• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.175-186
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• 2021

In the field of automatic target recognition(ATR) with synthetic aperture radar(SAR) imagery, it is usually impractical to obtain SAR target images covering a full range of aspect views. When the database consists of SAR target images with limited angular diversity, it can lead to performance degradation of the SAR-ATR system. To address this problem, this paper proposes a deep learning-based method where channel attention modules(CAMs) are inserted to a convolutional neural network(CNN). Motivated by the idea of the squeeze-and-excitation(SE) network, the CAM is considered to help improve recognition performance by selectively emphasizing discriminative features and suppressing ones with less information. After testing various CAM types included in the ResNet18-type base network, the SE CAM and its modified forms are applied to SAR target recognition using MSTAR dataset with different reduction ratios in order to validate recognition performance improvement under the limited angular diversity condition.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.1199-1210
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• 2015

Automatic emotion recognition based on facial cues, such as facial action units (AUs), has received huge attention in the last decade due to its wide variety of applications. Current computer-based automated two-phase facial emotion recognition procedures first detect AUs from input images and then infer target emotions from the detected AUs. However, more robust AU detection and AU-to-emotion mapping methods are required to deal with the error accumulation problem inherent in the multiphase scheme. Motivated by our key observation that a single AU detector does not perform equally well for all AUs, we propose a novel two-phase facial emotion recognition framework, where the presence of AUs is detected by group decisions of multiple AU detectors and a target emotion is inferred from the combined AU detection decisions. Our emotion recognition framework consists of three major components - multiple AU detection, AU detection fusion, and AU-to-emotion mapping. The experimental results on two real-world face databases demonstrate an improved performance over the previous two-phase method using a single AU detector in terms of both AU detection accuracy and correct emotion recognition rate.

• 융합신호처리학회 학술대회논문집
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• 한국신호처리시스템학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.257-260
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• 2000

In modern battlefield situation, radar and infrared sensors may be located on aircraft having limited computational resources available for real-time computer processing. Hence sensor images are transmitted typically to central stations for processing and automatic target recognition/detection. Owing to the limited bandwidth channels that are typically available between the aircraft and processing stations, images are compressed prior to transmission to facilitate rapid transfer. In this paper we examine the problem of compressing sensor data for transmission, given that target recognition is the end goal. Performance result shows that the front-end target recognition system achieves a relatively high level of performance as well as a high compression ratio.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.283-298
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• 2022

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)영상은 날씨와 주야에 관계없이 취득될 수 있어 감시, 정찰 및 국토안보 등의 목적을 위한 자동표적인식(Automatic Target Recognition, ATR)에 활용 가능성이 높다. 그러나, 식별 시스템 개발을 위해 다양하고 방대한 양의 시험영상을 구축하는 것은 비용, 운용측면에서 한계가 있다. 최근 표적 모델을 이용하여 시뮬레이션된 SAR 영상에 기반한 표적 식별 시스템 개발에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. SAR-ATR 분야에서 대표적으로 이용되는 산란점 매칭과 템플릿 매칭 기반 알고리즘을 적용하여 표적식별을 수행하였다. 먼저 산란점 매칭 기반의 식별은 점을 World View Vector (WVV)로 재구성 후 Weighted Bipartite Graph Matching (WBGM)을 수행하였고, 템플릿 매칭을 통한 식별은 서로 인접한 산란점으로 재구성한 두 영상간의 상관계수를 사용하였다. 개발한 두 알고리즘의 식별성능시험을 위해 최근 미국 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)에서 배포한 표적 시뮬레이션 영상인 Synthetic and Measured Paired Labeled Experiment (SAMPLE) 자료를 사용하였다. 표준 환경, 표적의 부분 폐색, 랜덤 폐색 정도에 따른 알고리즘 성능을 분석하였다. 산란점 매칭 알고리즘의 식별 성능이 템플릿 매칭보다 전반적으로 우수하였다. 10개 표적을 대상으로 표준환경에서의 산란점 매칭기반 평균 식별률은 85.1%, 템플릿 매칭기반은 74.4%이며, 표적별 식별성능 편차 또한 산란점 매칭기법이 템플릿 매칭기법보다 작았다. 표적의 부분 폐색정도에 따른 성능은 산란점 매칭기반 알고리즘이 템플릿 매칭보다 약 10% 높고, 표적의 랜덤 폐색 60% 발생에도 식별률이 73.4% 정도로 비교적 높은 식별성능을 보였다.

