• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.2209-2213
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• 2011

When taking PET/CT, the distortion of the image happens due to the movement of a lesion with respiration. In this study, the experiment was conducted to see if the change in SUV value and distortion of the image could be somewhat corrected by comparing the image which was not compensated with that of the region of lung nodule, compensated with respiration compensation Plumonary Toolkit possessed by this hospital. The records of 17 patients with Lung cancer between May and August 2008. As the result of the experiment, Max SUV value increased by from 4.08% minimum to 43.10% maximum, and the average Max SUV value of lung nodule increased from 6.07 to 7.00(12.16%). In the case of respiration compensation PET/CT, the distortion of the image improved. As there was no significance in the comparison of SCC and Adenocarcinom respectively, though there was a statistically significant level(P<0.05) before and after respiration compensation in SCC-Adenocarcinoma, there was an effect in respiration compensation regardless of Cell types. As the result of the experiment, it was found out that the distortion of standard intake coefficient value and the image was compensated Therefore, the diagnosis of lung cancer and follow up will be able to help.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.524-527
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• 2006

This paper discusses a method to efficiently remove the keystone distortion in images. The keystone distortion which generated during 2D image aquisition to realize 3D stereoscopic images is removed by the bilinear interpolation method. Usually, the keystone distortion in 2D images can remove by the optical equipment but the image processing is more effective than the optical equipment in consideration of efficiency or simplicity of the works. This method can be realized 3D stereoscopic image without the distortion.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.299-310
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed a new method to correct the zoom lens distortion for the video sequence captured by the zoom lens. First, we defined the nonlinear zoom lens distortion model which is represented by the focal length and the lens distortion using the characteristic that lens distortion parameters are nonlinearly and monotonically changed while the focal length is increased. Then, we chose some sample images from the video sequence and estimated a focal length and a lens distortion parameter for each sample image. Using these estimated parameters, we were able to optimize the zoom lens distortion model. Once the zoom lens distortion model was obtained, lens distortion parameters of other images were able to be computed as their focal lengths were input. The proposed method has been made experiments with many real images and videos. As a result, accurate distortion parameters were estimated from the zoom lens distortion model and distorted images were well corrected without any visual artifacts.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.503-506
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• 2011

최근 다양하게 등장하고 있는 운전자를 위한 보조 장치 중 운전자의 주차를 위해 사용되는 장치들 중 하나인 차량용 카메라는 주로 차량 후방의 번호판 위에 주로 위치하여 운전자의 주차에 도움을 주는 역할에 사용이 되고 있다. 최근에는 이러한 카메라를 이용하여 전 후방 및 좌 우측을 모두 보여주기 위한 AVM(Around View Monitor) 시스템이 개발되었다. 그러나 다수의 카메라를 사용하는 AVM시스템에서 운전자에게 통합된 영상을 제공하기 위해서는 카메라의 방사왜곡보정과 호모그래피(Homography) 알고리즘을 통해 정합하는 과정이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 호모그래피 과정에서 결과 영상의 품질을 개선하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 또한, 제안하는 방법을 구현하여 기존의 8DOF(Degree of Freedom)을 사용한 방법과 결과 영상의 품질을 비교함으로써 개선된 영상을 제공할 수 있음을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.9
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• pp.36-44
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• 2015

This paper proposes a low-complexity processor to correct vignetting and barrel distortion for wide-angle cameras. The proposed processor calculates the required correcting factors by employing the piecewise linear approximation so that the hardware complexity can be reduced significantly while maintaining correction quality. In addition, the processor is designed to correct the two distortions concurrently in a singular pipeline, which reduces the overall complexity. The proposed processor is implemented with 18.6K logic gates in a $0.11{\mu}m$ CMOS process and shows the maximum correction speed of 200Mpixels/s for correcting an image of which size is $2048{\times}2048$.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.57-73
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• 1997

