• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

This paper describes an algorithm for semantic video object tracking using semi automatic method. In the semi automatic method, a user specifies an object of interest at the first frame and then the specified object is to be tracked in the remaining frames. The proposed algorithm consists of three steps: object boundary projection, uncertain area extraction, and boundary refinement. The object boundary is projected from the previous frame to the current frame using the motion estimation. And uncertain areas are extracted via two modules: Me error-test and color similarity test. Then, from extracted uncertain areas, the exact object boundary is obtained by boundary refinement. The simulation results show that the proposed video object extraction method provides efficient tracking results for various video sequences compared to the previous methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• 제31권4C호
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• pp.407-416
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• 2006

It is difficult for the movement detection of an object through a camera to detect exact movement because of unnecessary noises and changes of the light. It can be recognized as a background, when there is no movement after the inflow of an object. Therefore, It is necessary to fast search algorithm for tracking and extract of object that is realtime image. In this thesis, we evaluate the difference of the input vision based on initial image and replace some pixels in process of time. When there is a big difference between background image and input image, we decide it is the point of the time of the object input and then extract boundary point of it. The extracted boundary point detects precise movement of the object by creating minimum block of it and searching block that maintaining distance. The designed and embodied system shows more than 95% accuracy in the performance test.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 한국산학기술학회 2009년도 추계학술발표논문집
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• pp.605-607
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• 2009

본 논문은 감시 시스템의 객체 추적 시, 정확한 객체 추출을 위해 블록 기반으로 객체를 추적하는 방법을 제안한다. 객체 움직임 추적은 주어진 환경에 따라 변수가 많고, 변수를 대처하는 알고리즘을 많이 추가 할 경우 실시간 추적에 어려움이 발생한다. 특히 배경이 조명이나 바람 등의 환경적 요인에 의해 변화되는 문제는 객체를 추적하는데 가장 큰 문제점이다. 특히 사람이나 멧돼지의 경우 움직임에 의한 객체 구성 요소의 흔들림에 의해 고정 블록의 연산에 의해 움직임 객체를 추적할 때 정확한 객체의 윤곽선을 검출하기 힘들다. 따라서 연속되는 프레임에서 전체 화면의 차영상을 이용하여 움직임 관심 영역을 설정하고, 관심 영역에 해당하는 블록들을 분석하였다. 이를 기반으로 움직임 객체의 최외곽 사각형의 객체 영역을 추출하여 기존 고정 블록 방법에 의한 객체 추적보다 좀 더 정확하게 객체를 추출하고 추적할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.1976-1979
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 연속영상에서 잡음과 객체가 잘 분할되지 않는 환경 내에 있는 객체를 자동으로 분할하는 차영상 기반 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 기존의 차영상 기반의 단일 임계간을 이용한 방식에는 잡음에 크게 영향을 받고 배경과 객체가 비슷한 밝기 값을 가지는 경우 잘 추출되지 않는 많은 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 임계값을 설정하는 영역을 축소하여 잡음간섭의 최소화를 구성하였고 축소된 영역 내의 윤곽선정보를 이용하여 배경 밝기 값의 유사함에서 나오는 간섭을 최소화함으로써 정밀한 객체를 추출할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• 제40권10호
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• pp.2090-2101
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• 2015

We propose a robust tracking method that combines the merits of ACM(active contour model) and the color-based PF(particle filter), effectively. In the proposed method, PF and ACM track the color distribution and the contour of the target, respectively, and Decision part merges the estimate results from the two trackers to determine the position and scale of the target and to update the target model. By controlling the internal energy of ACM based on the estimate of the position and scale from PF tracker, we can prevent the snake pointers from falsely converging to the background clutters. We appled the proposed method to track the head of person in video and have conducted computer experiments to analyze the errors of the estimated position and scale.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• 제12B권6호
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• pp.671-678
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• 2005

In this paper, we suggest an algorithm that allows us to extract the important obbject from motion pictures and then replace the background with arbitrary images. The suggested technique can be used not only for protecting privacy and reducing the size of data to be transferred by removing the background of each frame, but also for replacing the background with user-selected image in video communication systems including mobile phones. Because of the relatively large size of image data, digital image processing usually takes much of the resources like memory and CPU. This can cause trouble especially for mobile video phones which typically have restricted resources. In our experiments, we could reduce the requirements of time and memory for processing the images by restricting the search area to the vicinity of major object's contour found in the previous frame based on the fact that the movement of major object is not wide or rapid in general. Specifically, we detected edges and used the edge image of the initial frame to locate candidate-object areas. Then, on the located areas, we computed the difference image between adjacent frames and used it to determine and trace the major object that might be moving. And then we computed the contour of the major object and used it to separate major object from the background. We could successfully separate major object from the background and replate the background with arbitrary images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 한국정보과학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.29 No.2 (2)
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• pp.532-534
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• 2002

동영상에서 객체 추적은 몇 년간 컴퓨터 비전 및 여러 실용적 응용 분야에서 관심을 가지는 주제 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 감시 시스템 분야에서 적용되어 질 수 있는 실시간 객체 추적 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 이를 위해 카메라가 고정되어 있고 배경영상의 변화가 거의 없는 환경으로 제한하고, 입력영상과 배경영상의 차를 이용하여 객체의 위치를 탐지하고 움직임을 추적한다. 객체 위치 탐지시 객체의 윤곽선 중 일부 점을 추출하고 추출된 점들을 이용, 객체의 무게중심을 구한다. 객체 추적시 가변 탐색창을 이용해 실시간으로 빠른 처리가 가능하도록 하였다. 그리고 실험을 통하여 제한된 환경하에서 실시간으로 빠른객체의 추적을 보인다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.67-77
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• 2006

This thesis proposes an effi챠ent method for extracting a prostate volume from 3D ultrasound image by using wavelet transform and SVM classification. In the proposed method, a modulus image for each 2D slice is generated by averaging detail images of horizontal and vertical orientations at several scales, which has the sharpest local maxima and the lowest noise power compared to those of all single scales. Prostate contour vertices are determined accurately using a SVM classifier, where feature vectors are composed of intensity and texture moments investigated along radial lines. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields absolute mean distance of on average 1.89 pixels when the contours obtained manually by an expert are used as reference data.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.362-371
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an optimal interest point extraction method to support shape-base image classification and indexing for image database by applying a dynamic threshold that reflects the characteristics of the shape contour. The threshold is determined dynamically by comparing the contour length ratio of the original shape and the approximated polygon while the algorithm is running. Because our algorithm considers the characteristics of the shape contour, it can minimize the number of interest points. For n points of the contour, the proposed algorithm has O(nlogn) computational cost on an average to extract the number of m optimal interest points. Experiments were performed on the 70 synthetic shapes of 7 different contour types and 1100 fish shapes. It shows the average optimization ratio up to 0.92 and has 14% improvement, compared to the fixed threshold method. The shape features extracted from our proposed method can be used for shape-based image classification, indexing, and similarity search via normalization.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• 제30권11A호
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• pp.1098-1103
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• 2005

The edge and contour information are very much appreciated by the human visual systems and are responsible for our perceptions and recognitions. Therefore, if edge information is integrated during extracting video objects, we can generate boundaries of oects closer to human visual systems for multimedia applications such as interaction between video objects, object-based coding, and representation. Most of object extraction methods are difficult to implement real-time systems due to their iterative and complex arithmetic operations. In this paper, we propose a VLSI architecture integrating edge information to extract video objects for precisely located object boundaries. The proposed architecture can be easily implemented into hardware due to simple arithmetic operations. Also, it can be applied to real-time object extraction for object-oriented multimedia applications.