• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2008

본 논문은 모바일 단말기에 탑재된 카메라를 이용하여 정지영상을 획득할 때 발생할 수 있는 blur현상을 3축 가속도 센서를 이용하여 실시간 보정 할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. Blur현상은 획득한 이미지에서 발생하는 번짐 효과이다. 소형의 모바일 단말기는 사용자의 미세한 손 떨림에도 크게 흔들릴 수 있기 때문에 blur현상이 크게 나타나며, 이를 적절하게 보정할 수 있는 알고리즘이 필요하다. 본 논문에선 3축 가속도센서를 진자운동에 적용하여 출력결과의 신뢰성을 확보하였고, blur현상을 Uniform 분포와 Gaussian 분포로 모델링하였다. 실험을 통하여 실제 blur 현상이 Non-Gaussian 형태로 모델링됨을 확인하였고, 이 blur모델의 역과정인 deblurring 특성함수를 설계하였다. 이 특성함수에 3축 가속도센서에서 발생하는 미세한 떨림 정보를 적용하여 실험 이미지를 deblurring한 결과, 이미지 blur현상을 적절하게 보정할 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표논문집
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• pp.209-213
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• 2006

In this paper describes image enhancement technique using deconvolution processing for ultrasonic nondestructive testing. . When flaws are detected for B-scan or C-scan, blurring effect which is caused by the moving intervals of transducer degrades the quality of images. In addition, acquisited images suffer form speckle noise which is caused by the ultrasonic components reflected from the grain boundary of material [1,2]. The deconvolution technique can restore sharp peak value or clean image from blurring signal or image. This processing is applied to C-scan image obtained from known specimen. Experimental results show that the deconvolution processing contributes to get improved the quality of C-scan images.

• 대한방사선치료학회지
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• 제35권
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• pp.41-51
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• 2023

목 적: 본 연구는 폐암 환자의 정위체부방사선치료 시(Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, SBRT) 기준선(Baseline) 변화에 따른 3D-CBCT(Cone Beam Computed-Tomography)와 Gated-CBCT의 영상 품질(Image quality)을 비교 분석하여 호흡에 따른 움직임의 보정에 유용한 CBCT 촬영 방법을 찾고자 한다. 대상 및 방법: QUASAR^TM(Modus Medical Devices Inc, Canada) 팬텀에 지름이 3 cm인 고체 종양 물질(Solid Tumor)을 삽입하여 팬텀의 속도를 주기 3 sec, 최대 진폭 20 mm 로 4DCT(4-Dimentional Computed-Tomography)를 촬영하였다. 전산화 치료계획시스템 Eclipse^TM을 이용하여 고체 종양 물질에 육안적 종양용적(Gross Target Volume, GTV)을 윤곽 묘사하였다. Truebeam STx^TM을 이용해 4DCT 촬영 시와 동일하게 설정한 후, 기준선 변화가 1 mm, 3 mm, 5 mm인 호흡 패턴을 팬텀에 입력하여 3D-CBCT(Spotlight, Full)와 Gated-CBCT(Spotlight, Full) 영상을 5회 반복하여 획득하였다. 획득된 영상을 4DCT 영상을 기준으로 신호대잡음비(Signal-to-Noise Ratio, SNR), 대조대잡음비(Contrast-to-Noise Ratio, CNR), 종양 체적 길이(Tumor Volume Length) 및 모션 블러링 비(Motion Blurring Ratio, MBR)를 측정하여 비교하였다. 결 과: Spotlight Gated-CBCT 영상이 기준선 변화에 따른 신호대잡음비가 평균 13.30±0.10%, 대조대잡음비가 평균 7.78±0.16%, 종양 체적 길이가 평균 3.55 ± 0.17%, 모션 블러링 비가 평균 1.18 ± 0.06%로 Spotlight 3D-CBCT보다 우수한 값을 보였다. 또한, Full Gated-CBCT 영상이 기준선 변화에 따른 신호대잡음비가 평균 12.80 ± 0.11%, 대조대잡음비가 평균 7.60 ± 0.11%, 종양 체적 길이가 평균 3.54 ± 0.16%, 모션 블러링 비가 평균 1.18 ± 0.05%로 Full 3D-CBCT보다 우수한 값을 보였다. 결 론: 3D-CBCT 촬영 영상과 비교하여 Gated-CBCT 촬영 영상이 기준선 변화에 따른 영상 품질이 우수한 값을 보였으며, 호흡으로 인한 모션 블러링 인공물(Motion Blurring Artifacts)의 영향이 적은 것을 확인했다. 따라서 단기간에 고선량을 전달하는 폐암의 정위체부방사선치료 시 불규칙한 호흡으로 인한 기준선 변화가 발생하는 경우 Gated-CBCT를 이용해 영상유도(Image Guide)를 하는 것이 유용하다고 판단된다.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제35S권9호
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• pp.95-103
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 거리영상과 발기영상의 fusion을 이용한 영상분할을 제안한다. Bayes 이론을 기반으로 하여 Markov random field (MRF)로 선험적인 정보를 모델링한다. 거리영상과 밝기영상에서 추출한 특징을 이용하여 maximum a posteriori (MAP) 추정기를 구성한다. 거리영상에서 물체는 국부적인 평면으로 근사되어 각 점마다 평면 계수를 추정해 계수 공간을 구성한다. 밝기영상에서는 ${\alpha}$ 트림드 (${\alpha}$-trimmed) 분산이 밝기특성을 구성한다. 각 공간상의 특징을 에지에 대한 likelihood를 설정하여 구성된 MAP 추정기를 최적화함으로써 영상을 분할한다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 구조가 그림자, 잡음 그리고 광원의 blurring에 관계없이 영상을 잘 분할한 것을 보였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.17-23
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• 1997

