• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.747-759
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• 2018

In this paper, we implement viewport dependent tile partitioning for high quality 360 video transmission and rendering method to present a HMD (Head Mounted Display) screen for 360 video quality evaluation. As a method for high-quality video transmission based on a user's viewport, this paper introduces MCTS (Motion Constrained Tile Sets) technique for solving the motion reference problem and EIS (Extraction Information Sets) SEI including pre-configured tile information, and extractor that extracts tiles. In addition, it explains tile extraction method based on user's viewport and implementation contents of the method of expressing on an HMD. Therefore, if 360 video is transferred by the proposed implementation which only transfers video from the user viewport area, it is possible to express higher quality video with lower bandwidth while avoiding unnecessary image transmission.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.685-688
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 기존의 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform)를 이용한 디지털 워터마킹 방법을 개선하여 비가시성을 향상시키는 DCT 기반의 디지털 워터마킹 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 이에 원 영상을 DCT 변환한 영역에 워터마크로 사용할 이미지를 이진화하여 얻은 픽셀 값을 기준으로 워터마크를 삽입하고자 한다. 삽입 할 워터마크는 식별하기 어려운 의사난수를 사용하지 않고 가시적으로 인지할 수 있는 문자(서명) 혹은 도장으로 구성된 이진 영상을 사용한다. 이 방법의 강인성 평가를 위해 워터마크가 삽입된 영상을 대상으로 영상처리를 수행하지 않은 경우, JPEG 영상압축, cropping, 필터링, 밝기 조절 및 대비 확장 등 기본적인 영상처리 알고리즘을 적용한 후 워터마크를 검출하였다. 실험 결과 제안된 방법의 워터마킹 영상은 기존 방법에 비하여 워터마크가 삽입된 영상의 화질이 비교적 우수하였으며 검출된 워터마크의 시각적인 인지도가 높아 가시적 효율성이 뛰어남을 검증하였다. 최종적으로, 실험에 의해 제안한 방법의 유용성을 입증하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.81 no.1
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• pp.166-175
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• 2020

Purpose This study aimed to compare the image quality and adverse events between Iopamidol 250 and Ioversol 320 usage during transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Materials and Methods Medical records and hepatic angiography from 113 patients who underwent TACE with Iopamidol 250 (44 patients) and Ioversol 320 (69 patients) were retrospectively reviewed. Vessel perception on hepatic angiography was graded into three categories by two radiologists for hepatic subsegmental arteries, the right gastroepiploic artery, right gastric artery, and pancreaticoduodenal artery. Imaging concordance was assessed by comparing the number of detected HCCs on hepatic angiography and CT. The adverse events before and after hepatic angiography were evaluated. Results The mean vessel perception scores were 2.92 and 2.94 for Iopamidol 250 and Ioversol 320, respectively. The imaging concordance was 31 (70.5%) and 46 (66.7%) patients for Iopamidol 250 and Ioversol 320, respectively. There were no statistical differences in vessel perception or imaging concordance (p > 0.05). One and six patients experienced nausea for Iopamidol 250 and Ioversol 320, respectively. There was no statistical difference in adverse events (p = 0.24). Conclusion Iopamidol 250 can be used in hepatic angiography for TACE without significant difference in image quality or occurrence of adverse events from Ioversol 320.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.110-122
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• 2014

As multimedia technologies develop, three-dimensional (3D) technologies are attracting increasing attention from researchers. In particular, video quality assessment (VQA) has become a critical issue in stereoscopic image/video processing applications. Furthermore, a human visual system (HVS) could play an important role in the measurement of stereoscopic video quality, yet existing VQA methods have done little to develop a HVS for stereoscopic video. We seek to amend this by proposing a 3D visual attention (3DVA) model which simulates the HVS for stereoscopic video by combining multiple perceptual stimuli such as depth, motion, color, intensity, and orientation contrast. We utilize this 3DVA model for pooling on significant regions of very poor video quality, and we propose no-reference (NR) stereoscopic VQA (SVQA) method. We validated the proposed SVQA method using subjective test scores from our results and those reported by others. Our approach yields high correlation with the measured mean opinion score (MOS) as well as consistent performance in asymmetric coding conditions. Additionally, the 3DVA model is used to extract information for the region-of-interest (ROI). Subjective evaluations of the extracted ROI indicate that the 3DVA-based ROI extraction outperforms the other compared extraction methods using spatial or/and temporal terms.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.281-290
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• 2010

