• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.181-188
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• 2012

An effective extraction method for extracting a coated tongue is proposed in this paper, which is used as the diagnostic criteria in the tongue diagnosis. Proposed method uses the fluorescence response characteristics of the coated tongue that is occurred by using the ultraviolet light. Specially, this method can solved the previous problems including the issue in the limits of the diagnosis environment and in the objectivity of the diagnosis results. In our method, original tongue image is acquired by using the ultraviolet light, and binarization is performed by thresholding a valley-points in the histogram that corresponds to the color difference of tongue body and tongue coating. Final view image is presented to the oriental doctor, after applying the canny-edge algorithm to the binary image, and edge image is added to the original image. In order to evaluate the performance of the our proposed method, after building a various tongue image, we compared the true region of coated tongue by the oriental doctor's hand with the extracted region by the our method. As a result, the proposed method showed the average 87.87% extraction ratio. The shape of the extracted coated tongue region showed also significantly higher similarity.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.141-156
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• 2013

In this paper we propose a method to detect human faces in color images. Many existing systems use a window-based classifier that scans the entire image for the presence of the human face and such systems suffers from scale variation, pose variation, illumination changes, etc. Here, we propose a lighting insensitive face detection method based upon the edge and skin tone information of the input color image. First, image enhancement is performed, especially if the image is acquired from an unconstrained illumination condition. Next, skin segmentation in YCbCr and RGB space is conducted. The result of skin segmentation is refined using the skin tone percentage index method. The edges of the input image are combined with the skin tone image to separate all non-face regions from candidate faces. Candidate verification using primitive shape features of the face is applied to decide which of the candidate regions corresponds to a face. The advantage of the proposed method is that it can detect faces that are of different sizes, in different poses, and that are making different expressions under unconstrained illumination conditions.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.359-367
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• 2011

A suitable pan-sharpening method has to be chosen with respect to the used spectral characteristic of the multispectral bands and the intended application. The research on pan-sharpening algorithm in improving the accuracy of image classification has been reported. For a classification, preserving the spectral information is important. Other applications such as road detection depend on a sharp and detailed display of the scene. Various criteria applied to scenes with different characteristics should be used to compare the pan-sharpening methods. The pan-sharpening methods in our research comprise rather common techniques like Brovey, IHS(Intensity Hue Saturation) transform, and PCA(Principal Component Analysis), and more complex approaches, including wavelet transformation. The extraction of matching pairs was performed through SIFT descriptor and Canny edge detector. The experiments showed that pan-sharpening techniques for spatial enhancement were effective for extracting point and linear features. As a result of the validation it clearly emphasized that a suitable pan-sharpening method has to be chosen with respect to the used spectral characteristic of the multispectral bands and the intended application. In future it is necessary to design hybrid pan-sharpening for the updating of features and land-use class of a map.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.79-83
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• 2012

We use adaptive method and determine threshold coefficient so that the algorithm could decide a suitable binarization threshold coefficient of the image to detecting a marker; therefore, we solve the light influence on the shadow area and dark region. In order to improve the speed for reducing computation we created Integral Image. The algorithm detects an outline of the image by using canny edge detection for getting damage or obscured markers as it receives the noise removed picture. The strength of the line of the outline is extracted by Hough transform and it extracts the candidate regions corresponding to the coordinates of the corners. Markers extracted using the equation of a straight edge to find the coordinates. By using the equation of straight the algorithm finds the coordinates the corners. of extracted markers. As a result, even if all corners are obscured, the algorithm can find all of them and this was proved through the experiment.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.67-76
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• 2012

This paper proposes an efficient method that helps a visually impaired person to detect a pavement borderline. A pedestrian is equipped with a camera so that the front view of a natural scene is captured. Our approach analyzes the captured image and detects the borderline of a pavement in a very robust manner. Our approach performs the task in two steps. In a first step, our approach detects a vanishing point and vanishing lines by applying an edge operator. The edge operator is designed to take a threshold value adaptively so that it can handle a dynamic environment robustly. The second step is to determine the borderlines of a pavement based on vanishing lines detected in the first step. It analyzes the vanishing lines to form VRays that confines the pavement only. The VRays segments out the pavement region in a radial manner. We compared our approach against Canny edge detector. Experimental results show that our approach detects borderlines of a pavement very accurately in various situations.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.345-355
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• 2008

