• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.42-51
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• 2001

Vehicle detection is the basic of traffic monitoring. Video based systems have several apparent advantages compared with other kinds of systems. However, In video based systems, shadows make troubles for vehicle detection, especially active shadows resulted from moving vehicles. In this paper, a new method that combines background subtraction and edge detection is proposed for vehicle detection and shadow rejection. The method is effective and the correct rate of vehicle detection is higher than 98% in experiments, during which the passive shadows resulted from roadside buildings grew considerably. Based on the proposed vehicle detection method, vehicle tracking, counting, classification and speed estimation are achieved so that traffic parameters concerning traffic flow is obtained to describe the load of each lane.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.1314-1321
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• 2005

In video surveillance and monitoring (VSAM), extracting foreground by detecting moving regions is the most fundamental step. The foreground extracted, however, includes not only objects in motion but also their shadows, which may cause errors in following video image processing steps. To remove the shadows, this paper presents a new technique to determine shadow pixels in the foreground image of a VSAM camera system. The proposed technique utilizes a fact that the effect of shadowing to each pixel is different defending on its brightness in a background image when determining shadow pixels unlike existing techniques where unified decision criteria are used to all pixels. Such an approach can easily accommodate local features in an image and hold consistent Performance even in changing environment. In real experiments, the proposed technique showed better results compared with an existing technique.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.285-286
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1905-1906
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 spatial gradient를 이용한 강인한 물체 추출 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 먼저 복잡한 환경과 다양한 빛의 변화에 의해 나타나는 에러 값 등을 해결하기 위해 기존에 제안된 입력 영상과 기준 영상에서 밝기와 색 성분을 이용하여 최초 배경을 제거한다. 배경을 제거한 다음, 그림자로 인식되어 전경 영역에 추가된 부분을 RGB 칼라 모델과 정규화 된 RGB 칼라 모델을 이용하여 제거하고, HSI 칼라 모델을 이용하여 불필요한 정보 값을 갖는 영역을 제거한다. 마지막으로, 배경으로 인식되어 전경으로부터 제거된 부분을 입력 영상의 공간상 정보인 spatial gradient와 HSI 칼라 모델을 이용하여 복구하는 방법을 제안한다. 마지막으로, 복잡하고 다양한 실내.외 환경에서의 실험을 통해 그 응용 가능성을 증명한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.55-63
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• 2019

Recently, the use of real-world image data has been increasing to express realistic virtual environments in various application fields such as education, manufacturing, and construction. In particular, with increasing interest in digital twins like smart cities, realistic 3D urban models are being built using real-world images, such as aerial images. However, the captured aerial image includes shadows from the sun, and the 3D city model including the shadows has a problem of distorting and expressing information to the user. Many studies have been conducted to remove the shadow, but it is recognized as a challenging problem that is still difficult to solve. In this paper, we construct a virtual environment dataset including the height map of buildings using 3D spatial information provided by VWorld, and We propose a new shadow detection method using height map and deep learning. According to the experimental results, We can observed that the shadow detection error rate is reduced when using the height map.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.194-197
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• 2016

