• Spatial Information Research
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.11-19
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• 2013

Compared with traditional video monitoring systems that provide a video-recording function as a main service, an intelligent video monitoring system is capable of extracting/tracking objects and detecting events such as car accidents, traffic congestion, pedestrian detection, and so on. Thus, the object tracking is an essential function for various intelligent video monitoring and surveillance systems. In this paper, we propose a background and local histogram-based object tracking approach for intelligent video monitoring systems. For robust object tracking in a live situation, the result of optical flow and local histogram verification are combined with the result of background subtraction. In the proposed approach, local histogram verification allows the system to track target objects more reliably when the local histogram of LK position is not similar to the previous histogram. Experimental results are provided to show the proposed tracking algorithm is robust in object occlusion and scale change situation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.969-972
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 생체측정학(Biometrics)중 홍채 패턴을 이용하여 개인 인증과 확인을 할 수 있는 알고리듬을 개발하고 구현하였다. 사람의 홍채는 태어날 때 한번 정해지면 평생 변화하지 않으며, 개개인 별로 모양이 모두 다른 것으로 알려져 있다. 이런, 홍채 특징을 이용하여, 본 논문에서는 홍채영상 취득 시 조명에 의한 밝기 변화에 불변하고, 회전에 불변한 DFT 계수를 이용하였으며, correlation 계수를 이용하여 유사도를 측정하였다. 또한 개개인을 대표할 수 있는 기준데이터(code book)를 만들어 실험하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.152-152
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• 2000

차세대 평판 디스플레이로 주목박고 있는 FED는 현재 저전압 환경에서 기존의 CRT와 비슷한 해상도와 밝기를 얻지 못하고 있다. 이는 형광체 입자의 표면에 존재하는 결함, 오염, band - bonding과 같은 비발광층과 제조공정 중에 산화되거나 공기중에 노출되어 막 표면이 쉽게 오염되기 때문이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 전기영동법으로 제작된 형광체의 효율 향상을 위해 레이저 표면 처리효과를 연구하였다. 실험에 사용한 레이저 표면처리 방법은 Nd:YAG pulse(355nm), continuous laser를 이용하였으며 레이저 power와 처리 시간을 변화시키면서 실시하였다. 형광체 막의 표면 두께 측정을 위해 Scanning Electron Microscopy(SEM), 처리된 막의 발광세기를 비교 분석하기 위해 Photoluminescence(PL), Cathodoluminescence(CL) intensity를 측정하였다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.321-325
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• 1998

This paper presents a simple, practical, and efficient method for estimating the speed of sound in reflection mode in ultrasound medical imaging. Its accurate determination is indispensable in order to obtain both good resolution and correct geometrical and volumetric information about human organs such as heart and kidney. Up to now, there have been several methods available, but they all suffer from either poor performance or high complexity. The proposed method finds out an optimum focusing delay profile in such a way that the brightness in a region of interest is maximized using continuous dynamic focusing in receive under fixed transmit focusing. Experiments carried out on a real ultrasound medical phantom reveals that the method a quite simple and effective in providing good speed of sound estimation, hence improved resolution and images, adding to dignostic utility.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.287-293
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• 2012

This paper presents an efficient image registration method by measuring the similarity, which is based on multi-dimensional intensity fluctuation. Multi-dimensional intensity which considers 4 directions of the image, is applied to reflect more properties in similarity decision. And an intensity fluctuation is also applied to measure comprehensively the similarity by considering a change in brightness between the adjacent pixels of image. The normalized cross-correlation(NCC) is calculated by considering an intensity fluctuation to each of 4 directions. The 5 correlation coefficients based on the NCC have been used to measure the registration, which are total NCC, the arithmetical mean and a simple product on the correlation coefficient of each direction and on the normalized correlation coefficient by the maximum NCC, respectively. The proposed method has been applied to the problem for registrating the 22 face images of 243*243 pixels and the 9 person images of 500*500 pixels, respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a superior registration performance that appears the image properties well. Especially, the arithmetical mean on the correlation coefficient of each direction is the best registration measure.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.69-78
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• 2007

