• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.282-286
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• 2011

The artificial increase in the solar intensity incident on solar cells using lenses or mirrors can allow solar cells to generate equivalent power with a lower cost. In application areas of Fresnel lenses as solar concentrators, several variations of design were devised and tested. Some PV systems still use commercially available flat Fresnel lenses as concentrators. In this study, we designed and optimized flat Fresnel lens and the 'light pipe' to develop 500X concentrated solar PV system. We performed rigorous ray tracing simulation of the flat Fresnel lens and light-pipe. The light-pipe can play imporatant roles of redistributing solar energy at the solar cell and increase the mechanical tolerance so that it can increase the lifetime of the high-concentration solar PV system and decrease the cost of manufacturing. To investigate the sensitivity of the solar power generated by the concentrated solar PV according to the performance of lens and light pipe, we performed raytracing and executed a simulation of electrical performance of the solar cell when it is exposed to the non-uniform illumination. We could conclude that we can generate 95 % or more energy compared with the energy that can be generated by perfectly uniform illumination once the total energy is given the same.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.340-348
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• 2013

In Projection Stereolithography Apparatus (PSLA), Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) and Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) are used as a beam pattern generator. The DMD shows high resolution, but it is mostly applied in micro stereolithography due to high cost and fabricable area. In LCD, the size of pattern beam is freely controlled due to various panel sizes. The LCD, however, has some limitations such as short life time by the high power light source, non-uniform light intensity of pattern beam and low transmittance of UV-light. To solve these problems in LCD-based PSLA, a Scanbeam-SLA with LCD of 19 inches and visible LED-array is developed. In this system, the light module works like a scanner for uniform illumination. The system configuration, working principle and fabrication examples are addressed in this study.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2011

This study aimed at suggesting improvement of lighting environment of the coffee house using study place. To this end, a series of field investigation was conducted in four possible target coffee houses around university. The field measurement included measurement of general illuminance and tabletop illuminance, observing illumination condition, and status of artificial lighting. Also, on-site questionnaire survey was administrated to 80 users of field measurement targets about using characteristics of coffee house and user's subjective response on light environment. The results are summarized as follows: (1) According to questionnaire survey, most of users checked 'learning (study and reading)' in 'purpose of coffee house using', and 'slightly dark' was checked most in each subjective response (brightness on general space and on tabletop at daytime/night); (2) as results of measurements on general illuminance and on tabletop illuminance during daytime, only one coffee house was suitable for standard; (3) as results of measurements on illuminance during night, all target coffee houses were not met the standard; (4) as results of uniformity ratios, almost uniformities of general illuminance were not met the standard except one case. The common problems of lighting environment of coffee house were analyzed as lack of daylight illumination e.g. having low amount of sunshine from skylight, un-uniformity of insolation by floor plan and absence of window blind, and un-uniformity of artificial luminous intensity e.g. lack of the number or brightness of artificial lighting, using the indirect lighting, using only local lighting, and non-uniform arrangement of artificial lighting.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.439-445
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• 2021

영상 센서 및 소형 디스플레이의 발달로 가능해진 저가의 고속 카메라는 영상처리 및 패턴인식 분야에서 유용하게 활용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 약간의 시차를 두고 연속적으로 입력되는 고속의 영상으로부터 불규칙적인 조명을 보정한 다음, 조명이 보정된 영상으로부터 사람의 관심 영역인 노출된 피부 색상 영역을 획득하는 알고리즘을 소개한다. 본 연구에서는 먼저 받아들인 고속의 영상으로부터 비 균일하게 발생된 조명적인 효과를 프레임 블렌딩 기법을 사용하여 보정한다. 그런 다음, 사전에 반복적인 학습으로 생성된 타원형의 피부 색상 분포 모델을 적용하여 입력된 고속의 컬러 영상으로부터 관심 영역을 강인하게 획득한다. 실험 결과에서는 본 논문에서 제시된 접근 방법이 입력되는 컬러 영상으로부터 조명을 보정한 다음 관심 영역을 정확하게 획득한다는 것을 보여준다. 본 연구에서 제안된 알고리즘은 얼굴 인식 및 추적, 조명 보정 및 제거, 동영상 색인 및 검색 등과 같은 영상 인식과 연관된 다양한 종류의 실제적인 응용 프로그램에서 매우 유용하게 이용될 것으로 추측된다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.234-239
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• 2003

