• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.4 s.310
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• pp.87-95
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a novel feature extraction method for face recognition, based on Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Energy Probability (EP), and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). We define an energy probability as magnitude of effective information and it is used to create a frequency mask in OCT domain. The feature extraction method consists of three steps; i) the spatial domain of face images is transformed into the frequency domain called OCT domain; ii) energy property is applied on DCT domain that acquire from face image for the purpose of dimension reduction of data and optimization of valid information; iii) in order to obtain the most significant and invariant feature of face images, LDA is applied to the data extracted using frequency mask. In experiments, the recognition rate is 96.8% in ETRI database and 100% in ORL database. The proposed method has been shown improvements on the dimension reduction of feature space and the face recognition over the previously proposed methods.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.270-275
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• 2008

This paper addresses occluded object reconstruction and recognition with computational integral imaging (II). Integral imaging acquires and reconstructs target information in the three-dimensional (3D) space. The reconstruction is performed by averaging the intensities of the corresponding pixels. The distance to the object is estimated by minimizing the sum of the standard deviation of the pixels. We adopt principal component analysis (PCA) to classify occluded objects in the reconstruction space. The Euclidean distance is employed as a metric for decision making. Experimental and simulation results show that occluded targets are successfully classified by the proposed method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.71-78
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• 2011

This paper propose image steganalysis scheme based on independence between parent and child subband on the multi-layer wavelet domain. The proposed method decompose cover and stego images into 12 subbands by applying 3-level Haar UWT(Undecimated Wavelet Transform), analyze statistical independency between parent and child subband. Because this independency is appeared more difference in stego image than in cover image, we can use it as feature to differenciate between cover and stego image. Therefore we extract 72D features by calculation first 3 order statistical moments from joint characteristic function between parent and child subband. Multi-layer perceptron(MLP) is applied as classifier to discriminate between cover and stego image. We test the performance of proposed scheme over various embedding rates by the LSB, SS, BSS embedding method. The proposed scheme outperforms the previous schemes in detection rate to existence of hidden message as well as exactness of discrimination.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.186-187
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 기존의 표준 동영상 부호기의 산술적 연산 복잡도 및 대역폭을 낮추기 위하여 양자화된 두 영상에서 움직임을 예측하는 고속 영상 부호화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존에 제안된 이진 변환 기반 움직임 예측 알고리즘은 표적 영상과 참조 영상의 각 매크로 블록 단위로 가우시안 양자화를 적용한 뒤, 움직임 예측을 수행하기 때문에 블록 단위의 아티팩트로 인한 탐색 성능 저하를 피할 수 없다. 따라서, 우리는 참조 영상의 탐색 영역에 대해 하나의 양자화기를 적용함으로써 보다 정확한 움직임을 예측한다. 또한, 기존 알고리즘이 하나의 가우시안 양자화기를 적용하는 것과 달리, 제안 알고리즘은 데이터 특성 파악에 따른 다양한 확률 모델을 가정한 뒤 각 모델에 적합한 최적의 양자화기를 적용함으로써 블록 매칭 오류를 낮춘다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안 알고리즘이 기존의 이진 변환 기반 움직임 예측 알고리즘에 비해 보다 정확한 움직임 벡터를 예측함을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.767-770
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• 2002

영상 검색의 수행 방법으로 사람의 시각 시스템의 특성을 기반으로 웨이블릿 변환의 고주파수 에너지와 형태학적 필터링을 이용하여 분할된 객체의 효과적인 특징 추출을 통한 계층적인 검색 시스템을 제안한다. 영상 고유의 특징을 얻기 위해 객체의 형태 정보와 질감(texture) 방향성 및 칼라 정보를 이용한다. 본 논문에서는 객체의 형태 정보의 추출을 위하여 사용자의 질의(query)영상에서 객체의 윤곽선의 편각차분 변동율에 의한 형태 특징 벡터를 추출하고 GLCM (Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix)의 Contrast를 질감 특징으로 추출한다. 이들 두 특징을 이용하여 1차 분류 과정을 거치고 2차 검사에서는 보다 정확한 검색을 수행하기 위하여 1차로 분류된 후보영상들에 대하여 세부 정보인 칼라 정보를 기반으로 유사도를 측정함으로써 유사한 칼라와 형태를 가지는 영상뿐만 아니라 칼라가 다른 유사한 영상에도 효율적인 검색 성능을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.766-768
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• 2004

