• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.178-184
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• 2004

In this paper, we designed an image processing system for the high speed line-scan camera which adopts the new memory model we proposed. As a resolution and a data rate of the line-scan camera are becoming higher, the faster image processing systems are needed. But many conventional systems are not sufficient to process the image data from the line-scan camera during a very short time. We designed the memory controller which eliminates the time for transferring image data from the line-scan camera to the main memory with high-speed SRAM and has a dual-port configuration therefore the DSP can access the main memory even though the memory controller are writing the image data. The memory controller is implemented by VHDL and Xilinx SPARTAN-IIE FPGA.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권9호
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• pp.75-81
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• 2014

적분영상은 입력영상의 픽셀 값을 기준좌표부터 순차적으로 누적하여 만든 영상으로, Haar-like features와 같은 네모난 박스 모양의 필터 연산을 효율적으로 처리하기 위하여 사용된다. 그러나 적분영상은 입력영상보다 3배 이상 많은 메모리를 소모하기 때문에, 메모리 자원이 제한적인 하드웨어 설계 환경에서는 사용이 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 메모리 사용을 위한 적분영상 하드웨어 설계 방법을 제안한다. 해당 방법은 적분영상 이외에 세로적분영상과 가로적분영상을 생성하고, 입력영상을 재사용 하는 방법을 사용한다. 그리고 박스 필터의 크기에 따라 modulo 연산을 적용하여 적분영상의 데이터 크기를 줄이는 방법을 함께 적용하였다. 적분 영상 데이터를 읽기 위해 나누어진 영상 데이터를 다시 덧셈해야하는 연산 오버헤드가 발생하지만, 4개의 데이터를 단순히 더하는 연산이므로 병렬처리가 가능한 하드웨어 환경에서는 큰 영향을 미치지 않는다. Xilinx사의 Virtex5-LX330T를 대상으로 실험한 결과 $640{\times}480$ 크기의 8bit gray-scale 입력영상에서 최대 $32{\times}32$ 크기의 필터사용을 기준으로 50%의 적분영상 메모리를 감소시킬 수 있다.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제29B권10호
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• pp.10-18
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• 1992

This paper considers and implementation of the memory system which provides simultaneous access to pq image points of block(p$\times$q), horizontal vector(1$\times$pq)and/vertical vector(pq$\times$1) in 2-dimension image array, where p and q are design parameters. This memory system consists of an address calculation circuit, address routing circuit, data routing circuit, module selection circuit and m memory modules where m>qp. The address calculation circuit computes pq addresses in parallel by using the difference of addresses among image points. Extra module assignment circuit is not used by improving module selection circuit with routhing circuit. By using Verilog-XL logic simulator, we verify the correctness of the memory system and estimate the performance. The implemented system provides simultaneous access to 16 image points and is 6 times faster than conventional memory system.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.606-613
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• 2018

본 연구는 대규모 영상처리를 위한 메모리 확장을 위한 외장 메모리 확장장치 구현에 관련된 내용으로, 이는 영상처리를 위한 그래픽 워크스테이션에 장착되는 PCI(Peripheral Component Interconnect) Express Gen3 x8 인터페이스를 가지는 외장 메모리 어댑터 카드와 외장 DDR(Dual Data Rate) 메모리로 구성된 외장 메모리 보드로 구성되며, 메모리 어댑터 카드와 외장 메모리 보드간의 연결은 광 인터페이스를 통하여 이루어진다. 외장 메모리 억세스를 위해서는 Programmable I/O 방식과 DMA(Direct Memory Access) 방식을 모두 사용할 수 있도록 하여 영상 데이터의 효율적 송수신이 이루어지도록 하였다. 본 연구 결과의 구현은 Altera Stratix V FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array)와 40G 광 트랜시버가 장착된 보드를 사용하였으며, 1.6GB/s의 대역폭 성능을 보여주고 있다. 이는 4K UHD(Ultra High Definition) 영상 한 채널을 담당할 수 있는 규모이다. 향후 본 연구를 계속 진행하여 3GB/s 이상 대역폭을 보이는 연구결과를 보일 예정이다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2001년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.567-570
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• 2001

