• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.5
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• pp.391-400
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• 2004

Within multimodal medical image registration techniques, which correlate different images and Provide integrated information, surface registration methods generally minimize the surface distance between two modalities. However, the features of two modalities acquired from one subject are similar. So, it can improve the accuracy of registration result to match two images based on optimization of both surface distance and shape feature. This research proposes a registration method which optimizes surface distance and surface curvature of two brain modalities. The registration process has two steps. First, surface information is extracted from the reference images and the test images. Next, the optimization process is performed. In the former step, the surface boundaries of regions of interest are extracted from the two modalities. And for the boundary of reference volume image, distance map and curvature map are generated. In the optimization step, a transformation minimizing both surface distance and surface curvature difference is determined by a cost function referring to the distance map and curvature map. The applying of the result transformation makes test volume be registered to reference volume. The suggested cost function makes possible a more robust and accurate registration result than that of the cost function using the surface distance only. Also, this research provides an efficient means for image analysis through volume visualization of the registration result.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.347-350
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• 2003

표면정보 기반 영상정합기법은 대상기관에서 추출된 표면정보를 기반으로 변환을 추정하여 서로 다른 영상의 전체적 형태의 유사성 정도를 최대화함으로써 정합을 수행하는 방법이다. 정합 수행에 있어 전체 객체를 가장 잘 대표하는 특정 개수의 표면점을 추출하고, 이 대표점으로부터 변환 값을 계산하는 것이 영상정합의 합리적인 최적화 단계를 위해 필수적이다. 대표점 추출결과에 따라 전체 정합의 결과가 달라지게 되므로 정합의 변환요소 값을 정확하게 구해낼 수 있는 대표점을 추출하기 위해 적절한 샘플링 기법의 선택이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 효율적인 표면정보 기반 다중 모달리티 영상정합을 위해 계통추출법 기반 샘플링 기법과 특징점 탐지 기법 기반 샘플링 기법의 성능을 비교 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.286-288
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• 2003

모멘트 기반 정합은 전처리 과정을 통하여 수행되는 정합 대상기관의 형태정보를 추출하여, 이를 기반으로 대상기관의 무게중심 및 주축을 계산하고 이들 모멘트 정보를 일치시킴으로써 서로 다른 3차원 영상에 대한 정합을 유도하는 기법이다. 표면정보 기반 영상정합은 대상기관에서 추출된 표면정보를 기반으로 변환을 추정하여 서로 다른 영상의 전형적 형태의 유사성 정도를 최대화함으로써 정합을 수행하는 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 서로 다른 모달리티 영상에 대한 정합을 위하여 모멘트 기반 정합기법과 표면정보기반정합기법을 각기 구현하고 이들 방법에 대한 성능 및 문제점을 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.3_4
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• pp.224-238
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• 2004

Multi-modality image registration is a widely used image processing technique to obtain composite information from two different kinds of image sources. This study proposes an image registration method based on moment information and surface distance, which improves the previous surface-based registration method. The proposed method ensures stable registration results with low registration error without being subject to the initial position and direction of the object. In the preprocessing step, the surface points of the object are extracted, and then moment information is computed based on the surface points. Moment information is matched prior to fine registration based on the surface distance, in order to ensure stable registration results even when the initial positions and directions of the objects are very different. Moreover, surface comer sampling algorithm has been used in extracting representative surface points of the image to overcome the limits of the existed random sampling or systematic sampling methods. The proposed method has been applied to brain MRI(Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and PET(Positron Emission Tomography), and its accuracy and stability were verified through registration error ratio and visual inspection of the 2D/3D registration result images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.475-478
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• 2002

영상 정합이란 영상들을 배열하여 대응되는 특성을 연관시키는 과정으로, 서로 다른 정보를 결합하여 상호 보완적이고 복합적인 새로운 정보를 생성한다는 점에서 유용하다. 본 논문에서는 MRI와 PET 뇌 영상을 표면 정보에 기반하여 정합하기 위한 영상 처리 방법에 대하여 연구하였다. 특히 정합을 위한 특징점 집합을 샘플링하는데 있어서 표면 곡률 정보를 사용한 샘플링 기법을 적용하고, 실 관심 객체의 볼륨 크기에 기반한 바운딩 박스를 생성하여 기하 변환을 수행함으로써 표면정보기반 다중모달리티 영상 정합을 위한 보다 효과적인 영상 처리 결과를 얻도록 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society Of Semiconductor Equipment Technology
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.132-137
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• 2004

