• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.283-290
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• 2005

The mismatched allocation of watermarking position due to parallel translation, rotation, and scaling distortion is a problem that requires an answer in watermarking. In this paper, we propose a watermarking method robust enough to hold against geometrical distorting using restoration pattern matching. The proposed method defines restoration pattern, then inserts the pattern to a watermark embedded image for distribution. Geometrical distortion is verified by comparing restoration pattern extracted from distributed image and the original restoration pattern inserted to the image. If geometrical distortion is found, inverse transformation is equally performed to synchronize the watermark insertion and extraction position. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, experiments in translation, rotation, and scaling attack are performed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.101-109
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• 2011

This paper describes the attempts to improve the performance of an image matching method for multiple image. Typically, matching between two images is performed by using correlation between a reference and corresponding images. The proposed multiple image matching algorithm performs matching in an object space, chooses the image closest to the true vertical image as a reference image, calculates the correlation based on the chosen reference image. The algorithm also detects occluded regions automatically and keep them from matching. We could find that it is possible to create high quality DEM by this method, regardless of the location of image. From the performance improvement experiments through the occlusion detection, we could confirm the possibility of a more accurate representation of 3D information.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.427-428
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• 2014

화재발생 시 인명 안전을 위하여 초기의 화재감지가 매우 중요한 요인이다. 기존 연기감지기의 경우 일정한 조건만 맞으면 작동하기 때문에 비화재보의 우려가 높다. 특히 차량 매연도 연료가 연소되어 나오는 연기이므로 차량정체 시 트럭 등에서 발생하는 심한 매연에도 반응하여 오작동의 가능성이 높다. 이러한 기존 화재감지기의 문제점을 해결하기 위해 다양한 IR 레이저 기반 연기검출장치가 활용되고 있다. 하지만 IR 레이저 기반 연기검출장치는 100m 거리가 이격된 레이저 발광부와 수광부 구조에 따라 발광부 레이저광선의 각도변화에 따른 수광부 레이저 포인트 위치가 매우 민감하게 변화함에 따라 초기 레이저 포인트의 초점을 정확히 정합하고, 이후 보정하기 위한 고정밀 자동 초점 정합장치가 필요하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 레이저 투광부와 수광부를 분리하여 레이저 송신기, 수신기로 구성되는 고정밀 자동초점 정합장치를 설계하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.2007-2012
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• 2011

To reduce huge computation in the block matching, this paper proposes a fast block matching algorithm which limits search points in the search area. On the basis of two facts that most motion vectors are located in central part of search area and matching error is monotonic decreasing toward the best similar block, the proposed algorithm moves a matching pattern between steps by the one pixel, predicts the motion direction for the best similar block from similar blocks decided in previous steps, and limits movements of search points to ${\pm}45^{\circ}C$ on it. As a result, it could remove the needless search points and reduce the block matching computation. In comparison with the conventional similar algorithms, the proposed algorithm caused the trivial image degradation in images with fast motion but kept the equivalent image quality in images with normal motion, and it, meanwhile, reduced from about 20% to over 67% of the their block matching computation.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.700-704
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a method for combining MR image with histopathology image of the prostate using image correction and multi-stage registration. Our method consists of four steps. First, the intensity of prostate bleeding area on T2-weighted MR image is substituted for that on T1-weighted MR image. And two or four tissue sections of the prostate in histopathology image are combined to produce a single prostate image by manual stitching. Second, rigid registration is performed to find the affine transformations that to optimize mutual information between MR and histopathology images. Third, the result of affine registration is deformed by the TPS warping. Finally, aligned images are visualized by the intensity intermixing. Experimental results show that the prostate tumor lesion can be properly located and clearly visualized within MR images for tissue characterization comparison and that the registration error between T2-weighted MR and histopathology image was 0.0815mm.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.1369-1376
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose 2D industrial image registration method for the detection of defects. Proposed method performs preprocessing to smooth the original image with the preservation of the edge for the robust registration against general noise. Then, x-direction gradient magnitude image and corresponding binary image are generated. Density analysis around neighborhood regions per pixel are performed to generate feature image for preventing mis-registration due to moire-like patterns, which frequently happen in industrial images. Finally, 2D image registration based on phase correlation between feature images is performed to calculate translational parameters to align two images rapidly and optimally. Experimental results showed that the registration accuracy of proposed method for the real industrial images was 100% and our method was about twenty times faster than the previous method. Our fast and accurate method could be used for the real industrial applications.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.81-88
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• 2015

