• The Optical Journal
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• s.158
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• pp.48-51
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• 2015

2013년 12월 2일에 아마존의 제프 베조스가 드론을 통하여 30분 배송을 실현하겠다고 배송 테스트를 했다. 고객이 주문한 물건을 플라스틱 보호 박스에 잘 담아 드론에 싣고 고객의 마당에 떨구고 돌아오는 모습을 담았다. 미국의 모든 언론은 드론에 대하여 대서특필하였고, 30분 배송의 실현 가능성에 대한 논쟁을 벌였다. 그 해 연말, 아마존은 쇼핑특수를 누렸다. 돈 안들이고 광고를 독특하게 한 셈이다. 나는 개인적으로 아마존의 드론 배달을 '쇼'라고 생각했다. 고객들의 주거 형태, 드론 비행의 법적인 문제, 드론으로 발생되는 사고, 사람들의 인식 등등 문제가 산적해 있기 때문이다. 그런데 2015년 초부터 알리바바는 1시간 내 차(Tea) 배달 서비스를 상하이와 광저우에서 테스트 중이라고 한다. 또한, DHL이 바다를 건너 섬으로 의약품을 수송하는 시연을 했다. CES 2015에서는 드론 전용관을 만들어 많은 사람들과 언론의 주목을 받았다. 마치 꿈과 같던 것이 실현되는 느낌이었다. 드론을 띄울 수 있는 권리 외에도 드론을 떨어뜨릴 권리도 논의되고 있다. 일본 총리관저에 드론이 떨어지기도 했다. 미국에서는 소형 드론에 폭발물을 탑재하여 타격하는 영상을 보이기도 했다. 개인적인 프라이버시가 존중되어야 할 가정집 위로 카메라가 달린 드론이 날아다니기도 하며, 재소자들의 수감시설에 마약과 담배를 실어 나르다 적발되기도 하였다. 부작용도 만만치 않다는 이야기이다. 나는 학생들에게 100만 원이 넘는 드론을 구매하여 주었더니, 동력인 배터리가 20분밖에 안 된다고 투덜거린다. 영상에 그리고 비행에 소리가 너무 난다고 또 투덜거린다. 바람에 밀려 조정이 어렵다고 또한 투덜투덜하더니만, 결국은 비행 중 조절이 안 되고 떨어져서 결국 박살이 났다. 내구성이 약하다는 이야기는 곧 전반적으로 아직 한계가 있으며 개선할 점이 많다는 의미이다. 위와 같은 부정적인 요인에도 불구하고 드론은 새로운 서비스의 융합으로 신시장이 기대되는 만큼 많은 국가와 기업들이 주목하고 있다. 미국가전협회(CEA)는 2015년 세계 드론 시장이 2014년보다 무려 55% 성장한 1억 3,000만 달러의 규모로 성장하고 5년 뒤에는 10억 달러까지 증가할 것으로 전망하면서 드론 산업의 가능성을 높게 평가하기도 했다.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.107-115
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• 2002

Purpose: Ga-67 scintigraphy has been used for the evaluation of tumors, especially lymphoma. Recently, Tl-201 and Tc-99m MIBI were also used to tumor imaging. Tl-201 and Tc-99m MIBI had better physiologic characteristics than Ga-67, so we studied 32 biopsy proven lymphoma patients (male 24, female 8, mean age 46 years) with Ga-67, Tl-201 or Tc-99m MIBI and compared the scan findings. Materials and Methods: Twenty-three of 32 patients were injected 74-111 MBq (2-3 mCi) of Tl-201, before chemotherapy and imaged with dual-headed SPECT (Prism 2000, Picker, USA) at 30 minutes after injection. Delayed images were obtained after 3 hr in 8 patients. Twenty seven of 32 patients were injected 740 MBq (20 mCi) of Tc-99m MIBI and imaged at 30 minutes after injection. 111-185 MBq (3-5 mCi) of Ga-67 was injected in 12 patients and imaged at 48 and 72 hours after injection. Twenty eight patients were diagnosed as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and others were Hodgkin's lymphoma. Results: Twenty patients were positive on Tl-201 scan and 3 patients showed negative findings. One of these 3 patients, Tc-99m MIBI and Ga-67 scan were positive. Twenty two patients were positive on Tc-99m MIBI scan and 5 patients showed negative findings. One of these 5 patients, Tl-201 was positive and 2 were positive on Ga-67 scan. Ten of 12 patients showed positive findings on Ga-67 scan. The sensitivity of these agents were 83.3%, 87.0% and 81.5% for Ga-67, Tl-201 and Tc-99m MIBI, respectively. The sensitivity was highest in Tl-201 scan, but there were no significant differences among three tests. In this study, there was no significant difference of uptake ratios between early and delayed images of Tl-201. Conclusion: Scintigraphy with Tl-201 and Tc-99m MIBI in lymphoma patients have similar sensitivity with Ga-67.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.57-66
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• 2011

