• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2013

Cloud detection and analysis from satellite images has been a topic of research in many atmospheric and environmental studies; however, it still is a challenging task for many reasons. In this paper, we propose a new method for cloud-type classification using fuzzy logic. Knowing that visible-light images of clouds contain thickness related information, while infrared images haves height-related information, we propose a two-layered fuzzy logic based on the input source to provide us with a relatively clear-cut threshold in classification. Traditional noise-removal methods that use reflection/release characteristics of infrared images often produce false positive cloud areas, such as fog thereby it negatively affecting the classification accuracy. In this study, we used the color information from source images to extract the region of interest while avoiding false positives. The structure of fuzzy inference was also changed, because we utilized three types of source images: visible-light, infrared, and near-infrared images. When a cloud appears in both the visible-light image and the infrared image, the fuzzy membership function has a different form. Therefore we designed two sets of fuzzy inference rules and related classification rules. In our experiment, the proposed method was verified to be efficient and more accurate than the previous fuzzy logic attempt that used infrared image features.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.1004-1019
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• 2021

To solve the problems of the low image contrast, fuzzy edge details and edge details missing in noisy image fusion, this study proposes a noisy infrared and visible light image fusion algorithm based on non-subsample contourlet transform (NSCT) and an improved bilateral filter, which uses NSCT to decompose an image into a low-frequency component and high-frequency component. High-frequency noise and edge information are mainly distributed in the high-frequency component, and the improved bilateral filtering method is used to process the high-frequency component of two images, filtering the noise of the images and calculating the image detail of the infrared image's high-frequency component. It can extract the edge details of the infrared image and visible image as much as possible by superimposing the high-frequency component of infrared image and visible image. At the same time, edge information is enhanced and the visual effect is clearer. For the fusion rule of low-frequency coefficient, the local area standard variance coefficient method is adopted. At last, we decompose the high- and low-frequency coefficient to obtain the fusion image according to the inverse transformation of NSCT. The fusion results show that the edge, contour, texture and other details are maintained and enhanced while the noise is filtered, and the fusion image with a clear edge is obtained. The algorithm could better filter noise and obtain clear fused images in noisy infrared and visible light image fusion.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권11호
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• pp.115-123
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• 2015

적외선 영상은 외광의 밝기에 영향을 적게 받아서 원격 탐사 및 영상 보안 등의 응용에서 활발하게 활용되고 있다. 그러나 안개와 같은 기상 악화상황으로 인하여 해당 적외선 영상의 화질이 크게 저하되는 경우가 빈번하게 발생한다. 칼라 영상의 안개제거 기술이 다양하게 연구되어온 반면 적외선 영상의 안개제거 기술은 상대적으로 관심을 받지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 근적외선 대역 영상에 대하여 적외선 영상의 통계학적 특징을 이용한 안개 제거 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기계학습 기법을 활용하여 전달량을 보정하고 다중 후처리 기법을 적용하여 정확한 전달량을 구하였다. 제안 기술을 이용하여 복원한 적외선 영상이 기존 칼라영상에 기반한 알고리즘을 적외선 영상에 적용하여 얻은 결과보다 화질이 좋다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.106-117
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• 2016

최근 환경보호와 신재생에너지 확보 일환으로 태양광발전소가 널리 보급되고 있으며, 태양광 모듈의 효율적인 관리를 위해서는 정기적인 점검이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 UAV 기반 열적외선 카메라와 GIS 공간분석을 통해 태양광 모듈에 대한 고장여부를 진단할 수 있는 실험을 실시하였다. 먼저 고정익 UAV와 RGB 카메라를 이용하여 영상을 촬영한 후 Pix4D SW를 통해 정사영상을 생성하였으며, 정사영상 자료를 이용하여 태양광 모듈 레이어를 구축한 후 코드를 입력하였다. 또한 태양광 모듈 고장여부를 진단하기 위해 고무덮개를 태양광 모듈에 설치하였으며, 열적외선 카메라로부터 얻어진 온도 정보와 태양광 모듈 레이어를 기반으로 Zonalmean 함수를 통해 태양광 모듈별 평균온도를 계산할 수 있었다. 마지막으로 GIS 공간분석을 통해 이상 발열이 확인된 $37^{\circ}C$ 이상의 모듈을 자동으로 추출하고 각 모듈별 고유식별 코드를 식별함으로써 고무 덮개를 설치한 모듈의 위치를 정확하게 분석할 수 있었다.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2012

이 논문에서는 식기간 동안 미광(stray light)에 의해 천리안 기상 영상이 받게 되는 영향에 대해 분석하였으며 미광의 영향을 제거하기 위한 방법 또한 모색하였다. 기상영상의 경우 식기간 동안 미광의 영향을 받아 영상의 왜곡 (줄무늬 등)문제가 발생한다. 미광의 영향에 대한 정량적 분석이 천리안위성의 궤도상 시험기간 동안에 이루어졌으며, 천리안위성 기상탑재체의 총 4개 적외 채널에 대해 태양과의 거리에 따른 미광의 영향이 분석되었다. 본 연구에서는 계산된 천리안위성의 식기간 자료를 바탕으로 미광의 영향이 매우 강한 사례를 선정하여 적외채널 영상의 미광에 의한 오염 정도를 조사하였다. 또한 영상에 나타난 미광의 영향을 두 개의 열적외 채널을 이용하여 단파적외 채널을 대체하는 방법이 유효함을 확인 하였다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2016

