• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.03a
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• pp.74-79
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• 2008

영상 융합은 센서의 자료 저장 능력과 센서에 들어오는 방사에너지 감지의 한계를 해결하고 고해상도의 멀티스펙트럴 영상을 생성할 수 있다는 측면에서 중요한 의의를 지닌다. 특히, 성분대입(component-substitution) 기반의 영상융합 기법은 대용량의 자료를 빠르게 처리할 수 있고, 융합된 영상의 분광왜곡이 적다는 장점을 지니고 있다. 본 연구에서는 최적화기법 중의 하나인 담금질 모사기법(Simulated Annealing, SA)을 이용하여 다양한 성분대입 기반 영상융합 알고리즘들을 분석 및 평가하였다. 담금질 모사기법은 원하는 목적함수가 지역적 최소값이 아닌 광역적 최소값에 수렴이 가능하도록 하는 기법으로 다양한 분야에서의 광역 최적화 기법에 사용된다. 융합 기법의 최적화된 변수를 추출하기 위하여 인위적으로 공간해상도를 낮춘 위성영상을 입력자료로, 원 멀티스펙트럴영상을 참조자료로 사용하였으며, 두 영상간의 분광유사 척도를 담금질 모사 기법의 목적 함수로 구성하였다. 이를 통해 해당 목적함수의 광역적 최소값을 추출하고, 최종적으로 해당 영상에 융합 기법 별 최적화된 변수를 결정하였다. 제안된 최적화 변수의 평가를 위하여 IKONOS 위성영상에 융합을 적용하고, 알고리즘별 분광왜곡량을 비교하였으며 이를 통하여 고해상도 위성영상에 가장 적합한 성분대입 기반 영상융합 기법 및 그에 따른 최적화 변수를 도출할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.368-373
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• 2009

A human tissue mimicking phantom is constructed to assess the performance of a medical ultrasound elasticity imaging system. In a human body, the tumor or cancer is stiffer than its surrounding normal tissue. A technique fur imaging the elasticity of such a tissue is referred to as elastography. Homogeneous elasticity phantoms with differing Young's moduli are constructed using a plastic hardener and softener to simulate the mechanical characteristics of a diseased human tissue. The Young's modulus of the fabricated homogeneous phantom materials were measured from 11.1 to 79.6 kPa depending on the mixing ratio of the amount of the hardener to that of the softener. An ultrasound lesion mimicking phantom was made of these materials, and ultrasound elasticity imaging was performed on it. It is confirmed in this paper that the fabricated plastic-based elasticity phantom is useful in representing the elastic characteristics of a human tissue.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.351-359
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• 2009

We have developed a computer simulator fur cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) based on the commercial Monte Carlo code, MCNP. All the functions to generate input files, run MCNP, convert output files to image data, reconstruct tomographs were realized in graphical user-interface form. The performance of the simulator was demonstrated by comparing with the experimental data. Although some discrepancies were observed due to the ignorance of the detailed physics in the simulation, such as scattered X-rays and noise in image sensors, the overall tendency was well agreed between the measured and simulated data. The developed simulator will be very useful for understanding the operation and the better design of CT systems.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.276-286
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• 2008

The representative alignments for taking a stereo image by using a stereoscopic camera are the toed-in and the parallel alignment. In this paper, we tried to find important factors in the process that captures the stereo image by modifying parallel type 3D camera alignment to take the same object information as, for instance, when toed-in type was used. The modified parallel type 3D camera has merits in both types. As a result, three important factors are found by simulation to be inter-camera distance, field of view and convergence angle for both types. And the change of the convergence angle is known to be the most important factor at the stereo fusible area in processing. The effective ranges of these factors to simulate perfectly toed-in type by modified parallel type are strongly dependent on a user's circumstances such as mobile, official, theater and so on. Additionally, the error of the simulation is reduced when the focal length of the stereo camera is short and the convergence angle becomes smaller.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.511-515
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• 2020

In this study, we evaluated image quality for new Gadolinium Aluminum Gallium Garnet (GAGG) scintillation material based on the Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) simulation tool. The gamma camera detectors with GAGG and NaI scintillation were designed. In particular, we modeled modified body phantom by National Electrical Manufacturers Association International Electrotechnical Commission to evaluate the simulated images. To analysis the image performance, the contrast to noise ratio (CNR) and coefficient of variation (COV) were used by drawn the region of interests, respectively. Based on the CNR and COV results, the CNR value for GAGG material is higher approximately 17 % than NaI material. In addition, the COV value for GAGG material is lower approximately 17 % than NaI material. In conclusion, we confirmed the performnace of GAGG based gamma camera is useful to improve the image quality for the nuclear medicine instrumentation.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.422-428
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• 2023

