• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.580-584
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• 2005

One of the problems of panoramic image stitching methods is that its computational cost is so high that the image processing required usually cannot be done in real-time. Real-time performance is important in applications such as video surveillance becausewe must see current scenes. But it takes more than several seconds to calculate transform coefficients between images. Panoramic VR technologies such as Apple QuickTime VR have problem that distorts images of top and bottom. This paper presents a fast stitching method and a methpd reducing distortions of top and bottom in cubic panoramic image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.596-610
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• 2007

In order to reduce the complexity of SVC encoding, we introduce a fast mode decision method in the enhancement layers of spatial scalability by selectively performing the inter-layer residual prediction of SVC. The Inter-layer residual prediction coding in Scalable Video Coding has a large advantage of enhancing the coding efficiency since it utilizes the correlation between two residuals from a lower spatial layer and its next higher spatial layer. However, this entails the dramatical increase in the complexity of SVC encoders. The proposed method is to analyze the characteristics of integer transform coefficients for the subtracted signal for two residuals from lower and upper spatial layers. Then it selectively performs the inter-layer residual prediction coding and rate-distortion optimizations in the upper spatial enhancement layer if the SAD values of residuals exceed adaptive threshold values. Therefore, by classifying the residuals according to the properties of integer-transform coefficients only with SAD of residuals between two layers, the SVC encoder can perform the inter-layer residual coding selectively, thus significantly reducing the total required encoding time. The proposed method results in reduction of the total encoding time with 51.5% in average while maintaining the RD performance with negligible amounts of quality degradation.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2006.03a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2006

도로의 정보를 취득하기 위하여 제작된 도로 안정성 조사 분석 차량(RoSSAV)은 도로의 3차원 정보를 취득하는 한 방법으로 레이저 스캐너를 사용한다. 레이저 스캐너로부터 취득된 도로의 3차원 정보는 많은 목적으로 활용할 수 있는 매우 유용한 정보이나, 도로의 3차원 정보를 사용자가 육안으로 확인할 수 있도록 영상으로 편집을 하게 되면, 현실감 있는 영상이 생성되기는 어렵다. 이를 보완하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 레이저 스캐너로부터 얻은 정보와는 별도로 CCD 카메라로 도로 전방 영상을 촬영하였고, 이 두 가지 데이터를 합성하여 현실감 있는 3차원 도로영상을 생성하는 기법을 연구 개발하였다. 레이더 영상과 CCD 영상의 합성은 레이저 데이터가 가지고 있는 3차원의 위치에 해당하는 CCD영상에서의 영상점을 찾아 이 점에서의 RGB 밴드의 밝기값을 찾아내어 이를 레이저 데이터에 기록, 적용시키는 것을 의미한다. 이 방법을 사용하기 위해서는 영상간의 관계모델을 수립할 필요가 있으며, 본 연구에서는 직접선형변환(DLT) 모델을 사용하였다. 이 모델을 이용하기 위해 레이저 데이터를 영상으로 편집하였고 이 영상과 CCD영상과 일치하는 지점을 육안으로 찾아 각 영상별로 DLT센서모델에 필요한 개수의 기준점을 제작하여 실행하였다. 실험 결과 영상은 기준점의 정확도에 따라 약간의 차이는 있으나 합성 전의 레이저 데이터 영상에 비해 실세계에 가까운 색깔을 나타냄이 확인되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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• v.36T no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 1999

A real-time holography system using LCD with CCD camera is proposed. In this system, the rainbow hologram is used since it can be reconstructed by white light source. And to record on CCD camera, a kind of in-line holography method is used to widen the width of the fringe pattern. The interference fringe pattern by proposed system is detected with CCD camera and transferred to the LCD. A 3-dimensional image is reconstructed when the white light source illuminates the LCD. If the position of the input image is changed, that of the reconstructed image is also changed. So it can represent 3-dimensional moving images at real-time. In this paper, to confirm the usefulness of the proposed method, the reconstructed image by holographic film is compared to the same reconstructed image by LCD. In the recording process, the optimal ratio of the reference and object beam intensity is also investigated.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.19-26
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• 2005

Image interpolation in the wavelet domain usually takes advantage of the probabilistic models for the intrascale statistics and the interscale dependency. In this paper, we adopt the linear model for the absolute values of wavelet coefficients of interpolated image across scale to estimate the variances of extrapolated bands. The proposed algorithm uses randomly generated wavelet coefficients based on the estimated parameters for probabilistic model. Random number generation according to the estimated probabilistic model may induce the 'salt and pepper' noise in subbands. We reduce the noise power by Wiener filtering. We observe that the proposed method generates the histogram of the subband coefficients similar to the that of original image. Experimental results show that our method outperforms the previous wavelet-domain interpolation method as well as the conventional bicubic method.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.344-353
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• 2006

