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Comparison of Distance Transforms in Space-leaping for High Speed Fetal Ultrasound Volume Visualization (고속 초음파 태아영상 볼륨 가시화를 위한 공간도약 거리변환 비교)

  • Park, Hye-Jin;Song, Soo-Min;Kim, Myoung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2007
  • In real time rendering of fetus the empty space leaping while traversing a ray is most frequently used accelerating technique. The main idea is to skip empty voxel samples which do not contribute the result image and it speeds up the rendering time by avoiding sampling data while traversing a ray in the empty region, saving a substantial number of interpolations. Calculating the distance from the nearest object boundary for every yokel can reduce the sampling operation. Among widely-well-known distance maps, those estimates the true distance, such as euclidean distance, takes a long time to compute because of the complicated floating-point operations, and others which uses approximated distance functions, such as city-block and chessboard, provides faster computation time but sampling error may can occur. In this paper, therefore, we analyze the characteristics of several distance maps and compare the number of samples and rendering time. And we aim to suggest the most appropriate distance map for rendering of fetus in ultrasound image.

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Video Based Tail-Lights Status Recognition Algorithm (영상기반 차량 후미등 상태 인식 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Gyu-Yeong;Lee, Geun-Hoo;Do, Jin-Kyu;Park, Keun-Soo;Park, Jang-Sik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.8 no.10
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    • pp.1443-1449
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    • 2013
  • Automatic detection of vehicles in front is an integral component of many advanced driver-assistance system, such as collision mitigation, automatic cruise control, and automatic head-lamp dimming. Regardless day and night, tail-lights play an important role in vehicle detecting and status recognizing of driving in front. However, some drivers do not know the status of the tail-lights of vehicles. Thus, it is required for drivers to inform status of tail-lights automatically. In this paper, a recognition method of status of tail-lights based on video processing and recognition technology is proposed. Background estimation, optical flow and Euclidean distance is used to detect vehicles entering tollgate. Then saliency map is used to detect tail-lights and recognize their status in the Lab color coordinates. As results of experiments of using tollgate videos, it is shown that the proposed method can be used to inform status of tail-lights.

An Effective Method for Dimensionality Reduction in High-Dimensional Space (고차원 공간에서 효과적인 차원 축소 기법)

  • Jeong Seung-Do;Kim Sang-Wook;Choi Byung-Uk
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.43 no.4 s.310
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    • pp.88-102
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    • 2006
  • In multimedia information retrieval, multimedia data are represented as vectors in high dimensional space. To search these vectors effectively, a variety of indexing methods have been proposed. However, the performance of these indexing methods degrades dramatically with increasing dimensionality, which is known as the dimensionality curse. To resolve the dimensionality curse, dimensionality reduction methods have been proposed. They map feature vectors in high dimensional space into the ones in low dimensional space before indexing the data. This paper proposes a method for dimensionality reduction based on a function approximating the Euclidean distance, which makes use of the norm and angle components of a vector. First, we identify the causes of the errors in angle estimation for approximating the Euclidean distance, and discuss basic directions to reduce those errors. Then, we propose a novel method for dimensionality reduction that composes a set of subvectors from a feature vector and maintains only the norm and the estimated angle for every subvector. The selection of a good reference vector is important for accurate estimation of the angle component. We present criteria for being a good reference vector, and propose a method that chooses a good reference vector by using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. Also, we define a novel distance function, and formally prove that the distance function lower-bounds the Euclidean distance. This implies that our approach does not incur any false dismissals in reducing the dimensionality effectively. Finally, we verify the superiority of the proposed method via performance evaluation with extensive experiments.

Method for Road Vanishing Point Detection Using DNN and Hog Feature (DNN과 HoG Feature를 이용한 도로 소실점 검출 방법)

  • Yoon, Dae-Eun;Choi, Hyung-Il
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2019
  • A vanishing point is a point on an image to which parallel lines projected from a real space gather. A vanishing point in a road space provides important spatial information. It is possible to improve the position of an extracted lane or generate a depth map image using a vanishing point in the road space. In this paper, we propose a method of detecting vanishing points on images taken from a vehicle's point of view using Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HoG). The proposed algorithm is divided into a HoG feature extraction step, in which the edge direction is extracted by dividing an image into blocks, a DNN learning step, and a test step. In the learning stage, learning is performed using 2,300 road images taken from a vehicle's point of views. In the test phase, the efficiency of the proposed algorithm using the Normalized Euclidean Distance (NormDist) method is measured.

A Fast Flight-path Generation Algorithm for Virtual Colonoscopy System (가상 대장 내시경 시스템을 위한 고속 경로 생성 알고리즘)

  • 강동구;이재연;나종범
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2003
  • Virtual colonoscopy is a non-invasive computerized procedure to detect polyps by examining the colon from a CT data set. To fly through the inside of colons. the extraction of a suitable flight-path is necessary to Provide the viewpoint and view direction of a virtual camera. However. manual path extraction by Picking Points is a very time-consuming and difficult task due 1,c, the long and complex shape of colon. Also, existing automatic methods are computationally complex. and tend to generate an improper and/or discontinuous path for complicated regions. In this paper, we propose a fast flight-path generation algorithm using the distance and order maps. The order map Provides all Possible directions of a path. The distance map assigns the Euclidean distance value from each inside voxel to the nearest background voxel. By jointly using these two maps. we can obtain a proper centerline regardless of thickness and curvature of an object. Also, we Propose a simple smoothing technique that guarantees not to collide with the surface of an object. The phantom and real colon data are used for experiments. Experimental results show that for a set of human colon data, the proposed algorithm can provide a smoothened and connected flight-path within a minute on an 800MHz PC. And it is proved that the obtained flight-Path provides successive volume-rendered images satisfactory for virtual navigation.

