• 대한세포병리학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 1996

Chromatin texture, which partly reflects nuclear organization, is evolving as an important parameter indicating cell activation or transformation. In this study, chromatin pattern was evaluated by image analysis of the electron micrographs of follicular and papillary carcinoma cells of the thyroid gland and tested for discrimination of the two neoplasms. Digital grey images were converted from the electron micrographs, nuclear images, excluding nucleolus and intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions, were obtained by segmentation; grey levels were standardized; and grey level histograms were generated. The histograms in follicular carcinoma showed Gaussian or near-Gaussian distribution and had a single peak, whereas those in papillary carcinoma had two peaks(bimodal), one at the black zone and the other at the white zone. In papillary carcinoma, the peak in the black zone represented an increased amount of heterochromatin particles and that at the white zone represented decreased electron density of euchromatin or nuclear matrix. These results indicate that the nuclei of follicular and papillary carcinoma cells differ in their chromatin pattern and the difference may be due to decondensed chromatin and/or matrix substances.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제34S권1호
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• pp.132-144
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• 1997

The rotation-invariant pattern recognition filter using circular harmonic function of the wavelet transforme dsreference image by morlet, mexican-hat, and haar wavelt function is proposed. The rotated reference images, the images sililar to the reference image, and the images which are added by random noise are used for the inpt images, and in case of the input images with random noise, they are applied to the recognition after removing the random noise by the transformed moving average method with proper thresholding value and window size. The proposed optical wavelet circular harmonic matched filter (WCHMF) is a type of the matche dfilter, so that it can be applied to the 4f vander lugt optical correlation system. SNR and discrimination capability of the proposed filter are compared with those of the conventional HF, the POCHF, and the BPOCHF. The proper wavelet function for the reference image used in this paper is achieved by applying morlet, mexican-hat, and harr wavelet function ot the proposed filter, and the proposed filter has good SNR and discrimination capability with rotation-invariance in case of the morlet wavelet function.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.664-667
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• 2009

There is strong demand to create wearable PC systems that can support the user outdoors. When we are outdoors, our movement makes it impossible to use traditional input devices such as keyboards and mice. We propose a hand gesture interface based on image processing to operate wearable PCs. The semi-transparent PC screen is displayed on the head mount display (HMD), and the user makes hand gestures to select icons on the screen. The user's hand is extracted from the images captured by a color camera mounted above the HMD. Since skin color can vary widely due to outdoor lighting effects, a key problem is accurately discrimination the hand from the background. The proposed method does not assume any fixed skin color space. First, the image is divided into blocks and blocks with similar average color are linked. Contiguous regions are then subjected to hand recognition. Blocks on the edges of the hand region are subdivided for more accurate finger discrimination. A change in hand shape is recognized as hand movement. Our current input interface associates a hand grasp with a mouse click. Tests on a prototype system confirm that the proposed method recognizes hand gestures accurately at high speed. We intend to develop a wider range of recognizable gestures.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 능동적 적외선 조명을 이용한 3차원 얼굴 방향 식별을 위한 새로운 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 적외선 조명 하에서 밝게 나타나는 동공을 효과적으로 실시간 검출하여 추적할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 다른 방향의 얼굴들에서 동공의 기하학적 왜곡을 탐지하여, 3차원 얼굴 방향과 동공의 기하학적 특성 사이의 관계를 나타낸 학습 데이터를 사용하여 고유한 눈 특징 공간을 구축하였고, 입력된 질의 영상에 대한 3차원 얼굴 방향을 고유한 눈 특징 공간을 사용하여 실시간으로 얼굴 방향을 측정할 수 있었다. 실험결과 카메라에 근접한 실험 대상자들에 대하여 최소 94.67%, 최고 100% 의 식별 결과를 나타내었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.727-732
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 능동적 적외선 조명을 이용한 3차원 얼굴 방향 식별을 위한 새로운 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 적외선 조명 하에서 밝게 나타나는 동공을 효과적으로 실시간 검출하여 추적할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 다른 방향의 얼굴들에서 동공의 기하학적 왜곡을 탐지하여, 3차원 얼굴 방향과 동공의 기하학적 특성 사이의 관계를 나타낸 학습 데이터를 사용하여 고유한 눈 특징 공간을 구축하였고, 입력된 질의 영상에 대한 3차원 얼굴 방향을 고유한 눈 특징 공간을 사용하여 실시간으로 얼굴 방향을 측정할 수 있었다. 실험결과 카메라에 근접한 실험 대상자들에 대하여 최소 94.67％, 최고 100％의 식별 결과를 나타내었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2017

