• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.17-21
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• 1998

시점 합성(View synthesis)이란 일반적으로 주어진 기준 영상들(reference viewpoint images 혹은 key frames)으로부터 임의의 시점에서 바라본 영상을 예측하여 합성하는 것을 의미한다. 이러한 시점 합성은 영상 기반 렌더링(Image-based rendering)기법의 일종으로 컴퓨터 그래픽스 분야에서 실시간 렌더링이나 가상 현실(Virtual reality) 구현을 위한 매우 강력한 접근 방식이다. 시점 합성은 물체를 표현하기 위한 3차원 모델링이 필요가 없으며, 렌더링 시간이 물체의 복잡도와는 무관한 장점이 있다. 이러한 시점 합성 기법으로 물체의 3차원 표현과 효과적인 데이터베이스 구축에 응용이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 물체의 3차원 데이터베이스 구축을 위해 영상 기반 렌더링 기법에 근거한 간단하고, 효과적인 시점 합성 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.1016-1022
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• 2014

Kinect is a motion sensing camera released by Microsoft in November 2010 for the Xbox360 that is used to produce depth and color images. Because Kinect uses an infrared pattern, it generates holes and noises around an object's boundaries in the obtained images. The flickering phenomenon and unmatched edges also occur. In this paper, we propose a real time virtual-view video synthesis algorithm which results in a high quality virtual view by solving these problems stated above. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs much better than the conventional algorithms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.2C
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• pp.16-24
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed a face tracking algorithm for a viewpoint adaptive multi-view synthesis system. The original scene captured by a depth camera contains a texture image and 8 bit gray-scale depth map. From this original image, multi-view images can be synthesized which correspond to viewer's position by using geometrical transformation such as a rotation and a translation. The proposed face tracking technique gives a motion parallax cue by different viewpoints and view angles. In the proposed algorithm, tracking of viewer's dominant face initially established from camera by using statistical characteristics of face colors and deformable templates is done. As a result, we can provide motion parallax cue by detecting viewer's dominant face area and tracking it even under a heterogeneous background and can successfully display the synthesized sequences.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.242-252
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• 2014

Since July of 2012, the 3D video extension of H.264/AVC has been under development to support the multi-view video plus depth format. In 3D video applications such as multi-view and free-view point applications, synthesized views are generated using coded texture video and coded depth video. Such synthesized views can be distorted by quantization noise and inaccuracy of 3D wrapping positions, thus it is important to improve their quality where possible. To achieve this, the relationship among the depth video, texture video, and synthesized view is investigated herein. Based on this investigation, an edge noise suppression filtering process to preserve the edges of the depth video and a method based on a total variation approach to maximum a posteriori probability estimates for reducing the quantization noise of the coded texture video. The experiment results show that the proposed methods improve the peak signal-to-noise ratio and visual quality of a synthesized view compared to a synthesized view without post processing methods.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.31-36
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• 2006

In this paper data of index is acquired by some experts. Then the ambipolar models of Fussy Synthesis Evaluation theory is adopted in this paper which helps to the synthesis analysis of the Aids to Navigation in DaLian port area. At the same time, in accordance with the suggestion of the experts and the real condition, the idiographic implement way is mentioned in the point of view of Quality. The two points of view make the scheme more scientific and feasible. After achieving the status, the project scheme of synthetical alteration to Aids to Navigation in DaLian port area is put forward. It arranges the improved ideas from the different point of view of content, efficiency expectation of Aids to Navigation which gives the reference of the alteration and development of the Aid to Navigation which gives the reference of the alteration and development of the Aids to Navigation in DaLian port area for the future.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.9
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• pp.786-791
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• 2012

This paper presents a depth boundary sharpening method for improved view synthesis in 3D video. In depth coding, distortion occurs around object boundaries, degrading the quality of synthesized images. In order to encounter this problem, the proposed method estimates an edge map for each frame to filter only the boundary regions. In particular, a window-based filter is employed to choose the most reliable pixel as the replacement considering three factors: frequency, similarity and closeness. The proposed method was implemented as post-processing of the deblocking filter in JMVC 8.3.Compared to the conventional methods, the proposed method generated 0.49 dB PSNR increase and 16.58% bitrate decrease on average. The improved portions were subjectively confirmed as well.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.31-44
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• 2016

This paper presents a hole-filling algorithm based on extrapolating spatial-temporal background information used in view synthesis for free-viewpoint television. A new background codebook is constructed and updated in order to extract reliable temporal background information. In addition, an estimation of spatial local background values is conducted to discriminate an adaptive boundary between the background region and the foreground region as well as to update the information about the hole region. The holes then are filled by combining the spatial background information and the temporal background information. In addition, an exemplar-based inpainting technique is used to fill the rest of holes, in which a priority function using background-depth information is defined to determine the order in which the holes are filled. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm outperformed the other comparative methods about average 0.3-0.6 dB, and that it synthesized satisfactory views regardless of video characteristics and type of hole region.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.16-22
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• 2001

Novel yakuchinone derivatives have been designed, synthesized and evaluated their inhibitory activity of NO production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-activated macrophages. From this study, some enone compounds have been found to be highly active in the assay. In view of the importance of NO in septic shock and inflammation, these compounds may be useful candidates for the development of new drug to treat endotoxemia and inflammation accompanying overproduction of NO.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.1477-1486
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose Multi-view CGH Making System using method of generation of virtual view-point depth image. We acquire reliable depth image using TOF depth camera. We extract parameters of reference-view cameras. Once the position of camera of virtual view-point is defined, select optimal reference-view cameras considering position of it and distance between it and virtual view-point camera. Setting a reference-view camera whose position is reverse of primary reference-view camera as sub reference-view, we generate depth image of virtual view-point. And we compensate occlusion boundaries of virtual view-point depth image using depth image of sub reference-view. In this step, remaining hole boundaries are compensated with minimum values of neighborhood. And then, we generate final depth image of virtual view-point. Finally, using result of depth image from these steps, we generate CGH. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs much better than conventional algorithms.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.1023-1033
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• 2014

In this paper, performance improved hole-filling algorithm which includes the boundary noise removing pre-process that can be used for an arbitrary virtual view synthesis has been proposed. Boundary noise occurs due to the boundary mismatch between depth and texture images during the 3D warping process and it usually causes unusual defects in a generated virtual view. Common-hole is impossible to recover by using only a given original view as a reference and most of the conventional algorithms generate unnatural views that include constrained parts of the texture. To remove the boundary noise, we first find occlusion regions and expand these regions to the common-hole region in the synthesized view. Then, we fill the common-hole using the spiral weighted average algorithm and the gradient searching algorithm. The spiral weighted average algorithm keeps the boundary of each object well by using depth information and the gradient searching algorithm preserves the details. We tried to combine strong points of both the spiral weighted average algorithm and the gradient searching algorithm. We also tried to reduce the flickering defect that exists around the filled common-hole region by using a probability mask. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm performs much better than the conventional algorithms.