• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.205-214
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• 2006

Texts in images have significant and detailed information about the scenes, and if we can automatically detect and recognize those texts in real-time, it can be used in various applications. In this paper, we propose a new text detection method that can find texts from the various camera-captured images and propose a text segmentation method from the detected text regions. The detection method proposes color variance as a detection feature in RGB color space, and the segmentation method suggests an improved K-means color clustering in RGB color space. We have tested the proposed methods using various kinds of document style and natural scene images captured by digital cameras and mobile-phone camera, and we also tested the method with a portion of ICDAR[1] contest images.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.281-288
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• 2014

QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is code system that is strong in against to apply image processing techniques (skew, warp, blur, and rotate) as QR codes can store several hundred times the amount of information carried by ordinary bar codes. For this reason, QR code is used in various fields, e.g., air ticket (boarding control system), food(vegetables, meat etc.) tracking system, contact lenses management, prescription management, patient wrist band (patient management) etc. In this paper, we proposed reversible data hiding for binary images. A reversible data hiding algorithm, which can recover the original image without any distortion from the marked (stego) image after the hidden data have been extracted, because it is possible to use various kinds of purposes. QR code can be used to generate by anyone so it can be easily used for crime. In order to prevent crimes related QR code, reversible data hiding can confirm if QR code is counterfeit or not as including authentication information. In this paper, we proved proposed method as experiments.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.560-567
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• 2008

In this paper, we discuss a simple and straightforward binarization procedure which can generate black/white comics from the video frame image. Generally, the region of human's skin is colored white or light gray, while the dark region is filled with the irregular but regular patterns like hatching in most of the black/white comics. Note that it is not enough for simple threshold method to perform this work. Our procedure is decoupled into four processes. First, we use bilateral filter to suppress noise color variation and reserve boundaries. Then, we perform mean-shift segmentation for each similar colored pixels to be clustered. Third, the clustered regions are merged and extended by our region extension algorithm considering each color of their regions. Finally, we decide which pixels are on or off using by our dynamic binarization method based on the HSV color model. Our novel black/white cartooning procedure was so successful to render comic cuts from a well-known cinema in a resonable time and manual intervention.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.448-453
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• 1999

본 연구는 메이크업 제품에 있어서 한국인의 정서에 맞는 심리적 분석과 이를 통한 과학적인 색상개발을 하는데 그 목적이 있다. 본 연구에서는 심리적인 평가실험을 통해 이미지를 추출하여 브랜드가 추구하는 이미지를 설정한 후, 설정이미지에 부합된 메이크업 특성을 정량적으로 분석하였다. 분석방법에는 다변량 해석방법이 적용되었으며, 분석결과에 따라 설정 이미지별 색채영역을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.575-578
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• 2003

본 논문은 제한된 영역 안의 다수 물고기를 추적하는 방법을 제안한다. 고정된 카메라로 물고기가 있는 수조의 영상을 얻은 다음 실시간으로 얻는 매경영상을 통해 물고기의 이미지만을 얻는다. 이렇게 얻어진 이미지를 ART2 알고리즘을 통해 clustering을 하고 각각의 물고기라 추정되는 cluster와 이전까지 측정되어진 물고기 좌표와의 거리 계산을 통해 각각의 물고기의 개체 인식을 하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 물고기 이미지를 얻는 방법을 개선하여 다 개체 추적을 위한 깨끗한 개체 이미지를 얻는 방법과, 각 cluster들과 이진 물고기 위치와의 거리계산을 통한 개체 인식 방법에 대해 초점을 맞추었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.68-75
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new data hiding method for binary images using the weighting value of pixel-value differencing. The binary cover image is partitioned into non-overlapping sub-blocks and find the most suitable position to embed a secret bit for each sub-block. The proposed method calculates the weighted value for a sub-block to pivot a pixel to be changed. This improves the image quality of the stego-image. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a good visual quality and high capacity.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.437-440
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• 2011

본 논문은 이동식 자동영상속도측정기로 과속 단속된 영상자료 중 역광 원인으로 자동차 번호판을 인식할 수 없어 폐기되는 영상자료에 대한 번호판 인식률을 향상시키는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 명암값 분포가 불규칙한 자동차 번호판 이미지나 영상 자체에 손상이 많은 자동차 번호판 이미지를 지역적 적응 이진화 알고리즘을 사용함으로써, 오츠 전역적 이진화 알고리즘보다 뛰어난 자동차 번호판 인식률을 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.401-403
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• 1999

본 논문에서 우리는 제약이 없는 배경화면에서 얼굴의 움직임을 이용한 응시점 추적을 위해 얼굴의 특징점(눈, 코, 그리고 입)들을 찾고 head orientation을 구하는 효？거이고 빠른 방법을 제안한다. 얼굴을 찾는 방법이 많이 연구 되어 오고 있으나 많은 부분이 효과적이지 못하거나 제한적인 사항을 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 이진화된 이미지에 기초하고 완전 그래프 매칭을 이용한 유사성을 구하는 방법이다. 즉, 임의의 임계치 값에 의해 이진화된 이미지를 레이블링 한 후 각 쌍의 블록에 대한 유사성을 구한다. 이때 두 눈과 가장 유사성을 갖는 두 블록을 눈으로 선택한다. 눈을 찾은 후 입과 코를 찾아간다. 360$\times$240 이미지의 평균 처리 속도는 0.2초 이내이고 다음 탐색영역을 예상하여 탐색 영역을 줄일 경우 평균 처리속도는 0.15초 이내였다. 그리고 본 논문에서는 얼굴의 움직임을 구하기 위해 각 특징점들이 이루는 각을 기준으로 한 템플릿 매칭을 이용했다. 실험은 다양한 조명환경과 여러 사용자를 대상으로 이루어졌고 속도와 정확성면에서 좋은 결과를 보였다. 도한, 명안정보만을 사용하므로 흑백가메라에서도 사용가능하여 경제적 효과도 기대할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.408-410
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• 2014

In this paper a license plate area extraction of labeling the vehicle images is proposed. Studies on license plate recognition systems have largely been conducted and there is a tendency of increasing license plate recognition rates. In this paper a license plate region is extracted from an image labeling for the region of interest and research on technology for labeling sample image using the Otsu algorithm to binary.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.73-86
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• 2009

This paper proposes a new data hiding scheme for binary image authentication with minimizing the distortion of host image. Based on the Hamming-Code-Based data embedding algorithm, the proposed scheme makes it possible to embed authentication information into host image with only flipping small number of pixels. To minimize visual distortion, the proposed scheme only modifies the values of the flippable pixels that are selected based on Yang et al's flippablity criteria. In addition to this, by randomly shuffling the bit-order of the authentication information to be embedded, only the designated receiver, who has the secret key that was used for data embedding, can extract the embedded data. To show the superiority of the proposed scheme, the two measurement metrics, the miss detection rate and the number of flipped pixels by data embedding, are used for the comparison analysis between the proposed scheme and the previous schemes. As a result of analysis, it has been shown that the proposed scheme flips smaller number of pixels than the previous schemes to embed the authentication information of the same bit-length. Moreover, it has been shown that the proposed scheme causes smaller visual distortion and more resilient against recent steg-analysis attacks than the previous schemes by the experimental results.