• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.17-22
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• 2009

DaVinci processors are popular media processors for implementing embedded multimedia applications. They support dual core architecture: ARM9 core for video I/O handling as well as system management and peripheral handling, and DSP C64+ core for effective digital signal processing. In this paper, we propose our efforts for optimal implementation of object tracking algorithm in DaVinci-based smart camera which is being designed and implemented by our laboratory. The smart camera in this paper is supposed to support object detection, object tracking, object classification and detection of intrusion into surveillance regions and sending the detection event to remote clients using IP protocol. Object tracking algorithm is computationally expensive since it needs to process several procedures such as foreground mask extraction, foreground mask correction, connected component labeling, blob region calculation, object prediction, and etc. which require large amount of computation times. Thus, if it is not implemented optimally in Davinci-based processors, one cannot expect real-time performance of the smart camera.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.121-121
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• 2017

본 연구는 비전도성 폴리머 표면을 개질하여 감광성 금속을 유전체 표면에 흡착시키고, 감광성 금속의 광화학 반응을 이용하여 귀금속 촉매를 비전도성 폴리머 표면에 선택적으로 흡착시켜 무전해 Cu 도금을 수행하여 금속패턴을 형성하였다. 기능성 유연 필름은 일반적으로 투명한 플라스틱 고분자 기판을 기반으로 전기 전자, 에너지, 자동차, 포장, 의료 등 다양한 분야에서 폭넓게 활용 되고 있으며, 본 연구에서는 습식 도금 공정을 이용하여 폴리이미드 필름상에 $10{\mu}m$ 이하의 미세패턴을 형성하기 위한 공정을 개발하고자 하였다. 비전도성 폴리머 표면에 무전해 도금을 위해서 우선 폴리머 필름의 표면을 개질하는 공정이 필요하다. 이에 KOH 또는 NaOH 알카리 용액을 이용하여 표면을 개질하였으며 개질된 표면에 감광성 금속이온의 흡착시키기 위한 감광성 금속이온은 주석을 사용하였으며, 주석 용액의 안정성 및 퍼짐성 향상을 위해 감광성 금속 용액의 제조 및 특성을 관찰하였으며, 감광성 금속화합물이 흡착된 비전도성 유전체 표면을 포토마스크를 이용하여 특정 부위, 즉 표면에 금속패턴 층을 형성하고자 하는 곳은 포토마스크를 이용하여 광원을 차단하고 그 외 부분은 주 파장이 365nm와 405nm 광원을 조사하여 선택적으로 감광성 금속화합물의 산화반응을 유도하는 광조사 공정을 수행하였다. 광원이 조사되지 않은 부분에 귀금속 등의 촉매 입자를 치환 흡착시켜 금속 패턴이 형성될 수 있는 표면을 형성하였다. 위의 활성화 공정이후에 활성화 처리된 표면을 세척하는 수세 공정을 거친 후 무전해 도금공정에 바로 적용할 경우 미세한 귀금속 입자가 패턴이 아닌 부분 즉 자외선(UV) 조사된 부분에도 남아있어 도금시 번짐 현상이 발생한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 활성화 처리 후 약 알칼리 용액에 카르복실산을 혼합하여 잔존하는 귀금속 입자를 제거한 후 무전해 Cu 도금액을 이용하여 $10{\mu}m$ 이하의 Cu 금속 패턴을 형성하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.180-186
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• 2012

In this paper, a method of edge detection from low contrast and noisy images which contain hexagonal shape is proposed. This method is based on the combination of laplacian gaussian filter and an idea of filters which are dependent on the shape. First, an algorithm which has six masks as its extractors to detect the hexagonal edges especially in the comers is used. Here, two tricom filters are used to detect the tricom joints of hexagons and other four masks are used to enhance the line segments of hexagonal edges. As a natural image, a corneal endothelial cell image which usually has a regular hexagonal shape is selected. The edge detection of hexagonal shapes in this corneal endothelial cell is important for clinical diagnosis. Next, The proposal algorithm and other conventional methods are applied to noisy hexagonal images to evaluate each efficiency. As a result, this proposal algorithm shows a robustness against noises and better detection ability in the aspects of the signal to noise ratio, the edge coineidence ratio and the detection accuracy factor as compared with other conventional methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.231-241
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an average approximation filter which can effectively remove the noises of the images. The noises include impulse noises, gaussian noises and mixed noises. The algorithm is as follows. First, as a step of noise detection, we find whether the difference between the pixel value and the average value is greater than the threshold value or not after getting the average value that removed the minimum and maximum values in the applied mask. If the pixel value is greater than the threshold value, the pixel value is processed as noise. If it is less than or equal to the threshold value, it is processed as non-noise. Next, as the noise reduction step, we output the approximate value in mask as the pixel value and the average value except the minimum and maximum values of the pixel including the noise. As the result of applying this average approximation filter to the mixed noise images, the approximation filter can reduce the noises effectively more than 0.4[dB] as compared with applying the median filter and the average filter, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.475-481
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• 2014

As the society develops to advanced digital information times, many studies are underway about digital video processing technology areas such as image restoration. There are typical methods to restore the image which have been damaged by the impulse noise like SM(standard median) filter and CWM(center weighted median) filter. These filters show excellent noise reduction capabilities in low noise density areas, but in high noise density areas, noise reduction capabilities are not sufficient. In this paper, in order to restore the degraded images in impulse(Salt & Pepper) noise environment, the image restoration filter algorithm was suggested which expands and subdivide the mask focusing on damaged pixels. And to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm used PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) as the standard of judgement.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.315-320
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• 2020

