• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.7 s.103
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• pp.737-744
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a three-level color clustering algerian for the binarization of text regions extracted from natural scene images. The proposed algorithm consists of three phases of color segmentation. First, the ordinary images in which the texts are well separated from the background, are binarized. Then, in the second phase, the input image is passed through a high pass filter to deal with those affected by natural or artificial light. Finally, the image Is passed through a low pass filter to deal with the texture in texts and/or background. We have shown that the proposed algorithm is more effective used gray-information binarization algorithm. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm we use a commercial OCR software ARMI 6.0 to observe the recognition accuracies on the binarized images. The experimental results on word and character recognition show that the proposed approach is more accurate than conventional methods by over $35\%$.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.6 no.2 s.11
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• pp.152-160
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• 2002

This paper is the realization of the face recognition system for multimedia application. This system is focused on the design concerning the improvement of recognition rate and the reduction of processing time for face recognition. The non-modificated application of typical RGB color system enables the reduction of time required for color system transform. The neural network and the application of algorithm using face characteristic improves the recognition rate. After mosaicking an image, a face-color block has been selected through the color analysis of mosaic block. The characteristic of the face removes the mis-checked face-color candidate block. Finally, from the face color block, four special values are obtained. These values are processed to the neural network using the back propagation algorithm. The output values are the touchstone to decide the genuineness of face field. The realized system showed 90% of face recognition rate with less than 0.1 second of processing time. This result can be understood as sufficient processing time and recognition rate to find out the face block for multimedia application in dynamic image.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.408-411
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• 2011

본 연구는 목조 문화재나 전통사찰 등에서 많이 적용되고 있는 단청처리된 목재에 대해 방염액을 사용하여 방염처리를 진행하였을 때 발생될 수 있는 백화현상를 단청목제가 적용 될 수 있는 외부환경과 일반적인 내부환경에 위치시켜 발생여부를 확인하여 보았다. 일반적으로 사용되어지는 6가지 종류의 단청색상에서 햇빛이나 눈비 등에 의한 영향, 습도 등에 따른 영향은 크지 않은 것으로 나타났으나 일부 단청 색상에서는 다소 습도가 높았던 실내 환경에서는 방염액이 많이 도포되어진 부분에서 백화현상이 일부 나타나는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며 단청의 색상을 구성하는 성분 차이에 의해 백화현상이 발생될 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2014

3차원 영상 제작을 위해서는 장면의 색상 영상과 함께 깊이 정보가 필요하다. 일반적으로 깊이를 측정하는 TOF 카메라에 의해 획득된 깊이 영상은 컬러 영상에 비해 매우 작은 해상도의 영상을 갖게 되는 문제가 있다. 따라서 색상 영상과 함께 3차원 영상 제작에 깊이 영상을 사용하기 위해서는 저해상도 깊이 영상의 업샘플링 방법이 필요하다. 특히 컬러 영상에서 사물 간의 경계에 해당하는 부분에서 색상 차이를 인지하지 못하여 깊이 맵을 부적절하게 처리하게 되는 경우가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 색상 영상에서 경계부분에 해당하는 영역을 이용하여 저해상도 깊이 영상을 업샘플링 하는 방법을 제안한다. 깊이 영상을 업샘플링 할 때 중요하게 다루어야 할 경계 부분을, 고해상도 색상 영상과 저해상도 깊이 영상을 이용하여 찾아낸다. 색상 경계 부분을 고려하여 깊이 영상 업샘플링을 위한 에너지 함수를 MRF를 이용하여 모델링하고, 신뢰 확산(belief propagation)방법을 이용하여 에너지 함수 최적화를 수행한다. 제안한 방법은 기존의 다른 에너지 함수나 필터 기반 업샘플링 방법보다 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.5
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• pp.701-706
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• 2002

A set of color features has been efficiently used to measure the similarity of given images. However, the size of the color features is too large to implement an indexing scheme effectively. In this paper a new method is proposed to retrieve similar images using an interpolated color histogram. The idea is similar to the already reported methods that use the distributions of color histograms. The new method is different in that simplified color histograms decide the similarity between a query image and target images. In order to represent the distribution of the color histograms, the best order of interpolated polynomial has been simulated. After a histogram distribution is represented in a polynomial form, only a few number of polynomial coefficients are indexed and stored in a database as a color descriptor. The new method has been applied to real images and achieved satisfactory results.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.33-40
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• 2008

