• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.449-450
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• 2007

오래 전 부터 영상처리와 컴퓨터 비전은 많은 분야에 응용되고 발전 되어 왔다. 그러한 기술 중에 최근 각광 받고 있는 그래프 짓(Graph cut) 알고리즘은 에너지함수를 최소화 하는 가장 강력한 최적화 기법중 하나이다. 그리고 일반적으로 Sobel, Prewitt, Roberts, Canny 에지(edge) 검출기 등은 영상처리에서 영상상의 에지를 검출하기 위해 이미 널리 사용되고 발전되어 온 기술이다. 물체에서의 윤곽만 검출하기 위해서는 우리가 원하지 않는 영상 위의 에지도 검출되기 때문에 예지 검출기만으로는 물체의 윤곽만을 검출하는 것은 불가능하다. 우리는 물체의 윤곽만 검출하기를 원하기 때문에 그래프 컷과 에지 검출기의 알고리즘을 결합하면 이러한 문제를 해결 할 수 있다는 것을 제안한다. 이 논문에서는 그래프 컷 알고리즘과 에지 검출기에 관해 간략하게 기술하고 그 결과를 보일 것이다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.255-262
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• 2002

Human retina is able to detect the edge of an object effectively. We designed a CMOS vision chip by modeling cells of the retina as hardwares involved in edge detection. There are several fluctuation factors which affect characteristics of MOSFETs during CMOS fabrication process and this effect appears as output offset of the vision chip which is composed of pixel arrays and readout circuits. The vision chip detecting edge information from input image is used for input stage of other systems. Therefore, the output offset of a vision chip determine the efficiency of the entire performance of a system. In order to eliminate the offset at the output stage, we designed a vision chip by using CDS(Correlated Double Sampling) technique. Using standard CMOS process, it is possible to integrate with other circuits. Having reliable output characteristics, this chip can be used at the input stage for many applications, like targe tracking system, fingerprint recognition system, human-friendly robot system and etc.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.91-97
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• 2003

The Propose of this paper is hierarchical detection method for the optic disc in fundus image. We detected the optic disc boundary by using the Prior information. It is based on the anatomical knowledge of fundus which are the vessel information. the image complexity. and etc. The whole method can be divided into three stages . First, we selected the region of interest(ROI) which included optic disc region. This is used to calculate location and size of the optic disc which are prior knowledge to simplify image preprocessing. And then. we divided the fundus image into numberous regions with watershed algorithm and detected intial boundary of the optic disc by reducing the number of the separated regions in ROI. Finally, we have searching the defective parts of boundary as a result of serious vessel interference in order to detect the accurate boundary of optic disc and we have removing and interpolating them.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.31-39
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• 2018

In this paper, we proposed a license plate detection method based on contour extraction that adapts to environmental changes. The proposed method extracts contour lines using DoG (Difference of Gaussian) to remove unnecessary noise parts in the contour extraction process. Binarization was applied in ugly outline images, and erosion and dilation operations were used to emphasize the contour of the character part. Then, only the outline of the ratio of the characters of the plate was extracted through the ratio of the width and height of the characters. And the case where the outline is the longest is estimated by estimating the characters of the license plate. For the experiment, we applied 130 image data to license plate on the front of the vehicle, oblique environment, and environment images with various backgrounds. I also experimented with motorcycle images of different license plate patterns. Experimental results showed that the detection rate of the oblique image was 93% and that of the various background environment was 70% in the motorcycle image but 98% in the front image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.739-741
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• 2004

영상에서 Edge는 영역의 경계를 표현하며. 특징으로는 픽셀 밝기의 불연속점을 나타낸다. 이러한 Edge를 찾아내는 Edge detection은 설러 가지 영상 처리 기법에서 유용하게 사용되고 있다. 현재까지 많은 알고리즘들이 제안되었으며. 이 논문에서는 이러한 알고리즘들에 대한 장단점을 파악하고, 미분 연산자를 이용한 Sobel, Prewitt. Roberts. Laplacian, 그리고 Canny 마스크를 이용한 윤곽선 검출방법과 Discrete Sing에ar Convolution (DSC) 알고리즘을 이용한 윤곽선 검출방법을 백색 가우시안 잡음 환경과 비 잡음 환경에서 비교해 보았다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.33-40
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a text extraction method by pattern analysis on contour for effective text detection in image. Text extraction algorithms using edge based methods show good performance in images with simple backgrounds, The images of complex background has a poor performance shortcomings. The proposed method simplifies the color of the image by using K-means clustering in the preprocessing process to detect the character region in the image. Enhance the boundaries of the object through the High pass filter to improve the inaccuracy of the boundary of the object in the color simplification process. Then, by using the difference between the expansion and erosion of the morphology technique, the edges of the object is detected, and the character candidate region is discriminated by analyzing the pattern of the contour portion of the acquired region to remove the unnecessary region (picture, background). As a final result, we have shown that the characters included in the candidate character region are extracted by removing unnecessary regions.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.141-146
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• 2016

