• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.538-545
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• 2011

Today, there is a wide variety of digital contents on the Internet. Especially, comic images are one of popular digital contents. Most of them are scanned from comic books by digital scanners, but they were not normalized in sense of their size, skew and boundary margin. The normalization is very important step in comic image analysis. It can be achieved by finding out-boundary rectangles in comic images. In this paper, we propose a method for detecting the out-boundary rectangle using the gradient Radon transform in comic images. We applied the Radon transform using image gradients to extract line segments which are the out-boundary rectangle sides' candidates in comic images. The final out-boundary rectangle can be detected by local histogram and the candidate line segments. Experimental results show that our proposed method effectively detect the out-boundary rectangle in comic images.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.48-60
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• 2007

In previous researches for iris feature extraction, they transform a original iris image into rectangular one by stretching and interpolation, which causes the distortion of iris patterns. Consequently, it reduce iris recognition accuracy. So we are propose the method that extracts iris feature by using polar coordinates without distortion of iris patterns. Our proposed method has three strengths compared with previous researches. First, we extract iris feature directly from polar coordinate circular iris image. Though it requires a little more processing time, there is no degradation of accuracy for iris recognition and we compares the recognition performance of polar coordinate to rectangular type using by Hamming Distance, Cosine Distance and Euclidean Distance. Second, in general, the center position of pupil is different from that of iris due to camera angle, head position and gaze direction of user. So, we propose the method of iris feature detection based on polar coordinate circular iris region, which uses pupil and iris position and radius at the same time. Third, we overcome override point from iris patterns by using polar coordinates circular method. each overlapped point would be extracted from the same position of iris region. To overcome such problem, we modify Gabor filter's size and frequency on first track in order to consider low frequency iris patterns caused by overlapped points. Experimental results showed that EER is 0.29%, d' is 5,9 and EER is 0.16%, d' is 6,4 in case of using conventional rectangular image and proposed method, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.847-852
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• 2010

Text in natural images has a various and important feature of image. Therefore, to detect text and extraction of text, recognizing it is a studied as an important research area. Lately, many applications of various fields is being developed based on mobile phone camera technology. Detecting edge component form gray-scale image and detect an boundary of text regions by local standard deviation and get an connected components using Euclidean distance of RGB color space. Labeling the detected edges and connected component and get bounding boxes each regions. Candidate of text achieved with heuristic rule of text. Detected candidate text regions was merged for generation for one candidate text region, then text region detected with verifying candidate text region using ectilarity characterization of adjacency and ectilarity between candidate text regions. Experctental results, We improved text region detection rate using completentary of edge and color connected component.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.10-13
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• 2020

최근 초고화질 영상, 가상현실 등 프리미엄 콘텐츠에 대한 요구가 커지면서 360° VR과 8K TV 등의 시장이 확대되고 있다. 360° VR 영상을 만드는 데에 스티칭 기술이 사용되고 있고, 8K 영상을 촬영할 수 있는 장비는 매우 제한적이기 때문에 스티칭 기술을 통해 콘텐츠를 확보하려는 노력이 이어지고 있다. 스티칭 기술은 여러 영상을 합성하여 기존 카메라의 좁은 시야각 문제를 해결하고 보다 넓은 시야각의 영상을 만드는 기술이다. 최근에는 해당 분야에 관한 연구가 진행됨에 따라 이미지를 넘어 동영상 스티칭에 대한 연구가 주로 진행되고 있다, 기존 동영상 스티칭 방식은 이미지 스티칭 방식을 프레임마다 반복하기 때문에 시간이 오래 걸린다는 단점이 있다. 컴퓨터 비전 분야에서는 딥러닝을 활용하여 객체가 존재할 것으로 예측되는 부분에 사각형 모양의 경계 상자(Bounding box)를 생성하는 객체 탐지(Object detection) 분야에 관한 많은 연구가 이루어져 왔고 이를 기반으로 객체의 경계선을 검출하여 해당 영역만을 구분하는 객체 분할(Instance segmentation)에 대한 연구 또한 진행 중이다. 본 논문에서는 앞서 말한 스티칭 속도 문제를 해결하기 위하여 빠른 속도로 객체 분할이 가능한 YOLACT를 이용하여 스티칭 속도를 개선하는 방안을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.6 s.38
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

Facial analysis is used in many applications like face recognition systems, human-computer interface through head movements or facial expressions, model based coding, or virtual reality. In all these applications a very precise extraction of facial feature points are necessary. In this paper we presents a method for automatic extraction of the facial features Points such as mouth corners, eye corners, eyebrow corners. First, face region is detected by AdaBoost-based object detection algorithm. Then a combination of three kinds of feature energy for facial features are computed; valley energy, intensity energy and edge energy. After feature area are detected by searching horizontal rectangles which has high feature energy. Finally, a corner detection algorithm is applied on the end region of each feature area. Because we integrate three feature energy and the suggested estimation method for valley energy and intensity energy are adaptive to the illumination change, the proposed feature extraction method is robust under various conditions.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.396-405
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• 2001

Usually it is difficult to extract facial regions in a complex image by using only a predetermined skin color. Expecially, it is more difficult to separate them from background regions that contains the skin color. This paper proposes a face detection method by using gradual range expansion of an initial skin color. By analyzing the skin color distribution several images that are collected in the Web, the range of dense distribution is selected as the range of the initial skin color. In each expanding step, expanded regions in the image are tested whether they can be actual facial regions by using the information of the shape of general face and the location of face organs. The shape of general face is modeled as an ellipse and the aspect ratio of its bounding box is used to define the shape constraint for faces. Only the eyes and lips are used as the face organs, which can be easily detected by extracting horizontal edges in the expanded regions. through several experiments, it is confirmed that the proposed method can detect exactly not only faces having partly distorted regions by highlight but also faces neighboring similar color regions.