• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.85 no.2
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• pp.327-344
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• 2024

Parathyroid glands are small endocrine glands that regulate calcium metabolism by producing parathyroid hormone (PTH). These are located at the back of the thyroid gland. Typically, four glands comprise the parathyroid glands, although their numbers may vary among individuals. Parathyroid diseases are related to parathyroid gland dysfunction and can be caused by problems with the parathyroid gland itself or abnormal serum calcium levels arising from renal disease. In recent years, as comprehensive health checkups have become more common, abnormal serum calcium levels are often found incidentally in blood tests, after which several additional tests, including a PTH test, ultrasonography (US), technetium-99m sestamibi parathyroid scan, single-photon-emission CT (SPECT)/CT, four-dimensional CT (4D-CT), and PET/CT, are performed for further evaluation. However, the parathyroid gland remains an organ less familiar to radiologists. Therefore, the normal anatomy, pathophysiology, imaging, and clinical findings of the parathyroid gland and its associated diseases are discussed here.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.163-172
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• 2010

The free viewpoint video delivers an active contents where users can see the images rendered from the viewpoints chosen by them. Its applications are found in broad areas, especially museum tour, entertainment and so forth. As a new free-viewpoint application, this paper presents a stereoscopic free-viewpoint TIP (Tour Into Picture) where users can navigate the inside of a single image controlling a virtual camera and utilizing depth data. Unlike conventional TIP methods providing 2D image or video, our proposed method can provide users with 3D stereoscopic and free-viewpoint contents. Navigating a picture with stereoscopic viewing can deliver more realistic and immersive perception. The method uses semi-automatic processing to make foreground mask, background image, and depth map. The second step is to navigate the single picture and to obtain rendered images by perspective projection. For the free-viewpoint viewing, a virtual camera whose operations include translation, rotation, look-around, and zooming is operated. In experiments, the proposed method was tested eth 'Danopungjun' that is one of famous paintings made in Chosun Dynasty. The free-viewpoint software is developed based on MFC Visual C++ and OpenGL libraries.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.203-208
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a real-time virtual model synchronization algorithm using object feature detection. The proposed algorithm may be useful to synchronize between real objects and their corresponding virtual models through object feature search in two-dimensional images. It consists of an algorithm to classify objects with colors individually, and an algorithm to analyze the orientation of objects with angles. We can synchronize the motion of the real object with the virtual model by providing the environment of moving the virtual object through the hand without specific controllers. The future research will include the algorithm to synchronize real object with unspecified shapes, colors, and directions to the corresponding virtual object.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.563-575
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• 2007

This study aims to investigate a possibility of using topographic information by web mapping in open environments. Web mapping intends to focus on a map analysis and application of the function and geo-visualization. Functions of Web topographic info-map include a spatial analysis, enlargement and minimization, movement, landuse information, user-controling 3 dimension map, landform cross-section analysis, shortest path analysis. The web system adopts SVG(scalable vector graphics), MYSQL, PHP, XML for mapping. SVG has open source policy, so everyone can use it, as well, it is effective on flexible database linkage, cartographic representation. 3D map is intended to represent 3D map by user-controlled sunshine putting pixel opacity by elevation values after making DEM. Landform is designed to show a cross-section analysis and statistics by retrieving height information from database engine with clicking two points on the map. Shortest path analysis within regions uses Dijkstra's algorithm. Near future, resultantly, the area of WebGIS will have to meet more social demands for use-created geo-information and application, so more researches are needed to be web mapping more applicable for users.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.640-655
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• 2014

