• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.77-78
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• 2015

Image Binarization is essential process in the digital image processing for the read out of a one-dimensional barcode. Local threshold method is suitable for binarization of a bar code. However, It has problem that processing time is slower than other binarization algorithm. Also, It's results not appropriate If the image has a noise. In this paper, we propose the modification method for solve these problems. Proposed algorithm help to improve the speed of local thresholding method using average image. Also, we proposed a high frequency filter to one-dimensional barcode for improvement quality of binary image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.773-774
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• 2016

In this study, we perform the weight reduction and miniaturization of the shielding element that is applied for gamma-ray detectors for imaging of gamma-ray source. Through previous studies, we implemented a lead-based shielding element that represents the shielding effectiveness and performance of commercially available gamma-ray imaging apparatus similar to the shielding body. In this paper, we designed a tungsten-based shield for weight reduction and miniaturization than lead-based shield. We performed the MCNP simulation for shield design and then we obtained the results of reducing the weight of the 17% and 51% of the volume.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• fall
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• pp.139-143
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 꾸준히 연구되어 오던 이미지 복원 문제에서 초해상화와 인페인팅이라는 복합적 이미지 복원을 동시에 처리하는 해결 방법을 제안한다. 초해상화는 국지적 픽셀 정보를 이용하여 고해상도의 영상을 복원하고, 인페인팅은 이미지 전체 정보를 활용하여 영상 내 비어 있는 영역을 생성해야 하므로, 이러한 두 가지 영상 복원 기법을 동시에 수행하는 것은 상당히 어려운 문제이다. 그렇기에 인페인팅과 초해상화는 이미지 복원에서 널리 활용되는 기술인 만큼 동시에 해결할 수 있는 기법에 대한 수요는 있음에도 지금까지 거의 연구되지 않았다. 본 논문은 초해상화 및 인페인팅 합동 처리에 있어 복합적인 정보를 모두 다뤄야하는 네트워크가 서로의 성능을 저하시키지 않도록 개략적 복원 네트워크 (Coarse network), 디테일 복원 네트워크 (Refinement network), 초해상화 네트워크 (SR network)로 분리하여 초해상화 및 인페인팅 합동 처리를 수행하며, 각 단계마다 결과 영상을 얻어 스케일 별 정답 영상과 손실함수를 계산하여 복합적인 성능을 올릴 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 또한 순차적 단일 모델에 비하여 인페인팅과 초해상화를 합동 학습하는 제안 모델이 개선된 화질의 결과 영상을 획득할 수 있다는 것을 실험적으로 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• fall
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• pp.197-200
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• 2021

몰입형 고품질 가상 현실 영상 스트리밍을 위한 360도 영상 부호화 및 전송 기술 중 하나로 사용자 시점 기반 타일 스트리밍 기법이 활발히 연구되고 있다. 360도 영상은 용량이 크기 때문에 개별 타일 기반 스트리밍 방법을 사용해 사용자 시점만 보내는 것이 효율적이다. 본 논문은 시점 기반 가상 현실 영상 복호화 시스템을 위한 복호기 적응적 타일 클러스터링 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 클라이언트의 복호기가 최대로 복호화 가능한 해상도를 탐색한 후, 사용자 시점 데이터와 복호기 적응적 타일 클러스터링 알고리즘을 이용해 클러스터화할 복수 개의 사용자 시점 타일들의 목록을 생성한 후, 타일 병합기를 이용해 타일들을 병합하여 클러스터 비트스트림을 생성한다. 이후 클라이언트는 병합된 클러스터 비트스트림들을 복호화한 후 사용자 시점을 생성한다. 제안하는 방법을 이용하면 클라이언트의 복호기 환경에 제약받지 않는 복호화가 가능하며, 제안하는 방법 중 하나인 4K_clustering 방법의 경우 8%의 복호화 속도 개선 효과를 얻을 수 있어 몰입형 고품질 가상 현실 영상을 위한 실시간 타일 스트리밍이 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.257-262
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• 2002

