• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.14D no.7
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• pp.727-732
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• 2007

Most of previous work on indexing and searching time series focused on the similarity matching and retrieval of one-attribute time series. However, multimedia databases such as music, video need to handle the similarity search in multi-attribute time series. The limitation of the current similarity models for multi-attribute sequences is that there is no consideration for attributes' sequences. The multi-attribute sequences are composed of several attributes' sequences. Since the users may want to find the similar patterns considering attributes's sequences, it is more appropriate to consider the similarity between two multi-attribute sequences in the viewpoint of attributes' sequences. In this paper, we propose the similarity search method based on attributes's sequences in multi-attribute time series databases. The proposed method can efficiently reduce the search space and guarantees no false dismissals. In addition, we give preliminary experimental results to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.295-307
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• 1998

This article is an overview of the digital library project, indicating what roles Koreas diverse digital collections may play. Our digital library prototype has simple architecture, consisting of digital repositories, filters, indexing and searching, and clients. Digital repositories include various types of materials and databases. The role of filters is to recognize a format of a document collection and mark the structural components of each of its documents. We are using a database management system (ORACLE and ConText) supporting user-defined functions and access methods that allows us to easily incorporate new object analysis, structuring, and indexing technology into a repository. Clients can be considered browsers or viewers designed for different document data types, such as image, audio, video, SGML, PDF, and KORMARC. The combination of navigational tools supports a variety of approaches to identifying collections and browsing or searching for individual items. The search interface was implemented using HTML forms and the World Wide Web's CGI mechanism.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.2 s.308
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• pp.65-72
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• 2006

The traffic lights detection and recognition system is an essential module of the driver warning and assistance system. A method which is a color vision-based real time detection and recognition of traffic lights is presented in this paper This method has four main modules : traffic signals lights detection module, traffic lights boundary candidate determination module, boundary detection module and recognition module. In traffic signals lights detection module and boundary detection module, the color thresholding and the subtraction value of saturation and intensity in HSI color space and detection probability mask for lights detection are used to segment the image. In traffic lights boundary candidate determination module, the detection mask of traffic lights boundary is proposed. For the recognition module, the AND operator is applied to the results of two detection modules. The input data for this method is the color image sequence taken from a moving vehicle by a color video camera. The recorded image data was transformed by zooming function of the camera. And traffic lights detection and recognition experimental results was presented in this zoomed image sequence.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.294-297
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• 2003

최근 3차원 영상의 압축 방법에 대한 연구가 여러 분야에서 활발히 이루어지고 있으며, 특히 MPEG에서는 이와 관련하여 Exploration Experiment를 통하여 효율적인 기법을 연구하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 EE3를 위하여 스테레오 비디오 압축을 위한 효율적인 블록기반 시차예측 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 스테레오 영상의 특성 중 주변 블록의 시차 벡터가 유사하다는 점을 이용하여 주변의 시차벡터를 예측 파라미터로 사용함으로써 계산량을 감소시킬 수 있었다. 또한, 예측 오차가 큰 객체의 경계면에서 블록의 크기를 4분할로 분할하여 시차 벡터를 재검색 하는 기법으로 경계 블록에 대한 예측 오차를 감소시킬 수 있었다. 모의 실험 결과 기존의 블록정합기법(BMA)에 비해 최대 75%의 계산량이 감소하였으며, PSNR 측면에서도 0.3dB이상 개선되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.266-269
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• 2001

이미지와 비디오신호 처리는 영상인식에 있어 중요한 요소이다. 셀룰라 신경회로망은 영상과 관련된 분야에서 많이 사용되고 있다. 그 응용분야로서 본 논문에서는 로봇축구에 적용하기 위하여 8색의 컬러구분을 통한 축구로봇의 인식과, 또한 경기장의 격자구조의 분할을 통한 셀간의 이동을 통하여 간단한 경로 이동과 급변하는 환경의 변화에 적응하는 시스템을 구현한다. CNN을 이용한 영상처리에서는 각 셀을 화면상의 각 화소에 대응하고, 셀의 출력의 값을 화소의 값으로 정한다. CNN을 이용한 경로계획에서는 각 셀이 격자구조 경기장의 한 부분이 되고, 정의된 출력의 셀이 로봇이 이동할 목표가 된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.1035-1038
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• 2004

