• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.9 s.351
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• pp.38-43
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose the efficient dead pixel detection algorithm for CMOS image sensors and its hardware architecture. The CMOS image sensors as image input devices are becoming popular due to the demand for miniaturized, low-power and cost-effective imaging systems. However, the presence of the dead pixels degrade the image quality. To detect the dead pixels, the proposed algorithm is composed of scan, trace and detection step. The experimental results showed that it could detect 99.99% of dead pixels. It was designed in a hardware description language and total logic gate count is 3.2k using 0.25 CMOS standard cell library.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.871-879
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• 2015

With the increase of mass contents data, a method of a scene change detection is required for analysis, indexing and editing. Although many researchers are studying a variety of scene change detection method, it is too difficult to accurately detect various movements of the cameras and scene changes. Also, earlier scene change detection methods take too much time to apply to UHD video contents. That is because the UHD video contents with 4K (3820x2160) resolution or higher have greater amount of data. Therefore a method for detecting a scene change by using the next-generation codec, HEVC, is required. In this paper, we propose four scene change detection methods using the coding additional information of HEVC, and a new pixel-based scene change detection system. Furthermore, through the experimental results, we check the possibility of detecting the scene changes of UHD videos encoded in HEVC format.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.2013-2022
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• 1996

Cyclic Codes can be used for burs(or time slot) synchronization as well as error detection as that the overhead bits of the burst, which would be nessary to seperate burst synchronization and error detection systems, may be eliminated. In this paper a new method for combined burst synchronization and error detection is proposed which requires CRC decoding once only, while the previous method which inspects channel error after searching for burst synchronization requeires CRC decoding twice. The proposed method has the advantage of simple implementation and reducing processing time over the previous one, still showing the same detection perfdormance. It may occur that a burst different from the actually transmitted one is falsely accepted in the presence of channel errors. The exact expression for the false acceptance probability is newly presented through a simple derivation basied on the fact that it is determined by channel errors but not by detection methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.393.2-393
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.53-54
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 단일 채널 디지털 오디오 신호에서 스펙트로그램과 영상 처리 기법을 이용하여 크래클 잡음을 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 오디오 신호의 주파수 특성을 효율적으로 분석하기 위해 스펙트로그램을 특정 컬러맵을 이용하여 컬러 영상으로 변환한 후 영상 처리 기법을 적용하여 크래클 잡음이 존재하는 구간을 검출하여 디지털 오디오 복원에 이용한다. 특히 고전영화에 나타나는 크래클 잡음은 에너지와 신호 길이가 음성이나 음악 신호와 유사하여 기존의 스펙트럴 음성 검출 기법으로는 검출에 어려움이 있다. 이에 비해 스펙트로그램 영상에서는 크래클 잡음이 다른 신호들과 구분되는 특성을 나타내므로 영상 처리 기법을 적용하여 경계 검출과 Hough 변환에 의한 선 검출을 이용하여 크래클 잡음을 검출한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 고전 영화 디지털 오디오 복원에 적용하였으며 크래클 잡음 검출에 우수한 성능을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.55-58
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• 2016

본 논문은 사람의 얼굴 영상에서 잡티를 제거하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 입력받은 영상에서 Haar-like Feature 기반 Adaboost 알고리즘과 색상 정보를 이용하여 얼굴 영역을 검출한다. 검출된 얼굴 영역에서 잡티를 제거하기 위해서는 먼저 눈, 코, 입, 눈썹과 같은 얼굴의 주요부위를 검출하고 이 영역을 제외한 순수 피부 영역에 잡티 검출 알고리즘을 적용해야한다. 사람의 얼굴은 미세하게 명암도 차이가 나는 부분이 많기 때문에 가우시안 스무딩을 적용한 후, 그래프 기반 분할 방법을 사용하여 눈, 입, 눈썹을 분할한다. 코 영역은 각 픽셀에 대해 인접픽셀과의 R 채널의 차이값을 가중치 맵으로 만들고 가중치 맵을 분석하여 영역을 분할한다. 분할된 영역에 사람 얼굴의 기하학적 위치 정보를 이용하여 주요부위를 검출한다. 얼굴의 주요부위를 검출하고 그 부위를 제외한 피부 영역에 잡티 검출 알고리즘을 적용한다. 잡티는 Edge와 색상 정보를 이용하여 검출하고, 잡티주변을 검사하여 잡티가 아닌 깨끗한 피부를 잡티 영역에 복사하여 채워나가는 방식으로 피부 영역을 복원한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.362-373
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• 2015