Purpose: This study aims to propose a method for fast geographical origin discrimination between domestic and imported rice using a visible/near-infrared (VNIR) hyperspectral imaging technique. Methods: Hyperspectral reflectance images of South Korean and Chinese rice samples were obtained in the range of 400 nm to 1000 nm. Partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) models were developed and applied to the acquired images to determine the geographical origin of the rice samples. Results: The optimal pixel dimensions and spectral pretreatment conditions for the hyperspectral images were identified to improve the discrimination accuracy. The results revealed that the highest accuracy was achieved when the hyperspectral image's pixel dimension was $3.0mm{\times}3.0mm$. Furthermore, the geographical origin discrimination models achieved a discrimination accuracy of over 99.99% upon application of a first-order derivative, second-order derivative, maximum normalization, or baseline pretreatment. Conclusions: The results demonstrated that the VNIR hyperspectral imaging technique can be used to discriminate geographical origins of rice.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.53-63
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• 2019

Background: As neutron fields are always accompanied by gamma rays, it is essential to distinguish neutrons from gamma rays in the detection of neutrons. Neutrons and gamma rays can be separated by pulse shape discrimination (PSD) methods. Recently, we performed characterization of a stilbene scintillator detector and an EJ-301 liquid scintillator detector with a high-speed digitizer DT5730 and investigated optimized PSD variables for both detectors. This study is for providing a basis for developing fast neutron/gamma-ray dual-particle imager. Materials and Methods: We conducted PSD experiments using stilbene scintillator and EJ-301 liquid scintillator and evaluated neutron and gamma ray discriminability of each PSD method with a $^{137}Cs$ gamma source and a $^{252}Cf$ neutron source. We implemented digital signal processing techniques to apply two PSD methods - the charge comparison (CC) method and the constant time discrimination (CTD) method - to distinguish neutrons from gamma rays. We tried to find optimized PSD variables giving the best discriminability in a given experimental condition. Results and Discussion: For the stilbene scintillator detector, the charge comparison method and the constant time discrimination method both delivered the PSD FOM values of 1.7. For the EJ-301 liquid scintillator detector, both PSD methods delivered the PSD FOM values of 1.79. With the same PSD variables, PSD performance was excellent in $300{\pm}100keVee$, $500{\pm}100keVee$, and $700{\pm}100keVee$ energy regions. This result shows that we can achieve an effective discrimination of neutrons from gamma rays using these scintillator detector systems. Conclusion: We applied both PSD methods to a stilbene and a liquid scintillator and optimized the PSD performance represented by FOM values. We observed a good separation performance of both scintillators combined with a high-speed digitizer and digital PSD. These results will provide reference values for the dual-particle imager we are developing, which can image both fast neutrons and gamma rays simultaneously.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a describes how to detect a false iris image by inserting watermark into a iris image. The existing method, which inserts the watermark into the entire iris image to detect a fake iris, has a problem that can evade it by segmenting iris region of an iris image. The purpose of overcoming the problem, this paper proposes a new fake iris detection technique based on digital watermark. It first searches a central point of an iris image, divide the image into blocks with respect to the point. executes Discrete Cosine Transform, inserts watermark into the blocks, and then verifies an iris image using NC(Normalized Correlation). In the experiments, we confirm the robustness for attacks - crop and JPEG.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.55-60
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 경주시 내남면을 대상으로 KOMPSAT-2 MSC(Multi Spectral Camera) 영상(2007.06.12)을 기반으로 NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)와 TCT(Tasseled-Cap Transformation) 영상 알고리즘을 적용하여 DN 분포도를 작성 하였다. NDVI 및 TCT DN 분포도와 산림 현장 조사 결과와의 비교 분석을 통하여 임상 분류 정확도 향상을 위한 영상 알고리즘 변별력 분석을 수행하고 마지막으로 현장조사 자료와의 중첩 분석을 통하여 임상분류 정확성을 검증 하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 KOMPSAT-2 MSC 영상을 이용하여 임상 분류 자동화 실용성에 대한 검토와 정밀 산림 임상도 제작과정에서 저비용 고효율성을 기대할 수 있으리라 사료된다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 학술대회지
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• pp.867-871
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• 2004

In this paper, a new analytic approach for shape preserving contrast enhancement is presented. Contrast enhancement is achieved by means of segmental histogram stretching modification which preserves the given image shape, not distorting the original shape. After global stretching, the image is partitioned into several level-sets according to threshold condition. The image information of each level-set is represented as typical value based on grouped differential values. The basic property is modified into common local schemes, thereby introducing the enhanced effect through extreme discrimination between subsets. The scheme is based on stretching the histogram of subsets in which the intensity gray levels between connected pixels are approximately same In spite of histogram widening, stretched by local image information, it neither creates nor destroys the original image, thereby preserving image shape and enhancing the contrast. By designing local histogram stretching operations, we can preserve the original shape of level-sets of the image, and also enhance the global intensity. Thus it can hold the main properties of both global and local image schemes, which leads to versatile applications in the field of digital epigraphy.