• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.87-94
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• 2005

3D image mosaicking is useful for 3D visualization of the roadside scene of urban area by projecting 2D images to the 3D planes. When a sequence of images are filmed from a side-looking video camera passing long distance areas, the ghost effect in which same objects appear repeatively occurs. To suppress such ghost effect, the long distance range areas are detected by using the distance between the image frame and the 3D coordinate of tracked optical flows. The ghost effects are suppressed by projecting the part of image frames onto 3D multiple planes utilizing vectors passing the focal point of frames and a virtual focal point. The virtual focal point is calculated by utilizing the first and last frames of the long distance range areas. We demonstrate algorithm that creates efficient 3D Panoramic mosaics without the ghost effect at the long distance area.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.429-435
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• 2009

This paper propose color assessment method using HSI model to evaluate quantitative quality of mosaic images by aerial digital frame camera. Firstly, we convert RGB color into HSI model and we extract six pixel information of S and I corresponding to H from adjacency image by using HSI model. Secondly, a method to measure similarity and contrast is proposed and performed for assesment of observation regarding adjacency images. Through these procedure, we could generate four parameters. We could observe that both of the evaluation results by proposed method and the evaluation results by visual were almost similar. This facts support that our method based on several formula can be an objective method to evaluate a quality of mosaic images itself.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.47-53
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• 2007

Satellite image mosaicking is essential for image interpretation and analysis especially for a large area such as the Korean Peninsula. This paper proposed the technique of automatic seam-line extraction and the method of creating image mosaic in automated fashion. The seam-line to minimize artificial discontinuity was extracted using Minimum Absolute Gray Difference Sum algorithm with constraint condition on search-area width and Canny Edge Detection algorithm. To maintain the radiometric balance among images acquired at different time epochs, we utilized Match Cumulative Frequency method. Experimental results showed that edge detection algorithm extracted the seam-lines significantly well along linear features such as roads and rivers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.357-360
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• 2011

모자이크는 여러 개의 작은 영상들을 모아서 하나의 큰 영상을 만드는 것을 말한다. 본 논문에서는 모자이크 방법 중 하나인 사진을 이용하여 영상을 만드는 포토 모자이크 방법을 컴퓨터 알고리즘으로 구현하는 기술 제안을 한다. 이미지를 원하는 사이즈의 타일로 나눈 다음, 나눠진 타일을 16등분을 한다. 16등분된 이미지 각 요소들에 대하여 RGB 평균값을 계산하여 총 48개 특징값을 추출하여 데이터베이스에 저장해둔다. 그리고 타일과 비교가 될 이미지들은 이미 똑같은 작업을 통하여 데이터베이스에 저장이 되어 있다. 이렇게 저장된 값들을 통하여 유클리드 거리를 통하여 두 이미지의 유사도를 측정하게 된다. 최적의 값을 찾으면 바로 대입하는 것이 아니라 이전에 있던 타일 이미지의 명암값을 새로 삽입되는 타일에 부여를 하여, 부드러운 영상을 만들게 된다. 그리고 타일을 삽입할 때 이전에 사용된 이미지는 배열의 마지막으로 옮겨지게 되며 사용횟수를 체크하여 반복적 사용을 제한하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.667-670
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• 2004

지금까지 발표된 포토 모자이크 제작 방법은 입력영상을 일정한 크기의 사각형 격자로 나눈 후, 데이터베이스로 구축해 놓았던 이미지들을 입력영상의 색상이 비슷한 격자에 매핑시키는 방법이었다. 본 논문에서는 사각형 타일을 이용하여 입력영상을 표현하는 방법은 같지만, 타일들 사이에 틈을 주어 이미지 에지 주변의 타일들을 회전하거나 이동시킬 수 있게 하여 에지의 방향성을 최대한 표현해낼 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.11-19
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• 2001