• 전자공학회논문지D
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• 제34D권7호
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• pp.88-96
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• 1997

As the need of automatized system has been increased recently together with the development of industrial and military technologies, the adaptive real-time target detection technologies that can be embedded on vehicles, planes, ships, robots and so on, are hgihly demanded. Accordingly, this paper proposes a novel approach to detect and segment the moving targets using the binary phase extraction joint transform correlator (BPEJTC), the advanced image subtraction filter and convex hull processing. The BPEJTC which was used as a target detection unit mainly for target tracking compensating the camera movement. The target region has been detected by processing the successful three frames using the advanced image subtraction filter, and has become more accurate by applying the developed convex hull filter. As shown by some experimental results, it is expected that the proposed approaches for compensation of the camera movement and segmentationof of target region, can be used for th emissile guiddance, aero surveillance, automatic inspectin system as well as the target detection unit of automatic target recognition system that request adaptive real-time processing.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.364-377
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• 2014

In this paper, we have developed a target recognition algorithm based on a template matching technique using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. For efficient computations, Radon transform-based azimuth estimation algorithm was used with the template matching. MSTAR data set was divided into two groups according to the depression angles, which were a train set and a test set. Template data were generated by rotating and cropping chips which were from MSTAR train set using the azimuth estimation algorithm. Then the template matching process between test data and template data was performed under various conditions. Performance variation according to contrast enhancement preprocessing which is scarce in open literature was also presented. The analysis results show that the target recognition algorithm could be useful for the automatic target recognition using SAR images.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.461-469
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• 2010

In this paper, we have proposed an improved fusion method of detection features which can enhance the detection probability under the given false alarm rate in the prescreening stage of SAR ATR(Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target Recognition) system. Since the detection features have the positive correlation, the detection performance can be improved if the joint probability distribution of detection features is considered in the fusion process. The detection region is designed as a simple piecewise linear function which can be represented by few parameters. The parameters for the detection region can be derived by training the sample SAR images to maximize the detection probability with the given false alarm rate. Simulation result shows that the detection performance of the proposed method is improved for all combinations of detection features.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제30B권3호
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• pp.50-59
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• 1993

There is basic problem with the current evaluation method for character recognition systems. The current method evaluates the average recognition rate by applying the test data to the target system. The average recognition rate tells no more than and no less than the overall performance and it depends on the data. In this paper we propose a testing method which will analyze the target system and point out its strong points and weak points. This can be made possible through using the data which are generated cy distorting the standard character images according to a carefully controlled manner. This paper will describe how to automatically generate such distorted images. Also we will show the method is actually effective and useful by applying it to evaluating existing recognition algorithms.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1662-1665
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• 2004

A real-time joint transform correlator by using JPEG-compressed reference images is proposed as practical solution to storage problem and improvement of processing time of automatic target recognition system [1]. Effects of compression on recognition performance of join transform correlator are quantitatively investigated under situations where the target is suffered from noise and has contrast difference with respect to the reference. Two images with different spatial-frequency contents and contrast were used as the test scenes. The simulation results show that, the recognition performance of joint transform correlator by using the compressed reference images with high spatial-frequency components is more sensitive to noise and contrast difference than the low spatial-frequency image.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.23-27
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• 2019

The first aim of the study is to improve the productivity by uniformizing the thickness of coating and reducing quality-inspection time. The second aim is to cut down on the raw materials for coating by prevent the waste of spraying in the air during a painting process through a real-time coating-size-recognition monitering to fit the target components. To achieve the two aims, a simplified version of automatic coating control system for recognition of coating for vessels and Spray. With the sytem, following effects are expected: First, quality improvement will be achieved by uniformizing the film-thickness. Second, it will reduce the waste of coating paint by constructing the speed of the coating, the spray gun robot transfer time, and the number of DBs according to the size of the vessel. Third, as a 3D industry, it will be able to solve the difficulty of supply of labors and save up the labor costs. Therefore, in the future, further research will be needed to be applied to various products with DB design that designates the variable value, which is added for each type of pieces by comparing the difference between various types of workpieces and linear ones.