• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.608-611
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a robust face recognition technique based on the principle of eigenfaces. The traditional eigenface recognition (EFR) method works quite well when the input test patterns are cropped fares. However, when confronted with recognizing faces embedded in arbitrary backgrounds, the EFR method fails to discriminate effectively between faces and background patterns, giving rise to many false alarms. In order to improve robustness in the presence of background, we argue in favor of loaming the distribution of background patterns. A background space is constructed from the background patterns and this space together with the face space is used for recognizing faces. The proposed method outperforms the traditional EFR technique and gives very good results even on complicated scenes.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.38-47
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• 2013

An image coding based on MRC model, a kind of multi-layer image model, first segments a screen image into foreground, mask, and background layers, and then compresses each layer using a codec that is suitable to the layer. The mask layer defines the position of foreground regions such as textual and graphical contents. The colour signal of the foreground (background) region is saved in the foreground (background) layer. The mask layer which contains the segmentation result of foreground and background regions is of importance since its accuracy directly affects the overall coding performance of the codec. This paper proposes a new layer segmentation algorithm for the MRC based image coding. The proposed method extracts text pixels from the background using morphological top hat filtering. The application of white or black top hat transformation to local blocks is controlled by the information of relative brightness of text compared to the background. In the proposed method, the boundary information of text that is extracted from the edge map of the block is used for the robust decision on the relative brightness of text. Simulation results show that the proposed method is superior to the conventional methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.128-139
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• 2005

Moving object boundary is very important for moving object segmentation. But the moving object boundary shows broken boundary We invent a novel space-oriented boundary linking algorithm to link the broken boundary The boundary linking algorithm forms a quadrant around the terminating pixel in the broken boundary and searches forward other terminating pixel to link within a radius. The boundary linking algorithm guarantees shortest distance linking. We also register the background from image sequence. We construct two object masks, one from the result of boundary linking and the other from the registered background, and use these two complementary object masks together for moving object segmentation. We also suppress the moving cast shadow using Roberts gradient operator. The major advantages of the proposed algorithms are more accurate moving object segmentation and the segmentation of the object which has holes in its region using these two object masks. We experiment the algorithms using the standard MPEG-4 test sequences and real video sequence. The proposed algorithms are very efficient and can process QCIF image more than 48 fps and CIF image more than 19 fps using a 2.0GHz Pentium-4 computer.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.442-447
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• 2006

디지털 카메라의 대중화와 고용량 저장매체의 보편화로 인해 대중들은 손쉽게 디지털 사진 촬영이 가능하게 되었다. 디지털 사진은 필름 사진과 달리 촬영을 하는데 있어 비용이 들지 않을 뿐만 아니라 플래쉬 메모리의 증가로 인해 다수의 사진들을 촬영할 수 있게 되었으나 그만큼 많은 사진들을 관리하고 분류하는 것은 쉽지 않은 일이 되었다. 따라서 디지털 사진을 자동으로 분류하고 관리하는 기능은 중요한 과제가 되었지만, 현재까지 나온 방법들은 사진 내의 객체가 확대, 축소 및 이동하거나 배경이 바뀌는 영상에 있어서 정확한 유사도를 측정하여 분류하는데 어려움이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 어려움을 보완한 디지털 사진의 클러스터링 알고리즘을 제안한다. 입력영상을 그리드 형태로 나누어 각 블록별로 측정한 유사도 값을 바탕으로 클러스터링하며, 이때 디지털 사진 내에 포함되어 있는 촬영정보인 EXIF를 이용하여 입력 영상에 따라 적응적(adaptive)으로 그리드를 나누어 비교한다. 또한, 영상에 따라 각기 다른 색상의 분포 정도를 고려해 색상 가중치를 고려하여 사진을 비교함으로써, 영상의 고수준(high-level) 분석에서처럼 객체와 배경을 추출하여 따로 분리하지 않고도 객체의 배경이 다른 사진들을 저수준(low-level) 에서 분석이 가능토록 하였다. 제안한 방법으로 실험한 결과 객체의 크기 및 이동이나 배경에 큰 영향을 받지 않으면서 입력영상들을 클러스터링 할 수 있었다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.255-274
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• 2006

