• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.183-192
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• 2003

A transformation methode of the chromaticity coordinates was proposed to calibrate the measured data obtained by a urine analysis system which implemented in our previous study. Generally. the reacted color of a reagent strip by urine analysis system often exhibit the color distortions due to nonlinear characteristics of the various devices that is the optic module mechanism. hardware, and surround circumstance. A color correction method for minimizing the color distortion play a few role in maintaining high accuracy and reproduction of the urine analysis system. In this work, we used the compensation method such as the shading correction, the characteristic curve extraction of RGB color by means of third order spline interpolation, and linear transformation using a reference color. In addition, 1931 CIE XYZ color space was used to compensate the color of the measured data by a standard reference system as colorimeter. A compensation matrix was obtained so that the output values of the urine analysis system is nearly equal to that of a standard reference system for identical color sample. Color correction obtained by a urine analysis system which implemented in our previous study exhibited a good color accuracy when it was compared with the reference data. Observed result from an experiments on ten items or a urinalysis strip that color difference or between two urine analysis system was 1.28.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.46-54
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• 2007

In current printer industry, four or more colorants are added for color gamut extension because the gamut of printer is smaller than other devices. However, these additional colorants make a redundancy problem that several combinations of colorants reproduced same color stimulus in colorimetric inverse characterization process. Thus, we propose a method of colorimetric inverse characterization using color correlation between colorant's amount. First, for analyzing the combination of colorants which represent the same color stimulus, we estimate the color stimulus for all combination of colorants by Cellular Yule-Nielsen Spectral Neugebauer printer model. The combination of colorants which has higher color correlation factor comparing combinations of colorant around itself in color space is selected. It can reduced the color difference from the tetrahedral interpolation process which is estimation of the output value(colorants combination) for arbitrary input(color stimulus). The selected combinations of colorants and their color stimulus are stored to the lookup table. In experiment, the CMYKGO printer was used. As a result, the dark region of color gamut was extended and the color tone was more naturally represented.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.3207-3213
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• 2011

Most methods of color constancy, which is the ability to determine the object color regardless of the scene illuminant, have failed to meet our expectation of their performance especially about low-illuminated scenes. Some methods with high performance need to be developed, but we must, above all else, obtain experimental images for analyzing the required circumstances or evaluating the methods. Therefore, the paper produces new sets of images so that they can be used in the development of color constancy methods suitable for low-illuminated scenes. These sets are composed of two parts: one part of images which are synthesized with spectral power distribution(SPD) of illuminants, spectral reflectance curve of reflectances, and sensor response functions of camera; the other part of images where the intensity of each image is adjusted at the uniform rate. In an experiment, the use of the sets takes an advantage that its result images are analyzed and evaluated quantitatively as their ground truth data are known in advance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.90-93
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• 2009

본 논문은 자동차 자동운행 시스템 연구 분야의 한 부분인 자동차 운행 중 도로상에 위치한 교통 신호등을 추적을 통해 검출하고, 인식하기 위한 방법과 관련된 연구이다. 교통 신호등은 색상 정보를 포함한 광원을 갖는 물체로서 표현되어지고 운전자에게 안전을 위해 준수해야 할 신호정보로써 제공되어 진다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 교통신호등의 인식을 위해 명도 분포도를 이용하여 관심영역을 필터링하고, 마스크와 HSI 색 공간영역에서의 색상과 채도, 밝기 정보를 이용한 유효값을 검출, 좌표변환, 보간법, YUV 모델을 이용한 그레이 영상으로의 변환, 닫힘 연산, 선명화 연산, 템플릿 매칭 방법을 적용함으로써 가로등과 같은 주변 환경이 갖는 색정보로부터 교통 신호등의 신호를 검출하고 인식하도록 하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.561-565
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• 2011

This paper presents an imaging system for reconstruction of enhanced color images using the conventional Bayer CFA. By extracting various colors such as RGBCY from two sequential images which consist of a image by broadband G channel lens filter and the other image captured without one, the proposed color image reconstruction system can reduce the computational complexity for demosaicking and make high resolution color information without aliasing artifacts. Because the proposed system uses the common Bayer CFA image sensor, fabricating a new type of CFA is not necessary for obtaining a multi-spectral image, which can be easily extensible for applications of multi-spectral imaging. Finally, in order to verify the performance of the proposed system, experimental results are performed. By comparing with the existing demosaicking methods, the proposed camera system showed the significant improvements in the sense of color resolution.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.4
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• pp.255-262
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• 2007

