• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.10 s.352
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• pp.69-78
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• 2006

High spectral efficiency can be obtained by adaptive modulation in which the modulation scheme is changed according to the channel environment. Thus it is especially suitable to mobile channel which is a typical example of time-varying channel. It is required to determine the optimum thresholds of signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) to change the modulation scheme effectively according to mobile speeds. Thus the optimum thresholds for specific mobile speeds to get the required bit error rate(BER) of $10^{-6}$ are obtained with the powerful turbo code in this paper. In addition, the optimum thresholds for the continuous mobile speed are proposed by interpolation of the obtained results. And the error performance and average spectral efficiency are investigated at various mobile speeds and channel environments.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.372-378
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• 2014

Noise in biomedical X-ray image degrades the quality so that it might causes to decrease the accuracy of diagnosis. Especially the noise reduction techniques is quite essential for low-dose biomedical X-ray images obtained from low radiation power in order to protect patients, because their noise level is usually high to well discriminate objects. This paper proposes an efficient method to remove the noise in low-dose X-ray images while preserving the edges with diverse resolutions. In the proposed method, a noisy image is at first decomposed into several images with different resolutions in pyramidal representation, then the stable map of edge confidence is obtained from each of analyzed image using a fuzzy logic-based edge detector. This map is used to adaptively determine the parameter for guided filters, which eliminate the noise while preserving edges in the corresponding image. The filtered images in the pyramid are extended and synthesized into a resulted image using interpolation technique. The superiority of proposed method compared to the median, bilateral, and guided filters has been experimentally shown in terms of noise removal and edge preserving properties.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.2072-2072
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• 2009

최근 연구들에서, 증강 현실(Augmented Reality; AR) 환경에서의 촉각 상호작용에 대한 가능성이 논의되었다. 비젼 기반의 트래킹을 기초로 한 증강 현실 기술은 미리 정의된 2차원 마커(marker)를 이용하여, 카메라로부터 획득된 실시간 영상 위에 가상 물체를 증강한다. 그러나, 카메라로부터 획득된 데이터는 몇몇 오차 요인들, 예를 들어 마커의 위치를 인식하는데 나타나는 오차, 카메라 안에 존재하는 센서 잡음 등으로 인해서 마커 잡음(마커를 인식하면서 나타나는 잡음)이 불가결하게 발생하게 된다. 이러한 이유로 인해서, 사용자가 한 손에는 마커를, 다른 한 손으로는 촉감 장치를 이용하여, 마커에 증강된 물체를 만질 때, 마커 잡음은 힘의 떨림(force trembling)을 발생시킨다. 심지어, 이러한 현상은 정지된 마커에 증강된, 마커가 움직이지 않는 상황에서도 발생한다. 게다가, 마커 위에 증강된 물체가 약간 빠른 속도로 이동하게 될 경우, 측정된 이동 거리는 연속적인 프레임(frame)들 간의 불연속적일 수 있다. 만약 사용자가, 대략 30Hz로 위치와 방향이 갱신되는 가상물체를 촉각적으로 상호작용하려 한다면, 계산되는 반력은 급작스런 힘의 변화를 생성하게 될 수도 있다. 이러한 현상을 극복하기 위해서, 마커 잡음을 최소화하기 위해서 정적 임계값(constant threshold)을 이용할 뿐만 아니라, 보간법을 같이 사용한 방법이 있었다. 하지만, 이러한 방법은 정적 임계값을 이용하고, 영상 프레임 갱신 속도와(video frame rate)와 촉각 프레임 갱신 속도가 일정하다는 가정을 사용하였기 때문에, 여전히 힘의 불연속적인 발생이 나타난다. 따라서, 이 논문에서는 두 가지 방법을 이용하여 증강 현실 내에서, 발생할 수 있는 힘의 불연속적인 변화를 보정하는 두 가지 방법, 잡음 제거를 위한 확장된 칼만 필터(Extend Kalman Filter)와 영상과 촉각 갱신 속도 차이에 따른 갑작스런 힘의 변화를 제거하기 위한 적응적 외삽법(Adaptive Extrapolation method)을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.533-541
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• 2007

