• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.239-240
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• 2013

The quality of document images captured by digital camera might be degraded because of non-uniform illumination condition. The high illumination (glare distortion) affects on the contrast condition of the document images. This condition leads to the poor contrast condition of the text in document image. So, optical character recognition (OCR) system might hardly recognize text in the high illuminated area. The method to increase the contrast condition between text (foreground) and background in high illuminated area is proposed in this paper.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.97-102
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• 2017

Object detection and tracking have become one of the most active research areas in the past few years, and play an important role in computer vision applications over our daily life. Many tracking techniques are proposed, and Camshift is an effective algorithm for real time dynamic object tracking, which uses only color features, so that the algorithm is sensitive to illumination and some other environmental elements. This paper presents and implements an effective moving object detection and tracking to reduce the influence of illumination interference, which improve the performance of tracking under similar color background. The implemented prototype system recognizes object using invariant features, and reduces the dimension of feature descriptor to rectify the problems. The experimental result shows that that the system is superior to the existing methods in processing time, and maintains better problem ratios in various environments.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.2 s.34
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• pp.59-68
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• 2005

Object tracking in a real time image is one of interesting subjects in computer vision and many practical application fields Past couple of years. But sometimes existing systems cannot find object by recognize background noise as object. This paper proposes a method of object detection and tracking using adaptive background image in real time. To detect object which does not influenced by illumination and remove noise in background image, this system generates adaptive background image by real time background image updating. This system detects object using the difference between background image and input image from camera. After setting up MBR(minimum bounding rectangle) using the internal point of detected otject, the system tracks otiect through this MBR. In addition, this paper evaluates the test result about performance of proposed method as compared with existing tracking algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1243-1248
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• 2006

Object tracking in a real time image is one of interesting subjects in computer vision and many practical application fields past couple of years. But sometimes existing systems cannot find object by recognize background noise as object. This paper proposes a method of object detection and tracking using adaptive background image in real time. To detect object which does not influenced by illumination and remove noise in background image, this system generates adaptive background image by real time background image updating. This system detects object using the difference between background image and input image from camera. After setting up MBR(minimum bounding rectangle) using the internal point of detected object, the system tracks object through this MBR. In addition, this paper evaluates the test result about performance of proposed method as compared with existing tracking algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.275-278
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• 2006

In this paper we have compared three materials which are used for background in virtual studio. Each material reflects the illumination in different ways. In our experimental comparison, the 'chromatte' have the best quality in making good background image. Without predetermined light condition, chromatte provides wide range of adaptability.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.36-41
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• 2012

In this paper we have compared three materials which are used for background chromakey in virtual studio. Each material reflects the illumination in different ways. In our experimental comparison, the 'chromatte' have the best quality in making good background image. Without predetermined light condition, chromatte provides wide range of adaptability.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.347-350
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• 2011

This paper propose a statistical color model of background extraction base on Hue-Saturation-Value(HSV) color space, instead of the traditional RGB space, and shows that it provides a better use of the color information. HSV color space corresponds closely to the human perception of color and it has revealed more accuracy to distinguish shadows [3] [4]. The key feature of this segmentation method is based on processing hue component of color in HSV color space on image area. The HSV color model is used, its color components are efficiently analyzed and treated separately so that the proposed algorithm can adapt to different environmental illumination condition and shadows. Polar and linear statistical operations are used to calculate the background from the video frames. The experimental results show that the proposed background subtraction method can automatically segment video objects robustly and accurately in various illuminating and shadow environments.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.4647-4650
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• 2013

Background: Breast illumination was suggested as a simple method for breast cancer screening. BreastLight is a simple apparatus for this purpose. Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of BreastLight as a screening tool of breast cancer in comparison to mammography and histopathology. Materials and Methods: This hospital-based cross sectional study was conducted in the mammography unit of the radiodiagnosis department at National Cancer Institute, Cairo University. All participants were subjected to breast examination with the BreastLight tool, mammography and ultrasonography. Suspicious cases were biopsied for histopathological examination which is considered as a gold standard. Results: The mean age of the participants was $46.3{\pm}12.4$ years. Breast illumination method had sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and total accuracy of 93.0%, 73.7%, 91.4%, 77.8% and 88.2%, respectively in detection of breast cancer. Conclusions: Breast illumination method with BreastLight apparatus is a promising easy-to-use tool to screen for breast cancer suitable for primary health care physician or at-home use. It needs further evaluation especially in asymptomatic women.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.132-145
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• 2009

We present the framework for JND based Illumination and Color Restoration Using Edge-preserving filter for restoring distorted images taken under the arbitrary lighting conditions. The proposed method is effective for appropriate illumination compensation, vivid color restoration, artifacts suppression, automatic parameter estimation, and low computation cost for HW implementation. We show the efficiency of the mean shift filter and sigma filter for illumination compensation with small spread parameter while considering the processing time and removing the artifacts such as HALO and noise amplification. The suggested CRF (color restoration filter) can restore the natural color and correct color distortion artifact more perceptually compared with current solutions. For the automatic processing, the image statistics analysis finds suitable parameter using JND and all constants are pre-defined. We also introduce the ROI-based parameter estimation dealing with small shadow area against spacious well-exposed background in an image for the touch-screen camera. The object evaluation is performed by CMC, CIEde2000, PSNR, SSIM, and 3D CIELAB gamut with state-of-the-art research and existing commercial solutions.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.439-442
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• 2000

본 연구는 손의 동작변화로 인한 손 영역의 국부적인 조명변화와 복잡한 배경환경에서 손 영역의 검지좌표를 안정적으로 검출, 추적하여 마우스 포인터를 제어하는 핑거 마우스 시스템을 제안하였다. 손의 동작변화로 인한 국부적인 조명변화에 강인한 손 영역 검출을 위한 적응적인 on-line학습법을 제안하였으며 복잡한 배경에서도 안정적인 손 영역 추적이 가능하도록 칼만 트렉킹과 차영상을 이용한 모션 세그멘테이션을 복합적으로 적용하였다. 실험결과 복잡한 배경과 손의 움직임에 상관 없이 검지 좌표를 안정적으로 추적 할 수 있었다.