영상을 적은 비트로 표현할 때 먼저 양자화를 이용하여 칼라맵을 생성한다. 그리고 적은 비트의 칼라맵으로도 인간의 시각에 적합하게 표현하기 위해 디더링을 결합한다. 본 논문에서는 디더링 기법중 오차확산법이 주변화소로 양자화 에러를 확산한다는 것을 고려하여 칼라맵을 생성하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 LBG 알고리즘의 개선하여 클러스터의 양자화 벡터를 구하는 각각의 반복단계에서 현재 양자화 벡터와 새로운 중심값(centroid)을 연결하는 직선 상에서 새로운 양자화벡터를 구하는 기존의 알고리즘에 에러를 고려하여 새로운 양자화 벡터를 얻을 수 있도록 하였다. 제안방법을 적용하였을 때 기존의 LBG 알고리즘에 비해 양자화 영상과 디더영상의 화질이 개선되었다. 또한 각 칼라별 MSE 와 영상전체 MSE 에 대해서도 제안방법은 기존의 LBG 알고리즘에 대해 개선되었다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.41-48
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• 2022

This paper presents the unified Bayesian Tikhonov regularization method as a solution to total variation regularization. The integrated method presents a formula for obtaining the regularization parameter by transforming the total variation term into a weighted Tikhonov regularization term. It repeats until the reconstructed image converges to obtain a regularization parameter and a new weighting factor based on it. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method for the image restoration problem.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.685-695
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• 2008

This paper presents a method to segment the object of interest from a set of multi-view images with minimal user interaction. Specifically, after the user segments an initial image, we first estimate the transformations between foreground and background of the segmented image and the neighboring image, respectively. From these transformations, we obtain regions in the neighboring image that respectively correspond to the foreground and the background of the segmented image. We are then able to segment the neighboring image based on these regions, and iterate this process to segment the whole image set. Transformation of foregrounds are estimated by feature-based registration with free-form deformation, while transformation of backgrounds are estimated by homography constrained to affine transformation. Here, both are based on correspondence point pairs. Segmentation is done by estimating pixel color distributions and defining a shape prior based on the obtained foreground and background regions and applying them to a Markov random field (MRF) energy minimization framework for image segmentation. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.540-546
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• 2019

This study suggests a binarization method that minimizes information loss for night illumination images. The object of the night illumination image is an image which is not focused due to the influence of illumination and is not identifiable. Also, the image has a brightness area in only a part of the brightness histogram. So the existing simple binarization method is hard to get good results. The proposed binarization method uses image segmentation method and image merging method. In the stepwise divided blocks, we divide into two regions using the triangular type of fuzzy logic. The value 0 of the membership degree is binarized at the present step, and the value of the membership degree 1 is binarized after the next step. Experimental results show that night illumination images with minimal loss of information can be obtained in a dark area brightness range.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.93-103
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a RST resistant robust logo embedding technique for multimedia copyright protection Geometric manipulations are challenging attacks in that they do not introduce the quality degradation very much but make the detection process very complex and difficult. Watermark embedding in the normalized image directly suffers from smoothing effect due to the interpolation during the image normalization. This can be avoided by estimating the transform parameters using an image normalization technique, instead of embedding in the normalized image. Conventional RST resistant schemes that use full frame transform suffer from the absence of effective perceptual masking methods. Thus, we adopt $8\times8$ block DCT and calculate masking using a spatio-frequency localization of the $8\times8$ block DCT coefficients. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is robust against various signal processing techniques, compression and geometrical manipulations.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.333-341
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• 2011

To compare between calcium scoring CT (CSCT) and Low-dose CT (LDCT) image finding for coronary artery calcification (CAC) in screening of lung disease by MDCT. A total of 61 subjects who retired-workers exposed to inorganic dust were performed LDCT and CSCT by using a MDCT scanner on the same day, after be approved by the institutional review board, and obtaining the written informed consent from all subjects. LDCT images were read for detecting lung diseases as well as CAC by a experienced chest radiologist, then the subjects were divided either the positive group with CAC or the negative group without it. The CSCT was used to quantify and detect the presence of calcification in the coronary artery, and score of CAC calculated by using a Rapidia software (ver 2.8). In all coronary arteries, calcium score of positive group was higher better than that in negative group, especially in the total calcium (13.7 vs. 582.9, p=0.008) and the left anterior descending artery (3.2 vs. 249.0, p=0.006). CAC findings between CSCT and LDCT image were showed excellent agreement in cut-off point 100(K-value=0.80, 95% CI=0.69-0.91) from total calcium score. CAC findings on LDCT images showed the higher relation with CSCT. Therefore, the obstructive coronary artery disease could be predicted by CAC on LDCT images for screening of lung diseases.