• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.587-590
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 고정점 알고리즘의 독립성분분석을 이용한 얼굴인식을 제안하였다. 여기서 고정점 알고리즘은 뉴우턴법에 기초한 것으로 빠른 인식을 위함이고, 독립성분분석의 이용은 통계적으로 독립인 기저영상을 효과적으로 추출하기 위함이다. 제안된 기법을 Yale 얼굴영상 데이터베이스로부터 선택된 20개의 $320{\ast}243$ 픽셀의 영상을 대상으로 시뮬레이션한 결과, 주요성분의 개수에 따른 압축성능과 city-block, Euclidian, 그리고 negative angie의 거리척도에 따른 분류에서 우수한 인식성능이 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.563-569
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• 2004

A set of Zernike moments has been successfully used for object recognition or content-based image retrieval systems. Real time applications using Zernike moments, however, have been limited due to its complicated definition. Conventional methods to compute Zernike moments fast have focused mainly on the radial components of the moments. In this paper, utilizing symmetric/anti-symmetric properties of Zernike basis functions, we propose a fast and efficient method for Zernike moments. By reducing the number of operations to one quarter of the conventional methods in the proposed method, the computation time to generate Zernike basis functions was reduced to about 20% compared with conventional methods. In addition, the amount of memory required for efficient computation of the moments is also reduced to a quarter. We also showed that the algorithm can be extended to compute the similar classes of rotational moments, such as pseudo-Zernike moments, and ART descriptors in same manner.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.150-156
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• 2008

An applied technique of contrast enhancement for X-ray image is proposed which is based on combined enhancement of scaling and wavelet coefficients in discrete wavelet transform space. Conventional contrast enhancement methods such as contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE), multi-scale image contrast amplification (MUSICA) and gamma correction were applied on scaling coefficients to enhance the contrast of an original. In order to enhance the detail as well as reduce the blurring caused by up scaling of contrast modified scale coefficients from lower resolution, the sigmoid manipulation function was used to manipulate wavelet coefficients. The contrast detail mammography (CDMAM) phantom was imaged and processed to measure the image line profile of results and contrast to noise ratio (CNR) comparatively. The proposed technique produced better results than direct application of various contrast enhancement methods on image itself. The proposed method can enhance contrast, and also suppress the amplification of noise components in a single process. It could be useful for various applications in medical, industrial and graphical images where contrast and detail are of importance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.249-252
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• 2003

본 논문은 컬러 영상을 명암도에 따른 공간적 객체 분할인 YIQ 모델을 사용하여 객체 분할한 영상의 임계값에 따른 적응적 형태학을 이용하여 영상의 경계면을 레벨 업시킨 후, 이를 웨이브렛에 적용하여 최적의 에지를 검출하였다. 또한, 흑백 영상보다 더 많은 더 정보를 가진컬러 영상을 사용하여, 기존의 영상 에지 검출 알고리즘인 Sobel 에지 검출과 다른 웨이브렛기저 계수를 적용한 에지 검출 방법과 비교하고, 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 다른 에지 검출보다 우수함을 확인하였다. 특히 에지와 에지의 부분이 가까울 때 정확한 에지를 검출하였으며, 완만한 곡선을 가지고 있는 부분에서 더 우수한 결과 에지를 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.7C
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• pp.663-670
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose the image encryption method which gradually uses NFSR(Non-linear Feedback Shift Register) and 20 CAT(Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata Transform). The encryption method is processed in the following order. First, NFSR is used to create a PN(pseudo noise) sequence, which matches the size of the original image. Then, the created sequence goes through a XOR operation with the original image and process the encipherment. Next, the gateway value is set to produce a 20 CAT basis function. The produced basis function is multiplied by encryption image that has been converted to process the 20 CAT encipherment. Lastly, the results of the experiment which are key space analysis, entropy analysis, and sensitivity analysis verify that the proposed method is efficient and very secure.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.659-662
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• 2000

다양한 보간 기법을 정리해 보고 이를 통해서 기존의 보간 기법의 한계를 고찰해 본다. 보간의 효율성과 보간 결과 영상의 화질과는 Trade off 관계가 있으며, 이를 적절한 수준에서 결정하는 것은 중요한 문제이다. 본 논문에서는 Quadratic B-spline을 기저 함수로 하는 윤곽보존형 보간 필터를 사용한 영상확대 알고리즘을 제안한다. Unser의 Cardinal Cubic spline함수에 비해 적은 하드웨어만으로도 이상적인 저역 통과 필터의 특성을 가지며, 입력영상의 윤곽의 방향성을 고려한 적응적인 보간 기법의 적용으로 화질이 우수한 영상확대 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an auto-detection algorithm of basal cell carcinoma(BCC) from the protophorphyrin IX(PpIX) fluorescence image induced by appling the methyl 5-aminolaevulinate(MAL) ointment-induced protophorphyrin IX(PpIX) to the skin tumour area and then shining the wood lamp on the area. The proposed algorithm first generates 3 mask areas-tumor area, suspected tumor area and tumor free area and then applies local watershed algorithm to the turner and the suspected tumor areas to make small watershed regions that include similar luminance value pixels. Next, small watershed regions are merged by hierarchical queue based fast region merging that uses the difference between the average luminance values of adjacent watershed regions as a region merging criterion and finally BCC regions are detected. 50 tissue samples are acquired from the tumour regions of 10 patients with BCC that are extracted by using the proposed algorithm and are performed pathological examination by expert dermatologist. Experiment result shows the rate of tumor detection from BCC lesion using presurgical in vivo of MAL-indeuced PpIX fluorescence has high sensitivity 94.1% and relatively high specificity 82.6%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.17-25
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• 2007

