• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.222-223
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• 2016

보행자 인식을 위한 컴퓨터 비전 알고리즘은 야간 상황과 같이 저조도 환경에서는 인식 성능이 떨어지고 있다. 이로 인하여 최근 저조도 환경에서 촬영된 영상으로 야간 상황에서 객체 인식 성능을 높이는 기법들이 연구되고 있다. 야간 환경은 주간 환경과는 다르게 광량이 적기 때문에 인간의 시각으로도 객체 인식에 어려움이 있고 일반적인 카메라로 촬영된 영상으로 객체 인식이 어렵다. 최근에는 NIR 카메라를 이용하여 촬영된 영상으로 야간 보행자 인식 알고리즘이 개발되고 있으나, 인식률과 객체 인식 가능 거리 및 범위가 한정적이다. 또한 기존의 야간 보행자 검출 기법들은 방대한 연산량이 필요하기 때문에 실시간 객체 인식이 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 NIR 카메라로부터 촬영된 영상으로 preprocessing 후 ACF(Aggregated Channel Feature)를 이용하여 최근 연구되고 있는 카메라 움직임이 있는 야간 환경에서 보행자 인식 알고리즘을 PC 및 TK1 Board 환경에서 구현하고 객체 인식률을 높인다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.3207-3213
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• 2011

Most methods of color constancy, which is the ability to determine the object color regardless of the scene illuminant, have failed to meet our expectation of their performance especially about low-illuminated scenes. Some methods with high performance need to be developed, but we must, above all else, obtain experimental images for analyzing the required circumstances or evaluating the methods. Therefore, the paper produces new sets of images so that they can be used in the development of color constancy methods suitable for low-illuminated scenes. These sets are composed of two parts: one part of images which are synthesized with spectral power distribution(SPD) of illuminants, spectral reflectance curve of reflectances, and sensor response functions of camera; the other part of images where the intensity of each image is adjusted at the uniform rate. In an experiment, the use of the sets takes an advantage that its result images are analyzed and evaluated quantitatively as their ground truth data are known in advance.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.267-272
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• 2021

Recently, attention has been focused on renewable energy and carbon neutrality to resolve fossil energy depletion and environmental problems. In addition, high-rise urban buildings and an increase in building energy are rapidly increasing. There are many restrictions on installing solar power in urban areas. In addition, as buildings become taller, a lot of low-light environments in which shade is formed occur. Therefore, in this study, we intend to develop a power plant capable of generating electric power in an outdoor low-light environment and indoor lighting environment. The power plant in a low-light environment used a dye-sensitized solar cell. A unit cell and a 20cm×20cm module were manufactured, and the electrical characteristics of the power plant were measured using light sources of LED, halogen lamp, and 3-wavelength lamp. The photoelectric conversion efficiency of the unit cell was 17.2%, 1.28%, 19,2% for each LED, halogen lamp, and 3-wavelength lamp, and the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the 20cm×20cm module was 10.9%, 8.7%, and 11.8%, respectively. In addition, the maximum power value of the module was 13.1mW, 15.7 mW, and 14.2 mW for each light source, respectively, confirming the possibility of power generation in a low-light environment

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.683-685
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• 2011

저조도 환경에서 획득된 영상은 대부분의 픽셀이 낮은 RGB 값을 가지기 때문에 물체가 가지는 색의 식별 및 물체 간의 구별이 어렵다는 문제점을 갖는다. 이러한 문제는 이론적으로 영상 내 존재하는 광원의 영향을 제거하는 것을 목적으로 하는 색 항등성 기법을 적용하여 해결이 가능하다. 저조도 영상에 적합한 색 항등성 기법을 찾기 위하여 본 논문에서는 Barnard 데이터 셋을 바탕으로 하는 저조도 합성 영상을 생성하고 이를 기반으로 다양한 색 항등성 기법을 평가한다. 저조도 합성 영상은 원하는 장면을 가지는 영상과 GTD를 생성할 수 있는 장점이 있기 때문에 실험 영상으로 사용된다. 성능 평가는 색 항등성 기법을 적용한 결과 영상과 GTD 영상을 비교하여 수행된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.572-575
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• 2010

