• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.120-120
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• 2013

본 발표에서는 최근 무인전투기 및 무인자율주행차량 등의 어플리케이션에 응용되고 있는 삼차원 영상 센서 시스템 기술에 관한 소개와 더불어 한국전자통신연구원에서 독자적인 구도를 기반으로 최근 시연에 성공한 스터드(STUD) 레이저 레이다의 동작원리 및 구현결과를 소개하고자 한다. 최근 전세계의 삼차원 레이저 영상 센서 시스템은 1) 한 관측점을 회전을 통해 스캔하는 2D 스캔 방식에서 벗어나, 2) 일차원 배열 형태로 구현된 관측점을 센서가 회전하면서 얻어지는 3D 스캔 방식과 3) 이차원 어레이 형태의 검출기로 삼차원 영상을 검출하는 방식으로 삼차원 영상을 확보하는 노력으로 구분되어 진행되어 왔다. 이번 시연에 성공한 제안된 방법은, 기존의구도와는 다른 독자적인 방식으로, 대면적 검출기를 기반으로 센서부가 회전하지 않으면서, 하나로 통합된 검출기 출력을 이용할 수 있는 구도인 스터드(STUD: STatic and Unitary Detector)기반의 삼차원 레이저 레이다 시스템이다. 최근 구현 결과는 수평해상도 320, 수직해상도 240인 QVGA 영상 수준으로, 이는 지금까지 세계 최고해상도인 ASC사의 128x128 해상도를 뛰어 넘는 우수한 결과이다. 제안된독자적인 구도의 삼차원 레이저 영상 시스템은 다양한 관련 기술들과의 접목하여 향후 군수용 뿐만아니라 민수용 시장의 기술발전에 큰 영향을 미칠 것으로 예상되고 있다.

• Optical Science and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.31-37
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• 1998

오늘날 삼차원 영상인식에 대한 산업적 수요는 꾸준히 증가하고 있으며, 이에 대응하여 다양한 광계측 원리들이 개발되어 시험되고 있다. 모아레 기법도 삼차원 영상인식을 위해 많은 발전을 거듭하고 있으며 현재 시도되는 다른 광계측 방법들에 대해 다양한 기술적 경쟁력을 갖고 있다. 본 기술소개에서는 삼차원 영상인식을 위해 최근 국내외에서 활발히 진행되고 있는 모아레 기법의 현재의 연구 현황 및 앞으로의 발전 전망에 대해 정리하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.11-12
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• 2008

본 논문은 이차원 영상에 투영된 삼차원 인체의 포즈를 인식하기 위하여 이차원 영상에 투영된 인체의 실루엣 정보를 이용하였다. 인체는 삼차원 공간에서 움직이므로 이차원 영상으로 모든 정보를 알아내기에는 부족한 면이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 인체 포즈의 주시 방향을 결정한 후 인체의 실루엣 영상 Convex-hull 특징점 정보를 이용하여 인체의 삼차원 포즈를 인식하였다. 인체의 포즈는 PCA로 차원을 축소하였으며 Diffusion Distance로 데이터베이스의 포즈모델 중 가장 가까운 모델을 선택하였다.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.24-29
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• 2005

Purpose : Instead of conventional two-dimensional (2-D) visual stimuli, three-dimensional (3-D) visual stimuli with stereoscopic vision were employed for the study of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (f-MRI). In this paper f-MRI with 3-D visual stimuli is investigated in comparison with f-MRI with 2-D visual stimuli. Materials and Methods : The anaglyph which generates stereoscopic vision by viewing color coded images with red-blue glasses is used for 3-D visual stimuli. Two-dimensional visual stimuli are also used for comparison. For healthy volunteers, f-MRI experiments were performed with 2-D and 3-D visual stimuli at 3.0 Tesla MRI system. Results : Occipital lobes were activated by the 3-D visual stimuli similarly as in the f-MRI with the conventional 2-D visual stimuli. The activated regions by the 3-D visual stimuli were, however, larger than those by the 2-D visual stimuli by $18\%$. Conclusion : Stereoscopic vision is the basis of the three-dimensional human perception. In this paper 3-D visual stimuli were applied using the anaglyph. Functional MRI was performed with 2-D and 3-D visual stimuli at 3.0 Tesla whole body MRI system. The occipital lobes activated by the 3-D visual stimuli appeared larger than those by the 2-D visual stimuli by about $18\%$. This is due to the more complex character of the 3-D human vision compared to 2-D vision. The f-MRI with 3-D visual stimuli may be useful in various fields using 3-D human vision such as virtual reality, 3-D display, and 3-D multimedia contents.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.198-210
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• 2013

