• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.342-352
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• 2014

This paper proposes an automatic segmentation method of cortical bone and trabecular bone and describes an implementation of structural analysis method of trabecular bone in micro-CT images. The proposed segmentation method extract bone region with binarization using a threshold value. Next, it finds adjacent contour lines from outer boundary line into inward direction and sets candidate regions of cortical bone. Next it remove cortical bone region by finding the candidate cortical region of which the average pixel value is maximum. We implemented the method which computes four structural indicators BV/TV, Tb.Th, Tb.Sp, Tb.N by using VTK(Visualization ToolKit) and sphere fitting algorithm. We applied the implemented method to twenty proximal femur of mouses and compared with the manual segmentation method. Experimental result shows that the average error rates between the proposed segmentation method and the manual segmentation method are less than 3% for the four structural indicatiors. This result means that the proposed method can be used instead of the combersome and time consuming manual segmentation method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.117-128
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• 2001

In order to achieve optimal retrieval, i.e., to find the best match to a query according to a certain similarity measure, the exhaustive search should be performed literally for all the images in a database. However, the straightforward exhaustive search algorithm is computationally expensive in large image databases. To reduce its heavy computational cost, this paper presents a fast exhaustive multi-resolution search algorithm based on image database clustering. Firstly, the proposed algorithm partitions the whole image data set into a pre-defined number of clusters having similar feature contents. Next, for a given query, it checks the lower bound of distances in each cluster, eliminating disqualified clusters. Then, it only examines the candidates in the remaining clusters. To alleviate unnecessary feature matching operations in the search procedure, the distance inequality property is employed based on a multi-resolution data structure. The proposed algorithm realizes a fast exhaustive multi-resolution search for either the best match or multiple best matches to the query. Using luminance histograms as a feature, we prove that the proposed algorithm guarantees optimal retrieval with high searching speed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.77-87
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a disparity correction technique to reduce the inherent visual discomfort while watching stereoscopic videos. The visual discomfort must be solved for commercial 3D display systems to provide natural stereoscopic videos to human eyes. The proposed disparity correction technique consists of horizontal and vertical disparity corrections. The horizontal disparity correction is implemented by controlling the depth budget of stereoscopic video using the geometric relations of a stereoscopic camera system. In addition, the vertical disparity correction is implemented by using a feature-based stereo matching algorithm. Conventional vertical disparity corrections have been done by only using camera calibration parameters, which still cause systematic errors in vertical disparities. In this paper, we minimize the vertical disparity as small as possible by using a feature-based correction algorithm. Through the comparisons of conventional feature-based correction algorithms, we analyze the performance of the proposed technique.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.300-312
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• 2009

An indoor location-based service cannot be realized unless the indoor positioning problem is solved. However, the cost-effective indoor positioning systems are suffering from their inaccurateness. This paper proposes a map information-based correction method for the indoor positioning systems. Using our Kalman filter with map information-based appropriate parameter values, our method estimates the track of the moving object, then it performs the Frechet Distance-based map matching on the obtained track. After that it applies our real time correction method. In order to verify efficiency of our method, we also provide our test results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.1663-1674
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a new watermarking technique for copyright protection of stereo image. The proposed technique embeds watermark to the region which corresponds to occlusion of the disparity map to be extracted by the proposed stereo matching and the frequency coefficient with the appropriate value. We use discrete wavelet transform for frequency transform tool. The proposed algorithm consists of stereo matching, watermark rearrange, mark space selection, and watermark embedding/extracting. We tested the experiment about 4 stereo images which are from Middlebury site. We embedded the watermark to 4 stereo images and extracted it from the images after attacks. We also visually analyzed the watermark embedding images in 3D TV environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.35-38
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• 2005

압축된 영상의 비트스트림에 오류가 발생할 경우 영상을 원할 때 심각한 왜곡이 발생하고, 이 때문에 멀티미디어 서비스에서 오류 보상 방법은 더욱 중요한 기술로 대두되고 있다. 기존의 연속된 블록을 복원하는 Hsia방법에서는 상하에 인접한 블록의 경계면에 따라 화소 값을 비교하고 정합벡터를 구하였다. 이와 같이 구해지 정합벡터는 주변 블록의 에지 분포에 대한 고려가 배제되기 때문에 정확한 블록의 복원을 이루어낼 수 없다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 주변 블록의 에지 분포를 고려한다. 오류 블록을 중심으로 상단과 하단의 에지 분포를 고려하여 에지 방향으로 보간한다. 이때 에지 검출을 위해 Sobel 연산자를 이용하고 그 임계값은(Just-Noticeable-Distortion)/MND(Minimally- Noticeable Distortion)로 한다. 에지의 뭉개짐 현상을 막기 위하여 상단 블록과 하단 블록에 에지가 존재 하지 않을 때와 존재할 때를 구분해서 보간한다. 연속된 블록에 발생한 오류를 제안하는 방법으로 보상 할 경우 PSNR이 최대 2dB이상 향상된다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 1995

The microwave absorbing characteristics and complex permeability of $Ni_{2-x}Zn_{x}Y$ - rubber composites with variation of composition and particle size were investigated. With a ferrite particle with a diameter of about $1\mu\textrm{m}$, only spin rotational resonance was observed. This behavior probably due to the particle being sufficiently small to approach single domain characteristics so that only spin rotations can occur. The first matching frequency, found in $Ni_{2-x}Zn_{x}Y$ - rubber composites, which was higher than that of spin rotational resonance, increased with spin rotational resonance frequency. It is also found that the second matching frequency is independent of spin rotational resonance frequency. Based on these findings, it could be concluded that the microwave absorbing characteristics were caused by only one type of resonance, the spin rotational resonance.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.87-93
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• 1993

The motion response of a ship moored in a rectangular harbor excited by long waves has been studied theoretically and experimentally. Experiments are performed in a shallow basin. A ship model is set moored by soft springs at various positions in a model harbor subjected to regular waves with period ranging from 2 to 3 seconds. Wave and ship responses are measured and compared with theory. It is found that theoretical results agree qualitatively with experimental results. The main source of quantitative discrepancies is presumably due to real fluid effects such as separation at the harbor entrance and friction on harbor boundaries.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.53-58
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• 2012

In this paper, we evaluate and analyze representative estimation methods for the sparse channel. In order to evaluate error performance of matching pursuit(MP) and minimum mean square error(MMSE) algorithm, lower bound of MMSE is determined by Cramer-Rao bound and compared with upper bound of MP. Based on analysis of those bounds, mean square error of MP which is effective in the estimation of sparse channel can be larger than that of MMSE according to the number of estimated tap and signal-to-noise ratio. Simulation results show that the performances of both algorithm are reversed on the sparse channel with Rayleigh fading according to signal-to-noise ratio.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.765-774
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a point cloud matching algorithm for multiple RGB-D cameras. In general, computer vision is concerned with the problem of precisely estimating camera position. Existing 3D model generation methods require a large number of cameras or expensive 3D cameras. In addition, the conventional method of obtaining the camera external parameters through the two-dimensional image has a large estimation error. In this paper, we propose a method to obtain coordinate transformation parameters with an error within a valid range by using depth image and function optimization method to generate omni-directional three-dimensional model using 8 low-cost RGB-D cameras.