• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.96-102
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• 2012

An advanced form of the Partitioned Feature-based Classifier with Expertise Table(PFC-ET) is proposed in this paper. As is the case with the PFC-ET, the proposed classifier model, called Classifier Integration Model(CIM), does not use the entire feature vectors extracted from the original data in a concatenated form to classify each datum, but rather uses groups of features related to each feature vector separately. The proposed CIM utilizes a proportion of selected cluster members instead of the expertise table in PFC-ET to minimize the error in confusion table. The proposed CIM is applied to the classification problem on two data sets, Caltech data set and collected terrain data sets. When compared with PFC model and PFC-ET model. the proposed CIM shows improvements in terms of classification accuracy and post processing efforts.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.539-548
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• 2013

Although Motion estimation (ME) plays an important role in digital video compression, it requires a complicated search procedure to find an optimal motion vector. Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. The computational complexity of motion estimation for Multi-view video coding increases in proportion to the number of cameras. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, a low complexity motion estimation search method is proposed in this paper. The proposed search method consists of four-grid diamond search patten, two-gird diamond search pattern and TZ 2 Point search pattern. These search patterns exploit the characteristics of the distribution of motion vectors to place the search points. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over TZ search method (JMVC) can be up to 1.8~4.5 times faster by reducing the computational complexity and the image quality degradation is about to 0.01~0.24 (dB).

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.352-358
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• 2004

This paper is studied the improvement of performance for moving picture encoder using H.263. This is used the new motion vector search algorithm using a relation with neighborhood search point and is applied the integer DCT for the encoder. The integer DCT behaves DCT by the addition operation of the integer using WHT and a integer lifting than conventional DCT that needs the multiplication operation of a floating point number. Therefore, the integer Dn can reduce the operation amount than basis DCT with having an equal PSNR. The new motion vector search algorithm is showed almost similar PSNR as reducing the operation amount than the conventional motion vector search algorithm. To experiment a compatibility of the integer DCT and the conventional DCT, according to result compare case that uses a method only and case that uses the alternate two methods of the integer DCT or the conventional DCT to H.263 encoder and decoder, case that uses the alternate two methods is showed doing not deteriorate PSNR-and being each other compatible visually than case that uses an equal method only.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a real-time algorithm for recognizing the vehicle color from the indoor and outdoor vehicle images based on GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) acceleration. In the preprocessing step, we construct feature victors from the sample vehicle images with different colors. Then, we combine the feature vectors for each color and store them as a reference texture that would be used in the GPU. Given an input vehicle image, the CPU constructs its feature Hector, and then the GPU compares it with the sample feature vectors in the reference texture. The similarities between the input feature vector and the sample feature vectors for each color are measured, and then the result is transferred to the CPU to recognize the vehicle color. The output colors are categorized into seven colors that include three achromatic colors: black, silver, and white and four chromatic colors: red, yellow, blue, and green. We construct feature vectors by using the histograms which consist of hue-saturation pairs and hue-intensity pairs. The weight factor is given to the saturation values. Our algorithm shows 94.67% of successful color recognition rate, by using a large number of sample images captured in various environments, by generating feature vectors that distinguish different colors, and by utilizing an appropriate likelihood function. We also accelerate the speed of color recognition by utilizing the parallel computation functionality in the GPU. In the experiments, we constructed a reference texture from 7,168 sample images, where 1,024 images were used for each color. The average time for generating a feature vector is 0.509ms for the $150{\times}113$ resolution image. After the feature vector is constructed, the execution time for GPU-based color recognition is 2.316ms in average, and this is 5.47 times faster than the case when the algorithm is executed in the CPU. Our experiments were limited to the vehicle images only, but our algorithm can be extended to the input images of the general objects.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.654-662
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• 2010

