• KIEAE Journal
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.77-84
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• 2012

Daylighting is the controlled admission of natural light into a space, reducing electric lighting and saving energy. By providing a direct link to the dynamic and perpetually evolving patterns of outdoor illumination, daylighting helps create a visually stimulating and comfort environment for building occupants, while reducing energy costs. Especially, however, glare is the most important factor in daylighting, which is issued by incoming direct sunlight into windows. This study analyzed the discomfort glare on a daylighting window by using Image processing methodology and found a solution to problems with glare source of occupants. There are several ways to evaluate discomfort glare such as UGR (Unified Glare Rating) of CIE, DGI (Daylight Glare Index, Hopkinson, 1972) and VCP (Visual Comfort Probability) of IES. These are used to apply to the relatively little artificial light source and they cannot cover discomfort glare from a real daylighting window. In this regarding, this paper aimed to calculate DGI index of the real daylighting window in a experimental space by using image processing methodology. The variables and outcomes are luminance distribution of non-shading window, effect of venetian blind installed on the window and locations related to position index of DGI.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.160-164
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• 2005

The process of recognizing a vehicle involves detection of the vehicle, recognition of the vehicle model, and identification of the vehicle. The process of vehicle identification involves identification of the vehicle itself, such as by recognition of the license plate on the vehicle. In this paper the method involves the use of a beam splitter to divide incident rays into two directions, a transmitted beam and a reflected beam of different light intensities, and synthesizing two captured images using CCD devices from each beam, thus producing fluctuation-free images of a wide dynamic range even when the subject is moving. A prototype license plate recognition system was also developed using the experimental sensing device. The system achieved a 98.7% recognition rate on 466 images of moving vehicles, which demonstrates its effectiveness as a license plate recognition system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.671-674
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• 2007

현재 다양한 분야(영화, 광고, AR 등)에서 영상합성 기법이 많이 사용되고 있다. 실제 영상에 가상의 객체를 합성하거나 가상의 환경에 객체를 합성하는 경우 등 영상과 객체간의 사실적인 합성결과를 얻기 위해서는 실제 환경에 적용된 광원의 정보가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 실 세계 조명 정보를 표현하는 HDR(High Dynamic Range) 영상을 이용하여 실 세계의 광원을 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 광원 추정을 위해 노출 시간을 달리한 일련의 LDR(Low Dynamic Range) 영상으로부터 실 세계정보를 선형적으로 표현할 수 있는 HDR 영상을 생성한다. HDR 영상을 가시화 한 후 영상에 나타나는 밝기 값을 기반으로 영상을 분할하고 분할된 영상들이 나타내는 빛의 세기에 비례하여 방향성 광원을 추정한다. 추정된 조명조건을 이용하여 IBL(Image Based Lighting)등의 전역조명 효과와 유사한 결과를 얻을 수 있으며 소수의 광원을 추정함으로써 실시간 렌더링이 중요한 가상현실이나 증강 현실 분야에도 적용할 수 있다. 또한 분할된 영상들로부터 광원을 추정하기 때문에 각각의 영상들이 오브젝트에 나타내는 조명효과도 확인할 수 있다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.03b
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• pp.142-143
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• 2008

