• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.428-433
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• 2020

Recently, the on-chip autofocus (AF) function has become essential to the CMOS image sensor. An auto-focus usually operates using phase detection of the photocurrent difference from a pair of AF pixels that have focused or defocused. However, the phase-detection method requires a pair of AF pixels for comparison of readout. Therefore, the pixel variation may reduce AF performance. In this paper, we propose a color-selective AF pixel with a plasmonic nanostructure in a 0.9 μ㎡ pixel. The suggested AF pixel requires one pixel for AF function. The plasmonic nanostructure uses metal-insulator-metal (MIM) stack arrays instead of a color filter (CF). The color filters are formed at the subwavelength, and they transmit the specific wavelength of light according to the stack period and incident angles. For the optical analysis of the pixel, a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation was conducted. The analysis showed that the MIM stack arrays in the pixels perform as an AF pixel. As the primary metric of AF performance, the resulting AF contrasts are 1.8 for the red pixels, 1.6 for green, and 1.5 blue. Based on the simulation results, we confirmed the autofocusing performance of the MIM stack arrays.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.1383-1390
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• 2012

이 논문에서는 얼굴 영상에 대해 rank order 필터와 화소 값 차이를 사용하여 강인하게 눈동자를 찾는 방법을 제안한다. 개선된 rank order 필터를 사용하여 얼굴 영상에서 눈동자 후보점을 찾는다. 눈동자와 흰자위의 경계에서 화소값 변화가 크다는 사실을 이용하여 눈썹 등 눈동자가 아닌 위치에 있는 눈동자 후보점들을 제거한다. 눈동자 후보점을 두 점간의 거리와 각도를 이용하여 쌍으로 묶고 눈동자 영역에서의 밝기 정보를 이용한 적합도 함수를 적용하여 최종 눈동자를 추출한다. BioID 얼굴 데이터베이스에 있는 얼굴 영상 400개에 대한 실험 결과 90.25%의 눈동자 추출율을 보여 기존 방법보다 4% 개선된 결과를 얻었으며, 특히 안경을 착용한 얼굴 영상의 경우 기존 방법보다 약 12% 개선된 결과를 얻었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅲ
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• pp.1507-1510
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• 2003

We propose UPGMA(Unweighted Pair Group Method using Average distance) as hierarchical clustering to detect abrupt shot changes using multiple features such as pixel-by-pixel difference, global and local histogram difference. Conventional $\kappa$-means algorithm which is a method of the partitional clustering, has to select an efficient initial cluster center adaptively UPGMA that we propose, does not need initial cluster center because of agglomerative algorithm that it starts from each sample for clusters. And UPGMA results in stable performance. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithm works not only well but also stably.

• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2007년도 춘계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.187-190
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• 2007

This study is for analyzing best band in image matching using correlation coefficient of left and right images of stereo image pair, lot red, green, blue band images separated from color aerial photo and gray image converted from the same color aerial photo image. The image matching is applied to construct Digital Elevation Model(DEM) or terrain data. The correlation coefficients and variation by change of pixel patch size are computed from pixel patches of which sizes are $11{\times}11{\sim}101{\times}101$. Consequently, the correlation coefficient in red band image is highest. The lowest is in blue band. Therefore, to construct terrain data using image matching, the red band image is preferable. As the size of pixel patch is growing, the correlation coefficient is increasing. But increasing rate declines from $51{\times}51$ image patch size and above. It is proved that the smaller pixel patch size than $51{\times}51$ is applied to construct terrain data using image matching.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.26-34
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• 2005

In this paper, a new rectification scheme to transform the uncalibrated stereo image pair into the calibrated one is suggested and its performance is analyzed by applying this scheme to the reconstruction of the intermediate views for multi-view stereoscopic display. In the proposed method, feature points are extracted from the stereo image pair by detecting the comers and similarities between each pixel of the stereo image pair. These detected feature points, are then used to extract moving vectors between the stereo image pair and the epipolar line. Finally, the input stereo image pair is rectified by matching the extracted epipolar line between the stereo image pair in the horizontal direction. Based on some experiments done on the synthesis of the intermediate views by using the calibrated stereo image pairs through the proposed rectification algorithm and the uncalibrated ones for three kinds of stereo image pairs; 'Man', 'Face' and 'Car', it is found that PSNRs of the intermediate views reconstructed from the calibrated images improved by about 2.5${\sim}$3.26 dB than those of the uncalibrated ones.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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• pp.542-545
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• 2005

