• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.120-127
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• 2000

Adaptive template filtering has been proposed recently for enhancement of signal-to-noise ratio without loss of resolution. In the adaptive template filtering, an optimal template among multiple templates is selected, then linear least square error filtering based on the template is applied in vowel by vowel basis. In some magnetic resonance imaging, where the distribution of gray level has relatively small dynamic range, e.g., $T_1$ imaging, however, artificial stair-like artifact is observed at near edges. This is partially due to the edge enhancement effect in such yokels that contain multiple compounds at the boundaries of tissues. The gray levels of these yokels become similar gray levels of near dominant vowels that contain single compound by the adaptive filtering, which enlarges edge discontinuities. In this paper, we propose a technique to eliminate such artifact by identifying those yokels that contain multiple compounds and assigning the largest template for them. Filtered images with the proposed technique show substantial visual enhancement at the edges without degradation of peak signal-to-noise ratio compared to the original adaptive template filtering for both magnetic resonance images and phantom images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.531-533
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• 2010

솔리드 텍스처 합성에서 최종 결과의 품질과 마찬가지로 텍스처 합성에 필요한 계산을 단축하는 것은 중요하다. 최근 연구에서는 데이터 차원 감소나 k-coherence search 같은 매칭 가속화 방법을 사용해서 솔리드 텍스처 합성 시간을 단축하였다. 본 논문에서는 빠르게 2D 이미지로부터 솔리드 텍스처 합성을 할 수 있는 새로운 방법을 제시한다. 제안하는 방법의 기본 아이디어는 주어진 이미지를 다수 영역으로 분할하여 형상 매칭(feature matching) 과정에서 사용되는 후보 수를 줄이는 것으로, 사물을 이루는 복셀과 관련한 픽셀이 포함된 분할 영역내의 후보들과 비교함으로써, 보다 빠르게 최적의 결과값을 제공한다. 실험적으로 본 방법은 k-coherence search 알고리즘에서 k 값을 1 로 사용했을 때보다 빠르거나 비슷한 시간을 갖는다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.8 s.251
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• pp.906-915
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• 2006

This study concerns an advanced 3D surface reconstruction method that the vertices of surface model can be completely matched to the unstructured point cloud measured from arbitrary complex shapes. The concept of bounding voxel model is introduced to generate the mesh model well-representing the geometrical and topological characteristics of point cloud. In the reconstruction processes, the application of various methodologies such as shrink-wrapping, mesh simplification, local subdivision surface fitting, insertion of is isolated points, mesh optimization and so on, are required. Especially, the effectiveness, rapidity and reliability of the proposed surface reconstruction method are demonstrated by the simulation results for the geometrically and topologically complex shapes like dragon and human mouth.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.5
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• pp.351-360
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• 2007

Video Completion refers to a computer vision technique which restores damaged images by filling missing pixels with suitable color in a video sequence. We propose a new video completion technique to fill in image holes which are caused by removing an unnecessary object in a video sequence, where two objects cross each other in the presence of camera motion. We remove the closer object from a camera which results in image holes. Then these holes are filled by color information of some others frames. First of all, spatio-temporal volumes of occluding and occluded objects are created according to the centroid of the objects. Secondly, a temporal search technique by voxel matching separates and removes the occluding object. Finally. these holes are filled by using spatial search technique. Seams on the boundary of completed pixels we removed by a simple blending technique. Experimental results using real video sequences show that the proposed technique produces new completed videos.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.281-286
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• 2007

비디오 복원(video completion)은 비디오 영상에서 색상값에 대한 정보가 없는 픽셀에 적절한 색을 채워 영상을 복원하는 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 움직이는 두 물체가 교차하는 입력영상으로부터 하나의 물체를 제거함으로 발생하는 홀(hole)을 채우는 비디오 복원 기술을 제안한다. 입력 영상에서의 두 물체 중 카메라와 가까운 물체를 제거함으로써 영상의 홀이 발생하게 되고, 이 홀을 다른 프레임들의 정보를 이용하여 채움으로써 가려진 물체를 복원한다. 모든 프레임에 대해 각 물체의 중심을 추정하여 물체의 중심을 기준으로 시-공간 볼륨(spatio-temporal volume)을 생성하고, 복셀 매칭(voxel matching)을 통한 시간적 탐색을 수행한 후 두 물체를 분리한다. 가리는 물체 영역으로 판단 된 부분을 삭제하고 공간적 탐색 방법을 이용하여 홀을 채워 가려짐이 있는 물체를 복원하는 과정을 소개한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안한 기술이 비교적 자연스러운 결과를 얻을 수 있다는 것을 보여준다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.39-47
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• 2002

The objective of this study is to provide a Precise form of spatial normalization with affine transformation. The quantitative comparison of the brain architecture across different subjects requires a common coordinate system. For the common coordinate system, not only global brain but also a local region of interest should be spatially normalized. Registration using mutual information generally matches the whose brain well. However. a region of interest may not be normalized compared to the feature-based methods with the landmarks. The hybrid method of this Paper utilizes feature information of the local region as well as intensity similarity. Central gray nuclei of a brain including copus callosum, which is used for feature in Schizophrenia detection, is appropriately normalized by the hybrid method. In the results section. our method is compared with mutual information only method and Talairach mapping with schizophrenia Patients. and is shown how it accurately normalizes feature .