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Experimental Investigation of Two Parallel Plane Jets (두 개의 평행한 평면 제트의 실험적 연구)

  • Kim Dong-Keon;Yoon Soon-Hyun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.29 no.2 s.233
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    • pp.214-223
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    • 2005
  • The characteristics of flow on two parallel plane jets was experimentally investigated. The two nozzles each with an aspect ratio of 20 were separated by 6 nozzle widths. Reynolds number based on nozzle width was set to 5,000 by nozzle exit velocity. The particle image velocimetry and pressure transducer were employed to measure turbulent velocity components and mean static pressure, respectively. In case of unventilated parallel plane jets, it was shown that a recirculation zone with sub-atmospheric static pressure was bounded by the inner shear layers of the individual jets and the nozzles plated. There was no recirculation zone in the ventilated parallel plane jets. It was found that the spanwise turbulent intensities of unventilated jets were higher than those of ventilated jets because of the interaction of jets, and the streamwise turbulent intensities of ventilated jets were higher than those of unventilated jets because of the effect of entrainment.

Image Dehazing Enhancement Algorithm Based on Mean Guided Filtering

  • Weimin Zhou
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.417-426
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    • 2023
  • To improve the effect of image restoration and solve the image detail loss, an image dehazing enhancement algorithm based on mean guided filtering is proposed. The superpixel calculation method is used to pre-segment the original foggy image to obtain different sub-regions. The Ncut algorithm is used to segment the original image, and it outputs the segmented image until there is no more region merging in the image. By means of the mean-guided filtering method, the minimum value is selected as the value of the current pixel point in the local small block of the dark image, and the dark primary color image is obtained, and its transmittance is calculated to obtain the image edge detection result. According to the prior law of dark channel, a classic image dehazing enhancement model is established, and the model is combined with a median filter with low computational complexity to denoise the image in real time and maintain the jump of the mutation area to achieve image dehazing enhancement. The experimental results show that the image dehazing and enhancement effect of the proposed algorithm has obvious advantages, can retain a large amount of image detail information, and the values of information entropy, peak signal-to-noise ratio, and structural similarity are high. The research innovatively combines a variety of methods to achieve image dehazing and improve the quality effect. Through segmentation, filtering, denoising and other operations, the image quality is effectively improved, which provides an important reference for the improvement of image processing technology.

Image Restoration and Segmentation for PAN-sharpened High Multispectral Imagery (PAN-SHARPENED 고해상도 다중 분광 자료의 영상 복원과 분할)

  • Lee, Sanghoon
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.33 no.6_1
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    • pp.1003-1017
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    • 2017
  • Multispectral image data of high spatial resolution is required to obtain correct information on the ground surface. The multispectral image data has lower resolution compared to panchromatic data. PAN-sharpening fusion technique produces the multispectral data with higher resolution of panchromatic image. Recently the object-based approach is more applied to the high spatial resolution data than the conventional pixel-based one. For the object-based image analysis, it is necessary to perform image segmentation that produces the objects of pixel group. Image segmentation can be effectively achieved by the process merging step-by-step two neighboring regions in RAG (Regional Adjacency Graph). In the satellite remote sensing, the operational environment of the satellite sensor causes image degradation during the image acquisition. This degradation increases variation of pixel values in same area, and results in deteriorating the accuracy of image segmentation. An iterative approach that reduces the difference of pixel values in two neighboring pixels of same area is employed to alleviate variation of pixel values in same area. The size of segmented regions is associated with the quality of image segmentation and is decided by a stopping rue in the merging process. In this study, the image restoration and segmentation was quantitatively evaluated using simulation data and was also applied to the three PAN-sharpened multispectral images of high resolution: Dubaisat-2 data of 1m panchromatic resolution from LA, USA and KOMPSAT3 data of 0.7m panchromatic resolution from Daejeon and Chungcheongnam-do in the Korean peninsula. The experimental results imply that the proposed method can improve analytical accuracy in the application of remote sensing high resolution PAN-sharpened multispectral imagery.

An Image Merging Method for Two High Dynamic Range Images of Different Exposure (노출 시간이 다른 두 HDR 영상의 융합 기법)

  • Kim, Jin-Heon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.526-534
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    • 2010
  • This paper describes an algorithm which merges two HDR pictures taken under different exposure time to display on the LDR devices such as LCD or CRT. The proposed method does not generate the radiance map, but directly merges using the weights computed from the input images. The weights are firstly produced on the pixel basis, and then blended with a Gaussian function. This process prevents some possible sparkle noises caused by radical change of the weights and contributes to smooth connection between 2 image informations. The chrominance informations of the images are merged on the weighted averaging scheme using the deviations of RGB average and their differences. The algorithm is characterized by the feature that it represents well the unsaturated area of 2 original images and the connection of the image information is smooth. The proposed method uses only 2 input images and automatically tunes the whole internal process according to them, thus autonomous operation is possible when it is included in HDR cameras which use double shuttering scheme or double sensor cells.

