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A Fast Algorithm of the Belief Propagation Stereo Method (신뢰전파 스테레오 기법의 고속 알고리즘)

  • Choi, Young-Seok;Kang, Hyun-Soo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.45 no.5
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2008
  • The belief propagation method that has been studied recently yields good performance in disparity extraction. The method in which a target function is modeled as an energy function based on Markov random field(MRF), solves the stereo matching problem by finding the disparity to minimize the energy function. MRF models provide robust and unified framework for vision problem such as stereo and image restoration. the belief propagation method produces quite correct results, but it has difficulty in real time implementation because of higher computational complexity than other stereo methods. To relieve this problem, in this paper, we propose a fast algorithm of the belief propagation method. Energy function consists of a data term and a smoothness tern. The data term usually corresponds to the difference in brightness between correspondences, and smoothness term indicates the continuity of adjacent pixels. Smoothness information is created from messages, which are assigned using four different message arrays for the pixel positions adjacent in four directions. The processing time for four message arrays dominates 80 percent of the whole program execution time. In the proposed method, we propose an algorithm that dramatically reduces the processing time require in message calculation, since the message.; are not produced in four arrays but in a single array. Tn the last step of disparity extraction process, the messages are called in the single integrated array and this algorithm requires 1/4 computational complexity of the conventional method. Our method is evaluated by comparing the disparity error rates of our method and the conventional method. Experimental results show that the proposed method remarkably reduces the execution time while it rarely increases disparity error.

Hardware Design of SURF-based Feature extraction and description for Object Tracking (객체 추적을 위한 SURF 기반 특이점 추출 및 서술자 생성의 하드웨어 설계)

  • Do, Yong-Sig;Jeong, Yong-Jin
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.50 no.5
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    • pp.83-93
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    • 2013
  • Recently, the SURF algorithm, which is conjugated for object tracking system as part of many computer vision applications, is a well-known scale- and rotation-invariant feature detection algorithm. The SURF, due to its high computational complexity, there is essential to develop a hardware accelerator in order to be used on an IP in embedded environment. However, the SURF requires a huge local memory, causing many problems that increase the chip size and decrease the value of IP in ASIC and SoC system design. In this paper, we proposed a way to design a SURF algorithm in hardware with greatly reduced local memory by partitioning the algorithms into several Sub-IPs using external memory and a DMA. To justify validity of the proposed method, we developed an example of simplified object tracking algorithm. The execution speed of the hardware IP was about 31 frame/sec, the logic size was about 74Kgate in the 30nm technology with 81Kbytes local memory in the embedded system platform consisting of ARM Cortex-M0 processor, AMBA bus(AHB-lite and APB), DMA and a SDRAM controller. Hence, it can be used to the hardware IP of SoC Chip. If the image processing algorithm akin to SURF is applied to the method proposed in this paper, it is expected that it can implement an efficient hardware design for target application.

Body-Images and Visualization Technologies in the Field of Plastic Surgery: Making Scientific Objects, Making Scientific Disciplines (성형외과의 몸-이미지와 시각화 기술: 과학적 대상 만들기, 과학적 분과 만들기)

  • Leem, So-Yeon
    • Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.89-121
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    • 2011
  • The majority of previous researchers on body management practices including plastic surgery has agreed that there is a strong connection between social demands of plastic surgery and public exposures of beautiful body-images, which this research intends to analyze further. This study, on the one hand, discovers how body-images are produced and consumed through clinical practices of plastic surgery, particularly, surgeon-patient consultation processes based on the researcher's participant observation on a plastic surgery clinic in Korea, and shows how visualization technologies are mobilized to reconstruct not only boundaries of patients' bodies but also those of medical disciplines by viewing plastic surgery practices as knowledge production activities, on the other hand. While revealing that surgeon-patient consultation is the process to transform patient's bodies to "scientific" objects and visualization technologies have been made to help plastic surgeons to make their disciplines "scientific" ones, this article also pays attention to complicated effects of new imaging technology beyond a mere means of "scientification" of plastic surgery.

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Study of Sensor Technology Analysis and Site Application Model for 3D-based Global Modeling of Construction Field (건설 시공현장의 3D기반 광대역 모델링을 위한 Sensor 기술 분석과 향후 현장적용 모델 연구)

  • Kwon, Hyuk-Do;Koh, Min-Hyeok;Yoon, Su-Won;Kwon, Soon-Wook;Chin, Sang-Yoon;Kim, Yea-Sang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.938-942
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    • 2007
  • The importance of process improvement under construction has arisen from recent issue, lower productivity in the construction site. The various 3D modeling program is utilized in the procedure of construction as an alternative solution. However, it's still shortage of the consideration about a specific technical application. The purpose of the study in this paper is helpful to improve the productivity of construction site using 3D realization of constructing place as one of extensive modeling technologies, which leads to not only efficient management of construction site allowing people to check the real time situation in the place but also the revitalization of information flow about building process control and prgress, Therefore, I research into modeling algorithm and extensive construction site realization technology. 3D realization of building place would reduce the safety concerns by providing the real time information about construction site, and it could help to access easily to similar project through collecting and appling the database of sites. Furthermore it can be an opportunity to develop the procedure of production in construction industry and to upgrade the image of this field.

