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Depth-map Preprocessing Algorithm Using Two Step Boundary Detection for Boundary Noise Removal (경계 잡음 제거를 위한 2단계 경계 탐색 기반의 깊이지도 전처리 알고리즘)

  • Pak, Young-Gil;Kim, Jun-Ho;Lee, Si-Woong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.12
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    • pp.555-564
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    • 2014
  • The boundary noise in image syntheses using DIBR consists of noisy pixels that are separated from foreground objects into background region. It is generated mainly by edge misalignment between the reference image and depth map or blurred edge in the reference image. Since hole areas are generally filled with neighboring pixels, boundary noise adjacent to the hole is the main cause of quality degradation in synthesized images. To solve this problem, a new boundary noise removal algorithm using a preprocessing of the depth map is proposed in this paper. The most common way to eliminate boundary noise caused by boundary misalignment is to modify depth map so that the boundary of the depth map can be matched to that of the reference image. Most conventional methods, however, show poor performances of boundary detection especially in blurred edge, because they are based on a simple boundary search algorithm which exploits signal gradient. In the proposed method, a two-step hierarchical approach for boundary detection is adopted which enables effective boundary detection between the transition and background regions. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms conventional ones subjectively and objectively.

Development of CAPS marker for identifying a Formosan lily (Lilium formosanum) (흰나리(Lilium formosanum Wallace) 식별을 위한 CAPS 마커의 개발)

  • Chung, Sung Jin;Lee, Ka Youn;Yoon, A Ra;Jang, Ji Young;Kim, Jin Kug;Lee, Geung-Joo
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2014
  • This study was conducted to identify lily species native to Korea from formosan lily (Lilium formosanum) belonging to Longiflorum section. Due to flowering time, flower color and orientation, long shelf life and resistant to diseases, the native lily species can be valuable genetic resources for interspecific hybrids. One of the chloroplast genes, matK, was used to clone and sequence to explore any base changes. The matK was successfully amplified into 1,539 bp (94% of the gene) and phylogenetic tree demonstrated 6 clades for those 11 lily species used in this study. There were one or two base substitutions among 10 lilies native to Korea, while formosan lily native to Taiwan exhibited 6 base substitutions in matK gene, rendering it genetically distant. A restriction enzyme NruI recognized one of the six base changes, and digested the matK gene of 10 native lily species only, but not in formosan lily. The confirmed cleavage characteristic of the target region in matK gene was designed into a CAPS (cleaved amplified polymorphic sequences) marker which will be available to estimate compatibility of interspecific hybridization and to trace the pedigree when those native lilies are crossed with the formosan lily.

Mesh Simplification using New Approximate Mean Curvatures (새로운 근사 평균 곡률을 이용한 메쉬 단순화)

  • Kwak, Jae-Hee;Lee, Eun-Jeong;Yoo, Kwan-Hee
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.28-36
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    • 2002
  • In general, triangular meshes have been used for modeling geometric objects such as virtual game characters. The dense meshes give us considerable advantages in representing complex, highly detailed objects, while they are more expensive for storing, transmitting and rendering the objects. Therefore, several researches have been performed for producing a high quality approximation in place of detailed objects, that is, a simplification of triangular meshes. In this paper, we propose a new measure with respect to edges and vertices, which is called an approximate mean curvature and is used as criteria to simplify an original mesh. An edge mean curvature is computed by considering its neighboring edges, and a vertex mean curvature is defined as an average of its incident edges' mean curvatures. And we apply the proposed measure to simplify the models such as a bunny, dragon and teeth. As a result, we can see that the mean curvatures can be used as good criteria for providing much better approximation of models.