This paper proposes a colored paper mosaic rendering technique based on image segmentation that can automatically generate torn and tagged colored paper mosaic effect. and 3D effect that come about in human-made mosaic work can be represented by generating shadow using difference of paper thickness. Previous method did not produce satisfactory results due to the ineffectiveness of having to use pieces of the same size. The proposed two methods for determination of paper shape and location that are based on segmentation can subdivide image area by considering characteristics of image. The first method is to generate Voronoi polygon after subdividing the segmented image again using quad tree. And the second method is to apply the Voronoi diagram on each segmentation layer. Through these methods, the characteristic of the image is expressed in more detail than previous colored paper mosaic rendering method and these methods enable to produce image that is closer to human-made mosaic work.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.19B no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2012

Mosaic is to make a big image by gathering lots of small materials having various colors. With advance of digital imaging techniques, photomosaic techniques using photos are widely used. In this paper, we presents an automatic photomosaic algorithm based on adaptive tiling and block matching. The proposed algorithm is composed of two processes: photo database generation and photomosaic generation. Photo database is a set of photos (or tiles) used for mosaic, where a tile is divided into $4{\times}4$ regions and the average RGB value of each region is the feature of the tile. Photomosaic generation is composed of 4 steps: feature extraction, adaptive tiling, block matching, and intensity adjustment. In feature extraction, the feature of each block is calculated after the image is splitted into the preset size of blocks. In adaptive tiling, the blocks having similar similarities are merged. Then, the blocks are compared with tiles in photo database by comparing euclidean distance as a similarity measure in block matching. Finally, in intensity adjustment, the intensity of the matched tile is replaced as that of the block to increase the similarity between the tile and the block. Also, a tile redundancy minimization scheme of adjacent blocks is applied to enhance the quality of mosaic photos. In comparison with Andrea mosaic software, the proposed algorithm outperforms in quantitative and qualitative analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.741-744
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• 2003

in this paper, we propose a dynamic-based compression system by creating mosaic background and transmitting the change information. A dynamic mosaic of the background is progressively integrated in a single image using the camera motion information. For the camera motion estimation, we calculate perspective projection parameters for each frame sequentially with respect to its previous frame. The camera motion is robustly estimated on the background by discriminating between background and foreground regions. The modified block-based motion estimation is used to separate the background region.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.187-192
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• 2007

Since wireless sensor networks (WSN) have relatively narrow bandwidth and have limited memory space. Mosaic by inlaying images transmitted by adjacent sensors can provide wider field of view and smaller storage memory. Most WSN are used for surveillance purpose, image acquisition period should be sufficiently short, so that mosaic algorithm has to be run in real time. Proposed algorithm is derived by using the fact that position of sensor nodes are fixed and known. Transformation matrix can be calculated by using distance between sensor nodes and distance between sensor nodes and predefined object. Simulation result shows that proposed algorithm provides very short processing time whereas it preserves image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.571-574
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• 2003

본 논문은 수평 이동 정보와 회전 정보가 있는 비디오 영상을 Mellin Transform 을 이용하여 이미지를 모자이킹하는 방법을 제안한다. Mellin Transform 후 나타나는 이미지의 이동 정보와 회전정보를 이용하여 각 이미지들을 접합하기 위한 투영 행렬을 계산한다. 그리고 모자이크 생성시 나타날 수 있는 각 이미지간의 오차가 누적되는 현상을 줄이기 위한 전체적인 접합으로 투영 행렬을 추출하여 적용함으로써 누적되는 오차를 줄여 정확한 모자이크를 얻을 수 있다. 지금까지 제안된 모자이킹 기법들은 중복성 계산에 시간이 많이 소모되고 수평이동 시켜 얻어진 영상만을 다루어 이미지가 회전되었을 정확한 모자이크 결과를 얻을 수 없었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Mellin Transform에 기반한 투영 행렬을 이용하여 이미지가 이동하거나 회전하였을 경우에도 빠른 시간에 이미지의 중복 정보를 찾아 정확한 모자이크를 생성할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.