• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.449-460
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• 2005

This paper proposes a method to track persons robustly in illumination changes and partial occlusions in color video frames acquired from a fixed camera. To solve a problem of changing appearance by illumination change, a time-independent intrinsic image is used to remove noises in an frame and is adaptively updated frame-by-frame. We use a hierarchical human model including body color information in order to track persons in occlusion. The tracked human model is recorded into a persons' list for some duration after the corresponding person's exit and is recovered from the list after her reentering. The proposed method was experimented in several indoor and outdoor scenario. This demonstrated the potential effectiveness of an adaptive model-base method that corrected distorted person's color information by lighting changes, and succeeded tracking of persons which was overlapped in a frame.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.183-189
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose an object tracking method using the color information of the image in surveillance network. This method perform a object detection using of adaptive color model. Object contour detection plays an important role in application such as object recognition. Experimental results demonstrate successful object detection over a wide range of object's variation in color and scale. In applications to detect an object in real time, when transmitting a large amount of image data it is possible to find the mode of a color distribution. The specific color of an object is modified at dynamically changing color in image. So, this algorithm detects the tracking area information of object within relevant tracking area and only tracking the movement of that object.Through experiments, we show that proposed method is more robust than other methods under certain ideal situations.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.7
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• pp.340-353
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• 2008

A computational color palette extraction model is introduced to describe paint brush objectively and efficiently. In this model, a color palette is defined as a minimum set of colors in which a painting can be displayed within error allowance and extracted by the two step processing of color grouping and major color extraction. The color grouping controls the resolution of colors adaptively and produces a basic color set of given painting images. The final palette is obtained from the basic color set by applying weighted k-means clustering algorithm. The extracted palettes from several famous painters are displayed in a 3-D color space to show the distinctive palette styles using RGB and CIE LAB color models individually. And the two experiments of painter classification and color transform of photographic image has been done to check the performance of the proposed method. The results shows the possibility that the proposed palette model can be a computational color analysis metric to describe the paint brush, and can be a color transform tool for computer graphics.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.4 no.11
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• pp.521-528
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• 2015

Road-view object classification methods are mostly influenced by weather and illumination conditions, thus the most of the research activities are based on dataset in clean weathers. In this paper, we present a road-view object classification method based on color segmentation that works for all kinds of weathers. The proposed method first classifies the weather and illumination conditions and then applies the weather-specified color models to find the road traffic signs. Using 5 different features of the road-view images, we classify the weather and light conditions as sunny, cloudy, rainy, night, and backlight. Based on the classified weather and illuminations, our model selects the weather-specific color ranges to generate Gaussian Mixture Model for each colors, Green, Yellow, and Blue. The proposed method successfully detects the traffic signs regardless of the weather and illumination conditions.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a method about producing skin color model adaptively in input image and face detection. The principle process which we proposed is finding eyes candidates by applying the eye features to neural network, and then using the around color to find the distribution of color value. There will be a verification process that producing face region by using color value distribution which is detected as skin region and find mouth candidate in corresponding face region; if eye candidate and mouth candidate's connection structure is similar with face structure, then it can be judged as a face. Because this method can detect skin region adaptively by finding eyes, we solve the rate of false positive about the distorted skin color which is used by existing face detection methods. The experiment was performed about detecting the eye, the skin, the mouth and the face individually. The results revealed that the proposed technique is better than the traditional techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.579-582
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• 2015

The Mean-Shift is a robustness algorithm that can be used for tracking the object using the similarity of histogram distributions of target model and target candidate. However, Mean-shift using hue information has disadvantage of tracking a wrong target when the target and background has similar hue distributions. We then propose a robust Mean-Shift tracking algorithm using new image that combined upper 4bit-planes in hue and saturation, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.679-682
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• 2010

