• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.1157-1163
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a novel and practical stereo vision system that uses only one camera and four mirrors placed in front of the camera. The equivalent of a stereo pair of images are formed as left and right halves of a single CCD image by using four mirrors placed in front of the ten of a CCD camera. An object arbitrary point in 3D space is transformed into two virtual points by the four mirrors. As in the conventional stereo system, the displacement between the two conjugate image points of the two virtual points is directly related to the depth of the object point. This system has the following advantages over traditional two camera stereo that identical system parameters, easy calibration and easy acquisition of stereo data.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.247-255
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• 2008

A coded aperture camera has been developed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) while keeping the spatial resolution of a pinhole gamma camera. The purpose of this study was to optimize a coded aperture camera and to evaluate its possibility for thyroid imaging by Monte Carlo simulation. A clinical gamma camera, a pinhole collimator with 1.0 mm hole diameter, and a $79{\times}79$ modified uniformly redundant array (MURA) mask were designed using GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission). The penetration ratio, spatial resolution, integral uniformity and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) were simulated and evaluated as a function of the mask thickness. The spatial resolution of the coded aperture camera was consistent with the various mask thickness, SNR showed a maximum value at 1.2 mm mask thickness and integral uniformity was improved by increasing mask thickness. Compare to the pinhole gamma camera, the coded aperture camera showed improved SNR by a factor of 30 while keeping almost the same spatial resolution. In this simulation study, the results indicated that high spatial resolution and ultra-high SNR of the thyroid imaging are feasible using a coded aperture camera.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.331-334
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 차량에 부착된 4대의 어안렌즈 카메라 영상을 이용하여 차량 주위 전방향의 주변 정보를 포함하는 정합 영상을 생성하고, 생성된 정합 영상에서 차선을 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 전방 카메라만을 이용하여 차선을 검출하는 방법들은 안개와 같이 기상 환경이 안 좋은 경우 가시거리가 짧아져 정상적인 차선 검출이 어려운 문제가 있다. 이에 반해 4대의 어안렌즈 카메라로 차량의 주변을 촬영한 영상은 기상 환경에 영향을 적게 받아 안정적인 차선 검출에 용이하다. 어안렌즈 카메라로 촬영한 영상은 왜곡이 심하기 때문에 왜곡 보정을 수행한 후 차량 위에서 아래로 내려다본 시점으로 투영 변환하여 하나의 영상으로 정합한다. 정합영상에서 관심영역을 설정한 후 차선 후보 영역을 검출하고, 검출된 후보 영역들로 차선을 직선으로 모델링한다. 점선 차선 구간이나 차량 흔들림에 대응하기 위해 직선으로 모델링된 차선 정보의 차선 각도와 차량으로부터 거리 정보를 칼만 필터 기반 추적 및 보정하여 안정적으로 차선 검출을 수행한다. 실험 결과 제안하는 방법은 실선구간에서 99.57%, 점선구간에서는 90.48%의 검출 정확도를 가진다.

• The Optical Journal
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• v.11 no.4 s.62
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• pp.6-16
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• 1999

대일 무역 역조를 개선하기 위해서 시행돼 온 수입선 다변화 제도가 99년 6월 30일로 막을 내리면서 일본과 제휴를 맺고 있는 각 카메라 회사들이 분주해졌다. 가장 가시적인 움직임은 마지막으로 해제되는 LSC 카메라 수입. 7월중에 다양한 모델을 선보일 계획 아래 유통망과 A/S망을 넓히는데 힘을 쏟고 있다.

• The Optical Journal
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• s.97
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• pp.18-23
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• 2005

젊은층을 중심으로 폰카메라와 더불어 패션 아이콘으로 자리잡은 디지털카메라의 고속성장은 계속되고 있는 가운데 올해는 3~4년전 200만 화소대 이하 제품을 구매했던 소비자들의 교체수요와 맞물려 그 어느때보다 카메라 메이커간 시장 1위 다툼이 치열할 것으로 보인다. 특히 세계적으로 디카 시장이 어느정도 성숙기에 접어들면서 가격경쟁이 심화됨에 따라 결과적으로 메이커들의 수익성 문제로 불거졌고 카메라 사업을 포기하거나 사업구조를 개편하면서 수익성을 확보하려는 메이커들도 생겨나는등 시장 재편의 조짐도 보이고 있다. 이는 국내 시장에도 영향을 미쳐 올해는 그 어느때보다 메이커간 치열한 공방전과 국내 시장의 지각변동이 예상되고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.449-452
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 인간이 환경에 대한 상황을 직접적으로 파악할 수 있는 시각 정보를 제공하기 위해 다중 카메라를 이용한 사용자 시각기반 어라운드 뷰를 개발하였다. 4대의 하향식 경사 카메라를 통하여 영상을 획득하고 켈리브레이션한다. 렌즈의 왜곡을 보정하고 호모그라피 행렬을 계산하여 지표면과 수평이 되는 관점으로 영상을 변환한다. 그 결과 사용자에게 종합적 상황정보 획득이 용이하도록 정보화하기 위한 위성 영상 관점의 정보를 획득할 수 있다. 그리고 4대의 카메라를 동시에 사용하기 위한 하드웨어적 한계를 극복하고자 영상처리가 가능한 임베디드 카메라 모듈을 개발하였다. 사용자-로봇 상호작용을 위해 버튼 및 조이스틱과 같은 기계적 입력장치를 사용하지 않고 사용자의 자연스러운 제스처를 통하여 제어 명령을 입력할 수 있는 터치 패드를 사용하여 사용자 인터페이스를 구축하였다. 개발한 시스템은 시 공간적 한계를 극복하고 원격에서 로봇의 상황정보를 획득하여 사용자 친화적인 로봇제어를 할 수 있다. 위의 내용들을 검증하기 위하여 같은 상황 환경에서의 기존의 시스템과 비교 실험을 진행하였고 실험 결과를 통하여 제안한 시스템의 효용성을 검증하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.859-864
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• 2018