Many of today's video systems have additional depth camera to provide extra features such as 3D support. Thanks to these changes made in multimedia system, it is now much easier to obtain depth information of the video. Depth information can be used in various areas such as object classification, background area recognition, and so on. With depth information, we can achieve even higher coding efficiency compared to only using conventional method. Thus, in this paper, we propose the 2D video coding algorithm which uses depth information on top of the next generation 2D video codec HEVC. Background area can be recognized with depth information and by performing HEVC with it, coding complexity can be reduced. If current CU is background area, we propose the following three methods, 1) Earlier stop split structure of CU with PU SKIP mode, 2) Limiting split structure of CU with CU information in temporal position, 3) Limiting the range of motion searching. We implement our proposal using HEVC HM 12.0 reference software. With these methods results shows that encoding complexity is reduced more than 40% with only 0.5% BD-Bitrate loss. Especially, in case of video acquired through the Kinect developed by Microsoft Corp., encoding complexity is reduced by max 53% without a loss of quality. So, it is expected that these techniques can apply real-time online communication, mobile or handheld video service and so on.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.879-883
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• 2006

본 연구는 현장에서 측정되는 수질데이터를 실시간 수집하여 데이터의 적절성을 모니터링하고 모형입력자료로써 신뢰성을 유지하도록 구성되는 시스템과 이를 2차원 수질 해석 모형인 CE-QUAL W2모형의 입력자료로 연계 활용함으로써 그 결과를 그래프 및 하천 변화 모의 동영상으로 표출하는 시스템을 개발하는데 그 목적이 있다. 수질 모형은 물 관련 모형가운데 특히 다량의 자료와 정확한 자료를 입력자료로 사용하며 그 결과 표출에 있어서도 전체적인 결과부터 세밀한 요소자료까지 결과자료가 필요하다. 본 연구에서 개발한 RTMMS(Real-time Turbidity Monitoring & Modeling System)는 현장 계측기로부터 수집되는 실시간 자료를 이용하여 데이터를 모니터링하고 CE-QUAL W2 모형을 이용하여 모델링을 수행한 후 결과를 그래프로 도출 할 수 있도록 하는 시스템이다. 특히 일반적인 어플리케이션의 GUI 환경에서 벗어나 일반 사용자들이 쉽게 프로그램을 사용할 수 있고 공간 활용도를 높이기 위하여 웹 형식의 GUI로 구성하였다. RTMMS는 기본 크기가 가로 800 픽셀, 세로 600 픽셀로 고정 사이즈이며, 주요 화면 구성으로는 좌측에 네 개의 항목이 있고 우측에는 실시간 모니터링 지점에 대한 유역도가 표시되어 사용자 편의환경을 제공하였다. 사용자는 해당 지점을 선택하여 주요 지점에 대한 정보를 분석할 수 있다. 또한 우측에는 선택된 지점에 대한 정보와 실시간 감시 내용을 조회할 수 있는 탭이 존재한다. 각각의 메뉴 항목은 주요지점의 모니터링 현황을 파악할 수 있는 기능, 수질모형의 입력자료로 변환하도록 하는 자료 동화 기능, CE-QUAL W2 모형을 수행하는 기능 및 결과자료를 분석하는 기능으로 구성되어 있으며, 각 기능을 선택하면 해당 화면으로 GUI가 전환된다. 따라서 다량의 측정자료의 신뢰성을 유지하고 이를 모형의 입력자료로 활용하는 일련의 과정을 시스템화하기 때문에 자료의 이상적 유지 관리가 이루어지며 복잡한 2차원 수질해석 모형을 수월하게 운영할 수 있는 시스템으로 개발하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.295-312
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• 2017

Digital video content is the most information-intensive and high-value content. Therefore, it is necessary to protect the intellectual property rights of these contents, and this paper also proposes a watermarking method of digital image for this purpose. The proposed method uses the frequency characteristics of 2-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform (2D-DWT) for digital images and digital watermark on global data without using local or specific data of the image for watermark embedding. The method to insert digital watermark data uses a simple Quantization Index Modulation (QIM) and a multiple watermarking method that inserts the same watermark data in multiple. When extracting a watermark, multiple watermarks are extracted and the final watermark data is determined by a simple statistical method. This method is an empirical method for experimentally determining the parameters in the watermark embedding process. The proposed method performs experiments on various images against various attacks and shows the superiority of the proposed method by comparing the performance with the representative existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.195-195
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• 2019

