• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.1000-1012
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• 2000

There are many factors for face recognition. Two of those are orientation and brightness of illumination. In early studies of face recognition, with fixing these factors to good conditions th goal of research was focused on improving recognition rate itself. But they are very important factors to be solved for implementing face recognition system. In this paper, two methods wer proposed to minimize the influence of illumination. One is the local difference filter to reduce the influence fo variation of illumination. The other is weight function considering the horizontal difference of intensity. Applying tow proposed methods, the resultant recognition rate revealed 86.5% for 275 test images.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.765-768
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• 2003

금속이나 암석에 음각(陰角)으로 각인된 문자나 그림들은 날씨나 주변 빛 환경에 따라 시각으로 입력되는 정보에 큰 차이를 보인다. 이를 이미지검출장치를 통해 읽어드려 디지털 이미지 신호로 만들고자 할 때는 더욱 그 정도가 심하여 대상체가 위치하는 빛 환경이나 검출기 특성에 각별한 신경을 써야한다. 자연광이나 전구 그리고 기후나 날씨에 의해 조성되는 빛 환경은 조도(照度), 조사각도(照射角度), 그림자 및 대상체 표면 상태 등이 중요한 결정 인자들이다. 빛 환경이 디지털 이미지 질(質)에 끼치는 영향을 최소화하기 위한 실험실 차원의 빛환경조정실을 구축하였다. 외부 유입 광선을 모두 차단하고 지향성이 있는 조명에 의해서만 대상체에 빛이 조사되도록 하고 디지털 카메라로 대상체의 이미지를 담았다. 음각 문자를 새긴 샘플석문(石文)을 제작하고 실험실 안의 정량화된 빛환경 하에서 석문의 이미지를 취득하였다. 전처리 과정을 통해 노이즈를 제거하고 이미지의 질을 향상시켰다. 처리된 이미지를 분석하여 문자영역과 바탕영역의 신호패턴을 추출한 다음 룩업 테이블, 조도 레벨 슬라이징, 중첩의 원리 및 Morphology 등의 기법을 알고리즘화하여 2진 형태의 음각문자를 판독 및 복원하는데 성공하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.740-743
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 컴퓨터 비젼에서 특징점 추적을 이용한 끼어들기 위반차량 검지 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 끼어들기 위반차량 검지 시스템의 전체적인 알고리즘은 영상 변환 및 전처리, 특징 추출, 추적대상 차량의 특징점 등록 및 추적, 끼어들기 위반차량 검지 등의 단계로 구성된다. 특히 형태학적 기울기 영상에서 특징점을 추출하므로 써 주간 및 야간 영상에 대해 동일한 알고리즘을 적용하여 그림자, 기상 조건, 차량 전조등 및 조명 등에 강인한 실시간성이 가능한 영상 검지 시스템을 구성 한다. 제안한 시스템을 끼어들기 금지구간에서 주간, 야간, 비 오는 날 야간에 취득한 영상을 사용하여 실험한 결과 정인식률 99.49%와 오류율 0.51%를 보였으며, 실시간처리에 문제가 없는 초당 91.34프레임의 빠른 처리속도를 나타냈다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.734-739
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• 2018

Fingerprint recognition and iris recognition, which are one of the biometric methods, are easily influenced by external factors such as sunlight. Recently, finger vein recognition is used as a method utilizing internal features. However, for accurate finger vein recognition, it is important to clearly separate vein and background regions. However, it is difficult to separate the vein region and background region due to the abnormalized illumination, and a method of separating the vein region and the background region after normalized the illumination of the input image has been proposed. In this paper, we proposed a method to enhance the quality improvement and improve the processing time compared to the existing finger vein recognition system binarization and labeling method of the image including the image stretching process based on the existing illumination normalization method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.31-39
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• 2018

Recently, there has been active studies to provide a user-friendly interface in a virtual reality environment by recognizing user hand gestures based on deep learning. However, most studies use separate sensors to obtain hand information or go through pre-process for efficient learning. It also fails to take into account changes in the external environment, such as changes in lighting or some of its hands being obscured. This paper proposes a hand gesture recognition method based on deep learning that is strong in external environments without the need for pre-process of RGB images obtained from general webcam. In this paper we improve the VGGNet and the GoogLeNet structures and compared the performance of each structure. The VGGNet and the GoogLeNet structures presented in this paper showed a recognition rate of 93.88% and 93.75%, respectively, based on data containing dim, partially obscured, or partially out-of-sight hand images. In terms of memory and speed, the GoogLeNet used about 3 times less memory than the VGGNet, and its processing speed was 10 times better. The results of this paper can be processed in real-time and used as a hand gesture interface in various areas such as games, education, and medical services in a virtual reality environment.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.27-35
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• 2015

