• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.439-443
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• 2019

To improve the noise characteristics, software-based noise reduction algorithms are widely used in cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) pixelated semiconductor gamma camera system. The purpose of this study was to develop an improved median filtering algorithm using a thresholding method for noise reduction in a CZT pixelated semiconductor gamma camera system. The gamma camera system simulated is a CZT pixelated semiconductor detector with a pixel-matched parallel-hole collimator and the spatial resolution phatnom was designed with the Geant4 Application for Tomography Emission (GATE). In addition, a noise reduction algorithm with a median filter using an improved thresholding method is developed and we applied our proposed algorithm to an acquired spatial resolution phantom image. According to the results, the proposed median filter improved the noise characteristics compared to a conventional median filter. In particular, the average for normalized noise power spectrum, contrast to noise ratio, and coefficient of variation results using the proposed median filter were 10, 1.11, and 1.19 times better than results using conventional median filter, respectively. In conclusion, our results show that the proposed median filter using improved the thresholding method results in high imaging performance when applied in a CZT semiconductor gamma camera system.

• 센서학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.131-137
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• 2022

Crimes related to illegal cameras are steadily increasing and causing social problems. Owing to the development of camera technology, the miniaturization and high performance of illegal cameras have caused anxiety among many people. This study is for detecting hidden cameras effectively such that they could not be easily detected by human eyes. An image sensor-based module with 940 nm wavelength infrared detection technology was developed, and an image processing algorithm was developed to selectively detect illegal cameras. Based on the Android smartphone environment, image processing technology was applied to an image acquired from an infrared camera, and a detection sensor module that is less sensitive to ambient brightness noise was studied. Experiments and optimization studies were conducted according to the Gaussian blur size, adaptive threshold size, and detection distance. The performance of the infrared image-based illegal camera detection sensor module was excellent. This is expected to contribute to the prevention of crimes related to illegal cameras.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.555-563
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• 2011

영상의 왜곡보정은 영상 좌표계(이미지)와 전역 좌표계(대상체)의 상관관계를 규정하는 것이다. 기존의 왜곡영상에 대한 보정은 카메라의 광학적 특성을 모델링하여 영상 좌표계와 전역 좌표계의 물리적 관계를 찾는 방식이 주를 이루고 있다. 본 논문에서는 성능 지수기반 다항식 모델을 이용하여 왜곡영상의 보정을 시도하였다. 성능지수기반 다항식 모델은 영상 좌표계와 전역 좌표계 사이의 상관관계를 다항식으로 가정한 후, 이미지와 대상체의 좌표 데이터와 성능지수를 이용하여 다항식 모델의 계수와 차수를 결정하는 방식이다. 제안한 성능지수기반 다항식 모델을 이용하여 기존의 왜곡영상을 보정방식이 가진 과대적합 문제와 같은 한계를 극복하고자 한다. 제안한 방법을 레이저 스캔 카메라로 획득한 2차원 영상에 적용하여 모델의 유효성을 검증하였다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.245-253
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 사거리가 수백 km에 이르는 장거리 미사일의 화염을 발사 초기에 탐지할 수 있는 적외선 카메라에 대한 현실적 영상성능 수치모사 결과를 제시한다. 적외선 카메라는 중적외선 대역용 다수의 렌즈로 구성된 굴절식 광학계이다. 관측대상과 배경의 모델링 전체를 포함하는 규모의통합적 광선추적을 수행함으로 카메라를 통해 보는 영상과 검출기에 도달하는 빛의 세기에 대한 정보를 획득하였다. 관측대상이 되는 미사일 화염의 방사휘도(radiance)는 CFD 타입의 복사전달 기법으로 계산하였으며 이를 광원으로 삽입하여 광선추적을 수행하였다. 관측배경이 되는 대기 모델은 MODTRAN을 사용하여 열복사의 경로, 단일/다중 산란 복사와 투과율을 계산하였다. 광선추적 수치모사의 결과로써 관측대상의 이미지와 도달한 복사전달 성능(radiometric performance)의 검증을 통해 적외선 카메라가 요구사항을 만족함을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.191-196
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• 2012

