• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1167-1172
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• 2009

The Pneumatic Reduction and VCUG (Voiding Cystourethrography) are commonly used in the paediatric age group. The procedures had a particularly long fluroscopic screening time, despite a successful outcome for paediatric patients. Pneumatic Reduction and VCUG almost invariably requires fluoroscopic guidance which does confer a radiation dose. This article contains suggestions on how the radiation dose to paediatric patients from Pneumatic Reduction and VCUG can be made "as low as reasonably achievable" (ALARA). The aim of our study was eliminated in spot image applying the FluoroGrab, which has function of capturing an image of interest area from the picturing while fluoroscopic procedures. FluoroGrab has clinical value equivalent to the spot image, and is applied to the most recent fluoroscopic procedures. The radiologist and the radiographers should consider new option for decreasing the radiation exposure delivered to paediatric patients by making equipment modifications to the fluoroscopy to optimize radiation exposure reduction techniques. Thus, we propose the FluoroGrab instead of spot exposure for the reduction of patient exposure dose in paediatric, and try to confirm the effect of the mitigating amount of radiation exposure to paediatric patients when pneumatic reduction and VCUG. Fluorograb is the safe and useful method that shows the equivalent level of accuracy to spot exposure, and to minimize the radiation load to paediatric patients are to be the substitute for the spot exposure for Pneumatic Reduction and VCUG.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.191-193
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• 2007

파노라마 영상은 여러 장의 겹쳐지는 영상을 하나의 큰 영상으로 병합하여 만들어진다. 그 방법에는 크게 특징 기반 방법과 직접 방법으로서 두 종류가 있으며, 특징 기반 방법은 직접 방법에 비해 처리 속도가 빠른 장점이 있다. 그러나 모바일 단말기와 같은 처리속도가 환경에서 구현하기에는 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 고속 파노라마 생성 방법을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 촬영 장면 가이더를 적용함으로써 정합 파라미터의 개수를 줄여 정합 속도를 크게 향상시켰다. 또한, 적은 수의 파라미터 사용에 따른 정합 오차를 줄이기 위해 국소 정합법을 추가로 적용하였다. 실험에서, $320{\times}240$ 크기의 24비트 칼라 영상에 대해 약 0.16초의 처리속도로 기존의 특징 기반 방법보다 97.2%의 처리 속도면에서 큰 개선을 보였다.

• The korean journal of orthodontics
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• v.30 no.5 s.82
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• pp.543-552
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• 2000

The purposes of this study were to evaluate the reproducibility of posteroanterior(PA) cephalograms obtained by two methods, the Head Posture Aligner(HPA) method in natural head posture and the conventional method(operator-guided method), and to compare the vertical rotational differences of the head Posture between lateral and PA cephalograms according to the method. The sample was consisted of 30 adults. At first day, a PA cephalogram and a lateral cephalogram were obtained from each subject by two methods to investigate the difference of vertical rotational posture between lateral and PA cephalograms. Two weeks later, another PA cephalogram was obtained using each method to evaluate the reproducibility of head posture. Five height measurements and nine width measurements were used in the paired t-test to compare the reproducibility of the PA cephalometric measurements between two methods. The differences of vertical rotational posture between lateral and PA cephalograms were calculated from a computer program and compared according to the method used, and following results were obtained. 1. Height measurements obtained by operator-guided method showed significant differences according to the time interval and revealed low reproducibility. 2. Height measurements obtained by HPA method did not show significant differences according to the time interval and presented high reproducibility. 3. In the comparison of width measurement, two methods did not show distinct differences in reproducibility. 4. The difference of vertical rotational posture between lateral and PA cephalograms showed $0.8^{\circ}$ in the HPA method, more less than $2.5^{\circ}$ in the operator-guided method. The results of the present study suggest that the HPA may be helpful in the PA cephalometric radiography in terms of reproducibility.

• The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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• v.33
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• pp.47-54
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• 2021

Purpose : In order to evaluate the usefulness of clinical application of the Pause & Resume methods by comparing and analyzing the data stability and dose reduction effect when repeat scan assuming irregular breathing and using the Pause & Resume method during chest 4D CT using Quasar^TM Phantom. Materials and Methods : Using the Quasar^TM Phantom, set the breathing rate per minute to 15 BPM and 7.5 BPM, and set the S15 point as an irregular breathing section, and then placed OSLD to this point and use the Pause & Resume method to measure the dose of S15. CTDIvol, DLP, and ALARA-CT were used for comparative analysis of radiation dose between Pause & Resume method and Repeat-scan. In order to evaluate the stability and usability of the data applying the Pause & Resume method, the captured images were sorted by Advanced Workstation Volume Share7 and then sent to Eclipse^TM, the diameter and volume were analyzed by forming a contour on the iron ball in the Quasar^TM Phantom Results : When using Pause & Resume, the dose of OSLD measurement increased by 1.97 times in the section of S15. As a result of image evaluation, the average value of all volumes measured with and without the Pause & Resume method at 15 BPM and 7.5 BPM was 15.2 cm3±0.5%.Allthemeasuredvaluesfor the radius of iron ball were 3.1 cm regardless of whether Pause & Resume method was used or not. In the case of using Pause & Resume, 33% decreased from the lowest DLP value and 38% decreased from the highest DLP value of repeat scan, and the effective dose also decreased 32.1% from the minimum value and 37.6% from the maximum value. Conclusion: Irradiation dose was increased by Pause & Resume method because of the repeat scan on the S15 site where assuming irregular breathing occurred, However Pause & Resume method led to a significant reduction in dose on overall scan range. It also proved the usefulness of clinical application of the Pause & Resume method as a result of similar diameters and volumes of iron ball measurement.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.117-128
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• 2016

