• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.55-64
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• 2012

The advantage of direct volume rendering is to visualize structures of interest in the volumetric data. However it is still difficult to simultaneously show interior and exterior structures. Recently, cone beam computed tomography(CBCT) has been used for dental diagnosis. Despite of its usefulness, there is a limitation in the detection of interior structures such as pulp and inferior alveolar nerve canal. In this paper, we propose an efficient volume rendering model for visualizing important interior as well as exterior structures of dental CBCT. It is based on the concept of illustrative volume rendering and enhances boundary and silhouette of structures. Moreover, we present a new method that assigns a different color to structures in the rear so as to distinguish the front ones from the rear ones. This proposed rendering model has been implemented on graphics hardware, so that we can achieve interactive performance. In addition, we can render teeth, pulp and canal without cumbersome segmentation step.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.755-763
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• 2008

Silhouette is useful in computer graphics for a number of techniques such as non-photorealistic rendering, silhouette clipping, and blueprint generating. Methods for generating silhouette are classified into three categories: image-based, object-based, and hybrid-based. Hybrid-based method is effective in terms of time complexity but spatial coherence problem still remains. In this paper, we proposed a new hybrid-based method which produces 3D data for silhouette and also guarantees no spatial coherence problem. To verify the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, several experiments are conducted for various 3D models from simple to quite complex. Results show that our algorithm generates no gap between any two consecutive silhouette lines when the silhouette model is magnified significantly.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.81-92
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• 2007

Nowadays, many computer games based on NPR(Non-photorealistic Rendering) techniques have been developed due to their distinctive visual properties. However, only limited methods of NPR techniques have been exploited in producing computer games and amongst them cartoon-style rendering techniques especially has had the special interest. In the paper, we suggest an effective rendering method of comic-book style that will be applicable to computer game. In order to do, we first characterize the properties of comic-book from comparing two visuals: celluloid animation and comic-book. We then suggest a real-time rendering method of comic-book style represented by outline sketch, tone, and hatching. We finally examine its effectiveness by observing the game developed using the method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.505-507
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• 2001

실루엣 에지를 찾거나 디스플레이하는 것은 컴퓨터 비전에서부터 비사실적인 렌더링(nonphotorealistic rendering)에 이르기까지 여러 응용분야에서 중요한 의미를 가진다. NPR(nonphotorealistic rendering)에서 가장 초점을 두는 것은 컴퓨터로 렌더링된 결과가 사람이 그린듯한 효과를 줄 수 있느냐에 있다. 본 논문에서는 점진적 메쉬와 실루엣 에지 렌더링을 통해 사람이 임의의 객체를 점진적으로 스케치하는 효과를 보여 줄 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 다단계 메쉬 생성은 대용량의 메쉬를 효율적으로 다루기 위한 것으로 점진적인 렌더링이나 전송, 상세도, 제어 등에 이용되는 기술이다. 메쉬 간략화에서는 볼륨과 정계를 보존 할 수 있는 간략화 기법을 이용하였다. 간략화 수행시 원본 메쉬에 대한 히스토리를 저장할 수 있는 점진적 메쉬(Progressive Mesh)구조를 구성한 뒤 기본메쉬를 점진적으로 상세하게 해 나감으로써 실루엣 렌더링을 수행하게 된다. 실루엣 에지에 대해 파라미터화된 브러쉬 함수(Parameterized Brush Functions)를 적용하여 다양한 스타일로 점진적인 스케칭 효과를 낼 수 있는 기법을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.676-678
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• 2005

최근 3차원 그래픽 기법 중에서도 비실사(Non-Photorealistic Rendering) 기법은 3차원 그래픽의 변형을 통해 사용자와의 원활한 커뮤니케이션을 이끌어 낼 수 있다는 점에서 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 비실사 기법에서는 실루엣 에지를 찾아내고 디스플레이 하는 것이 중요한 과정이며 여러 가지 연구가 행해지고 있다. 지금까지 실루엣 에지 렌더링 연구는 데스크탑 플랫폼에서는 많이 이루어졌지만 모바일 기기에서의 구현을 위한 노력은 부족하였다. 본 논문은 모바일 기기 환경에서의 비실사 기법 적음을 위한 실루엣 에지 렌더링 기법을 제안한다. 모바일 기기 환경에서의 부족한 리소스와 폴리곤 제한을 극복하기 위하여 기존 연구보다 폴리곤 연산의 숫자를 감소시키는 기법을 제시하였다. 이 기법의 적용은 모바일 기기에서의 렌더링 프레임률을 높여주어 원활한 비실사 기법 적용에 도움을 준다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.119-129
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• 2010

