• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.44-48
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• 2016

In a longitudinal neuroimaging study, the upgrades of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner due to outdated hardwares and softwares make it difficult to maintain the same MRI conditions in the long-term research period. Particularly, high field MRI systems such 3T scanners become popular in recent years. However, it is still unclear whether an integrated analysis of 3T and 1.5T images is possible without consideration of the field strength. In this study, we evaluated the reproducibility of hippocampal volumes between brain images with different field strengths and slice orientations. 296 participants underwent both 3T and 1.5T MRI and both sagittal and axial scans for high resolution brain images, and their hippocampal volumes were measured using Freesurfer, a well-known software for neuroimaging analysis. Paired t-tests showed that the hippocampal volumes were significantly different between the image types. These results suggest that it is necessary to develop data analysis techniques for integrating diverse types of MRI images.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.991-996
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• 2007

Recently, a computational reconstruction method using an integral imaging technique, which is a promise three-dimensional display technique, has been actively researched. This method is that 3-D images can be digitally reconstructed at the required output planes by superposition of all of the inversely enlarged elemental images by using a hypothetical pinhole array model. However, the conventional method mostly yields reconstructed images having a low-resolution, because there are some intensity irregularities with a grid structure at the reconstructed mage plane by using square-type elemental images. In this paper, to overcome this problem, we propose a novel computational integral imaging reconstruction (CIIR) method using round-type mapping model. Proposed CIIR method can overcome problems of non-uniformly reconstructed images caused from the conventional method and improve the resolution of 3-D images. To show the usefulness of the proposed method, both computational experiment and optical experiment are carried out and their results are presented.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.67-74
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• 2023

The images acquired from the speaker's mouth region revealed the unique patterns according to the corresponding voices. By using this principle, the several methods were proposed in which speech signals were recognized or synthesized from the images acquired at the speaker's lower face. In this study, an image-based speech synthesis method was proposed in which the depth images were cooperatively used. Since depth images yielded depth information that cannot be acquired from optical image, it can be used for the purpose of supplementing flat optical images. In this paper, the usefulness of depth images from the perspective of speech synthesis was evaluated. The validation experiment was carried out on 60 Korean isolated words, it was confirmed that the performance in terms of both subjective and objective evaluation was comparable to the optical image-based method. When the two images were used in combination, performance improvements were observed compared with when each image was used alone.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.95-98
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 결합변환상관기(joint transform correlator)와 위상 암호화된 영상들을 이용하여 영상의 인식 및 복호화가 가능한 광 암호화 시스템을 제안하였다. 그레이 값을 가지는 원 영상은 동일한 그레이 값을 가지는 이진 영상으로 나누어 표현할 있다. 이러한 이진 영상들을 각각의 다른 이진 무작위 영상과 위상 부호화한 XOR 연산을 이용해 암호화할 수 있으며. 암호화한 영상들을 결합한 후 위상 부호화 과정을 거쳐 최종 암호화 영상를 구한다. 키 영상은 암호화에 사용된 각각의 이진 무작위 영상들을 최종 암호와 영상를 얻을때의 과정처럼 결합하여 역시 하나의 영상으로 구할 수 있다. 최종 암호화 영상과 키 영상을 제안한 결합변환상관기의 입력으로 사용하여 구한 상관치는 높고 폭이 좁은 특성을 가지고 있으므로 분별성능이 좋은 인식 시스템을 구현할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 복호화 영상도 구할 수 있다. 컴퓨터 모의 실험으로 제안한 방법을 확인해보았다.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.108-118
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• 2013

Currently, an arterial spin labeling (ASL) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique does not routinely used in clinical studies to measure perfusion in brain because optimization of imaging protocol is required to obtain optimal perfusion signals. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate changes of perfusion-weighed signal intensities with varying several parameters on a pulsed arterial spin labeling MRI technique obtained from a 3T MRI system. We especially evaluated alternations of ASL-MRI signal intensities on special brain areas, including in brain tissues and lobes. The signal targeting with alternating radiofrequency (STAR) pulsed ASL method was scanned on five normal subjects (mean age: 36 years, range: 29~41 years) on a 3T MRI system. Four parameters were evaluated with varying: 1) the labeling gap, 2) the labeling delay time, 3) the labeling thickness, and 4) the slice scan order. Signal intensities were obtained from the perfusion-weighted imaging on the gray and white matters and brain lobes of the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital areas. The results of this study were summarized: 1) Perfusion-weighted signal intensities were decreased with increasing the labeling gap in the bilateral gray matter areas and were least affected on the parietal lobe, but most affected on the occipital lobe. 2) Perfusion-weighted signal intensities were decreased with increasing the labeling delay time until 400 ms, but increased up to 1,000 ms in the bilateral gray matter areas. 3) Perfusion-weighted signal intensities were increased with increasing the labeling thickness until 120 mm in both the gray and white matter. 4) Perfusion-weighted signal intensities were higher descending scans than asending scans in both the gray and white matter. We investigated changes of perfusion-weighted signal intensities with varying several parameters in the STAR ASL method. It should require having protocol optimization processing before applying in patients. It has limitations to apply the ASL method in the white matter on a 3T MRI system.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2016

