• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.587-592
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• 2004

Pixel classification is one of basic issues of image processing. The general characteristics of the pixels belonging to various classes are discussed and the radical principles of pixel classification are given. At the same time, a pixel classification scheme based on image information scales is proposed. The proposed method is overcome that computation amount become greater and contents easily get turned. And image directional scales has excellent anti-noise performance. In the result of experiment. good efficiency is showed compare with other methods.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.243-251
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• 2008

This study is to suggest the extraction algorithms of fingerprint corepoint and region separation using the labeling for gate security in order that it might be applied to the fingerprint recognition effectively. The gate security technology is entrance control, attendance management, computer security, electronic commerce authentication, information protection and so on. This study is to extract the directional image by dividing the original image in $128{\times}128$ size into the size of $4{\times}4$ pixel. This study is to separate the region of directional smoothing image extracted by each directional by using the labeling, and extract the block that appeared more than three sorts of change in different directions to the corepoint. This researcher is to increase the recognition rate and matching rate by extracting the corepoint through the separation of region by direction using the maximum direction and labeling, not search the zone of feasibility of corepoint or candidate region of corepoint used in the existing method. According to the result of experimenting with 300 fingerprints, the poincare index method is 94.05%, the proposed method is 97.11%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.10-21
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• 2009

In order to enhance the contrast in the regions where the pixels have similar intensities, this paper presents a new histogram equalization scheme. Conventional global equalization schemes over-equalizes those regions so that too bright or dark pixels are resulted and local equalization schemes produce unexpected discontinuities at the boundaries of the blocks. The proposed algorithm segments the original histogram into sub-histograms with reference to brightness level and equalizes each sub-histogram with the limited extents of equalization considering its mean and variance. The final image is determined as the weighted sum of the equalized images obtained by using the sub-histogram equalizations. By limiting the maximum and minimum ranges of equalization operations on individual sub-histograms, the over-equalization effect is eliminated. Also the result image does not miss feature information in low density histogram region since the remaining these area is applied separating equalization. This paper includes how to determine the segmentation points in the histogram. The proposed algorithm has been tested with more than 100 images having various contrast in the images and the results are compared to the conventional approaches to show its superiority.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.308-319
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• 1999

In this paper we propose a new color inverse halftoning for color prints halftoned by clustered-dot. The proposed method divide channel image into blocks and then extract moire region according to its strength. To get more natural continuous tone image in human vision, the proposed method smooths the extracted moire region in proportion to moire strength. It can also preserve the significant edges well by considering edge information of color halftone image in the process of inverse halftoning. Experimental results show that the proposed method can make more improved inverse halftoning. Experimental results show that the proposed method can make more improved inverse halftoning image than the results of previous works. It could be applied to field of multimedia application, such as digital library construction, color print image compression and multimedia authoring.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.343-345
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 색상 정보와 변형 모델을 이용한 얼굴 영역 및 얼굴의 특징 영역의 자동 검출 방법을 제시한다. 영상으로부터 획득할 수 있는 정보 중 가장 빠르고 쉽게 얻을 수 있는 정보가 색상 정보이며, 색상정보는 사물을 판단함에 있어서 가장 효율적이면서 컴퓨터의 계산량을 줄일 수 있다는 장점을 갖고 있기 때문에 얼굴 영역 검출 방법으로 많이 이용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 얼굴영역 및 얼굴 특성 추출함에 있어 컬러모델 사용 시 외부 조명의 영향을 줄여주는 조명 보정 방법을 제시하고, 조명 보정에 의해 평활화된 YCbCr 색상모델에 적용하여 각 성분 특성을 고려한 얼굴영역 및 얼굴의 특성 영역에 해당하는 후보 영역을 검출하는 방법을 제시한다. 검출된 얼굴후보 영역 및 특성 영역은 가변 모델인 동적 윤곽선 모델의 초기값으로 자동 적용되어 윤곽선 모델 적용시 문제점가운데 하나인 초기값 설정문제를 해결함과 동시에 얼굴 및 얼굴 특징 정보의 정확한 윤곽선을 추출하는데 사용된다. 실험 결과 제시된 방법을 적용한 결과 빠르고 효과적으로 얼굴 및 특성 영역을 검출 할 수 있음을 입증 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.25-32
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• 2004

We propose a hierarchical disparity estimation algorithm with edge-preserving energy-based regularization. Initial disparity vectors are obtained from downsampled stereo images using a feature-based region-dividing disparity estimation technique. Dense disparities are estimated from these initial vectors with shape-adaptive windows in full resolution images. Finally, the vector fields are regularized with the minimization of the energy functional which considers both fidelity and smoothness of the fields. The first two steps provide highly reliable disparity vectors, so that local minimum problem can be avoided in regularization step. The proposed algorithm generates accurate disparity map which is smooth inside objects while preserving its discontinuities in boundaries. Experimental results are presented to illustrate the capabilities of the proposed disparity estimation technique.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.316-324
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• 2012

In this paper, a novel descreening method using HOG(histogram of gradient)-based adaptive smoothing filter is proposed. Conventional edge-oriented smoothing methods does not provide enough smoothing to the halftone image due to the edge-like characteristic of the halftone noise. Moreover, clustered-dot halftoning method, which is commonly used in printing tends to create Moire pattern because of the intereference in color channels. Therefore, the proposed method uses HOG to distinguish edges and the amount of smoothing to be performed on the halftone image is then calculated according to the magnitude of the HOG in the edge and edge normal orientation. The proposed method was tested on various scanned halftone materials, and the results show that it effectively removes halftone noises as well as Moire pattern while preserving image details.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.26-37
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• 2004

Consistent and realistic error covariance information is important for position estimation, error analysis, fault detection, and integer ambiguity resolution for differential GNSS. In designing a position domain carrier-smoothed-code filter where incremental carrier phases are used for time-propagation, formulation of consistent error covariance information is not easy due to being bounded and temporal correlation of propagation noises. To provide consistent and correct error covariance information, this paper proposes two recursive filter algorithms based on carrier-smoothed-code techniques: (a) the stepwise optimal position projection filter and (b) the stepwise unbiased position projection filter. A Monte-Carlo simulation result shows that the proposed filter algorithms actually generate consistent error covariance information and the neglection of carrier phase noise induces optimistic error covariance information. It is also shown that the stepwise unbiased position projection filter is attractive since its performance is good and its computational burden is moderate.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.4C
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• pp.424-432
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• 2003

In this paper, an effective method of stereo image reconstruction through the regularized adaptive disparity estimation is proposed. Althougth the conventional adaptive disparity estimation method can sharply improve the PSNR of a reconstructed stereo image, but some problems of overlapping between the matching windows and disallocation of the matching windows can be occurred, because the matching window size changes adaptively in accordance with the magnitude of feature values. Accordingly, in thia paper, a new regularized adaptive disparity estimation technique is proposed. That is, by regularizing the estimated disparity vector with the neughboring disparity vectors, problems of the conventional adaptive disparity estimated scheme might be solved, and also the predicted stereo image can be more effectively reconstructed. From some experiments using the CCETT'S stereo image pairs of 'Man' and 'Claude', it is analyzed that the proposed disparity estimation scheme can improve PSNRs of the reconstructed images to 10.89dB, 6.13dB for 'Man' and 1.41dB, 0.81dB for 'Claude' by comparing with those of the conventional pixel-based and adaptive estimation method, respectively.