In most electronic imaging applications, image with high resolution(HR) are desired. HR means that pixel density within an image is high, and therefore HR image can offer more details that may be critical in various applications. Digital images that are captured by CCD and CMOS cameras usually have a very low resolution, which significantly limits the performance of image recognition systems. Image super-resolution techniques can be applied to overcome the limits of these imaging systems. Super-resolution techniques have been proposed to increase the resolution by combining information from multiple images. To techniques were consisted of the registration algorithm for estimation and shift, the nearest neighbor interpolation using weight of acquired frames and presented frames. In this paper, it is proposed the image interpolation techniques using the wavelet base function. This is applied to embody a correct edge image and natural image when expend part of the still image by applying the wavelet base function coefficient to the conventional Super-Resolution interpolation method. And the proposal algorithm in this paper is confirmed to improve the image applying the nearest neighbor interpolation algorithm, bilinear interpolation algorithm.,bicubic interpolation algorithm through the computer simulation.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.330-338
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• 1997

This study investigated the method to adjust acquisition time(a) and injection dose (i) to make the best basal and subtraction images in consecutive SPECT. Image quality was assumed to be mainly affected by signal to noise ratio(S/N). Basal image was subtracted from the second image consecutively acquired at the same position. We calculated S/N ratio in basal SPECT images($S_1/N_1$) and subtraction SPECT images(Ss/Ns) to find a(time) and i(dose) to maximize S/N of both images at the same time. From phantom images, we drew the relation of image counts and a(time) and i(dose) in our system using fanbeam-high-resolution collimated triple head SPECT. Noise by imaging process depended on Poisson distribution. We took maximum tolerable duration of consecutive acquisition as 30 minutes and maximum injectible dose as 1,850MBq(50 mCi)(sum of two injections) per study. Counts of second-acquired image($S_2$), counts($S_s$) and noise($N_s$) of subtraction SPECT were as follows. $C_1$ was the coefficient of measurement with our system. $$S_2=S_1{\cdot}(\frac{30-a}{a})+background{\cdot}(1-\frac{30-a}{a})+C_1{\cdot}(30-a){\cdot}{\epsilon}{\cdot}(50-i)$$ $$Ss=S_2-\{S_1{\cdot}(\frac{30-a}{a})+background{\cdot}(1-\frac{(30-a)}{a})\}$$ $$Ns={\sqrt{N_2^2+N_1^2{\cdot}\frac{(30-a)^2}{a^2}}={\sqrt{S_2+S_1{\cdot}\frac{(30-a)^2}{a^2}}$$ In case of rest/acetazolamide study, effect(${\epsilon}$) of acetazolamide to increase global brain uptake of Tc-99m-HMPAO could be 1.5 or less. Varying ${\epsilon}$ from 1 to 1.5, a(time) and i(dose) pair to maximize both $S_1/N_l$ and Ss/Ns was determined. 15 mCi/17 min and 35mCi/13min was the best a(time) and i(dose) pair for rest/acetazolamide study(when ${\epsilon}$ were 1.2) and came to be used for our clinical routine after this study. We developed simple method to maximize S/N ratios of basal and subtraction SPECT from consecutive acquisition. This method could be applied to ECD/HMPAO and brain activation studies as well as rest/acetazolamide studies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.661-664
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• 2002

실사 영상에 가상 객체를 합성하기 위해서는 실사 영상 촬영 당시의 카메라 정보가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 카메라 정보를 구하기 위하여 가상현실 분야에서 사용하고 있는 캘리브레이션 프리 정합 (Calibration-Free Registration) 기술을 기반으로 한 반자동 정합 기술을 제안하였다. 가상 현실은 실시간 응용인데 반하여 본 논문에서 제안하는 반자동 정합 기술은 합성 컨텐츠 저작을 위한 오프라인 응용에 적합한 방법으로 캘리브레이션 프리 정합기술의 합성 결과는 사용자의 입력정보와 밀접한 관계가 있다. 캘리브레이션 프리 정합기술은 두가지 사용자 입력을 필요로 한다. 첫번째 입력은 어파인공간 (Affine space)의 기저 (Basis vector)를 위한 특징점 정보이고, 두번째 입력 정보는 가상객체의 영상 투영점 입력이다. 본 논문에서는 이 두가지 사용자 입력중 기저를 위한 특징점 정보입력을 사용자가 쉽게, 정확한 정보를 입력할 수 있게하기 위하여, 사용자가 특징점을 개략적으로 입력하게 하고, 주변 영역에서 코너점 검출을 수행하여 사용자 입력을 수정하여 받아들리는 방법을 제안하였다. 실험결과 제안한 방법을 사용하여 구한 카메라 정보로 만족할 만한 합성 영상을 얻을 수 있었다.