• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.569-577
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• 2014

From the year 2009, 3D Stereoscopic movies and TV have been spotlighted after the huge success of a movie called "AVATAR". Moreover, most of 3D movies & contents are created by mixing real-life shots & virtual animated pictures, such as "Robocop 3", "Transformer 4" as shown in 2014. However, the stereoscopic 3D video film shooting with a traditional stereoscopic rig camera system, takes much more time to set the rig system and adjust the system setting for proper film making which necessarily resulting in bigger cost. In fact, these problems have depreciated the success of Avatar as decreasing demand for 3D stereoscopic video shooting. In this paper, inherent problems of traditional stereoscopic rig camera system are analyzed, and as a solution for the problems, a novel implementations of single-lens optical stereoscopic 3D camera system is suggested. The new system can be implemented to a technology for separating two lights when even those lights passing through in the same optical axis. The system has advantages of adjusting the setting and taking video compared with traditional stereoscopic 3D rig systems. Furthermore, this system can acquire comfortable 3D stereoscopic video because of the good characteristics of geometrical errors. This paper will be discussed the single-lens stereoscopic 3D camera system using rolling shutters, it will be tested geometrical errors of this system. Lastly, other types of single lens stereoscopic 3D camera system are discussed to develop the promising future of this system.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.11-20
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• 2016

This paper introduces an effective method for generating 3D stereoscopic images that gives immersive 3D experiences to viewers using mobile-based binocular HMDs. Most of previous AR systems with monocular cameras have a common limitation that the same real-world images are provided to the viewer's eyes without parallax. In this paper, based on the assumption that viewers focus on the marker in the scenario of marker based AR, we recovery the binocular disparity about a camera image and a virtual object using the pose information of the marker. The basic idea is to generate the binocular disparity for real-world images and a virtual object, where the images are placed on the 2D plane in 3D defined by the pose information of the marker. For non-marker areas in the images, we apply blur effects to reduce the visual discomfort by decreasing their sharpness. Our user studies show that the proposed method for 3D stereoscopic image provides high depth feeling to viewers compared to the previous binocular AR systems. The results show that our system provides high depth feelings, high sense of reality, and visual comfort, compared to the previous binocular AR systems.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.540-546
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• 2010

Since the stereoscopic 3-dimensional (3D) video that provides users with a realistic multimedia service requires twice as much data as 2-dimensional (2D) video, it is difficult to construct the fast system. In this paper, we propose a fast stereoscopic 3D broadcasting system based on the depth information. Before the transmission, we encode the input 2D+depth video using x264, an open source H.264/AVC fast encoder to reduce the size of the data. At the receiver, we decode the transmitted bitstream in real time using a compute unified device architecture (CUDA) video decoder API on NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU). Then, we apply a fast view synthesis method that generates the virtual view using GPU. The proposed system can display the output video in both 2DTV and 3DTV. From the experiment, we verified that the proposed system can service the stereoscopic 3D contents in 24 frames per second at most.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.10-16
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• 2012

Stereo and multi-view cameras have been used to capture the three-dimensional (3D) scene for 3D contents generation. Besides, depth sensors are frequently used to obtain 3D information of the captured scene in real time. In order to generate 3D contents from captured images, we need several preprocessing operations to reduce noises and distortions in the images. 3D contents are considered as the basic media for realistic broadcasting that provides photo-realistic and immersive feeling to users. In this paper, we show technical trends of 3D image capturing and contents generation, and explain some core techniques for 3D image processing for realistic 3DTV broadcasting.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.92-95
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• 2012

대한민국에서 3DTV 방송서비스는 더 이상 '미래방송서비스'가 아니다. EBS는 올해 4월 지상파 DTV 주파수에서 세계최초로 2D/3D 혼용방송서비스를 실시하였으며, 오는 10월 15일에는 APC(Automatic Program Controller)와 연동하여 방송스케줄에 따라 자동으로 3D 방송을 송출하는 시스템을 구축하여 2차 시범방송을 진행할 예정이다. 이렇게 3D 방송을 위한 기술적 준비는 차근차근 이루어지고 있음에 반하여, 3D 방송서비스에 대한 시청자의 호응은 그다지 크지 않다. 이것은 방송되는 3D 콘텐츠의 양과 질이 부족하기 때문으로 풀이된다. 이 같은 3D 방송서비스의 장애요소에 착안하여, 본 논문에서는 3D 콘텐츠 제작효율을 높이고, 만들어지는 3D 방송콘텐츠의 품질을 높이기 위한 하나의 방법으로서, 제작현장에서 활용할 수 있는 3D 콘텐츠 제작과 밀접한 관련이 있는 새로운 참조지표인 '입체충실도(Depth Fidelity)'를 정의하여 제안하고자 한다. 입체충실도를 도출하기 위해 우선 양안식(兩眼式) 3D 입체영상의 특징을 분석하였고, 시청자 체감 가상깊이를 계산하여 활용하였다. 또한 연구를 통해 도출한 입체충실도 계산 알고리즘이 적용된 EBS 입체계산기(Stereoscopic Calculator) 애플리케이션을 개발하여 안드로이드 스마트폰에서 이용할 수 있도록 함으로써, 카메라감독과 프로듀서 등 방송제작 현업 스태프들이 연구결과를 활용할 수 있도록 했다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.13-22
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• 2011