SIFT is popularly used in computer vision application such as object recognition, motion tracking, and 3D reconstruction among various shape descriptors. However, it is not easy to apply SIFT into the image similarity search as it is since it uses many high dimensional keypoint vectors. In this paper, we present a SIFT based image similarity search method using an edge image pyramid and an interesting region detection. The proposed method extracts keypoints, which is invariant to contrast, scale, and rotation of image, by using the edge image pyramid and removes many unnecessary keypoints from the image by using the hough transform. The proposed hough transform can detect objects of ellipse type so that it can be used to find interesting regions. Experimental results demonstrate that the retrieval performance of the proposed method is about 20% better than that of traditional SIFT in average recall.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.847-852
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• 2010

Text in natural images has a various and important feature of image. Therefore, to detect text and extraction of text, recognizing it is a studied as an important research area. Lately, many applications of various fields is being developed based on mobile phone camera technology. Detecting edge component form gray-scale image and detect an boundary of text regions by local standard deviation and get an connected components using Euclidean distance of RGB color space. Labeling the detected edges and connected component and get bounding boxes each regions. Candidate of text achieved with heuristic rule of text. Detected candidate text regions was merged for generation for one candidate text region, then text region detected with verifying candidate text region using ectilarity characterization of adjacency and ectilarity between candidate text regions. Experctental results, We improved text region detection rate using completentary of edge and color connected component.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1100-1105
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• 2006

Severe distortions of colors in the obtained images have made it difficult for color codes to expand their applications. To reduce the effect of color distortions on reading colors, it will be more desirable to statistically process as many pixels in the individual color region as possible, than relying on some regularly sampled pixels. This process may require segmentation, which usually requires edge detection. However, edges in color codes can be disconnected due tovarious distortions such as zipper effect and reflection, to name a few, making segmentation incomplete. Edge linking is also a difficult process. In this paper, a more efficient approach to reducing the effect of color distortions on reading colors, one that excludes precise edge detection for segmentation, was obtained by employing the k-means clustering algorithm. And, in detecting color codes, the properties of both six safe colors and grays were utilized. Experiments were conducted on 144, 4M-pixel, outdoor images. The proposed method resulted in a color-code detection rate of 100% fur the test images, and an average color-reading accuracy of over 99% for the detected codes, while the highest accuracy that could be achieved with an approach employing Canny edge detection was 91.28%.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.234-237
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• 2009

많은 건설 현장에서 카메라와 CCTV(Closed-circuit Television)와 같은 장비를 활용하여 건설 현장의 상황을 모니터링 하고 있다. 하지만 많은 작업이 실외에서 이루어지는 토목 건축공사의 특성상 적절한 수준의 영상 데이터를 축적하는 것은 쉽지 않은 일이다. 특히, 이미지 프로세싱기법을 사용 하여 자동화된 건설 관리의 수행 시, 영상 데이터의 품질에 따라 에러가 발생하여 건설 관리자가 잘못된 정보를 얻게 될 경우도 발생하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 케니엣지(Canny Edge) 인식기법과 워터쉐드(Watershed) 변환, 그리고 3D CAD Mask를 이용한 건축 구조물 기둥의 시공 상황 분석 기법에 근거하여, 영상 데이터 분석 시 오류를 최소화하기 위한 에러 제거 알고리즘을 제시한다. 실제 데이터와 비교를 통하여 그 활용 가능성 또한 검증한다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.590-594
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• 2008

근래에 인간과 컴퓨터의 상호작용을 통하여 사용자에게 직관적인 정보를 제공하는 기술들이 발전하고 있으며, 그래픽 기술의 비실사 렌더링을 이용한 미술 기법을 사실감 있게 가상 체험하기 위한 어플리케이션이 제안되고 있다. 본 논문은 미술 기법 중 방망이를 이용한 탁본 기법을 가상의 환경에서 모사하기 위해 탁본의 방망이를 통한 힘 쉐이딩을 새롭게 고안하여 제안한다. 햅틱 커서의 포인트와는 달리 탁본 방망이의 면적이 접촉하는 부분에서 생기는 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 Height map으로 사용된 Canny Edge Detection 이미지를 통해 Height map을 부분적으로 재 정의하고 힘의 계산에 적용하여 충돌된 방망이의 힘 쉐이딩을 가능하게 하는 것이 원리이다. 그래픽 렌더링 효과와 함께 실시간으로 사용자에게 햅틱 장치를 이용하여 촉감 정보를 전달함으로써 다양한 미술 교육적 효과를 체험할 수 있는 방안을 제공할 것으로 기대된다.