• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.565-571
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• 2012

During depth data acquisition and transmission, the quality of depth maps is usually degraded by physical noise and coding error. In this paper, a new joint bilateral filter based on the common distance transform is presented to enhance the low-quality depth map. The proposed method determines the amount of exploitable color data according to distance transform values of depth and color pixels. Consequently, the proposed filter minimizes noise in the depth map while suppressing visual artifacts of joint bilateral filtering. Experimental results show that our method outperforms other conventional methods in terms of noise reduction and visual artifact suppression.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.69-80
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• 2005

In these days, the technology development of the imaging/optic industry and the digital broadcasting replace the classic CRT with the new display devices that is getting slimmer and larger. Especially, when the general TV signal is applied directly to the wide gamut display using LED or laser, which can display higher chromatic colors that can't be reproduced on CRT, the color distortion occurs and it causes serious problems. Thus, in this paper the gamut mapping is studied, which gets rids of the color distortion and utilizes the wider color gamut than that of the CRT sufficiently. In the gamut mapping the general mapping concept is the increasement of the chroma on the same hue plane but it causes the over chromatic enhancement. So, the vector mapping, which increases the lightness md the chroma at the same time, is proposed to prevent the side effect. In the vector mapping the chromaticity is maintained constantly, hence the image can be seen more natural than that of the chroma mapping. By using the gamut fitting, it is compensated that the tone disappearance or the contour effect that is arose from the geometric properties of the input and the output color gamut. These gamut mapping and gamut fitting can prevent the color distortion and reproduce the natural image on the wide gamut displays.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.610-622
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• 2008

Moving object segmentation is an essential technique for various video surveillance applications. The result of moving object segmentation often contains shadow regions caused by the color difference of shadow pixels. Hence, moving object segmentation is usually followed by a shadow elimination process to remove the false detection results. The common assumption adopted in previous works is that, under the illumination variation, the value of chromaticity components are preserved while the value of intensity component is changed. Hence, color transforms which separates luminance component and chromaticity component are usually utilized to remove shadow pixels. In this paper, various color spaces (YCbCr, HSI, normalized rgb, Yxy, Lab, c1c2c3) are examined to find the most appropriate color space for shadow elimination. So far, there have been some research efforts to compare the influence of various color spaces for shadow elimination. However, previous efforts are somewhat insufficient to compare the color distortions under illumination change in diverse color spaces, since they used a specific shadow elimination scheme or different thresholds for different color spaces. In this paper, to relieve the limitations of previous works, (1) the amount of gradients in shadow boundaries drawn to uniform colored regions are examined only for chromaticity components to compare the color distortion under illumination change and (2) the accuracy of background subtraction are analyzed via RoC curves to compare different color spaces without the problem of threshold level selection. Through experiments on real video sequences, YCbCr and normalized rgb color spaces showed good results for shadow elimination among various color spaces used for the experiments.

• The Optical Journal
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• s.104
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• pp.75-78
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• 2006

사용의 편리성, 신속성, 간편성 등 다양한 장점을 가진 디지털카메라가 필름카메라를 제치고 전세계적으로 급속하게 확산되고 있다. 디지털카메라는 편리하고 신속하게 이미지를 얻을 수 있다는 큰 장점이 있지만 ‘왜곡된 색상’으로 인하여 필름카메라보다 못하다는 평가를 받기도 한다. 이처럼 세계적으로 디지털 카메라, 캠코더 사용자 모두가 겪는 애로점이 바로‘컬러 밸런스(화이트밸런스)’이다. 본 고에서는‘컬러 & 화이트밸런스’를 요약하여‘밸런스로’표현하고자 한다. 문제는 사용자들이 디지털카메라 사용방법에 대하여 대다수가 잘 모르고 있다는 것이다. 많은 프로들과 유저들이 디지털 카메라로 촬영한 사진은 당연히‘후 보정’을 하는 것이 정상인 것처럼 알고 있으며, 심지어 디지털 카메라는‘후 보정’을 위한 카메라인 것으로 잘못 알고 있는 경우가 그것이다. 그러나 좋은 사진은‘후 보정’을 하지 않고서‘원색’을 그대로 표현 할 수 있는 것이‘작품’으로서의 진정한 가치가 있고, 사진의‘예술’인 것이다.고급기종의 디지털 카메라를 보유한 대부분의 사용자들은 카메라의 복잡한 기능 메뉴에 번거로움을 겪고 있다. 보편적으로 오토, 태양, 구름, 노을, 형광등1.2, 백열등, K, 켈빈도, 프리셋 등의 기능이 있으나 대부분 커스텀에서 기본 세트메뉴인‘오토’등의 모드를 선택하여 촬영을 하고 있고, 핵심 기능인‘프리셋’은 사용방법조차 모르고 있는 유저들이 많다. 또한 커스텀 모드의 기본메뉴를 선택하여 촬영을 했을 때 색상이 왜곡되는 것을 디지털 카메라는 당연히 그런 것으로 알고 있으며, 따라서 후보정은 당연한 것으로 대부분이 인식하고 있다. 그중에서 원색의 중요성을 인식하는 일부 사용자들만‘프리셋’기능에서 그레이 카드 등으로 밸런스를 세팅하여 촬영을 하고 있다.그러나 가장 정확한 것으로 알고 수 십 년간 사용해오던 그레이 카드 등을 이용하여 프리셋 모드에서 밸런스를 세팅하여 촬영을 할 경우에도, 카메라에 기본적으로 내장된‘커스텀 모드’보다는 색상이 다소 좋은 것을 알 수 있으나, 정확한 원색의 이미지를 얻기는 매우 어려워, 디지털 카메라의 한계라고까지 표현을 하고 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.350-356
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• 2017

