• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2019

In High Dynamic Range (HDR) image processing, tone mapping is the process to compress an input image into a Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image. In most cases, the reason that detail preservation is prior to take over tone mapping is that the dynamic range is significantly different between input and output images. In the case of iCAM06, details are separated by using a bilateral filter, however, it causes noise amplification at the dim surround region. Thus, we suggest that the detail signal, which is separated from the bilateral filter, is combined with the base signal after an adaptive Kalman filter is applied according to the local standard deviation. We confirmed that the proposed method enhances the HDR images quality by checking the noise reduction in a dim surround region.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.137-140
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• 2021

High dynamic range (HDR) technology has been drawing attention in the field of imaging and consumer entertainment. As tools for capturing and creating HDR contents, encoding, and transmission evolve to support HDR formats, various display capabilities are being developed and increased. Hence, there is need for remapping native HDR imagery for display on lower quality legacy standard dynamic range (SDR) displays. This operation is referred to as tone mapping. In this paper, we present a sectional tone mapping method by Lenzen, and expand upon a tone mapping approach to improve temporal stability while maintaining picture quality. Compared to the existing block-based sectional tone mapping, our method uses the edge awareness-based tone mapping. We estimate the performance of the objective metric on temporal flickering. The experimental result shows that the algorithm maintains a smoother relationship between the output luminance values, and this reveals success in reducing halos and improving temporal stability with adopted edge aware filtering.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.182-186
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• 2021

Tone mapping operator is designed to reproduce visibility of real-world scenes such as HDR images on limited dynamic range display devices. This paper presents and implements compare and to estimate some tone mapping algorithms commonly used. The evaluation is performed by applying tone mapping operators on 7 HDR images, and by presenting the results with subjective estimation. Reinhard tone mapping algorithm is the best in the visual experimental results. The goal of this work is to discuss what is visible of high dynamic range on a normal display device and to determine to which better algorithm is. This work motivates us to make more progress through the new proposal of tone mapping operator on future work.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.283-292
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• 2018

LDR (low dynamic range) 영상에 비해서 밝기 범위가 크게 늘어난 HDR (high dynamic range) 영상을 촬영할 수 있는 장비와 디스플레이할 수 있는 기기들이 개발되고 있고 영상의 밝기 범위를 효율적으로 변환하는 방법에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 LDR 영상을 HDR 영상으로 효율적으로 변환하기 위해서 guided filter를 사용한 reverse tone mapping 기법을 제안한다. Guided filter를 사용하여 한 장의 LDR 영상으로부터 BEF(brightness enhancement function)을 구한 후에 LDR 영상에서 밝기가 포화된 부분을 효율적으로 복원하여 HDR 영상을 생성하는 기법을 제안한다. 또한 영상이 지나치게 밝거나 어두운 경우 영상 촬영시의 노출 값을 추정하여 보정한 후에 밝기 범위를 변환하는 방법을 이용하여 생성되는 HDR 영상의 화질을 극대화하는 방법을 연구하고 모의 실험 결과로부터 제안하는 기법은 기존의 방법에 비해서 우수한 화질의 HDR 영상을 생성하는 것을 입증한다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2016

Range-based wireless localization system must measure accurate range between a mobile node (MN) and reference nodes. However, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) error caused by the spatial structures disturbs the localization system obtaining the accurate range measurements. Localization methods using the range measurements including NLOS error yield large localization error. But filter-based localization methods can provide comparatively accurate location solution. Motivated by the accuracy of the filter-based localization method, a filter residual-based NLOS error estimation method is presented in this paper. Range measurement-based residual contains NLOS error. By considering this factor with NLOS error properties, NLOS error is mitigated. Also a process noise covariance matrix tuning method is presented to reduce the time-delay estimation error caused by the single dynamic model-based filter when the speed or moving direction of a MN changes, that is the used dynamic model is not fit the current dynamic of a MN. The presented methods are evaluated by simulation allowing direct comparison between different localization methods. The simulation results show that the presented filter is more accurate than the iterative least squares- and extended Kalman filter-based localization methods.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.979-984
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• 2003

A Dynamic vibration absorber(DVA) is developed to reduce the excessive vibration of an optical disk drive(ODD) originated from the deriving range of an wobble disk and unbalanced disk. We design the material properties and shapes of the DVA by simulating Frequency response function(FRF) such as target frequency, mass of the DVA, stiffness of damper, damping coefficient, shape and dimension, analyze dynamic characteristics and provide its design guide line for suppressing the vibration of an optical disk derive. To examine the performance of the DVA, the vibration of the feeding system with DVA and without DAA are measured by using a three-axis accelerometer, PCB derive and Pulse analyzer. The result show that the proposed DVA reduces the vibration of wide range in ODD.

