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Multiple Cues Based Particle Filter for Robust Tracking (다중 특징 기반 입자필터를 이용한 강건한 영상객체 추적)

  • Hossain, Kabir;Lee, Chi-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2012.11a
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    • pp.552-555
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    • 2012
  • The main goal of this paper is to develop a robust visual tracking algorithm with particle filtering. Visual Tracking with particle filter technique is not easy task due to cluttered environment, illumination changes. To deal with these problems, we develop an efficient observation model for target tracking with particle filter. We develop a robust phase correlation combined with motion information based observation model for particle filter framework. Phase correlation provides straight-forward estimation of rigid translational motion between two images, which is based on the well-known Fourier shift property. Phase correlation has the advantage that it is not affected by any intensity or contrast differences between two images. On the other hand, motion cue is also very well known technique and widely used due to its simplicity. Therefore, we apply the phase correlation integrated with motion information in particle filter framework for robust tracking. In experimental results, we show that tracking with multiple cues based model provides more reliable performance than single cue.

Selectrive Liquid Phase Epitaxy of GaAs` Kinetics and MOrphology (비소화칼륨의 선택적 액상 에피층 성장;성장기구 및 형태)

  • Kim, Sang Bae;Kwon, Young Se
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.820-832
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    • 1986
  • In contrast to conventional liquid phase epitaxy of GaAs, surface kinetics limited growth is predominant in selective liquid phase epitaxy. For the stripe openings in the high-index crystal-lographic directions, the well-known facet formations and the decompositions into the low index planes or smooth circular surfaces are observed depending on the growth kinetics. For the low index direction stripe, surface kinetics limited growth is evident. By a numerical calcualtion we show that these phenomena are due to the enhanced masstransport by two dimensional diffusion and growth rate anisotropy which is found to be very stdrong with cusped minima for some singular planes in the solution growth as well as in vapor phase epitaxy. Morphological stability is briefly treated in terms of diffusion and its implications on device application are stated. Tese phenomena may be common to III-V compound semiconductors as well as GaAs.

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Phase-based virtual image encryption and decryption system using Joint Transform Correlator

  • Seo, Dong-Hoan;Cho, Kyu-Bo;Park, Se-Joon;Cho, Woong-Ho;Noh, Duck-Soo;Kim, Soo-Joong
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.450-453
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    • 2002
  • In this paper a Phase-based virtual image encryption and decryption techniques based on a joint transform correlator (JTC) are proposed. In this method, an encrypted image is obtained by multiplying a phase-encoded virtual image that contains no information from the decrypted image with a random phase. Even if this encryption process converts a virtual image into a white-noise-like image, the unauthorized users can permit a counterfeiting of the encrypted image by analyzing the random phase mask using some phase-contrast technique. However, they cannot reconstruct the required image because the virtual image protects the original image from counterfeiting and unauthorized access. The proposed encryption technique does not suffer from strong auto-correlation terms appearing in the output plane. In addition, the reconstructed data can be directly transmitted to a digital system for real-time processing. Based on computer simulations, the proposed encryption technique and decoding system were demonstrated as adequate for optical security applications.

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A Study on the Analysis of Residual Stress in Weldment by Considering the Phase Transformation of Carbon Steel (상변태를 고려한 탄소강 용접부의 잔류응력 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Jo, Si-Hun;Kim, Jae-Ung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.390-398
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    • 2001
  • Welding process generates distortion and residual stress in the weldment due to rapid heating and cooling. Welding distortion and residual stress in the welded structure result in many troubles such as dimensional inaccuracies in assembling and safety problem during service. The accurate prediction of welding residual stress is thus very important to improve the quality of weldment and find the way to reduce itself. This paper suggests new analysis method to predict welding residual stress by considering solid phase transformation during welding process. Using the method, analysis is performed for medium and low carbon steel. The analysis result for medium carbon steel reveals that case considering phase transformation has compressive residual stress in contrast with the case neglecting phase transformation because of martensite formation. However, for the case of low carbon steel, residual stress shows little difference between the case considering phase transformation and the other case, because it has small transformation strain and recovers rapidly stress after phase transformation.

MR Imaging of Slow-flow Using a Flow Phantom (유동모형을 이용한 저속유동의 자기공명영상)

  • Dae-Cheol Cheong;Kyung-Jae Jung;Young-Hwan Lee;Nak-Kwan Sung;Duck-Soo Chung;Ok-Dong Kim;Jong-Ki Kim
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.116-122
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    • 2001
  • Purpose : To find sensitivity of MRI imaging methods to slow flow phantom study was performed with conventional Spin-Echo, gradient echo based Phase Contrast, fast GRASS, and heavily T2-weighted Fast Spin Echo pulse sequences. Materials and Methods : A siphon driven flow phantom was constructed with a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt catheter and a GE phantom to achieve continuous variable flow. Four different pulse sequences including Spin-Echo, Phase Contrast, GRASS and Heavily T2-weighted Fast Spin Echo were evaluated to depict slow flow in the range from 0.08 ml/min to 1.7 ml/min and to compare signal intensities between static fluid and flowing fluid. Results : In the slow flow above 0.17 ml/min conventional Spin-Echo showed superior apparent contrast between static and flowing fluid while GRASS was more sensitive to the very slow flow below 0.17 ml/mim. It was not accurate to calculate flow and velocity below 0.1 ml/min with a modified PC imaging. Conclusion : Four different MR pulse sequences demonstrated different sensitivity to the range of slow flow from 0.08 ml/min to 1.7 ml/min. This finding may be clinically useful to measure CSF shunt flow or detecting CSF collection and thrombosis.

