• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.37-49
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• 2003

Most 3D display systems heavily depend on binocular disparity to produce 3-dimensional depth of a scene. In principle, the vergence angle of the object on fixation and binocular disparity of non-fixated objects vary with the inter-pupillary distance(IPD) of the observer. However, most stereo systems provide the identical stereo image pairs regardless of the observers' IPD, which may result in variation in the perceived depth. In this study, we manipulated the vergence angle of the fixated object and binocular disparity of the non-fixated object. The range of the individual difference in the perceived depth was found to be increased with the increase of disparity for both the fixated and non-fixated objects, and the individual difference was well fitted by the regression line of the observers' IPD. These results suggest that individual difference in the perceived depth from the identical stereo images should be greatly reduced if the stereo system calibrates the disparity of the object by the observers' IPD in generating the stereo images and the regression line found in this study might be useful in the calibrating the disparity of the images.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.2 s.105
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• pp.83-88
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• 2006

Digital image processing algorithm was proposed to measure the area inside of an object image using angle-distance graph used to analyze the pattern of an object in the digital image processing techniques. The first angle-distance graph is generated from a point inside of an object area. The second angle-distance graphs are generated for the areas missed in the first graph by extracting the positions with large gradient in the first angle-distance graph. The order of the graph increases according to the complexity of an object pattern. Size of the area inside of an object boundary is measured by integrating square of distance multiplied by angle for each area from the hierarchical angie-distance graphs.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.351-352
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 인간의 시각 특성 중 특정 물체의 거리를 지각하는 메커니즘을 실시간 처리를 위해 하드웨어로 구현하였다. 본 논문에서 구현된 시스템은 크게 스테레오 영상 입 출력부와 영상을 처리하기 위한 IP 부로 구성된다. 입 출력부는 ALTERA 사의 Excalibur을 기반으로 하여 Image Decoder, UART, SDRAM, SRAM, TFT-LCD등으로 구성된 Image Board로 스테레오 영상을 받아 처리할 수 있게 설계하였다. IP부분은 Image Decoder 내부 레지스터를 설정하기 위한 I2C 버스 IP, 두 개의 Image Decoder를 통해 들어오는 스테레오 영상 입력 IP, 에러 보정을 위한 미디언 필터링 IP부, 에지 검출 IP, 거리를 검출하기 위한 스테레오 정합을 IP와 결과 영상을 보여주기 위한 TFT-LCD IP를 구현하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.7
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• pp.1178-1188
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• 2003

In this paper, we describe image mosaicing techniques for constructing a large high-resolution image with images taken by a video camera in hand. we propose the method which is automatically retrieving the exact matching area using color information and shape information. The proposed method extracts first candidate areas which have similar form using a Voronoi Distance Matching Method which is rapidly estimating the correspondent points between adjacent images, and calculating initial transformations of them and finds the final matching area using color information. It is a method that creates Voronoi Surface which set the distance value among feature points and other points on the basis of each feature point of a image, and extracts the correspondent points which minimize Voronoi Distance in matching area between an input image and a basic image using the binary search method. Using the Levenberg-Marquadt method we turn an initial transformation matrix to an optimal transformation matrix, and using this matrix combine a basic image with a input image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.208-213
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 디지털 영상의 해상도를 부화소 기반의 새로운 적응적 선형보간법으로 변경하는 방법을 제안한다. 일반적 선형보간법에서 고정된 위치로 쓰이는 거리계수를 왜곡된 거리 계산에 의한 화소 가중치를 주는 방법으로 개선한다. 이를 계산하기 위하여 최소 평균 자승 에러(minimum mean square error, MMSE)를 이용한다. 원영상과의 차이를 최소화하는 왜곡 거리 계산을 위하여 이웃한 보간 화소와 왜곡거리를 참조하게 된다. 이를 사용하면 복잡도가 높지 않은 효과적인 화소 보간을 할 수 있고 실험 결과 일반적인 보간법과 비교할 때 PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio)과 주관적 화질 면에서 우수함을 알 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.2A
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• pp.128-134
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to enhance the recognition performance of a far and partially occluded three-dimensional (3-D) target in computational curving-effective integral imaging (CEII) by using the direct pixel-mapping (DPM) method. With this scheme, the elemental image array (EIA) originally picked up from a far and partially occluded 3-D target can be converted into a new EIA just like the one virtually picked up from a target located close to the lenslet array. Due to this characteristic of DPM, resolution and quality of the reconstructed target image can be highly enhanced, which results in a significant improvement of recognition performance of a far 3-D object. Experimental results reveal that image quality of the reconstructed target image and object recognition performance of the proposed system have been improved by 1.75 dB and 4.56% on the average in PSNR (peak-to-peak signal-to-noise ratio) and NCC (normalized correlation coefficient), respectively, compared to the conventional system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.20-25
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• 2000

This paper proposes the method of surface classification and threshold value selection for surface classification of the three-dimensional object recognition. The processings of three-dimensional image processing system consist of three steps, i.e, acquisition of range data, feature extraction and matching process. This paper proposes the method of shape feature extraction from the acquired rage data in the entire three-dimensional image processing system. In order to achieve these goals, firstly, this article proposes the surface classification method by using the distribution characteristics of sign value from range values. Also pre-existing method which uses the K-curvature and K-curvature has limitation in the practical threshold value selection. To overcome this, this article proposes the selection of threshold value for surface classification. Finally, the effectiveness of this article is demonstrated by the several experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.247-249
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 주성분 분석(principal component analysis; 이하 PCA) 및 독립성분분석(independent component analysis; 이하 ICA)을 이용, 이차원 영상을 분류하여 다중해상도에서 영상간의 거리를 측정하여 PCA 와 ICA 중에서 어느 것이 영상간의 상대적 식별을 용이하게 하는지 모의 실험을 통하여 확인하고자 한다. 모의 실험 결과로부터, ICA가 PCA에 비하여 영상간의 상대적 식별이 용이하여 빨리 수렴이 되는 것을 모의 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.939-948
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• 2004

In this paper. we Propose a robust and fast image registration technique for motion correction in brain CT-CT angiography obtained from same patient to be taken at different time. First, the feature points of two images are respectively extracted by 3D edge detection technique, and they are converted to locally weighted 3D distance map in reference image. Second, we search the optimal location whore the cross-correlation of two edges is maximized while floating image is transformed rigidly to reference image. This optimal location is determined when the maximum value of cross-correlation does't change any more and iterates over constant number. Finally, two images are registered at optimal location by transforming floating image. In the experiment, we evaluate an accuracy and robustness using artificial image and give a visual inspection using clinical brain CT-CT angiography dataset. Our proposed method shows that two images can be registered at optimal location without converging at local maximum location robustly and rapidly by using locally weighted 3D distance map, even though we use a few number of feature points in those images.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.434-442
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• 2008

The parallel beam SPECT acquires projection data by using parallel hole collimators in conjunction with photon detectors. Those projection data of the parallel beam SPECT are, however, contaminated by the distance dependent blurring because of the inaccuracy of the point response function of the collimator that is used to define the range of directions where photons can be detected. Thus an efficient aperture correction is required. In this paper we propose a distance dependent backprojection method to overcome the time limitation of iterative aperture correction methods and the performance limitation of Fourier-Distance Relation based method. The proposed method achieves aperture correction and fast image reconstruction by replacing the distance independent backprojection of the direct image reconstruction with the distance dependent one. We conducted several simulations to compare the performance of the proposed method with that of the conventional Fourier-Distance Relation based method. The simulation result shows that the proposed method outperforms the Fourier-Distance Relation based method in spatial resolution and robustness against noise.