• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.231-237
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• 2008

One of the basic requirements for the most advanced countries would be the well-planned traffic infrastructures. For such traffic safety systems, foreign countries follow the current tendency to which they manage the traffic facilities and equipments based on the objective assessment for the state of every traffic safety facility in terms of Asset Management(AM). As the road safety facilities related among them are very diverse, and their functions are very important as well, the regulations and directions for installing them are enacted. However, despite the standards and directions for the installations, sometimes, the facilities are not installed in accordance with the standards, not only causing inconvenience to the users but also negatively affecting the safety for them. In the study, for the facilities in which the installation interval and height are standardized according to the designed speed and geometrical structure of the road among the various road safety facilities, the image analysis model capable of measuring them with a line scanning camera was developed. In addition, the program systematically analyzing this was also developed and applied to the field and, as the result of that, the size and installation interval of the facilities could be measured fast and accurately.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.73-78
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• 2007

In this study, we reviewed the variations of GSD, line rate of a electro-optical payload caused by the changes of operational altitude and attitude of a satellite by applying design parameters of the EC6 which is under development. we also reviewed adjustable increments/decrements of line_rate which are limited by CEU(Camera Electronic Unit) design and then the effect on the MIF(Modulation Transfer Function) performance due to the un-synchronization between line_rate of EOS and ground scan velocity of the satellite based on the design parameters of CEU to show that CEU design is appropriate in terms of line_rate control of EOS.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.181-184
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• 2004

본 논문을 통하여 개발된 시스템은 라인카메라를 사용하여 터널의 균열 영상을 획득하기 위하여 사용되는 시스템으로, 터널 내부의 균열 영상을 실시간으로 촬영하여 저장하는 시스템이다. 터널 영상은 의료영상과 같이 작은 손실에도 큰 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 이러한 요소 때문에 본 시스템에서는 CCD 방식의 라인 스캔 카메라를 이용하여 터널 영상을 촬영하며, 이를 저장 하는 방법에 있어서는 비손실 압축기법을 사용하였다. 비손실 압축 기법의 사용을 이용하여 영상을 저장하는 방식은 많은 데이터 저장공간을 필요로 한다. 이러한 문제점은 기술 개발의 놀라운 성장과 더불어 기존 테이프 기반의 방식에서 벗어나 로컬 하드디스크로 직접 저장하는 기법을 사용할 수 있게 되었다. 즉, 라인 카메라를 이용하는 기존 시스템의 경우에는 영상데이타를 실시간으로 저장할 수 없는 문제점 때문에 촬영 속도를 느리게 하면서 영상을 획득하였으며, 획득한 영상을 테이프로 저장하도록 설계되었다. 이에 반하여 본 시스템에서는 테이프를 대신하여 로컬 디스크를 사용하여, 대용량의 영상을 실시간으로 저장할 수 있는 시스템을 개발하였다. 예비실험을 통하여 나타난 결과에 따르면 본 논문을 통하여 개발된 시스템은 약 20Km 이상의 속도로 진행하는 열차에서 터널의 영상을 실시간으로 촬영하여 저장할 수 있음을 살펴볼 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.97-100
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• 2008

정보화 사회가 진행되어감에 따라 카메라 센서, 디지털 카메라, 휴대폰, 영상 관련디지털 기기들이 증가하고 이로 인하여 영상정보 서비스 기술의 중요성이 크게 부각되었다. 특히 멀티미디어 응용서비스 기술에서는 영상 정보가 필수적인데, 그 영상 정보의 양이 너무 방대하여 압축 부호화를 하여 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 정지영상압축 방법 중 JPEG표준에서 제시한 4가지 동작 모드 중 베이스라인을 기반으로 하는 JPEG압축 알고리즘을 연구하여 CMOS 이미지 센서에서 영상을 전송받으면 8*8 블록 단위로 변환 후 DCT 및 양자화 과정을 거쳐 지그재그 스캔을 한 후 허프만 코드를 사용하여 압축 부호화 시키는 JPEG 베이스라인 인코더를 VHDL언어로 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.371-381
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• 2021

