• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.188-201
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• 2008

With recent rapid globalization, accurate information for the foreign countries is increasingly important. Errors based on inaccurate information and unequal international relationships complicate the situations. In this article, authors analyzed the Japanese place names which appear on the Google Earth images and place name database of the NGA. Google Earth already becomes a tremendous soft power in internet society; therefore, accurate information on the satellite image is more necessary than ever. This article finds that many types of errors exist in the place names in Google Earth image service. Also many place names are listed with Japanese pronunciation in GNS database as variants. The Japanese place names have not been used in topographic maps published since 1910s and 1930s. Japanese place names were widely used in US military maps published in 1946. 1:250,000 maps published in 1954, however, doesn't seem to use Japanese pronunciation any more.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1149-1155
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose cause diagnosis method of semiconductor defects from semiconductor industrial images. Our method constructs feature database (DB) of defect images. Then, defect and input images are subdivided by uniform block. And the block similarity is measured using histogram kai-square distance after color histogram calculation. Then, searched blocks in each image are merged into connected objects using clustering. Finally, the most similar defect image from feature DB is searched with the defect cause by measuring cluster similarity based on features of each cluster. Our method was validated by calculating the search accuracy of n output images having high similarity. With n = 1, 2, 3, the search accuracy was measured to be 100% regardless of defect categories. Our method could be used for the industrial applications.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.425-440
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• 2023

Monitoring water surface has become one of the most prominent areas of research in addressing environmental challenges.Accurate and automated detection of watersurface in remote sensing imagesis crucial for disaster prevention, urban planning, and water resource management, particularly for a country where water plays a vital role in human life. However, achieving precise detection poses challenges. Previous studies have explored different approaches,such as analyzing water indexes, like normalized difference water index (NDWI) derived from satellite imagery's visible or infrared bands and using k-means clustering analysis to identify land cover patterns and segment regions based on similar attributes. Nonetheless, challenges persist, notably distinguishing between waterspectralsignatures and cloud shadow or terrain shadow. In thisstudy, our objective is to enhance the precision of water surface detection by constructing a comprehensive water database (DB) using existing digital and land cover maps. This database serves as an initial assumption for automated water index analysis. We utilized 1:5,000 and 1:25,000 digital maps of Korea to extract water surface, specifically rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Additionally, the 1:50,000 and 1:5,000 land cover maps of Korea aided in the extraction process. Our research demonstrates the effectiveness of utilizing a water DB product as our first approach for efficient water surface extraction from satellite images, complemented by our second and third approachesinvolving NDWI analysis and k-means analysis. The image segmentation and binary mask methods were employed for image analysis during the water extraction process. To evaluate the accuracy of our approach, we conducted two assessments using reference and ground truth data that we made during this research. Visual interpretation involved comparing our results with the global surface water (GSW) mask 60 m resolution, revealing significant improvements in quality and resolution. Additionally, accuracy assessment measures, including an overall accuracy of 90% and kappa values exceeding 0.8, further support the efficacy of our methodology. In conclusion, thisstudy'sresults demonstrate enhanced extraction quality and resolution. Through comprehensive assessment, our approach proves effective in achieving high accuracy in delineating watersurfaces from satellite images.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.46.1-46.8
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• 2020

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the incidence and location of the second mesiobuccal root (MB2) canal in maxillary molars with the aid of various measuring points and lines using cone-beam computed tomography (CT). Materials and Methods: A total of 205 images of patients who underwent cone-beam CT examinations between 2011 and 2015 as part of their dental diagnosis and treatment were included. There were 76 images of the maxillary first molar and 135 images of the maxillary second molar. Canal orifices were detected at -1 mm from the top of the pulpal floor on cone-beam CT images. Image assessment was performed by 2 observers in reformatted image planes using software. Assessments included measurement of the distance between the MB1 and MB2 canals, and the angles between the lines connecting the MB1-MB2 and distobuccal (DB)-palatal (P) canals. The data were analyzed using the student's t-test. Results: The prevalence of the MB2 canal was 86.8% in the first molar and 28.9% in the second molar. The angle between the lines connecting the MB1-MB2 and DB-P canals was 2.3° ± 5.7° in the first molar and -3.95° ± 7.73° in the second molar. The distance between the MB1 and MB2 canals was 2.1 ± 0.44 mm in the first molar and 1.98 ± 0.42 mm in the second molar. Conclusions: The angles between the lines connecting the MB1-MB2 and DB-P canals was almost parallel. These findings may aid in the prediction of the location of the MB2 canal orifice.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1998 no.11
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• pp.321-322
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• 1998