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2D/3D Visual Optical Inspection System for Quad Chip (Quad Chip 외관 불량 검사를 위한 2D/3D 광학 시스템)

  • Han, Chang Ho;Lee, Sangjoon;Park, Chul-Geon;Lee, Ji Yeon;Ryu, Young-Kee;Ko, Kuk Won
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.684-692
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    • 2016
  • In the manufacturing process of the LQFP/TQFP (Low-profile Quad Flat Package/Thin Quad Flat Package), the requirement of a 3 dimensional inspection is increasing rapidly and a 3D inspection of the shape of a chip has become an important report of quality control. This study developed a 3 dimensional measurement system based on PMP (Phase Measuring Profilometry) for an inspection of the LQFP/TQFP chip and image processing algorithms. The defects of the LQFP/TQFP chip were classified according to the dimensions. The 2 dimensional optical system was designed by the dorm illumination to achieve constant light distribution, In the 3 dimensional optical system, PZT was used for moving 90 degree in phase. The problem of 2 ambiguity was solved from the measured moir? pattern using the ambiguity elimination algorithm that finds the point of ambiguity and refines the phase value. The proposed 3D measurement system was evaluated experimentally.

A Study on u-CCTV Fire Prevention System Development of System and Fire Judgement (u-CCTV 화재 감시 시스템 개발을 위한 시스템 및 화재 판별 기술 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Hyuk;Lim, Il-Kwon;Li, Qigui;Park, So-A;Kim, Myung-Jin;Lee, Jae-Kwang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.463-466
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, CCTV based fire surveillance system should aim to development. Advantages and Disadvantages analyzed of Existing sensor-based fire surveillance system and video-based fire surveillance system. To national support U-City, U-Home, U-Campus, etc, spread the ubiquitous environment appropriate to fire surveillance system model and a fire judgement technology. For this study, Microsoft LifeCam VX-1000 using through the capturing images and analyzed for apple and tomato, Finally we used H.264. The client uses the Linux OS with ARM9 S3C2440 board was manufactured, the client's role is passed to the server to processed capturing image. Client and the server is basically a 1:1 video communications. So to multiple receive to video multicast support will be a specification. Is fire surveillance system designed for multiple video communication. Video data from the RGB format to YUV format and transfer and fire detection for Y value. Y value is know movement data. The red color of the fire is determined to detect and calculate the value of Y at the fire continues to detect the movement of flame.

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Visual Classification of Wood Knots Using k-Nearest Neighbor and Convolutional Neural Network (k-Nearest Neighbor와 Convolutional Neural Network에 의한 제재목 표면 옹이 종류의 화상 분류)

  • Kim, Hyunbin;Kim, Mingyu;Park, Yonggun;Yang, Sang-Yun;Chung, Hyunwoo;Kwon, Ohkyung;Yeo, Hwanmyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.47 no.2
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    • pp.229-238
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    • 2019
  • Various wood defects occur during tree growing or wood processing. Thus, to use wood practically, it is necessary to objectively assess their quality based on the usage requirement by accurately classifying their defects. However, manual visual grading and species classification may result in differences due to subjective decisions; therefore, computer-vision-based image analysis is required for the objective evaluation of wood quality and the speeding up of wood production. In this study, the SIFT+k-NN and CNN models were used to implement a model that automatically classifies knots and analyze its accuracy. Toward this end, a total of 1,172 knot images in various shapes from five domestic conifers were used for learning and validation. For the SIFT+k-NN model, SIFT technology was used to extract properties from the knot images and k-NN was used for the classification, resulting in the classification with an accuracy of up to 60.53% when k-index was 17. The CNN model comprised 8 convolution layers and 3 hidden layers, and its maximum accuracy was 88.09% after 1205 epoch, which was higher than that of the SIFT+k-NN model. Moreover, if there is a large difference in the number of images by knot types, the SIFT+k-NN tended to show a learning biased toward the knot type with a higher number of images, whereas the CNN model did not show a drastic bias regardless of the difference in the number of images. Therefore, the CNN model showed better performance in knot classification. It is determined that the wood knot classification by the CNN model will show a sufficient accuracy in its practical applicability.

