• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.277-285
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• 2004

We present a new hybrid stereo matching technique in terms of the co-operation of area-based stereo and feature-based stereo. The core of our technique is that feature matching is carried out by the reference of the disparity evaluated by area-based stereo. Since the reference of the disparity can significantly reduce the number of feature matching combinations, feature matching error can be drastically minimized. One requirement of the disparity to be referenced is that it should be reliable to be used in feature matching. To measure the reliability of the disparity, in this paper, we employ the self-consistency of the disunity Our suggested technique is applied to the detection of 3D line segments by 2D line matching using our hybrid stereo matching, which can be efficiently utilized in the generation of the rooftop model from urban imagery. We carry out the experiments on our hybrid stereo matching scheme. We generate synthetic images by photo-realistic simulation on Avenches data set of Ascona aerial images. Experimental results indicate that the extracted 3D line segments have an average error of 0.5m and verify our proposed scheme. In order to apply our method to the generation of 3D model in urban imagery, we carry out Preliminary experiments for rooftop generation. Since occlusions are occurred around the outlines of buildings, we experimentally suggested multi-image hybrid stereo system, based on the fusion of 3D line segments. In terms of the simple domain-specific 3D grouping scheme, we notice that an accurate 3D rooftop model can be generated. In this context, we expect that an extended 3D grouping scheme using our hybrid technique can be efficiently applied to the construction of 3D models with more general types of building rooftops.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2012

스테레오 대응성은 스테레오 비전에서 중요한 문제이다. 본 논문은 다해상도 기법과 AD-Census를 이용한 유전 알고리즘 기반의 스테레오 정합 기법을 제안한다. 정합 환경을 최적화 문제로 간주하여 유전 알고리즘으로 변위를 탐색한다. 그리고 에지 픽셀을 이용한 적응적 염색체 구조와 교배 방식을 적용한다. 비용함수는 스테레오 정합에서 주로 고려할 수 있는 제약 조건으로 구성하였고, 변위오차를 줄이기 위해 AD-Census 척도를 사용하였다. 처리의 효율을 높이기 위해 영상 피라미드 방법을 적용하여 최저해상도에서 최초 변위 도를 계산한다. 그리고 최초 변위도는 다음 해상도 단계로 전파되어, 보간된 후 지역 특징 벡터를 이용하여 정제를 수행한다. 실험을 통해 제안한 방법이 다른 유전 알고리즘 기반 기법들에 비해 변위 탐색 시간을 감소시킬 뿐만 아니라 정합의 타당성을 보증함을 확인하고자 한다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.7133-7136
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• 2013

Background: We studied Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) breast cancer data of Georgia USA to analyze the impact of socio-economic factors on the disparity of breast cancer treatment outcome. Materials and Methods: This study explored socio-economic, staging and treatment factors that were available in the SEER database for breast cancer from Georgia registry diagnosed in 2004-2009. An area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was computed for each predictor to measure its discriminatory power. The best biological predictors were selected to be analyzed with socio-economic factors. Survival analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov 2-sample tests and Cox proportional hazard modeling were used for univariate and multivariate analyses of time to breast cancer specific survival data. Results: There were 34,671 patients included in this study, 99.3% being females with breast cancer. This study identified race and education attainment of county of residence as predictors of poor outcome. On multivariate analysis, these socio-economic factors remained independently prognostic. Overall, race and education status of the place of residence predicted up to 10% decrease in cause specific survival at 5 years. Conclusions: Socio-economic factors are important determinants of breast cancer outcome and ensuring access to breast cancer treatment may eliminate disparities.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제49권12호
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• pp.659-666
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• 2000

A stereo matching has been an important tool for reconstructing three dimensional terrain. By using stereo matching technique, DEM(Digital Elevaton Map) can be generated by the disparity from a reference image to a target image. Generally disparity map can be evaluated by matching the reference image to the target image and if the role of the reference and the target are interchanged, a different DEM can be obtained. In this paper, we propose a new fusion technique to estimate the optimal DEM by eliminating the false DEM due to occlusion. To detect the false DEM, we utilize two measure of accuracy: self-consistency and cross-correlation score. We test the effectiveness of the proposed methods with a quantitative analysis using simulated images. Experimental result indicate that the proposed methods show 24.4% and 33.1% improvement over either DEM.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.201-210
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new binocular stereo correspondence method by maximizing a fitness formulated by integrating two constraints of edge similarity and disparity smoothness simultaneously. The proposed stereopsis focusing to measure distances to leading vehicles on roads uses intensity gradients as matching attribute. In contrast to the previous work of area-based stereo matching, in which matching unit is a pixel, the matching unit of the proposed method becomes an area itself which is obtained by selecting a series of pixels enclosed by two pixels on the left and right boundaries of an object. This approach allows us to cope with real-time processing and to avoid window size selection problems arising from conventional area-based stereo.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.178-182
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• 2007

