• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.9
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• pp.24-29
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• 2016

영상의 화질 개선과 높은 대비를 얻기 위한 방법으로 최근 HDR(High Dynamic Range)영상을 디스플레이 장치에 매핑시키기 위한 톤매핑 기술이 널리 이용되고 있다. 하지만 단일프레임이 아닌 다중프레임으로 구성되어 있는 비디오에 이러한 톤매핑기술을 적용할 경우, 프레임 간 명암도 차이로 인하여 시각적으로 깜빡이는 현상인 플리커(Flicker)가 발생할 수 있으며, 이로 인해 사용자의 눈에 피로도를 증가시키고, 영상의 품질이 감소할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 플리커 판별을 위해 영상의 명암도 측정법을 제안하여, 프레임별 명암값을 학습하기 위한 다양한 특징벡터를 정의한다. 학습된 SVM(Support Vector Machine) 분류기를 이용하여 플리커 발생 프레임을 선별하고 플리커 제거를 위한 톤 안정화 방법을 제안한다. 실험에서 제안한 방법을 통해 86.7%의 플리커를 검출하였으며, 프레임 간 톤 안정화 알고리즘의 최적화를 통해 플리커 발생빈도를 69.8% 감소시켰다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.113-115
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• 2022

치과 진료는 대부분 인간의 시각에 의존하여 진단과 진료가 이루어진다. 하지만 미세한 치아 손상의 경우 의사가 육안으로 확인하기 어려울 수 있으며, 의사의 실력 및 피로 누적에 의해 조기에 발견을 하지 못할 가능성이 높아진다. 만약 미세한 치아 손상을 조기에 발견하지 못할 경우 시간이 지남에 따라 손상 부위가 커지고, 이를 치료하기 위해 더 큰 비용과 고통이 따르기 때문에 치과에서의 조기 발견이 매우 중요하다. 한편, 인류는 디지털 헬스케어 기술을 개발하여 보다 정확한 진단을 할 수 있게 되었고, 의료 서비스를 효율적으로 제공할 수 있게 되었다. 이에 본 논문에서는 위의 문제를 해결하기 위해 디지털 헬스케어를 사용하여 빅데이터와 딥러닝을 활용한 지능형 전자 루페에 대해 탐구하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.161-168
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• 2016

Thanks to mass production and provision of smartphones and the HMD (head mounted display), VR (virtual reality) is now being applied to various areas. The VR HMD is the interface equipment which allows users to have realistic experiences through human sensory organs such as vision and auditory sense. Since the majority of VR equipment is operated by the display for both eyes, 360-degree video content and the depth information, the VR mechanism is closely related to human senses, especially vision. Previous studies have focused on how to minimize negative impact such as motion sickness or visual fatigue. Little attention has been paid on research about the visual treatment. Therefore, the focus of this study is to develop technical elements for utilization of vision therapy with the VR HMD and explore possible areas to apply it. To this end, we analyzed the past case studies and technical elements to identify 16 areas for vision therapy. We also developed the optical parameters for utilization of the VR HMD visual targets. The result of this study is expected to be utilized for development of visual targets for vision therapy based on the VR HMD.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.31-43
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• 2014

A depth map is an important component for stereoscopic image generation. Since the depth map acquired from a depth camera has a low resolution, upsamling a low-resolution depth map to a high-resolution one has been studied past decades. Upsampling methods are evaluated by objective evaluation tools such as PSNR, Sharpness Degree, Blur Metric. As well, the subjective quality is compared using virtual views generated by DIBR (depth image based rendering). However, works on the analysis of the relation between depth map upsampling and stereoscopic images are relatively few. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between subjective evaluation of stereoscopic images and objective performance of upsampling methods using cross correlation and linear regression. Experimental results demonstrate that the correlation of edge PSNR and visual fatigue is the highest and the blur metric has lowest correlation. Further, from the linear regression, we found relative weights of objective measurements. Further we introduce a formulae that can estimate 3D performance of conventional or new upsampling methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.17-25
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a method of producing a stereoscopic image from multiple images captured from a monoscopic camera. By translating a camera in the horizontal direction, left and right images are chosen among N captured images. For this, image edges are extracted and a rotational angle is estimated from edge orientation. Also, a translational vector is also estimated from the correlation of projected image data. Then, two optimal images are chosen and subsequently compensated using the rotational angle as well as the translational vector in order to make a satisfactory stereoscopic image. The proposed method was performed on thirty-two test image set. The subjective visual fatigue test was carried out to validate the 3D quality of stereoscopic images. In terms of visual fatigue, the 3D satisfaction ratio reached approximately 84%.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.49-59
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• 2012