Objective methods to assess quantitatively port wine stain (PWS) blanching in response to laser therapy are needed to improve laser therapeutic outcome. Previous studies have attempted to assess objectively PWS color based on point measurement devices. To date, these approaches have typically been limited by a number of factors such as small test area and need for contact. To address these issues, a polarization spectral imaging system and an image analysis method have been developed to evaluate quantitatively erythema and melanin content distribution in skin. The developed polarization spectral imaging system minimizes artifacts such as glaring, shadowing, and non-uniform illumination that interfere with image fidelity. Furthermore, the image analysis method has been employed to get images of skin melanin and erythema indices from the acquired color images for quantitative analysis. Finally, using PWS patient color image, the effectiveness in laser treatment of PWS was evaluated by calculating relative erythema index image that is the relative erythema index of PWS region to the normal region. The developed device and analysis method appears to be a simple and effective method for quantitative analysis of PWS blanching.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1973-1979
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• 2000

Driving the need for machine vision system is growing consumer demand for quality and defect-free products. Especially it is the most important in tarpaulin's manufacturing process achieves automatically by machine vision instead of by man vision. In this paper pinholes detection is performed by using morphology algorithms. Top hat transform is one of morphology applications. This transform take high performance of defect detection in the case that unexpected changes occur in some non-uniform background. For pinholes defect, automatic visual inspection system has been developed, which was composed by a line-scan camera, illumination, a frame grabber, a motor driver and control units. This system has excellent capacity to defect pinholes to the 0.1 mm by 0.5 mm in size and to work in moving objects by maximum 20 m/min in speed.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.930-932
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• 2003

For this study we used a CCD video camera to capture the pavement image information via the computer. During investigation processing, the CCD video camera captured 10${\sim}$30 images per second. If the vehicle velocity is too fast, the collected images will be duplicated and if the velocity is too slow there will be a gapped between images. Therefore, in order to control the efficiency of the image grabber we should add accessory tools such as the Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) and odometer. Furthermore, Kalman Filtering can also solve these problems. After the CCD video camera captured the pavement images, we used the Least-Squares method to eliminate images of gradation which have non-uniform surfaces due to the illumination at night. The Fuzzy Entropy method calculates images of threshold segments and creates binary images. Finally, the Object Labeling algorithm finds objects that are cracks or noises from the binary image based on volume pixels of the object. We used these algorithms and tested them, also providing some discussion and suggestions.

• Ocean Science Journal
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.213-220
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• 2005

In this paper, image processing technique that reduces video images of buoy motion to yield time series of image coordinates of buoy objects will be investigated. The buoy motion images are noisy due to time-varying brightness as well as non-uniform background illumination. The occurrence of boats, wakes, and wind-induced white caps interferes significantly in recognition of buoy objects. Thus, semi-automated procedures consisting of object recognition and image measurement aspects will be conducted. These offer more satisfactory results than a manual process. Spectral analysis shows that the image coordinates of buoy objects represent wave motion well, indicating its usefulness in the analysis of wave characteristics.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.414-416
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 X-선 혈관 조영 영상 내 심혈관의 추출 방법을 제안한다. 본 방법은 불균일 조명 보정 필터를 사용함으로써 X-선 영상 내에서 나타나는 일정하지 않은 contrast, 낮은 명암도 및 불균일 조명 문제를 해결한다. 또한 영상의 지역적인 밝기 값의 변화의 특징을 고려하면서 분할 대상영역의 각 픽셀들의 2 차 미분((second partial derivation)을 행렬의 요소(element)로 갖는 Hessian 행렬의 고유치 (eigenvalue)를 영역확장의 문턱치 결정에 이용하여 전역적인 밝기값(intensity)만을 사용하는 분할의 단점을보완하였다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.371-372
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• 2009

세포단위에서 혈관 생성과정 관찰 시 사용되는 광학현미경 영상은 광원의 특성으로 인해 부분적으로 영상이 밝거나 혹은 어둡게 나타난다. 이러한 현상은 혈관 영상에서의 혈관 분석을 어렵게 하므로 본 논문에서는 신 혈관 생성 영상에서 명도 불균형 문제를 해결하는 혈관 추출 및 정량화 기법을 제안한다. 불균형 명도 문제를 해결하기 위해 지역적 문턱치화 방법을 사용하고, 잡음 및 혈관 내 틈새 문제를 해결하기 위해 형태학적 연산 처리를 하였다. 그 결과 명도가 어두운 지역에서 배경 잡음이 없고, 영역이 끊어지지 않고 하나로 연결된 혈관을 추출할 수 있었다. 추출된 혈관 영역에서 골격화와 혈관 세그먼트에 기반하여 두께, 길이, 넓이를 정량화함으로써 혈관 분석 시 현미경에 탑재되어 있어 가장 널리 사용되고 있는 메타 모르프보다 정확한 정량화 결과를 얻었다.