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Implementation of 3D mobile game using radiosity model and AI algorithm (Radiosity model과 AI 알고리즘을 이용한 모바일 게임 구현)

  • Kim, Seongdong;Chin, Seonga;Cho, Teresa
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2017
  • The 3D game graphic technology has become an important factor in the contents field with the game contents development. In particular, game character technology provides a realistic technique and visual pleasure, as well as an intermediate step in the immersion of the game in which the game might create an optical illusion that enables the player to enjoy heroic adventure in the game. The high expression level of characters in 3D games is a key factor in the development process, with details and carefulness of the character setting work [3]. In this paper, we propose a character representative technique applied to mobile games using mathematical model of radiosity energy, spectral radiance model, and ray tracing model method using 3D unity game engine with sensible AI algorithm for game implementation. As a practical application to the game contents, it was found that the projection of the surface in the rendering process and the game simulation might change according to the lighting condition of the game content environment, so that the high quality of game characters was simulated.

A Shadow Mapping Technique Separating Static and Dynamic Objects in Games using Multiple Render Targets (다중 렌더 타겟을 사용하여 정적 및 동적 오브젝트를 분리한 게임용 그림자 매핑 기법)

  • Lee, Dongryul;Kim, Youngsik
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 2015
  • To identify the location of the object and improve the realism in 3D game, shadow mapping is widely used to compute the depth values of vertices in view of the light position. Since the depth value of the shadow map is calculated by the world coordinate, the depth values of the static object don't need to be updated. In this paper, (1) in order to improve the rendering speed, using multiple render targets the depth values of static objects stored only once are separated from those of dynamic objects stored each time. And (2) in order to improve the shadow quality in the quarter view 3D game, the position of the light is located close to dynamic objects traveled along the camera each time. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by the experiments according to the different static and dynamics object configuration in 3D game.

A Study on the Improvement of 3D Building Data Format for Spatial Information Open Platform (공간정보 오픈플랫폼 3차원 건물데이터 포맷 개선방안 연구)

  • Kim, Hyeon Deok;Kang, Ji Hun;Kim, Hak Joon
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2017
  • On the spatial information open platform, the national spatial data are released to provide services that the people can use freely. Recently, the demand for high quality 3D geospatial information and indoor spatial information is increasing. However, open platform is not able to provide seamless service because spatial data of indoor and outdoor are composed of different formats and storage structures. In addition, the 3D data format used in the current service does not reflect the recent changes in service environment and new technology. Therefore, in this study, we proposed new format of 3D data used in service to improve interoperability and service of open platform 3D data. The proposed format is lighter than the existing format and the rendering speed is improved.

Effect of Different Lighting Sources on Behavior and Growth of Weanling Pigs

  • Glatz, P.C.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.280-287
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    • 2001
  • These studies aimed to determine how lighting might be used to improve feed intake and reduce aggressive behavior in newly weaned pigs. To examine whether this objective could be achieved an experiment was conducted to compare performance, behavior and body condition of weaners over 17-45 days, provided similar lighting quality (i.e. color temperature, color rendering index and lighting distribution) after weaning that piglets experienced prior to weaning. Triphosphor (TP) lighting to simulate daylight was provided during the day while at night, Pascal red (PR) lighting was provided to simulate the night-light piglets previously had received from infrared heating lamps. This treatment was compared to weaners provided conventional cool-white fluorescent light during the day only. Weaners on treatment lighting from 17-45 days of age showed no improvement in body weight or feed conversion at 24, 31, 38 and 45 days compared to the controls. There was, however, a significant improvement (p<0.05) in feed intake in the first week of weaning for weaners provided TP/PR lighting. Over the first 3 days of weaning, pigs on TP/PR lighting showed an increase (p<0.05) in the incidence of ear chewing but reduced (p<0.05) levels of nosing the abdomen of other pigs and reduced (p<0.05) occurrences of being stood on by other pigs. Females exhibited more (p<0.05) mounting and nosing behaviors and rubbing the heads of other pigs than males. On the other hand, males engaged in more (p<0.05) fighting, nipping, ear chewing and standing on other pigs compared to females. Pigs provided PR lighting on the first night of weaning engaged in higher (p<0.05) incidences of nosing and tail sucking behaviors, more (p<0.05) head thrusting, fighting and ear chewing compared to control pigs. The body condition of weaners provided the TP/PR lighting treatment was significantly poorer (p<0.05) compared to weaners on control lighting. In conclusion there was no improvement in production performance of weaners provided new technology lighting apart from the improvement in feed intake in the first week weaners were exposed to the TP/PR lighting.

