• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.157-168
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• 2011

최근 국내 콘크리트포장의 동결융해 파손에 대한 사례들이 주기적으로 보고가 되고 있으며, 이에 공기량 기준과 더불어 간격계수에 대한 기준마련 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 간격계수를 산정하기 위한 실험방법은 국내에 규정되어 있지 않아 ASTM C 457기준을 따라야 하며, 특히 이 실험결과 분석 시 연구자의 주관적 판단에 기인하는 경우가 많아 이에 대한 철저한 보정작업이 수반되어야 한다. 콘크리트의 공극구조 특성을 분석하기 위해 사용되고 있는 화상분석프로그램은 색상의 구분을 통해 공극을 인식하는데, 분석 시 사용되어지는 pixel intensity values에 따라 분석결과는 크게 변할 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 pixel intensity values의 적정범위를 산정하기 위해서, pixel intensity values 변화에 따라 측정된 공극수와 연구자들이 측정한 공극수를 비교하였으며, 이를 통해 pixel intensity values의 적정 범위를 결정하였다. 또한 결정된 pixel intensity values를 이용하여, 8가지 콘크리트 혼합물에 대한 콘크리트 공극구조 특성을 분석하였다. 연구자들이 공극수를 직접 측정한 round robin test 결과, 사람에 따른 공극 인식정도가 약 10% 정도로 변동될 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었으며, 이를 통해 pixel intensity values의 적정 범위가 약 80~90 정도로 나타났다. 8가지 콘크리트 혼합물에 대한 화상분석결과, 전반적으로 AE제 첨가량이 증가함에 따라 전체 공기량은 증가하고 간격계수는 감소하는 경향을 나타내었으나, 일부 혼합물에서 공기량은 크게 변동하지 않은 가운데 간격계수가 AE제 증가에 따라 감소하는 추이를 나타내었다. 이는 추가된 AE제에 의해 발생된 미세한 크기의 연행공극이 전체 공기량에 미치는 영향보다 간격계수에 미치는 영향이 더 크기 때문이다. 또한 동일한 시편에서 절단면 위치에 따른 간격계수의 편차는 약 30~100${\mu}m$ 정도를 나타내었다. 이는 2차원 분석의 한계로 인해 발생된 편차인 것으로 사료되며, 시편절단면 위치에 따른 변동성 분석을 위한 추가적인 연구가 수행되어야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of radiotherapy on mandibular bone tissue in head and neck cancer patients through an analysis of pixel intensity and fractal dimension values on digital panoramic radiographs. Materials and Methods: Thirty patients with radiographic records from before and after 3-dimensional (3D) conformational radiotherapy were selected. A single examiner carried out digital analyses of pixel intensity values and fractal dimensions, with the areas of interest unilaterally located in the right angle medullary region of the mandible below the mandibular canal and posterior to the molar region. Results: Statistically significant decreases were observed in the mean pixel intensity (P=0.0368) and fractal dimension (P=0.0495) values after radiotherapy. Conclusion: The results suggest that 3D conformational radiotherapy for head and neck cancer negatively affected the trabecular microarchitecture and mandibular bone mass.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.61-64
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• 2018

In this paper, a pixel value prediction algorithm using edge components in three directions is proposed. There are various directional edges and similarity between adjacent pixels in natural images. After detecting the edge components in the x-axis direction, the y-axis direction, and the diagonal axis direction, the pixel value is predicted by applying the detected edge components and similarity between neighboring pixels. In particular, the predicted pixel value is calculated according to the intensity of the edge component in the diagonal axis direction. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively predict pixel values. The proposed algorithm can be used for applications such as reversible data hiding, reversible watermarking to increase the number of embedded data.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 1996

렌티귤러 렌즈를 이용한 2안용 입체영상 시스템에서 렌티큘러 렌즈와 관찰자와의 거리 및 렌티큘러 렌즈의 주기를 변화시키면서 입체영상 시스템의 광학적 특성을 컴퓨터를 이용하여 모의실험을 하였다. 모의실험결과에 의하면 렌즈로부터 관찰자까지의 거리가 가까워짐에 따라서 렌즈의 주기가 주어진 LCD화소의 주기보다 작아져야 한다는 사실을 보여준다. 또한 어떤 일정한 조건하에서 오른쪽 눈에서의 화상과 왼쪽 눈에서의 화상이 공간적으로 비교적 균일하게 분포한다는 것을 알 수 있다. 그러나 이 경우 시스템의 잡음도 공간적으로 균일하게 분포되고 또한 렌즈로부터 관찰자까지의 거리가 멀어질수록 그 잡음의 크기가 커진다는 것을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.575-591
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• 2013