AN EFFICIENT IMAGE SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUE TO IDENTIFY TARGET AREAS FROM LARGE-SIZED MONOCHROME IMAGES

  • Yoon Young-Geun;Lee Seok-Lyong;park Ho-Hyun;Chung Chin-Wan
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.571-574
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we propose an efficient image segmentation technique for large-sized monochrome images using a hybrid approach which combines threshold and region-based techniques. First, an image is partitioned into fixed-size blocks and for each block the representative intensity is determined by averaging pixel intensities within the block. Next, the neighborhood blocks that have similar characteristics with respect to a specific threshold are merged in order to form candidate regions. Finally, those candidate regions are refined to get final target object regions by merging regions considering the spatial locality and certain criteria. We have performed experiments on images selected from various domains and showed that our technique was able to extract target object regions appropriately from most images.

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Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation Using Adaptive Region Clustering and Fuzzy Rules (적응 영역 군집화 기법과 퍼지 규칙을 이용한 자기공명 뇌 영상의 분할)

  • 김성환;이배호
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.525-528
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    • 1999
  • Abstract - In this paper, a segmentation method for brain Magnetic Resonance(MR) image using region clustering technique with statistical distribution of gradient image and fuzzy rules is described. The brain MRI consists of gray matter and white matter, cerebrospinal fluid. But due to noise, overlap, vagueness, and various parameters, segmentation of MR image is a very difficult task. We use gradient information rather than intensity directly from the MR images and find appropriate thresholds for region classification using gradient approximation, rayleigh distribution function, region clustering, and merging techniques. And then, we propose the adaptive fuzzy rules in order to extract anatomical structures and diseases from brain MR image data. The experimental results shows that the proposed segmentation algorithm given better performance than traditional segmentation techniques.

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Spatially Adaptive Image Fusion Based on Local Spectral Correlation (지역적 스펙트럼 상호유사성에 기반한 공간 적응적 영상 융합)

  • 김성환;박종현;강문기
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2003.07e
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    • pp.2343-2346
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    • 2003
  • The spatial resolution of multispectral images can be improved by merging them with higher resolution image data. A fundamental problem frequently occurred in existing fusion processes, is the distortion of spectral information. This paper presents a spatially adaptive image fusion algorithm which produces visually natural images and retains the quality of local spectral information as well. High frequency information of the high resolution image to be inserted to the resampled multispectral images is controlled by adaptive gains to incorporate the difference of local spectral characteristics between the high and the low resolution images into the fusion. Each gain is estimated to minimize the l$_2$-norm of the error between the original and the estimated pixel values defined in a spatially adaptive window of which the weight are proportional to the spectral correlation measurements of the corresponding regions. This method is applied to a set of co-registered Landsat7 ETM+ panchromatic and multispectral image data.

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Target Object Image Extraction from 3D Space using Stereo Cameras

  • Yoo, Chae-Gon;Jung, Chang-Sung;Hwang, Chi-Jung
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.07c
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    • pp.1678-1680
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    • 2002
  • Stereo matching technique is used in many practical fields like satellite image analysis and computer vision. In this paper, we suggest a method to extract a target object image from a complicated background. For example, human face image can be extracted from random background. This method can be applied to computer vision such as security system, dressing simulation by use of extracted human face, 3D modeling, and security system. Many researches about stereo matching have been performed. Conventional approaches can be categorized into area-based and feature-based method. In this paper, we start from area-based method and apply area tracking using scanning window. Coarse depth information is used for area merging process using area searching data. Finally, we produce a target object image.

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Image Retrieval Method Using Color Descriptor (색상 정보를 이용한 영상 검색 기법)

  • Cho, Jae-Hoon;Lee, Sang-Ho;Kim, Young-Seop
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2008
  • Recently, as the multimedia processing application increases rapidly by going on increasing multimedia data, the efficient retrieval method of image information is required in many fields of application and becoming the matter of major concern. Furthermore, in the last few years rapid improvements in hardware technology have made it possible to process, store and retrieve huge amounts of data in a multimedia format. As a result, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has been receiving widespread interest during the last decade. This paper propose the content-based retrieval system as a method for performing image retrieval through the effective feature analysis of the object of significant meaning by using YCbCr channel merging on the basis of the characteristics of man's visual system.

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Efficient Merging of Range Images to Reduce Dental Treatment Time (치과 치료 기간 단축을 위한 효율적인 거리 영상 융합 방법)

  • Kye, Heewon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.179-187
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    • 2017
  • The fourth industrial revolution is a phenomenon where productivity is improved in each field by the convergence of IT technology and existing industries. In the dental treatment process, prosthetic treatment time is drastically shortened through AI and expert software. Oral imaging, prosthesis design, and prosthesis manufacturing are performed continuously, so the treatment can be completed in a few hours. In this paper, we introduce the research trend of multimedia technology in the prosthetic process. We also propose a new method for accelerating the fusion of surface data during the optical impression. Proposed method enables high-speed optical impression and accelerates the overall automated production process of dental prosthesis.