• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.97-100
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a detection method of the character rather than cursive, containing many components of the vertical and horizontal direction in complex background image. The characters have many dense corners but the background has few sparse corners. So we use harris corner detector and cluster the corners by using the position of the detected corners for detecting character regions. To merge or filter character regions, we analysis a histogram of gray image of character regions. In each improved region, we compare histograms of R, G, B channels to detect characters.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.646-654
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• 2007

In recent years, the use of text inserted into TV contents has grown to provide viewers with better visual understanding. In this paper, video text is defined as superimposed text region located of the bottom of video. Video text extraction is the first step for video information retrieval and video indexing. Most of video text detection and extraction methods in the previous work are based on text color, contrast between text and background, edge, character filter, and so on. However, the video text extraction has big problems due to low resolution of video and complex background. To solve these problems, we propose a method to extract text from videos using the Harris corner detector. The proposed algorithm consists of four steps: corer map generation using the Harris corner detector, extraction of text candidates considering density of comers, text region determination using labeling, and post-processing. The proposed algorithm is language independent and can be applied to texts with various colors. Text region update between frames is also exploited to reduce the processing time. Experiments are performed on diverse videos to confirm the efficiency of the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.42-45
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• 2011

3차원 영상과 더불어 스테레오 영상의 관심이 늘어남에 따라 좌, 우 영상의 매칭을 통해 변이를 추정하는 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 변이 추정을 위해 많이 사용되는 영역 기반(Block-based)의 전체 탐색 알고리즘보다 효율적이고 계산량이 적은 변이 추정을 할 수 있도록 변이 탐색 범위를 제공해주는 방법을 제안한다. 제안되는 알고리즘은 해리스 코너 포인트 검출기를 이용하여 좌, 우 영상 각각의 특징 점을 추출한 후, 특징 점의 정보를 이용하여 스테레오 매칭을 한다. 스테레오 매칭 시 이를 히스토그램화 하여 좌, 우 영상의 변이 추정을 위한 탐색 범위를 제공한다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.7-16
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• 2015

A segmentation process extracts an interesting area of barcode in an image and gives a crucial impart on the performance of barcode verifier. Previous segmentation methods occurs some issues as follows. First, it is very hard to determine a threshold of length in Hough Line transform because it is sensitive. Second, Morphology transform delays the process when you conduct dilation and erosion operations during the image extraction. Therefore, we proposes a novel Converged Harris Corner detection-based segmentation method to detect an interesting area of barcode in Data Matrix. In order to evaluate the performance of proposed method, we conduct experiments by a dataset of barcode in accordance with size and location in an image. In result, our method solves the problems of delay and surrounding environments, threshold setting, and extracts the barcode area 100% from test images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.96-99
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• 2008