Enhanced High Contrast Image Rendering Method Using Visual Properties for Sharpness Perception (시각 선명도 감각 특성을 이용한 개선된 고명암 대비 영상 렌더링 기법)

  • Lee, Geun-Young;Lee, Sung-Hak;Kwon, Hyuk-Ju;Sohng, Kyu-Ik
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38A no.8
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    • pp.669-679
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    • 2013
  • When an image is converted from HDR (high dynamic range) to LDR (low dynamic range), a tone mapping process is the essential component. Many TMOs (tone mapping operators) have been motivated by human vision which has lower physical luminance range than that in real scene. The representative of human vision properties which motivate TMOs is the local adaptation. However, TMOs are ultimately compressing image information such as contrast, saturation, etc. and the compression causes defects in image quality. In this paper, in order to compensate the degradation of the image which is caused by TMOs, the visual acuity-based edge stop function is proposed for applying the property of human vision to base-detail separation. In addition, using CSF (contrast sensitivity function) which represents the relationship among spatial frequency, contrast sensitivity, and luminance, the sharpness filter is designed and adaptively applied to the detail layer in regard to surround luminance.

Multi GPU Based Image Registration for Cerebrovascular Extraction and Interactive Visualization (뇌혈관 추출과 대화형 가시화를 위한 다중 GPU기반 영상정합)

  • Park, Seong-Jin;Shin, Yeong-Gil
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.445-449
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient multi GPU accelerated image registration technique to correct the motion difference between the pre-contrast CT image and post-contrast CTA image. Our method consists of two steps: multi GPU based image registration and a cerebrovascular visualization. At first, it computes a similarity measure considering the parallelism between both GPUs as well as the parallelism inside GPU for performing the voxel-based registration. Then, it subtracts a CT image transformed by optimal transformation matrix from CTA image, and visualizes the subtracted volume using GPU based volume rendering technique. In this paper, we compare our proposed method with existing methods using 5 pairs of pre-contrast brain CT image and post-contrast brain CTA image in order to prove the superiority of our method in regard to visual quality and computational time. Experimental results show that our method well visualizes a brain vessel, so it well diagnose a vessel disease. Our multi GPU based approach is 11.6 times faster than CPU based approach and 1.4 times faster than single GPU based approach for total processing.

Sample Preparation of Ductile Heterogeneity Materials by Ultramicrotomy (연성 이종 재료 시료의 상온 절편 제작법)

  • Chae, Hee-Su;Kweon, Hee-Seok;Je, A-Reum;Lee, Seok-Hoon;Kim, Jin-Gyu
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.49-52
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    • 2012
  • For TEM study of biological samples or polymers that are contained in organic structure, it is often required that the sample is prepared by using ultramicrotome and stained with proper agents to increase the contrast of organic structure. In this study, we investigated an efficient TEM sample preparation method for ductile heterogeneity material by using ultramicrotomy. Cryo-ultramicrotomy is a suitable method that is capable of rendering sample hardness for various ductile materials. However, it has several factors to consider, such as experimental cost, working time and finding the optimal staining conditions. To satisfy these considerations, we prepared TEM sample by using ultramicrotome without cryofunction, and secured the sample hardness by applying the staining process prior to ultrathin sectioning. The cross-linked polyethylene structure in the sample was stained with the 2% $RuO_4$ solution in a sealed test tube for 24 hours at $4^{\circ}C$. After the sample staining, ultrathin sections of sample were prepared using ultramicrotome. As a result, it was revealed that the difficulties associated with staining of ultrathin sections prepared by low-temperature conditions were improved. In addition, appropriate staining depth of sample could be selected for sectioning process. The quality of TEM sample obtained by using this method was better than that of cryo-ultramicroscopy. Finally, it is expected that our method could be effectively applied in TEM sample preparation for a variety of nano-bio convergence materials.