In this paper, a medical images retrieval method using feature extraction based on wavelet transform is proposed. We used energy of coefficients which is represented by wavelet transform. The proposed retrieval algorithm is comprised of the two retrieval. At first, we make a energy map for wavelet coefficient of a query image and then compare is to one of db image. And then we use an edge information of the query image to retrieve the images selected at the first retrieval once more. Consequently some retrieved images are displayed on screen.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.8C
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• pp.1142-1148
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• 2004

A binaural filtering method using HRTF DB is generally used to make the headphone-based 3D sound. But it can make some confusion between front and back directions or between up and down directions due to the non-individual HRTF depending on each listener. To reduce the confusion of sound image localization, we propose a new method to boost the spectral cue by modifying HRTF spectra with spectrum difference between front and back directions. Informal listening tests show that the proposed method improves the front-back sound localization characteristics much better than the conventional methods

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.66-69
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• 2016

Recently, augmented reality and virtual reality in the ICT sector have been highlighted. So also interested in related HMD areas to facilitate contact with the VR content is being attend. This paper proposes a method for implementing to the virtual reality through the mobile HMD device with the real time 360 image. This system is required the real time 360 image streaming server configuration and image processing for augmented reality and virtual reality. The configuration of the streaming server is configured the DB server to store images and the relay server that can relay images to other devices. Augmented image processing module is composed based on markerless tracking, and there are four modules that are recognition, tracking, detecting and learning module. Also, the purpose of this paper is shown the augmented 360 image processing through the Mobile HMD.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.491-493
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 부분 영상 매칭을 위한 잠재적 유사성 측정 기법을 제안한다. 영상 매칭은 영상 DB 검색이나 컴퓨터 비전 분야에서 매우 중요한 기법이지만 아직까지는 적용되는 영상의 분야가 한정되어 있는 것이 현실이다. 영상 DB 검색의 경우 찾고자 하는 영상내의 물체를 정확하게 알고 있을 경우도 있지만, 영상의 일부분이나 원하는 영상과 원하지 않는 영상이 섞여 있는 것을 기준으로 영상을 검색할 경우도 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 두 개의 영상을 매칭할 경우, 각 영상에서 유사한 부분이 존재하는지 여부를 판별할 수 있는 잠재적 유사성, 측정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 영상이 부분 정보를 사용하며, 회전, 배경에 불변적이고, 영상 분할을 필요로 하지 않고, 잡음에 강하다. 제안된 방법에서는 매칭 속도를 높이기 위하여, 유사성을 계산하기 전에 영상 농도치 변이 계수를 사용하여 사전 필터링을 시도한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.81-84
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경으로 발전하면서 문자열 위주의 획일적 형태에서 음성, 이미지 등 다양한 형태의 데이터들을 처리하게 되었으며, 또한 빠르고 정확하게 처리되기를 요구하고 있다. 현재 데이터 처리 중심부에 있는 Database는 대부분이 Relation DB 위주로 되어 있어 Datafile 에 데이터를 저장하고 있어 대용량의 이미지 데이터 처리에 적합하지가 않다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 보강하기 위해 Relation DB 하에서 대용량의 이미지 데이터 처리를 가능하게 하는 기법을 제시한다. 이렇게 함으로써 이미지 데이터를 Upload, Download 시 따른 응답 속도를 보장 할 수 있도록 LRU 알고리즘 기반으로 제안을 하였다. 본 논문에서 제안된 기법은 시뮬레이션을 통해 (1)기존 RDB(Relational Database)의 BLOB(Binary Large Object)필드를 이용한 이미지 데이터 처리 방식, (2)별도의 저장 공간에 이미지 데이터를 입/출하는 방식, (3)별도의 저장 공간에 이미지 데이터를 입/출력할 때 LRU(least Recently Used)알고리즘을 이용하는 방식에 대하여 성능 평가를 하였다. 그 결과 (3)별도의 저장 공간에 LRU(least Recently Used)알고리즘을 이용하여 입/출력하는 방식이 (1)기존의 RDB(Relational Database)형태에 BLOB(binary large object)필드를 이용한 것 보다 성능이 높음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.145-150
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• 2002

Web GIS (Geographic Information Systems) service systems provide the various GIS services of analyzing and displaying the spatial data with friendly user-interface. These services are expanding the business domain and many users want to access the distributed various spatial data. But, it is difficult to access diverse data sources because of different spatial data format and data access methods. In this paper, we design and implement web GIS services based on the inter-operability and GML (Geography Markup Language) of OGC(Open GIS Consortium) in web distributed environment. Inter-operability provides unique accessing method to distributed data sources based on OLE DB technology of Microsoft. In addition, GML support web GIS services based on XML. We design these GIS services as components using UML (Unified Modeling Language) of an object-oriented modeling language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software system. In addition, they also were developed in object-oriented computing environment, and it provides the interoperability, language-independent, easy developing environment as well as re-usability.