• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1205-1206
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• 2008

In the conventional floating display system some image distortions might be occurred in the floating image plane, in which a flat screen has been mostly used for providing an adequate input image plane. In this paper, as a new approach to alleviate image distortion problem in a floating display system, a curved screen is suggested by through some computer simulation using an optics design program of Light Tools.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10d
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• pp.560-563
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• 2007

다시점 영상은 관찰자가 원하는 시점을 선택할 수 있고, 자연스러운 입체감을 제공한다. 하지만 카메라의 수가 증가함에 따라 데이터양이 늘어나는 단점이 있다. 본 논문은 시.공간적 상관성을 고려한 시점 간 움직임 벡터 예측 기법을 제안한다. 인접한 시점의 영상이 비슷한 움직임 정보를 가지는 특징을 이용해 현재 블록의 움직임 벡터의 예측간을 계산한다. 또한 시간적으로 연속한 프레임의 경우 비슷한 변이 벡터를 가지므로, 이전 프레임의 변이 벡터 정보를 현재 매크로블록의 변이벡터로 활용하는 방법을 제안한다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.161-170
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• 2012

This paper presents an efficient and robust approach for determining the correspondence between unbalanced stereo images. The disparity vectors were used instead of feature points, such as corners, to calculate a correspondence relationship. For a faster and optimal estimation, the vectors were classified into several regions, and the homography of each region was calculated using the RANSAC algorithm. The correspondence image was calculated from the images transformed by each homography. Although it provided good results under normal conditions, it was difficult to obtain reliable results in an unbalanced stereo pair. Therefore, a balancing method is also proposed to minimize the unbalance effects using the histogram specification and structural similarity index. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach outperformed the baseline algorithms with respect to the speed and peak-signal-to-noise ratio. This work can be applied to practical fields including 3D depth map acquisition, fast stereo coding, 2D-to-3D conversion, etc.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.121-128
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• 2013

There have been various research efforts for pedestrian recognition in embedded imaging systems. However, many suffer from their heavy computational complexities. SVM classification method has been widely used for pedestrian recognition. The reduction of candidate region is crucial for low-complexity scheme. In this paper, We propose a real time HOG based pedestrian detection system on GPU which images are captured by a pair of cameras. To speed up humans on road detection, the proposed method reduces a number of detection windows with disparity-search and near-search algorithm and uses the GPU and the NVIDIA CUDA framework. This method can be achieved speedups of 20% or more compared to the recent GPU implementations. The effectiveness of our algorithm is demonstrated in terms of the processing time and the detection performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.286-289
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• 2009

This paper presents an effective approach to minimize recursive computations for balancing stereo pairs by using disparity vector errors and its directional histogram. A stereo balancing function is computed from the correspondent pixels between two images, and a simple approach is to find the matching blocks of two images. However, this procedure requires recursive operation, and its computation cost is very high. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an efficient balance method using structural similarity index and a partial re-searching scheme to reduce the computation cost considerably. For this purpose, we determine if re-searching for each block is necessary or not by using the errors and the directional histogram of disparity vectors. Experiment results show that the performance of the proposed approach can save the computations significantly with ignorable image quality degradation compared with full re-search approach.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.231-237
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• 2007

For an aspect ratio (transport length-to-width) of 5, Pr=3.34, Le=0.078, Pe=4.16, Cv=1.01, $P_B=50$ Torr, only thermally buoyancy-driven convection ($Gr=4.83{\times}10^5$) is considered in this study in spite of the disparity in the molecular weights of the component A ($Hg_2Cl_2$) and B which would cause thermally and/or solutally buoyancy-driven convection. The crystal growth rate and the maximum velocity vector magnitude are decreased exponentially for $3{\le}Ar{\le}5$, for (1) adiabatic walls and (2) the linear temperature profile, with a fixed source temperature. This is related to the finding that the effects of side walls tend to stabilize convection in the growth reactor. The rate for the linear temperature profiles walls is slightly greater than for the adiabatic walls far varied temperature differences and aspect ratios. With the imposed thermal profile, a fixed source region, both the rate and the maximum velocity vector magnitude increase linearly with increasing the temperature difference for $10{\le}{\Delta}T{\le}50K$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.170-171
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 다시점 영상 부호화 시 효율적인 부호화를 위해 이웃한 시점 영상의 부호화 정보를 이용하는데 있어 영상 간의 최대 시차 정보를 이용하여 부호화 하는 방법을 제안한다. 다시점 비디오 부호화 방법은 일반적인 단일 시점 영상의 부호화와 같이 화면 내 참조, 화면 간 참조를 수행할 뿐만 아니라, 이웃한 시점의 영상을 참조하여 부호화 하는 시점 간 참조를 수행한다. 현재 표준화가 진행중인 HEVC 기반의 다시점 부호화 방법에서는, 시점 간 참조 시 이미 부호화가 완료된 이웃한 블록으로부터 시차 벡터 (Disparity vector)를 유도하여 부호화 하는 방법도 사용된다. 이 때 이웃한 블록들로부터 얻어낼 수 있는 시차 벡터가 여러 개일 때, 최대의 절대값을 갖는 시차 벡터를 선택함으로써 부호화 효율을 높일 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.417-418
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a new fast algorithm which reduces search range by checking reliability of predicted vector in multi-view video coding (MVC). Block position matching algorithm is implemented to improve the proposed algorithm. The processing time is decreased by from 40 to 60% in each frame in the proposed algorithm.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.99-127
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• 2011

This study examines whether educational differentials in health are greater in more recent cohorts in Korea. This study utilizes latent growth-curve modeling to examine intercohort trends in health for three educational subgroups, using panel data (2003-2007) based on a national probability sample of 9,639 adults. Among young and middle adults with less than a high school diploma, the 4-year newer cohort demonstrated better health at the same age, implying a favorable trend. Middle and older adults with college level and a high school diploma also enjoyed favorable trends in health. This study suggests the possibility that the education-based overall disparity in health is increasing, but there are variations in the trend depending on age group. The increasing disparity mainly occurred among older adults.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.139-146
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• 2008

Masked fake face detection using ordinary visible images is a formidable task when the mask is accurately made with special makeup. Considering recent advances in special makeup technology, a reliable solution to detect masked fake faces is essential to the development of a complete face recognition system. This research proposes a method for masked fake face detection that exploits reflectance disparity due to object material and its surface color. First, we have shown that measuring of albedo can be simplified to radiance measurement when a practical face recognition system is deployed under the user-cooperative environment. This enables us to obtain albedo just by grey values in the image captured. Second, we have found that 850nm infrared light is effective to discriminate between facial skin and mask material using reflectance disparity. On the other hand, 650nm visible light is known to be suitable for distinguishing different facial skin colors between ethnic groups. We use a 2D vector consisting of radiance measurements under 850nm and 659nm illumination as a feature vector. Facial skin and mask material show linearly separable distributions in the feature space. By employing FIB, we have achieved 97.8% accuracy in fake face detection. Our method is applicable to faces of different skin colors, and can be easily implemented into commercial face recognition systems.