The international EARTHSHINE mission is to measure 1% anomaly of the Earth global albedo and total solar irradiance using Amon-Ra instrument around Lagrange point 1. We developed a new ray truing based integrated end-to-end simulation tool that overcomes the shortcomings of the existing end-to-end performance simulation techniques. We then studied the in-orbit radiometric performance of the breadboard Anon-Ra visible channel optical system. The TSI variation and the Earth albedo anomaly, reported elsewhere, were used as the key input variables in the simulation. The output flux at the instrument focal plane confirms that the integrated ray tracing based end-to-end science simulation delivers the correct level of incident power to the Amon-Ra instrument well within the required measurement error budget of better than ${\pm}0.28%$. Using the global angular distribution model (ADM), the incident flux is then used to estimate the Earth global albedo and the TSI variation, confirming the validity of the primary science cases at the L1 halo orbit. These results imply that the integrated end-to-end ray tracing technique, reported here, can serve as an effective and powerful building block of the on-line science analysis tool in support of the international EARTHSHINE mission currently being developed.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.9-15
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• 2013

Calculating of matching cost is an important for efficient stereo matching. To investigate the performance of matching process, the concepts of the existing methods are introduced. Also we analyze the performance and merits of them. The simplest matching costs assume constant intensities at matching image locations. We consider matching cost functions which can be distinguished between pixel-based and window-based approaches. The Pixel-based approach includes absolute differences (AD) and sampling-intensitive absolute differences (BT). The window-based approach includes the sum of the absolute differences, the sum of squared differences, the normalized cross-correlation, zero-mean normalized cross-correlation, census transform, and the absolute differences census transform (AD-Census). We evaluate matching cost functions in terms of accuracy and time complexity. In terms of the accuracy, AD-Census method shows the lowest matching error ratio (the best solution). The ZNCC method shows the lowest matching error ratio in non-occlusion and all evaluation part. But it performs high matching error ratio at the discontinuities evaluation part due to blurring effect in the boundary. The pixel-based AD method shows a low complexity in terms of time complexity.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.465-468
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• 2000

얼굴 영상은 똑같은 표정의 같은 사람이라도 조명에 따라 매우 다른 얼굴 영상으로 나타난다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 조명 변화에 강인한 얼굴 인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 오프라인 훈련(off-line training)과 온라인 인식(on-line recognition)의 두 부분으로 이루어져 있다. 오프라인 훈련은 PCA(principal component analysis)를 기반으로 한다. 온라인 인식에서는 조명 변화에 대한 보상, 얼굴 특징의 추출, 그리고 인식을 위한 분류 과정의 3 단계로 구성되어 있다. 오프라인 훈련에서는 전체 훈련 얼굴 영상 데이터에 PCA를 적용하여 조명 변화가 최대한 제외된 특징 벡터 공간을 생성한다. 실제 인식 단계에서는 첫 번째로 입력 영상으로 들어온 얼굴 영상에서 조명의 영향을 보상하기 위해 준동형 필터링(homomorphic filtering) 후 밝기 정규화(normalization)를 취한다. 두 번째 단계에서는 입력 데이터의 차원을 줄이고 얼굴 특징 벡터를 구하기 위해 PCA를 수행한다. 마지막 과정으로서 입력 영상의 특징 벡터들과 오프라인에서 미리 구하여진 특징 벡터들의 유사도를 측정하여 얼굴을 인식하게 된다. 실험 결과 제안된 방법은 기존의 Eigenface 방법에 비해 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.165-166
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• 2007

특수 분장을 이용하여 매우 정교하게 제작된 가면을 쓴 얼굴 위변조의 경우 일반적인 밝기 영상으로는 검출이 용이하지 않다. 최근의 획기적인 특수 분장 기술 발전을 고려할 때 성공적인 얼굴 인식시스템 개발을 위해 가면을 쓴 얼굴 위변조 검출 연구는 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 물질의 재질에 따른 반사율의 차이를 기반으로 가면을 착용하는 얼굴 위변조를 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 우선 알비도(albedo)에 착안하여 여러 파장대의 조명에 대해 실험하였다. 실제 얼굴 인식 시스템의 적용 환경을 고려할 때 알비도를 단순히 빛의 반사량으로 간략화 할 수 있음을 보였고, 실험결과 850nm 적외선 조명이 적합하다는 결론을 얻었다.

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.521-530
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine the physicochemical and antioxidant properties of cookies with mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) and black soybean powder. The leavening rates, and loss ratios were significantly increased with adding up the amount of mealworm powder (p < 0.05). The total polyphenol, DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging ability, FRAP activity (ferric reducing antioxidant power) and ABTS radical scavenging ability (2,2'-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) were all significantly increased as mealworm powder contents increased. In addition, cookies containing both mealworm and black soybean powder were higher in total polyphenol, DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging abilities than cookies containing only mealworm powder (p < 0.05).