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Adversarial Framework for Joint Light Field Super-resolution and Deblurring (라이트필드 초해상도와 블러 제거의 동시 수행을 위한 적대적 신경망 모델)

  • Lumentut, Jonathan Samuel;Baek, Hyungsun;Park, In Kyu
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.672-684
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    • 2020
  • Restoring a low resolution and motion blurred light field has become essential due to the growing works on parallax-based image processing. These tasks are known as light-field enhancement process. Unfortunately, only a few state-of-the-art methods are introduced to solve the multiple problems jointly. In this work, we design a framework that jointly solves light field spatial super-resolution and motion deblurring tasks. Particularly, we generate a straight-forward neural network that is trained under low-resolution and 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion-blurred light field dataset. Furthermore, we propose the strategy of local region optimization on the adversarial network to boost the performance. We evaluate our method through both quantitative and qualitative measurements and exhibit superior performance compared to the state-of-the-art methods.

Hardware Implementation of Low-power Display Method for OLED Panel using Adaptive Luminance Decreasing (적응적 휘도 감소를 이용한 OLED 패널의 저전력 디스플레이 방법 및 하드웨어 구현)

  • Cho, Ho-Sang;Choi, Dae-Sung;Seo, In-Seok;Kang, Bong-Soon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.17 no.7
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    • pp.1702-1708
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    • 2013
  • OLED has good efficiency of power consumption by having no power consumption from black color as different with LCD. when it has white color, all RGB pixel should be glowing with high power consumption and that can make it has short life time. This paper suggest the way of low power consumption for OLED panel using adaptive luminance enhancement with color compensation and implement it as hardware. This way which is based on luminance information of input image makes converted luminance value from each pixel in real time. There is with using the basic idea of chromaticity reduction algorithm, showing new algorithm of color correction. And performance of proposed method was confirmed by comparing the conventional method in experiments about 48.43% current reduction. The proposed method was designed by Verilog HDL and was verified by using OpenCV and Windows Program.

Speed Enhancement Technique for Ray Casting using 2D Resampling (2차원 리샘플링에 기반한 광선추적법의 속도 향상 기법)

  • Lee, Rae-Kyoung;Ihm, In-Sung
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.27 no.8
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    • pp.691-700
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    • 2000
  • The standard volume ray-tracing, optimized with octree, needs to repeatedly traverse hierarchical structures for each ray that often leads to redundant computations. It also employs the expensive 3D interpolation for producing high quality images. In this paper, we present a new ray-casting method that efficiently computes shaded colors and opacities at resampling points by traversing octree only once. This method traverses volume data in object-order, finds resampling points on slices incrementally, and performs resampling based on 2D interpolation. While the early ray-termination, which is one of the most effective optimization techniques, is not easily combined with object-order methods, we solved this problem using a dynamic data structure in image space. Considering that our new method is easy to implement, and need little additional memory, it will be used as very effective volume method that fills the performance gap between ray-casting and shear-warping.

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A Comparison of Iopamidol with Iopromide and Iohexol Contrast Media in Hepatic CT Angiography in Beagle Dogs (비글견의 간 CT 혈관조영상에서의 Iopamidol과 Iopromide, Iohexol 조명제의 비교실험)

  • Jeong Yu-Cheol;Lim Chang-Yun;Kim Gyeong-Min;Lee Sung-Ok;Jung Joo-Hyun;Chang Jin-Hwa;Oh Sun-Kyoung;Song Kyoung-Jin;Yoon Jung-Hee;Choi Min-Cheol
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.129-132
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this paper was to compare the clinical efficacy of iopamidol and iopromide, iohexol nonionic contrast media in terms of their image quality in Beagle dogs with hepatic CT angiography and their application in veterinary clinics. With 9 Beagle dogs, contrast media of iopamidol (pamiray-$300^(R)$) and iopromide (ultravist-$300^(R)$, iohexol (omnipaque-$300^(R)$) were induced intravenously (600 mg I/kg, BW) and CT angiography was done under general anesthesia. CT scan included scout, pre-contrast and cine examinations. During CT angiography, peak HU (Hounsfield unit) and peak time were examined on each site (ROI; region of interest) of the aorta, caudal vena cava, potral vein and liver parenchyma. Any side effects were also examined. After experiments, it was found that there were no significant changes of HU and maximal enhancing time of each ROIs of aorta, caudal vena cava, portal vein and liver parenchyma between these contrast media. And any side effects were not noted. So it is concluded that iopamidol has similiar contrast enhancement like as iopromide and iohexol in hepatic angiography and and it is thought to be useful for evaluation of the abdominal organs by CT scan in veterinary clinics.

