• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.168-176
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• 2014

Detecting moving objects from a video sequence is a fundamental and critical task in video surveillance, traffic monitoring and analysis, and human detection and tracking. It is very difficult to detect moving objects in a video sequence degraded by the environmental factor such as fog. In particular, the color of an object become similar to the neighbor and it reduces the saturation, thus making it very difficult to distinguish the object from the background. For such a reason, it is shown that the performance and reliability of object detection and tracking are poor in the foggy weather. In this paper, we propose a novel method to improve the performance of object detection, combining a haze removal algorithm and a local histogram-based object tracking method. For the quantitative evaluation of the proposed system, information retrieval measurements, recall and precision, are used to quantify how well the performance is improved before and after the haze removal. As a result, the visibility of the image is enhanced and the performance of objects detection is improved.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.163-170
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• 2013

In general, images of outdoor scenes often contain degradation due to dust, water drop, haze, fog, smoke and so on, as a result they cause the contrast reduction and color fading. Haze removal is not easier problem due to the inherent ambiguity between the haze and the underlying scene. So, we propose a novel method to solve single scene dehazing problem using the region segmentation based on graph algorithm that has used a gradient value as a cost function. We segment the scene into different regions according to depth-related information and then estimate the global atmospheric light. The medium transmission can be directly estimated by the threshold function of graph-based segmentation algorithm. After estimating the medium transmission, we can restore the haze-free scene. We evaluated the degree of the visibility restoration between the proposed method and the existing methods by calculating the gradient of the edge between the restored scene and the original scene. Results on a variety of outdoor haze scene demonstrated the powerful haze removal and enhanced image quality of the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.70-70
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• 2017

영상처리 기법을 이용한 유속 측정 방법인 표면영상유속계는 비접촉식으로 간편하게 유속을 측정할 수 있다는 장점이 있지만 영상 내 추적자의 움직임을 식별하기 어려운 야간의 경우와 새벽의 안개가 발생하는 경우에 대한 유속 측정의 어려움이 있었다. 표면영상유속계를 이용한 야간 유속 측정은 조명과 적외선 카메라를 이용하여 수표면을 가시화하는 방법을 통해 현장 적용성을 검증하였으나, 안개 발생 상황에서는 적용하기 어렵다는 한계가 있었다. 야간과 안개 등의 한계를 동시에 극복하기 위한 방법으로 원적외선 카메라를 이용한 연구들이 이루어지고 있지만 아직 시작단계이고, 원적외선의 경우 주변 환경 변화에 따라 물체의 표면온도가 검출되는 파장이 달라져 영상의 품질에 차이가 발생하기 때문에 이에 대한 다양한 실험적 연구가 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 야외 개수로에서 드라이아이스를 이용하여 안개 조건을 재현하고, 다양한 흐름 조건에서 원적외선 영상을 이용한 표면유속 측정 적용성을 검토하였다. 안개가 발생하는 경우 원적외선 표면영상 유속계를 적용한 결과 안개가 없을 때의 유속 측정 결과와 거의 일치하는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 원적외선 카메라를 이용한 표면유속 측정 방법은 야간과 안개가 발생하는 상황에 모두 사용하기에 적합한 것을 나타났다. 향후 하천 유량조사에 원적외선 카메라를 활용한다면 기존의 표면영상유속계의 비가시 환경에 대한 한계들을 많은 부분 극복할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.83-87
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• 2021

In harsh environments such as fog or fine dust, the cameras' detection ability for object recognition may significantly decrease. In order to accurately obtain important information even in bad weather, fog removal algorithms are necessarily required. Research has been conducted in various ways, such as computer vision/data-based fog removal technology. In those techniques, estimating the amount of fog through the input image's depth information is an important procedure. In this paper, a linear model is presented under the assumption that the image dark channel dictionary, saturation ∗ value, and sharpness characteristics are linearly related to depth information. The proposed method of haze removal through a linear model shows the superiority of algorithm performance in quantitative numerical evaluation.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.492-496
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• 2020