A 3-D vision system is developed to evaluate blanks' line up and monitor gap and thickness difference between blanks in tailored blank welding system. A structured lighting method is used for 3-D vision recognition. Images of sheared portion in blanks are irregular according to roughness of blank surface, shape of sheared geometry and blurring. It is difficult to get accurate and reliable informations in the case of using binary image processing or contour detection techniques in real time for such images. We propoe a new energy integration method robust to blurring and changes of illumination. The method is computationally simple, and uses feature restoration concept, different to another digital image restoration methods which aim image itself restoration and may be used in conventional applications using structured line lighting technique. Experimental results show this system measuring repeatability is .+-. pixel for gap and thickness difference in static and dynamic tests. The data are expected to be useful for preview gap control.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.631-643
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• 2016

Due to the block-based discrete cosine transform (BDCT), JPEG compressed images usually exhibit blocking artifacts. When the bit rates are very low, blocking artifacts will seriously affect the image's visual quality. A bilateral filter has the features for edge-preserving when it smooths images, so we propose an adaptive-weighted bilateral filter based on the features. In this paper, an image-deblocking scheme using this kind of adaptive-weighted bilateral filter is proposed to remove and reduce blocking artifacts. Two parameters of the proposed adaptive-weighted bilateral filter are adaptive-weighted so that it can avoid over-blurring unsmooth regions while eliminating blocking artifacts in smooth regions. This is achieved in two aspects: by using local entropy to control the level of filtering of each single pixel point within the image, and by using an improved blind image quality assessment (BIQA) to control the strength of filtering different images whose blocking artifacts are different. It is proved by our experimental results that our proposed image-deblocking scheme provides good performance on eliminating blocking artifacts and can avoid the over-blurring of unsmooth regions.

