• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.53-59
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• 2009

Multi-view video is necessary to develop a new compression encoding technique for storage and transmission, because of a huge amount of data. Layered depth image is an efficient representation method of multi-view video data. This method makes a data structure that is synthesis of multi-view color and depth image. This paper proposed enhanced compression method by presentation of efficient layered depth image using real distance comparison, solution of overlap problem, and interpolation. In experimental results, confirmed high compression performance.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.207-213
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• 2004

The layered depth image (LDI) is an efficient approach to represent three-dimensional objects with complex geometry for image-based rendering (IBR). LDI contains several attribute values together with multiple layers at each pixel location. In this paper, we propose an efficient preprocessing algorithm to compress depth information of LDI. Considering each depth value as a point in the two-dimensional space, we compute the minimum distance between a straight line passing through the previous two values and the current depth value. Finally, the minimum distance replaces the current attribute value. The proposed algorithm reduces the variance of the depth information , therefore, It Improves the transform and coding efficiency.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.535-538
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• 2001

In this paper, we present a novel method to solve the inevitable RGB beam mismatch problem in projection TV receivers. Conventional methods solve the mismatch problem by directly controlling the cathode ray tube (CRT) using the convergence yoke (CY). Unlike conventional methods, the proposed method is based on digital video processing using image warping techniques. Firstly RGB beam projection paths are mathematically modeled. Then based on the modeling, the input video signal to CRT is prewarped so that RGB beams are landed at the same point on the screen. Since the proposed method is based on a digital video processing instead of using CY, it can outperform the conventional method in terms of quality and cost. The experimental results with a real 60´projection TV demonstrate that the proposed method indeed produces converged images on the projection TV screen.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.260-272
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a simple auto calibration method for a CCD camera with wide an91e lens that causes high degree of distortion. We formulate a cubic warping equation for the relationship between the cross points on the distorted calibration target and the corresponding points from the standard grid image, and calibrate distorted images using the computed parameters. The experiment has been performed with the distorted images resulted from wide angle CCD camera. The experimental results show that the proposed method, in terms of the average and maximum distorted error, has higher accuracy than the existing methods because of maintaining the calibration ratio more than 95 percent. The proposed method is applicable to wide variety of images regardless a type of lens or distortion.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.3-5
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 새로운 내용기반 이미지 검색 기법으로 식물 잎의 윤곽선에 대하여 동적 시간 정합 기법을 이용하여 유사한 이미지를 효과적으로 검색하는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 우선 식물 잎의 기준점에 대하여 잎의 가장자리를 따라 가면서 구해지는 거리의 곡선을 통하여 잎의 외형 특성을 표현하였다. 추출된 곡선 정보의 효율적인 저장과 처리를 위하여 곡선의 특성을 표현할 수 있는 퓨리에 계수(Fourier Coefficients)를 계산하고 이를 바탕으로 유사한 이미지를 계산하였다. 이런 과정에서 생기는 문제점으로는 복잡한 형태의 곡선에 대해서는 퓨리에 계수를 통하여 저장하고 복원하는 과정에서 원본 곡선의 세부적인 형태 정보를 상실하게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 복잡한 곡선 유형에 대해서는 복원시 상실되는 정보가 최소화될 수 있는 작은 단위의 구간으로 나누고 이에 대한 퓨리에 계수를 계산하는 방법으로 다수의 퓨리에 계수 세트를 추출하는 이진 구간 분할 (Binary Range Reduction) 알고리즘을 사용하였고 질의 이미지와 저장된 이미지들을 비교하는 과정에서 검색의 정확도를 향상시키기 위하여 동적 시간 정합(Dynamic Time Warping) 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 그리고 검색의 효율을 더욱 높이기 위하여 추출된 외형 정보를 기반으로 잎의 유형을 다양한 카테고리로 분류하는 외형 기형 기반의 잎 분류 기법을 제안하였다. 다양한 실험을 통하여 제안한 기법이 식물 잎 검색에 우수한 성능을 나타냄을 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.2112-2122
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• 1997

This paper presents a new video codec which is based on 2-D triangular mesh-based motion compensation and two step grid point motion estimation. With this approach the efficiency of compression and the quality of reconstructed images are improved. The compensation of motion for each triangular patch is performed by image warping using motion vectors at the grid points. The prediction error coding and the rate control meet MPEG-4 VM 3.0 specification. The experimental results show that the codec system proposed is simple in complexity and moreover, the quality of decoded images is improved.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.265-274
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a novel interframe coding algorithm especially appropriate for 3-D medical images. The proposed algorithm is based on a video coding algorithm using motion estimation/ compensation and transform coding. In the algorithm, warping is adopted lor motion compensation (MC). Then, by using adaptive mode selection, a motion compensated residual image and original image are mixed up in the wavelet transform domain for improvement in coding performance. The mixed image is then compressed by the zerotree coding method. We prove that the adaptive mode selection technique in the wavelet transform domain is very useful lor 3-D medical image coding. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides good performance regardless of inter-slice distance and is prospective for 3-D medical image compression.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.147-156
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose 3D cloud animation by cloud modeling method of 2D images retrieved from a meteorological satellite. First, on the satellite images, we locate numerous control points to perform thin-plate spline warping analysis between consecutive frames for the modeling of cloud motion. In addition, the spectrum channels of visible and infrared wavelengths are used to determine the amount and altitude of clouds for 3D cloud image reconstruction. Pre-integrated volume rendering method is used to achieve seamless inter-laminar shades in real-time using small number of slices of the volume data. The proposed method could successfully construct continuously moving 3D clouds from 2D satellite images at an acceptable speed and image quality.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.28-34
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• 2014

Recently the depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) method is usually used in 3D image application filed. Virtual view image is created by using a known view with associated depth map to make a virtual view point which did not taken by the camera. But, disocclusion area occur because the virtual view point is created using a depth image based image 3D warping. To remove those kind of disocclusion region, many hole filling methods are proposed until now. Constant color region searching, horizontal interpolation, horizontal extrapolation, and variational inpainting techniques are proposed as a hole filling methods. But when using those hole filling method some problem occurred. The different types of annoying artifacts are appear in texture region hole filling procedure. In this paper to solve those problem, the multi-directional extrapolation method is newly proposed for efficiency of expanded hole filling performance. The proposed method is efficient when performing hole filling which complex texture background region. Consideration of directionality for hole filling method use the hole neighbor texture pixel value when estimate the hole pixel value. We can check the proposed hole filling method can more efficiently fill the hole region which generated by virtual view synthesis result.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.209-216
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• 1990

Pulmonary nodules in chest X-Ray images were detected using the symmetric property of human lung and its performance was evaluated. Thls algorithm reduced the effect of background components and enhanced the nodule signals relatively. The image was divided and processed separately, the half with matched filter only, and the other half with warping and matched filter. This algorithm increased the entire detection rate by reducing False-Positive error and improving True-Positive detectability. Result shows 10-25 % improvement in detection rate compared with the conventional alsorithm for nodules size of 10mm.