Most of the edge detection methods available in literature are gradient based, which further apply thresholding, to find the final edge map in an image. In this paper, we propose a novel method that is based on fuzzy logic for edge detection in gray images without using the gradient and thresholding. Fuzzy logic is a mathematical logic that attempts to solve problems by assigning values to an imprecise spectrum of data in order to arrive at the most accurate conclusion possible. Here, the fuzzy logic is used to conclude whether a pixel is an edge pixel or not. The proposed technique begins by fuzzifying the gray values of a pixel into two fuzzy variables, namely the black and the white. Fuzzy rules are defined to find the edge pixels in the fuzzified image. The resultant edge map may contain some extraneous edges, which are further removed from the edge map by separately examining the intermediate intensity range pixels. Finally, the edge map is improved by finding some left out edge pixels by defining a new membership function for the pixels that have their entire 8-neighbourhood pixels classified as white. We have compared our proposed method with some of the existing standard edge detector operators that are available in the literature on image processing. The quantitative analysis of the proposed method is given in terms of entropy value.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2007

In this paper we proposed multi-directional matching windows combined by multi-dimensional feature vector matching, which uses not only intensity values but also multiple feature values, such as variance, first and second derivative of pixels. Multi-dimensional feature vector matching has the advantage of compensating the drawbacks of area-based stereo matching using one feature value, such as intensity. We define matching cost of a pixel by the minimum value among eight multi-dimensional feature vector distances of the pixels expanded in eight directions having the interval of 45 degrees. As best stereo matches, we determine the two points with the minimum matching cost within the disparity range. In the experiment we used aerial imagery and IKONOS satellite imagery and obtained more accurate matching results than that of conventional matching method.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제29권9호
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• pp.631-644
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• 2002

In this paper efficient algorithms for content-based video retrieval using motion information are proposed, including temporal scale-invariant retrieval and temporal scale-absolute retrieval. In temporal scale-invariant video retrieval, the distance transformation is performed on each trail image in database. Then, from a given que교 trail the pixel values along the query trail are added in each distance image to compute the average distance between the trails of query image and database image, since the intensity of each pixel in distance image represents the distance from that pixel to the nearest edge pixel. For temporal scale-absolute retrieval, a new coding scheme referred to as Motion Retrieval Code is proposed. This code is designed to represent object motions in the human visual sense so that the retrieval performance can be improved. The proposed coding scheme can also achieve a fast matching, since the similarity between two motion vectors can be computed by simple bit operations. The efficiencies of the proposed methods are shown by experimental results.

• 대기
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.273-284
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• 2011

This study investigates the characteristics of satellite brightness temperature (TB) and rainfall intensity over the life cycle of convective cells. The convective cells in the three event cases are detected and tracked from the growth stage to the dissipation stage using the half-hourly infrared (IR) images. For each IR images the values of minimum, mean, and variance for the convective cell's TBs and the sizes of convective cells are calculated and also the relationship between TB and rainfall intensity are investigated, which is obtained using the pixel values of satellite TB and the ground rainfall intensity measured by AWS (Automatic Weather Station). At the growth stage of the convective cells, the TB's variance and cloud size consistently increased, whereas TB's minimum and mean consistently decreased. At this stage the empirical relationships between TB and rainfall intensity are statistically significant and their slopes (intercepts) in absolute values are relatively large (small) compared to those at the dissipation stage. At the dissipation stage of the convective cells, the variability of TB distributions shows the opposite trend. The statistical significance of the empirical relationships are relatively weak, but their slopes (intercepts) vary over life cycle. These results indicate that satellite IR images can provide valuable information in identifying the convective cell's maturity stage and in the growth stage, they may be used in providing considerably accurate rainfall estimates.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1426-1436
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• 2014

In this article, we present a new grey scale image segmentation method based on Fuzzy logic and bitplane techniques which combines the bits of different bitplanes of a pixel inorder to increase the segmentation quality and to get a more reliable and accurate segmentation result. The proposed segmentation approach is conceptually different and explores a new strategy. Infact, our technique consists in combining many realizations of the image together inorder to increase the information quality and to get an optimal segmented image. For segmentation, we proceed in two steps. In the first step, we begin by identifying the bitplanes that represent the lungs clearly. For this purpose, the intensity value of a pixel is separated into bitplanes. In the second step, segmentation values are assigned for each bitplane based on membership table. The segmented values of foreground are combined and the segmentation values of background are combined. The algorithm is demonstrated through the medical computed tomography (CT) images. The segmentation accuracy of the proposed method is compared with two existing techniques. Satisfactory segmentation results have been obtained showing the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2007

고화질의 멀티미디어 콘텐츠 수요 증가에 따라서 고전영화의 복원이 필요하다. 그러나 고전영화의 필름은 라인 스크래치와 먼지에 의해서 영상이 많이 훼손되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 필름상의 흑, 백 라인 스크래치를 검출하여 복원하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 라인 스크래치 좌우 영역의 밝기 값을 고려하여 선형회귀 곡선 추적과 미디언 필터링으로 라인 스크래치 부분의 손상된 부분정보를 추정, 보간한다. 그 결과 흑, 백 라인 스크래치가 있는 PSNR 44.68인 필름영상을 48.60으로 향상시켰으며, 보간된 픽셀은 원 영상 픽셀에 14정도의 밝기 차로 접근되었다.