피부 영역 검출 기술은 생체 인식 기술의 하나로서 얼굴 자동 인식 혹은 손 모양 자동 인식 등을 위해 사용되고 있다. 일반적으로 색상을 이용하여 피부 영역을 검출하기 위해서는 다양한 피부색 샘플을 이용해 구해진 피부색 모델을 이용한다. 하지만 피부색은 사람마다 다르고, 조명과 같은 주변 환경의 영향도 받기 때문에 다양한 영상에 하나의 고정된 피부색 모델을 적용하여 피부 영역을 검출하기에는 한계가 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 영상 피드백 방법을 이용하여 영상에 적응적인 피부색 모델을 구한 뒤 이를 적용하여 피부 영역을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.889-891
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 실시간 영상을 대상으로 조명변화에 강인한 얼굴 영역 자동 검출 방법을 제안한다. 실시간 영상에서 가장 효율적이고 컴퓨터의 계산량을 줄일 수 있는 색상 정보를 이용하여 얼굴 영역을 추출함에 있어 색상 정보사용 시 단점인 외부 조명의 영향을 줄여주는 효과적인 조명 보정 방법을 제시하고 조명 보정에 의해 평활화된 영상에서 YCbCr 색상모델을 적용하여 얼굴 후보 영역을 검출하는 방법을 제시한다. 실험 결과 조명의 영향을 많이 받는 실시간 영상에서 적응적 조명 보정 방법으로 영상을 향상시킨 뒤 Cb, Cr 그리고 Y를 이용함으로서 기존의 방법보다. 얼굴 영역을 보다 정확하게 검출할 수 있음을 볼 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2396-2398
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• 2001

Active contour로 알려져 있는 snake는 반복적인 계산으로 이미지상에서 찾고자 하는 물체의 외곽선에 수렴하는 contour로 이미지 상의 물체의 외곽선으로부터 발생하는 외부 에너지(external energy)와 contour 자체로부터 기인하는 내부 에너지(internal energy)를 최소화하는 방향으로 움직인다. 그러나 물체의 윤곽선으로부터 발생하는 외부 에너지는 찾고자 하는 물체뿐만 아니라 주위의 다른 물체로부터도 발생하므로 만일 추적하고자 하는 물체의 주변에 다른 물체들이 존재한다면 snake은 올바르게 동작하지 않게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위하여 물체의 색상정보를 이용하는 방식을 제안하였다. 물체의 색상 정보는 물체의 고유한 특성 중의 하나로 본 논문에서는 색상정보를 이용하여 원래의 이미지를 찾고자 하는 물체의 색상과 얼마나 유사한가를 나타내는 확률 이미지로 변환하였다. 이렇게 변환된 확률 이미지 상에서 snake 알고리즘을 적용함으로써 배경의 다른 물체로부터 발생하는 외부 에너지를 효과적으로 제거할 수 있다. 또한 본 논문에서는 물체가 이동함에 따라 변화하는 색상 정보를 지속적으로 갱신함으로써 물체의 추적이 효과적으로 이루어지도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.71-79
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• 2011

The objective of the imaging pipeline is to transform the original scene into a display image that appear similar, Generally, gamma adjustment or histogram-based method is modified to improve the contrast and detail. However, this is insufficient as the intensity and the chromaticity of illumination vary with geometric position. Thus, MSR (Multi-Scale Retinex) has been proposed. the MSR is based on a channel-independent logarithm, and it is dependent on the scale of the Gaussian filter, which varies according to input image. Therefore, after correcting the color, image quality degradations, such as halo, graying-out, and dominated color, may occur. Accordingly, this paper presents a novel color correction method using a modified image formation model in which the image is divided into three components such as global illumination, local illumination, and reflectance. The global illumination is obtained through Gaussian filtering of the original image, and the local illumination is estimated by using JND-based adaptive filter. Thereafter, the reflectance is estimated by dividing the original image by the estimated global and the local illumination to remove the influence of the illumination effects. The output image is obtained based on sRGB color representation. The experiment results show that the proposed method yields better performance of color correction over the conventional methods.