• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2006.03a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2006

도로의 정보를 취득하기 위하여 제작된 도로 안정성 조사 분석 차량(RoSSAV)은 도로의 3차원 정보를 취득하는 한 방법으로 레이저 스캐너를 사용한다. 레이저 스캐너로부터 취득된 도로의 3차원 정보는 많은 목적으로 활용할 수 있는 매우 유용한 정보이나, 도로의 3차원 정보를 사용자가 육안으로 확인할 수 있도록 영상으로 편집을 하게 되면, 현실감 있는 영상이 생성되기는 어렵다. 이를 보완하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 레이저 스캐너로부터 얻은 정보와는 별도로 CCD 카메라로 도로 전방 영상을 촬영하였고, 이 두 가지 데이터를 합성하여 현실감 있는 3차원 도로영상을 생성하는 기법을 연구 개발하였다. 레이더 영상과 CCD 영상의 합성은 레이저 데이터가 가지고 있는 3차원의 위치에 해당하는 CCD영상에서의 영상점을 찾아 이 점에서의 RGB 밴드의 밝기값을 찾아내어 이를 레이저 데이터에 기록, 적용시키는 것을 의미한다. 이 방법을 사용하기 위해서는 영상간의 관계모델을 수립할 필요가 있으며, 본 연구에서는 직접선형변환(DLT) 모델을 사용하였다. 이 모델을 이용하기 위해 레이저 데이터를 영상으로 편집하였고 이 영상과 CCD영상과 일치하는 지점을 육안으로 찾아 각 영상별로 DLT센서모델에 필요한 개수의 기준점을 제작하여 실행하였다. 실험 결과 영상은 기준점의 정확도에 따라 약간의 차이는 있으나 합성 전의 레이저 데이터 영상에 비해 실세계에 가까운 색깔을 나타냄이 확인되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.2321-2326
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• 2011

Cervical vertebrae are a complex structure and an important part of human body connecting the head and the trunk. In this paper, we propose a method to extract sternocleidomastoid muscle from ultrasonography images of cervical vertabrae automatically. In our method, Region of Interests(ROI) is extracted first from an ultrasonography image after removing unnecessary auxiliary information such as metrics. Then we apply Ends-in search stretching algorithm in order to enhance the contrast of brightness. Average binarization is then applied to those pixels which its brightness is sufficiently large. The noise part is removed by image processing algorithms. After extracting fascia encloses sternocleidomastoid muscle, target muscle object is extracted using the location information of fascia according to the number of objects in the fascia. When only one object is to be extracted, we search downward first to extract the target muscle area and then search from right to left to extract the area and merge them. If there are two target objects, we extract first from the upper-bound of higher object to the lower-bound of lower object and then remove the fascia of the target object area. Smearing technique is used to restore possible loss of the fat area in the process. The thickness of sternocleidomastoid muscle is then calculated as the maximum thickness of those extracted objects. In this experiment with 30 real world ultrasonography images, the proposed method verified its efficacy and accuracy by health professionals.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1219-1223
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• 2006

Tongue is one of the most important parts in patient diagnosis in traditional Korean(Chinese) medicine. This paper presents health monitoring method using tongue images of a person. The method uses not absolute tongue features but relative ones which are differences from reference health condition(RHC), diagnosed in hospital, for a person. A user can give tongue images to a health monitoring system everyday, which extracts regions of interest (ROI's) of the tongue, and compares their features with reference health condition. In the experiments, tongue image analysis for a person by our computerized method encouraged us that the method using tongue images can be contributed for health monitoring.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.617-623
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• 2008

This paper presents a human motion recognition method using both centroid shift and local basis images. The centroid shift based on 1st moment balance technique is applied to get the robust motion images against position or size changes, the extraction of local basis images based on independent component analysis(ICA) is also applied to find a set of statistically independent motion features, which is included in each motions. Especially, ICA of fixed-point(FP) algorithm based on Newton method is used for being quick to extract a local basis images of motions. The proposed method has been applied to the problem for recognizing the 160(1 person * 10 animals * 16 motions) sign language motion images of 240*215 pixels. The 3 distances such as city-block, Euclidean, negative angle are used as measures when match the probe images to the nearest gallery images. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a superior recognition performances(speed, rate) than the method using local eigen images and the method using local basis images without centroid shift respectively.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2008.03a
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• pp.125-130
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• 2008

