• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.5113-5119
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• 2010

Anthropometry has been broadly explored in various fields including automobile industry, home electronic appliances, medical appliances and sports goods with aiming at reaching satisfaction to consumer's need and efficiency. However, current technologies to measure a human body still have barriers in which the methods mostly seem to be contingent on expensive devices such as scanner and digital measuring instruments and to be directly touchable to the body when obtaining body size.. Therefore, in this paper, we present a general method to automatically extract size of body from a real body image acquired from a camera and to utilize it into recommend systems including clothing and bicycle fitting. At first, Haar-like features and AdaBoost algorithm are employed to detect body position. Then features of body can be recognized using AAM. Finally clothing and bicycle recommending modules have been implemented and experimented to validate the proposed method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.535-546
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• 2010

Digital images have undesired color casts due to various illumination conditions and intrinsic characteristics of cameras. Since the color casts in the images deteriorate performance of color representations, color correction is required for further analysis of images. In this paper, an algorithm for detection and removal of color casts is presented. The proposed algorithm consists of four steps: retrieving similar image using color by correlation, extraction of near neutral color regions, kernel density estimation, and removal of color casts. Ambiguities in near neutral color regions are excluded based on kernel density estimation by the color by correlation algorithm. The method determines whether there are color casts by chromaticity distributions in near neutral color regions, and removes color casts for color constancy. Experimental results suggest that the proposed method outperforms the gray world algorithm and the color by correlation algorithm.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.179-186
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• 2004

The findings of this study indicate that intangible cultural properties are worth preservation and transmission and should be considered as very important as tangible cultural properties. If the studies of intangible cultural properties are continued focusing on their characteristics and formational system, they can be expressed more properly by adding new interactive elements to database and expressive requisites. New techniques introduced in this study are believed to provide people with most reasonable and developmental motives for expression of the existing intangible cultural properties. Concerning Korea's cultural properties centered on intangible cultural properties, information construction should be made with a new idea of information based on database from the previous studies. The result will be able to set an important factor to give wide publicity to our cultural identity, which is currently shown in the process of background communication, and serve as a foothold to deliver exact information to our descendants. The intangible cultural properties are our people's mental cultural heritage resources. If museums or initiator groups, which are organized to spread cultural heritages, can use them as the subjects of exhibition through information construction and visualization, it will function to maximize the educational effect of transmitting our national mental world. The development of digital environment will provide the optimum conditions and tools making it possible to visualize intangible forms and ideas in a virtual cyber space. Given these viewpoints, steady studies and efforts for the improvement of Korea's cultural image should be made in the way of intangible cultural properties as well as tangible ones. They start from the country's accurate appreciation of cultural properties and are embodied in systematic adjustment and relationship between interdependent elements.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.82-85
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• 2014

It is helpful to use Intelligent Video Surveillance to replace and supplement the demerit which can possibly occur due to the mistake that can be made by human management. To accomplish this, it is essential that the system should digitalize image information from surveillance camera so that the system, itself, can be able to locate a object and to analyze the pattern of the object. Also, it is imperative that the system should have ability to operate a alarm and a entrance blocking system and to notify a situation to a security manager. Zooming a small object form a screen, however, requires a exact zooming ratio of the object and a shift of centric coordinate. In this paper, It is able to locate and observe closely a object from flexible background, regardless of the distance, by calculating a zooming ratio according to object moment, pan coordinate, and tilt coordinate.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.235-240
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• 2013

Fusiform aneurysms on the basilar artery (BA) trunk are rare. The microsurgical management of these aneurysms is difficult because of their deep location, dense collection of vital cranial nerves, and perforating arteries to the brain stem. Endovascular treatment is relatively easier and safer compared with microsurgical treatment. Selective occlusion of the aneurysmal sac with preservation of the parent artery is the endovascular treatment of choice. But, some cases, particularly giant or fusiform aneurysms, are unsuitable for selective sac occlusion. Therefore, endovascular coiling of the aneurysm with parent vessel occlusion is an alternative treatment option. In this situation, it is important to determine whether a patient can tolerate parent vessel occlusion without developing neurological deficits. We report a rare case of fusiform aneurysms in the BA trunk. An 18-year-old female suffered a headache for 2 weeks. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance image revealed a fusiform aneurysm of the lower basilar artery trunk. Digital subtraction angiography revealed a $7.1{\times}11.0$ mm-sized fusiform aneurysm located between vertebrovasilar junction and the anterior inferior cerebellar arteries. We had good clinical result using endovascular coiling of unruptured fusiform aneurysm on the lower BA trunk with parent vessel occlusion after confirming the tolerance of the patient by balloon test occlusion with induced hypotension and accompanied by neurophysiologic monitoring, transcranial Doppler and single photon emission computed tomography. In this study, we discuss the importance of preoperative meticulous studies for avoidance of delayed neurological deficit in the patient with fusiform aneurysm on lower basilar trunk.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.4 no.10
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• pp.731-740
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• 2003