This paper is about image improvement - we used the contrast ratio and the outline emphasis method after synthesizing two low quality images utilized by several low definition cameras. Two raspberry cameras were used to capture each image, and then we synthesized images with MATLAB program. After applying the mean computation (alignment, geometry, and harmony) to synthesized image, we extracted the cross-space. In the experiment of this study, we identified and compared the improvement consequences of extracted, synthesized image after applying outline emphasis(unsharpmask filter, highboost filter) and increasing contrast ratio (histogram uniformity, histogram stretching) to the original images.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2020

In this study, a real time image integrating system which can reconstruct two images from a surface camera and an under water camera into one new image was developed to support Korea artistic swimming team. The developed system consists of four USB cameras (two USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0) sealed in water proof case and one note book computer, and a LabVIEW based real time image merging program was developed. During field test, problem in cooperative motion of acrobatic formation was found, and it was proved that correction of motion to improve skill of the player could be possible in real time with aid of the developed system. After the filed test, the developed system has been being used to support Korea artistic swimming team.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.598-608
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a color correction technique for images acquired through a multi-view camera system for acquiring a 3D model. It is assumed that the 3D volume is captured indoors, and the position and intensity of the light is constant over time. 8 multi-view cameras are used, and converging toward the center of the space, so even if the lighting is constant, the intensity and angle of light entering each camera may be different. Therefore, a color optimization function is applied to a color correction chart taken from all cameras, and a color conversion matrix defining a relationship between the obtained 8 images is calculated. Using this, the images of all cameras are corrected based on the standard color correction chart. This paper proposed a color correction method to minimize the color difference between cameras when acquiring an image using 8 cameras of 3D objects, and experimentally proved that the color difference between images is reduced when it is restored to a 3D image.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.291-297
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• 2013

This study is aimed to evaluate the effect of $T_{1/2}$ upon count rates in the analysis of dynamic scan using NaI (Tl) scintillation camera, and suggest a new quality control method with this effects. We producted a point source with $^{99m}TcO_4^-$ of 18.5 to 185 MBq in the 2 mL syringes, and acquired 30 frames of dynamic images with 10 to 60 seconds each using Infinia gamma camera (GE, USA). In the second experiment, 90 frames of dynamic images were acquired from 74 MBq point source by 5 gamma cameras (Infinia 2, Forte 2, Argus 1). There were not significant differences in average count rates of the sources with 18.5 to 92.5 MBq in the analysis of 10 to 60 seconds/frame with 10 seconds interval in the first experiment (p>0.05). But there were significantly low average count rates with the sources over 111 MBq activity at 60 seconds/frame (p<0.01). According to the second analysis results of linear regression by count rates of 5 gamma cameras those were acquired during 90 minutes, counting efficiency of fourth gamma camera was most low as 0.0064%, and gradient and coefficient of variation was high as 0.0042 and 0.229 each. We could not find abnormal fluctuation in $x^2$ test with count rates (p>0.02), and we could find the homogeneity of variance in Levene's F-test among the gamma cameras (p>0.05). At the correlation analysis, there was only correlation between counting efficiency and gradient as significant negative correlation (r=-0.90, p<0.05). Lastly, according to the results of calculation of $T_{1/2}$ error from change of gradient with -0.25% to +0.25%, if $T_{1/2}$ is relatively long, or gradient is high, the error increase relationally. When estimate the value of 4th camera which has highest gradient from the above mentioned result, we could not see $T_{1/2}$ error within 60 minutes at that value. In conclusion, it is necessary for the scintillation gamma camera in medical field to manage hard for the quality of radiation measurement. Especially, we found a tendency that count rate changes over time at this study, and we proved that it can effect $T_{1/2}$. And also, there is need of appropriate phantoms and the method of quality management like this study, because there are not any advice or limitation degrees for domestic medical purpose scintillation camera.