• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.411-421
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• 2001

The generalized symmetry transform evaluates symmetry without segmentation and extracts regions of interest in an image by combining locality and reflectional symmetry The demand that the symmetry transform be local is reflected by the distance weight function. When calculating large regions-of-interest, we should select a large standard deviation of distance weight function. But such a large standard deviation makes the execution time increase in the second power of r, which is a radius of search area. In this paper we propose modified scan line based GST with selectively directional attention to improve time complexity The symmetry map of our proposed GST is found to be very similar to that of the existing GST. However the computation time of the proposed GST increases linearly with respect to r because our proposed GST evaluates symmetry between a pair of edge pixels along the scan lines. The GST computation decreases considerably when the proposed GST is peformed with selectively directional attention in case of large r. Several experiments in this paper demonstrate the time efficiency and the usefulness of our proposed GST.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.377-385
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• 2002

Ultrasonic tests employing non-ionizing radiation are preferred in nondestructive examinations since they are safe and simple in use. The same principles of the techniques have been taken as valuable tools in medical area for the diagnoses of diseases, in other words, defects of the human body. The paper overviews the principles of the medical diagnosis based on nondestructive ultrasonic tests, and then evaluates experimentally the clinical potential of C scan images not popular in medicine, for detecting the micro fractures of the cortical bone. In the experiment the micro bone fractures were created on the femurs of porks by loading three point bending forces (2-4kN) with the speed of 1 mm/min. As the extent of the fracture was altered, not only X ray images but also ultrasonic C scan images using a focused ultrasonic probe resonated at 25 MHz were obtained. The results showed that ultrasonic C scan images were capable of detecting the micro bone fractures which were not possible to identify by conventional X ray images.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.4
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• pp.307-314
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• 2008

This paper presents a new robust watermarking method for curves that uses informed-detection. To embed watermarks, the presented algorithm parameterizes a curve using the B-spline model and acquires the control points of the B-spline model. For these control points, 2D mesh are created by applying Delaunay triangulation and then the mesh spectral analysis is performed to calculate the mesh spectral coefficients where watermark messages are embedded in a spread spectrum way. The watermarked coefficients are inversely transformed to the coordinates of the control points and the watermarked curve is reconstructed by calculating B-spline model with the control points. To detect the embedded watermark, we apply curve matching algorithm using inflection points of curve. After curve registration, we calculate the difference between the original and watermarked mesh spectral coefficients with the same process for embedding. By calculating correlation coefficients between the detected and candidate watermark, we decide which watermark was embedded. The experimental results prove the proposed scheme is more robust than previous watermarking schemes against print-scan process as well as geometrical distortions.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.8-16
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• 2016

This study presents the visualization of shape information based on Octree using 3D laser scanning. The process of visualization was established to construct the Octree structure from the 3D scan data. The scan data was converted to a 2D surface through the mesh technique and the surface was then converted to a 3D object through the Raster/Vector transformation. The 3D object was transmitted to the Octree Root Node and The shape information was constructed by the recursive partitioning of the Octree Root Node. The test-bed was selected as the steel bridge structure in Sungkyunkwan University. The shape information based on Octree was condensed into 89.3%. In addition, the Octree compressibility was confirmed to compare the shape information of the office building, a computer science campus in Germany and a New College in USA. The basis is created by the visualization of shape information for double-deck tunnel and it will be expected to improve the efficiency of structural health monitoring and maintenance.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.500-509
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• 2001