Design of a Three Dimensional Audio System for Multicast Conferencing (멀티캐스트 화상회의를 위한 3-D 음향시스템 설계)

  • 김영오;고대식
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.25 no.1B
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2000
  • On multimedia teleconferencing system existing a number of participants, face of the participants can beperceived by visual image. However, differentiation of each participant's voice and spaciousness sense are very hard since voice of all participants is processed with one dimensional data. In this paper, we implemented three dimensional audio rendering system using the HRTF(Head Related Transfer Function) and distance sense reproduction method and determined the optimal location of the participants for teleconferencing system. In the results of the listening test using elevation and azimuth angle, we showed that directional perception of the azimuth angles were better than that of the elevation angles. Specially, we showed that participant location using the HRTFS of the azimuth angle 10" , 90" , 270" and350" was efficient in teleconferencing system existing four participants. We also proposed that distance cue was used for enhancement of the reality and location of many participants more than five.ipants more than five.

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Fractal Image Coding for Improve the Quality of Medical Images (의료영상의 화질개선을 위한 프랙탈 영상 부호화)

  • Park, Jaehong;Park, Cheolwoo;Yang, Wonseok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2014
  • This paper suggests techniques to enhance coding time which is a problem in traditional fractal compression and to improve fidelity of reconstructed images by determining fractal coefficient through adaptive selection of block approximation formula. First, to reduce coding time, we construct a linear list of domain blocks of which characteristics is given by their luminance and variance and then we control block searching time according to the first permissible threshold value. Next, when employing three-level block partition, if a range block of minimum partition level cannot find a domain block which has a satisfying approximation error, we choose new approximation coefficients using a non-linear approximation of luminance term. This boosts the fidelity. Our experiment employing the above methods shows enhancement in the coding time more than two times over traditional coding methods and shows improvement in PSNR value by about 1-3dB at the same compression rate.

Usefulness of the High B-value DWI in Brain Tumors (뇌종양 확산강조영상에서 High B-value의 유용성 평가)

  • Kim, Jin-tae;Byun, Jae-Hu;Park, Yong-Seong;Lee, Rae-Gon;Hwang, Seon-Kwang
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.33-41
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    • 2015
  • This study attempts to examine the clinical usefulness of High b-value DWI (diffusion weighted imaging) for brain tumors with an edema. Subjects were seven patients selected from 65 patients who received an MRI scan for suspected encephalopathy and confirmed diagnosis at our hospital from February to July 2015 (male: 7, average age : 66 years old). As test equipment, 3.0T MR System (ACHIEVA Release, Philips, Best, The Netherlands) and 8Channel SENSE Head Coill were used. DWI checks on the use of the variable TR 5460ms, TE 132ms, Slice Thickness 4mm, gap 1mm, Slice number 29 is, 3D T1WI is TR 8.4ms, TE 3.9ms, matrix size $240{\times}240$, Slice can set 180 piecesIt was. b value of 0, 1,000, 2,000 s/mm2 with DWI acquisition and 3D T1WI enhancement five minutes after the Slice Thickness 3mm, gap 0mm to reconstruct the upper face axis (MPR TRA CE) was. As for the experiment, in b-value 1,000 and 2,000 images, SNR and the lesion at the lesion site and CNR in the normal site opposite to the lesion are measured. WW(window width) and WL(window level) are made equal in MRICro software, and the volume of the lesion is measured from each of b-value and MPR TRA CE image. Using SPSS ver. 1.8.0.0 Mann Whitney-test was analyzed for SNR and CNR, while Kruskal-Wallis test was analyzed for volume.

