• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.547-557
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• 2014

This paper presents a method for designing circular template used in similarity measurement for image registration. Circular template has translation and rotation invariant property, which results in correct matching of control points for image registration under the condition of translation and rotation between reference and sensed images. Circular template consisting of the pixels located on the multiple circumferences of the circles whose radii vary from zero to a certain distance, is converted to two-dimensional Discrete Polar Coordinate Matrix (DPCM), whose elements are the pixels of the circular template. For sensed image, the same type of circular template and DPCM are created by rotating the circular template repeatedly by a certain degree in the range between 0 and 360 degrees and then similarity is calculated using mutual information of the two DPCMs. The best match is determined when the mutual information for each rotation angle at each pixel in search area is maximum. The proposed algorithm was tested using KOMPSAT-2 images acquired at two different times and the results indicate high accurate matching performance under image rotation.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.6_3
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• pp.1351-1367
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• 2018

Image registration is an essential process for image fusion, change detection and time series analysis using multi-sensor images. For this purpose, we need to detect accurately the difference of scale and rotation between the multi-sensor images with difference spatial resolution. In this paper, we propose a new feature matching method using variable circular template for image registration between multi-resolution images. The proposed method creates a circular template at the center of a feature point in a coarse scale image and also a variable circular template in a fine scale image, respectively. After changing the scale of the variable circular template, we rotate the variable circular template by each predefined angle and compute the mutual information between the two circular templates and then find the scale, the angle of rotation and the center location of the variable circular template, respectively, in fine scale image when the mutual information between the two circular templates is maximum. The proposed method was tested using Kompsat-2, Kompsat-3 and Kompsat-3A images with different spatial resolution. The experimental results showed that the error of scale factor, the error of rotation angle and the localization error of the control point were less than 0.004, $0.3^{\circ}$ and one pixel, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.08a
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• pp.274.2-274.2
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• 2013

We described a simple and efficient fabrication method for generating microfluidic channels with a circular-cross sectional geometry by exploiting the reflow phenomenon of a thick positive photoresist. Initial rectangular shaped positive photoresist micropatterns on a silicon wafer, which were fabricated by a conventional photolithography process, were converted into a half-circular shape by tuning the temperature to around $105^{\circ}C$. Through optimization of the reflow conditions, we could obtain a perfect circular micropattern of the positive photoresist, and control the diameter in a range from 100 to 400 ${\mu}m$. The resultant convex half-circular photoresist was used as a template for fabricating a concave polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) through a replica molding process, and a circular PDMS microchannel was produced by bonding two half-circular PDMS layers. A variety of channel dimensions and patterns can be easily prepared, including straight, S-curve, X-, Y-, and T-shapes to mimic an in vivo vascular network. To inform an endothelial cell layer, we cultured primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) inside circular PDMS microchannels, and demonstrated successful cell adhesion, proliferation, and alignment along the channel.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1040-1047
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a ball tracking algorithm robust against occlusion in broadcasting soccer video sequences. Soccer ball tracking is a challenging task due to occlusion, fast motion and fast direction changes. Many works have been proposed based on ball trajectory. However, this approach requires heavy computational complexity. We propose a ball tracking algorithm with occlusion handling capability. Initial ball location is calculated using the circular hough transform. Then, the ball is tracked using template matching. Occlusion is handled by matching score. In occlusion cases, we generate a set of ball candidates. The ball candidates which exist in the previous frame were removed. On the other hand, the new appearing candidate is determined as the ball. Experiments with several broadcasting soccer video sequences show that the proposed method efficiently handles the occlusion cases.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.116-122
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• 2009

In this paper, a robust method is developed to locate the irises of both eyes. The method doesn't put any restrictions on the background. The method is based on the AdaBoost algorithm for face and eye candidate points detection. Candidate points are tuned such that two candidate points are exactly in the centers of the irises. Mean crossing function and convolution template are proposed to filter out candidate points and select the iris pair. The advantage of using this kind of hybrid method is that AdaBoost is robust to different illumination conditions and backgrounds. The tuning step improves the precision of iris localization while the convolution filter and mean crossing function reliably filter out candidate points and select the iris pair. The proposed structure is evaluated on three public databases, Bern, Yale and BioID. Extensive experimental results verified the robustness and accuracy of the proposed method. Using the Bern database, the performance of the proposed algorithm is also compared with some of the existing methods.