Moving object boundary is very important for the accurate segmentation of moving object. We extract the moving object boundary from the moving object edge. But the object boundary shows broken boundaries so we develop a novel boundary linking algorithm to link the broken boundaries. The boundary linking algorithm forms a quadrant around the terminating pixel in the broken boundaries and searches for other terminating pixels to link in concentric circles clockwise within a search radius in the forward direction. The boundary linking algorithm guarantees the shortest distance linking. We register the background from the image sequence using the stationary background filtering. We construct two object masks, one object mask from the boundary linking and the other object mask from the initial moving object, and use these two complementary object masks to segment the moving objects. The main contribution of the proposed algorithms is the development of the novel object boundary linking algorithm for the accurate segmentation. We achieve the accurate segmentation of moving object, the segmentation of multiple moving objects, the segmentation of the object which has a hole within the object, the segmentation of thin objects, and the segmentation of moving objects in the complex background using the novel object boundary linking and the background automatically. We experiment the algorithms using standard MPEG-4 test video sequences and real video sequences of indoor and outdoor environments. The proposed algorithms are efficient and can process 70.20 QCIF frames per second and 19.7 CIF frames per second on the average on a Pentium-IV 3.4GHz personal computer for real-time object-based processing.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.835-847
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• 1998

관리사무실에서 원거리 현장사무실을 관리할 수 있는 직접적인 방법이 없는 형편이다. 전화나 팩스를 이용할 경우에 소요되는 인력이나 경제적 손실등에대한 낭비가 막대하다. 이에 따라 감시 카메라를 사용하는 기업이 산업화가 가속화되면서 점차 늘어나고 있다. 생산 현장등에서 차량 감시 시스템, 경비 시스템, 주차장 관리 시스템등의 다양한 부문별로 감시 카메라를 이용하는 기업들이 많이 있다. 이러한 기업들의 시스템에서 실시간 감시 관리 시스템을 이용하여 동화상 자체를 카메라에 연결된 시스템의 저장매체에 저장하고 있으며, 이를 감시인이 원거리에서 실시간 감시하고 있다. 이런 경우에는 시스템의 비용이 고가이고 저장된 영상의 분석 또한 쉽지 않다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 경제적이고 실용적인 방법으로 감시 카메라, 영상 전송 시스템, 영상 분석 시스템등으로 구성되어 웹 기반으로 활용할 수 있는 생산현장 원격 관리 시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.140-144
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• 2012

The classic method of recording and retrieving of images for video monitoring was very inefficient since the system required huge storage capacity. It's because it stored images without separating background and monitored objects. The recording and retrieval method of images for the video monitoring system we proposed in this paper makes it possible to retrieve images easily by using database by the hour and the place. Hence, it retrieve images much more efficiently than the existing method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1948-1951
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 디지털 멀티미디어 방송 및 양방향 인터넷 방송 등에서 효율적인 객체기반 방송 서비스를 제공하기 위한 비선형 비디오 편집 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 시스템은 실시간으로 카메라를 통해 입력되는 영상 데이터에 대해 자동으로 움직이는 객체를 추출하는 자동분할과 HDD(hard Disk) 등에 저장되어 있는 동영상을 사용자의 조력에 의해 분할하는 반자동분할 기능을 제공한다. 그리고 추출된 객체를 저장매체에 저장되어 있는 그래픽 및 실사 배경영상과 합성하고 MPEG으로 부호화 할 수 있다. 또한 정보 유출을 원치 않는 객체에 대한 은닉 기능을 가지고 있다. 따라서 구현된 시스템은 비디오 정보제공자가 편리하게 객체를 분할하고 편집할 수 있으며 비디오 정보를 단기간에 효율적으로 비디오 정보 사용자에게 공급할 수 있는 기능을 제공한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.253-258
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• 2004

To get accurate information about the defect from the test signal, NDT engineers should have a good knowledge on forward problems. Such knowledge is usually obtained by a lot of testing experiences. Another why of obtaining such knowledge is to build a database containing lots of defect information and their corresponding signals. However, the archiving of raw test data would require a lot of storage space. In this paper, an economic way of storing signals is studied by using Fourier descriptors. Instead of saving raw signal data, Fourier descriptors are saved and the storage spare is reduced. Of course, the defect signal can be reconstructed from the stored descriptors. By using differential ECT signals produced by numerical modeling and experiment, the savings of 85% from the original signal and $57{\sim}65%$ from the filtered signal in the storage space were confirmed. The similarity of the reconstructed signal and the original signal was also demonstrated. This Fourier descriptor approach could contribute significantly in building differential signal databases.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.104-113
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• 1993

Due to steady increase of electric power demand and decrease of load factor, the economic and reasonable operation of electric power system is necessary. Because of this reason, dispersed battery energy storage system(BESS) with fast response is receiving attractive attention. With these considerations, 20 kVA BESS is designed and tested to investigate the possibility of BESS application to power system. This paper describes the design specifications of simulator and test results. BESS is composed of batteries, conversion equipments, interconnecting equipments to power system, and control parts of the system. The inverter of BESS can carry out two functions as charger and discharger. Also, it can operate as a VAR compensator by four quadrant operation. Since this system is designed as a simulator of MW system, the conceptual design of MW system is possible by using the test result of test system The study of BESS is preliminary stage for the future MW class BESS.