• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.357-361
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• 2018

This paper presents an averaging current adjustment technique for reducing the pixel resistance variation in a bolometer-type uncooled infrared image sensor. Each unit pixel was composed of an active pixel, a reference pixel for the averaging current adjustment technique, and a calibration circuit. The reference pixel was integrated with a polysilicon resistor using a standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process, and the active pixel was applied from outside of the chip. The averaging current adjustment technique was designed by using the reference pixel. The entire circuit was implemented on a chip that was composed of a reference pixel array for the averaging current adjustment technique, a calibration circuit, and readout circuits. The proposed reference pixel array for the averaging current adjustment technique, calibration circuit, and readout circuit were designed and fabricated by a $0.35-{\mu}m$ standard CMOS process.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.433-438
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 time averaging과 depth profiling기술을 음향현미경에 적용하여 5MHz 대역의 초음파 영상처리 시스템을 구성하였으며 기존의 피크값 검출기술과 상호 비교, 분석하였다. time averaging기술에서는 한 지점에서 반사된 tone burst파 전체를 디지털 오실로스코프를 통해 시간영역에서 A/D변환하고 변환된 512개 데이터들의 평균값을 취함으로써 영상을 얻을 수 있었으며, 이 기술은 시간영역에서 smoothing효과를 이용하여 산란이 심한 영역에 대한 영상을 개선시킬 수 있었다. depth profiling기술은 기준신호에 대한 반사신호의 시간 지연값을 최소 분해능 2ns로 검출함으로써 샘플의 3차원적인 실제 기하학적인 모양을 상대적인 크기로 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.63-69
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• 2017

In order to observe the noise property of the flat-panel digital radiography detector, measuring the normalized noise power spectrum (NNPS) from acquired x-ray images is conducted. However, the conventional NNPS measurement has an unstable property depending on the acquired image. Averaging the sample periodograms of the input image is usually performed to estimate the NNPS values and increasing the number of samples can provide a reliable NNPS measurement. In this paper, for a finite number of images, two measurement methods, which are based on averaging spectra, such as the image periodogram, are proposed and their performances are analyzed. Using x-ray images acquired from two types of radiography detectors, the two spectrum averaging methods are compared and it is shown that averaging spectra based on the maximal number of combinations of the image pairs provides the best performance in measuring NNPS.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1998 no.11
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• pp.297-298
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• 1998

Prototype portal imaging device (EPID) based on CCD camera, which has a $20\times20cm^2$ field of view (FOV), has been developed and then tested by acquiring phantom images for 6 MV x-ray beam. While, among the captured images, each frame suffered notorious quantum noise, the frame averaging largely enhanced the image quality against quantum noise. Over 60 frames averaging, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was increased by $\sim20$ times and contrast was increased about 2 times in the skull-region of the acquired head-phantom image.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.923-936
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• 2014

Images can be contaminated with different types of noise, for different reasons. The neighborhood averaging and smoothing by image averaging are the classical image processing techniques for noise removal. The classical spatial filtering refers to the aggregate of pixels composing an image and operating directly on these pixels. To reduce or remove effectively noise in image sequences, it usually needs to use noise reduction filter based on space or time domain such as method of spatial or temporal filter. However, the method of spatial filter can generally cause that signals of objects as the target are also blurred. In this paper, we propose temporal filter using the piece-wise quadratic function model and enhancement algorithm of image quality for the performance improvement of target detection and tracking by heterogeneous noise reduction. Image tracking simulation that utilizes real IIR(Imaging Infra-Red) images is employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed image processing algorithm.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.9-15
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• 2021

It is a challenge for visually impaired people to access unfamiliar environments independently, hence the quality of life is reduced, and safety of life is compromised. An accurate and reliable door detection system comprising of way finding and indoor navigation can be beneficial for a large number of autonomous and mobile applications for visually impaired people. This paper illustrates an image-based door detection scheme for visually impaired people using stable features (edges and corners) including color averaging and image resizing. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme shows a significant improvement when compared with existing scheme.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.118-122
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• 1987

The medical image processing system is intended for a diverse set of users in the medical Imaging Parts. This system consists of a 640 Kbyte IBM-PC/AT with 30 Mbyte hard disk, special purpose image processor with video input devices and display monitor. Image may be recorded and processed in real time at sampling rate up to 10 MHz. This system provides a wide range of image enhancement processing facilities via a menu-driven software packages. These facilities include point by point processing, image averaging, convolution filter and subtraction.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.21-28
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• 2006

In a face detection system based on template matching, histogram equalization or log transform is applied to an input image for the intensity normalization and the image improvement. It is known that they are noneffective in improving an image with intensity distortion by illumination variation. In this paper, we propose an efficient image improvement method using a simple regression analysis combined with a bilateral symmetry average for images with intensity distortion by illumination variation. Experimental results show that our method delivers the detection performance better than previous methods and also remarkably reduces the number of face candidates.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.40-47
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• 2000

The turbulent flow with wake, reattachment and recirculation flow is very important from the viewpoint of engineering. But that is still difficult because of especially the unsteady problems which are related with the vehicle dynamics and the aerodynamics noise. This paper evaluate LES that can analyze about all fluid flow region including the laminar, transition and turbulent. So we compare the results of LES with those of PIV measurement and Reynolds averaging models. In conclusion, LES predicts flow behavior better than Reynolds averaging models.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.345-347
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• 2021

단일 이미지 초해상도는 딥러닝의 발전과 함께 놀라운 성능 향상이 이루어 졌다. 이러한 딥러닝 모델은 매우 많은 파라미터를 갖고 있어 많은 연산량과 메모리를 필요로 한다. 하지만 사용할 수 있는 리소스는 한정되어 있기 때문에 네트워크를 경량화 시키려는 연구도 지속되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 Stochastic Weight Averaging (SWA) 알고리즘을 이용하여 상대적으로 적은 양의 메모리와 연산을 추가해 이미지 초해상도 모델의 성능을 높이고 안정적인 학습을 달성하였다. SWA 알고리즘을 적용한 모델은 그렇지 않은 모델에 비해 테스트셋에서 최대 0.13dB 의 성능 향상을 보였다.