• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.246-250
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• 2006

얼굴의 중요한 특징부분을 잘 나타내는 깊이 에지 정보를 사용하면 표정과 조명변화로 인한 얼굴 픽셀의 밝기 값 변화에 대해 강인한 특징벡터를 생성할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 깊이 에지(depth edge)를 이용한 새로운 특징벡터를 제안하고 그 유용성에 대하여 실험하였다. 새롭게 제안한 특징벡터는 얼굴의 깊이 에지 영상을 수평과 수직 방향으로 투영하여 얻어지는 에지 강도 히스토그램을 이용하기 때문에 얼굴의 움직임으로 인한 변형에 영향을 받지 않는다. 또한, 실시간 검출과 인식이 매우 용이하다. 제안한 깊이 에지 기반 특징벡터와 백색광 영상의 픽셀 값 기반 특징벡터에 대해 부공간 투영기반의 얼굴인식 알고리즘을 적용하여 성능을 비교 평가하였다. 실험 결과, 얼굴의 깊이 에지에 기반한 얼굴인식이 기존의 백색광만을 이용한 방법에 비해 높은 인식성능을 보였다

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.379-383
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 자연 이미지에서 한글 텍스트가 갖고 있는 에지 코너 특징을 이용한 한글 텍스트 검출방법을 제안한다. 자연영상으로부터 에지를 검출하고, 검출된 에지를 20종류의 에지 구조 성분을 갖는 에지 맵을 생성한다. 생성된 에지 맵에서 한글 텍스트 특징 갖는 특징들을 조합하여 모두 8가지의 텍스트 영역 후보 특징을 추출한다. 추출된 텍스트 영역의 특징을 수평 및 수직방향으로 검사하여 텍스트의 시작 라인과 끝라인을 검출하여 텍스트 영역의 수평좌표를 구한다. 추출된 텍스트 후보 영역에서 최종적으로 텍스트 영역을 결정한다. 제안한 방법은 다양한 종류의 자연 이미지에서 텍스트 영역을 검출에서 좋은 성능을 나타냈다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.886-888
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• 2013

An edge includes information of objects such as magnitude, orientation, and location. Conventional edge detection methods to detect those edge are methods using Sobel, Prewitt, Roberts, Laplacian operator. Existing methods use fixed weighted mask to detect edges, and their edge detection characteristics are insufficient. Therefore, to remedy weakness of conventional methods, in this paper, an edge detection algorithm using weight with standard deviation and thresholds is proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.269-272
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• 2006

얼굴 인식의 전처리 단계로써 얼굴의 특징 영역인 눈, 코, 입을 추출하는 방법들이 최근 다양하게 연구되고 있다. 얼굴 영상의 특징 영역을 추출 하는 방법에는 일반적으로 특징 점을 이용한 방법과 에지 정보를 이용한 방법이 있다. 특징 점을 이용한 방법은 높은 정확도를 보이는 반면 느린 수행시간을 보이는 문제점이 있으며, 에지 정보를 이용한 방법은 빠른 수행시간을 보이지만 정확도가 떨어지는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 정확도와 수행시간을 동시에 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 빠른 수행 시간을 위해 에지 정보와 에지의 방향성 정보를 이용하여 대략적으로 영역을 추출하여, 잡음에 의해 발생된 에지나 빛에 의해 추출되지 못한 에지에서 생긴 눈 추출의 오류는 추출된 영역의 가로, 세로 비율과 각 영역의 공간 정보를 이용하여 해결한다. 실험 결과에서 85%의 정확도와 평균 0.3초의 수행시간을 보였으며, 에지 정보를 이용한 방법의 문제점인 정확도와 특징 점을 이용한 방법의 문제점인 수행시간을 동시에 향상시킨 결과를 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.3C
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• pp.241-248
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• 2007

