• 대한원격탐사학회지
• /
• 제22권1호
• /
• pp.25-40
• /
• 2006

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from satellites provides the opportunity to regularly incorporate microwave information into forest classification. Radar backscatter can improve classification accuracy, and SAR interferometry could provide improved thematic information through the use of coherence. This research examined the potential of using multi-temporal JERS-l SAR (L band) backscatter information and interferometry in distinguishing forest classes of mountainous areas in the Northeastern U.S. for future forest mapping and monitoring. Raw image data from a pair of images were processed to produce coherence and backscatter data. To improve the geometric characteristics of both the coherence and the backscatter images, this study used the interferometric techniques. It was necessary to radiometrically correct radar backscatter to account for the effect of topography. This study developed a simplified method of radiometric correction for SAR imagery over the hilly terrain, and compared the forest-type discriminatory powers of the radar backscatter, the multi-temporal backscatter, the coherence, and the backscatter combined with the coherence. Statistical analysis showed that the method of radiometric correction has a substantial potential in separating forest types, and the coherence produced from an interferometric pair of images also showed a potential for distinguishing forest classes even though heavily forested conditions and long time separation of the images had limitations in the ability to get a high quality coherence. The method of combining the backscatter images from two different dates and the coherence in a multivariate approach in identifying forest types showed some potential. However, multi-temporal analysis of the backscatter was inconclusive because leaves were not the primary scatterers of a forest canopy at the L-band wavelengths. Further research in forest classification is suggested using diverse band width SAR imagery and fusing with other imagery source.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
• /
• 제19권6호
• /
• pp.465-478
• /
• 2003

이 논문은 다중시기 원격탐사 화상의 무감독 변화탐지를 위해 자동으로 임계치를 결정하는 두가지 방법을 제안하였다. 두 방법 모두 3성분 가우시안 혼합 확률 모델의 파라미터 추정과 베이지안 최소 오차 이론을 이용한 임계치 결정의 두 단계로 이루어져 있다. 첫 번째 방법은 Bruzzone and Prieto (2000)의 방법을 확장 적용한 것으로, 혼합 확률 모델의 파라미터 추정에 기대최대화 기법을 적용한다. 두 번째 제안 방법은 연속적으로 임계치 결정과 혼합 확률 모델의 파라미터 추정을 수행한다. 모의 화상과 KOMPSAT-1 EOC 화상에 적용한 결과, 제안한 두 기법 모두 효율적으로 모델 파라미터를 추정할 수 있었으며, 최소 오차를 보이는 임계치에 근사한 값을 추출할 수 있었다.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
• /
• 제21권2호
• /
• pp.14-23
• /
• 2023

The pressure difference across stenotic blood vessels is a commonly used clinical metric for diagnosing many cardiovascular diseases. At present, most clinical pressure measurements rely solely on invasive catheterization. In this study, we propose a novel method for non-invasive pressure estimation using the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and a 3D multi-path integration approach. We verify spatio-temporal convergence on an in-silico dataset of a cylindrical straight pipe phantom with steady and pulsatile flow fields. We then evaluate the proposed method on an in vitro dataset of reconstructed control, pre-operative, and post-operative carotid artery cases acquired from 4D flow MRI. The performance of our method is compared to existing approaches based on the pressure Poisson equation and work-energy relative pressure. The results demonstrate the proposed method's high accuracy, robustness to spatio-temporal subsampling, and reduced sensitivity to noise, highlighting its great potential for non-invasive pressure estimation.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
• /
• 제8권6호
• /
• pp.844-855
• /
• 2005

This paper proposes a human action recognition scheme for Intelligent Web Browser. Based on the principle that a human action can be defined as a combination of multiple articulation movements, the inference of stochastic grammars is applied to recognize each action. Human actions in 3 dimensional (3D) world coordinate are measured, quantized and made into two sets of 4-chain-code for xy and zy projection planes, consequently they are appropriate for applying the stochastic grammar inference method. We confirm this method by experiments, that various physical actions can be classified correctly against a set of real world 3D temporal data. The result revealed a comparatively successful achievement of $93.8\%$ recognition rate through the experiments of 8 movements of human head and $84.9\%$ recognition rate of 60 movements of human upper body. We expect that this scheme can be used for human-machine interaction commands in a web browser.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
• /
• 제8권4호
• /
• pp.441-449
• /
• 2007

동영상 부호화에서 움직임 추정은 참조 프레임으로부터 현재 프레임의 화소를 추정하는 처리로서 예측 화질과 부호화 시간에 직접적인 영향을 미친다. 본 논문은 고속 움직임 추정을 위해 시공간 움직임 활동도를 이용한 적응형 계층 육각 탐색에 관한 것이다. 제안된 방법은 현재의 매크로블록에 시공간적으로 인접한 매크로블록들의 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 시공간 움직임 활동도를 정의한다. 이렇게 정의한 시공간 움직임 활동도가 낮을 경우 기존의 적응형 육각 탐색을 수행하고, 그렇지 않을 경우, 웨이블렛 변환의 다단계 저주파 부영상들로 구성된 다단계 계층 공간상에서 계층 육각 탐색을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 서로 다른 움직임 특성을 갖는 복수의 동영상 시퀀스들에 대한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과를 토대로 예측 화질과 연산 시간 측면에서 제안된 방법의 성능을 분석.평가하였다. 실험 결과는 제안된 방법이 작은 움직임 탐색과 큰 움직임 탐색에 모두 적합함을 보여주고 있다. 제안된 방법은 고속 움직임 탐색이 가능한 적응형 육각 탐색의 장점을 유지하면서도 시공간 움직임 활동도가 높은 비디오 시퀀스에서 야기되는 국부 최소 문제를 적응적으로 경감할 수 있었다.

