• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.134-137
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• 2014

화질의 개선을 위해 잡음을 제거하는 기술이 많이 개발되고 있으며 그 기술들 중에 효과적으로 사용되고 있는 것 하나가 양방향 필터이다. 양방향 필터는 거리에 대한 가중치와 화소 값에 대한 가중치를 모두 고려하기 때문에 경계 부분을 보존하면서 잡음을 제거하는 것이 가능하다. 필터를 적용함으로 잡음이 제거되지만 본 논문에서는 그보다 나은 결과를 위해서 경계 부분을 캐니 에지 검출기로 검출하고 강조함으로써 양방향 필터의 장점을 전보다 부각시켜 이전보다 효과적인 화질개선 방법을 제시하고자 하였다.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.59-65
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• 2023

Edge detection in image processing and computer vision is one of the most fundamental operations. Canny edge detection algorithm has excellent performance and is currently widely used. However, it is difficult to process the algorithm in real-time because the algorithm is complex. In this study, the equations required in the algorithm were simplified to facilitate hardware implementation, and the calculation speed was increased by using a parallel structure. In particular, the size and management of local buffers were selected in consideration of parallel processing and filter size so that data could be processed without bottlenecks. It was designed in verilog and implemented in FPGA to verify operation and performance.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.4
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• pp.299-308
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• 2009

AAM(Active Appearance Model) is an algorithm to extract face feature points with statistical models of shape and texture information based on PCA(Principal Component Analysis). This method is widely used for face recognition, face modeling and expression recognition. However, the detection performance of AAM algorithm is sensitive to initial value and the AAM method has the problem that detection error is increased when an input image is quite different from training data. Especially, the algorithm shows high accuracy in case of closed lips but the detection error is increased in case of opened lips and deformed lips according to the facial expression of user. To solve these problems, we propose the improved AAM algorithm using lip feature points which is extracted based on a new lip detection algorithm. In this paper, we select a searching region based on the face feature points which are detected by AAM algorithm. And lip corner points are extracted by using Canny edge detection and histogram projection method in the selected searching region. Then, lip region is accurately detected by combining color and edge information of lip in the searching region which is adjusted based on the position of the detected lip corners. Based on that, the accuracy and processing speed of lip detection are improved. Experimental results showed that the RMS(Root Mean Square) error of the proposed method was reduced as much as 4.21 pixels compared to that only using AAM algorithm.