Location Estimation System based on Majority Sampling Data (머저리티 샘플링 데이터 기반 위치 추정시스템)

  • Park, Geon-Yeong;Jeon, Min-Ho;Oh, Chang-Heon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.2523-2529
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    • 2014
  • Location estimation service can be provided outdoors using various location estimation system based on GPS. However, location estimation system is based on existing indoor resources as GPS cannot be used because of insufficient visible satellites and weak signals. The fingerprinting technique that uses WLAN signal, in particular, is good to use indoors because it uses RSSI provided by AP to estimate location. However, its accuracy may vary depending on how accurate data the offline stage used where the fingerprinting map is built. The study sampled various data at the stage that builds the fingerprinting map and suggested a location estimation system that enhances its precision by saving the data of high frequency among them to improve this problem. The suggested location estimation system based on majority sampling data estimates location by filtering RSSI data of the highest frequency at the client and server to be saved at a map, building the map and measuring a similar distance. As a result of the test, the location estimation precision stood at minimum 87.5 % and maximum 90.4% with the margin of error at minimum 0.25 to 2.72m.

Robust Object Extraction Algorithm in the Sea Environment (해양환경에서 강건한 물표 추적 알고리즘)

  • Park, Jiwon;Jeong, Jongmyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.298-303
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we proposed a robust object extraction and tracking algorithm in the IR image sequence acquired in the sea environment. In order to extract size-invariant object, we detect horizontal and vertical edges by using DWT and combine it to generate saliency map. To extract object region, binarization technique is applied to saliency map. The correspondences between objects in consecutive frames are defined by the calculating minimum weighted Euclidean distance as a matching measure. Finally, object trajectories are determined by considering false correspondences such as entering object, vanishing objects and false object and so on. The proposed algorithm can find trajectories robustly, which has shown by experimental results.

Object Detection and Localization on Map using Multiple Camera and Lidar Point Cloud

  • Pansipansi, Leonardo John;Jang, Minseok;Lee, Yonsik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.10a
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    • pp.422-424
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, it leads the approach of fusing multiple RGB cameras for visual objects recognition based on deep learning with convolution neural network and 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to observe the environment and match into a 3D world in estimating the distance and position in a form of point cloud map. The goal of perception in multiple cameras are to extract the crucial static and dynamic objects around the autonomous vehicle, especially the blind spot which assists the AV to navigate according to the goal. Numerous cameras with object detection might tend slow-going the computer process in real-time. The computer vision convolution neural network algorithm to use for eradicating this problem use must suitable also to the capacity of the hardware. The localization of classified detected objects comes from the bases of a 3D point cloud environment. But first, the LiDAR point cloud data undergo parsing, and the used algorithm is based on the 3D Euclidean clustering method which gives an accurate on localizing the objects. We evaluated the method using our dataset that comes from VLP-16 and multiple cameras and the results show the completion of the method and multi-sensor fusion strategy.

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Error Performance of Serially Concatenated Space-Time Coding

  • Altunbas, Ibrahim;Yongacoglu, Abbas
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we investigate the error performance of a serially concatenated system using a nonrecursive convolutional code as the outer code and a recursive QPSK space-time trellis code as the inner code on quasi-static and rapid Rayleigh fading channels. At the receiver, we consider iterative decoding based on the maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm. The performance is evaluated by means of computer simulations and it is shown that better error performance can be obtained by using low complexity outer and/or inner codes and the Euclidean distance criterion based recursive space-time inner codes. We also obtain new systems with large number of trasmit and/or receive antennas providing good error performance.

효과적인 기업용 S/W 판매전략 공유를 위한 인지지도 기반의 암묵지 관리 방법

  • Jeong Nam-Ho;Lee Nam-Ho;Lee Geon-Chang
    • Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.363-370
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    • 2006
  • 정보기술의 급격한 발전은 기업용 S/W 판매자들에게 새로운 판매 전량을 요구하고 있다. 즉, 기업용 S/W의 유형에 다양화 되고 고객의 니즈가 매우 정교화되고 있는바 이러한 요구사항을 충분히 고려하지 못할 경우 성공적인 판매전량을 수립할 수 없다. 그러나 이러한 기업용 S/W 판매전략에 있어서 고려해야 하는 다양한 요소들은 기업용 S/W의 유형에 따라 매우 다르고, 체계적으로 관리하기 어려운 암묵지인 관계로 지금까지 충분히 논의되지 못하였다. 이에 본 연구에서는 인지지도를 이용하여 다양한 기업용 S/W 판매사례에 대하여 기업용 S/W 선정에 영향을 미치는 요인간의 관계를 도출하였다. 이를 통하여 유사한 사례별로 인지지도를 군집화 하여 그 특성을 도출하고 이를 이용하여 기업용 S/W 판매전략에 실질적으로 도움이 될 수 있도록 하였다.

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