Normally, cedar heartwood has a red color. However, it frequently changes black color (blackening phenomenon). It is reported that blackening phenomenon of cedar has been caused by oxidation of phenolics and norlignan extractives under weak alkaline conditions. In this study, heat treatment and UV irradiation were carried out to reduce the difference of color value between blackened wood and bright sap wood. Effects of temperature, moisture content, treatment time and light on decrease of color difference between blackened heartwood and sapwood were evaluated in each treatment. A decrement of different color value between blackened heartwood and bright sapwood by hot-water treatment was bigger than others. An effect of the vacuum drying was similar to that of the kiln drying. UV irradiation decreases the color difference between dried blackened heartwood and bright sapwood. It is suggested that UV irradiation could be used as final treatment to reduce the color difference on wood during drying process. Determination of optimum conditions and development of hybrid process for control of discoloration will be needed in a further study.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.595-604
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• 2013

Currently, registered number of imported vehicles is increasing rapidly over the years. Accordingly, environment improvements of vehicle maintenance company for maintenance of luxury vehicle such as imported vehicle are continuously being made. In this paper, we propose a key frame extraction method based on HSV color model for smart vehicle management system implementation to offer for customer reliability of maintenance vehicle. After automatically recognize the license plates of the vehicle using vehicle license plate recognition system when the vehicle come in the car center, we check the repair history and request of the vehicle based on it. We implement mobile services which provide extracted key frame images to the user after extract key frames from vehicle repair video. In addition, we verify the superiority of key frame extraction method by applying a smart vehicle management system. Finally, we convert the RGB color to HSV color to improve the performance of proposed key frame extraction scheme. As a result, we confirmed that our scheme is more excellence about 30% in terms of recall than RGB color model from the performance evaluations.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.398-408
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• 1994

It is true color that is allocated 1 byte to three basic colors, red, green, and blue in order to represent a pixel of an image. It is a merit that almost all colors are representable by using the true color. However, it requires a lot of storages. An efficient image compression method is necessary. Most of the existing compression methods have not considered the characteristics of the true color images. Therefore, the efficient compression has been almost impossible. The differences of each pixel and its adjacent pixels in the true color images are few. Only a few bits in 3 bytes data which represent a pixel have different values. But the different bits are scattered in 3 bytes, so efficient compression results are not achieved. Therefore, in the study it is shown that the similarities of data are increased by relocating the data structures of true color images. And an efficient compression strategy which uses the similarities of data is proposed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.92-100
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• 2006

In imaging devices such as digital cameras using a single image sensor, captured images are the sub-sampled images comprised of the pixels that have only one of the three primary colors per a pixel. This images should be restored to the color images through an image processing referred as color interpolation. In this paper, we derive relation between the average of the data from CFA image sensor and the average of each color channel data. By using this relation, a new efficient method for color interpolation is proposed. Also, in order to reduce the zipper effect in a restored image, missing luminance values are interpolated along any edges in the captured image. On the other hand, for the chrominance channel interpolation, we average difference between a chrominance value and a luminance value in a local area, and this average value is added to the pixel value of the interpolated location. The proposed method has been compared with several previous methods, and our experimental results show the better results than the other methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.106-107
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 색상 및 깊이 기반 영상 분할 기법을 제안한다. 계층화된 영상 분할을 수행하기 위해서 색상을 기준으로 영상을 과분할 한 후, 과분할 영역의 깊이를 기준으로 영역 병합을 수행한다. 적은 개수의 화소로 이루어진 병합 영역을 제거하기 위해서 인접한 분할 영역 중 화소 수가 많은 영역에 병합시키는 이상영역 처리 기법을 수행한다. 제안하는 영상 분할 기법을 기존의 데이터셋 및 키넥트 취득 영상에 적용하여 신뢰도 높은 객체 단위 영상 분할이 이루어짐을 확인한다.