• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.705-708
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• 2001

여러 장의 입력 영상으로부터 3차원 형상 정보를 복원하는 기법은 크게 스테레오(stereo) 기법과 각선 기반 방법으로 나누어져 있다. 특히 복셀 기반 방법은 스테레오 기법에서의 대응점 문제를 극복하고 가리어짐 현상이나 컬러의 변화가 적은 영역에서의 현상 복원 능력이 우수한 것으로 알려져 있지만 광학적 외피(photo hull) 이라는 근본적인 복원 한계성을 가진다. Photo hull은 바라보는 카메라의 위치에 크게 의존하는 성질을 보인다. 조건에 맞는 최적의 카메라 위치를 결정하는 것을 시점 계획(view planning)이라 고 하고 거리 영상(range images)로부터 형상을 복원하는 기법에 활발히 연구되어져 왔다. 본 논문에서는 복셀 기반 방법에서의 단점인 photo hull을 줄이기 위해 최적의 시점을 선택하는 시점 계획(view planning)에 대한 알고리듬을 제안하고 photo hull의 효과를 최소로 하여 형상이 복원되는 것을 실험을 통해 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.693-695
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• 2016

축산 농가에서 돈사의 효율적인 관리를 위해 카메라를 이용한 자동 모니터링 기법이 중요한 이슈로 떠오르고 있다. 그러나 컬러 영상에서 돈사의 보온등 조명에 직접 노출된 돼지들이 노출 과다 현상에 의해 탐지되지 않는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 컬러 영상에서 돼지가 탐지되지 않는 문제를 해결하기 위해 Kinect 2 카메라로부터 획득한 깊이 영상을 이용하여 돼지를 탐지하는 방법을 제안한다. 즉, 깊이 영상을 이용하여 깊이 정보 값을 보정한 후 바닥과 돼지의 깊이 정보 값의 차이를 통해 돼지들의 영역을 탐지한다. 실험 결과, 깊이 영상을 이용하여 보온등 조명에 과다 노출된 돼지의 영역을 탐지하고 히스토그램 평활화를 적용함으로써, 컬러 영상에서 돼지들이 탐지되지 않는 문제를 해결하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.1 s.104
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• pp.125-132
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• 2006

The existing recognition system of license plates cannot get the satisfactory result in noise environments. The purpose of this paper is to propose an algorithm that can recognize the region of license plates accurately in a noise environment. The algorithm is formulated by reorganizing the U- and V-channels of YUV color space as YUV is insensitive to light and carries less data than RGB color information. The region of license plates has been extracted by the geometric characteristics, sizes, and places of labeling images. The proposed algorithm was found to improve the process of extracting the region of license plates in various noise environments.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.1319-1324
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• 2013

The mean shift algorithm has achieved considerable success in object tracking due to its simplicity and robustness. It finds local minima of a similarity measure between the color histograms or kernel density estimates of the target and candidate image. However, it is sensitive to the noises due to objects or background having similar color distributions. In addition, occlusion by another object often causes a face region to change in size and position although a face region is a critical clue to perform face recognition or compute face orientation. We assume that depth and color are effective to separate a face from a background and a face from objects, respectively. From the assumption we devised a bilateral filter using color and depth and incorporate it into the mean-shift algorithm. We demonstrated the proposed method by some experiments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.8-17
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• 2011

Recently, fusion camera systems that consist of depth sensors and color cameras have been widely developed with the advent of a new type of sensor, time-of-flight (TOF) depth sensor. The physical limitation of depth sensors usually generates low resolution images compared to corresponding color images. Therefore, the pre-processing module, such as camera calibration, three dimensional warping, and hole filling, is necessary to generate the high resolution depth map that is placed in the image plane of the color image. However, the result of the pre-processing step is usually inaccurate due to errors from the camera calibration and the depth measurement. Therefore, in this paper, we present a depth map upsampling method robust these errors. First, the confidence of the measured depth value is estimated by the interrelation between the color image and the pre-upsampled depth map. Then, the detailed depth map can be generated by the modified kernel regression method which exclude depth values having low confidence. Our proposed algorithm guarantees the high quality result in the presence of the camera calibration errors. Experimental comparison with other data fusion techniques shows the superiority of our proposed method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.529-537
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a stable scale adaptive tracking method that uses centroids of the target colors. Most scale adaptive tracking methods have utilized histograms to determine target window sizes. However, in certain cases, histograms fail to provide good estimates of target sizes, for example, in the case of occlusion or the appearance of colors in the background that are similar to the target colors. This is due to the fact that histograms are related to the numbers of pixels that correspond to the target colors. Therefore, we propose the use of centroids that correspond to the target colors in the scale adaptation algorithm, since centroids are less sensitive to changes in the number of pixels that correspond to the target colors. Due to the spatial information inherent in centroids, a direct relationship can be established between centroids and the scale of target regions. Generally, after the zooming factors that correspond to all the target colors are calculated, the unreliable zooming factors are filtered out to produce a reliable zooming factor that determines the new scale of the target. Combined with the centroid based tracking algorithm, the proposed scale adaptation method results in a stable scale adaptive tracking algorithm. It tracks objects in a stable way, even when the background colors are similar to the colors of the object.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.53-61
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a color interpolation algorithm that uses novel edge direction estimator and region classifier. The proposed edge direction estimator accurately determines the edge direction based on the correlation between the images obtained by the channel separated and down-sampled Bayer color filter array(CFA) pattern. The correlation is defined based on the similarity between the edge direction in the local region of the image and the shifting direction of the images. Also, the region of an image is defined as the flat, the edge, and the pattern-edge regions, where the edges are appeared repeatedly. When all the pixels in the image are classified into the three different regions, each pixel is interpolated horizontally or vertically according to the estimated direction. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional edge-directed methods on objective and subjective criteria.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.131-136
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• 2007

This paper proposes a new approach to eliminate the reflectance component for the detection of text in color images. Color images, printed by color printing technology, normally have an illumination component as well as a reflectance component. It is well known that a reflectance component usually obstructs the task of detecting and recognizing objects like texts in the scene, since it blurs out an overall image. We have developed an approach that efficiently removes reflectance components while preserving illumination components. We decided whether an input image hits Normal or Polarized for determining the light environment, using the histogram which consisted of a red component. We were able to go ahead through the ability to extract by reducing the blur phenomenon of text by light because reflection component by an illumination change and removed it and extracted text. The experimental results have shown a superior performance even when an image has a complex background. Text detection and recognition performance is influenced by changing the illumination condition. Our method is robust to the images with different illumination conditions.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.33-38
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed an algorithm implementing mouse functions using hand motion and number of fingers which are extracted from an image sequence. The sequence is acquired through a web camera and processed with image processing algorithms. The sequence is first converted from RGB model to YCbCr model to efficiently extract skin area and the extracted area is further processed using labeling, opening, and closing operations to decide the center of a hand. Based on the center position, the number of fingers is decided, which serves as the information to decide and perform a mouse function. Experimental results show that 94.0% of pointer moves and 96.0% of finger extractions are successful, which opens the possibility of further development for a commercial product.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.845-850
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a license plate locating algorithm by using SVM. Tipically, the features regarding license plate format include height-to-width ratio, color, and spatial frequency. The method is dived into three steps which are image acquisition, detecting license plate candidate regions, verifying the license plate accurately. In the course of detecting license plate candidate regions, color filtering and edge detecting are performed to detect candidate regions, and then verify candidate region using Support Vector Machines(SVM) with DCT coefficients of candidates. It is possible to perform reliable license plate location bemuse we can protect false detection through these verification process. We validate our approach with experimental results.