In this paper, we apply limited area mask operation and active contour model to accurately detect tongue area outline in tongue diagnosis system. To accurately analyze the properties of the tongue, first, the tongue area to be detected. Therefore an effective segmentation method for detecting the edge of tongue is very important. It experimented with tongue image DB consists of 20~30 students 30 people. Experiments on real tongue image show the good performance of this method. Experimental results show that the proposed method extracts object boundaries more accurately than existing methods without mask operation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.11-20
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• 2007

AAM has been successfully applied to face alignment, but its performance is very sensitive to initial values. In this paper, we propose a face alignment method using progressive AAM. The proposed method consists of two stages; modelling and relation derivation stage and fitting stage. Modelling and relation derivation stage first builds two AAM models; the inner face AAM model and the whole face AAM model and then derive the relation matrix between the inner face AAM model parameter vector and the whole face AAM model parameter vector. The fitting stage is processed progressively in two phases. In the first phase, the proposed method finds the feature parameters for the inner facial feature points of a new face, and then in the second phase it localizes the whole facial feature points of the new face using the initial values estimated utilizing the inner feature parameters obtained in the first phase and the relation matrix obtained in the first stage. Through experiments, it is verified that the proposed progressive AAM-based face alignment method is more robust with respect to pose, and face background than the conventional basic AAM-based face alignment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.1142-1147
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• 2022

The edges of image should be detected first so that the objects in the image can be identified. An hardware-implemented edge detection algorithm outperforms its software version. Sobel operation is the most suitable algorithm for an hardware implementation of edge detection. And lots of works have been done to perform Sobel operations efficiently on FPGA-based hardware. This work proposes how to implement fast edge detection circuit on FPGA, which is based on the conventional circuit for edge detection using Sobel operator. The newly proposed circuit is suitable for processing images when the images are stored in memory devices and outperforms the conventional one with little additional FPGA resources. Both the conventional circuit and the proposed circuit were implemented on an FPGA. And the result showed that the proposed circuit almost doubles the performance in processing images and needs little additional FPGA resources.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.343-345
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 색상 정보와 변형 모델을 이용한 얼굴 영역 및 얼굴의 특징 영역의 자동 검출 방법을 제시한다. 영상으로부터 획득할 수 있는 정보 중 가장 빠르고 쉽게 얻을 수 있는 정보가 색상 정보이며, 색상정보는 사물을 판단함에 있어서 가장 효율적이면서 컴퓨터의 계산량을 줄일 수 있다는 장점을 갖고 있기 때문에 얼굴 영역 검출 방법으로 많이 이용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 얼굴영역 및 얼굴 특성 추출함에 있어 컬러모델 사용 시 외부 조명의 영향을 줄여주는 조명 보정 방법을 제시하고, 조명 보정에 의해 평활화된 YCbCr 색상모델에 적용하여 각 성분 특성을 고려한 얼굴영역 및 얼굴의 특성 영역에 해당하는 후보 영역을 검출하는 방법을 제시한다. 검출된 얼굴후보 영역 및 특성 영역은 가변 모델인 동적 윤곽선 모델의 초기값으로 자동 적용되어 윤곽선 모델 적용시 문제점가운데 하나인 초기값 설정문제를 해결함과 동시에 얼굴 및 얼굴 특징 정보의 정확한 윤곽선을 추출하는데 사용된다. 실험 결과 제시된 방법을 적용한 결과 빠르고 효과적으로 얼굴 및 특성 영역을 검출 할 수 있음을 입증 할 수 있었다.