• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.1125-1134
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a new approach for rotation invariant texture classification based on Gabor wavelet. Conventional methods have the low correct classification rate in large texture database. In our proposed method, we define two feature groups which are the global feature vector and the local feature matrix. The feature groups are output of Gabor wavelet filtering. By using the feature groups, we defined an improved discriminant and obtained high classification rates of large texture database in the experiments. From spectrum symmetry of texture images, the number of test times were reduced nearly 50%. Consequently, the correct classification rate is improved with $2.3%{\sim}15.6%$ values in 112 Brodatz texture class, which may vary according to comparison methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.719-721
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• 2013

A thinning stage of fingerprint algorithm occupies 39% cycle of microprocessor system for identification processing of image from fingerprint sensor. Hardware block processing is more effective than software one in speed and power consumption, because a thinning algorithm is iteration of simple instructions without a transcendental function. This paper describes an effective hardware scheme for thinning stage processing using Verilog-HDL in $64{\times}64$ Pixel Array. The hardware scheme is designed and simulated in RTL. The logic is also synthesized by XST in FPGA environment and tested. Experimental results show the performance of the proposed scheme and possibility of application for a soft microprocessor and thinning processor embedded fingerprint SoC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.832-834
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• 2004

특징점 기반 지문 인식 시스템은 지문의 특징점 정보를 사용하기 때문에 교문 획득 시 발생하는 거짓 특징점에 많은 영향을 받는다. 거짓 특징점의 제거를 위해 특징정의 이웃 융선을 추적하는 위상 검증 방법(Topological validation)은 거짓 특징점 제거에 뛰어난 효율을 보이지만 올바른 특징점까지 제거되는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 올바른 특징점이 거짓 특징점으로 오판되어 제거되는 것을 줄이기 위챈 가보 필터를 사용하여 특징점 주위 영역을 특징점 방향과 특징점 방향에 수직인 방향으로 필터링 수행 후 특징값의 차를 구하여 특징점의 품질을 평가하였다. 특징값이 일정 기준을 넘는 좋은 품질의 영역에서 추출된 특징점이면 거짓 특징점 제거 알고리즘을 수행하지 않음으로써 올바른 특징점이 제거되는 것을 막을 수 있었고 이와 같이 추출된 특징점들을 이용해 실험한 결과 ERR(Equal eRror Rate)에서 1.7%의 성능 향상을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.191-194
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 방송 영상에서 조명효과와 크기변화 등에 강인한 얼굴패턴 검출기법을 제시한다. 제안된 얼굴검출 모델은 영상 전처리 과정과 얼굴패턴 검출 과정으로 이루어진다. 전처리 과정은 조명변화에 대한 보정기능과 다중필터에 의한 후보영역 선별기능으로 구분된다. 얼굴패턴 검출과정은 다단계의 특징지도 생성과정과 패턴분류 과정으로 이루어진다. 특징지도를 생성하기 위하여 가보(Gabor) 필터계층을 포함하는 CNN(Convolutional Neural Networks)모델을 도입하였다. 다양한 배경을 고려한 효과적인 학습을 위하여 본 논문에서는 억제성의 뉴런(Inhibitory neuron)을 포함하는 구조의 CNN모델을 적용한다. CNN으로부터 추출되는 특징집합은 최종 단계에서 WFMM(Weighted Fuzzy Min Max) 모델을 사용하여 분류된다. 이때 사용되는 특징집합의 크기는 분류기의 규모 및 계산량의 결정적인 역할을 준다. 이에 본 연구에서는 최종 분류 과정에 사용되는 특징의 수를 효과적으로 줄이기 위해 FMM모델을 사용하는 적응적인 특징 선별 기법을 제안한다. 또한 실제 영상을 통한 실험결과로부터 제안된 이론의 타당성을 고찰한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.441-449
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• 2007

In clustering for image segmentation, large amount of computation and typical segmentation errors have been important problems. In the paper, we suggest a new method for minimizing these problems. Markers in marker-controlled watershed transform represent segmented areas because they are starting-points of extending areas. Thus, clustering restricted by marker pixels can reduce computational complexity. In our proposed method, the markers are selected by Gabor texture energy, and cluster information of them are generated by FCM (fuzzy c-mean) clustering. Generated areas from watershed transform are merged by using cluster information of markers. In the test of Brodatz' texture images, we improved typical partition-errors obviously and obtained less computational complexity compared with previous FCM clustering algorithms. Overall, it also took regular computational time.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.215-220
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new texture-based page segmentation and classification method in which table region, background region, image region and text region in a given document image are automatically identified. The proposed method for document images consists of two stages, document segmentation and contents classification. In the first stage, we segment the document image, and then, we classify contents of document in the second stage. The proposed classification method is based on a texture analysis. Each contents in the document are considered as regions with different textures. Thus the problem of classification contents of document can be posed as a texture segmentation and analysis problem. Two-dimensional Gabor filters are used to extract texture features for each of these regions. Our method does not assume any a priori knowledge about content or language of the document. As we can see experiment results, our method gives good performance in document segmentation and contents classification. The proposed system is expected to apply such as multimedia data searching, real-time image processing.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

There are a lot of influences, such as location of camera, luminosity, brightness, and direction of light, which affect the performance of 2-dimensional image recognition. This paper suggests an adaptive method for face-image recognition in noisy environments using evolvable filtering and feature extraction which uses one sample image from camera. This suggested method consists of two main parts. One is the environmental-adjustment module which determines optimum sets of filters, filter parameters, and dimensions of features by using "steady state genetic algorithm". The other another part is for face recognition module which performs recognition of face-image using the previous results. In the processing, we used Gabor wavelet for extracting features in the images and k-Nearest Neighbor method for the classification. For testing of the adaptive face recognition method, we tested the adaptive method in the brightness noise, in the impulse noise and in the composite noise and verified that the adaptive method protects face recognition-rate's rapidly decrease which can be occurred generally in the noisy environments.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2032-2035
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• 2003

This paper focused on the possibility of face recognition using Flexible let Point Setting method in Gabor Filter Based Face Recognition. Gabor Filter is very sensible to the Texture variation. Therefore, any little change in the face expression or rotation of posture make recognition rate down significantly. A suggested solution for this problem is the Flexible Jet Point Setting. A significant effect of this method is that the number of Jet Point has been reduced from over 150 to under 30 even though the change of recognition rate between two methods is neglectable, Furthermore a set of feature values which results from a set of Gabor filtering became insensible to face variation such as expression, rotation, and light effect. Retinex Algorithm which has been developed by NASA are used as pre-processing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06c
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• pp.429-432
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• 2011

Recognizing human activities from image sequences is an active area of research in computer vision. Most of the previous work on activity recognition focuses on recognition from a single view and ignores the issue of view invariance. In this paper, we present an independent Gabor features (IGFs) method comes from the derivation of independent Gabor features in the feature extraction stage. The Gabor transformed human image exhibit strong characteristics of spatial locality, scale and orientation selectivity.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.520-522
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• 2014

Due to the availability of easy-to-use and powerful image editing tools, the authentication of digital images cannot be taken for granted and it gives rise to non-intrusive forgery detection problem because all imaging devices do not embed watermark. Forgery detection plays an important role in this case. In this paper, an effective framework for passive-blind method for copy-move image forgery detection is proposed, based on Gabor filter which is robust to illumination, rotation invariant, robust to scale. For the detection, the suspicious image is selected and Gabor wavelet is applied from whole scale space and whole direction space. We will extract the mean and the standard deviation as the texture features and feature vectors. Finally, a distance is calculated between two textures feature vectors to determine the forgery, and the decision will be made based on that result.