In this paper, it is proposed for algorithm to detect human efficiently using a edge symmetry and gradient directional characteristics in realtime by the feature extraction in a single input image. Proposed algorithm is composed of three stages, preprocessing, region partition of human candidates, verification of candidate regions. Here, preprocessing stage is strong the image regardless of the intensity and brightness of surrounding environment, also detects a contour with characteristics of human as considering the shape features size and the condition of human for characteristic of human. And stage for region partition of human candidates has separated the region with edge symmetry for human and size in the detected contour, also divided 1st candidates region with applying the adaboost algorithm. Finally, the candidate region verification stage makes excellent the performance for the false detection by verifying the candidate region using feature vector of a gradient for divided local area and classifier. The results of the simulations, which is applying the proposed algorithm, the processing speed of the proposed algorithms is improved approximately 1.7 times, also, the FNR(False Negative Rate) is confirmed to be better 3% than the conventional algorithm which is a single structure algorithm.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.21-30
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• 2009

The purposes of this paper are to present a selection method of neighboring pixels whose local statistics are similar to the center pixel and combine the selection result with mean curvature diffusion filter to reduce noises in remote sensed imagery. The order of selection of neighboring pixels is critical, especially for finding a pixel belonging to the homogeneous region, since the statistics of the homogeneous region vary according to the selection order. An effective strategy for selecting neighboring pixels, which uses rank-order differences vector obtained by computing the intensity differences between the center pixel and neighboring pixels and arranging them in ascending order, is proposed in this paper. By using region growing method, we divide the elements of the rank-ordered differences vector into two groups, homogeneous rank-ordered differences vector and outlier rank-ordered differences vector. The mean curvature diffusion filter is combined with a line process, which chooses selectively diffusion coefficient of the neighboring pixels belonging into homogeneous rank-ordered differences vector. Experimental results using an aerial image and a TerraSAR-X satellite image showed that the proposed method reduced more efficiently noises than some conventional adaptive filters using all neighboring pixels in updating the center pixel.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.596-605
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• 1997

The synamic systrm emplohing the self-squared function, , $f(Z)=z^2+c$, provides the Mandelbrot set which classifies constants c using the divergence of the sequence starting from the origin.To speed-up the generation of Mandelbrot set images, two approaches , called as the divide-and-conquer technique and the triangular boundary tracing technique, have been developed.However , the divede-and-conquer technique genrates sequences of some pixels that so not affect graphical representations of the Mandelbrot set.The triangular boundary tracing tech-mique does noot represent some 8-connected components of the Mandelbrost set.In this paper, we prorose a new ;method which solves the 8-connectivity problem of triangular boundary tracing technique.This algorithm considers the divergence for only pixels which are essential to the graphical repressentation of the Mandelbrot set.It also foves good representations for 8-connected components like hairly structures.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.40.3-40.3
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• 2020