Mid-Infrared (MIR) 영상은 화산 활동 및 산불로 인한 재난관측, 지표물질 관측, 해수 온도 측정과 같은 분야들에서 사용되고 있다. 그러나 MIR영역은 지표의 복사율과 대기의 영향으로 인한 변화가 매우 심하고, 낮 영상의 경우 태양 복사량에 의한 영향도 고려해야 하는 어려움이 있다. 따라서 단일밴드인 MIR영상을 이용하여 표면온도를 얻기 위해서는 영상이 취득된 시간과 장소에서 관측된 태양 복사량 및 여러 가지 대기 변수가 필요하다. 본 연구의 목적은 기존의 MIR 영상 연구가 다중밴드를 기반으로 한 것과 달리 단일 밴드의 영상을 이용하여 표면온도를 측정하는데 있다. 이를 위하여 MODIS MIR 영상을 대상으로 MODTRAN을 사용하여 MIR 영역의 대기보정 기법을 적용 한 뒤 복사전달 모델을 이용하여 지표의 복사량을 측정하였다. 획득된 지표온도 영상의 정밀도를 측정하기 위해서 기존의 온도 알고리즘인 split-window algorithm에 의해 얻어진 해수온도 영상과의 비교를 통하여 오차 원인에 대해 분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 낮 영상의 경우 -4.19${\pm}$1.19$^{\circ}C$ 정도의 온도 차가 났으며, 밤 영상의 경우 0.5$^{\pm}C$0.39$^{\circ}C$ 정도로 비교적 좋은 결과를 보였다. 이는 낮 영상의 경우 지표의 복사율에 대한 온도의 민감도가 매우 높기 때문에 높은 오차가 발생하지만, 밤 영상의 경우 태양빛에 의한 영향이 없으므로 좋은 결과를 나타내기 때문이다. 따라서 단일밴드 MIR영상을 이용한 지표온도 추정 시 대기에 의한 영향보다 지표 복사율에 의한 영향이 높다고 추정할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.49-56
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• 2009

Recently, a generation of high quality mosaic images from video sequences has been attempted by a variety of investigations. Among the matter of investigation, in this paper, generation on stereo mosaic utilizing airborne-video sequence images is focused upon. The stereo mosaic is made by creating left and right mosaic which are fabricated by front and rear slices having different viewing angle in consecutive video frames. For making the stereo mosaic, motion parameters which are able to define geometric relationship between consecutive video frames are determined. For determining motion parameters, affine model which is able to explain relative motion parameters is applied by this paper. The mosaicing method using relative motion parameters is called by free mosaic. The free mosaic proposed in this paper consists of 4 step processes: image registration with reference to first frame using affine model, front and rear slicing, stitching line definition and image mosaicing. As the result of experiment, the left and right mosaic image, anaglyphic image for stereo mosaic images are showed and analyzed y-parallax for checking accuracy.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.449-455
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• 2014

Detection of moving objects is a fundamental task in most of the computer vision applications, such as video surveillance, activity recognition and human motion analysis. This is a difficult task due to many challenges in realistic scenarios which include irregular motion in background, illumination changes, objects cast shadows, changes in scene geometry and noise, etc. In this paper, we propose an foreground extraction algorithm based on codebook, a database of information about background pixel obtained from input image sequence. Initially, we suppose a first frame as a background image and calculate difference between next input image and it to detect moving objects. The resulting difference image may contain noises as well as pure moving objects. Second, we investigate a codebook with color and brightness of a foreground pixel in the difference image. If it is matched, it is decided as a fault detected pixel and deleted from foreground. Finally, a background image is updated to process next input frame iteratively. Some pixels are estimated by input image if they are detected as background pixels. The others are duplicated from the previous background image. We apply out algorithm to PETS2009 data and compare the results with those of GMM and standard codebook algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.197-205
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• 2006

This paper presents the moving object tracking method using vision system. In order to track object in real time, the image of moving object have to be located the origin of the image coordinate axes. Accordingly, Fuzzy Control System is investigated for tracking the moving object, which control the camera module with Pan/Tilt mechanism. Hereafter, so the this system is applied to mobile robot, we design and implement image processing board for vision system. Also fuzzy controller is implemented to the StrongArm board. Finally, the proposed fuzzy controller is useful for the real-time moving object tracking system by experiment.

• Applied Microscopy
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.175-183
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• 2009

In this paper we present sub-50 pm resolution images of atom columns simulated with the negative of the second derivative of the exit-plane wave function (EPW). The EPW can be retrieved from a focal series reconstruction in the (high resolution) transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The simulated images are for Si and InAs in [114] and [116] orientations, which give about sub-50 pm separations of atom columns. The theoretical reason for the validity of this method is given from analysis based on the kinematical diffraction theory, and the limitation for applicability of this method also is discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.935-942
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• 2011

This study aims to design and implement the finger gesture recognizing system that automatically recognizes finger gestures input through a camera and controls the computer. Common CCD cameras were redesigned as infrared light cameras to acquire the images. The recorded images go through the pre-process to find the hand features, the finger gestures are read accordingly, and an event takes place for the follow-up mouse controlling and presentation, and finally the way to control computers is suggested. The finger gesture recognizing system presented in this study has been verified as the next-generation interface to replace the mouse and keyboard for the future information-based units.