• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.564-572
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• 2019

With the development of deep learning, the performance of facial landmark detection methods has been greatly improved. The heat map regression method, which is a representative facial landmark detection method, is widely used as an efficient and robust method. However, the landmark coordinates cannot be directly obtained through a single network, and the accuracy is reduced in determining the landmark coordinates from the heat map. To solve these problems, we propose to combine integral regression with the existing heat map regression method. Through experiments using various datasets, we show that the proposed integral regression network significantly improves the performance of facial landmark detection.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.217-226
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• 2003

A novel fingerprint ridge feature extraction using sequential labeling of thinned fingerprint image is proposed, which is invariant to position translation, scaling, and rotation. the proposed algorithm labels ridges of thinned fingerprint image sequentially using vertical line that goes through fingerprint core point. Then, we extract a feature from each labeled ridge and the extraction process is based on the type fo the ridge and a minutiae ridge angle in the ridge. The feature extracted through this process enables us to find out the kind of various minutiae and minutiae angle. As a result of the experiment using two thinned fingerprint images, we finally confirm that proposed algorithm is not related to position translation, scaling, and rotation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.737-740
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• 2014

본 연구는 이종 생체 신호를 이용하여 심장 박동 신호를 검출하도록 고안되었다. 제안 알고리즘은 이종 생체 신호의 특징점을 추출하는 과정과 이를 이용하여 심장 박동의 특징점을 추정하는 과정으로 구성되어 있다. 특히, electrocardiogram(ECG)의 특징점과 동일한 위상의 잡음 신호로 인해 특징점 추출이 난해한 경우 이종 생체 신호를 이용해 특징점의 위치를 추정하는 방법을 사용하였다. Physionet 의 Challenge/2014 데이터베이스에서 잡음이 존재하는 레코드를 대상으로 수행한 심장 박동 검출 실험에서 Sensitivity 는 98.97%, positive predictivity 는 99.54%를 기록했다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.11-18
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• 2005

To detect vehicles in image, first the image is transformed with the steerable pyramid which has independent directions and levels. Feature vectors are the collection of filter responses at different scales of a steerable image pyramid. For the detection of vehicles in image, feature vectors in feature points of the vehicle image is used. First the feature points are selected with the grid points in vehicle image that are evenly spaced, and second, the feature points are comer points which m selected by human, and last the feature points are corner Points which are selected in grid points. Next the feature vectors of the model vehicle image we compared the patch of the test images, and if the distance of the model and the patch of the test images is lower than the predefined threshold, the input patch is decided to a vehicle. In experiment, the total 11,191 vehicle images are captured at day(10,576) and night(624) in the two local roads. And the $92.0\%$ at day and $87.3\%$ at night detection rate is achieved.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.517-521
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 영상 처리 방법을 이용하여 주어진 객체의 실세계 좌표를 나타내는 특징점을 인식하는 한 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 육면체 형상의 객체를 대상으로 하며, 이러한 객체 영상의 주요한 특징점은 육면체를 결정짓는 꼭지점들로 이루어진다. 제안된 방법은 CCD 카메라로부터 영상을 획득하는 영상 획득 모듈, 획득된 영상에 대하여 관심 영역을 찾는 영상 분할 모듈, 분할된 관심 영역에 대하여 sobel operator등을 이용하여 경계 정보를 검출하는 영상 처리 모듈, 그리고 세선화, line fitting과정을 통하여 직선 벡터들을 검출한 후에 객체의 주요한 특징점을 인식하는 모듈로 구성된다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.460-468
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• 2023

Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) is a pathological condition commonly occurring during the growth phase of infants. It acts as one of the factors that can disrupt an infant's growth and trigger potential complications. Therefore, it is critically important to detect and treat this condition early. The traditional diagnostic methods for DDH involve palpation techniques and diagnosis methods based on the detection of keypoints in the hip joint using X-ray or ultrasound imaging. However, there exist limitations in objectivity and productivity during keypoint detection in the hip joint. This study proposes a deep learning model-based keypoint detection method using X-ray and ultrasound imaging and analyzes the performance of keypoint detection using various deep learning models. Additionally, the study introduces and evaluates various data augmentation techniques to compensate the lack of medical data. This research demonstrated the highest keypoint detection performance when applying the residual network 152 (ResNet152) model with simple & complex augmentation techniques, with average Object Keypoint Similarity (OKS) of approximately 95.33 % and 81.21 % in X-ray and ultrasound images, respectively. These results demonstrate that the application of deep learning models to ultrasound and X-ray images to detect the keypoints in the hip joint could enhance the objectivity and productivity in DDH diagnosis.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.755-758
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• 2002

스테레오스코픽 영상은 스테레오스코픽 카메라를 이용하여 좌 영상(left image)과 우 영상(right image)을 동시에 획득하는 것으로 사람의 눈으로 보는 것과 같은 입체감을 얻을 수 있는 것을 특징으로 한다. 스테레오스코픽 영상에서 객체의 깊이값을 구하기 위해서는 영상의 정합점을 찾는 것이 중요한데, 본 논문에서는 일반화 대칭변환(generalized symmetry transform) 알고리즘을 적용하여 스테레오스코픽(stereoscopic) 영상의 정합점(correspond points)을 찾는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 먼저 좌 영상과 우 영상에 대해 에지(edge), 코너 검출 방법을 통해 특징점(feature point)을 검출하고 각 특징점들을 중심으로 사각 영역을 설정하고 이 범위내의 에지들이 갖는 대칭도(symmetry magnitude)를 특징점의 위치에 누적 시킨다. 좌영상의 대칭도를 구한 결과를 우 영상의 에지들의 대칭도와 비교를 수행해 임계치(threshold) 이하의 값을 가진 점들을 정합 후보로 선택한다. 이 정합 후보들을 영역내의 반지름 단위의 대칭도 비교를 통해 더욱 세분화된 비교를 수행하고 만약 이와 같은 과정을 통해서도 정합점을 찾지 못한다면 정합 후보들에 대해 칼라 정합도를 측정하여 최종적으로 정합점을 검출한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 이용한다면 특징점만을 이용하여 검색을 수행했을 때보다 더욱 정확한 정합점을 구할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.468-471
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• 2004

In this paper, a method for classifying fingerprint ridge lines using runlength codes is proposed. To detect feature points(minutiae) in automatic fingerprint identification system(AFIS), classification of fingerprint ridge lines are essential process. The fingerprint ridge lines are classified by run-length coding, and also the end and bifurcation regions in ridge lines are separated. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, detected feature regions including minutiae points and classified fingerprint ridge lines are shown.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.1
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• pp.73-80
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• 2003

In this paper we propose an algorithm which matches the corresponding feature points between the reference image and the search image. We use Harris's corner detector to find the feature points in both image. For each feature point in the reference image, we can extract the candidate matching points as feature points in the starch image which the normalized correlation coefficient goes greater than a threshold. Finally we determine a corresponding feature points among candidate points by using dynamic programming. In experiments we show results that match feature points in synthetic image and real image.