• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.96-104
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a no-reference objective Quality assessment metrics of image. The blockiness and blurring of edge areas which are sensitive to the human visual system are modeled as step functions. Blocking and blur metrics are obtained by estimating local visibility of blockiness and edge width, For the blocking metric, horizontal and vertical blocking lines are first determined by accumulating weighted differences of adjacent pixels and then the local visibility of blockiness at the intersection of blocking lines is obtained from the total difference of amplitudes of the 2-D step function which is modelled as a blocking region. The blurred input image is first re-blurred by a Gaussian blur kernel and an edge mask image is generated. In edge blocks, the local edge width is calculated from four directional projections (horizontal, vertical and two diagonal directions) using local extrema positions. In addition, the kurtosis and SSIM are used to compute the blur metric. The final no-reference objective metric is computed after those values are combined using an appropriate function. Experimental results show that the proposed objective metrics are highly correlated to the subjective data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.225-228
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• 2005

본 논문에서 제안한 실시간 모바일 감시 시스템은 소형 화상 카메라를 이용하여 PC상에서 구현할 수 있도록 함으로써 저렴한 비용으로 시스템 구축이 이루어 졌고, 동작 검출을 위한 영상처리에서 프레임 메모리를 사용하지 않고, 기준 영상과 현재 영상의 블록별 특징 값만을 비교하기 때문에 처리 속도가 현저하게 향상되었다. 검출된 영상을 모바일 클라이언트로 전송하기 위해서 WAP 풀 기반 영상전송 방법을 사용하여 WIPI SDK로 구현함으로써 감시 영상의 변환과 전송을 실시간으로 구현할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.3B
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• pp.295-301
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• 2001

전송과정에서 발생하는 왜곡량에 따라 전송률의 하한이 결정되는 율-왜곡 이론은 시간적으로 민감한 부분을 왜곡없이 부호화하여 전송하는 영상 시스템에서 기본이 되는 중요한 요소이다. 율-왜곡 이론은 정보량의 개념으로부터 시작되어 원 신호의 확률분포와 왜곡의 측정기준에 의해 결정되는데, 이 논문에서는 가우시안과 라플라시안 분포함수에 절대치 오차기준과 자승 오차기준을 적용하여 율-왜곡 함수를 각각 구하였다. 나아가서 저전송률 부호기로 개발된 H.263 부호기에 이 함수를 적용하여 분석하였다. 비교를 위해 자승 오차기준에 위한 이론치와 실제 측정치를 제시하였다. H.263 부호기는 엔트로피 부호화, 부호화를 블록 패턴 등 다양한 기법을 사용하여 율-왜곡 함수에 의한 이론치보다 주어진 MSE에서 정규화 비트율이 최대 0.55만큼 더 낮은 전송률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.79-87
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• 2008

There has been a strong demand for low altitude UAV development in rapid mapping not only to acquire high resolution image with much more low cost and weather independent, compared to satellite surveying or traditional aerial surveying, but also to meet many needs of the aerial photogrammetry. Especially, efficient geocoding of UAV imagery is the key issue. Contrary to high UAV potential for civilian applications, the technology development in photogrammetry for example direct georeferencing is in the early stage and it requires further research and additional technical development. In this study, two approaches are supposed for automatic geocoding of UAV still images by simple affine transformation and block adjustment of affine transformation using minimal ground control points and also evaluated the applicability and quality of geometric model compared to geocoded images generated by commercial S/W.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.526-528
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• 1998

