected by human eyes which caused mistakes and slow progress. To achieve the speed and accuracy the system was compensated by vision system which is inspecting automatically. The focus value is measured based on the fact that high contrast images have much high frequency edge information. High frequency term of the image is extracted using the high-pass filter and the sum of the high frequency term is used as the focus value. We used a Gaussian smoothing filter to reduce the noise and then measures the focus value using the modified Laplacian filter called a Sum modified Laplacian Focus values for the various lens positions are calculated and the position with the maximum focus value is decided as the focused position. The focus values calculated in various lens position showed the Gaussian distribution. We proposed a method to estimate the best focus position using the Gaussian curve fitting. Focus values of the uniform interval lens positions are calculated and the values are used to estimate the Gaussian distribution parameters to find the best focus position.