• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.115-123
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• 2011

Most of cameras being used in practice induce lens distortion; the amount of distortion depends on the specific applications as well as the camera cost. Up to now, many methods of lens distortion correction have relied on invariant properties of projective geometry to find distortion parameters. A common property is "the straight line in scene is straight line in image". However, if the straight lines are also parallel together, the previous works have missed this restriction in determining lens distortion parameters. In this paper, we propose a method that leads to guarantee of the restrictions simultaneously for the determination. Therefore, corrected image will close to an ideal image taken by the pinhole camera model. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by our experiments on both synthetic images and real images.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.3-11
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• 2015

Purpose It is hard to obtain high quality images of knee and T.M joint because of a lot of soft tissues in the knee and T.M joint area. Most conventional system for high resolution scintigraphy was used by 4 mm aperture pinhole collimator. Performance comparison of high-resolution pinhole SPECT for Micro deluxe phantom using conventional system. the aim of this study is to evaluate performance of each aperture according to the diameter size and the usefulness of 24-hour delayed bone scintigraphy. Materials and Methods In this study 6 mm, 8 mm diameter pinhole collimators were mounted on Siemens E.CAM systems. In order to evaluate performance evaluation of each aperture and Micro Deluxe phantom was used for performance comparison of conventional SPECT system, Projection data were obtained with 9 degree increment per 30 second. Transverse images were reconstructed using dedicated OSEM algorithm with recovery of detector blurring. $^{99m}Tc-HDP$ source was used for 24-hour delayed bone scintigraphy. Results The knee joint images obtained with 24-hour delay were improved more than those obtained with 3-hour delay in our study. The 6 mm and 8 mm pinhole collimators FWHM have improved by 28% SNR and Uniformity have improved by 35%, Contrast has improved by 7% in 24-hour delayed knee joint image. While in 24-hour delayed T.M joint image of the 6 mm and 8 mm pinhole collimators FWHM have decreased by 60% SNR has decreased by 20% and Uniformity has decreased by 25%, Contrast has decreased significantly. Conclusion Pinhole collimators with 6 mm and 8 mm diameter could offer a superior performance for 24-hour delayed bone scintigraphy. The use of 24-hour delayed image provides additional benefits for pinhole scintigraphy of knee joint. Therefore, we expect that it is useful for precise diagnosis of knee joint and it is applicable to others joint imaging.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.31-46
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• 2008

The depth of field is the range that the objects inside of this range treated to be focused. Objects that are placed out of this range are out of focus and become blurred. In computer graphics, generating depth of field effects gives a great reality to rendered images. The previous researches on the depth of field in computer graphics can be divided into two major categories. One of them is the distributed ray tracing that samples the lens area against each pixel. It is possible to obtain precise results without noise if enough number of samples are taken. However, to make a good result, a great number of samples are needed, resulting in an enormous timing requirement. The other approach is the method that approximates depth of field effect by post-processing an image and its depth values computed using a pin-hole camera. Though the second technique is not that physically correct like distributed ray tracing, many approaches which using this idea have been introduced because it is much faster than the first approach. But the post-processing have some limitations because of the lack of ray information. In this paper, we first present an improvement technique that corrects the previous post-processing methods and then propose another one that accelerates the distributed ray tracing by using a radiance caching method.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.33-38
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• 2008

