• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.42-47
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• 2012

In this paper, Acousto-Optical tomography is modeled by a linear integral equation and an inverse problem involving a diffusion equation in n-spatial dimensions. We make two-step mathematical model. First, we solve a linear integral equation. Assuming the optical energy fluence rate has been recovered from the previous equation, the absorption coefficient ${\mu}$ is then reconstructed by solving an inverse problem. Numerical experiments are presented for the case n=2. The traditional gradient descent method is used for the numerical simulations. The result of the gradient descent method produces the blurring effect. To get rid of the blurring effect, we suggest the total variation regularization for the minimization problem.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.449-463
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• 2015

Video object tracking is important for variety of applications, such as security, video indexing and retrieval, video surveillance, communication, and compression. This paper proposes an object tracking method in HEVC bitstreams. Without pixel reconstruction, motion vector (MV) and size of prediction unit in the bitstream are employed in an Spatio-Temporal Markov Random Fields (ST-MRF) model which represents the spatial and temporal aspects of the object's motion. Coefficient-based object shape adjustment is proposed to solve the over-segmentation and the error propagation problems caused in other methods. In the experimental results, the proposed method provides on average precision of 86.4%, recall of 79.8% and F-measure of 81.1%. The proposed method achieves an F-measure improvement of up to 9% for over-segmented results in the other method even though it provides only average F-measure improvement of 0.2% with respect to the other method. The total processing time is 5.4ms per frame, allowing the algorithm to be applied in real-time applications.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.670-675
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• 2012

If the region of interest (ROI) is set within the picture of image and video and the high quality is provided in ROI compared to Non ROI, then overall subjective picture quality can be increased. ROI extracted by the color camera only increases the calculation complexity and reduces the extraction accuracy. In this paper, we use depth camera to set the ROI and calculate the object distance from camera, then propose a method that the different picture quality is controlled by depending on the distance of an object. That is, we apply a high quantization step size to the far object, but relatively a low quantization step size to the close object, so better picture quality can be provided. Simulation results show that applying the differential quantization step size to the distance of objects by the proposed method can improve the subjective picture quality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.10C
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• pp.1414-1424
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• 2004

In this paper, an algorithm using wavelet transform for detecting a cut that is a radical scene transition point, and fade and dissolve that are gradual scene transition points is proposed. The conventional methods using wavelet transform for this purpose is using features in both spatial and frequency domain. But in the proposed algorithm, the color space of an input image is converted to YUV and then luminance component Y is transformed in frequency domain using 2-level lifting. Then, the histogram of only low frequency subband that may contain some spatial domain features is compared with the previous one. Edges obtained from other higher bands can be divided into global, semi-global and local regions and the histogram of each edge region is compared. The experimental results show the performance improvement of about 17% in recall and 18% in precision and also show a good performance in fade and dissolve detection.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.375-375
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• 2023

본 연구는 농지를 대상으로 토양수분 및 가뭄 현황을 분석하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 토양수분을 파악하기 위해 Terra MODIS(Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) 위성영상기반의 토양수분 산정모형을 개발하였다. 해당 모형은 MODIS LST(Land Surface Temperature) 및 NDVI(Normalized Difference Deficit Index)를 기반으로 SCS-CN(Soil Conservation Service-Curve Number) 방법에서 착안한 수문학적 개념 5일 선행강우 및 무강우일수를 입력자료로 하며, 토양 종류 및 계절에 따른 토양수분의 특성을 고려하였다. 모형의 개발을 위해 MODIS LST 및 NDVI 영상을 2013년부터 2022년까지 각각 일별 및 16일 단위로 구축하였으며, 동 기간에 대해 전국 88개소의 기상청 종관기상관측소의 강수량 및 LST 자료를 수집하였다. MODIS LST는 실측 LST 자료를 활용해 조건부합성기법을 적용하여 상세화하였고, 수집된 강수량자료는 역거리가중법을 활용해 공간 보간을 수행하였다. 토양특성의 구분은 농촌진흥청에서 정밀토양도를 수집하여 활용하였다. 공간 분포된 토양수분에서 농지에 해당하는 토양수분을 추출하기 위해 스마트팜맵을 구축하고, 농지 속성에 해당하는 위치 정보를 조회 후 이를 시군구별로 평균하여 일별 평균 토양수분값을 산정하였다. 토양수분 기반의 가뭄 현황 분석을 위해 구축된 정밀토양도에서 작물 생장과 관련된 영구위조점 및 포장용수량을 활용해 5단계(정상, 관심, 주의, 경계, 심각)의 가뭄 위험도를 산정하였으며, 실제 가뭄 현황과의 비교를 통해 토양수분기반의 가뭄 위험도의 실효성을 검증하고자 한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.1142-1149
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• 2004

Motion Estimation(ME) has been developed to reduce temporal redundancy in digital video signals and increase data compression ratio. ME is an Important part of video encoding systems, since it can significantly affect the output quality of encoded sequences. However, ME requires high computational complexity, it is difficult to apply to real time video transmission. for this reason, motion estimation algorithms with low computational complexity are viable solutions. In this paper, we present an efficient method with low computational complexity based on spatial and temporal correlations of motion vectors. The proposed method uses temporally and spatially correlated motion information, the motion vector of the block with the same coordinate in the reference frame and the motion vectors of neighboring blocks around the current block in the current frame, to decide the search pattern and the location of search starting point adaptively. Experiments show that the image quality improvement of the proposed method over MVFAST (Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique) and PMVFAST (Predictive Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique) is 0.01～0.3(dB) better and the speedup improvement is about 1.12～l.33 times faster which resulted from lower computational complexity.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.6
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• pp.575-584
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• 2008

