• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.561-571
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• 2012

변조전달함수(MTF; Modulation Transfer Function)는 광학영상의 성능을 평가하는 중요한 품질 요소 중 하나이다. 영상의 MTF 증진을 위해 영상 복원이 필요하나, 이 과정은 대표적인 부적합문제(ill-posed problem)의 하나로 특정한 해를 갖지 않는다. 영상 복원을 위한 필터에는 역 필터(IF; Inverse Filter), 의사 역 필터(PIF; Pseudo Inverse Filter), Wiener Filter(WF) 등이 있다. 이들 중 가장 일반적으로 사용되고 있는 WF는 촬영된 영상 내에서 영상과 잡음을 정확히 구분하기 어렵다는 한계를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 Modified Wiener Filter(MWF)를 사용하여 부적절 문제를 풀 수 있도록 문제를 정규화 하였으며, 정규화 변수(regularization parameter)의 값을 찾기 위한 방법으로 L-곡선(L-curve)을 사용하였다. MWF의 검증을 위해 Dubaisat-1 위성의 영상을 의사 역 필터(PIF), Wiener Filter(WF), MWF로 영상 복원을 수행하였다. 복원 결과, MWF를 사용했을 때가 PIF를 사용했을 때의 결과에 비해 20.93%, WF를 사용했을 때의 결과에 비해 10.85% 더 향상된 MTF를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.783-788
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a new approach to detect and recognize human face in the image from vision camera equipped on the mobile robot platform. Due to the mobility of camera platform, obtained facial image is small and pose-various. For this condition, new algorithm should cope with these constraints and can detect and recognize face in nearly real time. In detection step, ‘coarse to fine’ detection strategy is used. Firstly, region boundary including face is roughly located by dual ellipse templates of facial color and on this region, the locations of three main facial features- two eyes and mouth-are estimated. For this, simplified facial feature maps using characteristic chrominance are made out and candidate pixels are segmented as eye or mouth pixels group. These candidate facial features are verified whether the length and orientation of feature pairs are suitable for face geometry. In recognition step, pseudo-convex hull area of gray face image is defined which area includes feature triangle connecting two eyes and mouth. And random lattice line set are composed and laid on this convex hull area, and then 2D appearance of this area is represented. From these procedures, facial information of detected face is obtained and face DB images are similarly processed for each person class. Based on facial information of these areas, distance measure of match of lattice lines is calculated and face image is recognized using this measure as a classifier. This proposed detection and recognition algorithms overcome the constraints of previous approach [15], make real-time face detection and recognition possible, and guarantee the correct recognition irregardless of some pose variation of face. The usefulness at mobile robot application is demonstrated.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 영상의 웨이브렛 변환계수의 양자화를 위하여 입력영상의 통계적 성질에 영향을 받지 않고 부호화 결과에 범용성을 갖는 새로운 벡터 양자화기의 설계법을 제안한다. 부호화 대상영상의 상관과 에지성분의 양 등이 웨이브렛 변환영역에서의 양자화기 설계에 중용한 요소인 것을 밝힌다. 기존의 벡터 양자화기의 가장 큰 문제점은 양자화대상 영상과 대표 벡터를 생성하기 위한 학습계열간의 통계적 성질의 불일치에 의한 부호화 성능의 열화이다. 그리하여 본 논문에서는 웨이브렛 변환계수의 양자화에 적합한 벡터양자화기의 대표 벡터를 생성하기 위한 학습계열로, 독립난수에 영상의 상관과 에지성분을 첨가한 모사 영상을 사용하여 종래 방식의 문제점을 해결하는 방법에 대하여 검토하였다. 제안 방식에 의해 설계된 벡터양자화기와 대표벡터 생성에 이용하는 학습계열에 부호화 대상이 되는 영상과 같은 실영상을 사용한 종래 방식에 의해 설계된 벡터양자화기와 부호화 성능을 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 비교하여 종래 방식의 문제점을 명확하게 밝히고, 아울러 제안방식으로 설계한 벡터양자화기가 부호화 성능이 우수함을 입증한다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.141-143
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 기존의 MLCA(Maximum length CA) 및 여원 MLCA를 이용한 영상 암호화의 문제점을 제시하고 이를 해결하기 위한 암호화 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 암호화 방법은 영상에서 인접한 픽셀간의 공간적 중복성(Spatial redundancy)으로 인해 암호화의 결과가 원 영상에 많은 영향을 받는 문제점이 있다. 본 방법에서는 MLCA 기반의 난수열을 생성하고, 이를 이용해 픽셀의 공간좌표를 암호화된 공간좌표로 변환한다. 이후 영상의 픽셀 값을 난수열과 XOR 연산을 취해 색상정보를 암호화한다. 이러한 방법은 원 영상의 픽셀 값뿐만 아니라 공간좌표를 암호화하기 때문에 픽셀의 공간적 중복성으로 인한 문제점을 해결할 수 있으며 암호화 수준을 향상시킨다. 히스토그램 분석, 키공간 분석을 통해 본 암호화 방법의 유효성을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 기반의 이미지 워터마킹 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안한 방법은 원영상의 주파수 영역에 의사 잡음 코드를 첨가하여 워터마크 된 디지털 영상을 만드는 것이다. 또한, 원영상은 워터마킹 검출을 위해 사용되어지고, 부가되는 서명의 강도는 원영상에 따라 달라지므로, 적합한 신호를 제안된 방법에 의해 산출 할 수가 있었다. 실험 결과, 제안된 방법이 주파수 영역에서 기존의 사설 방식에 비해 우수한 변조방지와 낮은 가시성을 보임을 나타내었다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.578-582
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• 2009

