• International Journal of Contents
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.30-34
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• 2009

Many studies have been done on the integral imaging pickup whose objective is to get efficiently elemental images from a lens array with respect to three-dimensional (3D) objects. In the integral imaging pickup process, it is necessary to render an elemental image from each elemental lens in a lens array for 3D objects, and then to combine them into one total image. The multiple viewpoint rendering (MVR) is one of various methods for integral imaging pickup. This method, however, has the computing and rendering time problem for obtaining element images from a lot of elemental lens. In order to solve the problems, in this paper, we propose a parallel MVR (PMVR) method to generate elemental images in a parallel through distribution of elemental lenses into multiple threads simultaneously. As a result, the computation time of integral imaging using PMVR is reduced significantly rather than a sequential approach and then we showed that the PMVR is very useful.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.2037-2042
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• 2012

Synthetic aperture 집적 영상 (SAII) 기술은 다수의 카메라를 이용하여 고해상도의 요소 영상을 획득할 수 있는 유망한 3D 이미징 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 SAII 기술을 이용하여 집적 영상 디스플레이를 수행하는 공간 3D 영상을 표시하는 방법을 제안한다. SAII로부터 얻어지는 요소 영상은 직접적으로 공간 3D 영상으로 사용될 수 없기 때문에 깊이 지도를 추출하여 새로운 디스플레이용 요소 영상으로 변환하여 공간 3D 영상을 표시한다. 제안하는 방법의 유용함을 보이기 위해서 장난감 3D 물체를 사용하여 기초적인 실험을 수행하고, 또한 공간 3D 영상이 구현된 실험 결과를 제시한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.2273-2286
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• 2018

This paper describes transformations between elemental image arrays and a RGBD image for three-dimensional integral imaging and transmitting systems. Two transformations are introduced and analyzed in the proposed method. Normally, a RGBD image is utilized in efficient 3D data transmission although 3D imaging and display is restricted. Thus, a pixel-to-pixel mapping is required to obtain an elemental image array from a RGBD image. However, transformations and their analysis have little attention in computational integral imaging and transmission. Thus, in this paper, we introduce two different mapping methods that are called as the forward and backward mapping methods. Also, two mappings are analyzed and compared in terms of complexity and visual quality. In addition, a special condition, named as the hole-free condition in this paper, is proposed to understand the methods analytically. To verify our analysis, we carry out experiments for test images and the results indicate that the proposed methods and their analysis work in terms of the computational cost and visual quality.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.225-234
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• 2005

3차원 영상 재생을 위한 집적결상법에서 픽업시 기본영상의 크기는 기본렌즈 크기, 기본렌즈와 기본영상 사이의 간격 등 몇 가지 변수들과 일정한 관계를 갖는다. 이 기하학적 관계들을 분석하고, 기본영상의 크기 및 거리가 픽업시와 다른 경우 기본영상의 배열이나 개별적인 크기 변환에 의해 재생되는 3차원영상의 특성변화를 이론적으로 분석하고 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.29-35
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• 2012

We propose a subpixel scale elemental image generation method to correct the errors created by finite display pixel size in integral imaging. In this paper, two errors are mainly discussed: pickup-and-display mismatch error and mismatch error between pixel pitch and lens pitch. The proposed method considers the relative positions between lenses and pixels in subpixel scale. Our proposed pickup method calculates the position parameters, generates an elemental image with pixels completely inside the lens, and generates an elemental image with border pixels using a weighted sum method. Appropriate experiments are presented to verify the validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.132-138
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• 2013

In this paper, an accelerated generation algorithm to effectively generate an elemental image array in computational integral imaging system is proposed. In the proposed method, the depth information of 3D object is extracted from the images picked up by a stereo camera or depth camera. Then, the elemental image array can be generated by using the proposed accelerated generation algorithm with the depth information of 3D object. The resultant 3D image generated by the proposed accelerated generation algorithm was compared with that the conventional direct algorithm for verifying the efficiency of the proposed method. From the experimental results, the accuracy of elemental image generated by the proposed method could be confirmed.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권3C호
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• pp.297-303
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• 2009

