• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.154-158
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• 1999

This paper introduces a partial edge detection technique, that improves the processing time of an automatic change tracking system for multi-temporal images. In the conventional change tracking systems for multi-temporal images, the edge detection is performed over the whole image. In the proposed method, however, the necessary portions for the edge detection is selected first and the edge detection is performed over the selected parts only. As a consequence, the improvement in the processing time could be achieved. The proposed change tracking system is expected to be utilized as a very efficient tool to configure changes in large data set such as remotely sensed satellite imagery or geophysical time laps images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.410-413
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 영문 명함 영상에서 개별 문자 추출 방법을 제안한다. 30개의 원본 명함 영상을 대상으로 스미어링 기법과 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 이용하여 영문 명함의 개별 문자들 추출하였다. 본 논문에서는 3$\times$3 마스크를 이용하여 가장 작은 값으로 3 배 축소하는 방법을 적용하여 스미어링하는 시간을 단축시키고 문자들간의 간격을 제거하여 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 이용하여 문자열 후보 영역을 추출하였다 그리고 추출된 후보 영역의 가로 및 세로의 비율과 면적을 이용하여 문자열과 비 문자열로 분리하고, 문자열 영역에서 4 방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 이용하여 개별문자를 추출하였다. 30개의 명함 영상을 실험한 결과, 309개의 문자열 중에서 280개가 추출되었고 개별 문자는 4504개중에서 4110개가 추출되었다

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.189-189
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• 2004

본 논문은 CNC 밀링머신을 이용한 절삭가공 등 2축시스템의 위치제어 시스템을 대상으로 한다. 기존의 제어방식은 크게 독립축제어와 상호결합제어로 분류할 수 있다. 독립축제어는 두 축의 통합된 운동을 각각의 독립된 축에 대한 추적제어를 수행하여 원하는 공구경로의 위치 정밀성을 향상시키고자 하는 것이고, 상호결합제어는 지령경로에 대한 추적성능보다는 현재의 윤곽오차를 감소시키는 방향으로 제어입력을 인가하여 가공윤곽의 오차를 감소시키는데 주목적이 있다. 또한 최근의 작업공정의 고속화 경향은 윤곽오차를 감소시키면서도 추적성능이 우수한 제어방식을 요구하고 있다.(중략)

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.239-244
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• 2006

In this paper, we present a snake-based scheme for contour tracking of objects in stereo image sequences. We address the problem by managing the insertion of new points and deletion of unnecessary points to better describe and track the object's boundary. In particular, our method uses more points in highly curved parts of the contour, and fewer points in less curved parts. The proposed algorithm can successfully define the contour of the object, and can track the contour in complex images. Furthermore, we tested our algorithm in the presence of partial object occlusion. Performance of the proposed algorithm has been verified by simulation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.105-114
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• 2011

The snake algorithm is widely adopted to track objects by extracting the active contour of the object from background. However, it fails to track the target converging to the background if there exists background whose gradient is greater than that of the pixels on the contour. Also, the contour may shrink when the target moves fast and the snake algorithm misses the boundary of the object in its searching window. To alleviate these problems, we propose an improved algorithm that can track object contour more robustly. Firstly, we propose two external energy functions, the edge energy and the contrast energy. One is designed to give more weight to the gradient on the boundary and the other to reflect the contrast difference between the object and background. Secondly, by computing the motion vector of the contour from the difference of the two consecutive frames, we can move the snake pointers of the previous frame near the region where the object boundary is probable at the current frame. Computer experiments show that the proposed method is more robust to the complicated background than the previously known methods and can track the object with fast movement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06b
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• pp.51-56
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 동영상에서 의미 있는 객체 영역을 추출하기 위해, 사람이 첫 장에서 관심 있는 객체를 표시하고, 그 다음 프레임부터는 사람의 도움 없이 객체를 추적하는 반자동 (semi-automatic) 방식의 객체 추적 알고리즘에 대해 개선된 알고리즘을 제안하고 이를 구현하였다. 제안한 객체 추적 알고리즘은 이전 프레임의 객체의 움직임을 이용하여 현재 프레임에서 대략적인 객체의 위치를 찾은 후, 윤곽선의 불확실도를 조사하고, 윤곽선을 재조정하여 정확한 객체의 위치를 찾는다. 제안한 알고리즘은 다양한 영상에서 만족할 만한 결과를 얻었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.10
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• pp.2090-2101
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• 2015

We propose a robust tracking method that combines the merits of ACM(active contour model) and the color-based PF(particle filter), effectively. In the proposed method, PF and ACM track the color distribution and the contour of the target, respectively, and Decision part merges the estimate results from the two trackers to determine the position and scale of the target and to update the target model. By controlling the internal energy of ACM based on the estimate of the position and scale from PF tracker, we can prevent the snake pointers from falsely converging to the background clutters. We appled the proposed method to track the head of person in video and have conducted computer experiments to analyze the errors of the estimated position and scale.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.7 s.103
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• pp.767-774
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a snake-based scheme for tracking object contour using disparity information taken from a stereo image sequence with cluttered background. The proposed method is composed of two steps. First, 3-D motion of object is estimated and candidate snake points are selected in disparity space. Second, object contour is extracted by using a modified snake algorithm with disparity information. The proposed algorithm can successfully extract the concave contour of objects and track the object contour in complex image. Performance of the proposed algorithm has been verified by simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.34-39
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• 1999

In this paper, boundary extraction algorithm is suggested by removing boundary noises efficiently and simplifying object shape in binary image. To remove boundary noises, $2{times}2$ mask boundary extraction algorithm is modified . Proposed method is designed to generate a symmetric path for the parasitic branch noise and to analysis traced features on end point of noise. It can extract more simplified object boundary but preserve original object shape by combining white background color extraction result with foreground extraction result. The usefulness of the proposed method was proved through experiments with various binary images.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1988.07a
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• pp.632-635
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• 1988

이 논문에서는 필기체 한글 인식에 있어서 입력된 기본자소를 window를 이용한 윤곽선 추적과 삼각분할에 의한 이분점 추출에 의해 각 기본자소가 갖고있는 특징성분을 찾아내고 그 특징성분에 의해 문자의 골격을 추출하여 인식하는 방법을 제안하였다. 윤곽선 추적시 window를 이용함으로 간단한 잡음제거와 추적속도를 증가 시켰으며 삼각분할에 의한 이분점 추출방법을 사용함으로 단순한 윤곽선 추적에 의해 특징성분을 추출하는 방법보다 문자의 특징성분을 정확하게 추출할 수 있다는 장점을 갖는다.