본 논문은 SNR 이 매우 낮은 저조도 영상의 잡음 제거를 위한 새로운 기술을 제안한다. 제안하는 기술은 입력 영상에서 파라미터를 자동/적응적 방식으로 추정하는 알고리즘을 특징으로 한다. 제안하는 기술의 효율성을 검증하기 위해 실질적인 환경에서 취득한 저조도 동영상들을 가지고 실험을 수행하였다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 기술을 활용하여 적응적으로 추정된 파라미터가 필터링(filtering) 성능을 잘 유지시킴을 검증하였다. 또한 기존 연구들과 비교할 때 저조도 동영상의 명암대비 향상과 잡음 제거에 우수한 결과를 보임을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.9
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• pp.128-137
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• 2012

When a CCD camera acquires images in the low light level environment, not only the image signals but also noise components are amplified by the AGC (auto gain control) circuit. Since the noise level in the images acquired in the dark is very high, it is difficult to remove noise with existing denoising algorithms that are targeting the images taken in the normal light condition. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive denoising algorithm that can efficiently remove significant noises caused by the low light level. First, the window including a target pixel is transformed to the frequency domain. Then the algorithm compares the characteristics of equally divided four frequency bands. Finally the noises are adaptively removed according to the frequency characteristics. The proposed algorithm successfully improves the quality of low light level images than the existing algorithms do.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.125-126
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• 2019

현재 상업적으로 널리 쓰이는 CCTV 용 카메라는 충분한 광량이 보장된 환경에서는 가시영역 영상을, 저조도 환경에서는 적외선 영상을 획득한다. 적외선 영상은 색채정보를 갖고 있지 않아 객체의 색채 정보를 이용하여야 하는 응용에 활용하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 ND 필터를 사용하여 가시광선 및 근적외선 영역의 영상정보를 분리하여 취득하는 가능성에 대한 연구를 하였다. 먼저 카메라 내부의 Hot Mirror 필터를 제거하여 가시영역 및 근적외선 신호 모두가 카메라에 들어오도록 한 후 ND 필터를 사용하여 영상을 취득한 후, 본 논문에서 제안하는 분리방식을 사용하여 가시영역 및 근적외선 영역으로 분리하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.1680-1686
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• 2015

Edge detection is an essential preprocessing for most image processing application, and there are several existing detection methods such as Sobel, Roberts, Laplacian, LoG(Laplacian of Gaussian) operators, etc. Those existing edge detection methods have not given satisfactory results since they do not offer enough pixel brightness change in low light level environment. Therefore, in this study new algorithms using brightness transfer function in the preprocessing and for edge detection applying standard deviation and average-weighted local masks are proposed. In addition, the performance of proposed algorithms was evaluated in comparison with the existing edge detection methods such as Sobel, Roberts, Prewitt, Laplacian, LoG operators.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.129-136
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a thermal imagery-based object detection algorithm for low-light level nighttime surveillance system. Many features selected by Haar-like feature selection algorithm and existing Adaboost algorithm are often vulnerable to noise and problems with similar or overlapping feature set for learning samples. It also removes noise from the feature set from the surveillance image of the low-light night environment, and implements it using the lightweight extended Haar feature and adaboost learning algorithm to enable fast and efficient real-time feature selection. Experiments use extended Haar feature points to recognize non-predictive objects with motion in nighttime low-light environments. The Adaboost learning algorithm with video frame 800*600 thermal image as input is implemented with CUDA 9.0 platform for simulation. As a result, the results of object detection confirmed that the success rate was about 90% or more, and the processing speed was about 30% faster than the computational results obtained through histogram equalization operations in general images.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.51-60
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• 2024

Aiming at the problem of low contrast and difficult to recognize video images in low-light environment, we propose an adaptive contrast compensation enhancement algorithm based on human visual perception. First of all, the video image characteristic factors in low-light environment are extracted: AL (average luminance), ABWF (average bandwidth factor), and the mathematical model of human visual CRC(contrast resolution compensation) is established according to the difference of the original image's grayscale/chromaticity level, and the proportion of the three primary colors of the true color is compensated by the integral, respectively. Then, when the degree of compensation is lower than the bright vision precisely distinguishable difference, the compensation threshold is set to linearly compensate the bright vision to the full bandwidth. Finally, the automatic optimization model of the compensation ratio coefficient is established by combining the subjective image quality evaluation and the image characteristic factor. The experimental test results show that the video image adaptive enhancement algorithm has good enhancement effect, good real-time performance, can effectively mine the dark vision information, and can be widely used in different scenes.