• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.895-903
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• 2016

In a fire disaster in a tunnel, people should be rescued immediately using the information obtained from cameras or sensors. However, in heavy smoke from a fire, people cannot be clearly identified by a mounted CCTV, which is only effective in a clear environment. A thermal camera can be an alternative to this in smoky situations and is capable of detecting people from their emitted thermal energy. On the other hand, the thermal image camera has a smaller field of view than an ordinary camera due to its lens characteristics and temperature error, etc. In order to cover a relatively wide area, panoramic image construction needs to be implemented. In this work, a template-based similarity matching algorithm for constructing the panorama image is proposed and its performance is verified through experiments. This scheme provides guidelines for coping with difficulty in image construction, which requires an exact correspondence search for two images in cases of heavy smoke.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.52 no.10
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• pp.2328-2333
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• 2020

The filter technique was applied to noise images, as noise is the significant factor that cause poor image quality due to lower photon counting. The purpose of this study is to confirm that image quality can be improved using the median modified Wiener filter (MMWF) technique; this is achieved via a National Electrical Manufacturers Association International Electrotechnical Commission body phantom with four large spheres that are filled with the ^99mTc radioisotope when evaluating the image quality. Conventional filters such as Wiener, Gaussian, and median filters were designed, and signal to noise ratio, coefficient of variation, and contrast to noise ratio were used as the evaluation parameters. The improvement in the image quality was in the following order, from the least to the highest improvement, in all cases: Wiener filter, Gaussian filter, median filter, and the MMWF technique. The results show that the image quality was improved from 20.6 to 65.5%, 7.4-40.3%, and 12.7-44.7% for the SNR, COV, and CNR values, respectively, when using the MMWF technique, compared with the use of conventional filters. In conclusion, our results demonstrated that the MMWF technique is useful for reducing the noise distribution in gamma camera images.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.79-84
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• 2015

In a distribution of digital image, there is a serious problem that is a distribution of the altered image by a forger. For the problem solution, this paper proposes a median filtering (MF) image forensic decision algorithm using a feature vector according to the pixel value's gradients. In the proposed algorithm, AR (Autoregressive) coefficients are computed from pixel value' gradients of original image then 1th~6th order coefficients to be six feature vector. And the reconstructed image is produced by the solution of Poisson's equation with the gradients. From the difference image between original and its reconstructed image, four feature vector (Average value, Max. value and the coordinate i,j of Max. value) is extracted. Subsequently, Two kinds of the feature vector combined to 10 Dim. feature vector that is used in the learning of a SVM (Support Vector Machine) classification for MF (Median Filtering) detector of the altered image. On the proposed algorithm of the median filtering detection, compare to MFR (Median Filter Residual) scheme that had the same 10 Dim. feature vectors, the performance is excellent at Unaltered, Averaging filtering ($3{\times}3$) and JPEG (QF=90) images, and less at Gaussian filtering ($3{\times}3$) image. However, in the measured performances of all items, AUC (Area Under Curve) by the sensitivity and 1-specificity is approached to 1. Thus, it is confirmed that the grade evaluation of the proposed algorithm is 'Excellent (A)'.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.211-220
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• 2015

Recently, model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) has played an important role in transmission tomography by significantly improving the quality of reconstructed images for low-dose scans. MBIR is based on the penalized-likelihood (PL) approach, where the penalty term (also known as the regularizer) stabilizes the unstable likelihood term, thereby suppressing the noise. In this work we further improve MBIR by using a more expressive regularizer which can restore the underlying image more accurately. Here we used a spline regularizer derived from a linear combination of the two-dimensional splines with first- and second-order spatial derivatives and applied it to a non-quadratic convex penalty function. To derive a PL algorithm with the spline regularizer, we used a separable paraboloidal surrogates algorithm for convex optimization. The experimental results demonstrate that our regularization method improves reconstruction accuracy in terms of both regional percentage error and contrast recovery coefficient by restoring smooth edges as well as sharp edges more accurately.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.227-229
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• 2011

To develop an effective web site, Ajax, jQuery and various techniques have been developed. Administrator interface to powerful, where the administrator can easily create a variety of functions from the menu, but this is not leaving the form of text or code, modify it and then when is low. To solve these problems, in this paper we are making conjunction with CSS which provide the database with open font and CSS features in variety of images, converted into text using the open font, these existing production methods with a Web site that provides a differentiated ways.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.663-674
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• 1993

In this paper, a DCT image coding algorithm using the human visual property is proposed. Human visual is relatively sensitive to noise in the darker region, insensitive to noise in the brighter region. This property was proved by Weber's law through psycovisual experiment. Weber's law states that the just noticeable difference (j.n.d.) is proportional to intensity. Therefore, the implication of this observation for image processing is that reducing noise in the darker region is more important than reducing noise in the brighter region. In this proposed coding scheme AC coefficients in the darker region are more finely quantized than those in the brighter region. Results showed that, at low bit rate, the subjective quality of reconstructed images by proposed coding scheme is improved than that of coding scheme without considering human visual property.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.241-245
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• 2007

The residual stress in axial stress in the axial direction of the steel filaments has been measured by using a method based on the combination of the focused ion beam (FIB) and high resolution strain mapping program (VIC-2D). That is, the residual stress was calculated from the measured displacement field before and after the introduction of a slot along the steel filaments. The displacement was obtained by the digital correlation analysis of high-resolution scanning electron micrographs, while the slot was introduced by FIB milling with low energy beam. The present measurement revealed that the residual stress within 8% of the magnitude was persistent in the steel filaments fabricated.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.1383-1385
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• 2008

In the viewing-angle image control (VIC) technology, one pixel is made up of a quad pixel structure which is consisting of R, G, B, and electrically control briefringence (ECB) sub-pixels. Two types of test stimuli were used; text & complex image respectively. The limitations of those methods were found from the experiment. From the results the advanced GC technology was proposed.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.463-465
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• 2006

We have developed the VIC (Viewing-angle Image Control) TFT-LCD, which can change viewing-angle from $80^{\circ}$ to $170^{\circ}$. This display has the same thickness and weight as existing TFT-LCD, because it is made of only single LC cell without additional components. Moreover, we developed ways to protect effectively the displayed information in narrow viewing angle mode.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1429-1431
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• 2006

We developed new anti-glare(AG) layer which has improved image quality and solved mechanical problems. Conventional silica-type AG has some restrictions related to sparkling, causing mechanical defects. The new anti-glare layer is designed with adjusted optical factors and polymer type. Therefore new anti-glare layer meets two main characteristics at once using unmatched optical property between scattering in material and surrounding.