• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.475-491
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• 2021

With the recent increase in available high-resolution (< ~1 m) satellite SAR images, the demand for precise registration of SAR images is increasing in various fields including change detection. The registration between high-resolution SAR images acquired in different look angle is difficult due to speckle noise and geometric distortion caused by the characteristics of SAR images. In this study, registration is performed in two stages, coarse and fine, using the x-band SAR data imaged at staring spotlight mode of TerraSAR-X. For the coarse registration, a method combining the adaptive sampling method and SAR-SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) is applied, and three rigid methods (NCC: Normalized Cross Correlation, Phase Congruency-NCC, MI: Mutual Information) and one non-rigid (Gefolki: Geoscience extended Flow Optical Flow Lucas-Kanade Iterative), for the fine registration stage, was performed for performance comparison. The results were compared by using RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) and FSIM (Feature Similarity) index, and all rigid models showed poor results in all image combinations. It is confirmed that the rigid models have a large registration error in the rugged terrain area. As a result of applying the Gefolki algorithm, it was confirmed that the RMSE of Gefolki showed the best result as a 1~3 pixels, and the FSIM index also obtained a higher value than 0.02~0.03 compared to other rigid methods. It was confirmed that the mis-registration due to terrain effect could be sufficiently reduced by the Gefolki algorithm.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.157-163
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• 2011

This paper proposes a hybrid image stabilizing system which uses both optical image stabilizing system based on EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) and digital image stabilization based on SURF (Speeded Up Robust Feature). Though image information is one of the most efficient data for object recognition, it is susceptible to noise which results from internal vibration as well as external factors. The blurred image obtained by the camera mounted on a robot makes it difficult for the robot to recognize its environment. The proposed system estimates shaking angle through EKF based on the information from inclinometer and gyro sensor to stabilize the image. In addition, extracting the feature points around rotation axis using SURF which is robust to change in scale or rotation enhances processing speed by removing unnecessary operations using Hessian matrix. The experimental results using the proposed hybrid system shows its effectiveness in extended frequency range.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.452-460
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• 1994

Maps are one of the most complicated types of drawings. Drawing recognition technology is not yet sophisticated enough for automated map reading To automatically extract a road map directly from more complicated topographical maps, a very complicated algorithm is needed, since the image generally involves such complicated patterns as symbols, characters, residential sections, rivers, railroads, etc. This paper describes a new feature extraction method based on the human optical neural field. We apply this method to extract complete set of road segments from topographical maps. The proposed method successfully extract road segments from various areas.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.390-392
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• 2003

Video mosaicing techniques have been widely used in virtual reality environments. Especially in GIS field, video mosaics are becoming more and more common in representing urban environments. Such applications mainly use spherical or panoramic mosaics that are based on images taken from a rotating camera around its nodal point. The viewpoint, however, is limited to location within a small area. On the other hand, 2D-mosaics, which are based on images taken from a translating camera, can acquire data in wide area. The 2D-mosaics still have some problems : it can‘t be applied to images taken from a rotational camera in large angle. To compensate those problems , we proposed a novel method for creating video mosaics in 3D space. The proposed algorithm consists of 4 steps: feature -based optical flow detection, camera orientation, 2D-image projection, and image registration in 3D space. All of the processes are fully automatic and successfully implemented and tested with real images.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.845-848
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• 2000

운동(motion) 벡터는 보고 있는 카메라와 관측되는 대상물 사이의 상대적인 움직임에 의해서 발생되는 3차원 물체의 속도가 2차원 영상에 투사되어 맺히는 영상에서의 2차원 속도 벡터를 가리킨다 영상에서 물체의 움직임은 3차원 공간상의 운동을 알 수 있는 중요한 정보로써 물체를 추적하는데 응용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 여러 장의 연속적인 2차원 밝기 영상으로부터 카메라의 움직임을 추정하는 문제를 다룬다. 기존의 특징 기반 추적 기법에서는 저 단계의 영상 처리 과정에서 모델과 배경의 특징점이 서로 분리되지 않거나, 모델의 특징(feature)이 소실되었을 경우, 추적이 용이하지 못하고, 카메라와 3차원 물체의 병진과 회전 운동에 의해 발생된 움직임의 경우 3차원 표적 특징이 많이 사라져서 오차가 많이 누적되기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 목표물 및 배경 특징들을 사용하여 카메라의 운동 정보를 찾아내는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 3차원 카메라의 운동 정보 추정 기법은 크게 두 장의 연속된 영상으로부터 3차원 모델과 배경의 많은 특징들에 대한 광류(optical flow) 검색 과정과, 이로부터 취득한 움직임 벡터와 카메라의 비선형 운동 방정식과 Lagrange multiplier를 통한 카메라의 운동 정보 추정 과정으로 구성된다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.290-300
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• 2008

We apply IEEE 802.3 frame burst mode (FBM) to the Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) downstream link and compare its performance with non-frame burst mode for various traffic patterns. Although in light traffic loads (p<0.5) the efficiency of the FBM mechanism is not significant, it does feature high throughput, small jitter, low queue occupancy, and short queuing delay in optical line terminals under various traffic loads with various numbers of optical network units (ONUs). The FBM performance always approaches that of full-duplex mode, especially under heavy traffic loads (p>0.5). Moreover, an increase in number of ONUs will decrease the burst performance. Our work shows that FBM scheme is very useful for EPON transmission and has low design complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.2019-2023
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• 2005

A aspheric lens is one a key point optical element in the optical industry. The feature of a aspheric lens is not to have the spherical aberration. A aspheric lens is also essential element for high-precision and light-weight in the optical machine. Generally it have been used in a tailor progression an aspheric lens modelling much. In this study we applied a lay back-tracer using a index of refraction to draw a creative aspheric lens. And we executed a comparison experiment for refraction situation of shape and straightness experiment to inspect the drawn aspheric lens in this study

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.245-250
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• 2016

In this paper, we demonstrate a self-imaging technique that can visualize longitudinal interference patterns behind periodically-structured objects, which is often referred to as Talbot carpet. Talbot carpet is of great interest due to ever-decreasing scale of interference features. We demonstrate experimentally that Talbot carpets can be imaged in a single exposure configuration revealing a broad spectrum of multi-scale features. We have performed rigorous diffraction simulations for showing that Talbot carpet print can produce ever-decreasing structures down to limits set by mask feature sizes. This demonstrates that large-scale pattern masks may be used for direct printing of features with substantially smaller scales. This approach is also useful for characterization of image sensors and recording media.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.128-134
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• 2010

The magnetic flux profiles in SmBCO and YBCO coated conductors(CC) in the presence of the external field were comparatively investigated by magneto-optic image and scanning hall probe measurements. The current distributions calculated by using the inversion method from measured field profiles show that the decrease of current densities near the edges of SmBCO CC is more significant than those of YBCO CC. Through the comparison of the numerical analysis based on Kim's critical state model and the Brandt and Indenbom's solution, we found that this feature is related to their different field dependant properties of the critical current densities.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.162-165
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• 2008

A novel planar lightwave circuit(PLC) triplexer using a three-waveguide interferometer(TWI) is proposed and examined using the transfer matrix and the beam propagation methods. The proposed triplexer consists of two three-waveguide couplers and three waveguides connecting the couplers. Simulation for the TWI triplexer shows the excess losses of 0.03 dB and 0.94 dB with the crosstalks of -22.3 dB and -14.5 dB in reception, respectively, for the wavelength of 1490- and 1550-nm, while showing the excess loss of 1.75 dB in transmission for the wavelength of 1310 nm. The proposed design shows compact feature as short as 11.5 mm for the refractive-index contrast of 0.45%.