• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.422-428
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose the robust object detection algorithm with spatial gradient information. To do this, first, we eliminate error values that appear due to complex environment and various illumination change by using prior methods based on hue and intensity from the input video and background. Visible shadows are eliminated from the foreground by using an RGB color model and a qualified RGB color model. And unnecessary values are eliminated by using the HSI color model. The background is removed completely from the foreground leaving a silhouette to be restored using spatial gradient and HSI color model. Finally, we validate the applicability of the proposed method using various indoor and outdoor conditions in a complex environments.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.341-348
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• 2016

Micro-algae, one of the biological resources for alternative energy, has been heavily studied. Among various methods to analyze the status of the micro-algae including counting, screening, and flocculation, the flocculation approach has been widely accepted in many critical applications such as red tide removal study or microalgae resource study. To characterize the flocculation status of the micro-alga. A traditional optical modality, i.e., photospectrometry, measuring the optical density of the flocs has been frequently employed. While this traditional optical method needs shorter time than the counting method in flocculation status analysis, it has relatively lower detection accuracy. To address this issue, a novel real-time micro-algae flocculation analysis method based on the lens-free shadow imaging technique (LSIT) is introduced. Both single cell detection and floc detection are simultaneously available with a proposed lens-free shadow image, confirmed by comparing the results with optical microscope images. And three shadow parameters, e.g., number of flocs, effective area of flocs, and maximum size of floc, enabling quantification of the flocculation phenomenon of micro-alga, are firstly demonstrated in this article. The efficacy of each shadow parameter is verified with the real-time flocculation monitoring experiments using custom developed cohesive agents.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.41-46
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a detection method of reduced computational complexity aimed at separating the moving objects from the background in a generic video sequence. In generally, indoor environments, it is difficult to accurately detect the object because environmental factors, such as lighting changes, shadows, reflections on the floor. First, the background image to detect an object is created. If an object exists in video, on a previously created background images for similarity comparison between the current input image and to detect objects through several operations to generate a mixture image. Mixed-use video and video inputs to detect objects. To complement the objects detected through the labeling process to remove noise components and then apply the technique of morphology complements the object area. Environment variable such as, lighting changes and shadows, to the strength of the object is detected. In this paper, we proposed that environmental factors, such as lighting changes, shadows, reflections on the floor, including the system uses mixture images. Therefore, the existing system more effectively than the object region is detected.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.459-464
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• 2007

영상기반의 3자원 복원(reconstruction)에 대한 연구가 컴퓨터 성능의 발전과 다양한 영상기반의 복원 알고리즘의 연구로 인해 최근 좋은 결과를 보이고 있으나, 이는 얼굴영역과 같은 목적이 되는 영역이 각 입력영상으로부터 미리 정확하게 추출되어 있다고 가정하기 때문이다. 일반적으로 목적이 되는 영역을 추출하기 위해 차영상이 많이 이용되고 있지만 차영상은 잡음과 구멍(hole)과 같은 오 추출된 영역이 발생하기 때문에 목적이 되는 영역을 3차원으로 복원을 할 때 심각한 오류를 초래할 수 있다. 전경물체(목적이 되는 영역)을 정확하게 추출하기 위해 최근 그래프 컷(graph cut)을 이용한 방법이 다양하게 시도되고 있다. 그래프 컷은 데이터 항(data term)과 스무드 항(smooth term)으로 구성된 에너지 함수를 전역적으로 최소화하는 방법으로 여러 공학적 문제에서 좋은 결과를 보이고 있지만, 에너지 함수의 데이터 항을 설정할 때 필요한 사전정보를 자동으로 얻기가 어렵다. 스테레오 비전의 깊이 정보가 최근 전경 물체 추출을 위한 사전정보로 많이 이용되고 있고 그들의 실험환경에서는 좋은 결과를 보이지만, 3차원 얼굴 복원에서 얼굴의 대부분이 동질의 영역을 가지고 있기 때문에 깊이 정보를 구하기 어려워 정확한 사전정보를 구하기가 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 3차원 얼굴 복원을 효과적으로 하기 위한 그래프 컷 기반의 전경 물체 추출 방법을 제안한다. 에너지 함수의 데이터 항을 설정하기 위해 전경 물체에 대한 사전정보를 추출해야 하며, 이를 위해 차영상을 이용하여 대략적인 전경 물체 추출하고, 사전정보에 대한 오류를 줄이기 위해 잡음과 그림자 영역을 제거한다. 잡음과 그림자 영역을 제거하면 구멍이 발생하거나 실루엣이 손상되는 문제가 발생한다. 손상된 정보는 근접한 픽셀이 유사하지 않을 때 낮은 비용을 할당하는 에너지 함수의 스무드(smooth) 항에 의해 에지 정보를 기반으로 채워진다. 결론적으로 제안된 방법은 스무드 항과 대략적으로 설정된 데이터 항으로 구성된 에너지 함수를 그래프 컷으로 전역적으로 최소화함으로써 더욱 정확하게 목적이 되는 영역을 추출할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.171-181
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• 2011

