• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.2400-2405
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• 2013

We detect the obstacle for the UGV(unmanned ground vehicle) from the compound image which is generated by stereo vision sensor masking the depth image and color image. Stereo vision sensor can gathers the distance information by stereo camera. The obstacle information from the depth compound image can be send to mobile robot and the robot can localize the indoor area. And, we test the performance of the mobile robot in terms of distance between the obstacle and the robot's position and also test the color, depth and compound image respectively. Moreover, we test the performance in terms of number of frame per second which is processed by operating machine. From the result, compound image shows the improved performance in distance and number of frames.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.3666-3671
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• 2012

We evaluate the face detection and recognition of depth image that is obtained by infrared range sensor. and Face recognition was usually focused on accuracy aspect but it is not enough to evaluate the performance in testing for real world application. In this paper, we evaluate the overall performance like accuracy, training, test speed and memory use for the well known face recognition algorithm like PCA, LDA, ICA and SVM. This experiment evaluate the good results of depth and colored depth image compatible with the colored image although the file size of depth and colored depth image is 30%~40% less than the colored image. Whereas, LDA got the good accuracy performance next to the SVM and also shows the good performance in speed and the amount of memory.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1581-1588
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• 2010

Most digital cameras use a single image sensor with Color Filter Array(CFA) for the advantage of costs and speed. The various color interpolation(demosaicing) algorithms are researched to reconstruct a full representation of the image. In this paper, we proposed a method of demosaicing about using weighted directional filter for vertical, horizontal, and diagonal direction edge. The method considered the efficiency of hardware resources for hardware implementation. The performance of proposed method was confirmed by comparing the conventional method in experiments using 24 Kodak test images. The proposed method was designed by Verilog HDL and was verified by using Virtex4 FPGA boards and CMOS Image Sensor.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.61-69
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• 2011

This paper proposes a new algorithm that improve color component of compensated image using Retinex method for back-light image. A back-light image has two regions, one of the region is too bright and the other one is too dark. If an back-light image is improved contrast using Retinex method, it loses color information in the part of brightness of the image. In order to make up loss information, proposed algorithm adds color components from original image. The histogram can be divided three parts that brightness, darkness, midway using K-mean (k=3) algorithm. For the brightness, it is used color information of the original image. For the darkness, it is converted using by Retinex method. The midway region is mixed between original image and Retinex result image in the ratio of histogram. The ratio is determined by distance from dark area. The proposed algorithm was tested on nature back-light images to evaluate performance, and the experimental result shows that proposed algorithm is more robust than original Retinex algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.65-69
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• 2001

Edge detection is the most important process that belongs to the first step in image recognition or vision system and can determine the efficiency valuation. The edge detection with color images is very difficult. because color images have lots of information that contain not only general information representing shape, brightness and so on but also that representing colors. In this paper, we propose architecture of universalized Color Morphological Pyramids(CMP) which is able to give effective edge detection. Image pyramid architecture is a successive image sequence whose area ratio 2$\^$-1/(ι= 1, 2, . . . ,N) after filtering and subsampling of input image. In this technique, noise removed by sequential filtering and resolution is degraded by downsampling using CMP in various color spaces. After that, new level images are constructed that apply formula using distance of neighbor vectors in close level images and detection its image.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.641-650
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• 2010

Color image sensors (CIS) output color images through image sensors and image signal processing. Image sensors that convert light to electrical signal are divided into CMOS image sensor and CCD image sensor according to transferring method of signal charge. In general, a CIS has RGB output signals from tri-stimulus XYZ of the scene through image signal processing. This paper presents an adaptive colorimetric analysis method to obtain chromaticity and luminance using CIS under various environments. An image sensor for the use of colorimeter is characterized based on the CIE standard colorimetric observer. We use the method of least squares to derive a colorimetric characterization matrix between camera RGB output signals and CIE XYZ tristimulus values. We first survey the camera characterization in the standard environment then derive a SGL(shutter-gain-level) function which is relationship between luminance and auto exposure (AE) characteristic of CIS, and read the status of an AWB(auto white balance) function. Then we can apply CIS to measure luminance and chromaticity from camera outputs and AE resister values without any preprocessing. Camera RGB outputs, register values, and camera photoelectric characteristic are used to analyze the colorimetric results for real scenes such as chromaticity and luminance. Experimental results show that the proposed method is valid in the measuring performance. The proposed method can apply to various fields like surveillant systems of the display or security systems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.250-253
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• 2006

In this paper, we proposed a new method of the Adaptive steganography using complexity on bit planes of color image. Applying fixing threshold and variable length, if insert information into all bit plans, all bit plans showed different image quality. Therefore, we first defined the complexity on bit plane and data complexity, similarity insert information into bit plans. As a result, the proposed method increased the insertion capacity and improved the image quality than fixing threshold and variable length method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.165-168
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• 1996

복잡한 배경의 컬러 이미지에서 시점불변의 얼굴 탐지 방법이 제안되었다. 얼굴과 그 구성요소는 바라보는 각도에 따라서 다른 형태를 갖기 때문에 복잡한 배경 이미지에서 시점불변의 탐지를 위해서 얼굴의 컬러 정보를 이용하여 얼굴의 위치를 찾는 방법을 제안한다. 찾아진 얼굴은 눈과 입 등의 구성요소들의 기하학적 정보를 이용하여 검증된다. 제안된 방법은 크기, 이동, 방향에 불변한다. 또한 몇 십장의 화상을 이용한 실험 결과를 제공한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.508-510
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 실시간으로 얼굴을 인식, 검증하기 위한 전처리 단계로써 얼굴을 고속으로 추출하고 추출된 영상을 개선하기 위한 효율적인 기법들을 소개한다. 먼저 RGB로 획득되는 영상을 인간의 시각 구조와 유사한 HSI 컬러 모델로 변환하고 여기서 인간의 피부 영역에 해당하는 컬러 분포를 조사하여 대강의 얼굴 영역을 찾고 이 영역을 대상으로 두 개의 가변 템플릿과의 상관도(Correlation)를 이용하여 최적의 얼굴 안면을 찾는다. 보다 나은 얼굴 인식을 위하여 검출된 얼굴 안면 이미지에서 조명 평면(Illumination plane) 이미지를 추출하여 먼저 불균일성을 보정한 다음 평활화(Equalization)를 수행함으로써 영상을 개선한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.53-56
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 컬러이미지의 스케일링(scaling)을 위해 경사투영방법을 사용하여 기본적인 보간방법, 최소자승근사(least square approximation)의 결과들과 비교하여 보았다. 경사투영방법은 최소의 근사오차(approximation error)를 제공하는 수직투영(orthogonal projection)방법과 유사한 결과를 제공하며 전처리 필터 디자인에 자유성을 부여하고, 좀 더 일반화된 형태의 보간 방법이다. 사용된 방법을 기본적인 보간법들과 비교하여 보았을 때 더 좋은 PSNR의 결과를 얻을 수 있었으며 최소자승근사 방법과 유사한 결과들을 얻을 수가 있었다.