• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

Point pattern matching schemes for finger print recognition do not guarantee robust matching performance for fingerprint Images of poor quality We present a finger print recognition scheme, where transformation parameters of matched ridge pairs are estimated by Hough transform and the matching hypothesis is verified by a new measure of the matching degree using selective directional information Proposed method may exhibit extremely low FAR(False accept rate) while maintaining low reject rate even for the Images of poor quality because of the robustness to the variation of minutia points.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.57-65
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• 2004

In the block matching algorithm, search patterns of different shapes or sizes and the distribution of motion vectors have a large impact on both the searching speed and the image quality. In this paper, we propose a new fast block matching algorithm using the unit-diamond search pattern and the flat-hexagon search pattern. Our algorithm first finds the motion vectors that are close to the center of search window using the unit-diamond search pattern, and then fastly finds the other motion vectors that are not close to the center of search window using the flat-hexagon search pattern. Through experiments, compared with the hexagon-based search algorithm(HEXBS), the proposed unit-diamond and flat-hexagonal pattern search algorithm(UDFHS) improves as high as 11∼51% in terms of average number of search point per motion vector estimation and improves about 0.05∼0.74㏈ in terms of PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.2555-2557
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 열화된 이미지상에서의 자동 패턴 분할을 위해 농담 정규화 정합(NGC)법과 다중 템플레이트를 이용하여 검사 이미지내의 각 문자의 정합 계수치 합을 이용한 문자나 패턴을 자동으로 분할(segmentation)하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 전통적인 NGC를 사용하는 검사 알고리즘은 기준 패턴의 기하학적인 level 값에 의해 계산되어 지기 때문에 검사 이미지의 획득이 불완전하다면 정합의 부독율(reject rate)은 높아진다. 제안한 알고리즘은 가시화가 좋지 않은 영상 회득 시 문자부와 배경부를 효과적으로 자동으로 분류하며 이미지 영역내의 정보와 정규화 된 상관관계를 이용하여 실제 영상에 적용시켜 제안된 알고리즘의 검증을 목표로 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.29-36
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• 2009

Sequential pattern mining, which discovers frequent subsequences as patterns in a sequence database, is an important data mining problem with broad applications. Since a sequential pattern in DNA sequences can be a motif, we studied to find sequential patterns in DNA sequences. Most previously proposed mining algorithms follow the exact matching with a sequential pattern definition. They are not able to work in noisy environments and inaccurate data in practice. Theses problems occurs frequently in DNA sequences which is a biological data. We investigated approximate matching method to deal with those cases. Our idea is based on the observation that all occurrences of a frequent pattern can be classified into groups, which we call approximated pattern. The existing PrefixSpan algorithm can successfully find sequential patterns in a long sequence. We improved the PrefixSpan algorithm to find approximate sequential patterns. The experimental results showed that the number of repeats from the proposed method was 5 times more than that of PrefixSpan when the pattern length is 4.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.118-121
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• 2003

지문을 이용한 개인 인증 절차는 지문 형태 별로 구분하는 분류(classification) 과정과 본인임을 확인하는 정합(matching) 과정으로 구분할 수 있다. 지문의 분류와 정합을 위해서는 기존 연구들이 지문의 특징점 수와 방향성의 흐름 패턴에 의존한다. 본 논문에서는 방향성의 흐름 패턴을 이용한 중심점 추출에 초점이 맞춰져 있으며 추출된 중심점 정보는 현재 구현되어진 특징점 추출 정보와 연계해 정합을 위한 기준점으로 활용한다. 중심점 추출 방식은 입력된 지문 영상에 대해 3 $\times$ 3 Sobel 마스크를 적용한 후 8 $\times$ 8블록 영상을 분할하여 각 대표 방향 성분을 추출하며 추출되어진 방향 성분과 특이점 패턴을 비교하여 중심점을 탐색한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.147-152
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• 2007

Face detection is a crucial part of the face recognition system. It determines the performance of the whole recognition system. Hausdorff distance metric has been used in face detection and recognition with good results. It defines the distance metric based only on the geometric similarity between two sets or points. However, not only the geometry but also the local patterns around the points are available in most cases. In this paper a new Hausdorff distance measure is proposed that makes hybrid use of the similarity of the geometry and the local patterns around the points. Several experiments shows that the new method outperforms the conventional method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.6
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• pp.633-644
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• 2004

In this paper, we notice that the original NTSS algorithm can be proposed as the NTSS-3 Level algorithm by the multi-resolution technique. The fast block matching algorithm affects the speed by the patten combination and this paper proposes the block matching algorithm in different levels by multi-resolution technique, quite different from the original NTSS Patten. The block matching algorithm requires the multi-candidate to reduce the occurrence of low-image quality by the local minima problem. The simulation result compared to FS shows search speed 16 times quicker, and the PSNR 0.11-0.12［dB］ gets improved Image quality compared to the original fast block matching algorithm NTSS, and the speed is improved up to 0.1 times for improved image by the search point portion.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.7
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• pp.811-814
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a fast block-matching motion estimation method using the cross pattern and the hexagonal pattern. For the block-matching motion estimation method, full search finds the best motion estimation, but it requires huge search time because it has to check every search point within the search window. The proposed method makes use of the fact that most of motion vectors lie near the center of block. The proposed method first uses the cross pattern to search near the center of block, and then uses the hexagonal pattern to search larger motion vectors. Experimental results show that our method is better than recently proposed search algorithms in terms of mean-square error performance and required search time.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.283-290
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• 2005

The mismatched allocation of watermarking position due to parallel translation, rotation, and scaling distortion is a problem that requires an answer in watermarking. In this paper, we propose a watermarking method robust enough to hold against geometrical distorting using restoration pattern matching. The proposed method defines restoration pattern, then inserts the pattern to a watermark embedded image for distribution. Geometrical distortion is verified by comparing restoration pattern extracted from distributed image and the original restoration pattern inserted to the image. If geometrical distortion is found, inverse transformation is equally performed to synchronize the watermark insertion and extraction position. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, experiments in translation, rotation, and scaling attack are performed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.415-425
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• 2007

This paper proposes a method of underwater source localization using the wideband interference patterns matching. By matching two interference patterns in the spectrogram, it is estimated a ratio of the range from source to sensor5, and then this ratio is applied to the Apollonius circle. The Apollonius circle is defined as the locus of all points whose distances from two fixed points are in a constant value so that it is possible to represent the locus of potential source location. The Apollonius circle alone, however still keeps the ambiguity against the correct source location. Therefore another equation is necessary to estimate the unique locus of the source location. By estimating time differences of signal arrivals between source and sensors, the hyperbola equation is used to get the cross point of the two equations, where the point being assumed to be the source position. Simulations are performed to get performances of the proposed algorithm. Also, comparisons with real sea experiment data are made to prove applicability of the algorithm in real environment. The results show that the proposed algorithm successfully estimates the source position within an error bound of 10%.