• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.83-90
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• 2011

In cell biology area, microscopy enables detecting objects inside cells that are stained or fluorescently tagged. It is disadvantageous for observing these objects because of the noisy characteristics of their environmental surrounding. In this paper, a framework is proposed to increase the throughput and reliability for analysis of these images. First, we apply adaptive beamlet transform to extract edges meaningfully followed by orientation, location, and length in different scales. Then, a post-process is implemented to extend and map them onto original image. Our proposed scheme is compared with Canny edge detector and conventional beamlet transform from four evaluation aspects. It produces better results when experiments are conducted on real images. Much better results for observing internal parts make this framework competitive for analysis of cell images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1779-1783
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• 2008

영상해석을 통한 흐름해석의 방법인 Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV)는 실험실내의 소규모 흐름해석에 이용하던 Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)를 자연하천이나 실험실에서 넓은 영역($4m^2{\sim}45,000m^2$)에 적용할 수 있도록 확장시킨 것으로 지난 10여년전부터 세계적으로 널리 이에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. PIV는 seeding, illumination, recording 그리고 image processing으로 구성된다. LSPIV(Large Scale PIV)는 PIV의 기본원리를 근거로 하여 기존의 PIV에 비하여 실험실 내에서의 수리모형실험이나 일반 하천에서의 유속측정과 같은 큰 규모의 흐름해석을 할 수 있도록 seeding, illumination에 대한 조정이 필요 하고, 촬영된 image에 대한 왜곡을 없애는 작업이 필요하다. LSPIV는 PIV의 네 가지 단계를 포함하여 seeding, illumination, recording, image transformation, image processing 및 post-processing의 여섯 단계로 구성되어진다 (Li, 2002). LSPIV의 적용시 각 단계마다 유속계산시 오차를 발생시키는 27가지의 요인들이 존재하고 있는바 (Kim, 2006), 본 연구에서는 이들 중 실내의 실험실에서 파악이 가능한 인자들에 대해 그들 각각의 인자들이 유속 측정에 미치는 오차의 정도를 파악하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는 LSPIV의 적용시 이용되는 이미지의 개수와 이미지 촬영시 적용된 이미지의 해상도에 따른 오차의 발생 정도를 조사하였다. 이미지 촬영에 있어서 비디오카메라를 이용할 경우 촬영시간에 따라 많은 수의 이미지를 취득할 수 있은바 이미지의 수에 따른 유속계산오차를 파악하고자 하였다. 또한 디지털 카메라를 이용할 경우 여러 가지 이미지 해상도를 이용할 수 있으므로 적용한 이미지 해상도에 따른 유속계산에 미치는 오차의 크기를 파악하고자 하였다. 이미지의 갯수가 유속계산시 미치는 오차의 영향의 정도를 조사하기 위해서 초당 30 frame을 촬영할 수 있는 비디오카메라를 이용하여 91초 동안 촬영된 이미지로부터 매 5번째의 이미지를 추출하여 455개의 이미지를 준비하였고 이로부터 이미지수를 10, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400의 순서로 증가시키면서 이미지 개수로부터 나타나는 유속계산 오차를 조사한 결과 이미지의 개수가 50매 이상인 경우는 이로 인한 오차가 1% 이하로 감소함을 파악하였다. 촬영된 이미지의 해상도가 유속계산시 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위해 디지털카메라를 적용하여 세가지 이미지 해상도(640*480, 1280*960, 2048*1536 pixel)로 변화시키면서 유속측정 오차를 분석한 결과 저해상도의 이미지를 이용한 경우 고해상도 이미지를 이용한 경우와 비교하여 3% 가량의 차이를 나타내었다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.379-388
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• 2011

At present, GEOBIA (Geographic Object-based Image Analysis), heir of OBIA (Object-based Image Analysis), is regarded as an important methodology by object-oriented paradigm for remote sensing, dealing with geo-objects related to image segmentation and classification in the different view point of pixel-based processing. This also helps to directly link to GIS applications. Thus, GEOBIA software is on the booming. The main theme of this study is to look into the applicability of geo-spatial processing open source to GEOBIA. However, there is no few fully featured open source for GEOBIA which needs complicated schemes and algorithms, till It was carried out to implement a preliminary system for GEOBIA running an integrated and user-oriented environment. This work was performed by using various open sources such as OTB or PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Some points are different from the widely-used proprietary GEOBIA software. In this system, geo-objects are not file-based ones, but tightly linked with GIS layers in spatial database management system. The mean shift algorithm with parameters associated with spatial similarities or homogeneities is used for image segmentation. For classification process in this work, tree-based model of hierarchical network composing parent and child nodes is implemented by attribute join in the semi-automatic mode, unlike traditional image-based classification. Of course, this integrated GEOBIA system is on the progressing stage, and further works are necessary. It is expected that this approach helps to develop and to extend new applications such as urban mapping or change detection linked to GIS data sets using GEOBIA.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.155-158
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• 2000