영상 자료는 일반적으로 많은 정보량을 가지기 때문에 저장 공간과 전송 시간의 문제 등이 발생한다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 영상 압축 기법이 사용되며 그 방법 중의 하나로 벡터 양자화가 있다. 벡터 양자화는 압축률은 높지만 시간이 많이 걸리는데, 전체 처리 시간 중에서도 영상의 각 블록에 해당하는 코드벡터를 찾기 위해 주어진 코드북을 탐색하는 단계에 소요되는 시간이 가장 큰 비중을 차지한다. 본 논문에서는 코드북 탐색에 소요되는 시간을 줄여 벡터 양자화를 빠르게 하기 위한 방법으로 삼각 부등식을 이용하는 빠른 코드북 탐색법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 삼각 부등식을 이용해 구한 하한값을 기준으로 불필요한 계산을 줄여서 탐색 속도를 증가시킨다. 제안된 방법의 평가를 의해 100장의 256$\times$256, 256 레벨 흑백 영상을 사용하였고, 기존의 전체 탐색 방법에 비해 배 이상의 속도 향상을 얻을 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.11C
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• pp.1066-1072
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a fast multiple reference frame selection method for motion estimation and compensation in video coding. Reference frames selected as an optimal reference frame by variable block sizes motion estimation have the statistical characteristic that was based on block size. Using the statistical characteristic, reference frames for smaller block size motion estimation can be selected from reference frame which was decided as an optimal one for the upper layer block size. Simulation results show that the proposal method decreased the computations about 60%. Nevertheless, PSNR and bit rate were almost same as the performances of original H.264 multiple reference motion estimation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.29-40
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• 2007

The purpose of this research is to propose a method for scoring the quality of a fingerprint image using the local information derived from the fingerprint image. In previous works for the quality measuring, most of the quality scores are related to the performance of a matching algorithm, and this makes the quality result more subjective. The quality score of a fingerprint image proposed in this work is sensor-independent, source-independent and matcher-independent one, and this concept of fingerprint sample quality results in effective improvement of the system performance. In this research, a new definition of fingerprint image quality and a new method for measuring the quality are proposed. For the experiments, several sub-databases from FVCs are used and the proposed method showed reasonable results for the test database. The proposed method can be used in various systems for the numerous purposes since the quality scores generated by the proposed method are based on the idea that the quality of fingerprint should be sensor-independent, source-independent and matcher-independent.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.127-132
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a visual inspection method of automotive parts for injection molding to improve the appearance quality and productivity of automotive parts. Exterior inspection of existing injection molding automobile parts was generally done by manual sampling inspection by human. First, we applied the edge-tolerance vision inspection algorithm ([1] - [4]) for vision inspection of electronic components (TFT-LCD and PCB) And we propose a new visual inspection method to overcome the problem. In the proposed visual inspection, the inspection images of the parts to be inspected are aligned on the basis of the reference image of good quality. Then, after partial adaptive binarization, the binary block matching algorithm is used to compare the good binary image and the test binary image. We verified the effectiveness of the edge-tolerance vision check algorithm and the proposed appearance vision test method through various comparative experiments using actual developed equipment.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.2A
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• pp.137-145
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• 2002

In the method of 3D modeling, stereo matching method which obtains three dimensional depth information from the two images is taken from the different view points. In general, it is very essential work for the 3D modeling from 2D stereo images to estimate the exact disparity through fading the conjugate pair of pixel from the left and right image. In this paper to solve the problems of the stereo image disparity estimation, we introduce a novel approach method to improve the exactness and efficiency of the disparity. In the first place, we perform a wavelet transformation of the stereo images and set the reference points in the image by the feature-based matching method. This reference points have very high probability over 95 %. In the base of these reference points we can decide the size of the variable block searching windows for estimating dense disparity of area based method and perform the ordering constraint to prevent mismatching. By doing this, we could estimate the disparity in a short time and solve the occlusion caused by applying the fried-sized windows and probable error caused by repeating patterns.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.118-121
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• 2003

지문을 이용한 개인 인증 절차는 지문 형태 별로 구분하는 분류(classification) 과정과 본인임을 확인하는 정합(matching) 과정으로 구분할 수 있다. 지문의 분류와 정합을 위해서는 기존 연구들이 지문의 특징점 수와 방향성의 흐름 패턴에 의존한다. 본 논문에서는 방향성의 흐름 패턴을 이용한 중심점 추출에 초점이 맞춰져 있으며 추출된 중심점 정보는 현재 구현되어진 특징점 추출 정보와 연계해 정합을 위한 기준점으로 활용한다. 중심점 추출 방식은 입력된 지문 영상에 대해 3 $\times$ 3 Sobel 마스크를 적용한 후 8 $\times$ 8블록 영상을 분할하여 각 대표 방향 성분을 추출하며 추출되어진 방향 성분과 특이점 패턴을 비교하여 중심점을 탐색한다.