In the present work, high-speed video images of the ground take-off flight of a live butterfly were captured and their dynamic motions during the first full-stroke were analyzed. To capture the dynamic images of the take-off motion, the experimental setup consisted of a high-speed camera, a Xenon lamp as a light source and a transparent chamber of $15^W{\times}15^L{\times}17^H$ $cm^3$ in physical size. The ambient temperature and supplementary lighting devices were precisely controlled. The weight and wing span of the butterfly tested in this study was 104 mg and 63.14 mm, respectively. The ground take-off images were captured with 4000 fps with a spatial resolution of (1024${\times}$512) pixels. The period of the first full-stroke was 80.5ms and the flapping speed of downstroke was 2 times faster than that of upstroke. As a result, butterflies used the fling and near-clap motion to generate lifting force and an interesting take-off behavior of early pronation and downstroke was observed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.697-699
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 실세계 조명 정보를 표현하는 HDR(High Dynamic Range) 영상으로부터 소수의 방향성 광원을 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 광원 추정을 위해 노출 시간을 달리한 일련의 일반 영상으로부터 실세계의 조명 정보를 선형적으로 표현할 수 있는 HDR영상을 생성한다. HDR영상의 색상 및 명도 변화를 이용하며 영역을 분할하고, 분할된 영역으로부터 명도 평균과 가중치를 이용하여 방향성 광원의 파라미터를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법의 장정은 비반복적인 기법을 사용하여 일관된 결과를 산출하여 사용자의 입력없이 자동으로 계산하는 것이다. 추정된 광원은 그래픽 하드웨어를 사용한 실시간 렌더링에 적용 가능하다. 또한 실시간 렌더링이 중요한 가상현실이나 증강현실 분야에서 가상의 오브젝트를 렌더링할 때 IBL(Image Based Lighting)등의 전역조명 효과와 유사한 사실적인 영상을 얻을 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.2486-2491
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• 2003

This paper presents a method to segment object ID marks on poor quality images under uncontrolled lighting conditions of FA inspection process. The method is based on multiple templates and normalized gray-level correlation (NGC) method. We propose a multiple template method, called as ATM (Active Template Model) which uses combinational relation of multiple templates from model templates to match and segment several characters of the inspection images. Conventional Snakes algorithm provides a good methodology to model the functional of ATM. To increase the computation speed to segment the ID mark regions, we introduce the Dynamic Programming based algorithm. Experimental results using images from real FA environment are presented.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.231-234
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• 2001

This paper proposes a face recognition technique that effectively combines elastic graph matching (EGM) and Fisherface algorithm. EGM as one of dynamic lint architecture uses not only face-shape but also the gray information of image, and Fisherface algorithm as a class specific method is robust about variations such as lighting direction and facial expression. In the proposed face recognition adopting the above two methods, the linear projection per node of an image graph reduces dimensionality of labeled graph vector and provides a feature space to be used effectively for the classification. In comparison with a conventional method, the proposed approach could obtain satisfactory results in the perspectives of recognition rates and speeds. Especially, we could get maximum recognition rate of 99.3% by leaving-one-out method for the experiments with the Yale Face Databases.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.175-179
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• 2008

In this study, computational structural vibration analysis of helicopter search light exposing unsteady buffet load have been conducted using combined advanced numerical methods. Unsteady CFD method based on Navier-Stokes equations is used to predict viscous buffet load due to flow separation effects. Full three-dimensional finite element model is constructed in order to conduct static and structural dynamic analyses of the search light model for two different typical flight speeds. Also, the correct performance of the search light can be physically estimated to examine the actual lighting area considering the effects of structural deformations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.240-243
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• 2005

This paper presents the transient behaviors of grounding system impedance against lighting impulse currents. The dynamic characteristics of the deeply driven ground rod and grounding grid subjected to the impulse current with various rise time were investigated. It was found that the transient ground impedance strongly depends on the configuration and size of grounding electrodes and the shapes of impulse currents, and the inductance of grounding electrodes has a significant affect on the transient ground impedance of grounding system in the short time domain.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.198-200
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• 2010

구조적 조명 기법은 그레이코드 패턴광을 물체에 투영시켜 정확하게 3차원 형상 정보를 복원 할 수 있는 방법이다. 그러나 물체에 투영되는 그레이코드 패턴광이 카메라에 정확하게 인식 되어야 보다 정밀하게 3차원 좌표를 추정할 수 있다. 즉, 주변광의 밝기가 패턴광의 밝기에 비해 무시할 수 없을 정도로 밝은 경우 카메라가 물체와 투영된 패턴을 정확히 인식하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 구조적 조명 기법이 주변의 밝기에 따라 제한적인 문제점을 해결하기 위해 High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) 알고리즘을 적용시켜 보다 넓은 동적 범위의 밝기 영역에서 3차원 형상을 정확하게 복원하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험결과 HDRI를 이용하여 복원하였을 경우 그렇지 않은 경우에 비해 복원 정밀도가 크게 개선되는 것을 확인할 수 있다.