The Zienkiewicz-Zhu(Z/Z) error estimate is slightly modified for the hierarchical p-refinement, and is then applied to L-shaped plates subjected to bending to demonstrate its effectiveness. An adaptive procedure in finite element analysis is presented by p-refinement of meshes in conjunction with a posteriori error estimator that is based on the superconvergent patch recovery(SPR) technique. The modified Z/Z error estimate p-refinement is different from the conventional approach because the high order shape functions based on integrals of Legendre polynomials are used to interpolate displacements within an element, on the other hand, the same order of basis function based on Pascal's triangle tree is also used to interpolate recovered stresses. The least-square method is used to fit a polynomial to the stresses computed at the sampling points. The strategy of finding a nearly optimal distribution of polynomial degrees on a fixed finite element mesh is discussed such that a particular element has to be refined automatically to obtain an acceptable level of accuracy by increasing p-levels non-uniformly or selectively. It is noted that the error decreases rapidly with an increase in the number of degrees of freedom and the sequences of p-distributions obtained by the proposed error indicator closely follow the optimal trajectory.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.66-75
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• 2016

In this paper, we present a new method to reduce crosstalk of a glasses-free three-dimensional (3D) display using a multi-view image processing technique. Since crosstalk makes the current view image mixed with its neighboring ones, the output 3D image becomes severely blurred. We apply adaptive depth retargeting and view gradient-based crosstalk inverse filtering onto a multi-view image to minimize crosstalk of the glasses-free 3D display. In addition, overflow and underflow pixels are compensated by epipolar image pixel interpolation so that visual artifacts are minimized. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces crosstalk more efficiently than the previous work while improving 3D image quality.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.144-153
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• 2009

Recently, as the necessity of a light-weighted video encoding technique has been rising for applications such as UCC(User Created Contents) or Multiview Video, Distributed Video Coding(DVC) where a decoder, not an encoder, performs the motion estimation/compensation taking most of computational complexity has been vigorously investigated. Wyner-Ziv coding reconstructs an image by eliminating the noise on side information which is decoder-side prediction of original image using channel code. Generally the side information of Wyner-Ziv coding is generated by using frame interpolation between key frames. The channel code such as Turbo code or LDPC code which shows a performance close to the Shannon's limit is employed. The noise model of Wyner-Ziv coding for channel decoding is called Virtual Channel Noise and is generally modeled by Laplacian or Gaussian distribution. In this paper, we propose a Wyner-Ziv coding method based on the frequency-adaptive channel noise modeling in transform domain. The experimental results with various sequences prove that the proposed method makes the channel noise model more accurate compared to the conventional scheme, resulting in improvement of the rate-distortion performance by up to 0.52dB.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.273-281
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation method of the endo- and epicardial boundary by using ray-casting profile based on intensity distribution and gradient information in CT images. First, endo-cardial boundary points are detected by using adaptive thresholding and seeded region growing. To include papillary muscles inside the boundary, the endo-cardial boundary points are refined by using ray-casting based profile. Second, epi-cardial boundary points which have both a myocardial intensity value and a maximum gradient are detected by using ray-casting based adaptive gradient profile. Finally, to preserve an elliptical or circular shape, the endo- and epi-cardial boundary points are refined by using elliptical interpolation and B-spline curve fitting. Then, curvature-based contour fitting is performed to overcome problems associated with heterogeneity of the myocardium intensity and lack of clear delineation between myocardium and adjacent anatomic structures. To evaluate our method, we performed visual inspection, accuracy and processing time. For accuracy evaluation, average distance difference and overalpping region ratio between automatic segmentation and manual segmentation are calculated. Experimental results show that the average distnace difference was $0.56{\pm}0.24mm$. The overlapping region ratio was $82{\pm}4.2%$ on average. In all experimental datasets, the whole process of our method was finished within 1 second.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.135-142
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• 2013

Contour detection is important for many computer vision applications, such as shape discrimination and object recognition. In many cases, local luminance changes turn out to be stronger in textured areas than on object contours. Therefore, local edge features, which only look at a small neighborhood of each pixel, cannot be reliable indicators of the presence of a contour, and some global analysis is needed. The novelty of this operator is that dilation is limited to Deluanary triangular. An efficient implementation is presented. The grouping algorithm is then embedded in a multi-threshold contour detector. At each threshold level, small groups of edges are removed, and contours are completed by means of a generalized reconstruction from markers. Both qualitative and quantitative comparison with existing approaches prove the superiority of the proposed contour detector in terms of larger amount of suppressed texture and more effective detection of low-contrast contour.