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A study on Hemo-Dynamic information Within 30 seconds in DCE 3D Breast MRI : Experienced Reports (DCE 3D Breast MRI 검사 시 30 sec 이내에 혈류 역학적 정보에 대한 연구 : Experienced Reports)

  • Goo, Eun-Hoe
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study evaluated the hemo-dynamic information within 30 seconds clinically in 3D breast MRI. From January to March 2014, A total of 40 people were examined at 1.5 Tesla(Philips, Medical System, Achieva, The Netherlands) MRI equipments using 16 channel SENSE breast coil. The imaging parameters on vibrant are fellow as: $TR/TE/FA^{\circ}$/Matrix size/Slice thickness/Slab($5ms/2ms/10^{\circ}/180{\times}139{\times}2mm/80$). This study used a Gadovist and injected it with injection speed of 4 ml /sec by auto injector with 15 ml saline flushing. Firstly, for the delay time study, it divided three different delay time from immediately, 20 seconds, and 30 seconds. In quantitative analysis, the ROI signal intensities of tumor and surrounding tissues were measured retrospectively. In qualitative analysis, the image quality was scored from 1 to 5 point by one experienced radiological technologists as a visual test. The significance level of each delay time was evaluated with a one-way ANOVA(p<0.05). In the visual test, score levels on 30 seconds delay time was a little bit higher than others(p<0.05). The signal intensity of the tumor were $1445{\pm}360$, $1410{\pm}320$, $1510{\pm}415$ on immediately, 20 seconds, and 30 seconds and score levels were $4.18{\pm}0.85$, $3.54{\pm}0.94$, $4.45{\pm}0.74$(p<0.05). The data on immediate images showed better results than that others(p<0.05). Conclusively, Although it has been high scored in 30sec delay time for visual test in order to avoid failure in 20second, 30seconds delay time after contrast media administration, we recommend that the DCE 3D breast MRI commence immediately.

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Super-resolution Algorithm Using Adaptive Unsharp Masking for Infra-red Images (적외선 영상을 위한 적응적 언샤프 마스킹을 이용한 초고해상도 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Yong-Jun;Song, Byung Cheol
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.180-191
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    • 2016
  • When up-scaling algorithms for visible light images are applied to infrared (IR) images, they rarely work because IR images are usually blurred. In order to solve such a problem, this paper proposes an up-scaling algorithm for IR images. We employ adaptive dynamic range encoding (ADRC) as a simple classifier based on the observation that IR images have weak details. Also, since human visual systems are more sensitive to edges, our algorithm focuses on edges. Then, we add pre-processing in learning phase. As a result, we can improve visibility of IR images without increasing computational cost. Comparing with Anchored neighborhood regression (A+), the proposed algorithm provides better results. In terms of just noticeable blur, the proposed algorithm shows higher values by 0.0201 than the A+, respectively.

A Smart Brix Measurement System Using Mobile Devices (모바일 장치를 이용한 스마트 과당측정시스템)

  • Jeong, Jin-Kuk;Kim, Jong-Min;Ryu, Gab-Sang
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.217-225
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    • 2017
  • A study proposes possibility of new IoT measuring system blended with a smart device. The research serves the best cultivation information for domestic fruit's enhancement of competitive power and also develops a glucose measuring system by which people manage fructose with the mobile device. The mobile glucose tester is designed with a form of accessory which has high portability and utility because the product connects an existing analogy refractometer to the smart phone. You can check the glucose rates data by commodity, region, and season then save measurement results with server in real time for an exclusive application. It's possible to serve the glucose map, graph, and data list through the web service. This is very useful to do collect, analyze, and process the glucose data.