This study presents a volume rendering method using ambient occlusion which is one of global illumination methods. By considering the volume density distribution as normal distribution, ambient occlusion can be calculated at real-time speed regardless of modification of opacity transfer function. We calculate and store the averages and standard deviations of densities in a block centered at each voxel in pre-processing time. In rendering process, we determine the illumination value by estimating the nearby opacity. We generalized theoretical model and generated better quality images improving our previous research. In detail, various shapes of transfer function can be used due to the proposed equation model. Moreover, we introduced a multi-range model to give nearer objects more weight. As the result, more realistic volume rendering image can be generated at real-time speed by mixing local and ambient occlusion shading.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.61-71
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• 2009

Vehicle license plate is the only way to check the registrated information of a vehicle. Many works have been devoted to the vision system of recognizing the license plate, which has been widely used to control an illegal parking. However, it is difficult to correctly segment characters on the license plate since an illumination is affected by a weather change and a neighboring obstacles. This paper proposes a robust method of segmenting the character of the license plate on irregular illumination condition. The proposed method enhance the contrast of license plate images using the Chi-Square probability density function. For segmenting characters on the license plate, binary images with the high quality are gained by applying the adaptive threshold. Preprocessing and labeling algorithm are used to eliminate noises existing during the whole segmentation process. Finally, profiling method is applied to segment characters on license plate from binary images.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.54-60
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• 2004

Face recognition is one of the problems to be solved by appearance based matching technique. However, the appearance of face image is very sensitive to variation in illumination. One of the easiest ways for better performance is to collect more training samples acquired under variable lightings but it is not practical in real world. ]:n object recognition, it is desirable to focus on feature extraction or normalization technique rather than focus on classifier. This paper presents a simple approach to normalization of faces subject to directional illumination. This is one of the significant issues that cause error in the face recognition process. The proposed method, ICR(illumination Compensation based on Multiple Linear Regression), is to find the plane that best fits the intensity distribution of the face image using the multiple linear regression, then use this plane to normalize the face image. The advantages of our method are simple and practical. The planar approximation of a face image is mathematically defined by the simple linear model. We provide experimental results to demonstrate the performance of the proposed ICR method on public face databases and our database. The experimental results show a significant improvement of the recognition accuracy.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.768-782
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• 2010

Because of the different shooting position between multi-view cameras and the imperfect camera calibration, Illumination mismatches of multi-view video can happen. This variation can bring about the performance decrease of multi-view video coding(MVC) algorithm. A histogram matching algorithm can be applied to recompensate these inconsistencies in a prefiltering step. Once all camera frames of a multi-view sequence are adjusted to a predefined reference through the histogram matching, the coding efficiency of MVC is improved. However the histogram distribution can be different not only between neighboring views but also between sequential views on account of movements of camera angle and some objects, especially human. Therefore the histogram matching algorithm which references all frames in chose view is not appropriate for compensating the illumination differences of these sequence. Thus we propose new algorithms both the image classification algorithm which is applied two criteria to improve the correlation between inter-view frames and the histogram matching which references and matches with a group of pictures(GOP) as a unit to advance the correlation between successive frames. Experimental results show that the compression ratio for the proposed algorithm is improved comparing with the conventional algorithms.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2009

Using the projected 2-dimensional tilted images obtained from the transmission electron microscopy, we can reconstruct the 3-dimensional structures of objects, such as cells. As a preprocessing procedure, the tilted images should be registered and compensated in terms of the spatial position and the intensity difference, respectively. In this paper, we employ the fiducial marker-based approach to perform a registration, and introduce a simple intensity compensation scheme. Based on the transmissivity image formation model, we propose an algorithm that can compensate the components of the illumination and transmissivity of each image according to the tilted angle. Numerical analysis using real images obtained from the transmission electron microscopy are shown in this paper to show the performance of the proposed algorithm.