This study represents the efficient depth measurement for 3-dimensional microsystems using the disparity histogram from stereo images. Implementation of user-friendly Windows program written in C++ involves the various methods for the stereo-image processing in which the minimization of matching-pixel error upon the unique point for stereo images was carried out as a pre-processing method. Even though MPC among various methods was adopted in the present measurement, the resulting measurements seem to require optimizations of the windows sizes and corrections of post-manipulation for stereo images. The present work using Windows program is promising to measure the 3-dimensional depth of micro-system efficiently in implementing the 3-dimensional structure of micro-systems.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제17B권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2010

최근 스테레오 정합 기술은 정합하고자 하는 픽셀을 포함한 국부적인(local) 영상의 정합 비용과 시차의 변화 비용을 누적하는 전역적(global)인 방법을 많이 사용하고 있다. 특히 전역적 스테레오 정합에서도 비용누적 (cost accumulation)의 방향을 일반적인 수평방향이 아닌 다수의 방향을 사용하는 연구가 늘고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 스테레오 정합 기술을 다중 방향성 정합 기술로 확장하는 방법을 제안한다. 픽셀의 국부적인 정합 비용은 단순한 NCC (Normalized Cross Correlation)를 사용하였고 전역적 정합 기술의 하나인 정합선 최적화(Scan-line Optimization) 방법을 다중 방향으로 확장하는 기술을 제안하였다. 우선 정합선 최적화를 다중 방향으로 실행한 후 이들 결과를 이용하여 신뢰도가 높은 시차영상 (disparity image)을 획득한다. 반복적인 다중 방향 정합선 최적화 시행 후, 시차영상에서 남은 공백은 홀 복원 방법으로 계산한다. 시차가 구해진 픽셀에 대해서는 신뢰도 점수를 매긴 다음 이 점수를 확산하여 신뢰도 점수 테이블에서 가장 높은 값을 가지는 시차값으로 홀을 복원하였다. 제안하는 기술을 미들버리(Middlebury)의 스테레오 영상을 사용하여 오차를 분석하였다. 기존의 전역적 방법과 제안 기술을 이용하여 시차영상을 계산하고 그 오차를 비교하였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2007년도 7th International Meeting on Information Display 제7권2호
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• pp.1504-1507
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• 2007

Depth data for is very important data for 3D display. Disparity and depth data makes users to feel 3D effect. We used stereo camera to measure depth and made fast algorithm to get in real time. This vision system can be substituted for expensive laser system.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.288-294
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 스테레오 이미지 생성 모델을 제시한 다음 이로부터 디스패리티를 구하는 과정을 유도하고 이의 해를 구하는 과정은 에너지 기반 스테레오 정합과 일치함을 수식으로 증명한다. 정합되는 화소 간의 차와 인근 화소에 해당되는 디스패리티의 차는 지수 확률분포에 근사하다는 사실을 실험적으로 확인하고 이에 근거하여 이들의 정합 파라미터를 최적화하는 식을 유도하고 이의 해법을 제시한다. 제안 알고리즘은 초기에 임의의 파라미터로 디스패리티 맵을 구한 후에 이의 통계적 특성을 이용하여 정합 파라미터를 추정하고 추정된 파라미터를 적용하여 디스패리티 맵을 재차 구하는 과정을 반복함으로써 최적의 파라미터에 적응적으로 수렴하도록 조정한다. 제안 알고리즘을 dynamic programming과 belief propagation 기반 스테레오 매칭 알고리즘에 각각 적용하여 구한 정합 파라미터가 수렴하는지를 조사하고 이의 수렴 속도와 성능 개선 효과 등을 확인한다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2955-2960
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• 2012

Background: Health disparities exist among and within countries, while developing and low income countries suffer more. The aim of this study was to quantify cancer disparities with regard to socioeconomic position (SEP) in 22 districts of Tehran, Iran. Method: According to the national cancer registry, 7599 new cancer cases were recorded within 22 districts of Tehran in 2008. Based on combined data from census and a population-based health equity study (Urban HEART), socioeconomic position (SEP) was calculated for each district. Index of disparity, absolute and relative concentration indices (ACI & RCI) were used for measuring disparities in cancer incidence. Results: The overall cancer age standardised rate (ASR) was 117.2 per 100,000 individuals (120.4 for men and 113.5 for women). Maximum ASR in both genders was seen in districts 6, 3, 1 and 2. Breast, colorectal, stomach, skin and prostate were the most common cancers. Districts with higher SEP had higher ASR (r=0.9, p<0.001). Positive ACI and RCI indicated that cancer cases accumulated in districts with high SEP. Female disparity was greater than for men in all measures. Breast, colorectal, prostate and bladder ASR ascended across SEP groups. Negative ACI and RCI in cervical and skin cancers in women indicate their aggregation in lower SEP groups. Breast cancer had the highest absolute disparities measure. Conclusion: This report provides an appropriate guide and new evidence on disparities across geographical, demographic and particular SEP groups. Higher ASR in specific districts warrants further research to investigate the background predisposing factors.