Spaceborne radar interferometry has been widely used to estimate the topography and deformation of the Earth. It is difficult to obtain coherent interferometric SAR pairs especially over coastal areas mainly because of variation of surface conditions. We carried out the experiment using a cross-interferometric pair with a perpendicular baseline of about 1.4 km, a 30 minutes temporal separation and the height sensitivity of about 6 meters. The temporal decorrelation can be reduced by the cross interferometric technique with a 30 minutes temporal separation. Accurate coregistration was performed through resampling of ENVISAT ASAR data to equivalent pixel spacing to the ERS SAR data, because of the differences of the pulse repetition frequency and range sampling rate between the two sensors. Then we estimated range and azimuth offset to a sub-pixel accuracy using image intensity cross correlation. A larger window chip size than a general case was used because it was difficult to distinguish typical features. As range bin increased, the difference of Doppler centroid also increased. It resulted in lower coherence in far range than in near range. Coherences over wetland in near and far range were about 0.8 and 0.5, respectively. The coherence was improved by applying azimuth and range common band filtering, but coherence gap still existed. ERS-ENVISAT cross-interferogram usually lost information in urban area. However, high coherence over a city in this pair was shown, because of less man-made structures than other major cities. Accuracy of the DEM constructed by the ERS-ENVISAT 30-minute pair in a coastal area is to be evaluated.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 학술회의 논문집 정보 및 제어부문 B
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• pp.777-780
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• 2003

We have tried to create a vision system like human eye for a long time. We have obtained some distinguished results through many studies. Stereo vision is the most similar to human eye among those. This is the process of recreating 3-D spatial information from a pair of 2-D images. In this paper, we have designed a stereo matching algorithm based on systolic array architecture using edges and pixel data. This is more advanced vision system that improves some problems of previous stereo vision systems. This decreases noise and improves matching rate using edges and pixel data and also improves processing speed using high integration one chip FPGA and compact modules. We can apply this to robot vision and automatic control vehicles and artificial satellites.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2002

본 연구는 얼굴 성형을 시뮬레이션하거나 성형 상담 자료로 활용할 목적으로 한 쌍의 제어점을 이용한 쌍선형 워핑 및 쌍선형 보간에 의한 성형 시스템에 관한 것이다. 우선, 주어진 영상을 대상으로 제어점을 설정하고, 이 제어점을 이용하여 워핑 영역을 결정한다. 그리고, 이 워핑 영역은 제어 점을 한 꼭지점으로 하는 4개의 부분 영역으로 나눈다. 그런 후, 4개의 부분 영역 각각에 대한 역방향 사상의 워핑 계수를 구한다. 결과 영상의 부분 영역에 있는 모든 화소 위치에 대하여 대응하는 워핑 계수를 적용하여 원 영상에서 대응되는 화소 위치를 구한다. 이 위치에 최인접하는 네 화소값을 이용하여 쌍선형 보간에 의해 결과 영상의 화소에 대한 화소값을 구한다. 이와 같은 방식으로 4개의 부분 영역에 대하여 동일하게 처리함으로써 성형 효과를 얻게 된다. 실험 결과, 워핑 영역의 경계에서 끊김이 없는 자연스런 성형 효과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권6C호
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• pp.848-856
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• 2004

본 논문은 안정적이며 빠르게 동작하는 화소기반 변이공간영상기반의 스테레오 정합방법을 제안한다. 스테레오영상은 서로 상이한 두 영상이 아니라 수평방향의 이동만이 존재하는 거의 유사한 명상이다. 따라서 큰 정합윈도우를 사용하는 정합방법이 꼭 필요하지는 않다. 그러나, 화소기반은 영상의 잡음에 매우 민감한 특성을 가지므로, 최적경로를 구하기 위한 동적계획법 과정 중, 비용행렬이 구해졌을 때, 그에 따라 함께 생성되는 방향요소들을 검사하여, 잡음에 의해 올바르지 않은 경로를 생성시킬 수 있는 방향들을 제거하는 방법을 사용한다. 실험결과는 제안한 방법이 대부분의 영상잡음에 의한 변이값의 잡음들을 효과적으로 제거하고, 매우 짧은 시간에 좋은 결과의 변이맵을 생성시킴을 보여준다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.531-536
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• 2015

This paper presents a new graphical method for selecting a pair of optical glass and housing materials to simultaneously achromatize and athermalize a multilens system composed of many elements. To take into account the lens spacing and housing, we quantify the lens power, chromatic power, and thermal power by weighting the ratio of the paraxial ray height at each lens to them. In addition, we introduce the equivalent single lens and the expanded athermal glass map including a housing material. Even though a lens system is composed of many elements, we can simply identify a pair of glass and housing materials that satisfies the athermal and achromatic conditions. Applying this method to design a black box camera lens equipped with a 1/4-inch image sensor having a pixel width of $2{\mu}m$, the chromatic and thermal defocusings are reduced to less than the depth of focus, over the specified ranges in temperature and frequency.