In this paper, we proposed flash memory design method for image and voice recoder based on the standard imageㆍvoice codec algorithm. For implementation of this method we designed image voice browser which is application system of flash memory and card using GDS30C6001 USB controller. To process image and voice data we designed root directory of image and voice files repectively. To extend application of image and voice data we added various information to the system.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Naive Bayes nearest neighbor (NBNN) is a simple image classifier based on identifying nearest neighbors. NBNN uses original image descriptors (e.g., SIFTs) without vector quantization for preserving the discriminative power of descriptors and has a powerful generalization characteristic. However, it has a distinct disadvantage. Its memory requirement can be prohibitively high while processing a large amount of data. To deal with this problem, we apply a spherical hashing binary code embedding technique, to compactly encode data without significantly losing classification accuracy. We also propose using an inverted index to identify nearest neighbors among binarized image descriptors. To demonstrate the benefits of our method, we apply our method to two existing NBNN techniques with an image dataset. By using 64 bit length, we are able to reduce memory 16 times with higher runtime performance and no significant loss of classification accuracy. This result is achieved by our compact encoding scheme for image descriptors without losing much information from original image descriptors.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 추계종합학술대회 B
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• pp.91-94
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 Full 하드웨어 기반 베이스라인 프로파일 레벨 3규격 H.264 인코더 코덱에서 사용할 수 있는 Direct Memory Access (DMA)를 설계하였다. 설계된 모듈은 CMOS Image Sensor(CIS)로부터 영상을 입력받아 메모리에 저장한 후 인코더 코덱 모듈의 동작에 맞춰 원영상과 참조영상을 각각 한 매크로블록씩 메모리에서 읽어 공급 또는 저장하며, 인코더는 한 매크로블록씩 처리하는데 660 cycle이 소요된다. 설계한 구조를 검증하기 위해 JM 9.4와 같은 reference Encoder C를 개발하였으며, Encoder C로부터 test vector를 추출하여 설계한 회로를 검증하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.138-141
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• 2012

This letter proposes a real-time digital image stabilization system for cell phone cameras without the need for frame memory. The system post-processes an image captured with a safe shutter speed using an adaptive denoising filter and a global color correction algorithm. This system can transfer the normal brightness of an image previewed under long exposure to the captured image making it bright and crisp with low noise. It is even possible to take photos in low-light conditions. By not needing frame memory, the approach is feasible for integration into the size-constrained image sensors of cell phone cameras.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.643-649
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• 2016

This paper presents a new image cache algorithm for real-time implementation of high-resolution color image warping. The cache memory is divided into four cache memory modules for simultaneous readout of four input image pixels in consideration of the color filter array (CFA) pattern of an image sensor and CFA image warping. In addition, a pipeline structure from the cache memory to an interpolator is shown to guarantee the generation of an output image pixel at each system clock cycle. The proposed image cache algorithm is applied to an FPGA-based real-time color image warping, and experimental results are presented to show the validity of the proposed method.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제29B권3호
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• pp.35-46
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• 1992

Recently, the fuzzy theory has been adopted broadly to the applications of image processing. Especially the fuzzy clustering algorithm is adopted to image segmentation to reduce the ambiguity and the influence of noise in an image.But this needs lots of memory and execution time because of the great deal of image data. Therefore a new image segmentation algorithm is needed which reduces the memory and execution time, doesn't change the characteristices of the image, and simultaneously has the same result of image segmentation as the conventional fuzzy clustering algorithm. In this paper, for image segmentation, an extended fuzzy clustering algorithm is proposed which uses the occurence of data of the same characteristic value as the weight of the characteristic value instead of using the characteristic value directly in an image and it is proved the memory reduction and execution time reducted in comparision with the conventional fuzzy clustering algorithm in image segmentation.