Although 3D stereoscopic movies had been paid attention to a few times since the 1900's, the interest had not been last. Most researchers pointed out the reason came from human factors because the early in the 3D technology growth had to develop technological possibility to realize 3D videos and ignore the importance viewers' perspective. In the 2D video research, many studies have explored the factors which make people got immersed or involved and felt visual fatigue, but they have not been the main issues in the 3D research until now. The present research believes human factor issue is one of the most important parts to accelerate 3D industry and thus, we try to make reliable and valid assessments to evaluate 3D video which are perceived characteristics, impression, and presence.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.2865-2874
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• 2013

Recently, most of movies top-ranked in the box office are screening in Stereoscopic 3D, and the world's leading electronics companies such as Samsung and LG are getting the hots for 3DTV sales. However, each person has different binocular disparity and different viewing distance, and thus he or she feels the severe visual fatigue and headaches if he or she is watching 3D content with the same binocular disparity, which is very different from things he or she feels in the real world. To solve this problem, this paper proposes and implement a 3D rendering system that correct the disparity of 3D content by reflecting binocular distance and viewing distance. Then, the computational complexity is analyzed. Optical-flow and Warping algorithms turn out to consume 732 seconds and 5.7 seconds per frame, respectively. Therefore, a dedicated chip-set for both blocks is strongly required for real-time HD 3D display.

• Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Structure & Construction
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.191-202
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• 2019

This study examines the effect of luminance contrast ratio of character on readability and visual fatigue during an hour-long reading session while using a tablet PC in ambient environments having low luminance limited to $25cd/m^2$. Experiments were conducted with four patterns of the tablet's luminance contrast ratio of characters, namely 1:2.5, 1:4.5, 1:6.5, and 1:8.5, in low ambient luminance of $9cd/m^2$ and $25cd/m^2$. The obtained results show that the characters can be easily read at the luminance contrast ratio of character of 1:8.5 under surface luminance of $25cd/m^2$. Visual fatigue was evaluated through a subjective survey of symptoms. Physical, psychological, and visual fatigue were observed at a surface luminance of $9cd/m^2$, whereas solely visual fatigue was felt at a surface luminance of $25cd/m^2$. By assessing the physical fatigue using the value, it has been found that smaller the luminance contrast ratio of character, greater is the CFF variation rate. Furthermore, readability is poor and visual fatigue can be observed when the surface luminance is lower than the ambient luminance. However, readability can be improved by increasing the luminance contrast ratio of character to a value of 1:8.5. Thus, in low luminance environments, luminance contrast ratio of characters can affect readability and fatigue. Consider providing the full form of "CFF" so that the acronym can be used unambiguously throughout the manuscript.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.853-860
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• 2007

In this modern era, human beings lead their life in complex environment where there are lots of parameters such as temperature, light, smell, sound, visual stimulus etc. that play important role for quality life. These parameters affect physical and mental behavior of a human being immensely. To ensure quality life the demand for quality products is always associated with human emotion and sensibility. Due to human sensibility and emotion involvement with quality life, the design stages of any kind of product must include some certain features related with emotion and sensibility. The cues for optimizing artificial environment are the physiological responses of human in that environment. The conventional approach of environmental physiology is to measure the relationship between environmental physical parameters and human psychological parameters under artificial conditions. Using that approach we tried to design an artificial environment for our daily lives and activities associated with both physiological and psychological behavior. We developed the technique to present the mock environment and software to measure and evaluate sensibility physiologically or psychologically and a simulator to measure and evaluate sensibility that can be utilized for large scale industrial production and design of environment. Simulator to measure and analyze human sensibility (SMAS) was constructed, which was utilized to estimate human sensibility and to simulate living and office environment.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.470-485
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• 2003

The steganography is one of methods that users can hide data. Some steganography softwares use audio data among multimedia data. However, these commercialized audio steganography softwares have disadvantages that the existence of hidden messages can or easily recognized visually and only certain-sized data can be hidden. To solve these problems, this study suggested, designed and implemented Dynamic Message Embedding (DME) algorithm. Also, to improve the security level of the secret message, the file encryption algorithm has been applied. Through these, StegoWaveK system that performs audio steganography was designed and implemented. Then, the suggested system and the commercialized audio steganography system were compared and analyzed on criteria of the Human Visilable System (HVS), Human Auditory System (HAS), Statistical Analysis (SA), and Audio Measurement (AM).