• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.23-28
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• 2003

This paper describes, in order to extract contour from topographic map image, an adaptive segment-length thresholding using a threshold depended on target image. First of all, after recognizing the primary symbols and detecting two edges from the projection histogram of the elevation value area, the threshold value is determined by the distance between the edges. Then, the subdivision is peformed by searching a branch point and erasing its neighboring Hack pixels. And contour components are extracted by segment-length thresholding. The experimental result shows that the final image contains non-contour component of 2.41% and contour one of 97.59%.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.18-25
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• 2011

In a manufacturing process of metal coins, surface defects of coins are manually detected. This paper describes an new method for detecting surface defects of metal coins on a moving conveyor belt using image processing. This method consists of multiple procedures: segmentation of a coin from the background, alignment of the coin to the model, projection of the aligned coin to the best eigen image space, and detection of defects by comparison of the projection error with an adaptive threshold. In these procedures, the alignement and the projection are newly developed in this paper for the detection of coin surface defects. For alignment, we use the histogram of the segmented coin, which converts two-dimensional image alignment to one-dimensional alignment. The projection reduces the intensity variation of the coin image caused by illumination and coin rotation change. For projection, we build multiple eigen image spaces and choose the best eigen space using estimated coin direction. Since each eigen space consists of a small number of eigen image vectors, we can implement the projection in real- time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.165-168
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 CCD 흑백 카메라를 이용하여 프로그래머의 알고리즘이 표현된 flowchart의 영상을 입력받아 C언어 코드로 변환하는 시스템을 구현하였다. 입력된 영상을 이진화 처리한 영상으로부터 flowchart 기호들을 인식하기 위하여 chain code 방법을 이용하였고, flowchart 기호에 기술된 영문자 및 특수문자의 인식을 위하여 가로 및 세로 히스토그램을 이용하여 한 문자색 분할한 후 각 문자들을 구성하는 흑화소 pixel의 합과 chain code 방법을 사용하였다. 가로 및 세로 투영을 이용하여 흐름선을 인식함으로써 flowchart의 논리흐름을 파악할 수 있었다. 이 시스템을 수치연산에 적용하여, 프로그래머의 알고리즘에 부합하는 프로그램이 작성되어짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.798-809
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• 2014

Video stabilization is performed to remove unexpected shaky and irregular motion from a video. It is often used as preprocessing for robust feature tracking and matching in video. Typical video stabilization algorithms are developed to compensate motion from surveillance video or outdoor recordings that are captured by a hand-help camera. However, since the vehicle video contains rapid change of motion and local features, typical video stabilization algorithms are hard to be applied as it is. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to compensate shaky and irregular motion in vehicle video using linear regression model and vertical projection histogram matching. Towards this goal, we perform vertical projection histogram matching at each sub region of an input frame, and then we generate linear regression model to extract vertical translation and rotation parameters with estimated regional vertical movement vector. Multiple binarization with sub-region analysis for generating the linear regression model is effective to typical recording environments where occur rapid change of motion and local features. We demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach on blackbox videos and showed that employing the linear regression model achieved robust estimation of motion parameters and generated stabilized video in full automatic manner.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.927-930
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• 2000

본 논문은 문서 영상에 대해 투영을 사용하여 영역을 나누었고 각 영역에 대해 고주파 밴드의 웨이블렛 계수의 통계적 분산과 히스토그램을 기반으로 한 두 가지 특징을 사용하여 문자와 그림으로 분류하였다. 투영으로 나누어진 영역들에 대해 일정 크기의 블록으로 나누고 두 가지 특징에 따라 문자와 그림으로 분류하였다. 따라서 투영에 의해 나뉜 영역 중 문자와 그림이 혼합되어 의미가 모호한 영역에 대해 잘못 분류되는 가능성을 줄일 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.529-532
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 보안 시스템에서 사람 인식을 위한 중요한 단서 중의 하나인 사람의 키를 측정하는 알고리즘으로, 이미지 시퀀스에서 사람의 영역을 추출하고 기하학적 정보를 이용해 추출된 사람의 키를 측정하고자 한다. 이를 위해 단일 이동 물체 사람을 대상으로 하여 시퀀스 이미지에서 사람의 움직임 정보를 추출하고, 추출된 영역에서 수직 히스토그램 투영을 하여 사람의 중심선을 찾아 머리와 발의 좌표점을 추출한다. 추출된 좌표점들은 소실점과 소실선의 기하학적 해석과 미리 입력한 다른 물체의 기준높이를 가지고 실세계에서의 사람의 키를 측정하게 된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.2647-2654
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• 2011

In this paper, the algorithm that recognizes the gesture by configuring the feature information obtained through edge orientation histogram and principal component analysis as low dimensional gesture symbol was described. Since the proposed method doesn't require a lot of computations compared to the existing geometric feature based method or appearance based methods and it can maintain high recognition rate by using the minimum information, it is very well suited for real-time system establishment. In addition, to reduce incorrect recognition or recognition errors that occur during gesture recognition, the model feature values projected in the gesture space is configured as a particular status symbol through clustering algorithm to be used as input symbol of hidden Markov models. By doing so, any input gesture will be recognized as the corresponding gesture model with highest probability.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.10
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• pp.162-170
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• 2013

In recent years, the interests and needs of the Pedestrian Protection System (PPS), which is mounted on the vehicle for the purpose of traffic safety improvement is increasing. In this paper, we propose a pedestrian candidate window extraction and unit cell histogram based HOG descriptor calculation methods. At pedestrian detection candidate windows extraction stage, the bright ratio of pedestrian and its circumference region, vertical edge projection, edge factor, and PCA reconstruction image are used. Dalal's HOG requires pixel based histogram calculation by Gaussian weights and trilinear interpolation on overlapping blocks, But our method performs Gaussian down-weight and computes histogram on a per-cell basis, and then the histogram is combined with the adjacent cell, so our method can be calculated faster than Dalal's method. Our PCA reconstruction error based pedestrian detection candidate window extraction method efficiently classifies background based on the difference between pedestrian's head and shoulder area. The proposed method improves detection speed compared to the conventional HOG just using image without any prior information from camera calibration or depth map obtained from stereo cameras.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.451-455
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• 2008

In this paper we embody a system that recognizes the printed alphabet of two font types (Batang, Dodum) inputted by a black-and-white CCD camera and converts it into an editable text form. The image of the inputted printed sentences is binarized, then the rows of each sentence are separated through the vertical projection using the Histogram method, and the height of the characters are normalized to 48 pixels. With the reverse application of the basic principle of the Nonogram puzzle to the individual normalized character, the character is covered with the pixel-based squares, representing the characteristics of the character as the numerical information of the Nonogram puzzle in order to recognize the character through the comparison with the standard pattern information. The test of 2609 characters of font type Batang and 1475 characters of font type Dodum yielded a 100% recognition rate.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.6 s.109
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• pp.591-600
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• 2006

This paper describes the development and implementation of a algorithm to decompose word images from image regions mixed text/graphics in document images using statistical analyses. To decompose word images from image regions, the character components need to be separated from graphic components. For this process, we propose a method to separate them with an analysis of box-plot using a statistics of structural components. An accuracy of this method is not sensitive to the changes of images because the criterion of separation is defined by the statistics of components. And then the character regions are determined by analyzing a local crowdedness of the separated character components. finally, we devide the character regions into text lines and word images using projection profile analysis, gap clustering, special symbol detection, etc. The proposed system could reduce the influence resulted from the changes of images because it uses the criterion based on the statistics of image regions. Also, we made an experiment with the proposed method in document image processing system for keyword spotting and showed the necessity of studying for the proposed method.