A machine vision inspection system consists of a camera, optics, illumination, and image acquisition system. Especially a scanning system has to be made to measure a large inspection area. Therefore, a machine vision line scan camera needs a line scan light source. A line scan light source should have a high light intensity and a uniform intensity distribution. In this paper, an offset calibration and slope calibration methods are introduced to obtain a uniform light intensity profile. Offset calibration method is to remove the deviation of light intensity among channels through adding intensity difference. Slope calibration is to remove variation of light intensity slope according to the control step among channels through multiplying slope difference. We can obtain an improved light intensity profile through applying offset and slope calibration simultaneously. The proposed method can help to obtain clearer image with a high precision in a machine vision inspection system.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.197-202
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• 2005

Generally, a semiconductor chip measured with a few micro units is captured by line scan camera for higher inspection accuracy. However, the faulty inspection requires an exact boundary detection algorithm because it is very sensitive to scan speed and lighting conditions. In this paper we propose boundary detection using subpixel edge detection method in order to increase the accuracy of bump faulty detection on chips. The bump edge is detected by first derivative to four directions from bump center point and the exact edge positions are searched by the subpixel method. Also, the exact bump boundary to calculate the actual bump size is computed by LSM(Least Squares Method) to minimize errors since the bump size is varied such as bump protrusion, bump bridge, and bump discoloration. Experimental results exhibit that the proposed algorithm shows large improvement comparable to the other conventional boundary detection algorithms.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.518-523
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• 2005

Strip off-center is one of the major problems in hot strip mill line. The key to good centering is having good equipment, modern control systems, excellent maintenance and an understanding of milling process. Therefore, this study aims to develop a system that is useful for quantitative analysis of strip off-center. In this study, the measuring method of strip off-center was thoroughly studied and the exclusive control board to line scan camera were designed. Also, the manipulated type housing for line scan camera was developed to adjust initial parameters for strip width and center line. In order to check the accuracy and usefulness of the developed system, FM stand in $\#2$ Hot Strip Factory in Pohang Steel Works was targeted.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.3 s.32
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• pp.320-325
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• 2006

An image is partitioned into non-overlapping $8{\times}8$ blocks fer JPEG compression. A scan order converter is placed before the JPEG encoder to provide $8{\times}8$ blocks from the pixels in raster scan order. In general, its architecture requires two line memories for storing eight lines separately to allow the concurrent memory access by both the camera and JPEG processors. Although such architecture is simple to be implemented, it can be inefficient due to too excessive memory requirement as the image resolution increases. However, no deterministic addressing equation has been developed for scan conversion. In this paper, an effective memory addressing algorithm is proposed that can be devised only by adders and subtracters to implement a scan converter based on the single line memory.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.122-128
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• 2011

Although conventional analog linescan cameras are used widely, high-speed, high-resolution Cameralink standard will lead the area of frame grabber industry such as factory automation. In this paper, we are developing embedded frame grabber testbed without PC which will give an another solution to image processing applications. Therefore, we designed hardware schematics and programmed FPGA device with VHDL in order to interface Cameralink standard linescan CCD camera. In the future, our embedded on-chip controller could be applied to various image processing systems such as medical imaging, especially optical coherence tomography, machine vision and industrial electronics.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.852-859
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• 2009

Normally, to extract the defect in TFT-LCD inspection system, the image is obtained by using line scan camera or area scan camera which is achieved by CCD or CMOS sensor. Because of the limited dynamic range of CCD or CMOS sensor as well as the effect of the illumination, these images are frequently degraded and the important features are hard to decern by a human viewer. In order to overcome this problem, the feature vectors in the image are obtained by using the average intensity difference between defect and background based on the weber's law and the standard deviation of the background region. The defect detection method uses non-linear SVM (Supports Vector Machine) method using the extracted feature vectors. The experiment results show that the proposed method yields better performance of defect classification methods over conveniently method.