Since motion estimation remove the redundant data to employ the temporal correlations between adjacent frames in a video sequence, it plays an important role in digital video coding. And in the block matching algorithm, search patterns of different shapes or sizes and the distribution of motion vectors have a large impact on both the searching speed and the image quality. In this paper, we propose a new fast block matching algorithm using the small-cross search pattern and the block-based gradient descent search pattern. Our algorithm first finds the motion vectors that are close to the center of search window using the small-cross search pattern, and then quickly finds the other motion vectors that are not close to the center of search window using the block-based gradient descent search pattern. Through experiments, compared with the block-based gradient descent search algorithm(BBGDS), the proposed search algorithm improves as high as 26-40% in terms of average number of search point per motion vector estimation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.125-129
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• 2005

디지털 영상물에 대한 저작권을 보호하기 위해 저작권자의 고유한 영상을 기존 디지털 영상에 삽입하는 것을 워터 마킹이라고 부른다. 삽입된 워터 마크가 효과적으로 사용되기 위해서는 영상의 다양한 왜곡이나 변형에도 강건할 수 있게 그 강도가 강해야 하며, 동시에 워터 마크가 삽입된 영상의 왜곡을 식별할 수 없게 그 강도를 약하게 하여야 한다. 비가시성을 유지한 채 가능한 한 강한 워터마크를 삽입하는 것은 워터마크를 적용 하는 데 매우 중요한 문제이다. 대부분의 워터 마크 알고리듬에서 삽입될 워터 마크의 강도는 원영상과 워터마크 영상간의 물리적인 차이에 근거하여 계산된 특정 값으로 고정한 채, 이 값을 모든 영상에 동일하게 적용하고 있다. 인간의 경우 자극의 탐지는 주변 영상의 밝기나 대비 등 여러 요소에 의해 변화되므로 디지털 영상에 삽입된 워터 마크의 탐지도 영상의 특징에 따라서 변화될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 원영상으로부터 세 수준의 밝기와 세 수준의 대비를 갖는 기본 영상들을 만든 후, 기본 영상에서 탐지될 수 있는 워터 마크의 강도가 변화되는 지를 살펴보았다. 연구 결과 영상의 밝기가 밝아질수록, 대비가 커질수록 지각될 수 있는 워터 마크의 강도는 더 커지는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 회귀분석을 통해 영상의 밝기와 대비에 근거하여 삽입될 워터 마크의 강도를 결정할 수 있는 회귀 식을 만들어 내었다. 이러한 회귀 식은 주어진 영상의 통계 치에 근거하여 워터 마크 강도를 적응적으로 변화시킬 수 있는 알고리듬을 개발하는 데 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.193-198
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• 2010

Objectives : The directional supplementation and draining and twirling supplementation and draining have been used widely in oriental medical clinic. The aim of this study is to compare the effects between directional supplementation and draining method and twirling supplementation and draining. Methods : Clinical experiment was performed with 21 students of oriental medical college of Daegu Haany university. Acupuncture was applied at left Hapgok (LI4) with directional supplementation and twirling supplementation respectively, and the thermographic change was checked using DITI (Digital Infrared Thermographic Image). Results and Conclusion : A significant thermographic change was observed at bilateral Igan (LI2), Yanggye (LI5), Gokji (LI11), and Yeonghyang (LI20) in directional supplementation. A significant thermographic change was observed at bilateral Igan (LI2), Yanggye (LI5), and Yeonghyang (LI20) in twirling supplementation. Based on the thermographic change, it could be demonstrated that directional supplementation is more effective that twirling supplementation.

• The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.106-110
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• 2014

Objectives : To report a case of the treatment of primary hypertension by Oryung-san (五苓散: Wulingsan in Chinese, Goreisan in Japanese) monotherapy. Methods : The blood pressure (BP) fluctuation was checked of a woman who had sudden BP elevation without a history of hypertension treatment. There were no specific history of disease and results for the laboratory examination and image diagnosis including MRI. The woman was diagnosed with primary hypertension and she was given supple of Oryung-san extract (Hanpoong Pharm Co.) 3 g, three times a day for three months. The BP has been checked with digital sphygmomanometer (HEM-7111, Omron Japan) in brachial artery at home. Results and Conclusions : The patient had had stable BP since three weeks after Oryung-san treatment was initiated. There were no subjective symptoms, then Oryung-san medication also had quit after three months treatments. This shows some possibility to control hypertension using Oryung-san, which resembles thiazide that acts on the distal convoluted tubule and inhibit sodium-chloride reabsorption. For further evaluation of the effectiveness, well-designed randomized controlled trials should be undertaken.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.65-74
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• 2014

This study extracts characteristics of signal by wavelet transform to prove that the Compton scattering, occurred by changed the energy, influenced a picture. We also analyzed the extracted data and evaluated how much the picture of scatter-rays was affected by a change of tube voltage. For this study, we wrote a program with MatLap which is engineering tool and evaluated with the program on variation of scattered-rays due to increased tube voltage. The evaluation result shows both CR and DR have frequency changes of high frequency area by tube voltage variations and it proved that Compton scattering influences the picture. In conclusion, according to this study indicates that DR is more sensitive to radiation with high energy than CR. Therefore, the research on DR detector needs to be advanced as actual condition of clinical setting is being changed to DR circumstance gradually. From the result of this study, we expect that assessment method of the image quality using MatLab Tool becomes the official assessment method and very useful method.