• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.1341-1348
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• 2012

In this paper, an efficient scheme for correcting rotated objects in medical images using the Mojette transform is presented. The Mojette transform is a kind of discrete Radon transform, where the transform domain is represented by a set of projections. The Mojette transform currently studied in the image compression area is modified for detecting the rotation angle of objects in medical images. First, in order to find accurate rotation angle, the projection value in the Mojette transform is determined by using pixels on the projection line and in addition the linear interpolation of pixels adjacent to the line. Second, at each projection angle, only one projection is implemented for reducing the amount of the calculation in the process of the Mojette transform. Finally, the projection in the Mojette transform is carried out at the predetermined ROI(Region Of Interest) at which the objects are not cropped or added by rotating the image. The simulation results show that the proposed method has good performance for correcting the rotation angle in medical images.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.42-49
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• 2013

The camera motion is accompanied with the translation and/or the rotation of objects in frames of a video sequence. An unnecessary rotation of objects declines the quality of the moving pictures and in addition is a primary cause of the viewers' fatigue. In this paper, a novel method for correcting rotated frames in video sequences is presented, where the modified Mojette transform is applied to the motion-compensated area in each frame. The Mojette transform is one of discrete Radon transforms, and is modified for correcting the rotated frames as follows. First, the bin values in the Mojette transform are determined by using pixels on the projection line and the interpolation of pixels adjacent to the line. Second, the bin values are calculated only at some area determined by the motion estimation between current and reference frames. Finally, only one bin at each projection is computed for reducing the amount of the calculation in the Mojette transform. Through the simulation carried out on various test video sequences, it is shown that the proposed scheme has good performance for correcting the rotation of frames in moving pictures.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.12C
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• pp.1225-1238
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• 2003

We present an efficient algorithm for skew correction of business card images obtained by a PDA (personal digital assistant) camera. The proposed method is composed of four parts: block adaptive binarization (BAB), stripe generation, skew angle calculation, and image rotation. In the BAB, an input image is binarized block by block so as to lessen the effect of irregular illumination and shadow over the input image. In the stripe generation, character string clusters are generated merging adjacent characters and their strings, and then only clusters useful for skew angle calculation are output as stripes. In the skew angle calculation, the direction angles of the stripes are calculated using their central moments and then the skew angle of the input image is determined averaging the direction angles. In the image rotation, the input image is rotated by the skew angle. Experimental results shows that the proposed method yields skew correction rates of about 93% for test images of several types of business cards acquired by a PDA under various surrounding conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.155-158
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• 2005

MRI 스캔시 화상평면내에서 촬상대상물체의 회전은 MRI 신호에 위상오차와 불균일 표본화를 일으킨다. MRI 신호의 위상오차와 불균일 표본화에 대한 문제의 모델은 화상평면내 임의 중심과 원점에 관한 회전운동에 의해 열화된 MRI 신호들사이에 위상차가 존재함을 나타낸다. 이에 아티팩트가 포함된 MR 화상의 화질을 개선하기위해서 다음과 같은 방법을 제안한다. 우선, 2차원 회전운동의 회전각은 이미 알려져 있고, 회전중심의 위치가 미지인 경우에 대해 위상보정에 기초한 아티팩트를 보정하는 알고리즘과, 다음으로, 회전중심과 각도가 모두 미지인 2차원 회전운동에 대해 아티팩트를 보정하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이때, 미지 운동 파라메타를 예측하기위해 촬상대상물체의 경계바깥쪽에서 이상적인 MR 화상의 에너지는 최소가 되고, 촬상대상물체의 회전이 존재할 때 측정된 에너지는 증가한다는 성질을 이용한다. 이러한 성질을 이용해서 각 위상부호화 단계에서 미지의 회전각 크기를 추정하기위한 평가함수가 도입된다. 최종적으로 시뮬레이션 화상 및 실제화상에 적용해서 제안한 본 방법의 유효성을 확인한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.839-842
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• 2005