Image compression based on Wavelet gives much better quality than JPEG based on DCT, but suffers from ringing or blurring effects around edges as the compression is increased. In this paper, we proposed enhanced image compression by pre-processing wavelet coefficients. This pre-processing is performed by making a low threshold and enhanced by zerotree scan method when subband's zerotrees are established. It might increase significants coefficient by means of modifying the threshold and reflect on the orientation of subbands. Some experimental results show our method is more efficient than the conventional methods, JPEG. And then the developed coding scheme improves the quality of images and visually shows more pleasing results for most practical images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.203-206
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 JPEG2000의 연산 시간을 줄일 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. JPEG2000의 EBCOT(Embedded Block Coding with Optimized Truncation)는 전체 연산시간의 70%이상을 차지하여 실제 구현 시 많은 문제점으로 지적되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 EBCOT의 연산 시간을 줄이기 위해 웨이블릿 변환 영역에서 구성되는 부대역간의 트리구조(Tree structure) 이용하여 하위 부대역의 스캔 횟수를 줄이는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘을 적용하였을 경우 표준에 비해 스캔 횟수가 35% 이상 감소함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.592-594
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 휘도성분과 색차성분의 유사성을 이용하여 부호화 성능을 향상시키기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 하나의 영상을 구성하는 휘도성분과 색차성분은 유사성이 높아 그 유사성을 이용하여 부호화 효율을 높이는 것이 가능하다. 현재 CU(Coding Unit)를 압축할 때 화면 내 예측방법을 사용한다면, 색차성분의 화면 내 예측모드가 휘도성분의 정보를 이용하는 경우에 본 논문의 알고르듬을 적용한다. 색차성분이 휘도성분의 정보를 이용하는 경우에는 휘도성분과 색차성분 간 유사도가 높다는 것을 의미하기 때문에 휘도성분의 스캔방법을 기본으로 중요한 변환계수의 위치정보를 이용하여 색차성분의 스캔 방법을 적응적으로 결정한다. 현재 배포된 HEVC의 레퍼런스 소프트웨어인 HM 3.1을 이용하여 실험한 결과 색차성분에 대해 0.39%의 부호화 효율을 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.536-539
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 스캔된 악보 영상을 ART2 알고리즘을 이용하여 음자리표를 인식하고 자동으로 연주하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 자동 악보 인식 방법은 스캔된 영상에서 이진 영상으로 변환하기 위해서 평균 이진화 기법을 적용한다. 평균 이진화 기법이 적용된 영상에서 수평 히스토그램을 이용하여 악보 영상의 오선을 제거한다. 제거된 악보 영상에서 8방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 이용하여 음표를 탐색하여 추출하고 추출된 음표를 ART2 알고리즘에 적용하여 쉼표와 음표를 분류한다. 분류된 음표를 이용하여 악보를 인식하고 인식된 악보를 이용하여 연주한다. 실제 악보를 스캐너로 획득한 악보 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 단순한 악보 영상에서 효과적으로 악보가 인식되고 연주할 수 있는 것을 확인하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.504-514
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• 1994

Combinational automatic test pattern generators (CATPG) have already been commercialized because their algorithms are well known and practical, while sequential automatic test pattern generators(SATPG) have been regarded as impractical because they are computationally complex. A technique to use CATPG instead of SATPG for test generation of sequential circuits is proposed. Redesign of seauential circuits such as Level Sensitive Scan Design (LSSD) is inevitable to use CATPG. Various partial scan techniques has been proposed to avoid full scan such as LSSD. It ha sbeen reported that SATPG is required to use partial scan techniques. We propose a technique to use CATPG for a new partial scan technique, and propose a new CATPG algorithm for the partially scanned circuits. The partial scan technique can be another choice of design for testability because it is computationally advantageous.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.185-192
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• 2007

The interpolation is used in many image processing applications such as image enhancement, de-interlacing/scan-rate conversion, wavelet transforms based on the lifting scheme, and so on. Among these, de-interlacing and scan-rate conversion are proposed for the digital TV applications. The de-interlacing algorithm can be classified into two categories. The first one uses only one field, called intra-field de-interlacing, and the other uses multiple field, called inter-field de-interlacing. In this paper, an efficient de-interlacing algorithm using spatial domain information is proposed far the interpolation of interlaced images. By efficiently estimating the directional correlations, improved interpolation accuracy has been achieved. In addition, the proposed method is simply structured and is easy to implement. Extensive simulations conducted for various images and video sequences have shown the efficacy of the proposed method with significant improvement over the previous intra-field do-interlacing methods in terms of the objective image quality as well as the subjective image quality.