최근 센싱 기술과 정보화의 영향으로 하천에서 발생하는 다양한 정보들이 디지털화되어 저장되고 있으며, 이를 효율적으로 저장하고 관리하고자 하는 연구가 수행되고 있다. 특히, 과거에는 점, 선, 면으로 구성된 자료 위주로 구성되어 있어 수집된 자료를 주제별로 관리하는 레이어 형식으로 저장하여 자료를 표출하기 위한 목적으로 설계되었지만, 최근에는 영상자료, 시계열자료 등 기존의 자료와 다른 비구조적 형태의 자료가 발생함에 따라 하천 네트워크를 기반으로 한 하천공간정보를 관계형 구조로 설계하고 있다. 하천의 경우, 각 하천공간정보가 가지는 고유의 값을 활용하여 인접한 하천 네트워크를 구성하는 하천의 중심선 혹은 최심선을 기준으로 하천공간정보들을 관계성을 부여한다. 하지만 이러한 관계성은 자료의 저장, 관리, 제공에는 유리한 측면이 있지만 기하학적인 고려가 없기 때문에 공간정보로서 활용하기에는 한계가 존재한다. 쉽게 설명하면, 1차원 점에 해당하는 공간좌표는 가장 가까운 하천 네트워크를 대상으로 관계성 부여가 가능하지만, 2차원 선과 3차원 면에 해당하는 도형을 대표하는 위치가 공간적으로 많기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 하천 네트워크 기반 공간정보가 관계성을 부여하되 하천공간정보가 가지는 기하하적 구조를 반영하기 위해 하천 네트워크를 중심으로 한 곡선좌표계 부여 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 하천은 실제로 연속적으로 변화하며, 곡선으로 이루어져 있기 때문에 공간적으로 직교좌표계를 활용하기 보다는 곡선좌표계를 활용하는 것이 더 적합한 것으로 알려져 있다. 실제로 많은 수치해석 모형에서는 곡선좌표계를 고려하여 수치해석을 수행하고 있으며, 도로나 교통 분야의 공간정보에서도 공간적 고려를 위해 곡선좌표계를 활용하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 하천 중심선 혹은 최심선을 기준으로 흐름방향 거리를 S, 횡방향 거리를 N으로 설정하여 곡선좌표계를 정의하였으며, 직교좌표계와 곡선좌표계간의 좌표변환을 위해 이차원 변환방법인 투영변환을 활용하였다. 본 연구에서 제시된 방법을 활용할 경우, 하천 네트워크 기반 공간정보가 자료 간의 관계성을 유지하며, 기하하적 고려가 될 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.45-57
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• 2009

ETexture mapping is a technique used for adding reality to an image in 3D graphics. However. this technique becomes the bottleneck of the 3D graphics pipeline because it requires large processing power and high memory bandwidth. For reducing memory latency in texture mapping, texture cache is used. As portable devices become smaller and they have power constraint, it is important to reduce the area and the power consumption of the texture cache. In this paper we propose using a small texture cache to reduce the area and the power consumption of the texture cache. Furthermore, we propose techniques to keep a performance comparable to large texture caches by using prefetch techniques and a victim cache. Simulation results show the proposed small texture cache can reduce the area and the power consumption up to 70% and 60%, respectively, by using $1{\sim}2K$ bytes texture cache compared to the conventional 16K bytes cache while keeping the performance.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2007

We develop an interactive relighting renderer allowing camera view changes based on a deep-frame buffer approach. The renderer first caches the rendering parameters for a given 3D scene in an auxiliary buffer with the same size of the output image. The rendering parameters independent from light changes are selected from the shading models used for shading pixels. Next, as the user interactively edits one light at one time, the relighting renderer instantly re-shades each pixel by updating the contribution of the changed light with the shading parameters cached in the deep-frame buffer. When the camera moves, the cache values should be re-computed because the currently cached values become obsolete. We present a novel method to synthesize them quickly from the cache images of the user specified cameras by using an image-based technique. This computations are all performed on GPU to achieve real-time performance.