Installation of earth grounding system is essential to ensure personnel safety and correct operation of electrical equipment. Earth parameters, especially, soil resistivity has to be determined in designing an efficient earth grounding system. The most common applied technique to measure soil resistance is Wenner four-point method. Implementation of this method is expensive, time consuming and cumbersome as large set of measurements with variable electrode spacing are required to obtain a one dimensional resistivity plot. It is advantageous to have a method which is of low cost and provides fast measurements. In this perspective, electrical resistance tomography (ERT) is applied to estimate subsurface resistivity profile. Electrical resistance tomograms characterize the soil resistivity distribution based on the measurements from electrodes placed in the region of interest. The nonlinear ill-posed inverse problem is solved using iterated Gauss-Newton method with Tikhonov regularization. Through extensive numerical simulations, it is found that ERT offers promising performance in estimating the three-dimensional soil resistivity distribution.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.18-26
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a method for generating a realistic object panorama by considering geometric transformations of camera views in a general photographing environment. In the proposed method, we first model a trumpet-shape panorama space based on geometric transformations of camera, such as vertical rotation and horizontal rotation movement around a target model. We then generate an object panorama by mapping model images to the trumpet-shape panorama space. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, experiments were conducted on a large size model, which is quite difficult for us to generate the object panorama without special equipments in general. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively generate an object panorama, which is usually generated in a special photographing environment, regardless of the size of target model.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.1-12
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• 2011

Movie contents requiring multiple shootings in places need much man power and many equipments. It is more serious in the case of multiple simultaneous shootings. In the points of small broadcasting companies, it is more difficult to cope with the situation, but it is also an essential task for the variety of video contents. We propose an one-person movie production scheme based on an IP camera-based live webcasting system which makes multiple shootings in places possible. It consists of three main functions of (1) collecting multiple video streams sent from IP cameras installed in places, (2) properly distributing them to Internet, and (3) receiving and editing them including recording video. By using the proposed scheme, we can be able to remotely utilize a new framework of Single-Person/ Multiple-Camera which beyonds the conventional Single-Person/Single-Camera framework. It becomes possible to take multiple simultaneous shoots in places. We can get an advantage of saving man power and time for producing various movie contents.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.622-624
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• 2022

최근 편리성과 경제성 등의 이유로 개인형 이동장치인 전동 킥보드의 사용이 증가하고 있다. 사용자들은 앱으로 주변의 전동 킥보드 위치를 확인한 뒤, 가까운 기기를 찾아 이용한다. 하지만 전동 킥보드의 위치는 GPS로 표시되기 때문에 10 m 이상의 오차가 날 수 있다. 이를 보완하기 위해 (주)올룰로의 킥고잉은 사용자가 전동 킥보드 반납 시 촬영한 전동 킥보드 사진을 GPS 위치 정보와 함께 제공한다. 이 사진을 통해 다음 사용자는 더욱 정확히 전동 킥보드를 찾을 수 있다. 하지만 일부 사용자들은 전동 킥보드가 존재하지 않는 사진을 올리기도 하며, 따라서 사용자들이 촬영한 사진 중 실제 전동 킥보드가 존재하는 사진들만 제공하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문은 사용자들이 촬영한 사진 중 실제 전동 킥보드가 존재하는 사진들만 정확히 인식하는 YOLO 기반 시스템을 개발한다. 제안 방법은 (1) 전동 킥보드를 부분별로 탐지하는 기법과 (2) 전동 킥보드를 촬영된 각도에 따라 세분화하여 인식하는 기법을 사용한다. 실제 사용자들이 촬영한 사진을 사용한 실험 결과, 제안 방법은 기존 방법에 비해 더욱 정확히 전동 킥보드 사진을 인식하는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.143-146
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 다수의 실내 영상으로부터 영상을 촬영한 카메라의 속성정보와 실내 환경에 대한 기하정보를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. BSP-Tree를 이용하여 주어진 실영상을 각각의 부분 영역이 실제로도 평면 영역에 해당되도록 분할하였으며, 특징점 대응을 통해 각 분할된 영역의 영상간 대응을 찾고 이로부터 각 분할 영역의 homography를 계산하였다 또한 간단한 가정을 통해 계산된 homography로부터 각 분할영역에 대응된 평면의 방정식과 각 영상을 촬영한 카메라의 속성을 찾아낼 수 있믐을 보였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 현재 본 연구팀이 구현 중인 영상기반 모델링 시스템에서 핵심적인 기능을 수행하리라 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.1222-1225
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 저조도 환경에서 촬영된 영상의 조도를 개선하여 얼굴 검증 정확도를 높이는 방법을 제안하였다. 입력 이미지의 조도 개선을 통해 얼굴 검출 정확도를 개선하며, 검출된 얼굴의 반복적인 조도 향상을 통해 생성된 다수의 특징 벡터를 이용하여 얼굴 검증에 이용하였다. 얼굴 검출 및 검증 정확도 측정을 위해 K-FACE 데이터셋을 이용하였다. 저조도 환경에서 촬영된 검증 이미지에 대하여, 제안하는 특징 벡터 합성 방법으로 인해, 동일인 쌍 및 타인 쌍의 유사도 점수 분포의 표준 편차가 줄어드는 경향을 확인했으며, 이로 인해 검증 성능이 높아지는 결과를 얻었다.