• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.615-622
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• 2018

Recent advancements in camera communication (CamCom) technology using visible light exploited to use display as an luminance source to modulate the data for visible light data communication. The existing display-CamCom techniques uses the selected region of interest based camera capturing approach to detect and decode the 2D color coded data on display screen. This is not effective way to do communicate when the user on mobility. This paper propose the automatic display detection using Lambertian color segmentation combined with canny edge detection algorithms for CamCom in order to avoid manual region of interest selection to establish communication link between display and camera. The automatic display detection methods fails using conventional edge detection algorithms when content changes dynamically in displays. In order to solve this problem lambertian color segmentation combined with canny edge detection algorithms are proposed to detect display automatically. This research analysed different algorithms on display edge recognition and measured the performance on rendering dynamically changing content with color code on display. The display detection rate is achieved around 96% using this proposed solutions.

• 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 Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.33-37
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• 2014

This paper propose a method to sort flame regions and non-flame regions in a color image based on temperature Characteristics of flame. The traditional algorithms simply detect flame regions those are colored between yellow and red and there are lot of false detection in this method. But the colors of real flame are fallen between white and red and flame color variation over the flame. In this paper, it reduce false detection by separating colors according to temperature Characteristics of flame. The proposed method firstly finds a color model to express the temperature Characteristics of fire and then the color model is non-linearly quantized based on color values and analyzed using histogram and finally detect the candidate flame regions. The proposed method has 71.8% of matching rate and if it is compared with non-matching rate of traditional algorithms, the non-matching rate is improved by 27 times than others.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.909-914
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• 2007

본 논문은 조명변화가 심한 주변환경에서 동적객체의 특징정보를 안정적으로 추출하는 기법을 제시한다. 제안기법에서는 우선 조명변화의 효과를 최소화 하기위해 HSI 컬러공간에서 색상(Hue) 강도 및 색상기울기에 대한 평균값과 표준편차 값으로 이루어진 배경모델을 생성한다. 실시간으로 입력되는 동적 객체를 포함한 연속영상에 대하여 각 화소에 대한 색상(Hue) 성분을 추출하고 이웃 화소와의 색상성분에 대한 기울기 크기를 계산한다. 이를 기구축된 배경모델과 비교하여 그 차분값이 일정 임계값을 초과하는 경우 동적 객체의 영역으로 판별한다. 마지막으로 모폴로지 연산을 수행하여 배경영상의 노이즈 영역을 제거한다. 본 논문에서는 기존 동적객체 추출기법과 제안기법을 핸드 트래킹과 전체 몸 움직임 추적의 비교실험을 통하여 제안 기법의 안정성을 보였다. 제안 기법은 극심한 조명변화에 강건하게 동적 객체의 영역정보를 실시간 추출하였다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.161-166
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a novel background segmentation and feature point extraction method of a human motion for the augmented reality game. First, our method transforms input image from RGB color space to HSV color space, then segments a skin colored area using double threshold of H, S value. And it also segments a moving area using the time difference images and then removes the noise of the area using the Hessian affine region detector. The skin colored area with the moving area is segmented as a human motion. Next, the feature points for the human motion are extracted by calculating the center point for each block in the previously obtained image. The experiments on various input images show that our method is capable of correct background segmentation and feature points extraction 12 frames per second.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1537-1545
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• 2016

In real time video sequence, object segmentation and tracking method are actively applied in various application tasks, such as surveillance system, mobile robots, augmented reality. This paper propose a robust object tracking method. The background models are constructed by learning the initial part of each video sequences. After that, the moving objects are detected via object segmentation by using background subtraction method. The region of detected objects are continuously tracked by using the HSV color histogram with particle filter. The proposed segmentation method is superior to average background model in term of moving object detection. In addition, the proposed tracking method provide a continuous tracking result even in the case that multiple objects are existed with similar color, and severe occlusion are occurred with multiple objects. The experiment results provided with 85.9 % of average object overlapping rate and 96.3% of average object tracking rate using two video sequences.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.545-554
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• 2019

This research aims to provide a building area extraction approach over the areas where data acquisition is impossible through field surveying, aerial photography and lidar scanning. Hence, high-resolution satellite images, which have high accessibility over the earth, are utilized for the automated building extraction in this study. 3D point clouds or DSM (Digital Surface Models), derived from the stereo image matching process, provides low quality of building area extraction due to their high level of noises and holes. In this regards, this research proposes a hybrid building area extraction approach which utilizes 3D point clouds (from image matching), and color and linear information (from imagery). First of all, ground and non-ground points are separated from 3D point clouds; then, the initial building hypothesis is extracted from the non-ground points. Secondly, color based building hypothesis is produced by considering the overlapping between the initial building hypothesis and the color segmentation result. Afterwards, line detection and space partitioning results are utilized to acquire the final building areas. The proposed approach shows 98.44% of correctness, 95.05% of completeness, and 1.05m of positional accuracy. Moreover, we see the possibility that the irregular shapes of building areas can be extracted through the proposed approach.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.697-704
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• 2018

Since the face in image content corresponds to individual information that can distinguish a specific person from other people, it is important to accurately detect faces not hidden in an image. In this paper, we propose a method to accurately detect a face from input images using a deep learning algorithm, which is one of the machine learning methods. In the proposed method, image input via the red-green-blue (RGB) color model is first changed to the luminance-chroma: blue-chroma: red-chroma ($YC_bC_r$) color model; then, other regions are removed using the learned skin color model, and only the skin regions are segmented. A CNN model-based deep learning algorithm is then applied to robustly detect only the face region from the input image. Experimental results show that the proposed method more efficiently segments facial regions from input images. The proposed face area-detection method is expected to be useful in practical applications related to multimedia and shape recognition.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.175-186
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• 2018

Due to global warming, various natural disasters such as floods and localized heavy rains are increasing. If a natural disaster can be detected and analyzed in advance and effectively, it can prevent enormous damage due to natural disasters. Recent development in visual sensor technologies has encouraged various studies on monitoring environments including rivers. In this paper, we propose a method to detect river regions from river images which can be exploited for river surveillance systems using video sensor networks. In the proposed method, we first analyze the color properties of the river region and the background region of a image and then propose a way to select the proper color channel and binarize the image to detect the river region. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed method is simple but detects river regions accurately.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.587-590
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• 2003

얼굴영역을 분할하기 위해서 Watershed Algorithm 와 Object Grouping 을 이용한 얼굴영역 분할기법을 제안한다. 영상분할에 단점은 단일 알고리즘으로 영역분할이 어렵고, 또한 복잡한 영상에서 정확한 영역을 분할하기가 어렵다는 것이다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 Watershed Segmentation 기법과 Grouping 작업을 통한 병합, 그리고 색상의 선형회귀분석을 이용한 분석법을 적용하여 분할하고자 한다. 얼굴영역 분할방법을 전처리 과정과 영역 병합 그리고 얼굴 부분을 추출하는 3 단계의 과정으로 나누고, 전처리 과정에서는 수리형태학적(Mophological) 연산자를 이용한 영상 분할기법을 이용하여 분할한 후 얼굴 후보 영역을 검출, 영역병합과정에서 기존의 학습데이터와의 유사도를 측정, 얼굴객체추출 조건에 맞지 않는 객체들을 모두 제거함으로써, 정확한 얼굴부분을 분할해 낸다. 실험결과 제안한 방법을 통해 비교적 정확한 얼굴영역을 분할 할 수 있었다.