• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.200-206
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• 2023

Near-infrared (NIR) sensing technology using CMOS image sensors is used in many applications, including automobiles, biological inspection, surveillance, and mobile devices. An intuitive way to improve NIR sensitivity is to thicken the light absorption layer (silicon). However, thickened silicon lacks NIR sensitivity and has other disadvantages, such as diminished optical performance (e.g. crosstalk) and difficulty in processing. In this paper, a pixel structure for NIR sensing using a stacked CMOS image sensor is introduced. There are two photodetection layers, a conventional layer and a bottom photodiode, in the stacked CMOS image sensor. The bottom photodiode is used as the NIR absorption layer. Therefore, the suggested pixel structure does not change the thickness of the conventional photodiode. To verify the suggested pixel structure, sensitivity was simulated using an optical simulator. As a result, the sensitivity was improved by a maximum of 130% and 160% at wavelengths of 850 nm and 940 nm, respectively, with a pixel size of 1.2 ㎛. Therefore, the proposed pixel structure is useful for NIR sensing without thickening the silicon.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.50-55
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• 2004

We propose an intgrated Gill environment system having only integer fuzzy operations in the consequent part and the defuzzification stage. In this paper, we also propose an integrated Gill environment system with 4 parallel fuzzy processing units to be operated in parallel on the classification of the sensed image data. In this, we solve the problems of taking longer times as the fuzzy real computations of [0, 1] by using the integer pixel conversion algorithm to convert lines of each fuzzy linguistic term to the closest integer pixels. This procedure is performed automatically in the GUI application program. As a Gill environment, PCI transmission, image data pre-processing, integer pixel mapping and fuzzy membership tuning are considered. This system can be operated in parallel manner for MIMO or MISO systems.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.570-574
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• 2010

A thinning algorithm changes a binary fingerprint image to one pixel width. A thinning stage occupies 40% cycle of 32-bit RISC microprocessor system for a fingerprint identification algorithm. Hardware block processing is more effective than software one in speed, because a thinning algorithm is iteration of simple instructions. This paper describes an effective hardware scheme for thinning stage processing using the Verilog-HDL in $160\times192$ Pixel Array. The ZS algorithm was applied for a thinning stage. The hardware scheme was designed and simulated in RTL. The logic was also synthesized by XST in FPGA environment. Experimental results show the performance of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1331-1346
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• 2018

Aiming at the problem that the gradient-based edge detection operators are sensitive to the noise, causing the pseudo edges, a triqubit-state measurement-based edge detection algorithm is presented in this paper. Combing the image local and global structure information, the triqubit superposition states are used to represent the pixel features, so as to locate the image edge. Our algorithm consists of three steps. Firstly, the improved partial differential method is used to smooth the defect image. Secondly, the triqubit-state is characterized by three elements of the pixel saliency, edge statistical characteristics and gray scale contrast to achieve the defect image from the gray space to the quantum space mapping. Thirdly, the edge image is outputted according to the quantum measurement, local gradient maximization and neighborhood chain code searching. Compared with other methods, the simulation experiments indicate that our algorithm has less pseudo edges and higher edge detection accuracy.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.26-28
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• 2007

The motion estimation is the most important technique in the image compression of the video standards. In the case of next generation standards in the video codec as H.264, a high compression-efficiency can be also obtained by using a motion compensation. To obtain the accurate motion search, a motion estimation should be achieved up to 1/2 pixel and 1/4 pixel uiuts. To do this, the computational complexity is increased although the image compression rate is increased. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the advanced sub-pixel block matching algorithm to reduce the computational complexity by using a statistical characteristics of SAD(Sum of Absolute Difference). Generally, the probability of the minimum SAD values is high when searching point is in the distance 1 from the reference point. Thus, we reduced the searching area and then we can overcome the computational complexity problem. The main concept of proposed algorithm, which based on TSS(Three Step Search) method, first we find three minimum SAD points which is in integer distance unit, and then, in second step, the optimal point is in 1/2 pixel unit either between the most minimum SAD value point and the second minimum SAD point or between the most minimum SAD value point and the third minimum SAD point In third step, after finding the smallest SAD value between two SAD values on 1/2 pixel unit, the final optimized point is between the most minimum SAD value and the result value of the third step, in 1/2 pixel unit i.e., 1/4 pixel unit in totally. The conventional TSS method needs an eight.. search points in the sub-pixel steps in 1/2 pixel unit and also an eight search points in 1/4 pixel, to detect the optimal point. However, in proposed algorithm, only total five search points are needed. In the result. 23 % improvement of processing speed is obtained.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.498-506
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• 2010

