• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.114-123
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• 2003

The current paper proposes a new vertex selection scheme for polygon-based contour coding. To efficiently characterize the shape of an object, we incorporate the curvature information in addition to the conventional maximum distance criterion in vertex selection process. The proposed method consists of "two-step procedure." At first, contour pixels of high curvature value are selected as key vortices based on the curvature scale space (CSS), thereby dividing an overall contour into several contour-segments. Each segment is considered as an open contour whose end points are two consecutive key vortices and is processed independently. In the second step, vertices for each contour segment are selected using progressive vertex selection (PVS) method in order to obtain minimum number of vertices under the given maximum distance criterion ( $D_{max}$$^{*}$). Furthermore, the obtained vortices are adjusted using the dynamic programming (DP) technique to optimal positions in the error area sense. Experimental results are presented to compare the approximation performances of the proposed and conventional methods.imation performances of the proposed and conventional methods.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1-7
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• 2005

This paper deals with the position control for a feed drive system in CNC milling machine. The study shows that reduction in tacking error does not necessarily increase contouring accuracy, and proposes that a proper control scheme is able to exhibit the optimal tracking and contouring accuracy. The proposed scheme is to fix the parameter of the contouring control, and to find the optimal value of the parameter of the tracking control, which is automatically tuned. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is confirmed through simulations.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.152-157
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• 2000

In the control of CNC machine tools, it is significant for precise machining to reduce the contour error. The object of servo-control is reduction of contour error and tracking error. In past studies, there were two approaches to control a servo-system. One was to eliminate axial tracking errors, and the other was to control contour errors. The Cross-coupled controller(CCC) was introduced fro ma veiwpoint of contour error model. Recently, for machining part with free form surfaces, we propose a new contour error model based on curve interpolator. It is presented here that performance of CCC using proposed model is enhanced. Therefore, we can make more precise parts with the curve interpolator and the new contour error model.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.1087-1099
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• 1998

In the content-based image coding, where each object in the scene is encoded independently, the shape, texture and motion information are very important factors. Though the contours representing the shape of an object occupy a great amount of data in proportion to the whole information, they strongly affect the subjective image quaility. Therefore, the distortion of contour coding has to be minimized as much as possible. In this paper, we propose a new method for the contour coding in which the contours are approximated to polygon and the eorror signal occurring from polygonal approximation are transformed with new basis functions. Considering the facts that confour segments occurring from polygonal approximation are smooth curves and error signals have two zero-ending points, we design new basis functions based on the Legendre polynomial and then transform the error signals with them. When applied to synthetic images such as circles, ellipses and etc., the proposed method provides, in overall, outstanding results in respect to the transform coding gain compared with DCT and DST. And in the case when applied to natural images, the proposed method gives better image quality over DCT and comparable results with DST.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.7C
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• pp.716-725
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a new approach for the reduction of the dynamic false contours, which detects and compensates false contour artifacts adaptively. First, we develop a simple but effective method to select the pixels that are likely to cause the motion artifacts, based on the distribution of pixel values. Then, we merge the selected pixels into several regions using tree structure. Next, we reduce number of gray levels within the regions slightly to reduce the false contours. Note that reducing number of gray levels yield the distortion, thus it is applied only to the selected regions, instead of the whole picture. Intensive simulations on real moving image show that the proposed algorithm alleviates the dynamic false contours effectively with tolerable computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.1162-1165
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• 2003

Contouring errors are important especially for high speed and precision machining. Since the contouring errors of a machine tool affect the error of a machined part directly, it is necessary to find the contouring errors by some relevant tests. In this study, contouring errors are obtained by performing circular tests with a grid plate. Various error sources are diagnosed by a least square method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.328-328
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• 2004

최근의 생산시스템은 수요자의 요구에 맞추어 다종소량화 경향이 뚜렷해지고 부품 또는 제품의 다기능화 및 소형화가 급속하게 진전되고 있으며, 여기에 보조를 맞추어 제품의 고정밀화가 그 어느 때보다 강하게 요구되고 있다. 이에 따라 공작기계를 이용한 정밀 가공기술의 필요성이 증가하게 되었고 공작기계가 공작물의 가공정도에 미치는 영향에 대한 평가가 많은 관심을 모으고 있다. 이는 가공된 공작물의 정밀도는 그것을 가공한 공작기계의 정밀도에 의해 좌우되기 때문이다.(중략)

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.4 s.29
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• pp.632-642
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• 2005

This paper presents a new vertex selection scheme for the polygon-based contour approximation. In the proposed method, the entire contour is partitioned into partial segments and they are approximated adaptively with variable accuracy. The approximation accuracy of each segment is controlled based on its relative significance. By computing the relative significance with the texture degradation in the approximation error region, the visual quality enhancement in the reconstructed frames can be achieved under the same amount of the contour data. For this purpose, a decision rule for $d_{max}$ is derived based on inter-region contrasts. In addition, an adaptive vertex selection method using the derived rule is proposed. Experimental results are presented to show the superiority of the proposed method over conventional methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.697-702
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• 2010

Contour artifact is known as the unintentional result of quantizing a flat area that has smooth gradients. In this letter, a decontouring algorithm is proposed to efficiently remove false contours that occur in typical block-based video coding applications. First, the algorithm goes through a refinement stage to determine candidate blocks probably having noticeable false contours with different kinds of features in a block. Then, pseudo-random noise masking is applied to those blocks to mitigate the contour artifacts. This block-based selective decontouring can efficiently remove the unnecessary processing of those blocks that have no false contour, which incidentally ensures a minor penalty in visual quality and computational complexity. The proposed algorithm was demonstrated, integrated into H.264/AVC, that visual quality can be significantly enhanced with an ignorable rate-distortion (RD) loss and an minor increase in computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.411-414
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• 2001

목표물 인식(Target Recognition)에 사용되는 대표적인 특징 정보에는 밝기 (Intensity) 정보와 윤곽선(Boundary) 등의 모양(Shape) 정보가 있다. 그러나, 일반적으로 영상에서 바로 추출한 밝기 정보나 윤곽선 정보는 환경 변화에 의한 많은 오차 요인들을 포함하고 있기 때문에, 이들 특징 정보를 개별적으로 인식에 사용하는 것은 높은 인식 성능을 기대하기 어렵다. 따라서, 밝기 정보와 모양 정보를 인식에 함께 사용하는 기법이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 밝기 정보와 윤곽선 기반의 모양 정보를 합성하여 동시에 인식에 사용하는 3단계 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법에서 밝기 정보 추출에 는 PCA (Principal Component Analysis)기법을 사용하고 , 윤곽선 정보 추출에는 PDM(Point Distribution Model) 에 기반한 영역 분할(Segmentation) 기법과 Algebraic Curve Fitting기법을 사용하였다 추출된 밝기 정보와 윤곽선 정보는 FLD(Fisher Linear Discriminant) 기법을 통해 결합(integration)되어 인식에 사용 된다. 제안한 기법을 적외선 자동차 영상을 인식하는 실험에 적용한 결과, 기존기법에 비해 인식 성능이 개선됨을 확인할 수 있었다.