스테가노그라피는 비밀 정보를 이미지나 오디오, 비디오 또는 텍스트 등 커버(cover) 라고 불리는 다른 미디어에 숨겨서 전송하는 방법으로 제 3자는 정보가 숨겨져 있다는 사실 자체를 알지 못하도록 하는 것이다. 대부분 영상 데이터를 이용하고 있으나, 제한된 색으로만 구성된 이진 영상 및 다치 영상의 경우 비시각적으로 비밀 정보를 숨기는 것이 일반 컬러 또는 그레이 영상에 비해 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 가중치 테이블을 사용하여 영상의 한 블록에 최대 2비트만을 변경시키면서 많은 양의 정보를 숨기는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.207-221
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• 2006

A fully automatic and computationally efficient method is proposed for intelligent display of soccer video on small multimedia mobile devices. The rapid progress of the multimedia signal processing has contributed to the extensive use of multimedia devices with a small LCD panel. With these emerging small mobile devices, the video sequences captured for standard- or HDTV broadcasting may give the small-display-viewers uncomfortable experiences in understanding what is happening in a scene. For instance, in a soccer video sequence taken by a long-shot camera technique, the tiny objects (e.g., soccer ball and players) may not be clearly viewed on the small LCD panel. Thus, an intelligent display technique is needed for small-display-viewers. To this end, one of the key technologies is to determine region of interest (ROI), which is a part of the scene that viewers pay more attention to than other regions. In this paper, the focus is on soccer video display for mobile devices. Instead of taking visual saliency into account, we take domain-specific approach to exploit the characteristics of the soccer video. The proposed scheme includes three modules; ground color learning, shot classification, and ROI determination. The experimental results show the propose scheme is capable of intelligent video display on mobile devices.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.6
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• pp.657-664
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• 2003

Reliable tracking of moving humans is essential to motion estimation, video surveillance and human-computer interface. This paper presents a new approach to human motion tracking that combines appearance-based and model-based techniques. Monocular color video is processed at both pixel level and object level. At the pixel level, a Gaussian mixture model is used to train and classily individual pixel colors. At the object level, a 3D human body model projected on a 2D image plane is used to fit the image data. Our method does not use inverse kinematics due to the singularity problem. While many others use stochastic sampling for model-based motion tracking, our method is purely dependent on nonlinear programming. We convert the human motion tracking problem into a nonlinear programming problem. A cost function for parameter optimization is used to estimate the degree of the overlapping between the foreground input image silhouette and a projected 3D model body silhouette. The overlapping is computed using computational geometry by converting a set of pixels from the image domain to a polygon in the real projection plane domain. Our method is used to recognize various human motions. Motion tracking results from video sequences are very encouraging.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.4 s.310
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• pp.74-86
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• 2006

This paper proposes a robust and computationally efficient algorithm for automatic video object segmentation. For implementing the spatio-temporal segmentation, which aims for efficient combination of the motion segmentation and the color segmentation, an SOM-based hierarchical clustering method in which the segmentation process is regarded as clustering of feature vectors is employed. As results, problems of high computational complexity which required for obtaining exact segmentation results in conventional video object segmentation methods, and the performance degradation due to noise are significantly reduced. A measure of motion vector reliability which employs MRF-based MAP estimation scheme has been introduced to minimize the influence from the motion estimation error. In addition, a noise elimination scheme based on the motion reliability histogram and a clustering validity index for automatically identifying the number of objects in the scene have been applied. A cross projection method for effective object tracking and a dynamic memory to maintain temporal coherency have been introduced as well. A set of experiments has been conducted over several video sequences to evaluate the proposed algorithm, and the efficiency in terms of computational complexity, robustness from noise, and higher segmentation accuracy of the proposed algorithm have been proved.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.23-34
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• 2004

Video camera can be a useful tool to capture images for use in colorimeter. However the RGB signals generated by different video camera are not equal for the same scene. The video camera for use in colorimeter is characterized based on the CIE standard colorimetric observer. One method of deriving a colorimetric characterization matrix between camera RGB output signals and CIE XYZ tristimulus values is least squares polynomial modeling. However it needs tedious experiments to obtain camera transfer matrix under various white balance point for the same camera. In this paper, a new method to obtain camera transfer matrix under different white balance by using 3${\times}$3 camera transfer matrix under a certain white balance point is proposed. According to the proposed method camera transfer matrix under any other white balance could be obtained by using colorimetric coordinates of phosphor derived from 3${\times}$3 linear transfer matrix under the certain white balance point. In experimental results, it is demonstrated that proposed method allow 3${\times}$3 linear transfer matrix under any other white balance having a reasonable degree of accuracy compared with the transfer matrix obtained by experiments.