• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2007년도 공동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1-6
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• 2007

Two impedance imaging systems of multi-frequency electrical impedance tomography (MFEIT) and magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT) are described. MFEIT utilizes boundary measurements of current-voltage data at multiple frequencies to reconstruct cross-sectional images of a complex conductivity distribution (${\sigma}+i{\omega}{\varepsilon}$) inside the human body. The inverse problem in MFEIT is ill-posed due to the nonlinearity and low sensitivity between the boundary measurement and the complex conductivity. In MFEIT, we therefore focus on time- and frequency-difference imaging with a low spatial resolution and high temporal resolution. Multi-frequency time- and frequency-difference images in the frequency range of 10 Hz to 500 kHz are presented. In MREIT, we use an MRI scanner to measure an internal distribution of induced magnetic flux density subject to an injection current. This internal information enables us to reconstruct cross-sectional images of an internal conductivity distribution with a high spatial resolution. Conductivity image of a postmortem canine brain is presented and it shows a clear contrast between gray and white matters. Clinical applications for imaging the brain, breast, thorax, abdomen, and others are briefly discussed.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.649-655
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 효과적인 단일 영상 안개 제거 알고리즘을 제안한다. 잘 알려진 안개 제거 알고리즘인 dark channel prior(DCP)는 경계선 영역에서의 후광 현상(halo artifact) 및 결과 영상의 저대비를 초래하고 전달량 정제(refinement) 과정에서 긴 계산 시간을 필요로 한다. 이러한 문제들을 해결하기 위해 제안한 방법은 전달량을 추정할 때 DCP와 히스토그램 정보로 구성된 비용함수를 이용하고, 빠른 처리를 위해 다해상도 기법을 이용한다. 히스토그램 정보는 안개 제거 결과의 저대비 현상을 방지해주고, 에지 정보를 참고하는 다해상도 기법은 계산 시간을 감소시키고 후광 현상을 방지할 수 있다. 다수의 안개 영상에 대한 실험을 통해 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법들보다 효율적이고 우수함을 확인하였다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2013년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.8-11
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• 2013

We implement the foveation and frequency sensitivity feature of human visual system in discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. Resolution of human visual perception decays as distance from the eye-focused point, known as foveation property, and the middle frequency components give most pleasant image quality to human than the low and high frequency components, which is the frequency sensitivity property of human visual system. For satisfying the foveation property, we enhanced the local contrast at the focused regions and smoothed local contrast at the non-focused regions in the DCT domain without bringing the blocking and ringing artifacts. Moreover, the energies at each DCT frequency components is modified with various degree to fulfill the frequency sensitivity property. The proposed method is verified by the subjective and objective evaluations that it can the improve the human perceptual visual quality.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1814-1828
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• 2021

Low-light image enhancement is a key technique to overcome the quality degradation of photos taken under scotopic vision illumination conditions. The degradation includes low brightness, low contrast, and outstanding noise, which would seriously affect the vision of the human eye recognition ability and subsequent image processing. In this paper, we propose an approach based on deep learning and Retinex theory to enhance the low-light image, which includes image decomposition, illumination prediction, image reconstruction, and image optimization. The first three parts can reconstruct the enhanced image that suffers from low-resolution. To reduce the noise of the enhanced image and improve the image quality, a super-resolution algorithm based on the Laplacian pyramid network is introduced to optimize the image. The Laplacian pyramid network can improve the resolution of the enhanced image through multiple feature extraction and deconvolution operations. Furthermore, a combination loss function is explored in the network training stage to improve the efficiency of the algorithm. Extensive experiments and comprehensive evaluations demonstrate the strength of the proposed method, the result is closer to the real-world scene in lightness, color, and details. Besides, experiments also demonstrate that the proposed method with the single low-light image can achieve the same effect as multi-exposure image fusion algorithm and no ghost is introduced.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.113-121
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• 2013

본 논문은 학습 기반의 2D-FIR필터를 이용한 부화소 렌더링 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 크게 학습 단계와 합성 단계로 나뉜다. 학습 단계에서는 충분히 많은 수의 저해상도/고해상도의 영상 블록 쌍들을 이용하여 고해상도/저해상도 블록의 관계에 따른 합성 정보를 계산하고, 그 합성 정보를 담은 소위 사전을 생성한다. 합성 단계에서는 각 입력 영상에 대응하는 후보 블록을 상기 학습된 사전에서 찾는다. 탐색된 사전 내 합성 정보를 이용하여 부화소 레벨의 축소된 블록을 합성함으로써 최종 축소 영상을 얻는다. 한편, 영상 합성 시 디스플레이 장치의 RGB 패턴을 고려한 필터링을 통해 선명도를 향상시킨다. 모의 실험을 통해 제안 기법이 일반적인 영상축소 기법에 비해 흐림 효과, 엘리어싱 등의 화질 열화없이 고화질의 축소 영상을 생성함을 확인하였다.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.105-109
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• 2013