• 전자공학회논문지
• /
• 제52권1호
• /
• pp.111-120
• /
• 2015

HDR(high dynamic range) 영상 생성은 실세계의 고명암비 영상을 재현하는 방법이다. Exposure fusion은 여러 HDR 영상 생성방법 중 한 가지로 true-HDR 영상을 생성하지 않고, 바로 pseudo-HDR 영상을 생성하는 방법이다. 그러나 노출이 다른 여러 입력영상들 중에서 이동하는 물체가 존재하면 잔상 효과가 발생하여 pseudo-HDR 영상의 화질 열화를 가져온다. 이러한 단점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 시간 영역에서 일치성 평가를 통한 무 잔상 exposure fusion을 제안하였다. 먼저 다중 역치 및 밝기를 이용한 비트맵과 색도 일관성 맵을 이용하여 각 입력 영상들간의 일치성을 평가하였고, 이를 시간 영역 가중치 맵으로 나타내었다. 그리고 기존 exposure fusion에서의 공간 영역 가중치 맵과 결합하여 최종 가중치 맵을 생성하였다. 마지막으로 각각 입력 영상에 최종 가중치 맵을 적용한 후, 합성하여 잔상이 제거된 pseudo-HDR 영상을 생성하였다. 실험을 통해 제안된 방법의 pseudo-HDR이 기존의 방법보다 잔상이 더 많이 제거되어 화질이 개선됨을 확인하였고, 객관적인 평가 방법인 기준 영상 대비 오차도 더 적게 나타남을 확인하였다.

• 한국측량학회지
• /
• 제29권5호
• /
• pp.449-457
• /
• 2011

As automated image processing techniques have been required in multi-temporal/multi-sensor geospatial image applications, use of automated but highly invariant image matching technique has been a critical ingredient. Note that there is high possibility of geometric and spectral differences between multi-temporal/multi-sensor geospatial images due to differences in sensor, acquisition geometry, season, and weather, etc. Among many image matching techniques, the SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) is a popular method since it has been recognized to be very robust to diverse imaging conditions. Therefore, the SIFT has high potential for the geospatial image processing. This paper presents a performance test results of the SIFT on geospatial imagery by simulating various image differences such as shear, scale, rotation, intensity, noise, and spectral differences. Since a geospatial image application often requires a number of good matching points over the images, the number of matching points was analyzed with its matching positional accuracy. The test results show that the SIFT is highly invariant but could not overcome significant image differences. In addition, it guarantees no outlier-free matching such that it is highly recommended to use outlier removal techniques such as RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus).

• 대한원격탐사학회지
• /
• 제29권6호
• /
• pp.611-619
• /
• 2013

Although the need of crop production has increased in Mongolia, crop cultivation is very limited because of the harsh climatic and topographic conditions. Crop lands are sparsely distributed with relatively small sizes and, therefore, it is difficult to survey the exact area of crop lands. The study aimed to find an easy and effective way of accurate classification to map crop lands in Mongolia using satellite images. To classify the crop lands over the study area in northern Mongolia, four classifications were carried out by using 1) Thematic Mapper (TM) image August 23, 2) TM image of July 6, 3) combined 12 bands of TM images of July and August, and 4) both TM images of July and August by layered classification. Wheat and potato are the major crop types and they show relatively high variation in crop conditions between July and August. On the other hands, other land cover types (forest, riparian vegetation, grassland, water and bare soil) do not show such difference between July and August. The results of four classifications clearly show that the use of multi-temporal images is essential to accurately classify the crop lands. The layered classification method, in which each class is separated by a subset of TM images, shows the highest classification accuracy (93.7%) of the crop lands. The classification accuracies are lower when we use only a single TM image of either July or August. Because of the different planting practice of potato and the growth condition of wheat, the spectral characteristics of potato and wheat cannot be fully separated from other cover types with TM image of either July or August. Further refinements on the spatial characteristics of existing crop lands may enhance the crop mapping method in Mongolia.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
• /
• 제2권3호
• /
• pp.154-158
• /
• 1999

본 논문에서는 부분 윤곽선 추출기법을 이용하여 다중 시차 영상을 위한 자동 변화 추적 시스템의 속도를 증가시키고자 한다. 기존의 변화 추적 시스템에서는 전체 영상에서 윤곽선을 추출하여 사용하였으나, 본 연구에서는 윤곽선 추출이 필요한 부분을 미리 선택하여 이 부분에서만 윤곽선을 추출하게 함으로써 처리 속도를 향상시킬 수 있었다. 따라서 본 시스템은 특히 위성 영상 자료나 물리 탐사 자료 등의 방대한 영상 자료에서의 변화 탐지와 추적, 정량적인 분석 등을 위해 효과적으로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
• /
• 제19권3호
• /
• pp.263-269
• /
• 2003

This research examined the capabilities of KOMPSAT-1 EOC images for the application of urban environment, including the urban changes of the study areas. This research is constructed in three stages: Firstly, for the application of change detection techniques, which utilizes multi-temporal remotely sensed data, the data normalization process is carried out. Secondly, the change detection method is applied for the systematic monitoring of land-use changes. Lastly, using the results of the previous stages, the land-use map is updated. Consequently, the patterns of land-use changes are monitored by the proposed scheme. In this research, using the multi-temporal KOMPSAT-1 EOC images and land-use maps, monitoring of urban growth was carried out with the application of land-use changes, and the potential and scope of the application of the EOC images were also examined.