• Macromolecular Research
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.575-580
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• 2007

Water-soluble, chiral conducting, poly(diphenylamine) (PDPA) nanocomposites were synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization of diphenylamine in the presence of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) as a template and camphor sulphonic acid (CSA) as the chiral inductor, Composites were formed as stable aqueous dispersions under different experimental conditions, such as DPA to PAA molar ratios, PAA molecular weight, etc. Circular dichroism(CD) spectra of the composites indicated the induction of chirality to PDPA. Compared to simple chiral PANI, the PDPA/PAA/CSA nanocomposites showed a different Cotton effect. The appearance of a CD band in the composite was complimentary to the bisignate, exciton-coupled band in the UV-Visible spectrum. FTIR spectra indicated the intimate mixing of PDPA and PAA.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.529-531
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• 1998

모니터의 한 좌표를 응시하고 있을 때의 눈 영상을 카메라로 획득하고, 눈 영역 영상에 대한 눈동자의 좌표를 계산하여 사용자가 모니터의 어느 부분을 응시한 것인지를 알아내는 것이 본 논문의 주요 목적이다. 카메라로 획득하여 계산된 눈동자의 좌표는 2차원 평면상에서 계산된 것이므로, 응시 각도나 응시 거리등의 3차원 정보가 손실되어 응시점에 대한 보다 정확한 매핑을 하기 위해 눈동자 좌표의 보정이 필요하게 된다. 획득된 눈 영상의눈동자 좌표 이외에 흰자위 비율 및 원형 템플레이트를 사용한 가중치 벡터를 더하여 개략적으로 얻어진 눈동자 좌표에 대한 응시 초점의 오차를 보정한다. 눈 영상에서의 보정된 눈동자 응시 초점 좌표를 모니터 평면 좌표로 매핑하여 모니터에 대한 사용자의 응시점을 찾아낸다. 이때, 계산된 모니터의 응시점이 명령 영역에 해당하면, 해당 명령을 실행시킴으로써 사용자는 모니터 화면을 응시하는 단순 동작만으로 컴퓨터에게 원하는 명령 실행을 요구할 수 있으므로 키보드나 마우스의 입력 장치를 본 시스템으로 대체할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.1029-1032
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• 2000

A neuro-fuzzy based circuit to recognize circuit pat-terns is proposed in this paper. The simple algorithm and exemption from the use of template patterns as well as multipliers enable the proposed circuit to implement on the hardware of an economical scale. Furthermore, thanks to the circuit design by using current-mode techniques, the proposed circuit call achieve easy extendability of tile circuit and efficient pattern recognition with high-speed. The validity of the proposed algorithm and tile circuit design is confirmed by computer simulations. The proposed pattern recognition circuit is integrable by a standard CMOS technology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.652-654
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 리본스네이크와 원형템플릿을 이용한 관상동맥추출 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 조영사진술로부터 획득된 관상동맥영상으로부터 동맥경화 유무를 쉽고 정확하게 진단하는데 필요한 혈관영역만을 추출하는 방법이다. 기존 방법에서는 혈관영역전체를 동일한 방법으로 추출하지만 본 논문에서는 혈관을 구성하는 각 세그먼트별로 적합한 추출방법을 적용한다. 즉 혈관에서 팽행선을 이루는 부분에 대해서는 항공사진 또는 위성영상에서 도로영역을 추출하는데 사용되는 리본스네이크를 적용하고 혈관의 분지부에 대해서는 원형템플릿과 혈관벽과의 교점의 개수를 분석하는 방범을 사용한다. 이때 원형템플릿의 중점과 교점들이 이루는 각도의 변화율을 고려함으로써 보다 정확한 혈관분지부를 검출할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1171-1176
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• 2014

The eye-tracking [ET] is used on the human computer interaction [HCI] analysing the movement status as well as finding the gaze direction of the eye by tracking pupil's movement on a human face. Nowadays, the ET is widely used not only in market analysis by taking advantage of pupil tracking, but also in grasping intention, and there have been lots of researches on the ET. Although the vision based ET is known as convenient in application point of view, however, not robust in changing environment such as illumination, geometrical rotation, occlusion and scale changes. This paper proposes two steps in the ET, at first, face and eye regions are discriminated by Haar classifier on the face, and then the pupils from the discriminated eye regions are tracked by CAMShift as well as Template matching. We proved the usefulness of the proposed algorithm by lots of real experiments in changing environment such as illumination as well as rotation and scale changes.