Proposed in this paper is the intelligent video surveillance system to effectively detect multiple loitering objects even that disappear from the out of camera's field of view and later return to a target zone. After the background and foreground are segmented using Gaussian mixture model and shadows are removed, the objects returning to the target zone is recognized using the chromaticity histogram and the duration of loitering is preserved. For more accurate measurement of the loitering behavior, the camera calibration is also applied to map the image plane to the real-world ground. Hence, the loitering behavior can be detected by considering the time duration of the object's existence in the real-world space. The experiment was performed using loitering video and all of the loitering behaviors are accurately detected.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.5D
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• pp.635-644
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• 2009

Image processing technique in the outdoor environment is very sensitive, and it tends to lose a lot of accuracy when it rapidly changes by outdoor environment. Therefore, in order to calculate accurate traffic information using the traffic monitoring system, we must resolve removing shadow in transition time, Distortion by the vehicle headlights at night, noise of rain, snow, and fog, and occlusion. In the research, we developed a system to calibrate the amount of traffic, speed, and time occupancy by using image processing technique in a variety of outdoor environments change. This system were tested under outdoor environments at the Gonjiam test site, which is managed by Korea Institute of Construction Technology (www.kict.re.kr) for testing performance. We evaluated the performance of traffic information, volume counts, speed, and occupancy time, with 4 lanes (2 lanes are upstream and the rests are downstream) from the 16th to 18th December, 2008. The evaluation method performed as based on the standard data is a radar detection compared to calculated data using image processing technique. The System evaluation results showed that the amount of traffic, speed, and time occupancy in period (day, night, sunrise, sunset) are approximately 92-97% accuracy when these data compared to the standard data.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.462-470
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• 2011

We proposed a realtime object tracking system that detects the abandoned or disappeared objects. Because these events are caused by human, we used the tracking based algorithm. After the background subtraction by Gaussian mixture model, the shadow removal is applied for accurate object detection. The static object is classified as either of abandoned objects or disappeared object. We assigned monitoring time to the static object to overcome a situation that it is being overlapped by other object. We obtained more accurate detection by using region growing method. We implemented our algorithm by DSP processor and obtained an excellent result throughout the experiment.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.27-34
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• 2013

Background subtraction is one of the key techniques for automatic video content analysis, especially in the tasks of visual detection and tracking of moving object. In this paper, we present a new sample-based technique for background extraction that provides background image as well as background model. To handle both high-frequency and low-frequency events at the same time, multiple interval background models are adopted. The main innovation concerns the use of a confidence factor to select the best model from the multiple interval background models. To our knowledge, it is the first time that a confidence factor is used for merging several background models in the field of background extraction. Experimental results revealed that our approach based on multiple interval sampling works well in complicated situations containing various speed moving objects with environmental changes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1661-1666
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• 2010

Due to light condition or shadow around camera, acquired image sequence is often degraded by intensity fluctuation. This artifact is called luminance flicker. As the luminance flicker corrupts the performance of motion estimation or object detection, it should be corrected before further processing. In this paper, we analyze the flicker generation model and propose the new algorithm for flicker reduction. The proposed algorithm considers gain and offset parameter separately, and stabilizes the luminance fluctuation based on these parameters. We show the performance of the proposed method by testing on the sequence with artificially added luminance flicker and real sequence with object motion.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.301-304
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• 2007

자동으로 이미지 안에 존재하는 객체들을 인식하는 문제는 내용 기반 이미지 검색이나 로봇 비전과 같은 다양한 분야들에서 매우 중요한 문제이다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 객체의 주요 색상 정보들을 이용하여 실시간으로 이미지 안의 객체들을 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법의 전체적인 구조는 다음과 같다. 처음에 MPEG-7 색상 정보 기술자들 중 하나인 주요 색상 정보 기술자를 이용하여 객체의 주요 색상 정보들을 추출한다. 이 때 이 정보는 가우시안 색상 모델링을 통하여 빛이나 그림자와 같은 외부 환경 조건에 좀 더 강인한 색상 정보로 변환된다. 다음으로 변환된 색상 정보들을 기반으로 주요 객체와 입력 이미지와의 픽셀 값차이를 계산하고, 임계값 이상의 값을 가지는 픽셀들을 제거한다. 마지막으로 입력 이미지에서 제거되지 않은 픽셀들을 기반으로 하나의 영역을 생성한다. 결론으로서, 본 논문에서는 제안된 방법에 대한 실험 평가들을 수행 및 분석하고 몇몇 한계점들에 대해서 알아본다. 또한 이 문제들을 해결하기 위한 앞으로의 연구 계획에 대해서 기술한다.