According to the network condition, the communication network overload could be occurred when media transmitting. Many researches are being carried out to lessen the network overload, such as the filtering, load distributing, frame dropping and many other methods. Among these methods, one of effective method is frame dropping that reduces specified video frames for bandwidth diminution. B frames are dropped and then I, P frames are dropped according to dependency among the frames in frame dropping. This paper proposes a scheme for protecting copyrights by encryption, when we apply frame dropping to reduce bandwidth of media following MPEG-4 file format. We designed two kinds of frame dropping: first one stores and then sends the dropped files and the other drops frames in real-time when transmitting. We designed three kinds of encryption methods in which DES algorithm is used to encrypt MPEG-4 data: macro block encryption in I-VOP, macro block and motion vector encryption in P-VOP, and macro block and motion vector encryption in I, P-VOP. Based on these three methods, we implemented a digital right management solution for MPEG-4 data streaming. We compared the results of dropping, encryption, decryption and quality of video sequences to select an optimal method, and there is no noticeable difference between the video sequences recovered after frame dropping and the ones recovered without frame dropping. The best performance in encryption and decryption of frames was obtained when we apply the macro block and motion vector encryption in I, P-VOP.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.17-22
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• 2010

최근 들어 3D에 관한 관심이 높아지면서 각종 기술적인 이슈는 물론 3D 콘텐츠의 제작 방향에 대한 논의가 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 흔히들 3D 콘텐츠라고 부르는 것은 현재로선 어떤 특정한 장르나 엄정한 정의를 가진 용어라기보다는 일종의 새로운 매체기술을 위한, 매체 기준적인 콘텐츠의 분류 형태라고 볼 수 있을 것이다. 따라서 3D 콘텐츠라는 용어를 새로이 썼다고 해서 좋은 콘텐츠가 지녀야 할 근본적인 요소가 달라지는 것은 아니다. 물론 매체의 발전과 변화에 따라 대중들의 가치관, 예술적 시대적 패러다임, 근본적인 인간의 생활방식까지 바뀔 수 있다는 것은 자명한 사실이다. 이는 회화 문화에서 사진의 등장으로, 사진에서 동영상으로, 영화에서 TV와 비디오로, 그리고 아날로그에서 디지털로의 중심 이동이 인간의 삶에 얼마나 큰 변화를 초래했는지만 상기해봐도 쉽게 알 수 있다. 그러므로 3D기술이 가진 파급효과와 영향력이 어디까지인지 쉽게 단정할 수는 없는 것이다. 그러나 언급했듯이 어떤 콘텐츠라도 결국엔 인간이 향유하리란 점은 분명한 사실이다. 현재는 3D 콘텐츠의 제작 방향에 대해서 지나치게 매체 중심적으로 접근하려는 경향이 있는데, 역사적으로 언제나 인간에게 매력적이었던 콘텐츠의 기본은 변함이 없었다. 변하는 것은 오히려 매체나 기술, 하드웨어 쪽이었다. 따라서 콘텐츠를 매체에 이식하는 가변적인 내용물쯤으로 이해하는 기술중심의 사고에서, 인간이 근본적으로 원하는 이야기 콘텐츠를 구현하기 위해 매체가 변해왔다는 점을 이해해야 하는 콘텐츠 중심 사고도 할 필요가 있는 것이다. 본고에서는 과거 많은 매체들의 역사를 통해 새로운 매체 기반에서의 콘텐츠의 모습이 어떻게 변해왔는지를 되짚어 보려고 하며, 이를 통해 앞으로 3D 콘텐츠의 향방을 유추해 볼 기회를 마련하고자 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.49-58
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• 2014

This paper proposes a new assessment and reliability validation method of Lane Departure Assistance System based on DGPS-GIS by measuring lanes with camera vision. Assessment of lane departure is performed with yaw speed measurement and determination method for false alarm of ISO 17361 and performance validation is executed after generating departure warning boundary line by considering deviation error of LDAS using DGPS. Distance between the wheel and the lane is obtained through line abstraction using Hough transformation of the lane image with camera vision. Evaluation validation is obtained by comparing this value with the distance obtained with LDAS. The experimental result shows that the error of the extracted distance of the LDAS is within 5 cm. Also it proves performance of LDAS based on DGPS-GIS and assures effectiveness of the proposed validation method for system reliability using camera vision.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.1415-1422
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• 2019

Background subtraction is the major task of computer vision and image processing to detect changes in video. The best performing background subtraction is computationally expensive that cannot be used in real time in a typical computing environment. The proposed algorithm improves the background subtraction algorithm of the widely used MOG with the image resizing algorithm. The proposed image resizing algorithm is designed to drastically reduce the amount of computation and to utilize local information, which is robust against noise such as camera movement. Experimental results of the proposed algorithm have a classification capability that is close to the state of the art background subtraction method and the processing speed is more than 10 times faster.