The visibility deteriorates in hazy weather and it is difficult to accurately recognize information captured by the camera. Research is being actively conducted to remove haze so that camera-based applications such as object localization/detection and lane recognition can operate normally even in hazy weather. In this paper, we propose a nonlinear model for depth map estimation through an extensive analysis that the difference between brightness and saturation in hazy image increases non-linearly with the depth of the image. The quantitative evaluation(MSE, SSIM, TMQI) shows that the proposed haze removal method based on the nonlinear model is superior to other state-of-the-art methods.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.385-392
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• 2013

A key element of the fog warning system to prevent large traffic accidents is a visibility measurement device. Recently, the need for it that is similar to the human visual sense and cheap and accurate than expensive fog sensors is increasing. In this paper, we present the performance evaluation and the economic analysis of the Road Visibility Measurement System (RVMS), which is developed for measuring the road visibility through a CCTV camera. For experiments, we have installed a CCTV camera, a fog sensor, and visibility signs at the Yeo-ju Test Road on the Central Inland Expressway. We evaluated the measurements from RVMS and the fog sensor based on observations. The result shows RVMS outperforms the fog sensor with respect to measurement stability and correctness. We also show RVMS has higher economic feasibility and various applications. RVMS can prevent the traffic accidents caused by severe fog and enhance the process of the wide-area visibility information system significantly.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.67-69
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• 1999

산성물질들은 구름이나 안개가 생성될 때 내부로 녹아 들어가거나, 비가 내릴 때 녹아 들어가 구름, 안개, 비 중에 많은 양이 존재하며, 이 과정이 기체상 물질들이 대기 중에서 제거되는 주요한 과정이다. 구름이나 안개, 비 중에서 직접 산성오염물질이 생성되는 액상반응도 있고, 주로 아황산가스의 산화반응이 기여하고 있다고 알려져 있다(Hegg and Hobbs, 1978). 이렇게 생성된 대기 중 산성물질들은 대기에서 지표면으로 내려와 식물, 하천수, 호소수, 토양, 건축물 등에 영향을 준다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.149-151
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• 2002

산성을 유발하는 물질들은 대기 중에서 비나 눈, 안개, 구름 등에 유입되어 강하하는 습성강하와 기체상 입자상 물질의 형태로 지표로 이동하는 건성강하를 통해 대기 중에서 제거된다. 습성강하물 중 안개는 비보다 입자의 크기가 매우 작고, 수분량이 적으며, 대기 중에 체제하는 시간이 매우 길어 대기 중에서 오염물질이 계속 유입되므로 비보다 오염물질의 농도가 매우 높게 나타난다. (중략)

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.491-500
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• 2016

Fog is atmospheric in which tiny drops of water vapor are suspended in the air near the ground. Its form, occurrence, etc., change according to the temperature, relative humidity, wind and geographical features of the space around it. In particular, fog tends to occur near a source of water because of temperature and relative humidity difference. These days, climate change is increasingly affecting the occurrence of fog. Therefore the purpose of this study was to investigate how fog affects materials that are part of our cultural properties through outdoor exposure tests and artificial degradation. The degradation evaluation of materials as a function of fog occurrence frequency, showed that the color of metals changed noticeably, whereas dyed silk and Dancheong showed degradation on the surface and color differences but no particular tendencies. Therefore, damage prediction by color differences as a function of fog occurrence frequency was based on metal samples, which showed constant color differences. Through a comparison of the predictive value and color difference by outdoor exposure, the accuracy and applicability of the damage prediction formula was confirmed. If a more complex damage prediction formula is created, it is expected that prediction of the degree of material damage in the field would be possible.

• Korea Science and Art Forum
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• v.6
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• pp.67-78
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to examine the educational methods and the educational effects using the cloud chamber in order to help young people to understand the nuclear energy and the ionizing radiation. In this study, we surveyed not only the history and the value of the cloud chamber as an hands-on exhibit in the science museum, but the case study on the nuclear hands-on education and the nuclear out-of-school education using the cloud chamber. And we analysed the satisfaction degree of participants in the out-of-school education using the cloud chamber in the science museum.