• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.464-469
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• 2006

본 논문은 연속 영상에서 빠르게 움직이거나 변형이 있는 물체를 추출하기 위한 개선된 활성 외곽선 모델을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 프레임간 물체의 변위를 식별하기 위한 합성 기울기 맵 생성 단계와 큰 변위에도 지역적 최저에 빠지지 않고 견고하게 수렴하기 위한 에너지 비탈면 생성 단계로 이루어진다. 이를 위하여 우선, 두 프레임의 기울기 맵을 합성하고, 불필요한 배경과 잡음을 제거하기 위해 두 프레임의 차를 마스크로 적용하여 합성 기울기 맵을 생성한다. 생성된 합성 기울기 맵에 수학적 형태학 연산의 하나인 닫기 연산을 적용하여 활성 외곽선이 매끄럽게 이동할 수 있는 에너지 비탈면을 만든다. 본 논문에서는 제안방법을 평가하기 위하여 움직임 변위가 큰 연속 영상을 사용하여 기존 활성 외곽선 모델 방법과 비교하여 육안평가, 에너지 최소화 과정 및 수행시간 측면에서 비교분석한다. 본 제안방법은 기존 활성 외곽선 모델 방법보다 큰 움직임 변위와 변형에도 빠르고 정확하게 물체 추적이 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.113-114
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• 2002

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1349-1354
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a fast hand-gesture recognition algorithm for embedded system. Existing hand-gesture recognition algorithm has a difficulty to use in a low performance system such as embedded systems and mobile devices because of high computational complexity of contour tracing method that extracts all points of hand contour. Instead of using algorithms based on contour tracing, the proposed algorithm uses concentric-circle tracing method to estimate the abstracted contour of fingers, then classify hand-gestures by extracting features. The proposed algorithm has an average recognition rate of 95% and an average execution time of 1.29ms, which shows a maximum performance improvement of 44% compared with algorithm using the existing contour tracing method. It is confirmed that the algorithm can be used in a low performance system such as embedded systems and mobile devices.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.838-846
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• 2004

In the case where both a camera and a target are moving at the same time, the image background is successively changed, and the overlap with other moving objects is apt to be generated. The snake algorithms have been variously used in tracking the object, but it is difficult to be applied in the excessive overlap with other objects and the large bias between the snake and the target. To solve this problem, this paper presents an extended snake model. It includes an additional energy function which considers the temporal variation rate of the snake's area and a SSD algorithm which generates the template adaptive to the snake detected in the previous frame. The new energy function prevents the snake from over-shrinking or stretching and the SSD algorithm with adaptively changing template allows the prediction of the target's position in the next frame. The experimental results have shown that the proposed algorithm successfully tracks the target even when the target is temporarily occluded by other objects.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.12 no.2 s.25
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• pp.151-155
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• 2006

In these days, welding is the most commonly used metallic connection technology and also is the fundamental production technology of the modem industrial, which is used in various areas of the industrial fields, such as shipbuilding, automobiles, airplanes and plant facilities. However welding process produces strong light, electric currents, and fume gases etc., and the welding automation is not so easy compared to the other works of manufacturing industries which produce the standardized products in large quantities. So it is difficult to weld and detect the all kinds of seams automatically by a specific sensor. In this paper the sensor applying strain gauges is used to detect the seams of triangular wave form. With the auto carriage having the sensor we proposed the experiment to weld and track the seam automatically.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.153-163
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• 2004