In this paper, we present a new algorithm which imitate real pencil strokes. The purpose of research on NPR(Non-Photorealistic Rendering) is simulating automatically manmade artistic expressions such as pen-and-ink illustrations, watercolor paintings, pencil sketches and pastel drawings with computers. Recently, there has been a great deal of research works on NPR. One of them is researching in pencil illustration methods for NPR, and a lot of researchers have investigated into the LIC(Linear Integral Convolution) techniques which would change the initial images into the output images by directional vector field images for generating effects of pencil. However, the LIC techniques can not be applied to real-time drawing tools because they are post processing techniques. This paper presents a real-time pencil strokes algorithm which is based on an observation of how pencils(from 6B to 6H) draw lines. Although this algorithm using some pencil variables and noise generation is simple, it is fast and also can draw real-time pencil strokes similar to real manmade pencil strokes in a GUI drawing tool.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.193-199
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• 2008

In this paper, it is proposed the implementation of face authentication system based on real-time image processing. We described the process implementing the two steps for real-time face authentication system. At first face detection steps, we describe the face detection by using feature of wavelet transform, LoG operator and hausdorff distance matching. In the second step we describe the new dual-line principal component analysis(PCA) for real-time face recognition. It is combines horizontal line to vertical line so as to accept local changes of PCA. The proposed system is affected a little by the video size and resolution. And then simulation results confirm the effectiveness of out system and demonstrate its superiority to other conventional algorithm. Finally, the possibility of performance evaluation and real-time processing was confirmed through the implementation of face authentication system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.7
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• pp.523-531
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• 2018

An analysis technique for detecting moving targets on a single-channel airborne frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) technology and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image is presented. To analyze the relative velocities of moving targets, an FMCW-based signal model for stationary and moving targets was studied, and a SAR ambiguity function considering its signal model was simulated. The relative velocities of the moving targets on a reconstructed SAR image can be estimated by peak searching of the SAR ambiguity function, and the stationary and moving targets are easily distinguished when there is a large variation of the relative velocity. Analysis results of the moving targets on a reconstructed FMCW-SAR image, using practical airborne data and a SAR ambiguity process, are compared with the in situ testing in the study area.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.127-136
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• 2010

In multi-view video, illumination disharmony between neighboring views can occur on account of different location of each camera and imperfect camera calibration, and so on. Such discrepancy can be the cause of the performance decrease of multi-view video coding by mismatch of inter-view prediction which refer to the pictures obtained from the neighboring views at the same time. In this paper, we propose an efficient histogram-based prefiltering algorithm to compensate mismatches between the luminance and chrominance components in multi-view video for improving its coding efficiency. To compensate illumination variation efficiently, all camera frames of a multi-view sequence are adjusted to a predefined reference through the histogram matching. A Cosited filter that is used for chroma subsampling in many video encoding schemes is applied to each color component prior to histogram matching to improve its performance. The histogram matching is carried out in the RGB color space after color space converting from YCbCr color space. The effective color conversion skill that has respect to direction of edge and range of pixel value in an image is employed in the process. Experimental results show that the compression ratio for the proposed algorithm is improved comparing with other methods.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.260-261
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• 2008

이동 물체 탐지(Object Detection) 기법은 대부분의 감시 시스템에서 가장 초기 단계로서, 이후에 물체 추적(Object Tracking) 및 물체 식별(Object Classification) 등의 지능 알고리듬에 입력으로 사용된다. 따라서 물체의 윤곽의 변화 없이 최대한 정교하게 이동 물체 영역 맵을 생성하는 것이 물체 탐지의 가장 중요한 요소가 된다. 카메라가 고정되어 있는 경우에는 현재 들어오는 영상에 대한 확률적 배경 모델을 생성할 수 있지만, 팬틸트 카메라와 같이 영상의 좌표가 변하는 환경에서는 배경 모델도 계속 변하기 때문에 기존의 배경 모델을 그대로 사용할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 팬틸트 카메라와 같이 동적인 카메라에서 이동 물체 탐지를 위해, 국소 특징점(Local Feature)를 통해 카메라의 움직임을 판단하여 연속되는 영상간의 변환 행렬(Transformation Matrix)를 구하고 하고, 확률적 배경 모델링을 통한 이동 물체 탐지 기법을 제안한다. 자제 촬영한 이동 카메라 실험영상을 통해서 이 알고리듬이 동적 배경에서도 매우 강인하게 동작하는 것을 검증하였다.