• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.751-753
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• 2016

볼륨 렌더링에서 가시화된 물체를 더욱 사실적으로 표현하기 위해서는 조명효과의 표현이 중요하다. 이를 위해 빛의 직접적인 영향과, 산란, 흡수에 따른 소멸, 반사등을 고려하여 빛의 에너지를 누적시켜 표현한다. 이러한 모든 연산을 수행하려면 많은 자원과 연산이 필요 하기 때문에, 여러 근사 방법들이 제안 되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 3 차원 정보를 갖는 템플릿을 통해 광원의 위치에 상관없이 산란효과와 음영 효과를 표현한다. 램버트의 조명 모델을 기반으로 볼륨 데이터 전체에 대한 광원맵이 아닌 물체의 성질로부터 적은 자원을 차지하는 빛 분포-템플릿들을 생성한다. 생성된 템플릿들을 빛의 영향에 따라 누적 계산하여 3차원 볼륨 데이터를 가시화하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.987-989
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• 2017

사실적이고 정확한 영상 표현을 위해서는 조명 효과가 필수적이다. 사실적인 조명처리를 위해서는 전역 조명을 계산해야 하는데 특히 볼륨 데이터는 더 많은 연산을 필요로 한다. 하나의 광원만으로는 볼륨 전체에 조명을 표현하여 뚜렷한 영상을 만들 수 없다. 여러 개의 광원을 통해 조명효과를 주게 되면 더 사실적인 영상을 얻을 수 있지만 광원의 수가 많아 질수록 연산량이 증가하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 광자 분포를 표현한 템플릿을 특정 방향에 대해 생성하고, 생성된 템플릿 조각들의 조합을 통해 여러 개의 광원에 대해 볼륨 조명을 표현하고자 한다. 조합된 템플릿을 이용하면 여러 개의 조명을 사용해도 단일 광원을 사용하는 정도의 연산량과 자원만을 사용해도 동일한 결과를 얻을 수 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.373-379
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• 2016

It is known that it is expedient to represent the distribution of the properties of a bone with complex heterogeneity as B-spline volume functions. For B-spline-based representation, the pixel values of CT images are interpolated by B-spline volume functions. However, the CT images of a bone are three-dimensional and very large, and hence a large amount of memory and long computation time for the interpolation are required. In this study, a method for resolving these problems is proposed. In the proposed method, the B-spline volume interpolation problem is simplified by using the uniformity of pixel spacing of the image and the properties of B-spline basis functions. This results in a reduction in computation time and the amount of memory used. The proposed method was implemented and it was verified that the computation time and the amount of memory used were reduced.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.27-35
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• 2015

This study presents a volume rendering method using ambient occlusion which is one of global illumination methods. By considering the volume density distribution as normal distribution, ambient occlusion can be calculated at real-time speed regardless of modification of opacity transfer function. We calculate and store the averages and standard deviations of densities in a block centered at each voxel in pre-processing time. In rendering process, we determine the illumination value by estimating the nearby opacity. We generalized theoretical model and generated better quality images improving our previous research. In detail, various shapes of transfer function can be used due to the proposed equation model. Moreover, we introduced a multi-range model to give nearer objects more weight. As the result, more realistic volume rendering image can be generated at real-time speed by mixing local and ambient occlusion shading.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.21-26
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• 2006

악성 종양은 현대인을 괴롭히는 대표적인 질병의 하나로 이를 치료하는데 흔히 이용되는 것이 방사선치료이다. 방사선 치료에서는 종양세포만을 찾아 방사선을 조사하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 입자 시뮬레이터 Geant4와 볼륨렌더링을 이용하여 이러한 것을 가능하게 하는 방사선조사계획시스템을 제안하고 시스템의 논리적 구조와 구현 시 고려할 사항에 대하여 알아본다. 본 시스템은 Geant4에 있는 다양한 물리(physics)이론을 적용하여 방사선의 물성을 다양하고 정확하게 시뮬레이션 하고, 시뮬레이션으로 구한 방사선량 분포를 볼륨렌더링으로 생성한 영상과 함께 표시하여 사용자가 방사선 치료 계획을 용이하게 세울 수 있도록 한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.3
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• pp.131-138
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• 2011

In this paper, we compare our proposed method with previous methods for the volumetric image segmentation using level set. In order to obtain an exact segmentation, the region and boundary information of image object are used in our proposed speed function. The boundary information is defined by the gradient vector flow obtained from the gradient images and the region information is defined by Gaussian distribution information of pixel intensity in a region-of-interest for image segmentation. Also the regular term is used to remove the noise around surface. We show various experimental results of real medical volume images to verify the superiority of proposed method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.147-159
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• 2013

In medical visualization, volume visualization is widely used. Applying 3D images to diagnose requires high resolution and accurately implement visualization techniques are being researched accordingly. However, when a three-dimensional image volume visualization is implemented using volume data, aliasing will occur since using discrete data. Supersampling method, getting lots of samples, is used to reduce artifacts. One of the supersampling methods is Catmull-rom spline. This method calculates accurate interpolation value because it is easy to compute and pass through control points. But, Catmull-rom spline method occurs overshoot or undershoot in large gradient of pixel values. So, interpolated values are different from original signal. In this paper, we propose an adaptive adjusting weights interpolation method using Gaussian function. Proposed method shows that overshoot is reduced on the point has a large gradient and PSNR is higher than other interpolated image results.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

According that most integral imaging techniques have used rectangular lens array, this integrated distribution of light is recorded in the form of a rectangular grid. However, hexagonal lens array gives a more accurate approximation of ideal circular lens and provides higher pickup/display density than rectangular lens array[4]. Using the parallel processing technique in order to generate the elemental imaging for hexagonal lens array, each pixel that compose the elemental imaging should be determined to belong to the hexagonal lens. This process is output to the screen for every pixel in progress, and many computations are required. In this paper, we have proposed parallel processing method using an OpenCL to generate the elemental imaging for hexagonal lens array in 3D volume date. In the experimental result of proposed method show speed of 20~60 fps for hexagonal lens array of $20{\times}20$ sizes and input data of Male[$128{\times}256{\times}256$] volume data.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.921-931
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• 2011

This paper presents a data-fitting technique in which a B-spline hypervolume is used to approximate a given data set of scattered data samples. We describe the implementation of the data structure of a B-spline hypervolume, and we measure its memory size to show that the representation is compact. The proposed technique includes two algorithms. One is for the determination of the knot vectors of a B-spline hypervolume. The other is for the control points, which are determined by solving a linear least-squares minimization problem where the solution is independent of the data-set complexity. The proposed approach is demonstrated with various data-set configurations to reveal its performance in terms of approximation accuracy, memory use, and running time. In addition, we compare our approach with existing methods and present unconstrained optimization examples to show the potential for various applications.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.46-51
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• 2014

In this study, strength development properties of high volume fly ash concrete was evaluated through compressive strength of concrete with reduction of unit water content. And concrete specimens were prepared according to target strength 3 level and variation of unit water content. As a result, the improved fluidity were obtained as a result of the ball bearing action of the spherical, the electrostatic repulsion and the particle size distribution of fly ash particles in case of using more than 50% fly ash. Through this, the mixture of fly ash has been shown to reduce the amount of water required in concrete. Also, the early strength of high volume fly ash concrete with reduction of unit water content was improved more about 66% than general concrete mixture.