• Composites Research
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.74-82
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• 1999

The static and fatigue characteristics of polyurethane foam cored sandwich structures are investigated. Three types of the specimens with the glass fabric faces and the polyurethane foam core are used; non-stitched. stitched, and stiffened sandwich specimen. Especially additional structural reinforcements with the twisted polyester and glass fiber for thickness direction are made to stitched sandwich structure panel to minimize the delamination of structure which is stitched the upper and lower faces through the core and the resin is impregnated Into stitched fiber with the characteristics of low viscosity of resin at resin flow temperature and cured together with during the curing process. Bending strength of stitched specimen which is 50 mm $50{\times}50{\;}mm$ pitched is improved by 50 % as com-pared with non-stitched specimen and stiffened specimen is improved 10 times more than non-stitched structure. After fatigue testing of $10^6$cycles by 20% of ultimate load under monotonic load, the bending fatigue strength of non-stitched specimen is decreased by 27% of monotonic bending strength, 39% for stitched structure and 20% for stiffened specimen. To verify the aging effect of polyurethane form core, Ultrasonic C-scanning equipment is used to detect the damage of skin laminate alone after fatigue test. From results of UT C-scan images, there is no defect that can be damaged occurred during fatigue test. It is concluded that the decrease of bending strength for foam cored sandwich specimen is caused by the decrease of stiffness due to the aging of polyurethane foam core during fatigue cycles.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.47-50
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• 2020

최근 Panorama와 360도 영상이 대표되는 몰입형(Immersive) 미디어 콘텐츠의 사용이 증가하고 있다. 몰입형 영상 콘텐츠는 사용자에게 현장감을 제공해야 하지만, 촬영 카메라 간의 시차(Parallax)로 인해 영상 콘텐츠에서 시차 왜곡이 발생할 수 있고, 이는 사용자의 콘텐츠 몰입을 제한하기 때문에 해당 영상 콘텐츠의 제작 기술인 영상 스티칭의 높은 정확도가 요구되고 있다. 지금까지 스티칭 영상의 시차 왜곡을 줄이기 위하여 다중 호모그래피 추정 방법과 Seam Optimization 방법이 제안되었지만, 영상 내 사물 배치에 따라 기술 적용이 제한될 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 Mask R-CNN을 활용하여 사물을 세그먼트화하고, 사물의 종류에 따라 각각 다른 가중치 적용을 통해 시차 왜곡을 방지하며, 영상 내 사물의 배치에 따라 시차 왜곡이 발생할 상황에서는 사용자의 인지 중요도가 낮은 사물로 시차 왜곡을 유도하는 영상 스티칭 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.965-973
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• 2019

In this paper, Stereo 4K@60fps 360 VR real-time video capture system which consists of video stream capture, video encoding and stitching module is been designed. The system captures stereo 4K@60fps 360 VR video by stitching 6 of 2K@60fps stream which are captured through HDMI interface from 6 cameras in real-time. In video capture phase, video is captured from each camera using multi-thread in real-time. In video encoding phase, raw frame memory transmission and parallel encoding are used to reduce the resource usage in data transmission between video capture and video stitching modules. In video stitching phase, Real-time stitching is secured by stitching calibration preprocessing.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.882-897
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• 2020

Recently, the use of immersive media contents representing Panorama and 360° video is increasing. Since the viewing angle is limited to generate the content through a general camera, image stitching is mainly used to combine images taken with multiple cameras into one image having a wide field of view. However, if the parallax between the cameras is large, parallax distortion may occur in the stitched image, which disturbs the user's content immersion, thus an image stitching overcoming parallax distortion is required. The existing Seam Optimization based image stitching method to overcome parallax distortion uses energy function or object segment information to reflect the location information of objects, but the initial seam generation location, background information, performance of the object detector, and placement of objects may limit application. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an image stitching method that can overcome the limitations of the existing method by adding a weight value set differently according to the type of object to the energy value using object detection based on deep learning.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.309-312
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• 2018

지금까지 영상 콘텐츠 제작 기술의 발전은 SD(Standard Definition)에서 시작하여 HD(High Definition)와 FHD(Full High Definition)를 거쳐, UHD(Ultra High Definition)에 이르기까지 화질을 중심으로 이루어져 왔다. UHD 에 이르며 육안으로는 그 이상의 해상도로 제작된 콘텐츠와 구분하는 것이 힘들어졌으며, 이에 영상 콘텐츠 제작은 화질이 아닌 제한된 촬영 장비들로부터 촬영 방법, 영상 화각의 개선 작업 등으로 그 방향을 전환하고 있다. 이의 연장선 상에서 360 도 영상에 대한 기술개발이 활발히 이루어 지고 있다. 방송 분야에서는 360 도 영상의 실시간 스트리밍 적용 가능성이 모색되고 있는데, 이것이 가능 하려면 대량의 동영상 데이터를 실시간으로 스티칭하여 전달하는 기술이 필요하다. 따라서 고속 이미지 스티칭이 가능해질 경우 실시간 동영상 스티칭을 통해 방송 통신 분야에서의 서비스 향상에 기여할 것으로 보인다. 본 논문은 이미지의 edge 정보를 방향성을 가진 데이터로 분할하여 특징점을 추출하고, 이후 가중치를 통한 특징점 매칭으로 기존의 이미지 스티칭 방법 보다 빠른 속도의 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.65-70
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• 2013

