• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권3호
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• pp.66-76
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• 1995

In this research, a mesh connected VLSI structure is proposed for the real time computation of the generalized Hough transform(GHT). The purpose of the research is to design a generalized Hough transformer that can be realized as a single chip processor. The GHT has been modified to yield a highly parallel structure consisting of simple processing elements(PEs) and communication networks. In the proposed structure, the GHT can be computed by first assigning an image pixel to a PE and performing shift and add operations. The result of the CAD circuit simulation shows that it can be computed in the time proportional to the number of pixels in the pattern. In addition to the Hough transformer, the peak detector has been designed to reduce 1)the number of the I/O operations between the transformer and the host computer and 2) the host computer's burden for peak detection by transmitting only the local peaks detected from the transformed accumulator. It is expected that the proposed single chip Hough transformer with peak detector makes a fast and inexpensive edge based object recognition systems possible for many industrial and military applications.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1073-1080
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• 2011

In this study, a target detection algorithm was proposed for using hyperspectral imagery. The proposed algorithm is designed to have minimal processing time, low false alarm rate, and flexible threshold selection. The target detection procedure can be divided into two steps. Initially, candidates of target pixel are extracted using matching ratio of spectral pattern that can be calculated by spectral derivation. Secondly, spectral distance is computed only for those candidates using Euclidean distance. The proposed two-step method showed lower false alarm rate than the Euclidean distance detector applied over the whole image. It also showed much lower processing time as compared to the Mahalanobis distance detector.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.107-113
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• 2008

We introduce a rotating-gantry-based x-ray micro-tomography system to be used for small animal imaging studies. It has the zoom-in imaging capability for high resolution imaging of a local region inside the animal subject without any contrast anomalies arising from truncation of the projection data. With the sliding mechanism mounted on the rotating gantry holding the x-ray source and the x-ray detector, we can control the magnification ratio of the x-ray projection data. By combining the projection data from the large field of view (FOV) scan of the whole animal subject and the projection data from the small FOV scan of the region of interest, we can obtain artifact-free zoomed-in images of the region of interest. For the acquisition of x-ray projection data, we use a $1248{\times}1248$ flat-panel x-ray detector with the pixel pitch of 100 mm. It has been experimentally found that the developed system has the spatial resolution of up to 121p/mm when the highest magnification ratio of 5:1 is applied to the zoom-in imaging. We present some in vivo rat femur images to demonstrate utility of the developed system for small animal imaging.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.3 No.2
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• pp.817-820
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• 2002

Amorphous selenium based flat panel detectors convert incident x-ray to electric signal directly. Flat panel detectors gain more interest real time medical x-ray imaging. TFT array and electric readout circuits are used in this paper offered by LG.Philips.LCD. Detector is based on a $1536{\times}1280$ array of a-Si TFT pixels. X-ray conversion layer(a-Se) is deposited upper TFT array with a $400{\mu}m$ by thermal deposition technology. Thickness uniformity of this layer is made of thickness control system technology$({\leq}5%)$. Each $139{\mu}m{\times}139{\mu}m$ pixel is made of thin film transistor technology, a storage capacitor and collecting electrode having geometrical fill factor of 86%. This system show dynamic performance. Imaging performance is suited for digital radiography imaging substitute by conventional radiography film system.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume II
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• pp.804-807
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• 2006

The SRI(Super Resolution Imager) with 800mm aperture primary mirror is the ground development model of the high resolution satellite camera. The SRI focal plane electronics including detector array generates the data for high-resolution images by converting incoming light into digital stream of pixel data. Since the focal plane including a detector is the basic building block of the camera system, the main system performances is directly determined by its performance. This paper measures the SRI focal plane electronics’ performance such as the dark signal, the dark signal noise, the linearity, the PRNU(Photo Response Non-Uniformity), the SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio) and the sensor saturation capability. In addition, this paper verifies the various functionalities of the SRI focal plane electronics. The electrical test equipment with the specialized software and the optical test equipments such as the integrating sphere, the rotation stage and the target are implemented and used to verify these functionalities and performances.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.601-607
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• 2022

