• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.75-81
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• 2014

The integral image is the sum of input image pixel values. It is mainly used to speed up processing of a box filter operation, such as Haar-like features. However, large memory for integral image data can be an obstacle on an embedded hardware environment with limited memory resources. Therefore, an efficient method to store the integral image is necessary. In this paper, we propose a memory size reduction hardware design for integral image. The hardware design is used two methods. It is the new integral image memory and modulo calculation for reducing integral image data. The new integral image memory has additional calculation overhead, but it is not obstacle in hardware environment that parallel processing is possible. In the Xilinx Virtex5-LX330T targeted experimental result, integral image memory can be reduced by 50% on a $640{\times}480$ 8-bit gray-scale input image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.109-110
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an adaptive thresholding method to binarize two-dimensional barcode images. Adaptive thresholding methods are applied to document image binarization. Thus, they inappropriate to use in recognition of two-dimensional barcode images. To overcome the problem, we propose a new adaptive threshold method using the integral image. To show the effectiveness of our method, we compared our method with the well-known existing method in terms of visual quality and processing time. The experimental result indicates that the proposed method is superior to the existing method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.605-608
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• 2010

두 영상에서 특징점을 추적하기 위하여 특징점을 중심으로 $N{\times}N$ 크기 윈도우 패치의 SSD 값을 비교하는 방법을 사용한다. 그러나 영상에서 다수의 특징점이 추출되어 매칭을 시도하는 경우 많은 처리 시간을 필요로 한다. 처리 시간의 증가는 실시간 처리를 어렵게 만든다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 적분 영상(integral image)을 사용하여 매칭 가능성이 높은 특징점을 필터링하여 SSD 매칭의 처리 시간을 단축시키는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 적분 영상을 사용한 특징점 필터링을 적용한 방법과 기존의 SSD 매칭 방법을 비교 실험하여 특징점 매칭의 처리 시간을 절감하는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.2453-2458
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an adaptive thresholding method to binarize two-dimensional barcode images. Adaptive thresholding methods that minimize light effects convert an original image into a binary image. The methods are applied to document image binarization. The methods, however, have problems of determining box size used in adaptive thresholding. thus, they inappropriate to use in recognition of two-dimensional barcode images. To overcome the problem, we analysis the problem and propose a new adaptive threshold method using the integral image. To show the effectiveness of our method, we compared our method with the well-known existing methods in terms of visual quality and processing time. The experimental result indicates that the proposed method is superior to the existing method.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.31-37
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• 2009

This paper casts an application of an extended fuzzy integral on the selective extraction of color clusters characterized by a particular color hue from color document images. Despite of the negative role of fuzzy integral, the presented approach attains the detection of the seals through the neighborhood information via the center of area method. The conventional fuzzy integral evaluates the negative aspects of the importance about the items by min operator, which result in the discontinuous parts of seals. In an attempt to cope with the drawback our approach considers the integral aspects via the center of area method, which results in the robustness of the images. Finally, the framework is successfully tested on a data set formed by documents from a real application for the detection.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.13-20
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• 2010

We proposed a new technique to perform fast video stabilization using integral image in this article. In the proposed technique, it evaluate local and global motion by the block matching using the generated integral image for each frame and compensate the motion like jitter. We made the various experimental jitter patterns to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed technique and evaluated stabilization capability and execution time with the existing ones. Through the experiment, we found that the execution time of proposed technique was faster than that of existing techniques and the compensation of jitter was well done.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1912-1913
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• 2011

본 논문은 공간적분을 이용한 인간 가축 분류를 위한 실시간 영상처리 방법을 제안한다. 입력 영상에 장면 차분 방법을 이용해 차분 영상을 구하고 잡음 제거를 위해 EM 알고리즘을 이용한다. 잡음 제거된 템플릿 영상에 대해 KLT 알고리즘을 이용하여 특징 벡터를 구한다. 추출된 이동 객체의 움직임 벡터 기반으로 히스토그램을 생성한다. SA 알고리즘을 이용하여 히스토그램을 분석 하여, 최종적으로 인간과 가축을 분류한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.40-47
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• 2007

In the protein macro array image, it is important to find out the feature of the each protein chip. A decision error by the personal sense of sight occurred from long time observation while making an experiment in many protein chip image. So the feature extraction is needed by a simulator. In the case of feature analysis for macro array scan image the efficiency is maximized. In the fluorescence scan image, the response for each cell have been depend on R, G, B distribution of color image. But it is difficult to be classified as one color feature in the case of mixed color image. In this paper, the response color of a protein chip is classified according to the fuzzy integral value with respect to fuzzy measure as the user desired color. The result of the experiment for the macro array fluorescence image with the Scan Array 5000 shows that the proposed method using the fuzzy integral is important fact to be make decision for the ambiguous color.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.203-208
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• 2006

The management of image information settles as an important field with the advent of multimedia age and we are in need of the effective retrieval method to manage systematically image information. This paper has complemented the problem caused by the absence of space information that is a weak point of the existing color histogram method by assigning regions of features, and raised accuracy by adding texture and shape information. And existing methods using multiple features have problems that the retrieval process is embarrassed because each weight is set up manually. So we has solved these problems by assignment of weight applying fuzzy integral. As a result of experimenting with 1,000 color images, the proposed method showed better precision and recall than the existing method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.971-981
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• 2006

As shear-warp volume rendering is the fastest rendering method among the software based approaches, image quality is not good as that of other high-quality rendering methods. In this paper, we propose two methods to improve the image quality of shear-warp volume rendering without sacrificing computational efficiency. First, supersampling is performed in intermediate image space. We propose an efficient method to transform between volume and image coordinates at the arbitrary ratio. Second, we utilize pre-integrated rendering technique for shear-warp rendering. We propose new data structure called overlapped min-max map. Using this structure, empty space leaping can be performed so that we can maintain the rendering speed even though pre-integrated rendering is applied. Consequently, shear-warp rendering can generate high-qualify images comparable to those generated by the ray-casting without degrading speed.