• 대한방사선치료학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.13-24
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• 2019

목 적: 두경부 토모테라피 치료 시 다양한 이유로 CT scan range가 부족한 상황이 발생한다. CT scan range는 정확한 선량 계산에 영향을 주기 때문에 Re-CT Simulation이 좋지만 환자의 피폭선량 증가와 불편함, 치료일정 변경 등 문제점을 갖는다. 이에 본 저자는 기존 CT scan range에서 Plan setup parameter 변화를 통해 Re-CT Simulation 없이 정확한 치료계획에 필요한 최소한의 CT scan range를 평가해보고자 한다. 대상 및 방법: CT simulator(Discovery CT590 RT, GE, USA)와 In House Head & Neck Phantom을 이용하였고, Target의 끝단에서 0.25~3.0cm까지 0.25cm씩 증가시켜 CT scan range 별 이미지를 획득하였다. Target과 정상 장기를 Head & Neck Phantom에 등록하고 ACCURAY Precision^® 이용하여 치료계획을 설계하였다. 처방 선량은 Daily 2.2Gy, 27 Fxs, Total Dose 59.4Gy, Target은 처방 선량의 95~107%, 정상 장기는 SMC Protocol에 맞춰 치료계획을 설계하였다. 동일한 치료계획 조건에서 Field Width(FW)와 Jaw 모드를 고려한 5가지 방법(Fixed-1cm, Fixed-2.5cm, Fixed-5cm, Dynamic-2.5cm Dynamic-5cm)과 2가지 Pitch(0.43, 0.287)의 Plan Setup parameter로 치료계획을 설계하였다. 각 치료계획에 대한 선량 전달의 정확성은 EBT3 film과 RIT(Complete Version 6.7, RIT, USA)를 이용하여 분석하였다. 결 과: Target의 처방 선량과 정상 장기의 견딤선량(Tolerance dose)을 만족한 치료계획(SMC Protocol)은 Fixed-1cm은 0.25cm 이상, Fixed-2.5cm는 0.75cm 이상, Dynamic-2.5cm는 1cm 이상, Fixed-5cm과 Dynamic-5cm인 경우는 1.75cm 이상의 Scan range가 있어야 정확한 치료계획을 할 수 있었다. 선량 전달의 정확성은 RIT로 분석한 결과 SMC Protocol을 만족한 치료계획에서 3% 미만의 오차였다. 결 론: 두경부 토모테라피 치료 시 CT scan range가 부족한 경우 Plan Setup Parameter 중 Field Width(FW)를 조절하여 정확한 치료계획을 설계할 수 있었다. 이에 본 저자가 추천한 Plan Setup Parameter를 CT scan range에 따라 적용하고 Re-CT 여부를 판단한다면 업무의 효율성 및 환자의 피폭선량을 감소시킬 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.413-419
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• 2012

A dynamic range extension technique is proposed based on a 3-transistor active pixel sensor (APS) with gate/body-tied p-channel metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (PMOSFET)-type photodetector using a feedback structure. The new APS consists of a pseudo 3-transistor APS and an additional gate/body-tied PMOSFET-type photodetector, and to extend the dynamic range, an NMOSFET switch is proposed. An additional detector and an NMOSFET switch are integrated into the APS to provide negative feedback. The proposed APS and pseudo 3-transistor APS were designed and fabricated using a $0.35-{\mu}m$ 2-poly 4-metal standard complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. Afterwards, their optical responses were measured and characterized. Although the proposed pixel size increased in comparison with the pseudo 3-transistor APS, the proposed pixel had a significantly extended dynamic range of 98 dB compared to a pseudo 3-transistor APS, which had a dynamic range of 28 dB. We present a proposed pixel that can be switched between two operating modes depending on the transfer gate voltage. The proposed pixel can be switched between two operating modes depending on the transfer gate voltage: normal mode and WDR mode. We also present an imaging system using the proposed APS.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.907-915
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 저가형 적외선 거리 센서의 성능을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 적외선 거리 센서는 반사광의 강도를 측정하여 거리로 환산한다. 제안하는 방법은 센서의 감지 거리를 개선하고 다양한 조명환경에서도 강인하게 동작하도록 한다. 이는 센서의 특성곡선을 추출하고 이를 바탕으로 HDR(High Dynamic Range) 기법을 적용함으로써 가능해졌다. 적외선 입력의 세기와 노출 시간을 다양하게 변화시켜서 센서의 출력값을 획득하였고 이로부터 센서의 특성곡선을 추출하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.223-227
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• 2017

Conventional CMOS image sensors (CISs) have a trade-off relationship between dynamic range and sensitivity. In addition, their sensitivity is determined by the photodiode capacitance. In this paper, CISs that consist of dual-sensitivity photodiodes in a unit pixel are proposed for achieving wide dynamic ranges. In the proposed CIS, signal charges are generated in the dual photodiodes during integration, and these generated signal charges are accumulated in the floating-diffusion node. The signal charges generated in the high-sensitivity photodiodes are transferred to the input of the comparator through an additional source follower, and the signal voltages converted by the source follower are compared with a reference voltage in the comparator. The output voltage of the comparator determines which photodiode is selected. Therefore, the proposed CIS composed of dual-sensitivity photodiodes extends the dynamic range according to the intensity of light. A $94{\times}150$ pixel array image sensor was designed using a conventional $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and its performance was simulated.