• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.11-18
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• 2018

To interact with a virtual object in immersive virtual environment, the target object should be selected quickly and accurately. Conventional 3D ray casting method using a direction of user's hand or head allows the user to select an object quickly. However, accuracy problem occurs when selecting an object using conventional methods among occlusion of objects. In this paper, we propose a region of interest based selection method that enables to select an object among occlusion of objects using a combination of gaze tracking and hand gesture recognition. When a user looks at a group of occlusion of objects, the proposed method recognizes user's gaze input, and then region of interest is set by gaze input. If the user wants to select an object among them, the user gives an activation hand gesture. Then, the proposed system relocates and visualizes all objects on a virtual active window. The user can select an object by a selecting hand gesture. Our experiment verified that the user can select an object correctly and accurately.

• KSCI Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.179-183
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• 2007

다시점에서의 다중 객체 추적은 여러 분야에서 연구되고 있다. 다시점 영상 추적은 두 객체가 서로 근접하면 하나로 인식하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 하나의 방법으로 능동형태모델(active shape mode: ASM)을 들 수 있다 ASM은 훈련집합을 이용하여 다른 객체에 가려진 목표 객체를 추적할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 겹쳐진 객체를 추적하기 위해 ASM 기반의 다시점 추적 알고리듬(Multi-view tracking using ASM: MVTA)에 대해서 제안한다. 제안된 추적 방법은 (i) 영상 획득, (ii) 객체 추출, (iii) 객체 추적, 그리고 (iv) 현재 형태의 업데이트, 4가지 단계로 나눌 수 있다. 첫 번째 단계에서는 여러 대의 카메라를 사용해서 다시점 영상을 획득하며, 두 번째 단계에서는 객체를 배경으로부터 분리하며, 겹쳐진 객체로부터 목표 객체를 분리해낸다. 세 번째 단계에서는 추적을 위해 ASM을 사용하며, 마지막 단계인 네 번째 단계는 현재 입력 영상의 업데이트이다. 실험결과 제안한 MVTA는 겹쳐진 객체를 추적 시에 생기는 문제에 대해서 향상 된 결과를 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.364-368
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• 2009

자궁경부암은 다른 암과 달리 전암(前癌) 단계가 존재하므로 조기에 발견할 경우 생존율이 높다. 그러나 검체 적정성의 부족과 검체 체취의 오류로 인해 질병이 있음에도 음성으로 나타나는 위음성률이 높다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 세포 도말검사에서 사용되는 자궁 경부진 세포에서 암종 세포를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 영상의 배경 그리고 핵과 세포질 영역의 구분이 중요하기 때문에 조기 자궁 경부 세포진 영상에서 핵의 추출은 Lighting Compensation을 적용하여 영상을 보정하고, 명암도 분포가 가장 작은 B 채널과 명암도 분포가 높은 R채널과의 OR 연산을 적용한 후, $3{\times}3$마스크를 이용하여 잡음을 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 영상을 이진화하고 Grassfire 알고리즘을 이용하여 암종 세포의 후보 객체를 추출한다. 추출된 세포 객체에서 핵의 크기, 핵의 면적과 핵의 외곽의 방향성 정보를 이용하여 백혈구와 잡음으로 구성된 객체를 제거한다. 세포 도말검사 과정에서 겹쳐진 부분은 거리 함수와 명암도를 이용하여 마커를 추출하고 추출된 마커 정보와 워터쉐드 알고리즘을 적용하여 겹쳐진 암종 세포를 분리한다. 자궁경부 편평 세포진 400 배율 영상과 자궁 경부 상피내 종양 400 배율 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 자궁 경부진 암종 세포 추출 방법보다 효과적으로 암종 세포 영역이 추출되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.666-671
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new method for tracking objects continously and successively based on fusion of region information, color information and motion template when multiple objects are occluded and splitted. For each frame, color template is updated and compared with the present object. The predicted region, dynamic template and color histogram are used to classify the objects. The vertical histogram of the silhouettes is analyzed to determine whether or not the foreground region contains multiple objects. The proposed method can recognize more correctly the objects to be tracked.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.353-356
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• 2007

본 논문은 비정형 객체를 추적함에 있어서 다른 객체와 겹쳐진 후 계속 추적할 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 기본적으로 색 정보 기반의 CAMshift 알고리즘을 바탕으로 각 프레임마다 color template를 업데이트하여 현재의 객체와 template를 비교하고, 업데이트 된 color template를 바탕으로 색 분포를 사용하여 CAMshift 결과를 비교하여 추적하는 물체를 보다 정확하게 판별할 수 있도록 한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.953-961
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• 2003

This paper suggests an efficient method to extract face regions from the com]]lex background. Input image is transformed to color space, where the data is independent of the brightness and several regions are extracted by skin color information. Each extracted region is processed as an object. Noise and overlapped objects ate removed. The candidate objects, faces are likely to be included in, are selected by checking the sizes of extracted objects, the XY ratio, and the distribution ratio of skin colors. In this processing, the objects without face are excluded out of candidate regions. The proposed method can be applied for successful extraction of face regions under various conditions such as face extraction with complex background, slanted faces, and face with accessories, etc.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.666-673
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• 2019

In the immersive virtual reality environment, we can select and manipulate various virtual objects. in order to select a virtual object, we generally use Ray-casting method that fires a virtual line in user's view and selects an object when the line and the object match, or Cone-casting method that is widely used to select multiple objects at the same time. However, since the virtual objects used in CAD are composed of small and complex objects in detail, when selecting an object in the user's view by existing methods, there occurs a ambiguity problem that needs additional realignment operation even though an object is selected as a group. in this paper, even if a virtual object is composed of several small virtual objects, it calculates the spatial and logical relationship among objects and expands or shrinks desired objects, so that the user can quickly and accurately select a desired object. in order to evaluate the proposed method, performance comparison were performed using Our and Ray-Casting and Cone-Casting methods. Experimental results show that the proposed method has the fastest speed and the highest accuracy when selecting the desired objects.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.279-286
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• 2021

Recently, We are carrying out a policy of physical distancing of at least 1m from each other to prevent the spreading of COVID-19 disease in public places. In this paper, we propose a method for measuring distances between people in real time and an automation system that recognizes objects that are within 1 meter of each other from stereo images acquired by drones or CCTVs according to the estimated distance. A problem with existing methods used to estimate distances between multiple objects is that they do not obtain three-dimensional information of objects using only one CCTV. his is because three-dimensional information is necessary to measure distances between people when they are right next to each other or overlap in two dimensional image. Furthermore, they use only the Bounding Box information to obtain the exact coordinates of human existence. Therefore, in this paper, to obtain the exact two-dimensional coordinate value in which a person exists, we extract a person's key point to detect the location, convert it to a three-dimensional coordinate value using Stereo Vision and Camera Calibration, and estimate the Euclidean distance between people. As a result of performing an experiment for estimating the accuracy of 3D coordinates and the distance between objects (persons), the average error within 0.098m was shown in the estimation of the distance between multiple people within 1m.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.59-65
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• 2011

Korea DMB Service is popularized, and is used by many users. But latest display devices compared to the DMB content resolution support higher resolution and a variety of video resampling technologies has been used. Generally, subjective video quality is determined by object recognition rate in video, and increased as the edge space between objects are more clear. An edge is the boundary between an object and the background, and indicates the boundary between overlapping objects. the predicted direction in intra prediction used in H.264/AVC has the similarity up to 80% for the edge information. In the study, we propose an effective up-sampling mothed using the edge information that is extracted for the relationship between the intra prediction data and the DCT coefficient data of H.264 video encoding.