한국천문연구원은 천문우주분야의 과학임무 탑재체 개발을 주도적으로 수행해오고 있다. 과학기술위성1호 주탑재체 원자외선영상분광기 FIMS 개발, 과학기술위성3호 주탑재체 다목적적외선영상시스템 MIRIS 개발, 차세대소형위성1호 주탑재체 근적외선영상분광기 NISS 개발을 수행하였고, 현재는 NASA와 국제협력으로 SPHEREx 우주망원경을 개발하고 있다. 이러한 개발 과정을 거치면서 주경 20cm 이하의 소형 탑재체 과학임무 한계와 더불어 연구 현장에서 더 큰 우주망원경의 수요가 제기되었고, 현재의 국가우주개발 중장기계획에도 2030년대 한국형 우주망원경을 포함하게 되었다. 이러한 일정에 발맞추어 한국천문연구원은 2030년대 한국형 우주망원경 독자 운영을 대비하기 위해서 2020년 1월부터 주요 사업으로 한국형 우주망원경 개발을 위한 기획연구를 시작하였다. 이 기획연구는 2년 동안 수행할 예정이며, 이 기획연구를 통해서 학계의 과학임무 요구사항을 사전에 충분히 조사하고, 국내외 산학연 전문가의 의견들을 종합 수렴하여 선도적인 과학 연구를 수행할 수 있는 우주망원경의 기본 제원을 확정할 예정이다. 이 발표에서는 이러한 기획연구의 세부 활동을 공유하고 보고하고자 한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2017

In this paper, an USB-OTG (Uiversal Serial Bus On-the-go) interface module was designed with the iris information for personal identification. The image recognition algorithm which was searching face and iris areas, was proposed with pixel differences from eye blinking after several facial images were captured and then detected without any activities like as pressing the button of smart phone. The region of pupil and iris could be fast involved with the proper iris area segmentation from the pixel value calculation of frame difference among the images which were detected with two adjacent open-eye and close-eye pictures. This proposed iris recognition could be fast processed with the proper grid size of the eye region, and designed with the frame difference between the adjacent images from the USB-OTG interface with this camera module with the restrict of searching area in face and iris location. As a result, the detection time of iris location can be reduced, and this module can be expected with eliminating the standby time of eye-open.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.263-270
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• 2016

This paper suggests techniques to enhance coding time which is a problem in traditional fractal compression and to improve fidelity of reconstructed images by determining fractal coefficient through adaptive selection of block approximation formula. First, to reduce coding time, we construct a linear list of domain blocks of which characteristics is given by their luminance and variance and then we control block searching time according to the first permissible threshold value. Next, when employing three-level block partition, if a range block of minimum partition level cannot find a domain block which has a satisfying approximation error, There applied to 24-bpp color image compression and image techniques. The result did not occur a loss in the image quality of the image when using the encoding method, such as almost to the color in the YIQ image compression rate and image quality, such as RGB images and showed good.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.70-76
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• 2012

In this paper, an automatic extraction method of glomerulus region from human renal tissue image is presented. The important information reflecting the state of kidneys richly included in the glomeruli, so it should be the first step to extract the glomerulus region from the renal tissue image for the further quantitative analysis of the renal condition. Especially, there is no clear difference between the glomerulus and other tissues, so the glomerulus region can not be easily extracted from its background by the existing segmentation methods. The outer edge of a glomerulus region is regarded as a common property for the regions of this kind ; a two- dimensional Gaussian distribution is used to convolve with an original image first and then the image is thresholded at this blurred image ; a closed curve corresponding to the outer edge can be obtained by usual pattern processing skills like thinning, branch-cutting, hole-filling etc., Finally, the glomerulus region can be obtained by extracting the area in the original image surrounded by the closed curve. The glomerulus regions are correctly extracted by 85 percentages and experimental results show the proposed method is effective.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.223-232
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• 2023

A widely used method for monitoring land cover using high-resolution satellite images is to classify the images based on the colors of the objects of interest. In urban areas, not only major objects such as buildings and roads but also vegetation such as trees frequently appear in high-resolution satellite images. However, the colors of vegetation objects often resemble those of other objects such as buildings, roads, and shadows, making it difficult to accurately classify objects based solely on color information. In this study, we propose a method that can accurately classify not only objects with various colors such as buildings but also vegetation objects. The proposed method uses the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) image, which is useful for detecting vegetation objects, along with the RGB image and classifies objects into subclasses. The subclass classification results are fused, and the final classification result is generated by combining them with the image segmentation results. In experiments using Compact Advanced Satellite 500-1 imagery, the proposed method, which applies the NDVI and subclass classification together, showed an overall accuracy of 87.42%, while the overall accuracy of the subchannel classification technique without using the NDVI and the subclass classification technique alone were 73.18% and 81.79%, respectively.