• KIEAE Journal
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.77-84
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• 2012

Daylighting is the controlled admission of natural light into a space, reducing electric lighting and saving energy. By providing a direct link to the dynamic and perpetually evolving patterns of outdoor illumination, daylighting helps create a visually stimulating and comfort environment for building occupants, while reducing energy costs. Especially, however, glare is the most important factor in daylighting, which is issued by incoming direct sunlight into windows. This study analyzed the discomfort glare on a daylighting window by using Image processing methodology and found a solution to problems with glare source of occupants. There are several ways to evaluate discomfort glare such as UGR (Unified Glare Rating) of CIE, DGI (Daylight Glare Index, Hopkinson, 1972) and VCP (Visual Comfort Probability) of IES. These are used to apply to the relatively little artificial light source and they cannot cover discomfort glare from a real daylighting window. In this regarding, this paper aimed to calculate DGI index of the real daylighting window in a experimental space by using image processing methodology. The variables and outcomes are luminance distribution of non-shading window, effect of venetian blind installed on the window and locations related to position index of DGI.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.206-207
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• 2020

Accurate estimation of concrete strength development at early ages is a critical factor to secure structural stability as well as to speed up the construction process. The temperature generated from the heat of hydration is considered as a key parameter in predicting the early age strength. Conventionally, concrete temperature has been measured by temperature sensors installed inside concrete. However, considering the measurement on building structures with multiple floors, this method requires reinstallation and repositioning of hardware such as sensors, data loggers and routers for data transfer. This makes the temperature monitoring work cumbersome and inefficient. Concrete temperature monitoring by using thermal remote sensing can be an effective alternative to supplement those shortcomings. In this study, image processing was carried out through K-means clustering technique, which is a unsupervised learning method, and the classification results were analyzed accordingly. In the future, research will be conducted on how to automatically recognize concrete among various objects by using deep learning techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.429-432
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 카메라의 포커싱과 아웃포커싱에 의해 이미지에서 뿌옇게 표현되는 DoF(Depth of field, 피사계 심도) 영역을 합성곱 신경망을 통해 찾는 방법을 제안한다. 우리의 접근 방식은 RGB채널기반의 상호-상관 필터를 이용하여 DoF영역을 이미지로부터 효율적으로 분류하고, 합성곱 신경망 네트워크에 학습하기 위한 데이터를 구축하며, 이렇게 얻어진 데이터를 이용하여 이미지-DoF가중치 맵 데이터 쌍을 설정한다. 학습할 때 사용되는 데이터는 이미지와 상호-상관 필터 기반으로 추출된 DoF 가중치 맵을 이용하며, 네트워크 학습 단계에서 수렴률을 높이기 위해 스무딩을 과정을 한번 더 적용한 결과를 사용한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 합성곱 신경망은 이미지로부터 포커싱과 아웃포커싱된 DoF영역을 자동으로 추출하는 과정을 학습시키기 위해 사용된다. 테스트 결과로 얻은 DoF 가중치 이미지는 입력 이미지에서 DoF영역을 빠른 시간 내에 찾아내며, 제안하는 방법은 DoF영역을 사용자의 ROI(Region of interest)로 활용하여 NPR렌더링, 객체 검출 등 다양한 곳에 활용이 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.829-831
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• 2005

디지털 카메라 이미지의 화질을 저하시키는 주요 요인 중 하나는 노이즈이다. 디지털 카메라에 사용되는 CCD/CMOS 센서의 특성상, 노출이 증가할수록 신호대 잡음비(SNR)가 증가한다. 따라서 디지털 카메라에서 SNR이 높은 이미지를 얻기 위해서는 되도록 많은 노출을 주어야 한다. 하지만 너무 과다한 노출을 주게 되면 highlight clipping이 일어나기 때문에, RGB 모든 채널에서 clipping이 일어나지 않는 범위 안에서 노출을 주어야 한다. 그리고 CCD/CMOS RAW 데이터에 대해 카메라의 이미지 프로세싱 과정에서 디지털 노출 보정을 해주면 사람이 보기에 적절한 노출을 가지면서도 SNR이 높은 고화질의 이미지를 얻을 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.288-293
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• 2002

It is possible to classify image data into two types according to the internal representation: one is bitmap, the other is vector. A bitmap image is represented by the two dimensional pixels whereas a vector image is represented by mathematical functions to draw vector objects such as line, rectangle and circle on the two or three dimensional space. So it is necessary for users to use a individual application program for each different image. In this paper, we present a method for design and implementation of image editing tool based on combining of bitmap and vector image.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.329-335
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• 2010

