• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.27-31
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• 2000

Thermal imaging system is implemented for the measurement and the analysis of the thermal distribution of the target objects. The main Part of the system is thermal camera in which a focal plane array typed sensor is introduced The sensor detects mid-range infrared spectrum or target objects and then it output generic video signal which should be processed to form a thermal image frame. A digital signal processor(DSP) in the system inputs analog to digital converted data. performs algorithms to improve the thermal images and then outputs the corrected frame data to frame buffers for NTSC encoding and for digital outputs.. To enhance the quality of the thermal images, two point correction method is applied. Figures indicate that the corrected thermal images are much improved.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.109-116
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• 2019

Survivability of soldiers has been greatly threatened by the development of thermal observation device(TOD). Therefore, infrared, especially thermal, stealth technology is applied to combat suit to avoid detection from TOD. In this study, prior to the thermal camouflage performance evaluation of combat suit, thermal signature characteristic from clothed the human body was analyzed considering the realistic condition for human surface temperature compared to that from unclothed human body. To get the realistic surface temperature distribution of human, thermoregulation and multi-layer skin structure model is applied to the human model. Based on temperature distribution, surface diffuse radiance in thermal range is calculated and by assuming the background conditions, contrast radiance intensity(CRI) characteristic of human body is analyzed. By wearing clothing, the CRI between background and human body became reduced in low emissive background but in high emissive background, the contrast is much more prominent. Therefore, this issue should be considered in design process of thermal camouflage combat suit.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.80-87
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• 2012

We have developed the ATE(Automatic Test Equipment) system for the performance test of pre-amplifier of thermal imaging devices. The device regenerates the electronic signals of photon detection module which is normally in weak energy, for the image signals processing. Previous ATE system was primarily and actively developed in the field of semiconductor devices quality parts inspection. Recently, it has been studied in the field of performance testing of equipment. In the field of thermal performance test equipment, however, it lacks the study of ATE compared to other areas, which causes the maintenance related to the core of military thermal imaging system maintenance to be limited. In this paper, a new study of ATE in the field of thermal imaging system is done. It is designed to be used universally for the ATE system with different types of circuit card of thermal imaging system by adopting matrix relays. Using the developed ATE measuring the pre-amplifier amplitude, an average amplified amplitude of 2.71Vpp was measured which confirms that it is within the range of theoretical analysis and also verifies the good performance of the developed ATE.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.9-13
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• 2019

In this paper, IoT based thermal sensor data and image sensor integrated environmental monitoring system for ship, and it is the monitoring system which can process and transmit the Full HD IP camera image and thermal data transmitted from the thermal module for processing and transmitting, and the viewer S/W is to be developed which provides in real time the information for actual surrounding temperature together with the image, and enables fire prediction which was impossible in the case of the existing equipment by estimating the temperature change as the thermal image is added to the image camera, and saves and analyzes all data while receiving the temperature data and image signal transmitted from the integrated thermal sensor environmental monitoring equipment for ship and displaying them as 2D on the monitoring system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.644-653
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• 2019

With the development of themal observatory device(TOD), thermal camouflage system has been applied not only to the weapon system but also to the combat suit for soldiers. In this paper, the characteristic of thermal radiation of human body depending on the clothing material properties was analyzed through numerical simulations. The bioheat equation with thermoregulatory model was solved to obtain the realistic surface temperature of human body and these results are combined with the emissivity of human skin and clothing in order to calculate the thermal signature from the human body. According to each thermal resistance of clothing, the optimal background radiance which makes contrast radiance intensity(CRI) be lowest is different. Also, the average CRI variation per thermal resistance change is about twice as much as the case of evaporative resistance change.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2600-2602
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• 2004

열상장비는 물체가 방출하는 적외선 영역의 미약한 에너지를 검출하여 눈에 보이는 영상으로 변환하는 장비이다. 주간과 동일한 영상을 야간에도 획득할 수 있기 때문에 야간 감시등 군사용 장비로 활용되지만 최근에는 송전선로의 이상 유무 판단, 저장 탱크의 저장량 확인, 사스 환자의 체열 검색 등 산업계와 의료계의 이용도 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 최신 기술인 주사방식 초점면 배열 열상장비의 아날로그 및 디지털신호처리기 설계와 제작 기술을 다룬다. $480{\times}6$ 배열의 고밀도 검출 소자를 이용하여 고속, 저잡음 신호처리를 함으로써 안정된 열 영상을 실시간으로 획득하였다.

• Defense and Technology
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• no.9 s.295
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• pp.72-79
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• 2003

Northrop Grumman은 코만치의 TASS(Taget Acqusition System Software)를 책임지고 있는데 4가지 주요 기능을 가지고 있다. 즉 열상으로부터 목표물과 같은 물체를 찾는 목표물 감지/분류 지원, 'imager'나 TV FOV에 있는 1개의 주 목표와 5개의 2차 목표를 추적하는 자동 목표 추적기, 탑재 및 미탑재 신호원으로부터 모든 상대적 정보를 상호 연관시키는 목표물 위협 관리기 그리고 레이더 및 열상장비 출력상의 무언가를 비교하는 센서 융합이 바로 그것이다.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.32-39
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• 2011

The output image of the uncooled thermal infrared camera is difficult the identification of target because of the limited dynamic range and the various noises. Retinex algorithm based on the theory of the human visual perception is known to be effective contrast enhancement technique. However, the image quality is insufficient when it is adopted to the narrow dynamic range image as the infrared image. In this paper, we propose the revised retinex algorithm to enhance the contrast of the infrared image. To improve the contrast enhancement performance, we designed the new dynamic range compression function instead of log function. To reduce the noise and compensate the loss of edge, we added the contrast compensation procedure in the MSR image generation process. According to the output picture comparing and numerical analysis, the proposed algorithm shows the better contrast enhancement performance and the more suitable method for the infrared image enhancement.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.41-47
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• 2012

Every object over $O^{\circ}K$ emits radiant energy based on its own temperature. Uncooled thermal imaging system displays the detected incident radiant energy as an image by signal processing. Recently, the uncooled thermal imaging system is applied to various areas such as medical, industrial, and military applications. Also, several researches are in progress to find new applications of the uncooled thermal imaging system. In this paper, we present effective method for controlling TEC-less detector in the uncooled thermal imaging system and also present the efficient control scheme for maximizing the accuracy of temperature measurement. The proposed scheme is to apply TEC-less and temperature detection algorithm in Uncooled thermal imaging system. In results of tests performed by using the actual chamber, we acquired images of better quality than the former system and temperature measurement accuracy was improved to less than $1^{\circ}C$.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.135-141
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• 2007

This paper describes the design technology for a third generation thermal imaging system, which is more compact than before, using a $320\times240$ mid-IR focal plane detector. The third generation non-scanning thermal imaging system was constructed as a compact thermal imaging module as a reconnaissance, surveillance and navigation sensor for helicopter and infantry vehicles in the $1980's\sim1990's$ and now, we designed a new compact infrared camera and studied a new type of non-uniformity correction lens fer this camera.