• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.801-810
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 디지털 영상을 위한 공간 영역에서의 무손실 데이터 삽입 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 데이터 삽입 및 추출을 위해 위치 지도 등의 부가 정보를 삽입하는 대신에 단 한 개의 파라미터 만을 필요로 한다. 삽입 과정에서는 $3{\times}3$ 크기의 창이 대상 영상 위를 한 화소 단위로 움직이며 각 위치에서 한 비트의 데이터를 삽입 할 수 있다. 따라서, 이상적인 삽입 용량은 영상의 화소수와 동일하다. 또한, 추가적인 실제 삽입 용량의 증가를 위해, 삽입 대상 화소의 예측을 위한 새로운 계수를 적용하였다. 그 결과 기존의 방법에 비해 삽입 용량이 매우 큰 폭으로 증가하고, 고용량 데이터 삽입 시의 영상 화질 또한 향상되었다. 제안 방법은 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증하였다.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.210-222
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• 2017

Purpose: To develop a novel combination of controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration (CAIPIRINHA) with integrated SSFP (CAIPI-iSSFP) for accelerated SSFP imaging without banding artifacts at 3T. Materials and Methods: CAIPI-iSSFP was developed by adding a dephasing gradient to the balanced SSFP (bSSFP) pulse sequence with a gradient area that results in $2{\pi}$ dephasing across a single pixel. Extended phase graph (EPG) simulations were performed to show the signal behaviors of iSSFP, bSSFP, and RF-spoiled gradient echo (SPGR) sequences. In vivo experiments were performed for brain and abdominal imaging at 3T with simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) acceleration factors of 2, 3 and 4 with CAIPI-iSSFP and CAIPI-bSSFP. The image quality was evaluated by measuring the relative contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and by qualitatively assessing banding artifact removal in the brain. Results: Banding artifacts were removed using CAIPI-iSSFP compared to CAIPI-bSSFP up to an SMS factor of 4 and 3 on brain and liver imaging, respectively. The relative CNRs between gray and white matter were on average 18% lower in CAIPI-iSSFP compared to that of CAIPI-bSSFP. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that CAIPI-iSSFP provides up to a factor of four acceleration, while minimizing the banding artifacts with up to a 20% decrease in the relative CNR.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2015

최근 3D 프린터의 보급과 함께 3D 모델에 대한 수요가 급증하고 있다. 그러나 3D 모델의 생성은 숙달된 전문가가 전문 소프트웨어를 이용하여 작성하여야 한다. 본 연구는 한 장의 2차원 정면 얼굴사진으로 부터 3D 모델링하는 방법에 대한 것으로 일반인들도 쉽게 3D모델을 생성할 수 있도록 한다. 사진으로부터 배경과 전경을 분리하고 분리한 전경 영역에 일정간격으로 2차원 상에 버텍스를 배치하고 배치한 버텍스 위치를 이미지의 계조 값과 눈썹과 코 등의 특성을 고려하여 버텍스를 3차원으로 확장한다. 전경과 배경을 분리하는 방법으로 에지정보를 사용하였으며 눈과 코의 위치를 찾기 위하여 Haar-like feature를 이용하는 AdaBoost 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 알고리즘으로 생성한 3D 모델은 수작업에 의한 후처리가 필요하지만 3D 프린터를 위한 콘텐츠 제공에 매우 유용하게 활용될 것이다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2016

As described in the previous paper (Park et al. 2013), the detector subsystem of optical wide-field patrol (OWL) provides many observational data points of a single artificial satellite or space debris in the form of small streaks, using a chopper system and a time tagger. The position and the corresponding time data are matched assuming that the length of a streak on the CCD frame is proportional to the time duration of the exposure during which the chopper blades do not obscure the CCD window. In the previous study, however, the length was measured using the diagonal of the rectangle of the image area containing the streak; the results were quite ambiguous and inaccurate, allowing possible matching error of positions and time data. Furthermore, because only one (position, time) data point is created from one streak, the efficiency of the observation decreases. To define the length of a streak correctly, it is important to locate the endpoints of a streak. In this paper, a method using a differential convolution mask pattern is tested. This method can be used to obtain the positions where the pixel values are changed sharply. These endpoints can be regarded as directly detected positional data, and the number of data points is doubled by this result.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2007년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2007
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• pp.629-632
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• 2007

While conventional interferometric SAR (InSAR) technique is an excellent tool for displacement observation, it is only sensitive to one-dimensional deformation along the satellite's line-of-sight (LOS). Recently, a multiple aperture interferogram (MAI) technique has been developed to overcome this drawback. This method successfully extracted along-track displacements from InSAR data, based on split-beam InSAR processing, to create forward- and backward- looking interferograms, and was superior to along-track displacements derived by pixel-offset algorithm. This method is useful to measure along-track displacements. However, it does not only decrease the coherence of MAI because three co-registration and resampling procedures are required for producing MAI, but also is confined to a suitable interferometric pair of SAR images having zero Doppler centroid. In this paper, we propose an efficient and robust method to generate MAI from interferometric pair having non-zero Doppler centroid. The proposed method efficiently improves the coherence of MAI, because the co-registration of forward- and backward- single look complex (SLC) images is carried out by time shift property of Fourier transform without resampling procedure. It also successfully removes azimuth flat earth and topographic phases caused by the effect of non-zero Doppler centroid. We tested the proposed method using ERS images of the Mw 7.1 1999 California, Hector Mine Earthquake. The result shows that the proposed method improved the coherence of MAI and generalized MAI processing algorithm.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.234-234
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• 2010

