• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2693-2700
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• 2009

This paper proposes an effective compression method to utilize the 3D integral image with large amount of data obtained by a lens array in various applications. The conventional compression methods for still images exhibit low performance in terms of coding efficiency and visual quality, since they cannot remove the correlation between elemental images. In the moving picture compression methods, 1D scanning techniques that produce a sequence of elemental images are not enough to remove the directional correlation between elemental images. The proposed method effectively sequences the elemental images from an integral image by the 2D referencing technique and compresses them using the multi-frame referencing of H.264/AVC. The proposed 2D referencing technique selects the optimal reference image according to vertical, horizontal, and diagonal correlation between elemental images. Experimental results show that compression with the sequence of elemental images presents better coding efficiency than that of still image compression. Moreover, the proposed 2D referencing technique is superior to the 1D scanning methods in terms of the objective performance and visual quality.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.292-294
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• 2022

본 논문은 3 차원 이미징 기술과 컴퓨터 그래픽스 기반의 시뮬레이션 분야에서 매우 성공적인 두 기술의 융합을 기반으로 진행한 연구를 제안한다. 먼저 3 차원 디스플레이 시스템에 재생할 집적 영상 이미지를 생성하는 방법에 대해 설명한다. 이는 3 차원 포인트 클라우드에서 가상 핀홀 배열로 입사각을 역투영하는 계산방식을 통해 해당 이미지를 생성한다. 우리는 재생되는 3 차원 영상의 초점면을 자유롭게 선택하는 방법에 대해서도 설명한다. 또한, 복수의 관찰자에게 동시에 다양한 시점 정보를 기반으로 몰입감 넘치는 3 차원 영상을 제공하는 3 차원 디스플레이 시스템을 소개하고, 다양한 실험결과를 기반으로 결론을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1944-1949
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• 2007

In this paper, a new plane-based computational reconstruction technique for three-dimensional (3D) objects in 3D internal imaging based on a lens model is proposed. For the proposed technique, computational experiments have been carried out for various test images. Resolution of the reconstructed images is analyzed and compared with that obtained by the conventional technique. From experiments, it is shown that the resolution of a 3-D reconstructed image was improved by using the proposed technique.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.225-234
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• 2005

In the integral imaging system for 3D display, the elemental image size is closely related to the several variables, such as the size of elemental lens, the distance between elemental lens and elemental image, etc., on the pick up system. We have analyzed the geometric relation between the variables. In addition, we have investigated the integrated image variation for the individual and whole conversion of the size of the elemental images, different from in pick up process, and presented experimental results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.2A
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• pp.128-134
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to enhance the recognition performance of a far and partially occluded three-dimensional (3-D) target in computational curving-effective integral imaging (CEII) by using the direct pixel-mapping (DPM) method. With this scheme, the elemental image array (EIA) originally picked up from a far and partially occluded 3-D target can be converted into a new EIA just like the one virtually picked up from a target located close to the lenslet array. Due to this characteristic of DPM, resolution and quality of the reconstructed target image can be highly enhanced, which results in a significant improvement of recognition performance of a far 3-D object. Experimental results reveal that image quality of the reconstructed target image and object recognition performance of the proposed system have been improved by 1.75 dB and 4.56% on the average in PSNR (peak-to-peak signal-to-noise ratio) and NCC (normalized correlation coefficient), respectively, compared to the conventional system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07c
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• pp.1605-1606
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 집적 영상에 기반한 2차원/3차원 변환 가능한 디스플레이에서 기초 영상을 표시하는 투과형 디스플레이 소자로서 기존의 광변조기 대신 LCD (liquid crystal display) 패널을 사용하여 컬러 디스플레이를 구현하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 방법의 원리를 설명하고 실험 결과를 보여주도록 하겠다. 또한 예상되는 색 분산 문제점에 대하여 살펴보고 이의 원인을 분석하고 해결 방법을 제안하여 2차원/3차원 변환 가능한 컬러 디스플레이를 구현하는 방법에 대하여 논하도록 하겠다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.1376-1382
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• 2016

In this paper, we present a visual quality enhancement technique for conventional three-dimensional (3D) photon counting integral imaging using background noise removal algorithm. Photon counting imaging can detect a few photons from desired objects and visualize them under severely photon-starved conditions such as low light level environment. However, when a lot of photons are generated from background, it is difficult to detect photons from desired objects. Thus, the visual quality of the reconstructed image may be degraded. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new photon counting imaging method that removes unnecessary background noise and detects photons from only desired objects. In addition, integral imaging can be used to obtain 3D information and visualize the 3D image by statistical estimations such as maximum likelihood estimation. To prove and evaluate our proposed method, we implement the optical experiment and calculate mean square error.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.659-666
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a novel reconstruction method of spatially filtered 3D images in integral imaging based on parallel lens array. The parallel lens array is composed of two lens arrays, which are positioned side by side through longitudinal direction. Conventional spatial filtering method by using convolution property between periodic functions has drawback that is the limitation of the position of target object. this caused the result that the target object should be located on the low depth resolution region. The available spatial filtering region of the spatial filtering method is depending on the focal length and the number of elemental lens in the integral imaging pickup system. In this regard, we propose the parallel lens array system to enhance the available spatial filtering region and depth resolution. The experiment result indicate that the proposed method outperforms the conventional method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.295-300
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• 2006

The integral imaging system is an auto-stereoscopic display that allows users to see 3D images without wearing special glasses. In the integral imaging system, the 3D object information is taken from several view points and stored as elemental images. Then, users can see a 3D reconstructed image by the elemental images displayed through a lens array. The elemental images can be created by computer graphics, which is referred to the computer-generated integral imaging. The process of creating the elemental images is called image mapping. There are some image mapping methods proposed in the past, such as PRR(Point Retracing Rendering), MVR(Multi-Viewpoint Rendering) and PGR(Parallel Group Rendering). However, they have problems with heavy rendering computations or performance barrier as the number of elemental lenses in the lens array increases. Thus, it is difficult to use them in real-time graphics applications, such as virtual reality or real-time, interactive games. In this paper, we propose a new image mapping method named VVR(Viewpoint Vector Rendering) that improves real-time rendering performance. This paper describes the concept of VVR first and the performance comparison of image mapping process with previous methods. Then, it discusses possible directions for the future improvements.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.234-240
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• 2004

In the integral imaging system for 3D display, we have investigated the image distortions, such as duplication and omission, which are presented in the reconstructed image. We have also discussed the quantitative condition which minimizes the distortion, with several fundamental variables. In addition, we present the experimental results which support the quantitative analysis of the distortion.