• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.12
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• pp.41-50
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• 1999

In this paper, the new VLSI architecture of a reconstruction filter for morphological image segmentation is proposed. The filter, based on the $h_{max}$ operation, simplifies the interior of each region while preserving the boundary information. The proposed architecture adopts a partitioned memory structure and an efficient image scanning strategy to reduce the operations. The proposed memory partitioning scheme makes it possible that every data required for processing can be read from each memory at a time, resulting in parallel data processing. By the extended connectivity consideration, the operation is much decreased because more simplification is achieved in scanning stage. The selective raster scan strategy endows the satisfactory noise removal capability with negligible hardware complexity increase. The proposed architecture is designed using VHDL, and functional evaluation is performed by the CAD tool, Mentor. The experiment results show that the proposed architecture can simplify image profile with less than 18% operations of the conventional method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.13A no.5 s.102
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• pp.465-472
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• 2006

Recently, many suggestions have been made in image segmentation methods for extracting human organs or disease affected area from huge amounts of medical image datasets. However, images from some areas, such as brain, which have multiple structures with ambiruous structural borders, have limitations in their structural segmentation. To address this problem, clustering technique which classifies voxels into finite number of clusters is often employed. This, however, has its drawback, the influence from noise, which is caused from voxel by voxel operations. Therefore, applying image enhancing method to minimize the influence from noise and to make clearer image borders would allow more robust structural segmentation. This research proposes an efficient structural segmentation method by filtering based clustering to extract detail structures such as white matter, gray matter and cerebrospinal fluid from brain MR. First, coherence enhancing diffusion filtering is adopted to make clearer borders between structures and to reduce the noises in them. To the enhanced images from this process, fuzzy c-means clustering method was applied, conducting structural segmentation by assigning corresponding cluster index to the structure containing each voxel. The suggested structural segmentation method, in comparison with existing ones with clustering using Gaussian or general anisotropic diffusion filtering, showed enhanced accuracy which was determined by how much it agreed with the manual segmentation results. Moreover, by suggesting fine segmentation method on the border area with reproducible results and minimized manual task, it provides efficient diagnostic support for morphological abnormalities in brain.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.478-481
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• 2008

오늘날 비즈니스의 글로벌화, 사업장의 분산화는 필연적으로 영상회의의 활성화를 가져왔으나, 기 구축된 SD(Standard Definition)급 화질의 영상회의는 실감성 및 장시간 사용시 피로감 등에 따른 이용율 저조로 기대 만큼의 성화를 이루지 못하였다. 또한 기존 영상회의 시스템에서의 dec는 보조적 채널, 시스템 조작과 운영의 복잡성, 낮은 해상도로 인한 표정 및 눈짓 등의 요소 포착이 어려운 한계를 극복하지 못하였고, 기업들은 기업 내부 및 국내외 타기업들과의 협업을 위해 막대한 비용과 시간이 요구되고 있는 실정이다. KT는 기존 영상회의 문제 극복을 위해 서울<->대전 연구소간 전용선 연결, 비용 및 여러 site 확장을 위한 VPN으로의 전환 방안등 최상의 영상회의 구축을 위한 검토를 통해 Full HD실감 화질의 영상회의를 구축하였으며, 향후에는 Full HD 데이터 압축 기술 향상 및 데이터 전송 방안에 대한 더 많은 연구가 필요하다고 판단된다. 본 고에서는 KT에서 구축한 영상회의 사례를 중심으로 기본적인 기술과 구조, 국내외 시장의 현황 및 활용 방안에 대해 논하였다.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.333-342
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• 2017

In this study, the heterogeneity of internal structure of various igneous rocks acquired in Korea was quantified and correlated with the seismic velocity and the point load strength. Three-dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) was used to obtain information on the internal structure of the rock specimen, and the representative unit length (LR) was calculated by applying a statistical technique to the CT images. We also proposed an estimation equation to predict the mechanical properties of rocks from the relationship between LR, acoustic velocity and point load strength. In the proposed method, it is shown that the characterization of internal structure of rocks could be utilized as an indirect index to account for the mechanical behavior of rocks by substituting physical laboratory testing for non-destructive test.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.991-1001
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• 2020

Supervised deep learning technologies for improving the image quality of computed tomography (CT) need a lot of training data. When input images have different characteristics with training images, the technologies cause structural distortion in output images. In this study, an imaging model based on the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) was developed for overcoming the drawbacks of the supervised deep learning technologies and reducing noise in CT images. The DRL model was consisted of shared, value and policy networks, and the networks included convolutional layers, rectified linear unit (ReLU), dilation factors and gate rotation unit (GRU) in order to extract noise features from CT images and improve the performance of the DRL model. Also, the quality of the CT images obtained by using the DRL model was compared to that obtained by using the supervised deep learning model. The results showed that the image accuracy for the DRL model was higher than that for the supervised deep learning model, and the image noise for the DRL model was smaller than that for the supervised deep learning model. Also, the DRL model reduced the noise of the CT images, which had different characteristics with training images. Therefore, the DRL model is able to reduce image noise as well as maintain the structural information of CT images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.38-41
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• 2011