This paper proposes an enhanced skin color-based detection method to find a region of human face in color images. The proposed detection method combines three color spaces, RGB, $YC_bC_r$, YIQ and builds color union histograms of luminance and chrominance components respectively. Combined color union histograms are then fed in to the back-propagation neural network for training and Levenberg-Marquadt algorithm is applied to the iteration process of training. Proposed method with Levenberg-Marquadt algorithm applied to training process of neural network contributes to solve a local minimum problem of back-propagation neural network, one of common methods of training for face detection, and lead to make lower a detection error rate. Further, proposed color-based detection method using combined color union histograms which give emphasis to chrominance components divided from luminance components inputs more confident values at the neural network and shows higher detection accuracy in comparison to the histogram of single color space. The experiments show that these approaches perform a good capability for face region detection, and these are robust to illumination conditions.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.742-748
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• 2009

Most commercial digital still cameras use a single sensor array (e.g., CMOS or CCD) with color filter array (CFA) to reduce the cost and size. Since the image obtained with CFA has only one color value per pixel, the demosaicing is needed to acquire missing two color values. Although many demosaicing methods have been proposed, they still have artifacts such as rainbow and zippering artifact. In this paper, we propose the simple demosaicing algorithm using tendency of neighbor pixels with the enhanced weighting function. In the experimental results, our algorithm shows much better subjective qualities of the images than conventional demosaicing algorithm and improves objective qualities.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.103-113
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• 1991

The accuracy of input coordinates of ground control points and check points affects great influences to the results of ground coordinate computation in using SPOT digital image data. The original SPOT images displayed on CRT are not usually adequate for identifying the object features and determining the point positioning. Hence, appropriate image processing techniques such as contrast enhancement, subpixel interpolation, edge enhancement, and spatial filtering are needed. In this study, the principles of digital image processing needed for accurate three dimensional positioning and spectral characteristic analysis are investigated. The algorithms for the actual applications are developed and programmed. And using the developed image processing software, some SPOT P-mode and XS-mode images are merged into the SPOT P＋XS, the high-resolution color composite image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.83-86
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 다양한 변이 추정 방식 중 영역기반(Area-based) 알고리듬과 특정기반(Feature-based) 알고리듬을 결합한 하이브리드(Hybrid) 변이추정 알고리듬을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리듬은 Features from Accelerated Segment Test(FAST) 코너 점 추출기[2]를 이용하여 좌, 우 영상 각각의 특징 점을 추출한 후, 특징 점들의 정보를 이용한 스테레오 정함을 통해 신뢰도 높은 초기 변이지도(Disparity map)를 생생하게 된다. 그러나 생성된 초기 변이지도는 조밀하지 못하므로, 조밀한 변이 지도를 획득하기 위해 특징점이 추출된 영역에 대해서는 추정된 초기 변이 값을 이웃 픽셀과의 색 유사도를 고려하여 전파시키고 특징 점이 추출되지 않은 영역에 대해서는 이진 윈도우(Binary window)를 활용한 영역기반 변이추정 알고리듬[1]을 이용하여 변이 값을 추정한다. 이를 통해, 제안 알고리듬은 특징 기반 알고리듬에서 발생할 수 있는 보간법 문제를 해결함과 동시에 신뢰도가 높은 초기 변이지도를 사용함으로써, 영역 기반 알고리듬의 정합 오차를 줄여 신뢰도 높은 변이지도를 생생할 수 있다. 실험 결과 추정된 초기 변이지도는 ground truth와 비교 시 약 99%이상의 정확도를 보이며, 특징 점이 추출된 영역에서 기존의 영역기반 알고리듬보다 더 정확한 변이 값이 추정되었음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.3-9
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• 2003

표면 라이트 필드는 각 시점에서 관찰된 서로 다른 물체 표면의 색 정보를 메쉬에 저장함으로써 물체 표면을 시점 변화에 따라 사실적으로 렌더링할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 표면 라이트 필드에 대한 영상 기반 편집 기술로서 몰핑 기법을 제시한다. 표면 라이트 필드를 몰핑하기 위해서는 중간 물체의 표면 라이트 필드를 위한 기하 정보와 라이트 필드를 생성해야 한다. 중간 물체의 기하 정보는 메쉬 몰핑을 통해 얻을 수 있다. 중간 물체의 라이트 필드는 두 입력 라이트 필드에서 필요한 정보를 얻어 시점과 기하 정보의 변화에 따라 변형한 후 이를 보간하여 주어진 시점에서의 라이트 필드를 동적으로 얻어낸다. 메쉬 몰핑을 통해 얻어진 중간 물체의 메쉬는 입력 물체에 비해 매우 복잡한 연결 구조를 가지므로 렌터링 속도를 향상시키기 위한 방법을 제시한다. 먼저 메쉬 몰핑 과정에서 메타 메쉬를 만들 때 가까이에 있는 정점들을 병합하여 보다 단순한 메타 메쉬를 생성하고 중간 물체를 렌더링하기 위해 메타 메쉬를 사용하지 않고 메타 메쉬를 근사하도록 두 입력 메쉬를 변형한 후 이를 렌더링에 사용한다.