• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.297-299
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• 2006

Searching the region of interest on the Hough transform domain is done to determine the real road boundary on the high speed way. The mathematical morphology is employed to obtain the gradient image which is utilized in Hough transform. Many possible candidates of lines could appear on the ordinary road environment and simple selection of the strongest line segments likely to be fault boundary lines. To solve such problem, the search area for the candidates of the road boundary which is called the region of interest is limited on the Hough space. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm has been shown with experimental results.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.6 s.249
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• pp.713-721
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• 2006

Micro-drill wear deteriorates accuracy and productivity of the micro components. In order to improve productivity and qualify of micro components, it is required to investigate micro-drill wear exactly. In this study, a machine vision system is proposed to measure the wear of micro-drills using a precision servo stage. Calibration experiments are conducted to compensate for the machine vision system. In this paper, worn volume, area and length are defined as wear amounts. Micro-drill wear is reconstructed as the 3D topography and the quantized wear amount by using the shape from focus (SFF) method and wear parameters. Experiments have been conducted with HSS twist micro-drills and SM45C carbon steel workpieces. Validity of the proposed machine vision system is confirmed through experiments.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.56-63
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• 2008

Image calibration at preprocessing step is very important for face recognition rate improvement, and background noise deletion affects accuracy of face recognition specially. In this paper, a method is proposed to remove background area utilizing elliptical model at preprocessing step for face recognition rate improvement. As human face has the shape of ellipse, a face contour can be easily detected by using the elliptical model in face images.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06c
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• pp.143-146
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• 2002

The aim of this work is the real-time road edge detection using the fast processing of Cellular Analogic Parallel Processing Networks(CAPPN). The CAPPN is composed of 2D analog cell way. If the dynamic programming is implemented with the CAPPN, the optimal path can be detected in parallel manner Provided that fragments of road edge are utilized as the cost inverse(benefit) in the CAPPN-based optimal path algorithm, the CAPPN determines the most plausible path as the road edge line. Benefits of the proposed algorithm are the fast processing and the utilization of optimal technique to determine the road edge lines.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.115-124
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• 1992

An algorithm has been proposed for the automatic detection of optimal epiand endocardial left ventricular borders from 2-D short axis echocardiogram which is degraded by noise and echo drop out. For the implementation of the algorithm, we modified Ballard's Generalized Hough Transform which can be applicable only for deterministic object border, and newly proposed Fuzzy Hough Transform method. The algorithm presented here allows detection of object whose exact shapes are unknown. The algorithm only requires an approximate model of target object based on anatomical data. To detect the approximate epicardial contour of left ventricle, Fuzzy Hough Transform was applied to the echocardiogram. The optimal epicardial contour was founded by using graph searching method which contains cost function analysis process. Using this optimal epicardial contour and average thickness imformation of left ventricular wall, the approximate endocardial line was founded, and graph searching method was also used to detect optimal endocardial contour.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1997 no.11
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• pp.236-239
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• 1997

Snakes is an active contour model or representing image contours. To detect chest boundary on thoracic MRI sequences, we proposed a method based on modified greedy algorithm. Because thoracic MRI sequences have a spatial correlation, we added energy term related with spatial correlation to Snakes energy formulation. A measure of shape similarity called the BMD was used to evaluate the accuracy of the algorithm. The average BMD value or the modified algorithm's result is higher than greedy algorithm's.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.25-34
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• 1999

In this paper, an algorithm is presented to recognize lane and obstacles based on highway road image. The road images obtained by a video camera undergoes a pre-processing that includes filtering, edge detection, and identification of lanes. After this pre-processing, a part of image is grouped into 27 sub-windows and fed into a three-layer feed-forward neural network. The neural network is trained to indicate the road direction and the presence of absence of an obstacle. The proposed algorithm has been tested with the images different from the training images, and demonstrated its efficacy for recognizing lane and obstacles. Based on the test results, it can be said that the algorithm successfully combines the traditional image processing and the neural network principles towards a simpler and more efficient driver warning of assistance system

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.249-252
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 실제 물체 윤곽을 검출하기 위해 물체 분할 과정에서 변이(disparity) 정보를 이용한다. 스테레오 정합(stereo matching)으로 획득한 변이도에서 불연 속한 부분은 물체의 경계나 변이가 할당되지 않는 폐색 영역 일부분에서 나타날 수 있으므로, 변이 변화가 작 은 영상의 각 영역은 같은 물체의 일부분이라는 것은 직관적으로 명백하다. 분할 과정은 이러한 변이 정보를 적절하게 이용하고 확산망(diffusion network)을 이용하여 선택적인 확산을 수행한다. 추정된 변이도는 변이 변화가 작은 영역을 인식하기 위해 사용되고 그러한 영 역은 단일 물체의 일부분이거나 배경(background)이라고 간주하고 텍스쳐(texture)에 의한 에지(edge)글 등방성 확산으로 제거하는 과정을 거친다. 나머지 영상 영역에서, 비등방성 확산으로 변이의 변화와 밝기차의 변화를 고려하여 수행된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06c
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• pp.425-428
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• 2011

이 논문은 음식인식 자동화를 위해서 음식 이미지를 표현하는 새로운 방법을 제시한다. 먼저, 사람이 음식 속 재료성문을 인식하는 방법을 모방하여, 음식이미지에서 윤곽선을 따라 다각형을 검출한다 그 흐름, 각 다각형의 특징 다각형에 해당하는 음식재료성분의 라벨은 다각형의 사이즈, 다각형의 가로세로 비율 - 이 추출된다. 여기서 음식재료성분의 라벨은 음식재료이미지로 훈련 받은 Semantic Texton Forests (STF)[3]에 의해 구해진다. 구해진 다각형의 특징을 이용해 음식이미지마다 다차원 히스토그램이 형성되는데, 이히스토그램은 컴퓨터가 사람과 유사하게 음식이미지를 이해할 수 있도록 표현된다. 이 히스토그램은 컴퓨터가 음식을 인식할 수 있도록 도와주는 중요한 특징으로 사용될 것이다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.191-197
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• 2005

When fabricating a vision chip, we should consider the noise problem, such as the fixed pattern noise(FPN) due to the process variation. In this paper, we propose an edge-detection circuit based on biological retina using the offset-free column readout circuit to reduce the FPN occurring in the photo-detector. The offset-free column readout circuit consists of one source follower, one capacitor and five transmission gates. As a result, it is simpler and smaller than a general correlated double sampling(CDS) circuit. A vision chip for edge detection has been designed and fabricated using $0.35\;{\mu}m$ 2-poly 4-metal CMOS technology, and its output characteristics have been investigated.