Digital imaging detectors can use a variety of detection materials to convert X-ray radiation either to light or directly to electron charge. Many detectors such as amorphous silicon flat panels, CCDs, and CMOS photodiode arrays incorporate a scintillator screen to convert x-ray to light. The digital radiography systems based on semiconductor detectors, commonly referred to as flat panel detectors, are gaining popularity in the clinical & hospital. The X-ray detectors are described between a-Silicon based indirect type and a-Selenium based direct type. The DRS of detectors is used to convert the x-ray to electron hole pairs. Image processing is described by specific image features: Latitude compression, Contrast enhancement, Edge enhancement, Look up table, Noise suppression. The image features are tuned independently. The final enhancement result is a combination of all image features. The parameters are altered by using specific image features in the different several hospitals. The image in a radiological report consists of two image evaluation processes: Clinical image parameters and MTF is a descriptor of the spatial resolution of a digital imaging system. We used the edge test phantom and exposure procedure described in the IEC 61267 to obtain an edge spread function from which the MTF is calculated. We can compare image in the processing parameters to change between original and processed image data. The angle of the edge with respect to the axes of detector was varied in order to determine the MTF as a function of direction. Each MTF is integrated within the spatial resolution interval of 1.35-11.70 cycles/mm at the 50% MTF point. Each image enhancement parameters consists of edge, frequency, contrast, LUT, noise, sensitometry curve, threshold level, windows. The digital device is also shown to have good uniformity of MTF and image parameters across its modality. The measurements reported here represent a comprehensive evaluation of digital radiography system designed for use in the DRS. The results indicate that the parameter enables very good image quality in the digital radiography. Of course, the quality of image from a parameter is determined by other digital devices in addition to the proper clinical image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.693-695
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose the improvement of Hangul OCR accuracy through deep learning. OCR is a program that senses printed and handwritten characters in an optical way and encodes them digitally. In the case of the most commonly used Tesseract OCR, the accuracy of English recognition is high. However, Hangul has lower accuracy because it has less learning data for a complex structure. Therefore, in this study, we propose a method to improve the accuracy of Hangul OCR by extracting the character region from the desired image through image processing and using deep learning using it as learning data. It is expected that OCR, which has been developed only by existing alphanumeric and several languages, can be applied to various languages.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.69-76
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• 2015

We present microscopy based hyperspectral imaging system that successively shows high spatial (micrometer) and temporal resolutions (milisecond), and acquired pseudocolor hemoglobin saturation map a result of various image processing techniques can provide additional information such as oxygen transport, abnormal vascularity and therapeutic effects besides structural and physiological measurements in various diseases. To increase understanding of vascular defects several optical methods of imaging for preclinical/clinical assessment have been developed so far. However, they have some limitations for outcoming resolution and user satisfaction level compared to its cost. A hyperspectral imaging system has shown a wide range of vascular characteristics associated with hypervascularity, aberrant angiogenesis or abnormal vascular remodeling in many diseases. This vascular characteristic is considered as a key component to diagnose and detect a type of disease as evidenced by them.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.796-799
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• 2006

This paper presents a new method for automatic detection of skew in a document image using mathematical morphology. To speed up processing, we use reduced image but it still requires long time to estimate the skew angle so the proposed method works with region of interest, not with whole image. Character strings are connected by using morphological closing operation and a component labeling is used to select region of interest. The method considers the lowermost pixels of characters in candidate regions in the binary image of original document image. Experimental results shows that the proposed method is extremely fast and robust as well as independent of script forms.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.801-810
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• 1995

부직포의 기공크기에 대한 특성을 측정하기 위해 이미지 프로세싱을 이용하였다. 아라미드부직포와 그 부직포를 시뮬레이션한 부직포에 대해서 기공의 크기를 대표하는 평균 기공크기와 그 분포를 이미지 분석의 두가지 방법으로, 즉, 형태학적인 방법과 기하학적인 방법을 통해 측정해보았다. 아라미드 부직포, 시뮬레이견 부직포이건 상관 없이 부직포의 밀도가 증가함에 따라 기공의 크기특성, 즉 기공의 면적, 수력반경, 그리고 기공내의 최대 내접원의 반경은 감소하였다. 형태학적인 방법과 기하학적인 방법은 부직포의 종류에 상관없이 기공의 크기를 측정함에 있어서 유의한 차이가 없었다. 이는 부직포내의 섬유의 배열방향이 무작위이기 때문이었다. 실제의 아라미드 부직포와 시뮬레이션 부직포의 기공크기에 대한 특성은 서로 비슷한 양상을 보여주었다.