본 논문은 스테레오 카메라를 통해 얻은 변이 정보를 이용하여, 3 차원으로 머리의 회전 각도를 추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 머리 회전에 의한 주시 방향은 사람이 관심을 가지는 방향이므로 이동을 추정하는 것에 비해 많은 중요성을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 얼굴 영역 내의 여러 특징점들 중 3 개의 특징점들을 포함하는 여러 평면(Plane)이 머리가 이동하더라도, 그 평면들 사이의 각은 변하지 않으므로, 회전 각도 추정에 영향을 주지 않는 점을 이용하여 회전 각도를 추정하였다. 또한, 기존 논문이 카메라 보정을 통해 3 차원 위치를 측정하지만, 제안하는 방법은 변이 공간에서 회전 각도를 추정하기 때문에 카메라 보정 과정이 필요하지 않다. 변이 정보를 얻기 위한 스테레오 장비는 평행 카메라 모델로 가정하며, 얼굴 내의 특징점은 KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) 특징 추적 알고리즘을 이용하였다. 실험결과는 기준 영상에 대하여 추정된 3 차원 각도를 나타낸다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.601-603
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• 2002

MRI 스캔중 촬상 대상물의 화강평면내에서의 회전은 MRI 신호에 위상오차와 불균일 표본화를 일으킨다. 따라서, 아티팩트가 포함된 MR 화상의 화질열화를 개선하기 위하여 다음과 같은 방법들을 제안한다. 우선, 미리 주어진 회전파라메타써 쌍일처 보간과 중첩 특성을 이용해서 k 공간 불균일 표본화 데이터를 수정하는 알고리즘과, 2차원 회전운동의 회전각은 이미 알려져 있고, 회전중심 위치가 미지인 경우에 대해 위상보정에 기초한 아티팩트를 보정하는 알고리즘 및 회전중심과 각도가 모두 미지인 2차원 회전운동에 대해 아티팩느를 보정하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이 때, 미지운동 파라메타를 예측하기 위해 찰상대상물의 경계바깥쪽에서 이상적인 MR 화상의 에너지는 최소가 되고, 활상 대상물의 회전이 존재할 때 측정된 에너지가 증가한다는 성질을 이용했다. 이러만 성질을 이용해서 시뮬레이션 화상에 적용한 결과 제안한 방법에 대한 유효성을 확인하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.4
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• pp.509-516
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• 2002

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm which recognizes the mixed document image consisting of the images, texts, tables, and straight lines. This system is composed of three steps. The first step is the detection of rotation angle for complementing skewed images, the second is detection of erasing an unnecessary background region and last is the classification of each component included in document images. This algorithm performs preprocessing of detecting rotation angles and correcting documents based on the detected rotation angles in order to minimize the error rate by skewness of the documentation. We detected the rotation angie using only horizontal and vertical components in document images and minimized calculation time by erasing unnecessary background region in the detecting process of component of document. In the next step, we classify various components such as image, text, table and line area included in document images. we applied this method to various document images in order to evaluate the performance of document recognition system and show the successful experimental results.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.411-419
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• 2004

When the imaging object rotates in image plane during MRI scan, its rotation causes phase error and non-uniform sampling to MRI signal. The model of the problem including phase error non-uniform sampling of MRI signal showed that the MRI signals corrupted by rotations about an arbitrary center and the origin in image plane are different in their phases. Therefore the following methods are presented to improve the quality of the MR image which includes the artifact. The first, assuming that the angle of 2-D rotational motion is already known and the position of 2-D rotational center is unknown, an algorithm to correct the artifact which is based on the phase correction is presented. The second, in case of 2-D rotational motion with unknown rotational center and unknown rotational angle, an algorithm is presented to correct the MRI artifact. At this case, the energy of an ideal MR image is minimum outside the boundary of the imaging object to estimate unknown motion parameters and the measured energy increases when the imaging object has an rotation. By using this property, an evaluation function is defined to estimate unknown values of rotational angle at each phase encoding step. Finally, the effectiveness of this presented techniques is shown by using a phantom image with simulated motion and a real image with 2-D translational shift and rotation.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.291-295
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an input image reduction method to solve the problems of Radon transform which is a line structure analysis tool to correct a rotated object through a vision system. First we extract an object image removed background from the input image. Then we also select a reduced object image as a final input mage of Radon transform from the object image by considering slope. Finally we extract a rotated angle by using Radon transform with the final input image and correct the rotated object with the angle. In experimental results, we could improve the process time of about 64%, reduce the memory space of about 18% and make progress the line detection rate of about 18%.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 2000

Optical transmission characteristics of retardation film for obliquely incident light is calculated by using extended Jones calculus and it is geometrically interpreted on Poincare sphere representation as rotational transformation. The characteristics of a retardation film is that while the rotation axis is fixed at a point on the Equator of the Poincar sphere, the rotation angle varies with the direction of incidence. This property can be compensated by using a tandem arrangement of the two optical films whose optic axes do not coincident, and this method can be used for the improvement of the viewing angle characteristics of BTN cells. cells.