This paper proposes a new image enhancement method for an infrared thermal image. The proposed method uses both Laplacian and Prewitt edge detectors. Without a visible light, it uses an infrared image for the edge detection. The method subtracts contour images from the infrared thermal image. It results black contours of objects in the infrared thermal image. That makes the objects in the infrared thermal image distinguished clearly. The proposed method is implemented using C language in an embedded Linux system for a high-speed real-time image processing. Experiments were conducted by using various infrared thermal images. The results show that the proposed method is successful for image enhancement of an infrared thermal image.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.310-316
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• 2012

A new method for early caries diagnosis was proposed and tested through a home-made optical examination system that used quantitative light fluorescence (QLF) and digital imaging fiber optic transillumination (FOTI) (DIFOTI), with light sources across a wide spectral range, from 350 nm to 1,000 nm. The front-illuminated infrared light scattering image (FIR) showed similar diagnostic abilities to that of DIFOTI. The FIR method was invented based on the observation that caries lesions lose the high transmittance and low scattering properties of benign enamel tissue. There are various methods for the early diagnosis of caries, such as visual examination, exploration, X-ray radiography, QLF, FOTI, and infrared fluorescence (diagnodent). Among them, methods based on optical properties are regarded as having the most potential. A comparative study was performed between the FOTI, QLF, diagnodent, optical coherence tomography, and FIR scattering image methods, using 20 extracted teeth samples with early caries. A scale of lesion measurement based on optical image contrast was proposed. The statistical analysis showed a significant correlation between the DIFOTI and FIR methods (r = 0.35, p < 0.05). However, the QLF and diagnodent methods showed little association with FIR images, as they have different detection principles as compared with FIR. Tomographic images obtained by OCT, using 1,330 nm super luminescent LED as a gold standard of tooth structure, verified that the FOTI and FIR results correctly represented the lack of homogeneity in dental tissue. The newly proposed FIR method attained similar diagnostic results to those of FOTI, but with an easier approach.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.725-728
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• 2011

Infrared transmission images from GaAs semi insulating wafers were considered for years as directly related to the quantum absorption by electrons on fundamental states of deep centers, especially EL2. The satisfying correspondence of these images with the dislocations revealed by etching or X ray topography or infrared tomography led to the opinion that a strong concentration of EL2 centers was to be expected in the immediate vicinity of the dislocations. More recent work indicates that contrary to the expected behavior the photoqu$\acute{e}$nching of transmission images at T=80K does not appreciably change the image structure itself but more largely the uniform background level of absorption. Such investigations show that the transmission images of isolated dislocations (Indium doped materials) or cell structures of tangled dislocations (undoped materials) can be partly attributed to scattered light; similar operation at T=10K removes the dark features associated to EL2 but still preserves the skeleton of the pattern which is due to scattering. A result of the measurements is that dislocations must not be considered any longer as inexhaustive EL2 reservoirs. The lifetime of the photoqu$\acute{e}$nching mechanism is shown to vary differently for EL2 centers located close to the dislocations or in the matrix. In this paper we will develop the details of infrared image photoqu$\acute{e}$nching experiments in the vicinity of dislocations; undoped and In doped GaAs materials will be shown. These results will be discussed in the light of surface etching experiments.

• 천문학논총
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.363-365
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• 2012

We report a search for fluctuations of the sky brightness toward the North Ecliptic Pole with AKARI, at 2.4, 3.2, and $4.1{\mu}m$. The stacked images with a diameter of 10 arcminutes of the AKARI-Monitor Field show a spatial structure on the scale of a few hundred arcseconds. A power spectrum analysis shows that there is a significant excess fluctuation at angular scales larger than 100 arcseconds that cannot be explained by zodiacal light, diffuse Galactic light, shot noise of faint galaxies, or clustering of low-redshift galaxies. These findings indicate that the detected fluctuation could be attributed to the first stars of the universe, i.e., Population III stars.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.106-116
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 가시광선과 원적외선 전반의 파장대역에 걸쳐 사용 가능한 동축 듀얼카메라를 설계 및 분석하였다. 광학계는 빔 스플리터를 이용한 동축광학계 시스템으로 설계되었으며, 가시광선 광학계에서 적외선으로 인한 열 전달을 최소화하기 위해 hot mirror 타입의 빔 스플리터를 사용하였다. 원적외선 카메라는 비냉각형 검출기로 640×480의 센서 배열을 가지고, 가시광선은 1,945×1,097의 센서를 사용한다. 최적화 과정을 거친 후 최종 설계된 광학계의 정합도는 90% 이상이며, 기존에 존재하던 듀얼카메라에 비해 정합도가 향상된 효율적인 설계 결과를 얻었고, 테스트를 통해 향상된 정합도를 확인하였다.