A Study on Xieyi (寫意) Ink Orchid Paintings by Sochi Heo Ryun (소치 허련(1808~1893)의 사의(寫意) 묵란화)

  • Kang, Yeong-ju
    • Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.170-189
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    • 2019
  • Sochi Heo Ryun (小癡 許鍊, 1808-1893) was a literary artist of Chinese paintings of the Southern School during the late Joseon dynasty and the founder of paintings in the literary artist's style of Jindo County in South Jeolla Province. He was also a professional literary artist who acquired both learning and painting techniques under Choui (a Zen priest) and Kim Jeong-hee's teachings. Heo Ryun's landscape paintings were influenced by Kim Jung -hee. However, his ink orchid paintings, which he began producing in his later years, were not related to the 'Ink Orchid Paintings of Chusa (秋史蘭)'. His ink orchid paintings as a whole drew attention as he followed the old methods but still used rough brush strokes . Ordinary orchids were drawn based on Confucian content. However, his Jebal (題跋) and seal (印章) contain not only Confucian characters but also Taoist and Buddhist meanings. Therefore, it is possible to guess his direction of life and his private world of suffering. Ryun's ink orchid paintings reflected a variety of philosophies and aesthetic sensibilities. He went through a process of stylistic change over time and formed an 'Ink Orchid Painted Thought' in later life. The main characteristic of Sochi's ink orchid paintings is that he formed his own special methods for orchid paintings by mimicking the Manuals of Paintings. He drew orchids with his fingers in the beginning. Then, Jeongseop, Lee Ha-eung, Cho Hee-ryong, and others developed an organic relationship with the painting style of ink orchid paintings. Then in later years, orchid paintings reached the point of 'Picture Painted Thought (寫意畵)'. The above consideration shows that ink orchid paintings, which he produced until the end of his life, were the beginning of his mental vision and will to realize the image of a literal artist.

Polymer Eyeglass Lens with Ultraviolet & High-Energy Visible Light Blocking Function for Eye Health (자외선 및 고에너지 가시광 차단 기능을 갖는 눈 건강을 위한 폴리머 안경렌즈)

  • Kim, Ki-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.10-15
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    • 2020
  • Ultraviolet rays, which have wavelengths smaller than 400 nm, are very harmful to the eyes. Recently, high-energy visible light was also revealed to be harmful to retinal cells. Therefore, polymer eyeglass lenses that can block UV and high-energy visible light are needed for eye health. In this study, high-refractive-index polymer eyeglass lens, n=1.67, were manufactured using the injection-mold method with the m-xylene diisocyanate monomer, 2,3-bis((2-mercaptoethyl)thio)-1-propanethiol monomer, benzotriazole UV absorber, release of alkyl phosphoric ester, dye mixture of CI solvent violet 13, and catalyst of dibutyltin dichloride mixture. A multi-layer anti-reflection coating was applied to manufactured polymer eyeglass lenses for both sides using an E-beam evaporation system. The optical properties of the manufactured lenses with the UV and high-energy visible light-blocking function were analyzed by UV-visible spectrophotometry. As a result, the polymer eyeglass lens with a UV absorber of 0.5 wt. % blocked 99% of UV and high-energy visible light shorter than 411 nm. The average transmittance of the polymer eyeglass lens with a UV absorber of 0.5wt.% was 97.9% in the range of 460 ~ 660 nm for photopic eye sensitivity higher than 10%. Therefore, clear image acquisition in photopic vision is possible.

Development of online drone control management information platform (온라인 드론방제 관리 정보 플랫폼 개발)

  • Lim, Jin-Taek;Lee, Sang-Beom
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.193-198
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    • 2021
  • Recently, interests in the 4th industry have increased the level of demand for pest control by farmers in the field of rice farming, and the interests and use of agricultural pest control drones. Therefore, the diversification of agricultural control drones that spray high-concentration pesticides and the increase of agricultural exterminators due to the acquisition of national drone certifications are rapidly developing the agricultural sector in the drone industry. In addition, as detailed projects, an effective platform is required to construct large-scale big data due to pesticide management, exterminator management, precise spraying, pest control work volume classification, settlement, soil management, prediction and monitoring of damages by pests, etc. and to process the data. However, studies in South Korea and other countries on development of models and programs to integrate and process the big data such as data analysis algorithms, image analysis algorithms, growth management algorithms, AI algorithms, etc. are insufficient. This paper proposed an online drone pest control management information platform to meet the needs of managers and farmers in the agricultural field and to realize precise AI pest control based on the agricultural drone pest control processor using drones and presented foundation for development of a comprehensive management system through empirical experiments.