• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.502-511
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• 2009

In order to simulate a depth-of-field effect in real world, there have been several researches in computer graphics field. It can represent an out-of-focused scene by calculating focal plane. When a point in a 3D coordinate lies on further or nearer than focal plane, the point is presented as a blurred circle on image plane according to the characteristic of the aperture and the lens. We can generate a realistic image by simulating the effect because it provides an out-of-focused scene like human eye dose. In this paper, we propose a method to calculate a disparity value of a viewer using a customized stereoscopic eye-tracking system and a GPU-based depth-of-field control method. They enable us to generate more realistic images reducing side effects such as dizziness. Since stereoscopic imaging system compels the users to fix their focal position, they usually feel discomfort during watching the stereoscopic images. The proposed method can reduce the side effect of stereoscopic display system and generate more immersive images.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.53-62
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• 2020

This paper proposes on the implementation method of depth of field effect based on backward mapping method available in real-time rendering enviroment using calculation of sampling range based on standard normal distribution and alpha blending of color of layers. To implement the effect, this paper describe how to calculate radius of circle of confusion, establish sampling radius using circle of confusion, and determine color through alpha blending of the multiple layer and denoising.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.31-46
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• 2008

The depth of field is the range that the objects inside of this range treated to be focused. Objects that are placed out of this range are out of focus and become blurred. In computer graphics, generating depth of field effects gives a great reality to rendered images. The previous researches on the depth of field in computer graphics can be divided into two major categories. One of them is the distributed ray tracing that samples the lens area against each pixel. It is possible to obtain precise results without noise if enough number of samples are taken. However, to make a good result, a great number of samples are needed, resulting in an enormous timing requirement. The other approach is the method that approximates depth of field effect by post-processing an image and its depth values computed using a pin-hole camera. Though the second technique is not that physically correct like distributed ray tracing, many approaches which using this idea have been introduced because it is much faster than the first approach. But the post-processing have some limitations because of the lack of ray information. In this paper, we first present an improvement technique that corrects the previous post-processing methods and then propose another one that accelerates the distributed ray tracing by using a radiance caching method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.01a
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• pp.253-256
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 합성곱 신경망을 통해 학습된 DoF(피사계 심도, Depth of field) 네트워크 아키텍처를 이용하여 객체 인식, 시점 추적, 문자 인식, 비사실적 렌더링 등 다양한 애플리케이션에 적용할 수 있는 사후 필터링 기법에 대해 살펴본다. 일반적으로 영상은 포커싱과 아웃포커싱에 의해 사용자의 관심표현이 결정되며, 이를 이용하여 영상 내 중요도를 판단한다. 영상 내에는 수많은 콘텐츠들이 혼재되어 있기 때문에 사용자가 집중적으로 보고 있는 콘텐츠를 찾아내기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 흥미롭고 집중적으로 보고 있는 영역을 DoF 네트워크로 학습시키고, 이를 통해 이전 기법으로는 표현할 수 없었던 DoF 기반 객체 인식, 시점 추적, 문자 인식, 비사실적 렌더링을 효율적으로 표현해낸다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.1-10
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• 2018

In this paper, we present a non-photorealistic rendering technique that automatically delivers a stylized abstraction of a photograph with DoF(Depth of field). Our approach is a new filtering method that efficiently classifies DoF regions using RGB channels and automatically adjusts the color abstraction and extracted line quality based on this classification. This DoF-based filtering is simple, fast, and easy to implement and significantly improves the abstraction performance in terms of feature enhancement and stylization.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.1139-1149
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• 2006

This paper describes a novel and efficient algorithm, which extracts focused objects from still images with low depth-of-field (DOF). The algorithm unfolds into four modules. In the first module, a HOS map, in which the spatial distribution of the high-frequency components is represented, is obtained from an input low DOF image [1]. The second module finds OOI candidate by using characteristics of the HOS. Since it is possible to contain some holes in the region, the third module detects and fills them. In order to obtain an OOI, the last module gets rid of background pixels in the OOI candidate. The experimental results show that the proposed method is highly useful in various applications, such as image indexing for content-based retrieval from huge amounts of image database, image analysis for digital cameras, and video analysis for virtual reality, immersive video system, photo-realistic video scene generation and video indexing system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.75-83
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• 2019

Direct volume rendering is a widely used method for visualizing three-dimensional volume data such as medical images. This paper proposes a method for applying depth-of-field effects to volume ray-casting to enable more realistic depth-of-filed rendering in direct volume rendering. The proposed method exploits a camera model based on the human perceptual model and can obtain realistic images with a limited number of rays using jittered lens sampling. It also enables interactive exploration of volume data by on-the-fly calculating depth-of-field in the GPU pipeline without preprocessing. In the experiment with various data including medical images, we demonstrated that depth-of-field images with better depth perception were generated 2.6 to 4 times faster than the conventional method.

• 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 Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.01a
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• pp.257-260
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 카메라의 포커싱과 아웃포커싱에 의해 이미지에서 뿌옇게 표현되는 DoF(Depth of field, 피사계 심도) 영역을 쿼드트리(Quadtree) 기반의 합성곱 신경망을 통해 빠르게 찾는 방법을 제안한다. 우리의 접근 방식은 RGB채널기반의 상호-상관 필터를 이용하여 DoF영역을 이미지로부터 효율적으로 분류하고, 적응형 트리인 쿼드트리를 기반으로 유의미한 영역만을 분류한다. 이 과정에서 손실 없이 온전하게 DoF영역을 추출하기 위한 필터링 과정을 거친다. 이러한 과정에서 얻어진 이미지 패치들은 전체 이미지에 비해 적은 영역으로 나타나며, 이 적은 개수의 패치들을 이용하여 네트워크 단계에서 사용할 이미지-DoF가중치 맵 데이터 쌍을 설정한다. 네트워크 과정에서 학습할 때 사용되는 데이터는 이미지와 상호-상관 필터 기반으로 추출된 DoF 가중치 맵을 이용한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 쿼드트리 기반 합성곱 신경망은 이미지로부터 포커싱과 아웃포커싱된 DoF영역을 자동으로 추출하는 과정을 학습시키기 위해 사용된다. 결과적으로 학습에 필요한 데이터 영역이 줄어듦으로써 학습 시간과 메모리를 절약했으며, 테스트 결과로 얻은 DoF 가중치 이미지는 입력 이미지에서 DoF영역을 더욱더 빠른 시간 내에 찾아낸다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.851-861
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• 2006

The paper proposes a novel unsupervised video object segmentation algorithm for image sequences with low depth-of-field (DOF), which is a popular photographic technique enabling to represent the intention of photographer by giving a clear focus only on an object-of-interest (OOI). The proposed algorithm largely consists of two modules. The first module automatically extracts OOIs from the first frame by separating sharply focused OOIs from other out-of-focused foreground or background objects. The second module tracks OOIs for the rest of the video sequence, aimed at running the system in real-time, or at least, semi-real-time. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm provides an effective tool, which can be a basis of applications, such as video analysis for virtual reality, immersive video system, photo-realistic video scene generation and video indexing systems.