• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.60-69
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• 2016

In this study, we estimated root zone soil moisture dynamics using remotely sensed (RS) data. A soil moisture data assimilation scheme was used to derive the soil and root parameters from MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. Based on the estimated soil/root parameters and weather forcings, soil moisture dynamics were simulated at spatio-temporal scales based on a hydrological model. For calibration/validation, the Little Washita (LW13) in Oklahoma and Chungmi-cheon/Seolma-cheon sites were selected. The derived water retention curves matched the observations at LW 13. Also, the simulated soil moisture dynamics at these sites was in agreement with the Time Domain Reflectrometry (TDR)-based measurements. To test the applicability of this approach at ungauged regions, the soil/root parameters at the pixel where the Seolma-cheon site is located were derived from the calibrated MODIS-based (Chungmi-cheon) soil moisture data. Then, the simulated soil moisture was validated using the measurements at the Seolma-cheon site. The results were slightly overestimated compared to the measurements, but these findings support the applicability of this proposed approach in ungauged regions with predictable uncertainties. These findings showed the potential of this approach in Korea. Thus, this proposed approach can be used to assess root zone soil moisture dynamics at spatio-temporal scales across Korea, which comprises mountainous regions with dense forest.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제47권12호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2010

본 논문은 H.264 비디오 코덱에 적용할 수 있는 고성능 정수화소 움직임 예측 회로 구조에 대해 설명한다. 전역 탐색 알고리즘은 모든 가능한 블록에 대해 확인하기 때문에 가장 좋은 결과를 보장한다. 그러나 전역 탐색 알고리즘은 많은 양의 연산과 데이터를 요구한다. 연산 노력을 줄이기 위해 많은 고속 탐색 알고리즘들이 제안되었다. 고속 탐색 알고리즘들의 단점은 데이터 접근이 불규칙하고 데이터 재사용이 어려운 것이다. 본 논문에서는 고성능 움직임 예측을 위하여 효율적인 정수화소 움직임 예측 알고리즘을 제안하고 있으며, 이를 구현하기 위한 처리 속도가 높고 외부 메모리 사용을 줄일 수 있는 회로 구조를 제안한다. 제안한 회로는 7가지 종류의 가변 블록 크기를 지원하면 41개 움직임 벡터를 생성한다. 구현된 고성능 움직임 예측 회로는 RTL로 구현하였고 FPGA가 탑재된 보드에서 동작을 검증하였다. 130nm CMOS 표준 셀 라이브러리로 합성된 회로는 1초에 139.8장의 1080HD ($1,920{\times}1,088$) 영상을 처리할 수 있고 H.264 5.1 레벨까지 지원 가능하다.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.175-182
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• 2017

영상데이터를 획득하거나 저장하는 과정에서는 주변 환경이나 장치의 특성에 따라 잡음이 발생한다. 또한 영상의 전송과정에서도 채널 간섭에 의한 잡음이 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 잡음은 정보의 손실을 가져옴으로써 이어지는 영상처리 단계에서 화질의 저하가 나타나게 된다. 대표적인 잡음으로는 가우시안 잡음과 임펄스 잡음을 들 수 있는데, 영상처리는 일반적으로 이들이 혼재하는 복합 잡음 환경에서 이루어진다. 본 논문에서는 복합 잡음을 저감할 수 있는 반복 가중 평균 필터를 제안한다. 먼저 입력 영상으로부터 임펄스 잡음 화소를 제거한 다음, $3{\times}3$ 슬라이딩 윈도우 영역에 대해 가중 평균 마스크 연산을 수행하여 중앙 화소값을 구하는 간단한 방법이다. 제거된 임펄스 잡음 화소가 가중 평균값으로 모두 채워질 때까지 필터링을 반복한다. 제안한 필터를 ${\sigma}=10$인 가우시안 잡음과 다양한 밀도의 임펖스 잡음이 포함된 영상에 적용하여 처리한 결과, 잡음 밀도 60% 이하에서 기존의 SAWF, AWMF, MMF 등에 비해 PSNR이 각각 최대 12.98 dB, 1.97 dB, 1.97 dB 개선되었다.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.128-138
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• 2019