This paper is related to the correction of radiometric distortions induced by topographic relief. RADARSAT SAR image data were obtained over the mountainous area near southern part of Seoul. Initially, the SAR data was geometrically corrected and registered to plane rectangular coordinates so that each pixel of the SAR image has known topographic parameters. The topographic parameters (slope and aspect) at each pixel position were calculated from the digital elevation model (DEM) data having a comparable spatial resolution with the SAR data. Local incidence angle between the incoming microwave and the surface normal to terrain slope was selected as a primary geometric factor to analyze and to correct the radiometric distortions. Using digital maps of forest stands, several fields of rather homogeneous forest stands were delineated over the SAR image. Once the effects of local incidence angle on the radar backscatter were defined, the radiometric correction was performed by an empirical fuction that was derived from the relationship between the geometric parameters and mean radar backscatter. The correction effects were examined by ground truth data.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.8C
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• pp.497-504
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• 2011

This paper presents an adaptive retinex algorithm, In order to solve typical problems of retinex algorithm such as expensive computational cost, halo artifact, and color distortion, a function of skewness that represents a statistical distribution of pixels is defined to compensate contrast and color distortion. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm leads to subjectively better performance than typical retinex algorithm, and that the proposed algorithm has the capability to reduce approximately 40% computational cost than typical retinex algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.413-416
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• 2007

카메라 캘리브레이션은 비젼(vision) 시스템의 광학왜곡을 보정하기 위해, 영상 좌표계와 실세계 좌표계간의 변환관계를 정의해 주는 mapping을 구하는 과정으로 카메라를 이용한 측정, 검사, 위치보정 등의 응용에서 매우 중요하다. 카메라 캘리브레이션 방법으로 많이 사용되는 Tsai 알고리즘은 여러 카메라 내부 상수들을 필요로 하며, 적절한 활용을 위해서는 이에 대한 이해와 카메라와 렌즈왜곡의 모델에 대한 사전지식을 요한다. 본 논문에서는 카메라나 렌즈왜곡에 대한 모델이나 가정없이, 영상좌표와 실세계 좌표간의 변환을 고차(higher order) polynomial을 이용하여 구현하여 사용이 손쉬운 카메라 캘리브레이션 방법을 소개하고 성능을 평가하였다. 성능 평가 결과, 3차 polynomial을 이용한 카메라 캘리브레이션 방법이 Tsai알고리즘보다 정밀도에서 우수하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.232-235
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• 2013

간 질환 진단을 위한 의료 초음파 동영상에서 호흡으로 인한 영상의 흔들림 현상은 전이시간(transit time) 요소와 같은 진단 파라미터의 신뢰도를 저하시킬 뿐만 아니라, 정확한 병변 형태의 추출을 어렵게 한다. 본 연구에서는 호흡 주기를 자동으로 감지하고 이를 기반으로 ROI 를 추적하는 방법과 프레임 샘플링을 통하여 TIC(Time-Intensity Curve) 형태의 왜곡을 보정하는 방법을 고찰한다. 세부적으로 동적 가중치와 모멘텀 요소를 고려한 추적 기법을 제시하고 유용성을 평가한다. 또한 호흡주기와 프레임간 유사도(similarity)를 기반으로 한 영상 샘플링 기법을 제안하고 이로부터 신호의 왜곡을 보정할 수 있음을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.687-695
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• 2011

Many internet portals provide maps with spatial information services. Recently, various images including aerial, satellite, street view, and photo-realistic 3D city models are provided as well as maps. This study suggested a method for geometric correction of the panoramic aerial images in the internet portal and 3D building modeling using information which is available in the internet. The key of this study is to obtain all necessary data easily from internet without restrictions. Practically, the ground control coordinates could be available from geo-referenced internet maps, and stereo pairs of the aerial images and close-range photographs for photo-realistic object modeling are provided by the internet service. However, the ground control points are not suitable for accurate mapping. RMSE of the plotting was about 9 meters and reduced upto 4 meters after coordinate transformation. The proposed methods would be applicable to various applications of photo-realistic object modeling which do not require high accuracy.