• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.17-25
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• 2008

We proposed the method for photomosaic generation using a programmable GPU. We design vertices to generate a photomosaic through a graphics pipeline and suggest a texture representation of an image database whice is used for tile. Both the source image and the tiles are stored to texture, which are matched by a vertex shader and drawn by a fragment shader. This is much faster than several techniques which achieve the best match for each tile.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.1515-1528
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• 2006

Systems for physically based fluid animation have developed rapidly in the visual special effects industry and can make very high quality images. However, in the real-time application fields such as computer game, the simulation speed is more critical issue than image quality. This paper presents a real-time method for animating fluid using programmable graphics pipeline. We show that once two key-frames are given, the technique can interactively generate a sequence of images changing from the source key-frame to the target.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.399-403
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• 2016

Deferred Shading is a shading technique that postprocesses pixels in the screen space, following geometry-only rendering passes with depth buffering. Unlike typical shadow mapping techniques, this technique allows us to render shadows from multiple light sources without changing the structure of the rendering pipelines. This paper presents a deferred shadow mapping technique and its extension to soft shadows using mipmapping. Our technique first generates visibility maps from light sources, and blurs the visibility maps for deferred shading. This strategy leads to efficient soft-edged shadows, but does not incorporate depth variation, producing light bleeding to some extent. In order to suppress the light-bleeding artifacts, we also propose a depth-adaptive mipmap sampling technique in the screen space.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.19-28
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• 2013

As yet the use of 3D scanning technology has been limited to documentation, preservation and monitoring in cultural and natural heritage domain. Appropriate visualization of precise geometric information in scan data can support scientific interpretation of the domain experts. We studied the rendering techniques which visualize the required features from scanned models, and proposed a 3D scan data visualization pipeline, rendering methods, and a classification scheme. As a case study, we analyzed the traditional method in the study of dinosaur tracks and performed the visualization of 3D scanned models. A user test based on the result confirmed an effectiveness of the proposed method. This research showed a practical method in which 3D scanned models can be used to effective interpretation of heritage.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.371-377
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• 2008

Recently the performance of GPU is increasing much faster compared to GPU and GPU is used for various application programs. In this paper, MPEG-2 Decoder is implemented based on a GPU programming language, CG. The proposed methodology is to perform block rendering with texture data according to video standard with very high parallelism by using the pipeline of GPU which is a stream processing structure. To reduce the data bandwidth between system memory and GPU, local memory is used for graphic card. According to the experiment, the proposed scheme shows performance improvement by more than 2 times compared to CPU based scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.328-333
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• 2003

GIS기술은 실세계의 분석에서부터 3D 가상도시의 구축까지 매우 빠르게 발전하고 있다. 3D가상도시는 GIS 기술, 컴퓨터그래픽스 기술, 가상현실 기술, 데이터베이스 기술에 의해 컴퓨터 속에 구현이 되는 도시를 말한다. 본 연구에서는 1/1,000 수치지도를 이용하여 3D건물모델을 형성하였고, 건물모델을 형성할 때는 삼각형 메쉬를 형성하고 최적의 메쉬를 형성하기 위하여 Divide and Conquer 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 메쉬가 형성된 수치지도의 건물모델에 대하여 기존의 기하파이프라인을 개선함으로서 건물모델을 빠르게 렌더링할 수 있도록 하였다. 건물측면에 대하여는 디지틀 카메라를 이용하여 측면에 대한 이미지를 취득하고 2D Projective Transformation을 적용하여 이미지를 조정하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.440-448
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• 2011

The needs for the OpenGL-family of the rendering library standards are highly increasing, especially for the graphical human-machine Interface on the various systems including smart phones and personal information devices. Additionally, in the case of safety-critical market for avionics, military, medical and automotive applications, OpenGL SC, the safety critical profile of the OpenGL library plays the major role for the graphical interfaces. In this paper, we represent our OpenGL SC emulation library on the OpenGL 1.x rendering pipeline which is widely available on the existing embedded systems, to provide the features of OpenGL SC standard cost-effectively. Our method can provide the OpenGL SC features at the low development cost on the embedded systems, and its implementation is also one of the fundamental elements for the emulation of embedded systems in the PC environment. Our final result now works on both of Linux-based and VxWORKS systems, showing correct execution results at the reasonable speed.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.13-24
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• 2014

In this study, a graphics-processing-unit (GPU)-based acceleration technique is proposed for the feature-based image morphing. This technique uses the depth-buffer of the graphics hardware to calculate efficiently the shortest distance between a pixel and the control lines. The pairs of control lines between the source image and the destination image are determined by user's input, and the distance function of each control line is rendered using two rectangles and two cones. The distance between each pixel and its nearest control line is stored in the depth buffer through the graphics pipeline, and this is used to conduct the morphing operation efficiently. The pixel-unit morphing operation is parallelized using the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) to reduce the morphing time. We demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed technique using several experimental results.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.258-273
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• 2011

This paper designs and implements a multi-view 3D video player system which is operated faster than existing video player systems. The structure for obtaining the near optimum speed in a multi-processor environment by parallelizing the component modules is proposed to process large volumes of multi-view image data at high speed. In order to use the concurrency of bottleneck, we designed image decoding, synthesis and rendering modules in a pipeline structure. For load balancing, the decoder module is divided into the unit of viewpoint, and the image synthesis module is geometrically divided based on synthesized images. As a result of this experiment, multi-view images were correctly synthesized and the 3D sense could be felt when watching the images on the multi-view autostereoscopic display. The proposed application processing structure could be used to process large volumes of multi-view image data at high speed, using the multi-processors to their maximum capacity.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.392-402
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• 2020

Many modern movies and animations rely heavily on CG (computer graphics). The use of CG has made it possible to produce beyond the limits of visual expression. There has also been an increase in technical and artistic efforts to create new and high quality CGs. Look development is the process of modifying and creating shaders and renderings in 3D to produce CGI (computer-generated imagery) that meets the director's intentions. However, small production or projects may have relatively little or no awareness of look development in the production pipeline. The problems that can occur when look development is not preceded are classified into three categories. first, the shader may react differently under the same lighting conditions. Second, there can be a problem in communication between workers. Third, there is a waste of not promising a look for a given situation. As a way to avoid these problems I studied by creating consistency by the look development system. In the limitation that make it difficult for small studios to do look development because of small workers, time and cost, it is meaningful to study and present a simple look development process that can be carried out by individual or small production.