• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.748-760
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• 2012

In case brightness distribution is concentrated in a region, it is difficult to classify the image features. To solve this problem, we apply global histogram equalization and local histogram equalization to images. In case of global histogram equalization, it can be too bright or dark because it doesn't consider the density of brightness distribution. Thus, it is difficult to enhance the local contrast in the images. In case of local histogram equalization, it can produce unexpected blocks in the images. In order to enhance the contrast in the images, this paper proposes a local histogram equalization based on the Gaussian Mixture Models(GMMs) in regions of histogram. Mean and variance parameters in each regions is updated EM-algorithm repeatedly and then ranges of equalization on each regions. The experimental results performed with image of various contrasts show that the proposed algorithm is better than the global histogram equalization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.631-633
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• 2002

본 논문은 대용량 클러스터 기반의 웹 서버 상에서 새로운 내용 기반 부하 분산 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 웹 서버 로그의 URL 항목에 해시 함수를 적용하여 얻어지는 해시 값에 요청 빈도와 전송될 과일 크기를 누적하여 히스토그램을 생성한다. 그 결과로 생성된 히스토그램의 누적 분포에 히스토그램 균등화 변환함수를 적용하여 각각의 서버 노드에 해시 값에 따라 분포하는 부하를 균등하게 할당할 수 있다. 제안된 부하 분산 기법의 효율성 검증을 위한 시뮬레이션에서 히스토그램 균등화 기법은 서버의 지역적인 캐시 활용과 부하의 균등분산 등의 장점으로 우수한 성능을 나타냄을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.369-372
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• 2002

본 논문은 대용량 클러스터 기반의 웹 서버를 위한 새로운 내용 기반 부하 분산 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 웹 서버 로그의 URL 항목에 해시 함수를 적용하여 얻어지는 해시 값에 요청 빈도와 전송될 파일 크기를 누적하여 히스토그램을 생성한다. 그 결과로 생성된 히스토그램의 누적 분포에 히스토그램 균등화 변환함수를 적용하여 각각의 서버 노드에 해시 값에 따라 분포하는 부하를 균등하게 할당할 수 있다. 제안된 부하 분산 기법의 효율성 검증을 위한 시뮬레이션에서 히스토그램 균등화 기법은 서버의 지역적인 캐시 활용과 부하의 균등 분산 등의 장점으로 우수한 성능을 나타냄을 보인다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.11
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• pp.155-164
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• 2014

Local histogram equalization is one of the most popular ways of enhancing the local brightness features of an input image. However, local histogram equalization reveals some problems. First, undesired artifacts are produced by over-enhancing the local features. Second, the enhancement of local features does not always result in global contrast enhancement. To cope with these problems, we propose an illumination driven local histogram equalization method. First, to estimate the illumination information, the proposed method combines the input image and the blurred image produced through the process of the down-sampling and the up-sampling. Next, the proposed method adaptively adjusts the mapping function estimated by the local histogram equalization using the information of the illumination. As a result, the proposed illumination information driven local histogram equalization method simultaneously enhances the global and the local contrast levels while preventing any local artifacts. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional methods on objective and subjective criteria.

• KSCI Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.203-207
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 비디오의 분할을 위하여 먼저 기존에 제안되었던 차이 값 추출방법들의 단점들을 극복하고 장점을 최대한 활용할 수 있으며 급진적 장면전환부터 점진적 장면전환까지 모두 예측할 수 있는 강건하고 복합적인 차이 값 추출방법에 대해서 제안한다. 이 방법은 지역적 $X^2$-테스트로서 기존의 컬러 히스토그램과 $X^2$-테스트를 결합한 방법이다. 본 논문을 위하여 기존의 히스토그램 기반 알고리즘과 비교하여 좋은 성능을 보여주는 $X^2$-테스트를 변형하였고, 컬러 값의 세분화 작업에 따른 검출효과를 높이기 위하여 명암도 등급에 따른 가중치를 적용한 지역적 $X^2$-테스트를 이용하였다. 이 방법은 복잡하고 다양한 시세계의 영상 변화를 가장 일반적이고 표준화된 방법으로 분석하고 분할하며 표현할 수 있는 방법이다. 기존의 $X^2$-테스트와 제안된 지역적 $X^2$-테스트 방법의 비교는 실험을 통해 입증되었다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.45-56
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• 2015

In this paper we propose a very rapid moving object tracking method for an object-based auto focus on a smart phone camera. By considering the limit of non-learning approach on low-performance platforms, we use a sliding-window detection technique based on histogram features. By adapting the integral histogram, we solve the problem of the time-consuming histogram computation on each sub-window. For more speed up, we propose a local candidate search, and an adaptive scaling template method. In addition, we propose to apply a stabilization term in the matching function for a stable detection location. In experiments on our dataset, we demonstrated that we achieved a very rapid tracking performance demonstrating over 100 frames per second on a PC environment.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.2 s.46
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• pp.103-109
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• 2007

In this paper, we detect shot boundaries using $X^2$-histogram comparison method which have enough spatial information that is more robust to the camera or object motion and produce more precise results. Also, we present normalization method to change Log-Formula and constant that is used for contrast enhancement of image in image processing and apply in difference value. And, present shot boundary detection algorithm to detect shot boundary based on general shot and abrupt shot's characteristic.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.47-54
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• 2012

Additional high resolution satellite images, other period or site, are essential for efficient city modeling and analysis. However, the same ground objects have a radiometric inconsistency in different satellite images and it debase the quality of image processing and analysis. Moreover, in an urban area, buildings, trees, bridges, and other artificial objects cause shadow effects, which lower the performance of relative radiometric normalization. Therefore, in this study, we exclude shadow areas and suggest the selective histogram matching methods for image based application without supplementary digital elevation model or geometric informations of sun and sensor. We extract the shadow objects first using adjacency informations with the building edge buffer and spatial and spectral attributes derived from the image segmentation. And, Outlier objects like a asphalt roads are removed. Finally, selective histogram matching is performed from the shadow masked multi-temporal Quickbird-2 images.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.37-45
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• 2010

This paper proposes a novel contrast enhancement method which determines the stretching ranges based on the distribution densities of segmented sub-histogram. In order to enhance the quality of image effectively, the contrast histogram is segmented into sub-histograms based on the density in each brightness region. Then the stretching range of each sub-histogram is determined by analysing its distribution density. The higher density region is extended wider than lower density region in the histogram. This method solves the over stretching problem, because it stretches using density rate of each area on the histogram. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, the experiments have been carried out on complex contrast images, and its superiority has been confirmed by comparing with the conventional methods.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.11-19
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• 2013

Compared with traditional video monitoring systems that provide a video-recording function as a main service, an intelligent video monitoring system is capable of extracting/tracking objects and detecting events such as car accidents, traffic congestion, pedestrian detection, and so on. Thus, the object tracking is an essential function for various intelligent video monitoring and surveillance systems. In this paper, we propose a background and local histogram-based object tracking approach for intelligent video monitoring systems. For robust object tracking in a live situation, the result of optical flow and local histogram verification are combined with the result of background subtraction. In the proposed approach, local histogram verification allows the system to track target objects more reliably when the local histogram of LK position is not similar to the previous histogram. Experimental results are provided to show the proposed tracking algorithm is robust in object occlusion and scale change situation.