• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.27-33
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• 2009

In terrain visualization, the quadtree is the most frequently used data structure for progressive mesh generation. The quadtree provides an efficient level-of-detail selection and view frustum culling. However, most applications using quadtrees are performed by the CPU, since the hierarchical data structure cannot be manipulated in a programmable rendering pipeline. For this reason, quadtree-based methods show lower performance and higher dependancy of CPU in comparison to GPU-based methods. We present a quadtree-based terrain-rendering method for GPU execution that uses vertex multiplication. It offers higher performance than previous CPU-based quadtree methods, without loss of image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1480-1483
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• 2015

최근의 대용량 DEM 데이터는 실시간 렌더링을 하기엔 많은 양의 폴리곤을 필요로 한다. 사진 트리는 이러한 DEM 데이터를 실시간에 렌더링 하기 위해 지형 메쉬를 간략화하는데 널리 사용되는 자료구조이다. 트리구조는 재귀 연산 및 포인터 연산과 같이 GPU 에서 제공하지 않는 기능을 필요로 하기 때문에 일반적으로 CPU 상에서 구현되어 사용된다. GPU 에서 사진 트리 삼각화 기법을 사용하기 위해서 기존의 연구에서는 정점 프리미티브와 스트림 출력 단계를 이용하였다. 하지만 이 방법은 매 프레임 루트 노드부터 리프 노드까지 탐색을 하며 지형 메쉬를 새로 생성 해야하기 때문에 불필요한 연산이 많다. 제안하는 방법은 핑퐁 버퍼를 이용하여 이전 프레임에서 사용한 지형 메쉬를 다음 프레임에서 재활용하여 기존 GPU 기반 사진 트리 삼각화 기법을 가속화한다. 기존 방법이 매 프레임 사각형 패치를 세분화 하면서 지형 메쉬를 생성하는 대신 제안하는 방법은 이전 프레임에서 사용한 메쉬의 각 패치들을 병합하거나 세분화하는 방법을 사용한다. 따라서 본 방법은 GPU 기반 사진 트리 삼각화의 재귀 호출을 제거하여 연산량을 줄이고 매 프레임 CPU-GPU 간의 데이터 전송량도 효율적으로 줄여 기존의 방법을 효율적으로 가속화 한다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.61-68
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• 2008

Quadtree-based terrain visualization methods have been used in a lot of applications. However, because most procedures are performed on the CPU, the rendering speed is slow in comparison to methods using GPU. In this paper, we present a quadtree-based terrain visualization method working on the GPU with specially designed data structure, error-texture and LOD-texture, and block-based acceleration method. In preprocessing step, we calculate errors in world space and store them to error-texture. In rendering step, we examine projected errors of error-texture and choose the detail level, then store the projected errors to LOD-texture. View frustum culling is performed as block unit using the values of error-texture and LOD-texture. This method reduces CPU load and performs time consuming jobs such as LOD selection and view frustum culling.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.1511-1519
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• 1999

We present efficient algorithms for transforming between binary images and quadtrees on the LABOR. For a binary image of size n ${\times}$ n, both algorithms run in $\theta$(1) time using n2 processors. These algorithms are optimal in the sense that the product of time and number of processors is asymptotically the same as the optimal sequential time which is $\theta$(n2).

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.158-167
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• 2007

Indirect illumination plays an important role for realistic image synthesis. We present a novel realtime indirect illumination rendering technique using image pyramids. Hundreds of thousands of indirect point light sources are stored into images, and then they hierarchically clustered into quad-tree image pyramids. We also introduce a GPU based top-down and breadth-first traversal of the quad-trees to approximate the illumination with clusters (set of lights). All steps entirely run on the GPU in real-time. Result images demonstrate that our method represents diffuse interreflection, especially a color bleeding effect well. We achieved interactive frame rates of tens to hundreads, without any preprocessing. We can avoid artifacts caused by sampling, and our method is seven times faster than a recently proposed sampling based method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.653-656
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• 2001

웨이블렛 변환을 이용한 영상 압축의 방법에 있어서 최근 우수한 압축 성능을 보이는 비트 평면 부호화 방법이 많이 발전되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 블록 기반 제로트리와 사진나무구조를 이용하여 비트 평면을 효율적으로 부호화함으로써 우수한 압축 성능을 보이는 부호기를 제안한다. 블록 기반 제로트리는 주파수 대역에 걸쳐 상관성을 보이며 존재하는 중요하지 않은 계수를 효과적으로 부호화하며, 사진나무구조는 블록 안에 있는 중요한 계수를 찾아내어 부호화한다. 제안하는 부호기의 성능은 기존의 우수한 비트 평면 부호기에 필적하는 성능을 보이며, 특히 낮은 피라미드 레벨과 저비트율에서의 성능이 더 우수함을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2011

Photomosaic is a method of representation an input image in forms of mosaics by a set of small tile images. Generally, equal rectangular tiles are used in photo mosaics. Therefore, there are limitations to expression of mosaic according to characteristic of images. In this paper, photo mosaics using quad-tree structure is proposed to create tiles in varies sizes. Initially, color variance per each level of an input image is computed using the mipmap of graphic hardware. Depending on the value of Valiance, the input image is divided into tiles in varies sizes. Each tile finds the most similar reference image and replaces with it. As a result, the method provides another pictorial effectiveness by dividing the input image into tiles in varies sizes depending on color held by the input image. In addition, whole processing is done on the graphic hardware and thereby we achieve faster performance.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.69-76
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• 2014

It is hard to represent massive terrain data in real-time even using recent graphics hardware. In order to process massive terrain data, mesh simplification method such as continuous Level-of-Detail is commonly used. However, existing GPU-based methods using quad-tree structure such as geometry splitting, produce lots of vertices to traverse the quad-tree and retransmit those vertices back to the GPU in each tree traversal. Also they have disadvantage of increase of tree size since they construct the tree structure using texture. To solve the problem, we proposed GPU-base chunked LOD technique for real-time terrain rendering. We restrict depth of tree search and generate chunks with tessellator in GPU. By using our method, we can efficiently render the terrain by generating the chunks on GPU and reduce the computing time for tree traversal.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.442-446
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• 2010

In this paper we propose an indexing method supporting the browsing scheme for effective image search on large photo database. The proposed method is based on M-tree, a representative indexing scheme on matrix space. While M-tree focuses on the searching efficiency by pruning, it did not consider browsing efficiency directly. This paper proposes node selection method, node splitting method and node splitting conditions for browsing efficiency. According to test results, node cohesion and clustering precision improved 1.5 and twice the original respectively and searching speed also increased twice the original speed.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.196-206
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• 2004

This paper presents an efficient joint disparity-motion estimation algorithm for stereo sequence CODEC. Disparity vectors are estimated by the left and right motion vectors and previous disparity vectors for every frame. In order to obtain more accurate disparity vectors. we include a spatial prediction Process after the feint estimation. From joint estimation and spatial prediction, we can obtain accurate disparity vectors and then Increase coding efficiency. Finally, we proposed the backward quadtree decomposition. which helps the encoder to have a more detailed disparity vector map without transmitting additional coding bits for quadtree information. We confirmed superior performance of the proposed method through computer simulation.