• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.2
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• pp.164-173
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose multi-frame based super resolution algorithm by using motion vector normalization and edge pattern analysis. Existing algorithms have constraints of sub-pixel motion and global translation between frames. Thus, applying of algorithms is limited. And single-frame based super resolution algorithm by using discrete wavelet transform which robust to these problems is proposed but it has another problem that quantity of information for interpolation is limited. To solve these problems, we propose motion vector normalization and edge pattern analysis for 2*2 block motion estimation. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has better performance than other conventional algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.65-68
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• 2011

도시의 방범 대책의 일환으로 거리감시 카메라의 설치가 진행되고 있다. 이때 가능하면 넓은 범위를 포함하고, 사각을 없애기 위해 다수의 카메라가 필요하기 때문에 기기 도입에 많은 비용이 발생하게 된다. 또한 카메라에 모터를 장착하여, 상하 좌우로 움직이는 기계적인 장치를 추가하여, 기기의 대수를 줄이는 경우에도 많은 유지 보수비용이 필요하다. 그러나 360도를 관찰할 수 있는 어안렌즈 카메라를 이용하면 다수의 카메라 대신 한 대의 카메라로 대응할 수 있어 유지보수 비용을 절약할 수 있다. 그러나 어안 렌즈를 이용할 경우에는 영상이 굴절되어 보이기 때문에 감시 카메라용 렌즈로써는 부적합하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 굴곡 되어 있는 영상의 개선을 위하여 Forward Warping을 이용하여 파노라마 영상으로 변환하고 파노라마 영상으로 변환 중에 손실되는 영상 정보를 복원하기 위하여 양선형 보간법을 적용하여 개선된 파노라마 영상을 얻을 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 어안 렌즈 영상 재구성 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 다양한 어안 렌즈 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 방법보다 영상을 재구성하는데 효과적인 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.438-456
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• 2010

Iris recognition uses a unique iris pattern of user to identify person. In order to enhance the performance of iris recognition, it is reported that the diameter of iris region should be greater than 200 pixels in the captured iris image. So, the previous iris system used zoom lens camera, which can increase the size and cost of system. To overcome these problems, we propose a new method of enhancing the accuracy of iris recognition on low-resolution iris images which are captured without a zoom lens. This research is novel in the following two ways compared to previous works. First, this research is the first one to analyze the performance degradation of iris recognition according to the decrease of the image resolution by excluding other factors such as image blurring and the occlusion of eyelid and eyelash. Second, in order to restore a high-resolution iris image from single low-resolution one, we propose a new method based on multiple multi-layered perceptrons (MLPs) which are trained according to the edge direction of iris patterns. From that, the accuracy of iris recognition with the restored images was much enhanced. Experimental results showed that when the iris images down-sampled by 6% compared to the original image were restored into the high resolution ones by using the proposed method, the EER of iris recognition was reduced as much as 0.133% (1.485% - 1.352%) in comparison with that by using bi-linear interpolation