With increasing attention to real-time body detection, active research is being conducted on human body detection based on skin color. Despite this, most existing skin detection methods utilize static skin color models and have detection rates in images, in which colors are distorted. This study proposed a method of detecting the skin region using a fuzzy classification of the gradient map, saturation, and Cb and Cr in the YCbCr space. The proposed method, first, creates a gradient map, followed by a saturation map, CbCR map, fuzzy classification, and skin region binarization in that order. The focus of this method is to rigorously detect human skin regardless of the lighting, race, age, and individual differences, using features other than color. On the other hand,the borders between these features and non-skin regions are unclear. To solve this problem, the membership functions were defined by analyzing the relationship between the gradient, saturation, and color features and generate 108 fuzzy rules. The detection accuracy of the proposed method was 86.35%, which is 2~5% better than the conventional method.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.449-460
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• 2005

This paper proposes a method to track persons robustly in illumination changes and partial occlusions in color video frames acquired from a fixed camera. To solve a problem of changing appearance by illumination change, a time-independent intrinsic image is used to remove noises in an frame and is adaptively updated frame-by-frame. We use a hierarchical human model including body color information in order to track persons in occlusion. The tracked human model is recorded into a persons' list for some duration after the corresponding person's exit and is recovered from the list after her reentering. The proposed method was experimented in several indoor and outdoor scenario. This demonstrated the potential effectiveness of an adaptive model-base method that corrected distorted person's color information by lighting changes, and succeeded tracking of persons which was overlapped in a frame.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.589-596
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• 2011

Picture Quality Improvement Systems(PQIS) have been developed for user's needs with the development of display technology. Most PQIS change the all input data, so there were some color distortion. In order to compensate such problems, the PQIS using Skin Protection Algorithm(SPA) have been proposed. But the PQIS using SPA is performed simplex color emphasis, as a result occurred color saturation and decoloration. In this paper, we proposed the modified PQIS using SPA on CIE 1976 u'v' chromaticity coordinate. The modified method operated chromaticity extension and reduction at the same time about brightness value to prevent the saturation and decoloration. We evaluated by comparing the conventional method with the proposed method of RGB Gamut variation rate using 42 test image.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1414-1419
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• 2015

A method for detecting a skin region on the image is generally used to detect the color information. However, If saturation lowered, skin detection is difficult because hue information of the pixels is lost. So in this paper, we propose a method of correcting color of lower saturation of skin region images by the lighting. Color correction process of this method is saturation image acquisition and low-saturation region classification, segmentation, and the saturation of the split in the low saturation region extraction and color values, the color correction sequence. This method extracts the low saturation regions in the image and extract the color and saturation in the region and the surrounding region to produce a color similar to the original color. Therefore, the method of extracting the low saturation region should be correctly preceding. Because more accurate segmentation in the process of obtaining a low saturation regions, we use a multi-threshold method proposed Otsu in Hue values of the HSV color space, and create a binary image. Our experimental results for 170 portrait images show a possibility that the proposed method could be used efficiently preprocessing of skin color detection method, because the detection result of proposed method is 5.8% higher than not used it.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.320-321
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• 2015

항로표지 시뮬레이터는 우리나라 주요 해역의 지형적 환경적 특성 및 여기에서 운항하는 선박들과 해상교통 특성을 고려한 시뮬레이션 환경을 항로표지 설계자에게 제공하여, 항로표지 배치 및 선박 운항시 안정성 확보를 제공할 수 있다. 항로표지는 색깔이 중요한 역할을 한다. 그 중 주간에 보이는 항로표지 색깔보다는 야간에 보이는 항로표지 등명기의 불빛이 더욱 중요하다. 이에 항로표지 설계자에게 실제환경과 유사한 시뮬레이션 환경을 제공하기 위해서는 실제 등명기의 등색과 유사하게 구현이 되어야한다. 그러나 시뮬레이션에서의 항로표지 등명기의 등색은 디스플레이 특성에 의해 색상 왜곡이 발생한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 실제 등명기의 색도값을 측정 및 분석하며, 분석값과 유사한 색상의 샘플 등색을 비교 분석하여 시뮬레이션에서 실제 등명기와 유사하게 항로표지 시뮬레이터의 등명기 모델링에 적용하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.13-18
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• 2011

In this paper, we explain capturing, postprocessing, and depth generation methods using multiple color and depth cameras. Although the time-of-flight (TOF) depth camera measures the scene's depth in real-time, there are noises and lens distortion in the output depth images. The correlation between the multi-view color images and depth images is also low. Therefore, it is essential to correct the depth images and then we use them to generate the depth information of the scene. The results of stereo matching based on the disparity information from the depth cameras showed the better performance than the previous method. Moreover, we obtained the accurate depth information even at the occluded or textureless regions which are the weaknesses of stereo matching.