자동차 산업이 발전하면서 안정적인 주행과 운전자의 편의성을 위한 지능형운전자보조시스템인 ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System)가 이슈가 되고 있다. 차선인식의 결과에 따라 차선이탈 경고시스템의 성능이 달라지기 때문에 차선인식은 ADAS에서 매우 중요한 핵심적인 기술이라 할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 그림자 영역과 같이 밝기의 분포가 균일하지 않는 환경에서 강인하게 동작하는 차선인식 알고리즘을 제안하였다, 지역적인 밝기 특징을 고려하여 차선에 해당하는 특징점을 추출하며, 추출된 특징점 가운데 이상치(outlier)를 제거하기 위해 RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) 알고리즘을 이용하여 차선을 검출한다. 또한 RANSAC 알고리즘에서 신뢰도가 높은 차선이 검출되면 그 주위에 특징점을 추출하기 위한 관심영역을 설정함으로써 안정적인 차선 검출이 가능하도록 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.877-879
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 컴퓨터와 상호작용을 할 수 있는 스마트 테이블 구축을 위한 마우스를 대체하는 손의 움직임을 트래킹하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 테이블 위에 놓인 프로젝터와 카메라는 각각 프로젝터의 영상이 테이블에 투영이 되고 카메라로 테이블에 투영된 영상을 입력받게 된다. 이렇게 입력된 영상으로부터 손 검출과 트래킹을 통해 테이블을 이용하여 컴퓨터와의 상호작용을 할 수 있다. 먼저 영상은 손의 그림자를 포함하고 있기 때문에 그림자를 제거한 후 Canny 에지 필터를 이용하여 손의 후보영역을 검출하게 된다. 검출된 후보 영역으로부터 템플릿 매칭을 이용하여 손 영역을 검출하고 검출된 영역으로부터 optical flow를 이용하여 손의 위치를 트래킹하게 된다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.49-55
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• 2010

Cast shadow caused by an illumination condition can produce troublesome effects for face recognition system using reflectance image. Consequently, we need to separate cast shadow area from feature area for improvement of recognition accuracy. A Bilateral filter smooths image while preserving edges, by means of a nonlinear combination of nearby pixel values. Processing such characteristics, this method is suited to our purpose in illumination estimation process based on Retinex. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new illumination normalization method based on the Bilateral filter in face images. The proposed method produces a reflectance image that is preserved relatively exact cast shadow area, because coefficient of filter is designed to multiply proximity and discontinuity of pixels in input image. Performance of our method is measured by a recognition accuracy of principle component analysis(PCA) and evaluated to compare with other conventional illumination normalization methods.

• Sim-seong Yeon-gu
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.49-76
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• 2022

This study is to illuminate the problem of shadows and evil appearing in contemporary events in the midst of a period of upheaval through Inferno of Divine Comedy. First, the concept of shadow and evil were briefly summarized in analytical psychology and discussed the importance of considering the concepts with the empirical aspect of relativity and ethics in the field of psychotherapy. The 14th century, the age of Dante, was the embryonic period of the Renaissance beyond the end of the Middle Ages. It was when Dante, who was writing Divine Comedy, had to take off his persona forcibly and live in exile. In a nutshell, it was a transition period for both the individual and the collective. The dark forest is a nigredo, darkness and chaos we face in this transition, but it can be a place of transformation and rebirth. The three beasts (leopard, lion, and she-wolf) encountered in the forest can be considered as the instinctual images that Dante ignored and alienated, which the medieval Christian world had suppressed and eliminated. Especially at the collective level, as destructive instincts, ferocious beasts roam throughout society when a crisis breaks dominant laws of values. The three beasts of Inferno appear as phenomena of shadows and evil. The aspect of leopard was explored Cerberus and Chiaco(pig) as a symbol of greed, and the lion, Farinata as the form of violent passion. The aspect of the she-wolf was examined as Geryon, a deceitful monster with a beast nature hidden behind goodness, the giants in the frozen lake of Cocytus, and Branca D'Oria, who betrayed and murdered the country and family. Inferno reveals the "state" of being trapped when one yields to the evil hidden within oneself and falls into prey.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.133-142
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• 2014

Landsat is one of the popular satellites for observing land surface that is used in various areas including monitoring, detecting and classifying changes in land surface. However, shades, which cloud itself and its shadow, interrupted often clear observation and analysis of ground surface. For this reason, the process of removing shades and restoring original ground surfaces are critical for geospatial users. This study is planned to recommend a methodology for more accurate and clear images of Landsat-8 sensor, which provided two additional bands of costal/aerosol and cirrus. In fact, those bands are known as functioned effectively in detecting and restoring shades. Otsu's thresholding technique to detect clouds, we replaced those detective shades by using experimental and reference images. In accurate assessment, the overall accuracy and kappa coefficients were about 85% and 0.7128, respectively. This indicates that the proposed technique is effective for recovering the original land surface.