• 치과방사선
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.71-80
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• 1984

The author has studied each landmark for successful interpretation in the radiograph of the head that have the complex anatomic structures, using panoramic radiograph, postero-anterior cephalometric radiograph, lateral cephalometric radiograph, Waters' radiograph of the skull. The anatomic structures of the human dry skull attached by radiopaque materials were taken radiographs and analysed comparatively. The results were as follows: 1. The overall anatomic structures of the mandible showed sharp images in the panoramic radiograph than other radiographs with relatively less distortion, superimposition, blurring of the image. 2. The anatomic structures were situated on sagital plane of the skull showed blurred images in panoramic radiograph than other radiographs. 3. The anatomic structures which were situated on the basal portion of the skull showed blurred and secondary images in the panoramic radiograph than other radiographs. 4. In the panoramic radiograph, the lower 3rd portion of the orbit appeared to be superimposed with the superior portion of the maxillary sinus and the medial and lateral surface of the nasal cavity showed extensively superimposition of the orbit and the maxillary sinus, which images showed blurring. 5. The inferior surface and posterior surface of maxillary sinus showed to be good image in the panoramic radiograph than other radiographs. 6. In the panoramic radiograph, line of maxillary bone between lateral pterygoid plate, line of maxillary bone between zygomatic bone showed distinct image with another structures.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.250-255
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• 2012

Face recognition has wide applications in security and surveillance systems as well as in robot vision and machine interfaces. Conventional challenges in face recognition include pose, illumination, and expression, and face recognition at a distance involves additional challenges because long-distance images are often degraded due to poor focusing and motion blurring. This study investigates the effectiveness of applying photon-counting linear discriminant analysis (Pc-LDA) to face recognition in harsh environments. A related technique, Fisher linear discriminant analysis, has been found to be optimal, but it often suffers from the singularity problem because the number of available training images is generally much smaller than the number of pixels. Pc-LDA, on the other hand, realizes the Fisher criterion in high-dimensional space without any dimensionality reduction. Therefore, it provides more invariant solutions to image recognition under distortion and degradation. Two decision rules are employed: one is based on Euclidean distance; the other, on normalized correlation. In the experiments, the asymptotic equivalence of the photon-counting method to the Fisher method is verified with simulated data. Degraded facial images are employed to demonstrate the robustness of the photon-counting classifier in harsh environments. Four types of blurring point spread functions are applied to the test images in order to simulate long-distance acquisition. The results are compared with those of conventional Eigen face and Fisher face methods. The results indicate that Pc-LDA is better than conventional facial recognition techniques.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2529-2543
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• 2019

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image can link with the microscopic world through reflecting interaction between electrons and materials. The SEM images are easily subject to blurring distortions during the imaging process. Inspired by the fact that dark channel prior captures the changes to blurred SEM images caused by the blur process, we propose a method to evaluate the SEM images sharpness based on the dark channel prior. A SEM image database is first established with mean opinion score collected as ground truth. For the quality assessment of the SEM image, the dark channel map is generated. Since blurring is typically characterized by the spread of edge, edge of dark channel map is extracted. Then noise is removed by an edge-preserving filter. Finally, the maximum gradient and the average gradient of image are combined to generate the final sharpness score. The experimental results on the SEM blurred image database show that the proposed algorithm outperforms both the existing state-of-the-art image sharpness metrics and the general-purpose no-reference quality metrics.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.155-161
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• 2009

SAR영상의 가장 큰 문제점은 경계선 부근에서 스패클(Speckle)잡음을 어떻게 줄이느냐 하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 방법을 이용하여 경계선을 보존할 수 있는 효과적인 필터를 개발하고자 한다. 스패클 잡음을 줄이면서 에지 영역에 대한 블러링 없는 영상을 추출하기 위하여 웨이브렛 기반의 sigma 필터를 적용하였다. 실험 결과 에지정보에 대한 블러링을 줄인 출력 영상을 구성하였다. 제안한 방법을 미디언 필터와 비교한 결과, 스패클 잡음을 효과적으로 제거한 우수한 영상을 얻을 수 있었다.