• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.661-664
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 영상을 특성에 따라 국부 영역으로 분류하고 변위 공간(disparity space)상에서의 특징을 분석하여 각각의 영역에 적합한 윈도우의 크기를 정하는 새로운 스테레오 정합 기법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 텍스쳐(texture)가 적은 영역이나 텍스쳐가 반복되는 영역, 그리고 깊이의 불연속선상에서는 고정된 크기의 윈도우를 사용하는 영역 기반 스테레오 기법은 잘 동작하지 않는다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 영역들의 변위 공간상에서의 정합 값 분포를 분석하여 스테레오 정합에 이용한다. 실험은 변위의 참값이 알려진 영상에 대해서 수행되었으며 기존의 방법에 비해 짧은 수행 시간 및 정확한 정합 결과를 보여 준다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.498-508
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose an efficient coding algorithm for the zoom images to find the optimal depth and texture information. The proposed algorithm is the area-based method consisting of two consecutive steps, i) the depth extraction step and ii) the texture extraction step. The X-Y plane of the object space is divided into triangular patches and the depth value of the node is determined in the first step and then the texture of the each patch is extracted in the second step. In the depth extraction step, the depth of the node is determined by applying the block-based disparity compensation method to the windowed area centered at the node. In the second step, the texture of the triangular patches is extracted from the zoom images by applying the affine transformation based disparity compensation method to the triangular patches with the depth value extracted from the first step. To improve the quality of image, the interpolation is peformed on the object space instead of the interpolation on the image plane.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11C
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• pp.1029-1039
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• 2009

In this paper, the existing disparity aquisition algorithms were analyzed, on the bases of which a disparity generation technique that is superior in accuracy to the generation time was proposed. Basically it uses a pixel-by-pixel motion estimation technique. It has a merit of possibility of a high-speed operation. But the motion estimation technique has a disadvantage of lower accuracy because it depends on the similarity of the matching window regardless of the distribution characteristics of the texture in an image. Therefore, an enhanced technique to increase the accuracy of the disparity is required. This paper introduced a variable-sized window matching technique for this requirement. By the proposed technique, high accuracies could be obtained at the homogeneous regions and the object edges. A hardware to generate disparity image was designed, which was optimized to the processing speed so that a high throughput is possible. The hardware was designed by Verilog-HDL and synthesized using Hynix $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS cell library. The designed hardware was operated stably at 120MHz using Cadence NC-VerilogTM and could process 15 frames per second at this clock frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.805-807
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 동적 계획법(dynamic programming)과 이미지 세그먼트(segment)를 이용한 새로운 스테레오 정합(stereo matching)기법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 동적 계획법(dynamic programming)은 빠르면서도 비교적 정확하고, 조밀(dense)한 disparity map을 얻을 수 있다. 그러나 경계(boundary)근처의 폐색지역(occlusion region)이나, 텍스쳐가 적은 모호한 영역에서는 잘못된 결과를 유도할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 먼저 이미지를 아주 작은 영역으로 분할(over-segmentation)하고, 이런 작은 영역들이 비슷한 disparity를 가질 것이라고 가정한다. 다음으로 동적 계획법(dynamic programming)을 통해 정합을 수행한다. 여기서 계산비용(cost)은 기존의 정합윈도우 안에서 세그먼트 영역을 적용한 새로운 비용함수를 사용하며, 이 새로운 비용함수를 통해 정확도를 높인다. 마지막으로 동적 계획법을 통하여 얻어진 조밀한 disparity map을 세그먼트 영역들의 시각특성(visibility)과 유사도(similarity)를 이용하여 에러를 찾아내고, 세그먼트 정합을 통해 수정함으로 정확한 disparity map을 찾아낸다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.451-458
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• 2004

A leather quality inspection by naked eyes has known as unreliable because of its biological characteristics like accumulated fatigue caused from an optical illusion and biological phenomenon. Therefore it is necessary to automate the leather quality inspection by computer vision technique. In this paper, we present automatic leather qua1ity classification system get information from leather surface. Leather is usually graded by its information such as texture density, types and distribution of defects. The presented algorithm explain how we analyze leather information like texture density and defects from the gray-level images obtained by digital camera. The density data is computed by its ratio of distribution area, width, and height of Fourier spectrum magnitude. And the defect information of leather surface can be obtained by histogram distribution of pixels which is Windowed from preprocessed images. The information for entire leather could be a standard for grading leather quality. The proposed leather inspection system using machine vision can also be applied to another field to substitute human eye inspection.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.1487-1494
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• 2011

In this paper, a novel genre classification algorithm is proposed for music recommendation system. Especially, to improve the classification accuracy, the band-pass filter for octave-based spectral contrast (OSC) feature is designed considering the psycho-acoustic model and actual frequency range of musical instruments. The GTZAN database including 10 genres was used for 10-fold cross validation experiments. The proposed multiple-octave based OSC produces better accuracy by 2.26% compared with the conventional OSC. The combined feature vector based on the proposed OSC and mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) gives even better accuracy.