In recent years, monitoring of spent nuclear fuel inside dry cask storage has become an important area of national security. Muon tomography is a useful method for monitoring spent nuclear fuel because it uses high energy muons that penetrate deep into the target material and provides a 3-D structure of the inner materials. We designed a muon tomography system consisting of four 2-D position sensitive detector and characterized and optimized the system parameters. Each detector, measuring 200 × 200 cm², consists of a plastic scintillator, wavelength shifting (WLS) fibers and, SiPMs. The reconstructed image is obtained by extracting the intersection of the incoming and outgoing muon tracks using a Point-of-Closest-Approach (PoCA) algorithm. The Geant4 simulation was used to evaluate the performance of the muon tomography system and to optimize the design parameters including the pixel size of the muon detector, the field of view (FOV), and the distance between detectors. Based on the optimized design parameters, the spent fuel assemblies were modeled and the line profile was analyzed to conduct a feasibility study. Line profile analysis confirmed that muon tomography system can monitor nuclear spent fuel in dry storage container.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.831-832
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• 2008

This paper proposes the experimental results and analysis of face recognition on an conventional UMPC(Ultra Mobile Personal Computer). With face images acquired by the embedded camera of UMPC, we detected the facial region by using Adaboost face detector. The detected image was normalized into a $32{\times}32$ pixel sized image for face recognition. We performed face recognition based on PCA (Principal Component Analysis). As experimental results, the TER (Total Error Rate) of face recognition was 19.77%.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2000년도 봄 학술발표논문집 Vol.27 No.1 (A)
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• pp.36-38
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• 2000

An optoelectronic database filter chip for high performance database computers and applications is proposed. The proposed device is designed to perform the selection and projection operations of relational database operation on-the-fly in page-parallel manner to increase the overall performance of a database system. The device utilizes CMOS smart pixel array consists of detector and combinational logic circuit to perform the selection and projection operation.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.521-532
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• 2015

본 논문은 효과적인 열화영상의 복원을 위해 쿼드트리 구조를 갖는 다중-스케일 블록 지역적 이진 패턴 기반의 영역검출기를 제시하고, 이를 통한 구간적 잡음 제거 기법을 제안한다. 구간적 잡음 제거 기법은 영상 내 전체 화소를 일정한 블록 단위의 영역으로 나누어 화소의 변화량에 따라 검출을 수행하는 다중-스케일 블록 영역 검출기를 쿼드트리 형태로 제시하고 검출된 영역 특성에 맞게 영상분석을 진행한다. 처리되는 영역들은 강한 변화량을 갖는 영역, 약한 변화량을 갖는 영역, 평탄한 영역의 세 가지로 분류되며 차례로 주성분분석, 양방향 필터, 구조-텍스쳐 영상 분해의 기법들이 잡음제거를 위해 적용된다. 객관적 실험결과를 통하여 기존 알고리즘들 보다 제안하는 구간적 잡음 제거 기법이 최대 신호-대-잡음비 측면에서 이득을 가지며, 주관적 화질 비교를 통해 세부정보들이 최대한 보존되어 있음과 동시에 평탄한 영역에 대해서도 왜곡이 거의 없는 향상된 복원영상이 얻어지는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제36C권5호
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• pp.27-37
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• 1999

비냉각 열상장비의 핵심 부품으로 사용되는 InfraRed Focal Plane Array(IRFPA)용 CMOS ReadOut IC (ROIC)를 설계하였다. 설계된 ROIC는 64×64 배열의 Barium Strontium Titanate(BST) 적외선 검출기에서 검출되는 신호를 받아 이를 적절히 증폭하고 잡음제거 필터링을 거쳐 pixel 단위로 순차적으로 출력하는 기능을 수행하며, 검출기 소자와의 임피던스 매칭, 저잡음 및 저전력 소모, 검출기 소자의 pitch 등의 사양을 만족하도록 설계되었다. 검출기 소자와 전치 증폭기 사이의 임피던스 매칭을 위해 MOS 다이오드 구조를 기본으로 하는 새로운 회로를 고안하여 적용함으로써 표준 CMOS 공정으로 구현이 가능하도록 하였다. 또한, tunable 저역통과 필터를 채용하여 신호대역 이상의 고주파 잡음이 제거되도록 하였으며, 단위 셀 내부에 클램프 회로를 삽입하여 출력신호의 신호 대 잡음비가 개선되도록 하였다. 64×64 IREPA ROIC는 0.65-㎛ 2P3M (double poly, tripple metal) N-Well CMOS 공정으로 설계되었으며, 트랜지스터, 커패시터 및 저항을 포함하여 약 62,000여개의 소자로 구성되는 코어 부분의 면적은 약 6.3-{{{{ { mm}_{ } }}}}×6.7-{{{{ { mm}_{ } }}}}이다.