• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.9A
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• pp.1419-1424
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• 1999

In order to implement morphological filters on image processing systems, the size of structuring element must be small due to the architectural constraints of the systems, which requires the decomposition of structuring element into small elements for the filters with large structuring elements. In this paper, an algorithm for decomposition of structuring element with no restriction on the shape and size is developed which enables sub-optimal implementation of any morphological filter on 3X3 pipeline machine. The given structuring element is first decomposed into the union of elements using sequential search procedure, then each element is further decomposed optimally into 3X3 elements, resulting in final sub-optimal 3$\times$3 hybrid decomposition. The proposed algorithm is applied to some structuring elements and the results close to the optimum are obtained.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.27-35
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• 2014

Motion Graphic developed in the visual fields such as film and TV is widely used from the fields of arts such as applied paintings to interactive media such as web sites. In particular, Motion Graphic is actively used in the film's promotion websites with the form of a mixture between characteristics of visual media and characteristics of websites. In this study, we analyze the characteristics of film's promotion websites, investigate previous studies for Motion Graphic analysis. And present a model for the analysis of websites including visual elements, media elements and motion elements as main elements. We select some of promotion websites for films among 2013 domestic hot films, carry out a case analysis, and present the direction of development on the base of the results.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.142-145
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• 2017

Currently, a trend in image processing is high-quality and high-resolution. The size and amount of image data are increasing exponentially because of the development of information and communication technology. Thus, license plate recognition with a single processor cannot handle the increasing data. This paper proposes a number plate recognition system using a distributed processing framework, Hadoop. Using SequenceFile format in Hadoop, each mapper performs a license plate recognition with a number of image data in a data block Experimental results show that license plate recognition performance with 16 data nodes accomplishes speedup of maximum 14.7 times comparing with one data node. In large dataset, the recognition performance is robust even if the number of data nodes increases gradually.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.60-63
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• 2008

The sony Eytoy is developed on Playstation 2 using webcam for detecting human. A user see his appearance in television and become real gamer in the game. It is very different interface compared with ordinary video game which uses joystick. Although Eyetoy already was made for commercial products but the interface method still is interesting and can be added with many techniques like gesture recognition. In this paper, we have developed game interface with image processing for human hand and face detection and with game graphic module. And we realize one example game for busting balloons and demonstrated the game interface abilities. We will open this project for other developers and will be developed very much.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.83-96
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• 1991

The use of SPOT Imagery is a growing trend in the field of small and middle scale mapping, as well as in establishing topographic database. This study is about 3-D positioning using the SPOT Imagery, where the accuracy and the gemetric characteristics of SPOT photos are analysed according to the preprocessing level (level 1AP,1B). As a result of this study the following could be determined, i. e 1) the geometric characteristics of SPOT Imagery according to the preprocessing level, 2) the optimal polynomial type for exterior orientations of each preprocessing level, and 3) the type of significant additional parameters. It was found that both the geometric precision and accuracy of level 1AP is higher than those of level 1B, which implies that level 1AP is more suitable for precise 3-D positioning and map production.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.3300-3309
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 변전소에서 수용가까지의 전력공급설비를 나타내는 도면인 배전설비도면의 주요 기호인 전주와 전선인식 방법에 과하여 기술한다. 제안하는 방법은 원형성에 근거하여 전주후보를 추출한 후 이들 사이의 연결성에 근거하여 전선을 인식한 다음, 전주후보들 중에서 전주를 확인하는 방법으로 다음과 같이 네 개의 단계로 구성된다. 첫 번째는 히스토그램 분석을 통하여 얻어진 임계값을 사용하여 입력영상에서 배전설비영역을 추출하는 단계이고, 두 번째는 추출된 배전설비영역을 세선화 하는 단계이다. 세 번째는 세선영상의 분기점 근처에 정의된 탐색영역에서 원형성을 측정하여 전주후보를 추출하는 단계이다. 네 번째는 전주후보들이 가지는 분기점들 간의 연결성을 측정하여 전선을 인식하는 단계이다. 전선인식이 완료되면 전주후보들 중에서 전선을 가지는 후보들만을 추출하여 전주를 인식한다. 제안된 방법은 한국전력공사의 배전설비도면들 중에서 무작위로 추출한 표본 약 30매를 대상으로 실험하고 그 결과를 제시한다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.6D
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• pp.1033-1041
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• 2006