Purpose: Segmental analysis of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) is not clinically used for compositional error source evaluation. Instead, dose verification is routinely used for plan-specific quality assurance (QA). While this approach identifies the resultant error, it does not specify which machine parameter was responsible for the error. In this research study, we adopted an approach for the segmental analysis of VMAT as a part of machine QA of linear accelerator (LINAC). Methods: Two portal dose QA plans were generated for VMAT QA: a) for full arc and b) for the arc, which was segmented in 12 subsegments. We investigated the multileaf collimator (MLC) position and dosimetric accuracy in the full and segmented arc delivery schemes. A MATLAB program was used to calculate the MLC position error from the data in the dynalog file. The Gamma passing rate (GPR) and the measured to planned dose difference (DD) in each pixel of the electronic portal imaging device was the measurement for dosimetric accuracy. The eclipse treatment planning system and a MATLAB program were used to calculate the dosimetric accuracy. Results: The maximum root-mean-square error of the MLC positions were <1 mm. The GPR was within the range of 98%-99.7% and was similar in both types of VMAT delivery. In general, the DD was <5 calibration units in both full arcs. A similar DD distribution was found for continuous arc and segmented arcs sums. Exceedingly high DD were not observed in any of the arc segment delivery schemes. The LINAC performance was acceptable regarding the execution of the VMAT QA plan. Conclusions: The segmental analysis proposed in this study is expected to be useful for the prediction of the delivery of the VMAT in relation to the gantry angle. We thus recommend the use of segmental analysis of VMAT as part of the regular QA.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.418-428
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 움직임 보상을 이용한 움직임 기반의 적응형 디인터레이싱 알고리즘을 제안한다. 정확한 움직임 추정을 위해 전처리로서 EBMF(Edge Based Median Filter)를 사용하며 2 개의 같은 위상을 갖는 필드와 1 개의 다른 위상을 갖는 필드를 이용한 새로운 BMA(Block Matching Algorithm) 움직임 보상 방법을 제안한다. 시간축 필터로서 움직임 정보 손실 오류를 제거하기 위해 입력 영상의 움직임 영역에 따라 각각 다른 임계 값을 적용하는 AMPDF(Adaptive Minimum Pixel Difference Filter)를 적용하였으며 MMD(Maximum Motion Detection)와 SAD(Sum of Difference)를 이용하여 빠른 움직임 영역에서의 화질을 향상시켰다. 최종적으로 잘못된 움직임 보상에 기인하는 화질의 열화를 방지하기 위한 후처리로서 움직임 보정 필터를 제안한다. 모의 실험을 통해 제안하는 방법이 기존의 방법에 비해 우수한 성능을 갖는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 학술발표 논문집 제14권 제2호
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• pp.553-559
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• 2004

In todays security industry, personal identification is also based on biometric. Biometric identification is performed basing on the measurement and comparison of physiological and behavioral characteristics, Biometric for recognition includes voice dynamics, signature dynamics, hand geometry, fingerprint, iris, etc. Iris can serve as a kind of living passport or living password. Iris recognition system is the one of the most reliable biometrics recognition system. This is applied to client/server system such as the electronic commerce and electronic banking from stand-alone system or networks, ATMs, etc. A new algorithm using nonlinear function in recognition process is proposed in this paper. An algorithm is proposed to determine the localized iris from the iris image received from iris input camera in client. For the first step, the algorithm determines the center of pupil. For the second step, the algorithm determines the outer boundary of the iris and the pupillary boundary. The localized iris area is transform into polar coordinates. After performing three times Wavelet transformation, normalization was done using sigmoid function. The converting binary process performs normalized value of pixel from 0 to 255 to be binary value, and then the converting binary process is compare pairs of two adjacent pixels. The binary code of the iris is transmitted to the by server. the network. In the server, the comparing process compares the binary value of presented iris to the reference value in the University database. Process of recognition or rejection is dependent on the value of Hamming Distance. After matching the binary value of presented iris with the database stored in the server, the result is transmitted to the client.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.210-222
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• 2017

Purpose: To develop a novel combination of controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration (CAIPIRINHA) with integrated SSFP (CAIPI-iSSFP) for accelerated SSFP imaging without banding artifacts at 3T. Materials and Methods: CAIPI-iSSFP was developed by adding a dephasing gradient to the balanced SSFP (bSSFP) pulse sequence with a gradient area that results in $2{\pi}$ dephasing across a single pixel. Extended phase graph (EPG) simulations were performed to show the signal behaviors of iSSFP, bSSFP, and RF-spoiled gradient echo (SPGR) sequences. In vivo experiments were performed for brain and abdominal imaging at 3T with simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) acceleration factors of 2, 3 and 4 with CAIPI-iSSFP and CAIPI-bSSFP. The image quality was evaluated by measuring the relative contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and by qualitatively assessing banding artifact removal in the brain. Results: Banding artifacts were removed using CAIPI-iSSFP compared to CAIPI-bSSFP up to an SMS factor of 4 and 3 on brain and liver imaging, respectively. The relative CNRs between gray and white matter were on average 18% lower in CAIPI-iSSFP compared to that of CAIPI-bSSFP. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that CAIPI-iSSFP provides up to a factor of four acceleration, while minimizing the banding artifacts with up to a 20% decrease in the relative CNR.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.3295-3311
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• 2020

