• KIEAE Journal
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.65-72
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• 2009

Lighting for outdoor advertising is very common feature of building facades as they provide the information and commercial identification. As the interest of improving street beautification more widely, application of various lighting technologies has been develop for advertisement such as electric sign board and signage. Furthermore, the installation of higher sign luminance than needed has many negative consequences, including higher energy consumption and light pollution. There are now no standard for outdoor advertisements in terms of luminance, and installation of indiscreet outdoor advertisement without luminance consideration is becoming more commonplace. This study was to evaluate the luminous characteristics of outdoor advertising as a function of sign and building facade luminance, luminance ratio. Data were collected on 8 electric sign boards, 20 internally illuminated, externally illuminated, neon, and channel letter signs and 4 commercial areas. Photometric measurements were taken by CS-100(Minolta) and ProMetric-1400(Radiant Imaging) for various sign modes and sign design. Also luminance of building facades were analyzed according with CIE standard of maximum obtrusive light permitted for exterior lighting installations. The findings are as follows; (1) There were excessive luminance of electric sign boards that could affect adjacent building facade and night sky luminance. (2) Sings that are externally illuminated providing an inappropriate amount of light on to the outer surface of the sign caused higher building facade luminance and potential of unnecessary glare.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.15-26
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• 2001

Visual cryptography is a simple method in which secret information can be directly decoded in human visual system without any cryptographic computations. When the secret image is scattered to n random shares(slides), this scheme has some week point such as pixel expansion and contrast degradation. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the pixel expansion and improve the contrast in recovered image. In this paper, we propose a new construction method for (k, n) visual cryptography using the cumulative matrix. In case k is odd, we can construct the cumulative matrix perfectly. For even k, the contrast of special pair in decoded image can be achieved best by permitting multiple contract. The proposed method is more simple than that of S. Droste\`s in construction and the average contrast of decoded image is improved for the most part. Also, we show that the basis matrices depending on the cumulative matrix are able to be applied for the general access structure.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.823-826
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 얼굴 영상으로부터 얼굴인식을 위한 눈동자를 검출하기 위한 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 방법은 분리 필터를 사용하여 홍채의 후보가 되는 영역을 구한 후 양자를 잇는 선분의 길이 및 기울기의 허용치 안에 있는 모든 영역에 대해 본 논문에서 제안한 방식으로 그 값을 계산한다. 이 값은 영역의 근방영역에서 홍채의 경계선에 대응하는 원을 허프변환으로 구했을 때 후보 영역의 원에서의 후보 영역과 인접하면서 분리된 영역 내의 평균 휘도 값 및 영역을 포함한 부분화상과 눈의 템프릿 사이의 정규화된 상관계수를 사용하여 계산된다. 그리고 그 값을 최소로 하는 영역들을 택하여 이것을 양눈의 홍채로 검출한다. 안경을 쓰지 않은 총 150장의 얼굴영상을 사용하여 실험한 결과 최대 97.3%, 최소 95.3%의 성공률을 얻을 수 있었으며, 약간의 오차를 허용한 경우에는 최대 99.3%, 최소 96.7%의 성공률을 얻을 수 있었다.