This study analysed the effectiveness of aluminium(Al) filter in the added compound filtration for the removal of characteristic radiation from high atomic number material by DQE and image evaluation. 1mm Al was applied to each 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 mm copper and befere and after use were evaluated. Beam quality and DQE were tested by IEC regulations and image quality was evaluated by PSNR, MAE, MSE, CNR, SNR and qualitative analysis was performed by 7 items for resolution and contrast from chest x-ray criteria of national cancer checkup. MTF 10 and 50% were the same by 4.6, 2.54 cycle/mm and NPS, DQE, PSNR MAE, MSE, CNR, SNR and qualitative analysis were all the same or slightly better when Al was not used. PSNR is over 30dB and all significant and at the qualitative analysis, the p-value of t-test was over 0.05. The DQE and image quality evaluation have little difference between before and after use of Al filter and it is effective to use the Al filter for the reduction of skin dose by removal of characteristic radiation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.175-184
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• 2023

Based on the actual shape of the detector and the data provided by the manufacturer, the shape of the detector was implemented through Penelope simulation and applied to the appropriate four-layer thickness based on the efficiency obtained from the measurements. Efficiency calculations to determine the effect of the simulated number of Full Energy Peak Efficiency(FEPE) channels in the detector and the outside contact layer in the crystal on the Full Energy Peak Efficiency were performed for various four-layer thicknesses of 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 1.2, and 1.4 mm using the Penelope Code. When the thickness of the external contact layer was increased by 5 times, the Full Energy Peak Efficiency decreased by about 36% for 59.50 keV, and the Full Energy Peak Efficiency decreased by 10% for 1836. In addition, as it increased by 10 times, the Full Energy Peak Efficiency decreased by about 20% for 59.54 keV, and 7% for 1836.01 keV. The Penelope simulated Full Energy Peak Efficiency channel decreases exponentially with the increase in the four layers. In addition, it was confirmed that the total effect curve was well matched with a relative difference of less than 3.5% in the 0.3-1.4 mm dead layer thickness region. However, it was found that the inhomogeneous dead layer is still a parameter in the Monte Carlo model.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.602-611
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• 2002

Recent advances in technology have resulted in rapid growth in mobile communication. With this explosive growth, reliable transmission and error resilient technique become increasingly necessary to offer high quality multimedia service. The success of error resilient techniques at decoder sensitively depends on error detection performance. Therefore, this paper proposes a computationally very simple and efficient error detection technique using fragile watermark for real-time video communication. To balance between image quality degradation and error detection efficiency, fragile watermark is embedded only in least significant bits of selected transform coefficients. The proposed method is workable without additional bit in video bitstream and can be implemented very efficiently. This method will be useful in video communication in error prone environment such as wireless channel.

• Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.335-339
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• 2001

Grapevine leafroll-associated 3 closterovirus (GLRaV-3) is phloem limited virus, and one of the most severe viral diseases found in Korea. However, nonhomogenous distribution and low concentration and seasonal variations of GLRaV-3 in grapevines remain as main problems which prevent the introduction and molecular biology or serology experiments. Virus-infected plantlet in vitro was obtained from node tissue cuttings, which was GLRaV-3 infected 'kyoho' vines. The amount of purified virus was highest in vitro plantlet. Moreover, viruses seem to be relatively homogeneously distributed in all organs including leaf, stem and callus derived from in vitro plantlets. RT-PCR detection using in vitro plantlet tissue as template was most effective. When comparing ELISA to RT-PCR, RT-PCR detection was 1,000 times as effective as ELISA. These results can be explained by improved quality such as tenderness or less tannins in plantlet in vitro. In conclusion, until infected herbaceous host will be available, tissue culture can be usefully adopted as a technique for a good source of GLRaV-3 closterovirus for further studies.