In this study, we calculated a space-time variation of GPS precipitable water vapor using GPS meteorology technique during a progress of the typhoon EWINIAR had made an effect on Korean peninsular at 10 July, 2006. We estimated tropospheric dry delay and wet delay for one hourly using 22 GPS permanent stations and precipitable water vapor was conversed by using surface meteorological data. The Korean weighted mean temperature and air-pressure of versa-reduction to the mean sea level have been used for an accuracy improvement of GPS precipitable water vapor estimation. Finally, we compared MTSAT water vapor image, radar image and precipitable water vapor map during a passage of the typhoon EWINIAR.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.484-491
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• 1995

It is well known that hepatobiliary agent are taken up by metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) as well as primary HCC. But the reported cases of the extrahepatic metastasis of HCC diagnosed by hepatobiliary scintigraphy are for the most part hematogenous ones. The relation of the uptake pattern of hepatobiliary agent in the primary and metastatic HCC is also still remains unknown. So we undertook this study to evaluate the relation of the hepatobiliary scintigraphic patterns of primary and metastatic HCC with different metastatic routes. Nine patients with primary HCC and twelve cases of metastatic HCC including four lung metastases, one bone metastasis, one right atrial metastasis, one peritoneal wall metastasis, and five lymph node metastases were studied with $^{99m}Tc-DISIDA$ scintigraphy. The images were taken on 10, 30 minutes, 1, 2, 4-6 hours. The overall detection rates of hematogenous metastases(lung and bone) is 60%(3 of 5), direct metastasis(right atrium and peritoneal wall), 100%(2 of 2) and lymphatic metastases, 0%(0 of 5). In four of five metastatic cases demonstrated with hepatobiliary scintigraphy, biliary agent is also taken up by primary HCC lesions. And the appearing time of the radioactivity in the direct metastatic HCC lesioin is same as that of primary HCC and in the cases of hematogenous metastasis, earlier than that of primary HCC. Hepatobiliary scintigraphy is more useful in the diagnosis of the metastatic HCC than primary HCC, in the cases of hematogenous and direct metastasis.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.34-42
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• 2014

Purpose : To evaluate the correlation of lesion-to-normal ratio (LNR) of signal intensity from double inversion recovery MR imaging and total choline-containing compound (tCho) resonance from single voxel MR spectroscopy in breast cancers. Materials and Methods: Between August 2008 and December 2009, 28 patients who were diagnosed as breast cancer and had undergone both double inversion recovery (DIR) MR imaging and MR spectroscopy (MRS) were included in this study. The signal intensities of the lesion (L) and ipsilateral normal breast tissue (N) were measured in region of interest of each breast cancer in DIR and contrast enhance MR image (CE-T1WI) to calculate the LNR value for each technique. MRS was performed using single-voxel MR spectroscopy. The height, width and area of tCho resonance were compared with each LNR of DIR and CE-T1WI. We used Pearson's correlation coefficient(r) for correlation analysis and the significance level was p=0.05. Results: There was no statistically significant correlation between LNR of CE-T1WI and height (r=-0.322, p=0.094), width (r=-0.233, p=0.232) and area (r=-0.309, p=0.109) of MRS tCho. There was no statistically significant correlation between LNR of DIR and height (r=0.067, p=0.735), width (r=-0.287, p=0.139) and area (r=0.012, p=0.953) of MRS tCho, either. The Pearson's correlation coefficient was 0.186 between LNRs of CET1WI and DIR (p=0.344). Conclusion: There was no statistically significant correlation between LNR of DIR and relative amount of tCho resonance of MRS.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.28-34
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• 2012

Various feature extraction algorithms are widely applied to real-time image processing applications for extracting significant features from images. Feature extraction algorithms are mostly combined with image processing algorithms mostly for image tracking and recognition. Feature extraction function is used to supply feature information to the other image processing algorithms and it is mainly implemented in a preprocessing stage. Nowadays, image processing applications are faced with embedded system implementation for a real-time processing. In order to satisfy this requirement, it is necessary to reduce execution time so as to improve the performance. Reducing the time for executing a feature extraction function dose not only extend the execution time for the other image processing algorithms, but it also helps satisfy a real-time requirement. This paper explains FAST (Feature from Accelerated Segment Test algorithm) of E. Rosten and presents FPGA-based embedded hardware accelerator architecture. The proposed acceleration scheme can be implemented by using approximately 2,217 Flip Flops, 5,034 LUTs, 2,833 Slices, and 18 Block RAMs in the Xilinx Vertex IV FPGA. In the Modelsim - based simulation result, the proposed hardware accelerator takes 3.06 ms to extract 954 features from a image with $640{\times}480$ pixels and this result shows the cost effectiveness of the propose scheme.