Ultrafast ultrasound imaging has been applied to various imaging approaches, including shear wave elastography, ultrafast Doppler, and super-resolution imaging. However, these methods are still challenging in real-time implementation for three Dimension (3D) or portable applications because of their massive data rate required. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive quantization method that effectively reduces the data rate of large Radio Frequency (RF) data. In soft tissue, ultrasound backscatter signals require a high dynamic range, and thus typical quantization used in the current systems uses the quantization level of 10 bits to 14 bits. To alleviate the quantization level to expand the application of ultrafast ultrasound imaging, this study proposed a depth-sectional quantization approach that reduces the quantization errors. For quantitative evaluation, Field II simulations, phantom experiments, and in vivo imaging were conducted and CNR, spatial resolution, and SSIM values were compared with the proposed method and fixed quantization method. We demonstrated that our proposed method is capable of effectively reducing the quantization level down to 3-bit while minimizing the image quality degradation.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.107-114
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• 2009

A Compton camera, which is based on Compton kinematics, is a very promising gamma-ray imaging device in that it could overcome the limitations of the conventional gamma-ray imaging devices. In the present study, the image quality of a rotating Compton camera was evaluated by using 4-D Monte Carlo simulation technique and the applicability to nuclear industrial applications was examined. It was found that Compton images were significantly improved when the Compton camera rotates around a gamma-ray source. It was also found that the 3-D imaging capability of a Compton camera could enable us to accurately determine the 3-D location of radioactive contamination in a concrete wall for decommissioning purpose of nuclear facilities. The 4-D Monte Carlo simulation technique, which was applied to the Compton camera fields for the first time, could be also used to model the time-dependent geometry for various applications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.898-905
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• 2018

In this work, infrared targets for a developed hardware-in-the-loop simulation(HILS) system are proposed for a performance test of a dual-sensor imaging seeker equipped with an infrared and a visible sensor that can lock and track for ground and air targets. This integrated system is composed of 100 modules of heat and light sources to simulate various kinds of target and the trajectory of moving targets based on scenarios. It is possible to simulate not only the position, velocity, and direction for these targets but also background clutter and jamming environments. The design and measurement results of an infrared target, such as the HILS system configuration, developed for testing and evaluation of a dual-sensor imaging seeker are described. In the future, it is planned to test the lock-on and tracking performance of an imaging seeker equipped with single or dual sensors dynamically in real time based on a simulation flight scenario in the developed HILS system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.2083-2090
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• 2010

This paper presents a 3-D visualization technique using stereo radioactive images to provide efficient inspection of fast moving cargo objects. The proposed technique can be used for such objects which CT or MRI cannot inspect due to restricted scan environment. Stereo radioactive images are acquired from a specially designed equipment which consists of a X-ray source, linear radioactive sensors, and a moving stage. Two radioactive sensors are installed so that rectified stereo X-ray images of objects are acquired. Using the stereo X-ray images, we run a matching algorithm to find the correspondences between the images and reconstruct 3-D shapes of real objects. The objects are put in a parallelepiped box to simulate cargo inspection. Three real objects are tested and reconstructed. Due to the inherent ambiguity in the stereo X-ray images, we reconstruct 3-D shapes of the edges of the objects. The experimental results show the proposed technique can provide efficient visualization for cargo inspection.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.526-528
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• 2001

기존의 얼굴표정 인식연구의 대부분은 얼굴영상에서 사전정보 획득과, 인식이 각각 별개로 수행되어, 전자의 결과가 후자를 보장하지 못하거나, 데이터와 계산 양의 과다, 그리고 인지과정이 사람과 다르다는 등의 문제가 있다. 이에 대해 하우스도르프 거리 매칭을 적용, 표정인식을 시도한다. 이는 전체적인 유사도를 측정하는 방법으로서 전체이론(Holistic theory)에 기반하여, '사람의 인지과정'을 따른다. 그러나 축소된 데이터를 사용하므로, 이 방법의 인식결과가 부족할 경우, 영상워핑을 적용하여 Brennan과 Carton이 제안한 캐리커쳐 효과를 이용한다. 이는 영상을 적절히 변형, 표정의 특징을 과장하고 잡영을 제거하여, 인식하기 쉬운, 분명한 표정을 생성하는 방법이다. 위 과정을 통해, 사람의 인지과정을 모사하고, 최소한의 데이터로써 사전정보 획득과정이 생략된, 입력영상으로부터 직접 표정을 인식하는 방법을 제안한다.