본 논문은 의료 영상을 효과적으로 분류하고 검색 하기 위한 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 의료 영상 중 X-Ray 영상은 어두운 배경에 반해 밝은 전경을 갖고 있기 때문에, 전경의 두드러진 부분에서만 시각 기술자로 추출한다. 우선, 색 구조 기술자(H-CSD)에서 해리스 코너 검출기로 검출한 관심 포인트들에서 색상 특징을 추출하고, 경계선 히스토그램 기술자에서 영상의 전역 및 지역적 질감 특징을 추출한다. 추출된 특징 벡터는 멀티클래스 SVM 에 적용되어 각 영상을 위한 멤버십 스코어를 얻는다. 이후, H-CSD와 EHD 에 대한 SVM 의 멤버십 스코어를 앙상블 결합하여 하나의 특징 벡터로 생성하고, K-nearest Neighborhood 방법을 이용하여 상위-K 개의 영상을 검색을 하도록 하였다. imageCLEFmed2007 을 이용한 실험 결과에서 다른 전역적 속성 또는 분류 기반 검색 방법에 비교하여 보다 개선된 검색 성능을 나타냄을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.72-75
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 고정된 카메라 환경에서 카메라의 흔들림에 강인한 배경 영상을 생성할 수 있는 배경 모델링 방법을 제안한다. 흔들리지 않은 영상을 기준 영상으로 설정하고 기준 영상에서 해리스 코너 검출기를 이용하여 특징점들을 검출한다. 이후 입력 영상에 대해 동일한 방식으로 특징점을 추출한 뒤 탬플릿 매칭과 거리 비교를 이용하여 공통적으로 나타나는 배경 영역들에 대한 특징점만을 선별한다. 기준 영상에서의 특징점과 목표 영상에서의 대응되는 특징점 쌍을 이용하여 보정을 위한 호모그래피 행렬을 계산한다. 이렇게 계산된 보정 행렬을 이용하여 흔들린 목표 영상을 보정하게 된다. 흔들린 영상들을 보정한 후 보정된 영상들로 배경 모델을 생성하게 되면 정확한 배경 모델을 생성할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.60-66
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose abandoned object detection algorithm. When abandoned object was occluded other object, the existing methods cannot detect abandoned object because those methods are not able to estimate the location of abandoned object. In order to overcome this problem, the proposed algorithm extracts the corners around abandoned object. The detected corners are linked to center of abandoned object called by supporters. We can then estimate the location of abandoned object by using supporters. Therefore, the proposed algorithm can detect and estimate the location of abandoned object, when abandoned object is occluded by other object. For this reason, the proposed algorithm can be applied to intelligent surveillance system to prevent bomb terror, which disguises as luggage or box.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.402-410
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• 2006

This paper presents a method for feature based block motion estimation that uses multi -resolution image sequences to obtain the panoramic images in the continuous ultrasound image sequences. In the conventional block motion estimation method, the centers of motion estimation blocks are set at the predetermined and equally spaced locations. This requires the large blocks to include at least one feature, which inevitably requires long estimation time. In this paper, we propose an adaptive method which locates the center of the motion estimation blocks at the feature points. This make it possible to reduce the block size while keeping the motion estimation accuracy The Harris-Stephen corner detector is used to get the feature points. The comer points tend to group together, which cause the error in the global motion estimation. In order to distribute the feature points as evenly as Possible, the image is firstly divided into regular subregions, and a strongest corner point is selected as a feature in each subregion. The ultrasound Images contain speckle patterns and noise. In order to reduce the noise artifact and reduce the computational time, the proposed method use the multi-resolution image sequences. The first algorithm estimates the motion in the smoothed low resolution image, and the estimated motion is prolongated to the next higher resolution image. By this way the size of search region can be reduced in the higher resolution image. Experiments were performed on three types of ultrasound image sequences. These were shown that the proposed method reduces both the computational time (from 77ms to 44ms) and the displaced frame difference (from 66.02 to 58.08).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.91-94
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• 2019

스케치를 거쳐 생성되는 디지털 자료로 건축도면이나 제품 디자인시안 등은 수요가 많음에도 불구하고 디지털 도면 자동생성에 대한 영상처리는 아직 연구되지 않고 있다. 현행 필기인식에 대한 영상처리 연구는 주로 글자나 숫자에 국한되어 있어 본 연구에서는 선으로 이루어진 필기를 인식하여 도면이라는 이진영상의 특징을 이용해 특징점을 도출하고 디지털 도면을 생성하는 영상처리를 제안한다. 먼저 입력받은 아날로그 스캔이미지를 메디안블러링과 OSTU임계처리로 노이즈가 없는 이진영상으로 변환한 후 해리스코너검출기를 이용하여 특징점을 검출하고 좌표를 추출하고, 좌표값을 활용해 외곽선과 내부윤곽선까지 구현하여 디지털도면을 양산한다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.497-502
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• 2016

Shape Contexts Recognition(SCR) is a technology recognizing shapes such as figures and objects, greatly supporting technologies such as character recognition, motion recognition, facial recognition, and situational recognition. However, generally SCR makes histograms for all contours and maps the extracted contours one to one to compare Shape A and B, which leads to slow progress speed. Thus, this paper has made simple yet more effective algorithm with optimized contour, finding the outlines according to shape figures and using the improved Douglas-Peucker algorithm and Harris corner detector. With this improved method, progress speed is recognized as faster.