• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.45-51
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• 2011

Purpose: This study investigated the effect of needle electrode stimulation at various frequencies on change in wound healing in excision wound rats Methods: Twenty-four Sprague-Dawley adult male rats were assigned to one of four groups: control (n=6), acupuncture group (n=6), low rate (2 Hz) percutaneous electrical stimulation group, high rate (100 Hz) percutaneous electrical stimulation group (n=6). We analyzed morphological effects by measuring the area of the excision wound, the contraction rate, and chromatic red. A digital camera and an image analysis program were used to measure and analyze the wound area,which was also used for the contraction rate. Chromatic red was obtained by calculating red, green, and blue (RGB) values of the wound area. Results: The electro acupuncture stimulation groupsshowed significant healing effects compared to the control and acupuncture groups. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that various frequencies of percutaneous electrical stimulation have a therapeutic effect on wound healing.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 2008

In this paper, the recirculation flow motion and mixing characteristics driven by air bubble stream in a rectangular water tank is studied. The time-resolved PIV technique is adopted for the quantitative visualization and analysis. 488 nm Ar-ion CW laser is used for illumination and orange fluorescent ($\lambda_{ex}=540nm,\;\lambda_{em}=560nm$) particle images are acquired by a PCO 10bit high-speed CCD camera (1280$\times$1024). To obtain clean particle images, 545 nm long pass optical filter and an image intensifier are employed and the flow rates of compressed air is 3 l/min at 0.5 MPa. The recirculation and mixing flow field is further investigated by time-resolved POD analysis technique. It is observed that the large scale recirculation resulting from the interaction between rising bubble stream and side wall is the most dominant flow structure and there are small scale vortex structures moving along with large scale recirculation flow. It is also verified that the sum of 20 modes of velocity field has about 67.4% of total turbulent energy.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.45-51
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• 1989

Lens distortion would produce image displacement, therefore correction of lens distortion is required urgently to improve accuracy of results in photogrammetry. The objective of this study is to find out lens distortion coefficients versus focussing distance on non-metric and metric camera and to investigate propriety of application of lens distortion coefficients to three dimensional analysis. Analytical plumb line method which needs not perform control survey and space resection and requires only one photograph was used in order to get lens distortion coefficients. As the result of this study, the coefficients of radial and tangential distortion change as focussing distance changes, and consequently it is reasonable to apply the eigenvalues of lens distortion coefficients according to focussing distance. When these coefficients were applied to actual measurement, standard errors decreased about 30% or 76% remarkably.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.632-641
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• 2011

This paper presents a position error recognition system when the wafer is mounted in cleaning equipment among the wafer manufacturing processes. The proposed system is to enhance the performance in cost and reliability by preventing the wafer cleaning system from damaging by alerting it when it is put in correct position. The proposed algorithm is in obtaining a mapping function from camera and physical wafer by designing and manufacturing the radial shape calibrator to reduce the error by using the conventional chess board one. The system is to install in-line process using high reliable and high accurate position recognition. The experimental results show that the performance of the proposed system is better than that of the existing method for detecting errors within tolerance.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.1647-1658
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• 2016

RGB+D database has been widely used in object recognition, object tracking, robot control, to name a few. While rapid advance of active depth sensing technologies allows for the widespread of indoor RGB+D databases, there are only few outdoor RGB+D databases largely due to an inherent limitation of active depth cameras. In this paper, we propose a novel method used to build outdoor RGB+D databases. Instead of using active depth cameras such as Kinect or LIDAR, we acquire a pair of stereo image using high-resolution stereo camera and then obtain a depth map by applying stereo matching algorithm. To deal with estimation errors that inevitably exist in the depth map obtained from stereo matching methods, we develop an approach that estimates confidence of depth maps based on unsupervised learning. Unlike existing confidence estimation approaches, we explicitly consider a spatial correlation that may exist in the confidence map. Specifically, we focus on refining confidence feature with the assumption that the confidence feature and resultant confidence map are smoothly-varying in spatial domain and are highly correlated to each other. Experimental result shows that the proposed method outperforms existing confidence measure based approaches in various benchmark dataset.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1420-1423
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• 2015