Recently, the field of computer vision has been actively researched through digital image which can be easily generated as the development and expansion of digital camera technology. Especially, research that extracts and utilizes the feature in image has been actively carried out. The image stitching is a method that creates the high resolution image using features extract and match. Image stitching can be widely used in military and medical purposes as well as in variety fields of real life. In this paper, we have proposed efficient image stitching method using fast feature descriptor extraction and matching based on SURF algorithm. It can be accurately, and quickly found matching point by reduction of dimension of feature descriptor. The feature descriptor is generated by classifying of unnecessary minutiae in extracted features. To reduce the computational time and efficient match feature, we have reduced dimension of the descriptor and expanded orientation window. In our results, the processing time of feature matching and image stitching are faster than previous algorithms, and also that method can make natural-looking stitched image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.713-723
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• 2017

Since the panoramic image can overcome the limitation of the viewing angle of the camera and have a wide field of view, it has been studied effectively in the fields of computer vision and stereo camera. In order to generate a panoramic image, stitching images taken by a plurality of general cameras instead of using a wide-angle camera, which is distorted, is widely used because it can reduce image distortion. The image stitching technique creates descriptors of feature points extracted from multiple images, compares the similarities of feature points, and links them together into one image. Each feature point has several hundreds of dimensions of information, and data processing time increases as more images are stitched. In particular, when a panorama is generated on the basis of an image photographed by a plurality of unspecified cameras with respect to an object, the extraction processing time of the overlapping feature points for similar images becomes longer. In this paper, we propose a preprocessing process to efficiently process stitching based on an image obtained from a number of unspecified cameras for one object or environment. In this way, the data processing time can be reduced by pre-grouping images based on camera sensor information and reducing the number of images to be stitched at one time. Later, stitching is done hierarchically to create one large panorama. Through the grouping preprocessing proposed in this paper, we confirmed that the stitching time for a large number of images is greatly reduced by experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06c
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• pp.469-473
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 조각 병리 영상을 강체 정합을 통해 하나의 영상으로 자동 스티칭하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 영상의 위치 초기화, 위치 보정, 강체 정합의 세 단계로 이루어진다. 첫째, 영상의 위치 초기화 단계에서는 순서 없이 흩어진 부분 영상을 탬플릿 매칭 기법을 사용한 영상 내 문자 인식을 통해 위치를 초기화한다. 둘째, 강체 정합의 정확성을 높이기 위해 코너점을 이용해 부분 영상의 위치를 보정한다. 셋째, 조각 영상 간 거리를 최소화하는 강체 정합을 수행한다. 실험 결과, 부분 영상 간 간격이 최소화되어 하나의 영상으로 스티칭되는 것을 확인하였고, 최적화 반복 횟수와 변환 벡터에 따른 정확성, 견고성 평가를 통해 거리 차의 제곱 합이 최소화되어 수렴됨을 알 수 있었다. 본 논문의 제안 방법은 조각 영상을 하나의 영상으로 스티칭함으로써 병리 조직의 전체적인 구조 파악과 이를 이용한 전립선암 확진에 사용될 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.201-209
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• 2011

This paper suggests a panorama image stitching system which consists of an image matching algorithm: modified SURF (Speeded Up Robust Feature) and an image blending algorithm: multi-band blending. In this paper, first, Modified SURF is described and SURF is compared with SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform), which also gives the reason why modified SURF is chosen instead of SIFT. Then, multi-band blending is described, Lastly, the structure of a panorama image stitching system is suggested and evaluated by experiments, which includes stitching quality test and time cost experiment. According to the experiments, the proposed system can make the stitching seam invisible and get a perfect panorama for large image data, In addition, it is faster than the sift based stitching system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.10B
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• pp.1777-1784
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• 2000

In this paper we suggested the chirp stitching algorithm and transmitter/receiver channel to a spaceborne high resolution SAR which enables wideband signal generation and processing with minimum hardware requirement. The transmitter channel generates two sub-band signals and then generate a wideband signal using chirp stitching algorithm and the receiver channel divides a wideband signal into two sub-band signals in order to overcome the high speed data handling capability of this spaceborne systems. We generated and processed a 100 MHz wideband signal evaluated the performance and verified the feasibility of the application of this chirp stitching algorithm and transmitter/receiver channel to spaceborne high resoultion SAR.