The PR transitions in asymmetric dot-in-double-quantum-well (DdWELL) photodetector is identified by bias-dependent spectral behaviors. Discrete n-i-n infrared photodetectors were fabricated on a 30-period asymmetric InAs-QD/[InGaAs/GaAs]/AlGaAs DdWELL wafer that was prepared by MBE technique. A 2.0-monolayer (ML) InAs QD ensemble was embedded in upper combined well of InGaAs/GaAs and each stack is separated by a 50-nm AlGaAs barrier. Each pixel has circular aperture of 300 um in diameter, and the mesa cell ($410{\times}410\;{\mu}m^2$) was defined by shallow etching. PR measurements were performed in the spectral range of $3{\sim}13\;{\mu}m$ (~ 100-400 meV) by using a Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer and a low-noise preamplifier. The asymmetric photodetector exhibits unique transition behaviors that near-/far-infrared (NIR/FIR) photoresponse (PR) bands are blue/red shifted by the electric field, contrasted to mid-infrared (MIR) with no dependence. In addition, the MIR-FIR dual-band spectra change into single-band feature by the polarity. A four-level energy band model is proposed for the transition scheme, and the field dependence of FIR bands numerically calculated by a simplified DdWELL structure is in good agreement with that of the PR spectra. The wavelength shift by the field strength and the spectral change by the polarity are discussed on the basis of four-level transition.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.391-402
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• 2016

Among the various remote sensing sensors compared to the electro-optical sensors, SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) is very suitable for assessing damaged areas induced by disaster events owing to its all-weather day and night acquisition capability and sensitivity to geometric variables. The conventional CD (Change Detection) method that uses two-date data is typically used for mapping damage over extensive areas in a short time, but because data from only two dates are used, the information used in the conventional CD is limited. In this paper, we propose a novel CD method that is extended to use data consisting of two pre-disaster SAR data and one post-disaster SAR data. The proposed CD method detects changes by using a similarity weight image derived from the neighborhood information of a pixel in the data from the three dates. We conducted an experiment using three single polarization ALOS PALSAR (Advanced Land Observing Satellite/Phased Array Type L-Band) data collected over Miyagi, Japan which was seriously damaged by the 2011 east Japan tsunami. The results demonstrated that the mapping accuracy for damaged areas can be improved by about 26% with an increase of the g-mean compared to the conventional CD method. These improved results prove the performance of our proposed CD method and show that the proposed CD method is more suitable than the conventional CD method for detecting damaged areas induced by disaster.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1998년도 Proceedings of International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology
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• pp.92-97
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• 1998

For the efficient searching and browsing of digital video, it is essential to extract the internal structure of the video contents. As an example, a news video consists of several sections such as politics, economics, sports and others, and also each section consists of individual topics. With this information in hand, users can ore easily access the required video frames. This paper addresses the problem of automatic shot boundary detection and selection of representative frames (R-frames), which are the essential step in recognizing the internal structure of video contents. In the shot boundary detection, a new algorithm that have dual detectors which are designed specifically for the abrupt boundaries (cuts) and gradually changing bounaries respectively is proposed. Compared to the existing 미algorithms that mostly have tried to detect both types by a single mechanism, the proposed algorithm is proved to be more robust and accurate. Also in the problem of R-frame selection, simple mechanical approaches such as selecting one frame every other second have been adopted. However this approach often selects too many R-frames in static short, while drops important frames in dynamic shots. To improve the selection mechanism, a new R-frame selection algorithm that uses motion information extracted from pixel difference is proposed.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.229-233
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• 2002

CdZnTe 검출기를 제작하고 CT/SPECT 조합영상 시스템에 설치하여 엑스선 및 감마선검출기로서의 응용가능성을 타진해 보았다. 검출기의 크기는 10$\times$10$\times$5 ㎣ 이었다. 양극은 4$\times$4 픽셀로 설계하였으며 각 픽셀의 크기는 $1.5\times$l.5 $\textrm{mm}^2$ 이었다. 음극은 Au로 전극을 만들어 주었다. 시스템의 성능을 조사하기 위해서 방사선촬영용 분해능팬텀과 호프만 뇌 팬텀을 사용하였다. X선 영상에서 고광자방출율을 만족시키기 위해서 shapping time은 50ns 로 하었으며, 3$\times$$10^{5}$ counts/s 까지 선형성이 유지되었다. Tc-99m의 140 keV 감마선에 대한 에너지 분해능은 50 ㎱와 2 $\mu\textrm{s}$ shaping time을 걸어주었을 때 각각 10.4%와 5.3%이었다. CT와 SPECT의 공간분해능은 각각 1 mm와 9 mm 이었다. 광피이크 효율은 50 ㎱와 2 $\mu\textrm{s}$일 때 각각 41.0%와 72.5%이었다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.155-164
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• 2011

스마트폰을 기반으로 한 앱은 병원의 의료 서비스, 은행 및 카드사의 금융서비스, 기업 및 가정의 유비쿼터스 기술 등 다양한 영역에 활용되고 있다. 이러한 서비스 환경에서 외부인에 의한 스마트폰의 불법적인 노출은 공 사적 정보의 유출을 포함한 자산의 손실이 발생한다. 이를 위한 보호 기법으로 비밀키 및 패턴 인식 기술, 정적인 단일 영상인증 기법이 적용되고 있으나 정적인 킷값의 유출 또는사진과같은영상을활용하여접근이가능하다는문제를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 위험요소 및 문제로부터 스마트폰을 보호하기 위한 기술로 사용자 얼굴 인증 기술을 제안한다. 제안 기술은 사용자의 얼굴 동영상의 키 프레임을 실시간으로 추출하여 사용자를 인증하고 스마트폰의 접근을 제어한다. 인증 정보는 다수의 키 프레임으로 구성되며, 영상의 화소 및 휘도의 DC 값을 활용한 유사도 판별 알고리즘으로 사용자의 접근을 통제한다.