• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.249-256
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• 2015

Shadow is a common physical phenomenon in natural images and may cause problems in computer vision tasks. Therefore, shadow removal is an essential preprocessing process for effective moving object tracking in video image. In this paper, we proposed the method of shadow removal algorithm using chromaticity, brightness distortion and direction of shadow candidate. The proposed method consists of two steps. First, removal process of primary shadow candidate region by using chromaticity, brightness and distortion. The second stage applies the final shadow candidate region to obtain a direction feature of shadow which is estimated by the thinning algorithm after calculating the lowest pixel position of the moving object. To verify the proposed approach, some experiments are conducted to draw a compare between conventional method and that of proposed. Experimental results showed that proposed methodology is simple, but robust and well adaptive to be need to remove a shadow removal operation.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.400-407
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• 2019

In this paper, the shadow detection and reconstruction method are proposed using intrinsic image, which does not change the essential characteristics under the influence of various illuminance, and multi-scale gamma correction. The shadow detection was estimated by the pixel change information between a grayscale and an intrinsic image of the color image, and the brightness of the image were adjusted by gamma correction in the shadow restoration process. Multi-scale gamma correction is performed for each channel of a color image due to the fact that the saturation can be changed by nonlinear adjustment to individual pixel values. Multi-scale gamma values are estimated based on the information of the crossed edge between shadows and non-shadowed regions in the color image, as a result, the shadows are reconstructed by correcting different region features with multi-scale gamma values. Experimental results show that the proposed method effectively reconstructs shadows in a single natural image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.850-852
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 교통 영상에서 실시간으로 차량을 검출하는 새로운 기법을 소개한다. 차량의 검출을 위하여 구배도의 방향 정보를 사용하며 차량 영역의 정확한 분할을 위하여 은닉 마르코프 모델을 사용한다. 구배도 방향정보를 이용하므로 그림자 영역의 영향을 줄일 수 있으며 은닉 마르코프 모델을 이용하므로 배경과 비슷한 차량과 근접한 차량의 분리가 가능하다. 따라서 저해상도의 교 통 영상에서 다양한 기상 조건, 그림자의 존재와 교통 상황에 강건한 검출 결과를 나타낸다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.610-622
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• 2008

Moving object segmentation is an essential technique for various video surveillance applications. The result of moving object segmentation often contains shadow regions caused by the color difference of shadow pixels. Hence, moving object segmentation is usually followed by a shadow elimination process to remove the false detection results. The common assumption adopted in previous works is that, under the illumination variation, the value of chromaticity components are preserved while the value of intensity component is changed. Hence, color transforms which separates luminance component and chromaticity component are usually utilized to remove shadow pixels. In this paper, various color spaces (YCbCr, HSI, normalized rgb, Yxy, Lab, c1c2c3) are examined to find the most appropriate color space for shadow elimination. So far, there have been some research efforts to compare the influence of various color spaces for shadow elimination. However, previous efforts are somewhat insufficient to compare the color distortions under illumination change in diverse color spaces, since they used a specific shadow elimination scheme or different thresholds for different color spaces. In this paper, to relieve the limitations of previous works, (1) the amount of gradients in shadow boundaries drawn to uniform colored regions are examined only for chromaticity components to compare the color distortion under illumination change and (2) the accuracy of background subtraction are analyzed via RoC curves to compare different color spaces without the problem of threshold level selection. Through experiments on real video sequences, YCbCr and normalized rgb color spaces showed good results for shadow elimination among various color spaces used for the experiments.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1892-1897
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• 2017

This paper proposes a finger counting algorithm for a hand with stuck fingers. The proposed algorithm is based on the fact that straight line type shadows are inevitably generated between fingers. It divides the hand region into the thumb region and the four fingers region for effective shadow detection, and generates an edge image in each region. Projection curves are generated by appling a line detection and a projection technique to each edge image, and the peaks of the curves are detected as candidates for finger shadows. And then peaks due to finger shadows are extracted from them and counted. In the finger counting experiment on hand images expressing various shapes with stuck fingers, the counting success rate is from 83.3% to 100% according to the number of fingers, and 93.1% on the whole. It also shows that if hand images are generated under controlled conditions, the failure cases can be sufficiently improved.

• 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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• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.916-918
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 감시 시스템 내에서 검출된 객체에 대해 정확한 특징벡터를 추출하기 위한 그림자 제거(shadow casting)방법을 제안한다. 그림자에 의해 부정확한 특징벡터를 가지게 되는 객체는 동일한 객체임에도 불구하고 서로 다른 객체로 인식하는 잘못된 결과를 가져온다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 추출된 객체의 경계선(edge)의 수직 히스토그램과 그림자의 방향성을 사용하여 그림자를 제거한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.838-840
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 감시 시스템 내에서 검출된 객체에 대해 정확한 특징벡터를 추출하기 위한 그림자 제거(shadow casting)방법을 제안한다. 그림자에 외해 부정확한 특징벡터를 가지게 되는 객체는 동일한 객체임에도 불구하고 서로 다른 객체로 인식하는 잘못된 결과를 가져온다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 객체가 가지는 대칭성을 사용하여 그림자 후보 영역을 추출한 후 중심축으로부터의 거리에 비례한 가중치값을 사용하여, 추출한 영역에 대해 그림자를 제거를 수행한다.