반도체 소자의 마킹 / 표면 검사에 대한 적응적 reference 데이터 자동 획득 알고리즘과 검사에서의 실시간 정합 알고리즘을 개발하여, 모든 반도체 소자의 마킹 / 표면 검사에 대한 오류를 검출할 수 있는 마킹 / 표면 검사 시스템을 개발한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1633-1636
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• 2005

의료영상정합은 환자의 해부학적 정보와 기능적 정보를 혼합함으로써 기능이상부위의 해부학적 위치를 판별하기 위한 목적으로 널리 이용되고 있다. 그러나 실제적으로 여러 종류의 환자영상 취득이 어렵거나 해부학적 영상정보가 손실되는 경우가 적지 않다. 따라서 표준 정상인 해부학적 영상과 환자 기능영상을 정합함으로써 보다 객관적인 환자 기능이상부위 분석이 요구된다. 이는 다중개체, 다중모달리티간 영상정합으로 기존의 표면정보 또는 복셀정보 기반 방법으로는 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 두 대상영상 표면 뿐 아니라 내부 볼륨까지 대응시킬 수 있는 표면정보와 복셀정보를 혼합 적용한 기법을 제안한다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.6_2
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• pp.1251-1260
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• 2018

High-quality sea-ice surface models generated from aerial images can be used effectively as field data for developing satellite-based remote sensing methods but also as analysis data for understanding geometric variations of Arctic sea-ice. However, the lack of texture information on sea-ice surfaces can reduce the accuracy of image matching. In this paper, we analyze the performance of matching cost functions for homogeneous sea-ice surfaces as a part of high-quality sea-ice surface model generation. The matching cost functions include sum of squared differences (SSD), normalized cross-correlation (NCC), and zero-mean normalized cross-correlation (ZNCC) in image domain and phase correlation (PC), orientation correlation (OC), and gradient correlation (GC) in frequency domain. In order to analyze the matching performance for texture changes clearly and objectively, a new evaluation methodology based on the principle of object-space matching technique was introduced. Experimental results showed that it is possible to secure reliability and accuracy of image matching only when optimal search windows are variably applied to each matching point in textureless regions such as sea-ice surfaces. Among the matching cost functions, NCC and ZNCC showed the best performance for texture changes.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.315-322
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• 2000

DSM(Digital Surface Model) is a digital model which represents the surface elevation of a region. DSM is necessary for orthoimage generation, and frequently used in man-made object extraction from aerial photographs nowadays. Image matching technique enables automatic DSM generation. This proposed a image matching method which can be applied to automatic generation of DSM for Built-up Area. The matching method proposed is to find conjugate points and conjugate lines from overlapping aerial images. In detecting conjugate points, the positional relation between possible conjugate point pair as well as correlation of pixel gray value is compared. In detecting conjugate lines, the color attribute of flank region of line, shape of line, positional relation between neighborhood points and lines, and the connection relation between lines are compared. The proposed matching method is assumed to be useful for DSM generation including Built-up Area.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1698-1706
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• 1997

In this paper, we envisioned a multimedia object recognition system processing and combinig information from all available sources, such as 2-D, 3-D, color and sound data. Out of the overall system, we proposed 3-D information extraction and object recognition methods. Firstly, surfaces are classified by z-gradient from the range data, surface features are extracted using the intersection of normal vectors. Also feature relationship such as intersection angle and distance is established between the surfaces. Secondly, recognition is accomplished by matching process which is improtant step in the image understanding systems. Matching process is very improtant procedures because of more general and more efficient method is needed in the field of multimedia sytem. Therefore, we focused the proposal of matching process and in this article, first of all, we deal with the matching process of the 3-D object. Similarity measures are calculated.