• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.2762-2770
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to effectively compress the sub-images transformed from the picked-up elemental images in integral imaging, in which motion vectors of the object in each sub-image are fast and accurately estimated and compensated by combined use of MSE(mean square error)-based TSS(tree-step search) and FS(full search) schemes. This is, the possible object areas in each sub-image are searched by using the fast TSS algorithm in advance, then the these selected object areas are fully searched with the accurate FS algorithm. Furthermore, the sub-images in which all object's motion vectors are compensated, are transformed into the residual images by using the difference image method and finally compressed with the MPEG-4 algorithm. Experimental results reveal that the proposed method shows 214% improvement in the compression time per each image frame compared to that of the conventional method while keeping the same compression ratio with the conventional method. These successful results confirm the feasibility of the proposed method in the practical application.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.712-717
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a performance-enhanced object recognition by using nonlinear 3D correlator based on pixel restoration. In the proposed method, elemental images of the 3D target that are partially occluded by a foreground object are picked up and transformed into sub-images. By using the block-matching algorithm, the occluded target regions of each sub-image are estimated and removed. After that, the missing pixels in each sub-image are reestablished by using the pixel-restoration method. Finally, through the nonlinear cross-correlations between the reconstructed reference and the target plane images, the improved object recognition can be performed. To show the feasibility of the proposed method, some preliminary experiments are carried out and results are presented by comparing the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.450-451
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 렌티큘러 렌즈를 이용한 무안경 입체 디스플레이 환경에서 렌티큘러 렌즈의 속성과 디스플레이 장치의 속성의 변화에 따라 다중 시점에서 촬영한 영상으로부터 적응적으로 하나의 다시점 입체 합성 영상을 생성하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법에서는 렌티큘러 렌즈의 기본 속성과 디스플레이 장치의 기본 속성값을 고려하여 다중 시점에서 획득된 영상의 서브픽셀들의 가중 평균을 구하고 이를 다시점 입체 합성 영상의 서브 픽셀의 값으로 사용하도록 하였다. 여러 다시점 영상을 이용한 실험을 통하여, 렌티큘러 렌즈의 속성과 디스플레이 장치의 속성이 정확히 하드웨어적으로 일치 하지 않은 상황에서도 본 논문에서 제안하는 적응적 다시점 서브 픽셀 재배치 기법을 통하여 3D 입체감이 안정적으로 제공됨을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.373-378
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• 2004

하모니 영상은 초음파의 비선형 전파 과정에서 발생된 하모닉 성분을 영상화 한다. 하모닉 영상은 초음파에 비선형적으로 반응하는 초음파 조영제를 사용하여 하모닉 성분의 발생을 최대화 하고 있다. 일반적으로 현재 임상적으로 사용되는 하모닉 영상은 2차 고주파 성분을 사용한 것을 의미한다. 2차 하모닉 영상은 주파수의 상승으로 공간 분해능이 향상된다. 초음파 조영제를 이용하는 경우 서브 하모닉, 울트라 하모닉의 발생도 유의할 것으로 기대되지만 이에 대한 연구는 거의 없는 실정이다. 서브 하모닉은 상대적으로 2차 하모닉보다 전파 과정에서 감쇠 효과가 작기 때문에 심부의 영상에 유리하다 서브 하모닉 및 울트라 하모닉 성분 검출은 초음파 변환기의 대역폭에 대한 제한을 2차 하모닉에 비해 상대적으로 덜 받는다. 본 연구에서는 진단용 초음파에 의해 초음파 조영제에서 방사하는 하모닉 성분의 크기를 시뮬레이션 하였다. 수치해석은 Gilmore Equation을 이용하였으며, 초음파 조영제의 탄성 효과는 무시하였다. 초음파 조영제의 크기와 초음파의 MI에 따라 하모닉 성분의 크기를 정량적으로 비교하고, 서브 및 울트라 하모닉 영상의 구현에 대해 토의하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.927-928
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• 2015

무안경 3D 입체 디스플레이 장치는 패럴렉스 배리어(parallax barrier)와 렌티률러 렌즈(Lenticular lens)의 기반의 장치로 구분된다. 무안경 업체 디스플레이 장치를 통하여 입체영상을 디스플레이하기 위해서는 다중 시점(multi-view) 촬영 영상들의 서브픽셀 인터레이싱 방법을 통하여 하나의 영상으로 합성되어야 한다. 본 연구는 렌티큘러 렌즈 기반의 입체 디스플레이 장치에서 렌티큘러 렌즈의 속성에 따라 적응적으로 서브픽셀 인터레이싱 될 수 있는 기법을 제안하기 위한 사전 연구로서 기존에 발표된 서브픽셀 인터레이싱 기법의 종류를 분류하고 각 기법의 특성을 분석하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.217-227
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• 2005

In this paper, we present the result of an efficient implementation of DirectX-based multichannel visual monitoring system and the performance analysis of it. Our proposed system mainly consists of three subsystems: display, storage, and retrieval/playback. The display subsystem is designed to utilize efficiently H/W acceleration, overlay and flip of DirectX for faster real-time display, display synchronization among channels, and improvement of tearing artifact. For the performance improvement of storage speed, the storage subsystem is designed and implemented in DirectShow Filter-based multithreading architecture so that it can store multichannel video streams efficiently in each channel with minimizing data bottleneck among channels. In the retrieval and playback subsystem, efficient index file architecture and video data storage architecture, efficient playback architecture which can make playback be processed parallel among channels are designed and implemented for faster retrieval and playback,. Through experiments, our proposed system is shown to be maximally 2 times as fast in storaging speed and maximally 3.5 times as fast in retrieval and playback speed as the previous system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3C
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• pp.258-263
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• 2006

Each pixel in a matching block does not equally contribute to block matching and the matching error is greatly affected by image complexity. On the basis of the facts, this paper proposes a fast motion estimation algorithm using some sub-blocks selected by the image complexity. The proposed algorithm divides a matching block into 16 sub-blocks, computes the image complexity in every sub-block, executes partial block matching using some sub-blocks with large complexity, and detects a motion vector. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm brings about negligible image degradation, but can reduce a large amount of computation in comparison with conventional algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.178-182
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• 2007

In this paper, we design and implement the UCC services prototype system for image and video. The proposed system consists of the two components such as the multimedia processing subsystem and the metadata management subsystem, and provides the API to UCC service developers. The multimedia processing subsystem supports the media management and editing of image and video, and the streaming services of video. The metadata management subsystem supports the metadata management and retrieval of image and video, and the reply management and script processing of UCC.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.48-56
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• 2008

In this paper, we design and implement the UCC services prototype system for image and video. The proposed system consists of the two components such as the multimedia processing subsystem and the metadata management subsystem. It provides the API to UCC service developers. The multimedia processing subsystem supports the media management and editing of image and video, and the streaming services of video. The metadata management subsystem supports the metadata management and retrieval of image and video. The reply management and script processing of UCC are given in the subsystem.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.4 s.107
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• pp.417-420
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• 2006

Detection of faces on still color images with arbitrary backgrounds is attempted in this paper. The newly proposed method is invariant to arbitrary background, number of faces, scale, orientation, skin color, and illumination through the steps of color clustering, cluster scanning, sub-block processing, face area detection, and face verification. The sub-block method makes the proposed method invariant to the size and the number of faces in the image. The proposed method does not need any pre-training steps or a preliminary face database. The proposed method may be applied to areas such as security control, video and photo indexing, and other automatic computer vision-related fields.