Recently, development of mobile service and increased demand for mobile device make mobile environment noticeable in computer graphics. Especially demand for 3D graphic services in mobile devices is steadily increased. However up to the present non-photorealistic rendering is mainly studied in desktop platform. In the result, existing research were designed for desktop computers and are not well-suited for mobile devices. Thus, there is a growing needs for processing techniques that provide the ability to render 3D non-photorealistic graphics through mobile devices. In this paper, we discuss processing techniques for non-photorealistic rendering that are especially cartoon shading and rendering in mobile devices. Through the result of this research, it is expected that silhouette edge rendering for mobile display environment and preprocessing file technique for shading. The efficiency of 3D mobile graphic service like 3D model in cartoon style is increased by using proposed preprocessing file and rendering pipeline. Our work can provide mobile cartoon rendering results and various mobile contents to users.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.777-788
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• 2006

This paper describes a displacement mapping technique which represents protruded shapes on the surface of an object. Previous approaches for image-based displacement mapping can represent only shapes depressed from the polygon surface. The proposed technique can represent shapes protruded from the underlying surface in real-time. Two auxiliary surfaces which are perpendicular to the underlying surface are added along the boundary of the polygon surface, in order to represent the pixels which overflow over the boundary of the polygon surface. The proposed approach can represent accurate silhouette of protruded shape. It can represent not only smooth displacement of protruded shape, but also abrupt displacement such as perpendicular protrusion by means of adding the supplementary texture information to the steep surface of protruded shape. By per-pixel instructions on the programmable GPU this approach can be executed in real-time. It provides an effective solution for the representation of protruded shape such as high-rise buildings on the ground.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• summer
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• pp.361-364
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• 2004

This paper describes an automatic 3D models generation algorithm based on 2D silhouette images, using X-ray camera without camera parameters. The algorithm takes a multi steps process approach. First, a series of 2D silhouette images is captured from different directions of object and then converted to binary images. An octree data structure is constructed for voxel-based representation of object. An estimate 3D volume of object can be reconstructed by intersecting voxels and the 2D silhouettes. The marching cube algorithm is applied to get triangle mesh representing of the obtained 3D model for rendering.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.65-74
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• 2020

In the shadow map method, if the shadow map is magnified, the shadow has a jagged silhouette. Herein, we propose a soft shadow method that filters reshaped silhouettes analytically. First, the shadow silhouette is reshaped through sub-texel edge detection, which is based on linear or quadratic curve models. Second, an integral shadow filtering algorithm is used to accurately obtain the average shadow intensity from a definite integral estimation. The implementation demonstrates that our solution can effectively eliminate jagged aliasing and efficiently generate soft shadows.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.115-117
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• 2006

최근 비실사(Non-Photorealistic Rendering) 기법은 3차원 그래픽의 추상화를 통해 사용자와의 원활한 커뮤니케이션을 이끌어 낼 수 있다는 점에서 않은 주목을 받고 있다. 비실사 기법 중에서도 실루엣 에지 렌더링은 3차원 객체의 에지를 찾아내고 디스플레이 하는 것으로 다양한 비실사 기법의 기반을 이루는 연구이다. 또한 실루엣 에지 렌더링은 기법의 변화를 통해서 선의 미를 살리는 수묵화 효과를 이뤄낼 수 있다. 본 논문은 다중 폴리곤 처리를 이용한 실루엣 에지 렌더링 기법을 제안하며 이를 사용하여 수묵화 기법의 효과를 보여준다. 다중 폴리곤 처리를 통한 실루엣 에지 렌더링 기법은 구현이 간단하고 여러 가지응용이 가능하다는 장정을 가지고 있다. 이 변화된 기법을 통해서 사용자는 3차원 객체에 수묵화 기법을 다양하게 적용할 수 있게 된다.