Identity authentication is an important technology that has long been used in society to identify individuals and provide appropriate services. With the development of the Internet infrastructure, many areas have expanded into online areas, and identity authentication technologies have also expanded online. However, there is still a limit to identity authentication technology that relies entirely on trusted third parties like the government. A centralized identity management system makes the identification process between agencies with different identity management systems very complex, resulting in a waste of money and time for users. In particular, the limits of the centralized identity management system were clearly revealed in the face mask shortage in the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. A Decentralized Identity (DID) is a way for users to manage their identity on their own, and recently, a number of DID platform based on blockchain technology have been proposed. In this paper, we analyze the limitations of the existing centralized identity management system and propose a DID system that can be utilized in future national emergency situations such as COVID-19.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1483-1489
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• 2022

Recently, due to the influence of the 4th industrial revolution and the development of communication media, various digital video equipment are being used in industrial fields. Image data is easily damaged by noise in the process of acquiring and transmitting and receiving from the camera and sensor, and since the damaged image has a great effect on the processing of the system, noise removal is essential. In this paper, a weight filter algorithm using a weight graph is proposed to restoration images damaged by high-density impulse noise. The proposed algorithm obtains a weight graph using pixel values inside the filtering mask of the image, and restores the image by applying the final weight to the filtering mask. Simulation was conducted to analyze the noise removal performance of the proposed algorithm, and the magnified image and PSNR were used to compare with the existing method. The resulting image of the proposed algorithm showed excellent performance by removing high-density impulse noise.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.54-61
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• 2023

With the development of IoT technologies and artificial intelligent, diverse digital image equipments are being used in industrial sites. Because image data can be easily damaged by noise while it's obtained with a camera or a sensor and the damaged image has a bad effect on the process of image processing, noise removal is being demanded as preprocessing. In this thesis, for the restoration of image damaged by the noise of random impulse, a switching filter algorithm based on noise estimation was suggested. With the proposed algorithm, noise estimation and error distraction were carried out according to the similarity of the pixel values in the local mask of the image, and a filter was chosen and switched depending on the ratio of noise existing in the local mask. Simulations were conducted to analyze the noise removal performance of the proposed algorithm, and as a result of magnified image and PSNR comparison, it showed superior performance compared to the existing method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.63-71
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• 2009

In this study, we propose a revised dynamic ROI (Region-of-Interest) coding method in which the focused ROI is automatically extracted without help from users during the recovery process of low DOF (Depth-of-Field) JPEG2000 image. The proposed method creates edge mask information using high frequency sub-band data on a specific level in DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform), and then identifies the edge code block for a high-speed ROI extraction. The algorithm scans the edge mask data in four directions by the unit of code block and identifies the edge code block simply and fastly using a edge threshold. As the results of experimentation applying for Implicit method, the proposed method showed the superiority in the side of speed and quality comparing to the existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.358-360
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• 2020

본 팀은 웹캠으로 촬영한 영상에서 원하는 물체를 선택하여 텍스처를 선택한 이미지의 스타일로 변환하는 프로젝트를 수행했다. 영상을 세그멘테이션하고 원하는 물체만을 원하는 텍스처로 변환하여 최종 아웃풋을 얻는다. 제안하는 네트워크는 물체를 다양한 스타일로 바꾸는 것이 가능한데, 이 중에서 이미지에 명화의 화풍을 입히는 것을 중점으로 하여 데모를 구현했다. 빠른 속도로 네트워크를 실행하기 위해 기존 연구들에 비디오 처리의 관점을 접목했다. 여러 프레임을 묶어 옵티컬 플로우를 생성하고, 첫 번째 프레임을 인스턴스 세그멘테이션한 후 마스크를 추출했다. 이후 마스크 영역만 뽑아낸 이미지를 새로운 입력으로 하여 스타일 트랜스퍼를 거치고, 이 첫번째 프레임과 나머지 프레임들의 옵티컬 플로우로 나머지 프레임들의 세그멘테이션과 스타일 트랜스퍼를 예측하여 다시 비디오 프레임으로 만들어 주었다. 본 알고리즘은 옵티컬 플로우 설정으로 네트워크의 계산량을 줄이며 속도를 개선했다. 빠른 데이터 처리로 사용자가 원하는 물체의 텍스쳐가 바뀔 수 있게 되었고, 이는 현실 세계가 실제로 바뀐 듯한 느낌을 들게 한다. 또한, 컴퓨터 비전에서 활발하게 연구되었던 분야를 AR로 끌어와 두 분야의 융합 가능성을 열었다. 현재 코로나의 영향으로 집에서 취미생활을 즐기는 인구가 많아졌다. 본 연구를 통해 많은 사람에게 집에서 쉽게 명화의 감성을 즐기고 느낄 수 있는 양질의 콘텐츠를 제공해주려 한다. 또한, 박물관과 미술관 등의 기관에서도 이 기술이 활용될 수 있다. 명화를 느낄 수 있는 다양한 콘텐츠를 이용하여 박물관이나 미술관의 홍보 효과도 기대할 수 있다.