최근 HD급 이상의 해상도를 가지는 영상을 위한 차세대 코덱 표준이 연구되고 있다. 이 코덱의 특징은 압축효율을 증가시키기 위해서 시간을 많이 소모시키는 복잡한 툴들을 많이 채택하고 있다는 점이다. 이는 실시간 방송에 대한 부담감으로 작용되기 때문에, 표준을 재정하는 전문가들은 속도 개선을 위한 병렬화 연구 또한 동시에 진행을 하고 있다. 병렬화 방법 중 슬라이스 단위 병렬화와 모듈 내부 병렬화가 대표적으로 논의되고 있지만, 이 두 가지 방법은 각각 시간 지연과 추가 비트 할당이라는 단점이 있기 때문에 이를 극복하기 위한 새로운 병렬화 기법이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 시간 지연과 추가비트 할당을 극복 가능한 병렬화 기법을 연구하였는데, HEVC 코덱의 구조 분석을 통해 어떻게 병렬화 해야 단점을 극복할 수 있는지 알아보고 단점을 극복한 병렬화 기법이 속도 개선을 할 수 있는지 시간 분석을 통해 알아본다. 본 논문에서는 구조 분석을 통해 알아낸 CU 단위 병렬화 기법을 제안하고 CU 단위 병렬화 기법을 HEVC Test model reference software 2.1 decoder에 적용하여 Full HD 영상에 대해 Lowdelay에서 평균 19.83%의 속도 개선을 얻었으며, Randomaccess에서 평균 22.63%의 속도 개선을 얻었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.58-65
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• 2002

In order to reduce blocking artifacts in inter-frame coded images, we propose a new image restoration algorithm, which directly processes differential images before reconstruction. We note that blocking artifact in inter-frame coded images is caused by both 8$\times$8 DCT and 16$\times$16 macroblock based motion compensation, while that of intra-coded images is caused by 8$\times$8 DCT only. According to the observation, we Propose a new degradation model for differential images and the corresponding restoration algorithm that utilizes additional constraints and convex sets for discontinuity inside blocks. The proposed restoration algorithm is a modified version of standard regularization that incorporate!; spatially adaptive lowpass filtering with consideration of edge directions by utilizing a part of DCT coefficients. Most of video coding standard adopt a hybrid structure of block-based motion compensation and block discrete cosine transform (BDCT). By this reason, blocking artifacts are occurred on both block boundary and block interior For more complete removal of both kinds of blocking artifacts, the restored differential image must satisfy two constraints, such as, directional discontinuities on block boundary and block interior Those constraints have been used for defining convex sets for restoring differential images.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.19-27
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• 1995

In this paper, a semi-automated mapping system, which can produ¬ce digital maps by using information acquired from pre-processing procedure, was introduced. To get a binary edge image, which is very important in vectori¬zation process, we applied adaptive smoothing and connection preserving thresho¬Iding algorithm. In mapper program, binary images are converted to vectors and for in-core data structure, extended PR quad tree was used. These procedures are dispatched to personal computers and workstations and through network resource sharing, the whole process was unified and simplified.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.19-30
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• 2009

For the purpose of determining the thickness of concrete lining and detect of the cavity where may be located behind tunnel lining, IE (Impact-Echo) method it effectively useful in the tunnel safety diagnosis and the quality control during the construction. As a part of case study, we applied IE method to various tunnel structure types such as road tunnel and subway tunnel constructed by NATM (New Austrian Tunnelling Method) and ASSM (American Steel Support Method). As tunnel specifications estimated from this method were compared with coring data, design drawing and other survey results, it was very good agreement with each other. In conclusion, we verified that IE method shows an accurate and reliable result. The conventional interpretation of IE method in frequency domain gives only vertical information at a certain point. However, the interpretation using time-frequency analysis and depth section imaging technique from two dimensional profiling surveys can show more reliable information about structure inside.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07g
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• pp.3153-3155
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• 1999

최근 수년간 의료영상분야는 국내외적으로 급격한 발전을 거듭하고 있다. 특히 자기공명영상장치 (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), X-ray CT(Computed Tomography)와 단층촬영장치는 인체내부를 비침습적(non-invasive)으로 영상화함으로써 해부학적인 질병진단에 많은 장점을 가지고 있다. 이와같은 단층영상 재구성에는 역매트릭스법(matrix inversion). 반복재구성법(interative method), 역투영 법(back-projection), 2차원 Fourier 변환법(2D FFT), 중첩재구성법(Filtered back-projection) 등의 다양한 알고리즘을 사용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 X-ray CT에서의 단층영상재구성 기법 중 널리 사용되고 있는 Filtered Back Projection 기법의 연산순서도와 연산량을 분석하고 이를 시뮬레이션을 통하여 확인하고 실시간 영상재구성을 위하여 범용 Digital Signal Processor의 병렬처리시스템 구성에 기반된 최적 Architecture를 선정하고자 한다.