• 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.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.227-231
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• 2006

카메라를 통하여 실시간으로 입력되는 객체의 움직임은 잡음이나 조명의 변화에 따라 정확하게 추출하고 추적하는 것이 어렵다. 따라서 실시간으로 입력되는 영상에서 객체를 추출하고 움직임을 추적하기 위해서는 고속탐색 알고리즘이 필요하다. 본 논문은 실시간영상에서 객체의 움직임을 추출하고 추적을 위하여 배경영상의 변화에 강인한 배경영상 갱신 방법과 가변적인 탐색영역을 이용한 객체추적의 빠른 알고리즘을 제안한다. 배경영상 갱신 방법은 임계값이 실험적 기준치 보다 작은 경우에는 배경영상을 갱신하고, 큰 경우에는 객체가 유입된 시점으로 판단하여 픽셀검사를 통해 객체의 윤곽점을 추출한다. 추출된 윤곽점은 객체 영역블록의 생성과 일정한 거리를 유지하는 탐색블록을 생성하여 정확하고 빠른 객체의 움직임을 추적한다. 실험결과, 제안한 방법은 95% 이상의 높은 정확도를 보였다.

• 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.41 no.5
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• pp.153-163
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• 2004

This paper presents a video tracking method for a deformable moving object using an active contour model in the image sequences. It is quite important to decide the local convergence directions of the contour points for correctly extracting the boundary of the moving object with deformable shape. For this purpose, an energy function for the active contour model is newly proposed by adding a directional energy term using a frame difference map to tile Greedy algorithm. In addition, an updating rule of tile frame difference map is developed to encourage the stable convergence of the contour points. Experimental results on a set of synthetic and real image sequences showed that the proposed method can fully track the deformable object while extracting the boundary of the object elaborately in every frame.

• 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 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.34-40
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• 2008

This paper presents a vision based walking robot control system using hand shape recognition. To recognize hand shapes, the accurate hand boundary needs to be tracked in image obtained from moving camera. For this, we use an active contour model-based tracking approach with mean shift which reduces dependency of the active contour model to location of initial curve. The proposed system is composed of four modules: a hand detector, a hand tracker, a hand shape recognizer and a robot controller. The hand detector detects a skin color region, which has a specific shape, as hand in an image. Then, the hand tracking is performed using an active contour model with mean shift. Thereafter the hand shape recognition is performed using Hue moments. To assess the validity of the proposed system we tested the proposed system to a walking robot, RCB-1. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.81-94
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• 1998

In order to extract the contour of interesting object in the image, Kass suggested the Active Contour Model called "Snakes". Snakes is a model which defines the contour of image energy. It also can find the contour of object by minimizing these energy functions. The speed of this model is slow and this model is sensitive of initialization. In order to improve these problems, Gunn extracted the accurate contour by using two initialization. and operated to less sensitive of initialization. This method could extract more accurate contour than the existing method, but it had no effect in the speed and it was sensitive of noise. This paper applied to the Energy Minimization Algorithm about only the pixel within the window applying the window of 8$\times$8 size at each contour point consisting Snakes in order to solve these problems. The method offered in this paper is applied to extract the contour of original image and cup image added to gaussian noise. By tracking the face using this offered method, it is applied to virtual reality and motion tracking. tracking.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.337-340
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• 2000

비디오객체 추출 기법은 MPEG-4 및 MPEG-7의 응용을 목표로 최근 활발하게 연구되고 있다. 이들 연구는 객체 추출의 전체적인 구조와 정확한 윤곽선 검출 알고리즘의 개발에 초점을 맞추고 있으며 제한적인 조건하에서 만족할 만한 성능을 내고 있다 그러나, 카메라 움직임, 객체의 빠른 움직임, 비강체 운동 등 보다 일반적인 상황에서는 객체 추출의 안정성이 떨어진다. 본 논문에서는 객체 추출의 안정성을 높이기 위해 칼라, 움직임 정보 등의 특징정보(feature)가 균일한 영역으로 사전분할하고, 분할된 균일영역을 추적하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 추적된 균일 영역간의 경계는 각 영역의 통계적 분포와 영역경계의 윤곽선으로 정의된 에너지를 레벨셑 방법으로 최소화함으로 조정된다.