With the wide application of hyperspectral images, it becomes more and more important to compress hyperspectral images. Conventional recursive least squares (CRLS) algorithm has great potentiality in lossless compression for hyperspectral images. The prediction accuracy of CRLS is closely related to the correlations between the reference bands and the current band, and the similarity between pixels in prediction context. According to this characteristic, we present an improved CRLS with adaptive band selection and adaptive predictor selection (CRLS-ABS-APS). Firstly, a spectral vector correlation coefficient-based k-means clustering algorithm is employed to generate clustering map. Afterwards, an adaptive band selection strategy based on inter-spectral correlation coefficient is adopted to select the reference bands for each band. Then, an adaptive predictor selection strategy based on clustering map is adopted to select the optimal CRLS predictor for each pixel. In addition, a double snake scan mode is used to further improve the similarity of prediction context, and a recursive average estimation method is used to accelerate the local average calculation. Finally, the prediction residuals are entropy encoded by arithmetic encoder. Experiments on the Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) 2006 data set show that the CRLS-ABS-APS achieves average bit rates of 3.28 bpp, 5.55 bpp and 2.39 bpp on the three subsets, respectively. The results indicate that the CRLS-ABS-APS effectively improves the compression effect with lower computation complexity, and outperforms to the current state-of-the-art methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.2156-2170
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• 2020

This paper presents a fire detection algorithm with a minimal false detection rate, intended for a thermal imaging surveillance environment, whose properties vary depending on temporal conditions of day or night and environmental changes. This algorithm was designed to minimize the false detection alarm rate while ensuring a high detection rate, as required in fire detection applications. It was necessary to reduce false fire detections due to non-flame elements occurring when existing fixed threshold-based fire detection methods were applied. To this end, adaptive flame thresholds that varied depending on the characteristics of input images, as well as the center of gravity of the heat-source and hot-source regions, were analyzed in an attempt to minimize such non-flame elements in the phase of selecting flame candidate blocks. Also, to remove any false detection elements caused by camera shaking, one of the most frequently raised issues at outdoor sites, preliminary decision thresholds were adaptively set to the motion pixel ratio of input images to maximize the accuracy of the preliminary decision. Finally, in addition to the preliminary decision results, the texture correlation and intensity of the flame candidate blocks were averaged for a specific period of time and tested for their conformity with the fire decision conditions before making the final decision. To verify the fire detection performance of the proposed algorithm, a total of ten test videos were subjected to computer simulation. As a result, the fire detection accuracy of the proposed algorithm was determined to be 94.24%, with minimum false detection, demonstrating its improved performance and practicality compared to previous fixed threshold-based algorithms.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.157-163
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 조명이 없는 야간 및 악천후 등 가시영상 카메라를 이용하여 사람 영역을 추정하기 힘든 환경에서의 대안으로 열화상 카메라를 이용한 사람검출 방법을 제안한다. 일반적인 열화상에서 사람은 주변 배경에 비해 밝게 표현되는 특징을 이용하여, 밝기 히스토그램 상의 사람의 열화상의 신뢰 구간을 계산해 1차적으로 사람 영역을 추정한 뒤, 가우시안 필터링 및 레이블링을 통해 불필요한 잡음을 제거한다. 그 이후에 Self-occlusion 등에 의해 분리된 사람 영역을 각 blob별 무게중심 및 분포정보를 이용하여 하나의 객체 영역을 추정한다. 최종적으로 추정 영역에 대한 가로와 세로의 비율 및 크기 정보와 주성분분석(PCA; principal component analysis)를 이용하여 추정된 영역에 대하여 사람인지 여부를 결정한다. 실험결과를 통하여, 제안된 방법은 가시영상에서 검출하기 힘든 환경들에 대하여 좋은 성능을 나타내는 것을 알 수 있었다.