본 논문은 핀홀 카메라 모델에 의해 렌더링한 컬러와 깊이 이미지의 후처리에 의한 실시간 필드심도 렌더링 방법을 제안한다. 필드심도 렌더링은 최근의 향상에도, 큰 스케일의 블러링에 필요한 계산 때문에 실용적으로 사용되지 못해 왔다. 본 방법은 이방성 가우시안 필터로 생성된 밉맵 이미지들을 비선형으로 보간하여 필드심도 효과에 필요한 블러링을 수행한다. 모든 계산 과정은 GPU로 가속되어, 안정적이고 확장 가능한 실시간 수행 성능을 확보한다. 또한, 후처리 방식의 두 가지 결점인 강도 누출과 블러링 불연속성을 이방성 가우시안 필터와 블러링 정도를 부드럽게 하여 제거한다. 본 방법은 뛰어난 실시간 성능과 함께 고품질의 필드심도 효과를 생성한다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.73.3-74
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 비구면 반사경의 형상오차를 3가지 방법으로 측정, 비교하였다. 실험에 사용한 포물면 반사경의 구경은 108 mm, 유효초점거리는 444.5 mm 이다. 첫 번째로 접촉식 형상측정방식인 FTS(Form TalySurf)를 이용하여 표면 거칠기와 반사경의 최적 곡률 반경(BestFitt Radius) 값을 측정하였다. 두 번째로는 비접촉식 형상측정방식인 UA3P(Ultrahigh Accurate 3-D Profilometer)를 이용하여 반사경의 형상 정밀도를 측정하였다. UA3P를 이용할 경우 반사경의 전체 형상을 측정할 수 있다. 세번째로 Shark-Hartmann 센서를 이용한 광학측정방법으로 반사경의 형상 정밀도를 측정하였다. 측정에 필요한 레이저 광학계는 레이저, 콜리메이터, 핀홀, 카메라 렌즈 및 비구면 광학계를 이용하여 설계하였다. 본 연구에서 도출한 각 측정 방법의 신뢰도를 바탕으로 간섭계 사용에 제약이 있는 자유형상곡면의 반사경 표면의 형상오차 측정에 적용할 계획이다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.23-31
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• 2010

Due to the fact that fisheye lens can provide super wide angles with the minimum number of cameras, field-of-view over 180 degrees, many vehicles are attempting to mount the camera system. Not only use the camera as a viewing system, but also as a camera sensor, camera calibration should be preceded, and geometrical correction on the radial distortion is needed to provide the images for the driver's assistance. In this thesis, we introduce a geometric correction technique to minimize the loss of the image data from a vehicle fish-eye lens having a field of view over $180^{\circ}$, and a asymmetric distortion. Geometric correction is a process in which a camera model with a distortion model is established, and then a corrected view is generated after camera parameters are calculated through a calibration process. First, the FOV model to imitate a asymmetric distortion configuration is used as the distortion model. Then, we need to unify the axis ratio because a horizontal view of the vehicle fish-eye lens is asymmetrically wide for the driver, and estimate the parameters by applying a non-linear optimization algorithm. Finally, we create a corrected view by a backward mapping, and provide a function to optimize the ratio for the horizontal and vertical axes. This minimizes image data loss and improves the visual perception when the input image is undistorted through a perspective projection.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.169-175
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to verify the usefulness of X-ray simulator which uses a visible light source for further study. We developed a small experimental equipment which is composed of three main components - source, localizer and detector. Cartesian coordinate was set in 3D space, and the position of target was assumed the origin of the coordinate. The light from the source passes directly through the target, and projection image is formed on the screen, which can be taken with the digital camera. Since projection images were acquired behind the screen, they were flipped over right and left. By examining the characters of visual light source and equipments, it could be concluded that developed system was useful for experimental purpose.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.10
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• pp.1185-1194
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• 2015

A spherical panoramic image does not conform to the pin-hole camera model, and, hence, it is not possible to utilize previous techniques consisting of plane-to-plane transformation. In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate the planar geometric transformation between the planar image and a spherical panoramic image. Our proposed method estimates the transformation parameters for latitude, longitude, rotation and scaling factors when the matching pairs between a spherical panoramic image and a planar image are given. A planar image is projected into a spherical panoramic image through two steps of nonlinear coordinate transformations, which makes it difficult to compute the geometric transformation. The advantage of using our method is that we can uncover each of the implicit factors as well as the overall transformation. The experiment results show that our proposed method can achieve estimation errors of around 1% and is not affected by deformation factors, such as the latitude and rotation.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.41 no.7
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• pp.481-491
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• 2014

The power production using renewable energy is more important because of a limited amount of fossil fuel and the problem of global warming. A concentrative photovoltaic system comes into the spotlight with high energy production, since the rate of power production using solar energy is proliferated. These systems, however, need to sophisticated tracking methods to give the high power production. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical tracking system using modular Bayesian networks and a naive Bayes classifier. The Bayesian networks can respond flexibly in uncertain situations and can be designed by domain knowledge even when the data are not enough. Bayesian network modules infer the weather states which are classified into nine classes. Then, naive Bayes classifier selects the most effective method considering inferred weather states and the system makes a decision using the rules. We collected real weather data for the experiments and the average accuracy of the proposed method is 93.9%. In addition, comparing the photovoltaic efficiency with the pinhole camera system results in improved performance of about 16.58%.