• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.278-281
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• 2008

본 논문은 그림자 밝기의 선형적 변화를 비균일하게 양자화하여 그림자를 검출하는 기법을 제안한다. 그림자의 밝기의 선형성 적용은 기하학 정보, 광원의 종류 및 방위에 독립적일 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 이 기법은 그림자 밝기가 점진적으로 변하거나 변화가 없다는 가정과 그림자는 어둡다는 공리를 기반한다. 먼저, 전처리를 통하여 그림자 후보영상을 검출한다. 다음으로, 인접화소들 사이의 선형의존성을 낮추기 위하여 유사 밝기를 대표 밝기로 표현하기 위해 양자화 한다. 이때 선형성을 증가시키 위해 등비수열을 이용하여 비균일 양자화한다. 마지막으로, 그림자 밝기의 선형적 변화 특성을 이용하여 선형의존성이 높은 그림자를 검출한다. 임의의 단일 자연영상의 실험에서, 제안한 알고리즘은 본영과 단색 배경을 갖는 반영 및 셀프그림자의 검출에 강건함을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.259-262
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 정확한 비디오 객체 분할을 위한 글로벌 가우시안 모델 기반의 이동 외부 그림자영역 검출방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 현재 픽셀과 배경 픽셀의 컬러 벡터간의 사이 각을 가중치 함수로 변환하고, 이를 그림자 모델의 확률 밀도에 곱하여 구한 값을 그림자 검출에 사용하고 이를 다시 그림자 모델의 입력으로 하여 검출된 픽셀 들의 분포가 자동으로 영상의 실제 그림자 분포에 근접하게 하였다. 또한, 잘못 검출된 그림자 영역을 제거하기 위해 영역의 위치 정보를 이용한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 방법은 적응적으로 그림자를 검출하면서도 높은 분할 정확도를 가지고 있음을 보인다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.103-110
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a shadow detection algorithm using the shadow features which appear in color images. Shadow regions have lower luminance and saturation than those of nearby regions, and is generally shown as dark colors. The regions are detected by means of analysing and applying their properties to images represented as the HSI color model. The proposed algorithm is consisted of two steps: at the first step, the candidate regions of shadow are found with using shadow features, and then, real shadow regions are detected only in candidate regions by using their information to reduce real objects and dark marks. The experimental results show that the algorithm is effective.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.6
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• pp.527-532
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• 2008

This paper proposes a novel approach to shadow detection from a single natural image regardless of orientation and type of light sources. This approach is based on the assumption that shadow brightness changes linearly, and the axiom that a region cast shadow on is darker than that not having shadow under the same environment. Firstly, candidates for shadow are extracted by preprocessing. Then, they are quantized to replace the similar values with a representative value because of the more quantization steps of a pixel brightness, the higher linear independency among the neighboring pixels. Finally, shadows are detected according to linear independency of shadow brightness based on the assumption. The experimental results showed the proposed approach can robustly detect umbra as well as self-shadow and penumbra cast on a single-colored background.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.380-385
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• 2016

Shadows are common phenomena observed in natural scenes and often bring a major problem that is affected negatively in colour image analysis. It is important to detect the shadow areas and should be considered in the pre-processing of computer vision. In this paper, the method of shadow detection is proposed using cross entropy and intensity image, and is performed in single image based on the satellite images. After converting the color image to a gray level image, the shadow candidate region has been estimated the optimal threshold value by cross entropy, and then the final shadow region has been detected using intensity image. For the validity of the proposed method, the satellite images is used to experiment. Some experiments are conducted so as to verify the proposed method, and as a result, shadow detection is well performed.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.165-171
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• 2018

Shadow is a physical phenomenon observed in natural scenes and has a negative effect on various image processing systems such as intelligent video surveillance, traffic surveillance and aerial imagery analysis. Therefore, shadow detection should be considered as a preprocessing process in all areas of computer vision. In this paper, we define and analyze various feature elements for shadow detection in a single natural image that does not require a reference image. The shadow elements describe the intensity, chromaticity, illuminant-invariant, color invariance, and entropy image, which indicate the uncertainty of the information. The results show that the chromaticity and illuminant-invariant images are effective for shadow detection. In the future, we will define a fusion map of various shadow feature elements, and continue to study shadow detection that can adapt to various lighting levels, and shadow removal using chromaticity and illuminance invariant images.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.235-242
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• 2000

This paper presents a method to detect buildings using shadow information in satellite imagery. We classify image into three categories of building region, shadow region and background region to find buildings with consistent intensity. After the removal of noises in building regions and shadow regions, buildings adjacent to shadow regions are detected using the constraint of building and shadow sizes. The algorithm has been applied to KOMPSAT and SPOT images and the result showed buildings are efficiently detected.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.574-578
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• 2009

Real-time object detection for distinguishing a moving object of interests from the background image in still image or video image sequence is an essential step to a correct object tracking and recognition. Moving cast shadow can be misclassified as part of objects or moving objects because the shadow region is included in the moving object region after object segmentation. For this reason, an algorithm for shadow removal plays an important role in the results of accurate moving object detection and tracking systems. To handle with the problems, an accurate algorithm based on the features of moving object and shadow in color space is presented in this paper. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is effective to detect a moving object and to remove shadow in test video sequences.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.307-308
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• 2015

자동차 번호판의 문자를 검출하기 위한 과정 중 그림자가 있는 후면 번호판을 이진화하는 방법을 제안한다. 대부분의 경우 차량구조에 의한 그림자 발생이 문자를 검출하는데 오류를 발생시킨다. 이를 해결하기 위해 그림자 영역과 아닌 영역의 경계를 검출해야 한다. 하지만, 기존 방법은 히스토그램에서 세 개의 영역사이에 있는 임계값 2개를 수동으로 결정해야 되는 점과 현재번호판의 색상인 흰색 바탕에 검은 문자에 적용하면 문자 영역의 그림자 경계선 검출이 모호하다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 슬라이딩 윈도우를 이용한 히스토그램과 탐색하는 픽셀의 좌, 우 픽셀들을 스캔하여 연결되지 않은 에지를 찾아 그림자 경계선 에지를 연결하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.161-170
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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 information concerning traffic flow is obtained to describe the load of each lane.