국산 침엽수재를 고부가가치의 구조부재로 활용하기 위해서는 국내 기준에 적합한 등급구분 체계가 갖춰져야 한다. 김 등(2009a, b)의 연구에서는 목재의 생산 및 유통규모가 작은 국내 현실에서 제재목 등급구분의 자동화 및 기계화를 목적으로 화상처리시스템을 개발하였다. 본 연구에서는 이전 연구에서 개발한 화상처리시스템의 핵심 기술 중 하나인 화상입력시스템의 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 최적 화상병합 조건을 구명하고자 하였다. 연구 결과 국산 낙엽송 $180{\time}120$ mm 부재의 화상을 병합하는 데 있어서 획득된 화상의 green채널 정보를 병합 에 이용하는 것이 가장 높은 병합정확성을 얻을 수 있었다. 입력된 화상의 전처리 과정으로 Y-derivative Sharr's kernel 필터를 적용함으로써 화상병합 성능을 향상시킬 수 있었으나, 카메라 보정에 의한 효과는 미미 하였다. 또한 화상병합을 위한 최적 템플릿 크기는 폭 30 pixel ${\time}$ 높이 150 pixel로 확인되었다. 이상의 조건을 적용하였을 때, 병합된 화상의 길이오차는 평균 3.1 mm, 연산시간은 평균 9.7초로 나타났다.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제18A권6호
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• pp.249-254
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• 2011

본 논문은 H.264 움직임 예측을 위해 휘도 성분과 색차 성분의 부화소를 생성하는 효율적인 부화소 보간기 회로 설계에 대해 기술한다. 제안된 구조를 기반으로 한 회로는 보간 연산을 위해 입력 데이터를 버퍼링하지 않고 수평, 수직, 대각선의 부화소 보간을 병렬로 처리한다. 휘도성분에 대한 1/2 화소, 1/4 화소 보간과 색차 성분에 대한 1/8 화소 보간을 동시에 처리하여 회로 성능을 더욱 개선하였다. 회로 크기를 줄이기 위해 본 논문에서는 병렬로 보간 연산을 처리하는데 필요한 모든 중간 데이터를 레지스터 대신 내부 SRAM에 저장하였다. 제안된 구조를 레지스터 전달 수준의 회로로 기술하였고, FPGA 보드에서 동작을 검증하였다. 또한 구현된 회로를 130nm CMOS 표준 셀 라이브러리를 이용하여 게이트 수준의 회로로 합성하였다. 합성된 회로의 크기는 20,674 게이트이고 최대 동작 주파수는 244MHz이다. 회로에 사용된 SPSRAM의 전체 크기는 3,232 비트이다. 구현된 회로는 논리 게이트와 SRAM을 포함하여 다른 논문에서 제안한 회로에 비해 크기가 작고 성능도 우수하다.

• 대한디지털의료영상학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.49-53
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• 2011

Dynamic range on the digital detector can be a representation to the ratio of maximum and minimum of pixel value. Wide dynamic range and post processing ability of the digital detector made difficult to recognize visually to high or low dose images. We were evaluated a change of mean pixel value on the original and processed image, when we controlled the kVp, mA, exposure time on the digital detector. On the kVp of a constant condition, we were acquired an original and processed image by changes of mA, exposure time. According to the thickness of the subject under the same conditions, to determine a relation of pixel value and X-ray intensity, we used an aluminum step wedge. When mA and exposure times were changed under the kVp of a constant condition, the X-ray intensity was decreased by the reduction of the mean pixel value. In addition when kVp was increased in a constant condition of mAs, the mean pixel value was increased according to the increment of the X-ray intensity. Therefore, low kVp, high mA and short exposure time were a way to reduce a patient dose.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.1310-1316
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• 2021

최근 인공지능과 IoT 기술의 발달에 따라 물체 추적, 의료 영상, 객체 인식과 같은 영상처리에 대한 중요성이 높아지고 있다. 특히 전처리 과정에서 사용되는 잡음제거 기술은 시스템에서 영상의 중요성이 높아짐에 따라 잡음을 효율적으로 제거하며 세부적인 특징을 보존하는 성능을 요구하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 AWGN 환경에서 화소매칭 기반의 변형된 가중치 필터를 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 영상에서 화소값이 크게 변하는 고주파성분을 보존하기 위해 화소매칭 기법을 사용하며, 주변 영역에서 연관성이 높은 패턴을 지닌 영역을 검출하여 출력계산에 필요한 매칭 화소값을 분류한다. 최종 출력은 필터링 과정에서 에지성분을 고려하기 위해 중심화소와 매칭화소 사이의 격차값 및 공간적 거리에 따라 가중치를 계산하여 구한다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.527-532
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• 2010

This paper is concerned with the measurement of static and dynamic displacement by image processing(IP) and study for prediction method of velocity and acceleration. To measure the displacement visually, the measurement system consists of a telephoto zoom camera, ccd image device and a computer. The specific target on the white board is used to calculate the displacement of the structure. The captured image is then converted into a pixel-based data and then analyzed numerically. The limitation of the system depends on the image capturing speed and the pixel-size of image. In this paper, we developed for the displacement measurement using the image processing method. The proposed method enables us to measure the vibration measurement, velocity and acceleration directly without any contact. The current resolution of the displacement measurement is limited to 1/100 millimeter scale.