동영상에서 객체의 추출은 객체 단위로 압축하는 MPEG-4와 객체의 특성을 기술하고 유사한 영상을 검색하는 기능을 가진 MPEG-7에 기반 기술로, 동영상의 효과적인 압축 및 색인, 검색에 유용하게 사용되는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 시간적 정보와 공간적 정보를 이용한 영상 분할 방법을 제시한다. 동영상은 배경 화면과 전방 객체로 이루어져 있는데, 여기서 프레임간 모션벡터로 글로벌영상(배경영상)의 움직임을 분리할 수 있다. 이 Motion-based Segmentation을 통해 배경과 전방객체를 분리하여 rough한 전방객체를 추출하게 된다. 그리고 시간적 분할을 통해 얻은 rough한 전방객체에 모폴로지 변환과 Watershed 알고리즘을 적용하여 배경과 전방객체의 모호한 부분을 제거함으로써 효과적으로 전방객체를 추출한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.94-101
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• 2012

This paper proposes an improved image steganalysis scheme to raise the detection rate of stego images out of cover images. To improve the detection rate of stego image in the steganalysis, tiny variation caused by data hiding should be amplified. For this, we extract feature vectors of cover image and stego image by two steps. First, we separate image into upper 4 bit subimage and lower 4 bit subimage. As a result, stego noise is expanded more than two times. We decompose separated subimages into twelve subbands by applying 3-level Haar wavelet transform and calculate co-occurrence probabilities of two different subbands in the same scale. Since co-occurrence probability of the two wavelet subbands is affected by data hiding, it can be used as a feature to differentiate cover images and stego images. The extracted feature vectors are used as the input to the multilayer perceptron(MLP) classifier to distinguish between cover and stego images. We test the performance of the proposed scheme over various embedding rates by the LSB, S-tool, COX's SS, and F5 embedding method. The proposed scheme outperforms the previous schemes in detection rate to existence of hidden message as well as exactness of discrimination.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.264-267
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)의 확장 버전에 적용된 바 있는 화면 내 블록 복사 (Intra Block Copy; IntraBC) 기술에 대해 개선 알고리듬을 제안하고 있다. IntraBC 는 화면 내 부호화 진행 시, 예측 유닛 (prediction unit; PU)단위로 현재 부호화하고 있는 코딩 트리 유닛 (coding tree unit; CTU)의 왼쪽에 위치하는 CTU 를 탐색하는 기법이다. 이때, 왼쪽 CTU 에서 가장 비슷한 블록을 찾아 그 움직임 벡터 (motion vector)를 저장 및 전송하게 된다. 제안하는 알고리듬은 움직임 벡터를 찾기 전, 왼쪽의 복원된 CTU 에 대해 특정 필터를 적용하여 블록킹 열화 (blocking artifact)를 완화시키고, 더욱 정확하고 섬세한 움직임 벡터를 찾도록 하였고, 이는 자연영상보다 스크린 콘텐츠에 더욱 적합함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.7A
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• pp.705-710
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• 2002

In this paper, we present a method to find motion vectors in frequency domain for video data compression. The proposed algorithm is based on the Format Number Transform (FNT), and it declares the most correlated-block as the best matching block, as opposed to declaring the block with least sum of differences between blocks. We show that the proposed method is equivalent to declaring the block with the minimum L2-norm as the best matching block. Unlike other previous fast algorithms, the time requirement for the proposed algorithm does not defend on the image type for finding the optimum solution.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.21-30
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• 2009

The purposes of this paper are to present a selection method of neighboring pixels whose local statistics are similar to the center pixel and combine the selection result with mean curvature diffusion filter to reduce noises in remote sensed imagery. The order of selection of neighboring pixels is critical, especially for finding a pixel belonging to the homogeneous region, since the statistics of the homogeneous region vary according to the selection order. An effective strategy for selecting neighboring pixels, which uses rank-order differences vector obtained by computing the intensity differences between the center pixel and neighboring pixels and arranging them in ascending order, is proposed in this paper. By using region growing method, we divide the elements of the rank-ordered differences vector into two groups, homogeneous rank-ordered differences vector and outlier rank-ordered differences vector. The mean curvature diffusion filter is combined with a line process, which chooses selectively diffusion coefficient of the neighboring pixels belonging into homogeneous rank-ordered differences vector. Experimental results using an aerial image and a TerraSAR-X satellite image showed that the proposed method reduced more efficiently noises than some conventional adaptive filters using all neighboring pixels in updating the center pixel.