기존의 영상처리 및 컴퓨터 비전 기술은 X-ray, 군사용 사진, CCTV 영상과 같은 제한적인 상황에서 주로 사용되었다. 스마트폰이 보급되면서 고해상도의 사진을 어디서든 촬영할 수 있게 되었고, 고성능 디바이스를 이용하여 촬영된 영상을 즉시 가공 및 처리가 가능하게 되었다. 그 결과 영상처리 기술이 이전보다 다양하고 좀 더 일반적인 분야에서도 쓰이게 되었다. 그러나 영상처리 기술은 조건이 제한될수록 처리가 용이하며, 일반적인 이미지들을 처리하기 위해서는 고려해야 할 사항이 많다. 특히 두피 영상 분석의 경우 머리카락이 겹치는 부분이나 그림자, 머리카락이 밀집하여 상대적으로 어두워지는 부분 등을 고려해야 하는 어려움이 있으며 현재까지 영상처리를 이용한 두피영상 분석에 대한 연구는 많지 않은 것이 현실이다. 본 논문에서는 스마트폰에 부착하는 포터블 카메라로 촬영된 두피영상을 분석하여 모발의 두께를 측정하는 기법을 제시한다. 먼저 영상에 대한 전처리로 Contrast stretching과 이 진화 과정을 수행한다. 얻어진 이진화 영상에 대해 머리카락의 Skeleton을 추출하고 각 pixel의 각도(angle)를 이용하여 법선을 구한다. 계산된 법선과 머리카락 사이의 교점을 구한 후 두 점사이의 거리를 통해 모발의 두께를 계산한다. 계산된 두께와 현미경을 이용하여 측정한 모발의 실제 두께와 비교하여 제안된 기법의 정확도를 평가한다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.238-244
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• 2012

A modeling of vision based robot formation control system using fuzzy logic controller and extended Kalman filter is presented in this paper. The main problems affecting formation controls using fuzzy logic controller and vision based robots are: a robot's position in a formation need to be maintained, how to develop the membership function in order to obtain the optimal fuzzy system control that has the ability to do the formation control and the noise coming from camera process changes the position of references view. In order to handle these problems, we propose a fuzzy logic controller system equipped with a dynamic output membership function that controls the speed of the robot wheels to handle the maintenance position in formation. The output membership function changes over time based on changes in input at time t-1 to t. The noises appearing in image processing change the virtual target point positions are handled by Extended Kalman filter. The virtual target positions are established in order to define the formations. The virtual target point positions can be changed at any time in accordance with the desired formation. These algorithms have been validated through simulation. The simulations confirm that the follower robots reach their target point in a short time and are able to maintain their position in the formation although the noises change the target point positions.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.698-703
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• 2006

This paper proposes an approach to search for the odor source using an autonomous mobile robot equipped with vision and odor sensors. The robot is initially navigating around the specific area with vision system until it looks for an object in the camera image. The robot approaches the object found in the field of view and checks it with the odor sensors if it is releasing odor. If so, the odor is classified and localized with the classification algorithm based on neural network The AMOR(Autonomous Mobile Olfactory Robot) was built up and used for the experiments. Experimental results on the classification and localization of odor sources show the validity of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.1495-1504
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• 2008

New license plates have been used since 2007. This paper proposes a new license plate extraction method using a gray labeling and a fuzzy reasoning method. First, the proposed method extracts the candidate plates by the gray labeling which is the enhanced version of a non-recursive flood-filling algorithm. By newly designed fuzzy inference system. fitness of each candidate plates are calculated. Finally, the area of the license plate in a image is extracted as a region of the candidate label which has the highest fitness. In the experiments, various license plate images took from indoor/outdoor parking lot, street, etc. by digital camera or cellular phone were used and the proposed extraction method was showed remarkable results of a 94 percent success.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.191-197
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• 2007

Vision system is an object recognition system analyzing image information captured through camera. Vision system can be applied to various fields, and vehicle recognition is ole of them. There have been many proposals about algorithm of vehicle recognition. But have complex calculation processing. So they need long processing time and sometimes they make problems. In this research we suggested vehicle type recognition system using vision bpx based on embedded platform. As a result of testing this system achieves 100% rate of recognition at the optimal condition. But when condition is changed by lighting, noise and angle, rate of recognition is decreased as pattern score is lowered and recognition speed is slowed.