집적 영상 기술은 잘 알려진 3D 영상 기록 및 디스플레이 기술이다. 집적 영상에서 사용되는 대용량 데이터는 3D 영상을 저장하고 전송하기 위한 압축 기법을 요구한다. 기존의 압축 방법에서는 동일한 기록 시스템을 사용한 다할 지라도 요소 영상의 데이터 크기가 3D 물체의 위치, 조명과 렌즈 배열 등의 다양한 기록 조건에 따라 크게 달라진다. 본 논문에서는 기록 조건에 따른 요소 영상 특성의 의존성을 줄이기 위하여 집적 영상에서 요소 영상의 분할 영역을 이용한 압축 기법이 제안된다. 제안된 기법은 각 3D 물체의 픽업 위치에 따른 요소 영상의 지역적 유사성을 고려하여 향상된 압축률을 보여준다. 제안된 기법의 효율성을 보이기 위하여, 다양한 요소 영상들이 픽업되었고 표준 MPEG-4를 이용하여 압축이 진행되었다. 실험을 통하여 제안된 압축 기법이 기존의 압축 방식에 비하여 9%의 압축률 향상을 보였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권10B호
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• pp.1124-1132
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• 2009

본 논문은 집적영상의 요소영상을 초해상도 영상복원에 이용하여 집적영상의 해상도를 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 집적영상에서 전체 요소영상의 인접한 단일 요소영상들 사이에는 대상물체의 동일한 부분의 상을 포함하는 공통부분이 존재한다. 이러한 공통부분들을 초해상도 영상복원의 저해상도 영상으로 이용하게 되면 CCD(Charge Coupled Device) 등의 영상취득 장치의 제한된 해상도로 인한 집적영상의 낮은 해상도 문제를 보완 할 수 있게 된다. 전체 요소영상과 제안된 방법을 이용하여 해상도를 향상시킨 전체 요소영상을 비교하여 제안된 방법의 타당성을 증명하였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.388-394
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• 2010

In this paper the object recognition performance of a photon counting integral imaging system is quantitatively compared with that of a conventional gray scale imaging system. For 3D imaging of objects with a small number of photons, the elemental image set of a 3D scene is obtained using the integral imaging set up. We assume that the elemental image detection follows a Poisson distribution. Computational geometrical ray back propagation algorithm and parametric maximum likelihood estimator are applied to the photon counting elemental image set in order to reconstruct the original 3D scene. To evaluate the photon counting object recognition performance, the normalized correlation peaks between the reconstructed 3D scenes are calculated for the varied and fixed total number of photons in the reconstructed sectional image changing the total number of image channels in the integral imaging system. It is quantitatively illustrated that the recognition performance of the photon counting integral imaging system can be similar to that of a conventional gray scale imaging system as the number of image viewing channels in the photon counting integral imaging (PCII) system is increased up to the threshold point. Also, we present experiments to find the threshold point on the total number of image channels in the PCII system which can guarantee a comparable recognition performance with a gray scale imaging system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on comparisons of object recognition performance with 3D photon counting & gray scale images.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.248-254
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• 2015

In this paper we propose an improved version of the computational integral imaging reconstruction (CIIR) for visualizing a partially occluded object by utilizing an image inpainting technique. In the proposed method the elemental images for a partially occluded three-dimensional (3D) object are recorded through the integral imaging pickup process. Next, the depth of occlusion within the elemental images is estimated using two different CIIR methods, and the weight mask pattern for occlusion is generated. After that, we apply our image inpainting technique to the recorded elemental images to fill in the occluding area with reliable data, using information from neighboring pixels. Finally, the inpainted elemental images for the occluded region are reconstructed using the CIIR process. To verify the validity of the proposed system, we carry out preliminary experiments in which faces are the objects. The experimental results reveal that the proposed system can dramatically improve the quality of a reconstructed CIIR image.