• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.133-137
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 영상의 콘트라스트를 개선시키는 언샵 마스킹 방법을 제안한다. 언샵 마스킹은 이미지가 가지고 있는 에지와 디테일 정보를 개선시키는데 일반적인 샤프닝 마스크 보다 효과적이기에 이에 관한 많은 연구가 있었다. 제안하는 방법은 방향성 정보를 이용한 블록 기반 업샵 마스킹 방법으로 영상을 블록 단위로 분할하여 각 블록에 대한 DCT를 수행한다. DCT 결과를 토대로 블록들의 방향성 타입을 결정하여 각 블록의 타입에 따라 적합한 언샵 마스킹을 취할 수 있는 유연함을 제공 한다. 블록의 분류는 평탄영역, 텍스쳐, 에지 그리고 나머지 형태로 구분되어 진다. 평탄 영역에 속하는 배경 및 평이한 표면에서는 결과물을 시각적으로 훼손시키지 않기 위해 언샵 마스킹을 적용하지 않는다. 텍스쳐와 에지 영역에 대해서는 고주파 성분을 보존하기 위해 블록 타입에 맞는 적합한 언샵 마스킹을 적용한다. 이에 사용되는 언샵 마스킹은 선명화의 기여도를 제어하는 적응적 필터를 사용하여 디테일이 많은 부분은 콘트라스트를 개선시키고 평탄 영역에 대해서는 선명화를 약하게 하여 최대의 영상 개선 효율을 유도한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.135-138
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• 1997

Multi-view 영상 DB의 surround view 입체 화상을 재현하기 위해서는 영상 정보를 효과적으로 합성, 보간하는 방법이 필연적으로 요구된다. 다시점 입체 영상의 표시 기능을 구현하기 위해서 이론적으로는 충분한 개수의 카메라를 상하 좌우로 배치하여 영상을 획득하고 보는 이의 위치에 가장 적합한 영상을 선택하여 표현하면 된다. 이 경우 많은 수의 카메라로부터 입력되는 방대한 영상 데이터의 저장, 처리, 전송, 설치 문제 등 현실적으로 많은 제약점이 존재한다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 기존의 블록 매칭과 같은 3D 구조 추정에 기초하여 블록 단위의 깊이 정보와 텍스쳐 정보의 추출, 다시점 영상 set의 가장 왼쪽 영상으로부터 시작하여 차례로 한 줄씩 쌓아서 얻어진 EPI(Epipolar Plane Image)에 기초한 유사 영상 값의 자취선 탐색 방법에 의한 시차와 텍스쳐 정보 추출로 전체 다안화상을 다해상도로 표현하여 전송하는 방식을 제안한다. 다해상도의 영상 표현과 점진적 전송 방법을 통해 다시점 영상 검색 시스템의 성능향상을 위한 네트워크 모델링을 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.855-863
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• 2001

We propose an image alignment algorithm based on variable-sized blocks of cylindrical prototype model to generate a face texture for a realistic 3D face model. This is a block matching algorithm which aligns 2D images of a 3D cylindrical model using th correlation between them. While matching blocks, it does not use same sized blocks with considering a curvature of 3D model. And we make a texture of aligned images using a technique of image mosaic. For this purpose, we stitch them with assigning linear weights according to the overlapped region and using the cross-dissolve technique.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.840-843
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• 2014

사실적 피부 렌더링은 피부 표면에서 일어나는 확산반사(Diffusion) 및 경면반사(Specular) 뿐 만 아니라 피부층 내에서 산란되어 나오는 산란광과 얇은 피부층을 통과하는 투과광 등을 고려하여 렌더링 되어야 한다. 이를 물리적인 개념들을 사용하여 실시간으로 계산하여 표현하는 것은 많은 계산량과 시간을 필요로 하므로 확산 반사 및 경면 반사 등을 미리 계산하여 텍스쳐로 저장하고 재사용하는 사전정의 BRDF 방법으로 근사화하여 표현할 수 있다. 하지만 사전정의 BRDF를 통해 생성된 피부 투과광색상 텍스쳐 맵은 그 색상이 고정되어있어 조명의 색상이 바뀌어도 피부를 투과하는 빛의 색상이 변하지 않아 부자연스러움을 보인다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 물체와 조명간의 거리를 이용하여 빛의 감쇠비율을 구하고 조명의 색상 값과 감쇠비율을 이용하여 피부 투과광 색상 텍스쳐 맵의 RGB채널 수정을 통해 피부 렌더링에서의 자연스러운 투과광 표현이 가능함을 보였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.5 s.101
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• pp.543-552
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• 2005