Various satellite sensors having ranges of the visible, infrared, and thermal wavelengths have been launched due to the improvement of hardware technologies of satellite sensors development. According to the development of satellite sensors with various wavelength ranges, the fusion and integration of multisensor images are proceeded. Image matching process is an essential step for the application of multisensor images. Some algorithms, such as SIFT and SURF, have been proposed to co-register satellite images. However, when the existing algorithms are applied to extract matching points between optical and thermal images, high accuracy of co-registration might not be guaranteed because these images have difference spectral and spatial characteristics. In this paper, location of control points in a reference image is extracted by SURF, and then, location of their corresponding pairs is estimated from the correlation of the local similarity. In the case of local similarity, phase correlation method, which is based on fourier transformation, is applied. In the experiments by simulated, Landsat-8, and ASTER datasets, the proposed algorithm could extract reliable matching points compared to the existing SURF-based method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.1-12
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• 2005

Image registration is a process to establish the spatial correspondence between images of the same scene, which are acquired at different view points, at different times, or by different sensors. This paper presents a new algorithm for robust registration of the images acquired by multiple sensors having different modalities; the EO (electro-optic) and IR(infrared) ones in the paper. The two feature-based and intensity-based approaches are usually possible for image registration. In the former selection of accurate common features is crucial for high performance, but features in the EO image are often not the same as those in the R image. Hence, this approach is inadequate to register the E0/IR images. In the latter normalized mutual Information (nHr) has been widely used as a similarity measure due to its high accuracy and robustness, and NMI-based image registration methods assume that statistical correlation between two images should be global. Unfortunately, since we find out that EO and IR images don't often satisfy this assumption, registration accuracy is not high enough to apply to some applications. In this paper, we propose a two-stage NMI-based registration method based on the analysis of statistical correlation between E0/1R images. In the first stage, for robust registration, we propose two preprocessing schemes: extraction of statistically correlated regions (ESCR) and enhancement of statistical correlation by filtering (ESCF). For each image, ESCR automatically extracts the regions that are highly correlated to the corresponding regions in the other image. And ESCF adaptively filters out each image to enhance statistical correlation between them. In the second stage, two output images are registered by using NMI-based algorithm. The proposed method provides prospective results for various E0/1R sensor image pairs in terms of accuracy, robustness, and speed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.85-86
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• 2011

철도운영효율 향상을 위하여 첨단 기술을 기반으로 하는 스마트 철도 기술에 대한 개발 및 실용화 사업이 전 세계적으로 진행중에 있다. 철도의 수송력 증대와 운영비용 감소 및 시스템 변경 용이성등의 장점을 극대화하기 위하여 기존의 궤도회로 중심의 열차제어 시스템에서 통신기술을 기반으로 하는 열차제어시스템으로의 전환을 위한 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 CBTC 시스템에서 GPS시스템의 적용 타당성 여부를 검증하였고 CBTC 시스템에서의 위치 정보 수신을 위한 GPS 수신데이터의 정합 알고리듬에 관한 저전력 분할 연산 알고리듬을 설계하여, 본 논문에서 제안한 코드는 기존의 수신데이터의 정합알고리듬 대비 2% 면적이 감소하는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 또한 전력소모가 7% 감소되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.573-578
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• 2003

Recently, speaker localizing estimation technique has been rising in teleconference systems. In this paper, it was described to be able to enhance the speech quality through microphone array, and received the only signal of speaker. Unfortunately, as it using estimated the signal in advance, it is not matched in a real acoustic environment so it has poor performance. In this paper is proposed for Adaptive Matched Filter Microphone Array that estimated acoustic room environment from the received the signal and study of the efficiency through simulations.