한양대학교에서는 핵물질 탐지를 위해 고에너지 감마선원 영상화에 적합한 이중산란형 컴프턴 카메라의 원형을 개발하였다. 이중산란형 컴프턴 카메라는 높은 영상해상도를 제공하지만, 기존의 단일산란형 컴프턴 카메라보다 상대적으로 영상감도가 낮다는 한계가 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 개발된 이중산란형 컴프턴 카메라에 단일산란형 컴프턴 카메라의 기능을 추가함으로써 하나의 시스템에서 두 가지 모드로 작동하는 이중모드 컴프턴 카메라(고민감도(단일산란형)모드와 고해상도(이중산란형)모드)에 대한 개념설계와 이에 대한 최적화 설계를 수행하였다. 최적화된 시스템에서 고민감도 모드는 고해상도 모드에 비해 전 에너지 영역에서 약 100배 정도 높은 고유영상감도를 제공하는 것으로 평가되었으며, 고해상도 모드에서 영상해상도는 기존의 이중산란형 컴프턴 카메라와 거의 같은 결과를 보여 고해상도 영상을 제공하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.629-634
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• 2000

This System is developed for the estimation of the Camera Lens Resolution. Signal data proportional to light intensity is obtained and sampled from the 2D CCD. Based on the measured signal. the MTF charateristcs of a camera lens are measured. We could measure the sagittal and tangential MTF in the on and off-axis at the same time. The automatic measurig methods for optimal image plane, magnification, and best marginal direction of test lens are presented.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.141-144
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• 2002

This paper describes a new feature based tracking system that can track moving objects with a pan-tilt camera. We extract corner features of the scene and tracks the features using filtering, The global motion energy caused by camera movement is eliminated by finding the maximal matching position between consecutive frames using Pyramidal template matching. The region of moving object is segmented by clustering the motion trajectories and command the pan-tilt controller to follow the object such that the object will always lie at the center of the camera. The proposed system has demonstrated good performance for several video sequences.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.407-412
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• 2009

In the present work, vibration control performance of active camera mount system for unmanned aero vehicle (UAV) is evaluated. An active mount featuring inertia type of piezostack actuator is designed and manufactured. Then, vibration control performances are experimentally evaluated. A camera mount system with four active mounts is constructed and mechanical model is established. The governing equation for the camera mount system is obtained and control model is constructed in state space model. Sliding mode controller which has inherent robustness to external disturbance is designed and implemented to the system. Vibration control performances are evaluated at each mount and center of gravity point. Effective vibration performances are obtained and presented in time and frequency domains.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제23권9호
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• pp.789-796
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• 2013

Vibration measurements using image processing have been studied by many researchers as it can remotely measure vibration displacements at multiple points simultaneously. It is difficult, however, to obtain accurate displacement from the measured image signals because the resolution of image data is dependent on camera performance and normally lower than that of vibration transducer directly measured. This paper suggests the enhanced technique for vibration displacement measurement by applying the expected value of edge probability distribution to the varying pixel points in the image. The method can both increase the resolution limit of camera image and decrease the measurement errors. The working performance of the proposed technique is verified applying to the vibration measurement of a rotating machine.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1565-1567
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• 2004

Various defects are found in FPD (Flat Panel Display) manufacturing process. So detecting these defects early and reprocessing them is an important factor that reduces the cost of production. In this paper, the bare glass inspection system for the FPD which is the early process inspection system in the FPD manufacturing process is designed and implemented using the high performance and accuracy CCD line scan camera. For the preprocessing of the high speed line image data, the Image Processing Part (IPP) is designed and implemented using high performance DSP (Digital signal Processor), FIFO (First in First out), FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and the Data Management and System Control part are implemented using ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) processor to control many IPP and cameras and to provide remote users with processed data. For evaluating implemented system, experiment environment which has an area camera for reviewing and moving shelf is made.