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Slow Feature Analysis for Mitotic Event Recognition

  • Chu, Jinghui;Liang, Hailan;Tong, Zheng;Lu, Wei
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.1670-1683
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    • 2017
  • Mitotic event recognition is a crucial and challenging task in biomedical applications. In this paper, we introduce the slow feature analysis and propose a fully-automated mitotic event recognition method for cell populations imaged with time-lapse phase contrast microscopy. The method includes three steps. First, a candidate sequence extraction method is utilized to exclude most of the sequences not containing mitosis. Next, slow feature is learned from the candidate sequences using slow feature analysis. Finally, a hidden conditional random field (HCRF) model is applied for the classification of the sequences. We use a supervised SFA learning strategy to learn the slow feature function because the strategy brings image content and discriminative information together to get a better encoding. Besides, the HCRF model is more suitable to describe the temporal structure of image sequences than nonsequential SVM approaches. In our experiment, the proposed recognition method achieved 0.93 area under curve (AUC) and 91% accuracy on a very challenging phase contrast microscopy dataset named C2C12.

Medical Application of Synchrotron Radiation in Japan

  • Toyofuku, Fukai;Tokumori, Kenji;Hyodo, Kazuyuki;Ando, Masami;Uyama, Chikao
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.32-34
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    • 2002
  • Over the past two decades there has been a tremendous growth in the number of synchrotron radiation facilities in the world and also in Japan. The high flux and brightness radiation which derive from the third generation low emittance rings provide an ideal source for many applications in the medical sciences. The application of synchrotron radiation to medical imaging started in the early 80's in U.S.A, followed by European countries such as Germany and Russia. In Japan, researchs on intravenous coronary angiography started in 1884 at the Institute for High Energy Phisics(KEK) in Tsukuba. At present, it is the only application of syncrotron radiation which is at the stage of human study. In '90s, newer techniques such as phase and refraction contrast imaging appeared which are at the in vitro or animal study stage. Various types of x-ray CT have also been developed for three-dimensional imaging of the subjects. The present status of medical applications of synchrotron radiation in Japan is reviewed.

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Analyzing the Spray-to-spray Interaction of GDI Injector Nozzle in the Near-field Using X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging (X선 위상차 가시화 기법을 이용한 GDI 인젝터 노즐 근방의 분무 간 상호간섭 해석)

  • Bae, Gyuhan;Moon, Seoksu
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.60-67
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    • 2020
  • Despite its benefit in engine thermal efficiency, gasoline-direct-injection (GDI) engines generate substantial particulate matter (PM) emissions compared to conventional port-fuel-injection (PFI) engines. One of the reasons for this is that the spray collapse caused by the spray-to-spray interaction forms the locally rich fuel-air mixture and increases the fuel wall film. Previous studies have investigated the spray collapse phenomenon through the macroscopic observation of spray behavior using laser optical techniques, but it is somewhat difficult to understand the interaction between sprays that is initiated in the near-nozzle region within 10 mm from the nozzle exit. In this study, the spray structure, droplet size and velocity data were obtained using an X-ray imaging technique from the near-nozzle to the downstream of the spray to investigate the spray-to-spray interaction and discuss the effects of spray collapse on local droplet size and velocity distribution. It was found that as the ambient density increases, the spray collapse was promoted due to the intensified spray-to-spray interaction, thereby increasing the local droplet size and velocity from the near-nozzle region as a result of droplet collision/coalescence.

A Review of IWFR Method for HRTEM Image Analysis and Application (HRTEM영상 분석에 대한 IWFR 방법의 고찰 및 응용)

  • Kim, Hwang-Su
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 2008
  • The iterative wave-function reconstruction (IWFR) method developed by Allen et al. (2004) was reviewed with concern for its applicability. The high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) studies of the materials such as GaAs, $YBa_2Cu_3O_7$ and $Al_2CuMg$ reported in the literature were utilized in this review. In this process the basis of validity, the limiting conditions and the information limit of this method were discussed. It was particularly noted that the phase contrast image of the exit plane wave evaluated from this method reveals not only $C_s$-corrected atomic resolution within information limit, but also strong tendency of contrast proportional to the magnitude of the atomic number of compositional atoms in a crystal.