This paper proposes the extraction of coronary arteries based on DSA(Digital Subtraction Angiography) through a texture analysis of background in the angiography. DSA is a well established modality for the visualization of coronary arteries. DSA involves the subtraction of a mask image - an image of the heart before injection of contrast medium - from live image. However, this technique is sensitive to the movement of background and can result to a wrong detection by the variance of background gray-level intensity between two images. Therefore, this paper solves a structural problem resulted from a background movement bV selecting an image which has the least difference of movement through an analysis of the similarity of background texture and proposes a method to extract only the blood vessel efficiently through local gray-level correction of the selected image. Using the coronary angiogram of 5 patients clinical data, we proved that the proposed method has the lower false-detection rate, approximately $2\%$, and the higher accuracy than the existing methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.551-561
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• 2014

Since the depth and texture images have been widely used for generating 3-dimensional stereoscopic image, the security of them have been focused. In this paper, we propose a new watermarking technique for copyright of stereo and multiview images which is generated in an arbitrary viewpoint by depth and texture image. After the mark space is selected for preserving watermark through DIBR (depth-image-based rendering) process which uses 3D warping, the texture image is transformed to the frequency coefficient using 2D DCT (discrete cosine transform). Some parts of them are quantized, which is the corresponding process to watermarking. The embedded watermark is not conformed by eyes, so we identified the invisibility of the proposed method. In case of appling attacks of general image process, we also identified the robustness of it.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.22-33
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• 2005

In this paper. we propose an image registration algorithm based on variable-sized blocks of ellipsoidal prototype model which is similar in shape to human face. While matching blocks, the existing cylindrical prototype model which only takes into account left and right curvature can accomplish a correct alignment on left and right images. But, registration errors are produced from up and down images because the cylindrical prototype model not reflects characteristics of head shape and jaw structure of human. The proposed method is a block matching algorithm which uses variable-sized blocks with considering left-right and up-down curvature of ellipsoidal face model and can correctly align images by using the correlation between them. We then adapt image mosaic technique to generate a face texture from aligned images. For this purpose, we stitch them with assigning linear weights according to the overlapped region and remove ghost effects to make more realistic facial texture.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.498-508
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose an efficient coding algorithm for the zoom images to find the optimal depth and texture information. The proposed algorithm is the area-based method consisting of two consecutive steps, i) the depth extraction step and ii) the texture extraction step. The X-Y plane of the object space is divided into triangular patches and the depth value of the node is determined in the first step and then the texture of the each patch is extracted in the second step. In the depth extraction step, the depth of the node is determined by applying the block-based disparity compensation method to the windowed area centered at the node. In the second step, the texture of the triangular patches is extracted from the zoom images by applying the affine transformation based disparity compensation method to the triangular patches with the depth value extracted from the first step. To improve the quality of image, the interpolation is peformed on the object space instead of the interpolation on the image plane.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.215-220
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new texture-based page segmentation and classification method in which table region, background region, image region and text region in a given document image are automatically identified. The proposed method for document images consists of two stages, document segmentation and contents classification. In the first stage, we segment the document image, and then, we classify contents of document in the second stage. The proposed classification method is based on a texture analysis. Each contents in the document are considered as regions with different textures. Thus the problem of classification contents of document can be posed as a texture segmentation and analysis problem. Two-dimensional Gabor filters are used to extract texture features for each of these regions. Our method does not assume any a priori knowledge about content or language of the document. As we can see experiment results, our method gives good performance in document segmentation and contents classification. The proposed system is expected to apply such as multimedia data searching, real-time image processing.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.299-309
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for object generation from model-based 3-dimensional multi-viewpoint images using OpenGL rendering. In the first step, we preprocess a depth map image in order to get a three-dimensional coordinate which is sampled as a vertex information on OpenGL and has a z-value as depth information. Next, the Delaunay Triangulation algorithm is used to construct a polygon for texture-mapping using the vertex information. Finally, by mapping a texture image on the constructed polygon, we generate a viewpoint-adaptive object by calculating 3-dimensional coordinates on OpenGL.