In this work, we considered a compressed-sensing (CS)-based image deblurring scheme with a total-variation (TV) regularization penalty for improving image characteristics in digital tomosynthesis (DTS). We implemented the proposed image deblurring algorithm and performed a systematic simulation to demonstrate its viability. We also performed an experiment by using a table-top setup which consists of an x-ray tube operated at $90kV_p$, 6 mAs and a CMOS-type flat-panel detector having a $198-{\mu}m$ pixel resolution. In the both simulation and experiment, 51 projection images were taken with a tomographic angle range of ${\theta}=60^{\circ}$ and an angle step of ${\Delta}{\theta}=1.2^{\circ}$ and then deblurred by using the proposed deblurring algorithm before performing the common filtered-backprojection (FBP)-based DTS reconstruction. According to our results, the image sharpness of the recovered x-ray images and the reconstructed DTS images were significantly improved and the cross-plane spatial resolution in DTS was also improved by a factor of about 1.4. Thus the proposed deblurring scheme appears to be effective for the blurring problems in both conventional radiography and DTS and is applicable to improve the present image characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.426-428
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• 2000

화상회의 시스템의 영상 압축표준 중 하나인 H.261은 화상전화기에서 주로 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 H.261 영상에 부가영상을 삽입하는 방법을 제안한다. H.261 영상에 단순히 부가영상을 삽입하면 움직임보상 데이터 처리를 하지 않기 때문에 전달된 H.261 영상으로부터 원래의 영상을 복원하기 어렵다. 이를 해결하는 방법으로 원시 H.261 영상 전체를 복호화 한 후 부가영상을 삽입하고 다시 부호화 하는 방법이 있으나 이 경우 처리해 주어야 할 데이터가 너무 많아 수행속도의 저하를 가져온다. 제안한 방법은 움직임 보상 정보가 영상에 아무 영향을 미치지 않을 경우에는 허프만 복/부호화만을 사용하여 단순 삽입을 하고, 움직임 보상 정보가 부가영상과 겹치게 되어 부가 영상이 포함된 영상을 전달 받는 측에서 문제가 될 경우만 복호화해 두었던 영상데이터를 보낸다. 간단한 실험을 통하여 제안된 알고리즘의 성능을 분석한 결과 전체를 복/부호화하는 방법에 비하여 대략 3배의 속도의 향상을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.399-405
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• 2009

The focal plane image stabilization for a satellite camera is one of the an effective method which can increase the satellite camera's image quality by removing the motion disturbance of a focal plane. The objectives of this article are to introduce the concept of the focal plane image stabilization and determine the best driving conditions of the actuator for the response and thrust. Under various driving condition the experiments have been performed to investigate the response and thrust characteristics of the piezoelectric driven stick-slip actuator of the focal plane image stabilizing device. From experiments, the best driving frequency and duty ratio for the magnesium slider are 70 kHz and 27%, respectively.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.197-203
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• 2012

In this paper, researching for the video quality estimation of IPTV in the situation that increase the broadcasting network traffic on the IPTV multicasting service using the ETSI TR 101 290 that is the European digital video quality standard estimating method and present the experiment result. Proving that the intimate relation is between IPTV video quality and ETSI TR 101 290 estimation, also ETSI TR 101 290 can detect the video quality factors which can't be detected by the exist video estimation methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.474-485
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• 2001

This paper proposes a user-key-based fragile watermarking for detecting image modification. The embedding data in a form of binary image for authentication are inserted to the DCT coefficients of each block of the given image. To minimize possible exposure of being watermarked and the location of insertion, it is proposed to utilize a user-specific key in randomizing those information. Each DCT block hides one bit of data, all of which represent the user-specific authentication data. Experiments with 5 real images demonstrate that the proposed method not only detects whether there is modification or not, but also the actual location of modification with minimal visual deterioration. However, the proposed method has room for improvement against its loss of watermark by an attack of compression by more than 50%.