In this paper, the quantization noise in block-based video coding is analyzed, and a post-processing method based on the analysis is presented for reducing the quantization noise by using a wavelet transform(WT). In the proposed method, the quantization noise is considered as the sum of a blocking noise expressed as a deterministic profile and the random remainder noise. Each noise is removed in a viewpoint of image restoration using a 1-D WT, which yields a regularized differentiation. The blocking noise first is reduced by weakening the strength of each blocking noise component that appears as an impulse in the first scale wavelet domain. The impulse strength estimation is performed using median filter, quantization parameter(QP), and local activity. The remainder noise, which is considered as a white noise at non-edge pixels, then is reduced by soft-thresholding. The experimental results show that the proposed method yields better performance in terms if subjective quality as well as PSNR performance over VM post-filter in MPEG-4 for all test sequences of various compression ratios. We also present a fast post-processing in spatial domain equivalent to that in wavelet domain for real-time application.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1996.06c
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• pp.792-801
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• 1996

A thinning algorithm -based image analysis technique was developed to measure corn root lengths. The root length measurement method was evaluated by comparing thread lengths measured by the image analysis system with actual thread lengths. The length measurement method accurately estimated actual thread lengths (less than 2% calculated error). Also, a rapid root length density measurement procedure, which utilizes the above root length measurement method, was developed to estimate corn root length density without washing the roots. Root length densities estimated from the cut soil surface of core samples taken from the field were paired with the root length densities determined from washed roots from the same soil core sample. A linear relationship between these two values was expected and was found. Eliminating the root washing procedure reduces the time required for measuring corn root length density substantially.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.175-182
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• 2013

This paper proposes a readability enhancement filter for Patterned Retarder (PR) display. In general, when some texts in stereoscopic images are shown on PR display, their readability tends to be lowered. In order to overcome this problem, we present a readability enhancement algorithm which consists of readability filtering stage and post-processing stage for specific characters. First, each input stereo image is divided into an odd line image and an even line image. Then, they are independently up-scaled vertically by using Lanczos filter. Next, two up-scaled line images are averaged considering vertical phase difference. In post-processing stage, two specific characters which are normally difficult to read on PR display are detected, and they are filtered for additional readability enhancement. Here, this additional filtering is based on a specific brightness adjustment, and is applied only for two characters. The experiment results show that the proposed method achieves significant improvement in terms of readability in comparison with the previous scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.787-790
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• 2017

This study is a preliminary research on characterization of methane - oxygen combustion used in bipropellant thruster. The limit of combustion stability and flame shape of methane - oxygen non-premixed flame injected by shear coaxial injector in the model combustion chamber Experimental studies have been carried out. A direct image of the flame was photographed using a DSLR camera, and combustion characteristics and flame length were quantified through image post-processing. As a result, it was confirmed that the stabilized flame was generated at the stoichiometric ratio as the oxidizer Reynolds number ($Re_o$) was increased, and the length of the turbulent flame was increased under the same injector diameter condition.

• Journal of International Society for Simulation Surgery
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.75-79
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• 2014

Purpose The region growing has a critical problem that it often extract vessels with unexpected objects such as a bone which has a similar intensity characteristics to the vessel. We propose the new method to extract arterial vascular anatomy around the stomach from the CTA volume without the post-processing. Materials and Methods Our method, which is also based on the region growing, requires the two seed points from the use. I automatically extracts perigastric arteries using the adaptive region growing method and it does not need any post-processing. Results The three region growing based methods are used to extract perigastric arteries - the conventional region growings with restrict and loose thresholds each and the proposed method. The 3D visualization from the result of our method shows our method extracted the all required arteries for gastric surgery. Conclusion By extracting perigastric arteries using the proposed method, over-segmentation problem that unexpected anatomical objects such as a rib or backbone are also segmented does not occurs anymore. The proposed method does not need to sensitively determine the thresholds of the similarity function. By visualizing the result, the preoperative simulation of arterial vascular anatomy around the stomach can be possible.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.751-757
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• 2021

In this paper, we proposed a pipeline system for holographic image production in a web server-based environment. There are time and spatial constraints for the existing holographic image production. The purpose of the proposed system is to obtain high-quality holographic images by reducing accessibility to users. It is a structure in which a video captured by a user in a web environment is transmitted to a server and converted into a frame for holographic image production through post-production. For high-quality holographic image acquisition, post-processing uses a deep learning-based algorithm. The proposed system provides various service tools in the web environment for user convenience. Through this method, the user's accessibility is improved when producing holographic images because images are taken in a web environment rather than in a limited space.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.869-886
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• 2013

This work presents an experimental methodology specially developed for the nonlinear large-amplitude free vibration analysis of a clamped-free thin-walled metal column under self-weight. The main contribution of this paper is related to the developed experimental methodology which is based on a remote sensing technique using a computer vision system that integrates, on-line, the digital image acquisition and its treatment through special image processing routines. The main importance of this methodology is that it performs large deflections measurements without making contact with the structure and thus, not introducing undesirable changes in its behavior, for instance, appreciable changes in mass and stiffness properties. This structure presents, in most cases, highly non-linear responses, which cannot be reproduced by conventional finite-element softwares due, mainly, to the simultaneous influence of geometric and inertial non-linearities. To capture the non-linearities associated with large amplitude vibration and be able to describe the buckling process, the structure is discretized as a sequence of jointed coupled elastic pendulums. The obtained numerical results are favorably compared with the experimental ones, in the pre- and post-buckling regimes.