In predictive image coding, a LS (Least Squares)-based adaptive predictor is an efficient method to improve image edge predictions. This paper proposes a hybrid interpolation with weighted edge detector. A hybrid approach of switching between bilinear interpolation and EDI (Edge-Directed Interpolation) is proposed in order to reduce the overall computational complexity The objective and subjective quality is also similar to the bilinear interpolation and EDI. Experimental results demonstrate that this hybrid interpolation method that utilizes a weighted edge detector can achieve reduction in complexity with minimal degradation in the interpolation results.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.127-134
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• 2008

In this paper, we try to improve the accuracy of automatic measurement for analysis equipment by detecting efficiently the edge of a waterdrop with transparency. In order to detect the edge of a waterdrop with transparency, we use an edge detecting technique, MADD (Modified Adaptive Directional Derivative), which can identify the ramp edges with various widths as the perfectly sharp edges and respond effectively regardless of enlarging or reducing the image. The proposed edge detecting technique by means of perfect sharpening of ramp edges employs the modified adaptive directional derivatives instead of the usual local differential operators in order to detect the edges of image. The modified adaptive directional derivatives are defined by introducing the perfect sharpening map into the adaptive directional derivatives. Finally we apply the proposed method to contact angle arithmetic and show the effiency and validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.249-255
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an algorithm to detect scale invariant object from IR image obtained in the sea environment. We create horizontal edge (HL), vertical edge (LH), diagonal edge (HH) of images through 2-D discrete Haar wavelet transform (DHWT) technique after noise reduction using morphology operations. Considering the sea environment, Gaussian blurring to the horizontal and vertical edge images at each level of wavelet is performed and then saliency map is generated by multiplying the blurred horizontal and vertical edges and combining into one image. Then we extract object candidate region by performing a binarization to saliency map. A small area in the object candidate region are removed to produce final result. Experiment results show the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.7-15
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• 2006

The ultimate objective of painterly rendering is to express an inputted image as if it is hand drawn. The factors to express this painterly effect are thickness of the brush, direction, texture and the establishment of criteria judging if the produced brush will be drawn on to the canvas. In this paper, the algorithm using density of the edges in determining the criteria whether the brush will be drawn onto the canvas is proposed. Density of edges refers to the quantity of edge in the specific area. And uses the method of finding the location of the brush to be drawn as a unit of dynamic grid as well as expressing consistent directional through direction interpolation. Also, the texture is expressed using various textured brushes. Considering density of edges,We can express detailed area and abstract area. And it result in more human effect of oil painting.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.11C
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• pp.940-947
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• 2010

Motion Compensated Frame Interpolation(MCFI) has been used to reduce motion jerkiness for dynamic scenes and motion blurriness for LCD-panel display as post processing for high quality display. However, MCFI that directly uses the motion information often suffers from annoying artifacts such as blockiness, ghost effects, and deformed structures. So in this paper, we propose a novel edge-based adaptively weighted vector median filter as post-processing. At first, the proposed method generates an edge direction map through a sobel mask and a weighted maximum frequent filter. And then, outlier MVs are removed by average of angle difference and replaced by a median MV of $3{\times}3$ window. Finally, weighted vector median filter adjusts the weighting values based on edge direction derived from spatial coherence between the edge direction continuity and motion vector. The results show that the performance of PSNR and SSIM are higher up to 0.5 ~ 1 dB and 0.4 ~ 0.8 %, respectively.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.342-356
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• 2009

This paper presents a vote decision-based deinterlacing scheme for false directional error correction(VDD) to convert interlaced signal into non-interlaced signal using only one fields. The VDD using the vote decision goes through four steps process. The first step extracts regions having doubt of false edge using MM-ELA method. In these regions, the edge direction is decided by the majority vote using upper adjacent pixels's information through the second step. But, we still have undecided directions, which will be decided by the majority vote and the directional average decision at the third step. This step preserves the edge directions and minimizes visual degradation. Finally, the last step interpolates undecided pixels using DOI method which can consider the fine edge direction. Although the VDD with hierarchical structure has a high complexity, it can extract delicate edge compared to other pixel-by-pixel or window-by-window deinterlacing algorithms. Simulation results show that it has significantly improved both the subjective and objective qualities of the reconstructed images.