Cone-beam digital tomosynthesis (CBDT) has greatly been paid attention in the image-guided radiation therapy because of its attractive advantages such as low patient dose and less motion artifact. Image quality of tomograms is, however, dependent on the imaging conditions such as the scan angle (${\beta}_{scan}$) and the number of projection views. In this paper, we describe the principle of CBDT based on filtered-backprojection technique and investigate the optimization of imaging conditions. As a system performance, we have defined the figure-of-merit with a combination of signal difference-to-noise ratio, artifact spread function and floating-point operations which determine the computational load of image reconstruction procedures. From the measurements of disc phantom, which mimics an impulse signal and thus their analyses, it is concluded that the image quality of tomograms obtained from CBDT is improved as the scan angle is wider than 60 degrees with a larger step scan angle (${\Delta}{\beta}$). As a rule of thumb, the system performance is dependent on $\sqrt{{\Delta}{\beta}}{\times}{\beta}^{2.5}_{scan}$. If the exact weighting factors could be assigned to each image-quality metric, we would find the better quantitative imaging conditions.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.4 s.107
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• pp.369-376
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• 2006

The degradation and its inverse modeling can achieve restoration of corrupted image, caused by scaled digitization and electronic transmission. De-speckle process on the noisy document(or SAR) images is one of the basic examples. Non-linearity of the speckle noise model may hinder the inverse process. In this paper, our study is focused on investigation of the restoration methods for bi-level document image degraded by the impulse noise model. Our study shows that, on bi-level document images, the weighted-median filter and the Lee filter methods are very effective among other spatial filtering methods, but wavelet filter method is ineffective in aspect of processing speed: approximately 100 times slower. Optimal values of the weight to be used in the weighted median filter are investigated and presented in this paper.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.367-372
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• 2012

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of exposure factors such as kVp and mA applied by BMI on the image quality and patients absorbed dose of Coronary angiography in CT. Each data sets were into 4groups with different exposure values : Group A at 100kVp, 240mAs, Group B at 120kVp, 240mAs, Group C at 100kVp, 270mAs and Group D at 120kVp, 270mAs, and the mean of the scores of 4 groups was calculated for image quality as 4grades that is, 1(poor), 2(fair), 3(good) and 4(very good). Patient absorbed dose was calculated as DLP on the monitor. In case of absorbed dose, deviation in 2groups at 100kVp was 5.6 $mGy{\cdot}cm$, 11 $mGy{\cdot}cm$, was at 120kVp(DLP) with p<0.05. There was rather difference between groups with 100kVp or 120kVp respectively but the gaps were very little. No significant correlation was found between exposure factors and image quality in any images assessed(p>0.05), and the image quality was sufficient for diagnosis. As we applying coronary angiography, the selection of adequate exposure factors considering BMI identified might be effective for reduction of patient absorbed dose, improvement of image quality and diagnostic accuracy.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.1187-1194
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• 2005

In this paper, new contrast enhancement algorithms that use temporal decimation method and approximated CDF(Cumulative Distribution Function) are proposed. They reduce the amount of computation which is required for image contrast enhancement. Simulation results show that the algorithms can achieve significant reduction in the computational cost and the hardware complexity. Visual test and standard deviation of their histogram have been introduced to evaluate the resultant output images of the proposed method and the original ones.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.172-175
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• 2020

최근 스마트시티, 자율 주행 자동차 등 기계에 의해 소비되는 영상 데이터의 양이 증가함에 따라 기계의 임무 수행 능력을 향상시킬 수 있는 압축기술이 필요하게 되었다. 그런데, 전통적 방식의 영상 코덱은 사람의 인지 화질 특성을 고려해 개발된 기술이기 때문에 기계의 임무 수행에 필수적인 정보 외에도 불필요한 정보가 존재한다. 따라서 사람이 아닌 기계의 임무 수행에 대해 효율적으로 영상을 압축하기 위한 비디오 코덱 기술이 필요하다. 이와 관련하여, 최근 MPEG에서 Video Coding for Machines라는 영상 압축기술에 대한 표준화가 논의되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기계를 위한 영상 압축기술의 연구배경과 연구를 통해 전통적인 영상 압축 코덱 방식과 neural network 기반 압축 코덱 방식에 대해 각각의 방식이 머신비전 임무를 수행한 정확도를 기준으로 영상 압축성능을 비교해 효율적인 압축 코덱 방식에 대해 분석한다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.243-250
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• 2023

Chest X-ray is radiological examination for xeamining the lungs and haert, and is particularly widely used for diagnosing lung disease. Since the quality of these chest X-rays can affect the doctor's diagnosis, the process of evaluating the quality must necessarily go through. This process can involve the subjectivity of radiologists and is manual, so it takes a lot of time and csot. Therefore, in this paper, based on the chest X-ray quality assessment guidelines used in clinical settings, we propose a tool that automates the five quality assessments of artificial shadow, coverage, patient posture, inspiratory level, and permeability. The proposed tool reduces the time and cost required for quality judgment, and can be further utilized in the pre-processing process of selecting high-quality learning data for the development of a learning model for diagnosing chest lesions.