Computer-Generated Hologram (CGH) is generally made by Fourier Transform. CGH is made by an optical reconstruction. Computer-Generated Pseudo Hologram (CGPH) is made up Complex Hadamard Transform instead of CGH which is made by the Fourier Transform. CGPH differs from CGH in point of view the possibility of optical reconstruction. There is an advantage that it cannot be optical reconstruction, in other word, physical leakage of the confidential information is impossible. In this paper, a binary image was converted in Complex Hadamard Transform, and CGPH was made. Improvement of the reconstructed image from CGPH is done by error diffusion method and iterative method. The result that the reconstructed image is improved is shown.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2003

Image processing technique was adapted for exploring the more convenient ways to investigate the drying characteristics of wood. The acquisition of information about drying characteristics is indispensable for the development or improvement of dry-kiln schedules. A small internal fan type wood dry kiln was combined with image-processing and data-acquisition systems to monitor continuously the formation of checks and moisture reduction during drying. All the images and data were analyzed to improve or estimate the dry-kiln schedules and predict the drying time which would be required to dry green wood to 10% moisture content in internal fan type kiln. Samples of 20 mm- and 50 mm-thick Metasequoia glyptostrobodies, Paulownia coreana Uyeki, Pinus densiflora Sieb. Et Zucc., Platanus occidentalis L., Quercus acutissima and Robinia pseudo-acacia were used to verify the potentiality of this technique.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 학술회의 논문집 정보 및 제어부문 A
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• pp.191-194
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new accurate and robust image mosaic technique of the mural underdrawing taken from the infra-red camera, which is based on multiple image registration and adaptive blending technique. The image mosaicing methods which have been developed so far have the following deficits. It is hard to generate a high resolution image when there are regions that do not have features or intensity gradients, and there is a trade-off in overlapping region site in view of registration and blending. We consider these issues as follows. First, in order to mosaic Images with neither noticeable features nor intensity gradients, we use a Projected supplementary pattern and pseudo color image for features in the image Pieces which are registered. Second, we search the overlapping region size with minimum blending error between two adjacent images and then apply blending technique to minimum error overlapping region. Finally, we could find our proposed method is more effective and efficient for image mosaicing than conventional mosaic techniques and also is more adequate for the application of infra-red mural underdrawing mosaicing. Experimental results show the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.4588-4603
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a high-quality image authentication scheme based on absolute moment block truncation coding. In the proposed scheme, we use the parity of the bitmap (BM) to generate the authentication code for each compressed image block. Data hiding is used to authenticate whether the content has been altered or not. For image authentication, we embed the authentication code to quantization levels of each image block compressed by absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) which will be altered when the host image is manipulated. The embedding position is generated by a pseudo-random number generator for security concerned. Besides, to improve the detection ability we use a hierarchical structure to ensure the accuracy of tamper localization. A watermarked image can be precisely inspected whether it has been tampered intentionally or incautiously by checking the extracted watermark. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme achieved high-quality embedded images and good detection accuracy, with stable performance and high expansibility. Performance comparisons with other block-based data hiding schemes are provided to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.75-86
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• 2022

The existing image quality assessment (IQA) datasets have a small number of samples. Some methods based on transfer learning or data augmentation cannot make good use of image quality-related features. A No Reference (NR)-IQA method based on multi-task training and quality awareness is proposed. First, single or multiple distortion types and levels are imposed on the original image, and different strategies are used to augment different types of distortion datasets. With the idea of weak supervision, we use the Full Reference (FR)-IQA methods to obtain the pseudo-score label of the generated image. Then, we combine the classification information of the distortion type, level, and the information of the image quality score. The ResNet50 network is trained in the pre-train stage on the augmented dataset to obtain more quality-aware pre-training weights. Finally, the fine-tuning stage training is performed on the target IQA dataset using the quality-aware weights to predicate the final prediction score. Various experiments designed on the synthetic distortions and authentic distortions datasets (LIVE, CSIQ, TID2013, LIVEC, KonIQ-10K) prove that the proposed method can utilize the image quality-related features better than the method using only single-task training. The extracted quality-aware features improve the accuracy of the model.