In this paper, we suggest an advanced algorithm, to recognize pedestrian/non-pedestrian using second-stage cascade method, which applies Adaboost algorithm to make a strong classification from weak classifications. First, we extract two feature vectors: (i) Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) which includes gradient information and differential magnitude; (ii) Curvature-HOG which is based on four different curvature features per pixel. And then, a strong classification needs to be obtained from weak classifications for composite recognition method using both HOG and curvature-HOG. In the proposed method, we use one feature vector and one strong classification for the first stage of recognition. For the recognition-failed image, the other feature and strong classification will be used for the second stage of recognition. Based on our experiment, the proposed algorithm shows higher recognition rate compared to the traditional method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.101-109
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• 2012

In many diagnostic and treatment procedures for prostate disease accurate detection of prostate boundaries in transrectal ultrasound(TRUS) images is required. This is a challenging and difficult task due to weak prostate boundaries, speckle noise and the short range of gray levels. In this paper a method for automatic prostate segmentation inTRUS images using support vectors and snake-like contour is presented. This method involves preprocessing, extracting Gabor feature, training, and prostate segmentation. Gabor filter bank for extracting the texture features has been implemented. A support vector machine(SVM) for training step has been used to get each feature of prostate and nonprostate. The boundary of prostate is extracted by the snake-like contour algorithm. The results showed that this new algorithm extracted the prostate boundary with less than 9.3% relative to boundary provided manually by experts.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.370-373
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 단일영상들에 포함된 특징들을 효과적으로 추출하기 위하여 신경망 기반 독립성분분석기법의 이용을 제안하였다. 여기서 독립성분의 효과적인 분석을 위해 고정점 학습알고리즘의 신경망 기반 기법을 이용하였다. 이는 수치적 기법에 비해 신경망이 가지는 ？ㄱ습 등의 우수한 속성과 뉴우턴법의 고정점 알고리즘이 가지는 빠르고 간단한 계산속성을 동시에 살리기 위함이다. 제안된 기법을 512x412 픽셀의 L둠 영상과 480x225 픽셀의 지폐영상 각각에서 선택된 1,000개의 영상패치들을 대상으로 시뮬레이션 한 결과, 추출된 16x16 펙셀의 160개 독립성분 기저벡터는 지문영상과 지폐영상 각각에 포함된 공간적인 주파수 특성과 방향성을 가지는 경계 특성이 잘 드러나는 국부적인 특징들임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.292-294
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 영상에서 효과적인 에지 연결(edge linking)을 위하여 기존의 셀룰러 신경망 구조에서 두 가지 유형의 시냅스 구조를 고려한 활성화 특성을 제안한다 제시하는 모델에서 노드들간의 측면 연결에 의한 상호 작용은 노이즈에 의한 에지 및 영상에서 추출된 비최대점(non-maximum)의 에지를 억제할 문만 아니라, 특정 노드의 원형 이웃(circular neighborhood)으로 그려되는 특징들 간의 상호 연관도를 반영하여 에지의 연결 효과를 이를 수 있게 한다. 이러한 과정은 에지를 표현하는 벡터형식의 각 성분에 대한 활성화 특성으로부터 정형화된 에너지 함수로 모델링하고 이에 대한 최적화 과정으로써 구현될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.45-46
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• 2001

PIV(Particle Image Velocimetry : 입자영상유속계)는 유동장에 분포된 추종입자의 위치를 영상처리에 의해 자동추적 함으로써 속도벡터를 전유동영역에 걸쳐 동시에 구할 수 있는 계측기법이다. 따라서, CFD와 같이 정량적 및 정성적으로 수치해석된 결과와 바로 비교 검토가 가능한 유일한 실험기법으로 인식되고 있다. 본 실험에서는 CFD에 의한 모형의 유체유동 특성을 분석하고 이를 회류수조에서 PIV를 이용해 모형 전개판 주위의 유체흐름을 분석하여 각 전개판 모형의 유체유동 특성을 파악하였다. (중략)

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.8A
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• pp.669-678
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an efficient fast integer-pel motion estimation for H.264/AVC using local statistics of local motion vectors. Using neighboring motion vectors, we define a new statistical property that is used to determine a mode of motion search range of current block. In addition, an adaptive motion search range compensated method that is based on cumulative statistics of previous coded blocks is addressed to solve the problem of the statistical motion search range decision method. Experimental results show that proposed algorithm has the capability to reduce the computational cost over the other methods.