This study investigates the detrimental effect of watching sexual content in three-dimensional (3D) moving pictures. An increasing amount of investment is put especially in 3D adult content to boost their 3D media industries. It is crucial that the effect of sexual contents on viewers be identified. In this experiment, a between-subject design was employed to analyze various effect of sexual content on participants whether they viewed the same stimuli in 3D or in 2D. In particular, the presence scaling was used to evaluate how real the video clip is. In addition, the permissiveness toward sexual behaviors and the level of sexual arousal were measured to examine the different effect of sexual content by dividing two separate groups in 2D and 3D condition. The result shows that those who watched a 3D video clip perceived higher sense of presence compared to those who watched a 2D video clip. Furthermore, subjects in 3D condition reported lower scores of permissive attitude toward sexual behaviors. This confirms that 3D display delivers more visual experience and has an impact on people in terms of perceiving sexual contents and changing their attitudes towards sexual behaviors.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.9A no.1
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• pp.83-92
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• 2002

The segmentation of target objects from three dimensional volume images is an essential step for visualization and volume measurement. In this paper, we present a method to detect the surface of objects by improving the widely used levoy filtering for volume visualization. Using morphological operators we generate completely closed surfaces and selectively segment objects using the volume growing algorithm. The presented method was applied to 3-D artificial sphere images and angiocardiograms. We quantitatively compared this method with the conventional levoy filtering using artificial sphereimages, and the results showed that our method is better in the aspect of voxel errors. The results of visual comparison using angiocardiograms also showed that our method is more accurate. The presented method in this paper is very effective for segmentation of volume data because segmentation, visualization and measurement are frequently used together for 3-D image processing and they can be easily related in our method.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2000

This paper proposes a novel 3D representation of a plenoptic function that uses cylindrical maps placed on a circle. The proposed representation has an advantage over the previous one, concentric mosaics, in that it can render an object looking inward as well as looking outward of an environment. We also present an effective rendering technique for the representation that fully utilizes the depth information estimated or given for the cylindrical maps. This technique allows us to render more accurate images with novel views than point sampling or bilinear interpolation, which has been used for concentric mosaics.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.245-254
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• 2004

This paper deals with the problem of estimating structure and motion from long continuous image sequences, applying the Expectation Maximization algorithm based on extended Kalman smoother to impose the time-continuity of the motion parameters. By repeatedly estimating the state transition matrix of the dynamic equation and the parameters of noise processes in the dynamic and measurement equations, this optimization gives the maximum likelihood estimates of the motion and structure parameters. Practically, this research is essential for dealing with a long video-rate image sequence with partially unknown system equation and noise. The algorithm is implemented and tested for a real image sequence.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.209-218
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• 2009

3D backprojection is a kind of reconstruction algorithm to generate volume data consisting of tomographic images, which provides spatial information of the original 3D data from hundreds of 2D projections. The computational time of backprojection increases in proportion to the size of volume data and the number of projection images since the value of every voxel in volume data is calculated by considering corresponding pixels from hundreds of projections. For the reduction of computational time, fast GPU based 3D backprojection methods have been studied recently and the performance of them has been improved significantly. This paper presents two multiple GPU based methods to maximize the parallelism of GPU and compares the efficiencies of two methods by considering both the number of projections and the size of volume data. The first method is to generate partial volume data independently for all projections after allocating a half size of volume data on each GPU. The second method is to acquire the entire volume data by merging the incomplete volume data of each GPU on CPU. The in-complete volume data is generated using the half size of projections after allocating the full size of volume data on each GPU. In experimental results, the first method performed better than the second method when the entire volume data can be allocated on GPU. Otherwise, the second method was efficient than the first one.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.27-32
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• 2008

Purpose : We developed a 3D CSI (chemical shift imaging) sequence that uses the PRESS (point resolved spectroscopy) excitation scheme and spiral-based readout gradients. Materials and Methods : We implemented constant-density spirals ($32{\times}32$ matrix, $24{\times}24\;cm$ FOV) which use analytic equations to enable real-time prescription on the scanner. In-vivo data from the brain were collected and reconstructed using the gridding algorithm. Results : Data illustrate that with our imaging sequence, the benefits of the PRESS technique, which include elimination of lipid artifacts, remain intact while flexible scan time versus resolution tradeoffs can be achieved using the constant-density spirals. Volumetric high resolution 3D CSI covering 5760 cm3 could be obtained in 12.5 minutes. Conclusion : Spiral-based readout gradients offer a flexible tradeoff between scan time versus resolution. By combining this feature with PRESS based excitation, efficient methods of volumetric spectroscopic imaging can be accomplished by obtaining whole brain coverage while eliminating lipid contamination.