• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.11
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• pp.44-53
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• 1999

This paper proposes an algorithm that postprocesses wavelet-compressed images by using regularized iterative image restoration. First, an appropriate modeling the image degradation system for wavelet-compression system is needed. Then, the method which uses one of nonlinear functions as constraint in regularized iterative restoration is proposed in order to remove coding artifacts efficiently, such as ringing artifact and blocking artifact, resulted from loss of high frequency coefficients. Lastly, experimental results show superiority of proposed algorithm as compared with existing algorithm.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.1521-1530
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• 2004

In this paper, we present effective quantization noise reduction algorithm using signal adaptive filter and linear combination between blocks in multimedia system. In the proposed method, all of the blocks are classified into low frequency blocks, high frequency blocks, and midrange blocks according to DCT coefficients. Ringing artifacts are shown in high frequency blocks. So ringing artifact reduction algorithm is performed in high frequency blocks using a signal adaptive filter. And the blocking artifact reduction is performed by replacing the pixel value of blocky blocks using linear combination between blocky block and remote unblocky block. The simulation results shows better performance in respective of the subjective and objective image quality than the conventional method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.139-146
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• 1998

This paper proposes a regularized iterative image restoration using method of conjugate gradient considering a priori information. Compared with conventional regularized method of conjugate gradient, this method has merits to prevent the artifacts by ringing effects and the partial magnification of the noise in the course of restoring the image degraded by blur and additive noise. Proposed method applies the constraints to accelerate the convergence ratio near the edge portions, and the regularized parameter suppresses the magnification of the noise. As experimental results, I show the superior convergence ratio and the suppression by the artifacts of the proposed method compared with conventional methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.3245-3271
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• 2016

To obtain well-dehazed images at the receiver while sustaining low bit rates in the transmission pipeline, this paper investigates the effects of image dehazing methods using dehazing contrast-enhancement filters on image compression for surveillance systems. At first, this paper proposes a novel image dehazing method by using a new method of calculating the transmission function—namely, the direct denoising method. Next, we deduce the dehazing effects of the direct denoising method and image dehazing method based on dark channel prior (DCP) on image compression in terms of ringing artifacts and blocking artifacts. It can be concluded that the direct denoising method performs better than the DCP method for decompressed (reconstructed) images. We also improve the direct denoising method to obtain more desirable dehazed images with higher contrast, using the saliency map as the guidance image to modify the transmission function. Finally, we adjust the parameters of dehazing contrast-enhancement filters to obtain a corresponding composite peak signal-to-noise ratio (CPSNR) and blind image quality assessment (BIQA) of the decompressed images. Experimental results show that different filters have different effects on image compression. Moreover, our proposed dehazing method can strike a balance between image dehazing and image compression.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.645-648
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 H.26L 동영상 압축 표준화 방식에서 블록화 및 링 현상을 동시에 제거하는 계산량이 감소된 일차원 loop filter를 제안한다. 새로운 일차원 정규화 완화 함수가 정의되고 두 개의 인접 방향에서 완화의 정도를 조절하는 정규화 매개변수는 부호화와 복호화 부에서 이용 가능한 코드화 블록 패턴과 양자화 스텝크기로 정의된다. 그러므로, 정규화 매개변수를 정의하고 압축된 동영상으로부터 복원된 영상을 얻기 위한 기타 정보는 필요하지 않다. 실험결과로부터 제안된 알고리즘의 성능은 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.32-39
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• 2012

This paper develops a robust image enhancement method by adjusting image signal energy according to the direction and the variation of image signal in DCT domain. To accomplish this, we measure the gradient of image signal directly in DCT domain and then adjust frequency components involved in sharpness, local contrast and global contrast using the direction and the magnitude of the measured gradient The experiment showed that the proposed method produces the best quality of an image without causing blocking, ringing artifacts and boosting noise.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.172-179
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 hybrid MC/DCT 기법을 이용한 압축 영상의 블록화 및 링 현상을 동시에 제거하는 기법이 제안된다. 압축 영상의 블록화 링 현상은 블록간, 블록 내에서 다른 특성이 있고, 수평. 수직 방향의 상관 관계에 따라 다를 수 있으며, 영상 사이의 일정 상관 관계에 따라 다르게 형성된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 블록간, 블록 내부, 수평수직 방향성, 그리고 시간 영역의 정보를 이용하여 새로운 부가 완화 함수를 정의하며, 최적 해를 구하기 위해 gradient와 양자화 과정으로부터 설정할 수 있는 비선형 연산을 이용한 projection을 결합시킨 hybrid 형태의 기법이 제안된다. 또한, 정규화 계수들은 부호화단에서 이용 가능한 정보로부터 예측하여 기존 방식이 있던 계산량이 이득을 얻을 수 있다. 실험 결과로부터 제안된 방식의 주관적, 객관적 성능 향상을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.8-11
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• 2013

We implement the foveation and frequency sensitivity feature of human visual system in discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. Resolution of human visual perception decays as distance from the eye-focused point, known as foveation property, and the middle frequency components give most pleasant image quality to human than the low and high frequency components, which is the frequency sensitivity property of human visual system. For satisfying the foveation property, we enhanced the local contrast at the focused regions and smoothed local contrast at the non-focused regions in the DCT domain without bringing the blocking and ringing artifacts. Moreover, the energies at each DCT frequency components is modified with various degree to fulfill the frequency sensitivity property. The proposed method is verified by the subjective and objective evaluations that it can the improve the human perceptual visual quality.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07g
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• pp.3224-3226
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• 1999

This paper introduces a nonlinear wavelet transform based on the lifting scheme, which is applied to signal denoising through the translation invariant wavelet transform. The wavelet representation using orthogonal wavelet bases has received widespread attention. Recently the lifting scheme has been developed for the construction of biorthogonal wavelets in the spatial domain. In this paper, we adaptively reduce the vanishing moments in the discontinuities to suppress the ringing artifacts and this customizes wavelet transforms providing an efficient framework for the translation invariant denoising. Special care has been given to the boundaries, where we design a set of different prediction coefficients to reduce the prediction error.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.105-111
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a locally adaptive image restoration method based on nonlinear extrapolation in frequency domain. In general, the conventional method causes ringing artifacts on the object boundary. To solve this problem, we introduce an improved restoration method which considers textures of an image block. In the proposed method, a blurred image is divided into several blocks, and each block is classified into three groups; simple, one edge, and complex blocks according to the contained texture. Depending on the classification result, adaptive nonlinear extrapolation is applied to each block in a blurred image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve higher quality image in both subjective and objective views as compared with the conventional method.