This paper presents a video tracking method for a deformable moving object using an active contour model in the image sequences. It is quite important to decide the local convergence directions of the contour points for correctly extracting the boundary of the moving object with deformable shape. For this purpose, an energy function for the active contour model is newly proposed by adding a directional energy term using a frame difference map to tile Greedy algorithm. In addition, an updating rule of tile frame difference map is developed to encourage the stable convergence of the contour points. Experimental results on a set of synthetic and real image sequences showed that the proposed method can fully track the deformable object while extracting the boundary of the object elaborately in every frame.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.221-224
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 워터마크가 삽입된 데이터의 저작권 보호를 위하여 데이터의 복제 시 신속한 위치추적을 통한 불법 복제 방지 시스템을 제안하고 시뮬레이션 하였다. 제안된 방법은 복사기, 프린터, 스캐너 등에 부착된 워터마크 검출 장치로부터 워터마크 검출 시 원 워터마크 이미지와 추출된 워터마크이미지가 일정 비 이상의 상관관계가 있을 경우 불법 복제 상황으로 간주하고, 디지털 데이터로 변환된 워터마크 이미지와 주소 정보가 전력선을 통하여 전송된다. 수신단에서는 수신된 데이터의 발신자 정보를 통해 위치정보를 알아내어 불법 복제 작업현장의 위치를 추적한다. 전력선을 통신선로로 이용 시 전송신호는 전력선 채널 환경에서 임펄스 잡음에 많은 영향을 받기 때문에 본 논문에서는 제안한 시스템의 검증을 위해 AWGN과 임펄스 잡음을 고려하고 잡음 특성이 우수하고 신뢰성이 비교적 강한 DS-CDMA/BPSK 시스템을 통해 제안된 시스템을 시뮬레이션 하였다. 또한, 열악한 채널 환경으로부터 수신성능을 개선하기 위해 컨벌루션 부호화기법을 적용하여 성능 개선 전 후의 복원 이미지의 성능을 비교 분석 하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.337-340
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• 2000

비디오객체 추출 기법은 MPEG-4 및 MPEG-7의 응용을 목표로 최근 활발하게 연구되고 있다. 이들 연구는 객체 추출의 전체적인 구조와 정확한 윤곽선 검출 알고리즘의 개발에 초점을 맞추고 있으며 제한적인 조건하에서 만족할 만한 성능을 내고 있다 그러나, 카메라 움직임, 객체의 빠른 움직임, 비강체 운동 등 보다 일반적인 상황에서는 객체 추출의 안정성이 떨어진다. 본 논문에서는 객체 추출의 안정성을 높이기 위해 칼라, 움직임 정보 등의 특징정보(feature)가 균일한 영역으로 사전분할하고, 분할된 균일영역을 추적하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 추적된 균일 영역간의 경계는 각 영역의 통계적 분포와 영역경계의 윤곽선으로 정의된 에너지를 레벨셑 방법으로 최소화함으로 조정된다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.61-69
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• 2009

By the advent of the high resolution satellite imagery, a ground-coverage included by a single satellite image is decreased. By the reason, there are increasing needs in image mosaicking technology to use images to various GIS fields. This paper describes an edge-based seamline extraction algorithm using edge information such as rivers, roads, buildings for image mosaicking. For this, we developed a method to track and link discontinuous edges extracted by edge detection operator. To estimate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we applied the algorithm to IKONOS, KOMPSAT-1 and SPOT-5 satellite images. The experimental results showed that the algorithm successfully dealts with discontinuities caused by geometric differences in two images.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.92-97
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• 2014

Purpose: Bisphosphonates are widely used for the management steroid-induced osteoporosis (SIO) in children. With the increasing use of bisphosphonates, there have been reports of abnormal radiological findings in the growing skeleton. Therefore, their use in pediatric patients remains controversial. The present study was conducted to evaluate the long-term follow-up radiographic features, particularly metaphyseal sclerotic lines, in children who receive pamidronate therapy for nephropathy. Methods: Twenty-four children with nephropathy treated with oral calcium and pamidronate (mean duration, 9 months; dose, 100 mg daily), were evaluated retrospectively. All patients had SIO secondary to chronic glucocorticoid therapy for treating nephropathy. Long bone radiographic imaging was performed before treatment with pamidronate, and at follow-up, several years later. Physeal growth rates were estimated by measuring the distance that the sclerotic lines moved on the radiographs during the corresponding time intervals. Results: The mean follow-up period was 138 months. Long bone radiographs showed well-defined sclerotic lines at the metaphyseal ends, progressively moving from the physeal plate to the diaphysis, in all patients. The mean rate of movement of the sclerotic line was 6.21 mm per year. In 12 patients, the lines disappeared. The mean rate of growth in height was 7.33 cm per year. Conclusions: Results of long-term follow-up suggest that the metaphyseal sclerotic lines associated with pamidronate treatment tend to disappear without affecting overall skeletal growth. Bisphosphonate treatment for SIO in children with nephropathy seems to be safe, although further studies in larger number of patients are needed.