Advances in display technology, stereoscopic (S3D) in the development of social interest in the content development approach is high but it does not make the standardization of interactive 3D content creation performance is very poor. In this paper, real-time video input from an infrared camera that is based on eye tracking implementation user interface developed 3D interactive adventure game "HowSee" was the process of developing skills in the process, an efficient 3D content production methods were presented. unnormalized S3D-based game content production process on how this development occurred in the trial and how to troubleshoot S3D games, etc. to streamline content creation can be a basis for.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.524-526
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• 2015

본 논문은 자유 시점조절과 깊이감 조절이 가능한 단일렌즈 양안시 3D 내시경과 Head-mounted display 를 사용한 새로운 로봇수술 시스템을 제안한다. 최근 들어서 여러 양안식 입체영상장치가 의료 영역에 적용되고 있다. 그러나 3D 의료 장비들은 zooming 과 자유로운 시점조절, 그리고 접사를 하는 데에 한계가 존재한다. 입체영상 장비에서 필연적으로 발생하는 이러한 문제점들은 3D 영화를 찍기 위해서 사용되는 것과 같은 2 대의 카메라와 2 개의 렌즈를 사용하는 데에서 원인을 찾을 수 있다. 이러한 문제점들은 Da Vinci 로봇 수술 시스템과 같은 가장 최신의 시스템에서도 해결되지 못하였다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 새로운 시스템은 지금까지 제시된 문제점들을 해결하고, 현재 존재하는 로봇 수술 시스템에 몰입 입체영상 수술이나 증강 현실 수술을 가능하게 하기 위한 목적으로 제안되었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.278-288
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• 2010

In this paper, we carried out quality assessment and analysis of stereoscopic 3D Television pictures according to ITU-R contribution and recommendation by rating scales using DSCQS (Double-Stimuli Continuous Quality Scale) method. The evaluation results show that overall quality and sharpness of stereoscopic pictures revealed almost no difference compared to cases of mono pictures as to natural outdoor scenes, graphic images, and indoor scenes (about 3.0 above ~ 4.0), but depth perception and sensation of reality of stereoscopic images exhibit better quality performance over mono images as indicated more than 4.0 out of 5.0 grade. Evaluation results should be considered as human factors such as disparity when shooting and/or editing 3DTV.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.27-33
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• 2013

Multi-view video system provides both realistic 3D feelings and free-view navigation. But it is hard to transmit too huge data, so we send only two or three view images and generate intermediate view image using depth information. In this paper, we propose high quality multi-view image generation method from stereoscopic images. Since the stereo matching method does not provide accurate disparity values for all the pixels, especially at the occlusion area, we propose an occlusion handling method using the background pixels at first. We also apply a joint bilateral filtering to enhance the disparity map at the object boundary since it can affect the quality of synthesized images significantly. Finally, we can generate virtual view images at intermediate view positions using confidence map to reduce bad pixel and hole's error. Experimental results show the proposed method performs better than the conventional method.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.211-218
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• 2002

This paper introduces the HD 3DTV camera and 3DTV receiver that are compatible with the ATSC HDTV broadcasting system. The developed 3DTV camera is based on stereoscopic techniques, and it has control function to control both left and right zoom lens simultaneously and to control the vergence. Moreover, in order to control the vergence manually and to eliminate the synchronization problem of the both images, the 3DTV camera has the 3DTV video multiplexing function to combine the left and right images into the single image. The developed 3DTV signal, and it has the various analog/digital interfaces. The performance of the developed system is confirmed by shooting the selected soccer game in 2002 FIFA KOREA/JAPANTM World Cup and by broadcasting the match. The HD 3DTV camera and receiver will be applied to the 3DTV industries such as 3D movie, 3D game, 3D image processing, 3DTV broadcasting system, and so on.