We report dry thermal development of negative resist polystyrene with low molecular weight. When developed on a hotplate at $350^{\circ}C$ for 30 min, polystyrene showed reasonable high contrast and resolution (30 nm half-pitch), but low sensitivity. Resist sensitivity was greatly improved at lower development temperatures, though at the cost of reduced contrast. In addition, we observed the thickness reduction due to thermal development was higher for larger remaining film thickness, implying the thermal development process is not just a surface process and the more volatile chains below the top surface may diffuse to the surface and get evaporated.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.580-585
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• 1988

In this paper, a low frequency acoustic microscope system has been built for the purpose of detecting subsurface defects in materials. The lateral resolution of acoustic microscope is studied and analyzed in order to evaluate that system performance. And a NDE technique is demonstrated by using this system. In the focused and defocused mode of operation, the acoustic microscope system showed in experiment that its lateral resolution was about 0.5 mm at a frequency of operation of 3MHz on a fused-quartz sample with seeded circular cracks ranged in size from 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm in diameter wihtin 1 mm of the surface. It also showed the acoustic image of 100 won coin with fine contrast.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.180-187
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• 2021

In this paper, we present a computational volumetric reconstruction method for three-dimensional (3D) photon counting imaging with enhanced visual quality when low-resolution elemental images are used under photon-starved conditions. In conventional photon counting imaging with low-resolution elemental images, it may be difficult to estimate the 3D scene correctly because of a lack of scene information. In addition, the reconstructed 3D images may be blurred because volumetric computational reconstruction has an averaging effect. In contrast, with our method, the pixels of the elemental image rearrangement technique and a Bayesian approach are used as the reconstruction and estimation methods, respectively. Therefore, our method can enhance the visual quality and estimation accuracy of the reconstructed 3D images because it does not have an averaging effect and uses prior information about the 3D scene. To validate our technique, we performed optical experiments and demonstrated the reconstruction results.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2018

We aims to perform comparative analysis on the dose area and image qualities varying on the slice thickness when using Automatic Exposure Controller (AEC) and manual exposure; thus, it wants to suggest a measure to reduce exposure dose by setting the optimal examination condition for each slice thickness. The method was to set the thickness as Thin, Normal, and Heavy adult and evaluate the dose area, spatial resolution, low contrast resolution, Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Contrast to Noise Ratio (CNR) according to each slice thickness by using the AEC and the manual exposure controller. The dose area according to each slice thickness all increased both when using the AEC and the manual exposure. However, the manual exposure showed lower dose area product than the AEC. Spatial resolutions and low contrast resolutions were all observed to be higher than the evaluation standard. Also, the SNR and CNR of each thickness all increased when using the AEC. When using the manual exposure, SNR and CNR increased in all cases other than the Heavy Adult. Consequently, the Thin and Normal Adult showed dose reduction about 2 times when using the manual exposure controller, while ensuring the image quality. Heavy adult was able to maintain good image quality by using AEC.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 웨이블릿 변환과 경계선 검출 필터를 이용하여 초음파영상의 다해상도 분해를 한 후 경계선 검출 필터링을 통해 초음파 영상의 화질을 개선하는 방안을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 잡음을 줄이고 에지를 강화하기 위해 웨이블릿 변환된 영상으로부터 얻어진 저해상도 영상에서 고해상도 영상으로 단계적으로 영역별 선택계수 조정과 방향성을 고려한 에지 필터링을 수행하였다. 이를 통해 반점영역의 픽셀은 웨이블릿 계수를 줄여 에지를 제외한 영역에서 선택적 저역통과 필터링 효과를 만들고, 에지에서는 접선 방향으로 평활화를 하여 연속성을 향상시키고, 법선 방향으로는 세선화를 하여 contrast를 높였다. 실험을 통해 단일해상도에서 비선형적 이방성의 확산모델을 이용한 필터링 방법과 웨이블릿 수축구조를 이용한 필터링 방법에 대해 비교하였다.