• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.2328-2344
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• 2022

2D human pose estimation still faces difficulty in low-resolution images. Most existing top-down approaches scale up the target human bonding box images to the large size and insert the scaled image into the network. Due to up-sampling, artifacts occur in the low-resolution target images, and the degraded images adversely affect the accurate estimation of the joint positions. To address this issue, we propose a multi-resolution input feature fusion network for human pose estimation. Specifically, the bounding box image of the target human is rescaled to multiple input images of various sizes, and the features extracted from the multiple images are fused in the network. Moreover, we introduce a guiding channel which induces the multi-resolution input features to alternatively affect the network according to the resolution of the target image. We conduct experiments on MS COCO dataset which is a representative dataset for 2D human pose estimation, where our method achieves superior performance compared to the strong baseline HRNet and the previous state-of-the-art methods.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.34C no.10
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• pp.51-58
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• 1997

In this paper, a technique ot estimate center positions of the circular parts under noisy condition is presented. The circle chords are segmented from the circle with successively varying angle and weighted to reduce the center estimation errors effected by the orientations of the circle chords. The weighting factors for variable length chords are adaptively detemined according to the error contribution of each chord in center estimation. Robust estimation of the center positions of the circular parts are possible even though the edge informations are partially contaminated by the non-uniform lighting or the background textures. Computer simulations for several images which are obtained for same object under real environment y camera, show that the proposed techniqeu yields 1.85 and 2.77 of estimated error-distribution for center position and radius in mean square error, that the proposed has more robust estimation than those of the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.289-292
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• 2001

This paper investigates a RBF equalizer (RBFE) reducing a center Estimating Speed. One of method for RBF center estimation is using k-means clustering. The performance of RBFE is depends on the estimation ability of the RBF center. We Propose a RBF Equalizer using modified k-means clustering algorithm (MKMC) to speed up channel estimation and to reduce complexity of calculation. Computer simulations are included to illustrate the analytical results. It is shown that a discussed method improves about 1 dB via less training data.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1131-1140
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• 2016

A simple design for a sliding mode observer is proposed for EV lithium battery SOC estimation in this paper. The proposed observer does not have the limiting conditions of existing observers. Compared to the design of previous sliding mode observers, the new observer does not require a solving matrix equation and it does not need many observers for all of the state components. As a result, it is simple in terms of calculations and convenient for engineering applications. The new observer is suitable for both time-variant and time-invariant models of battery SOC estimation, and the robustness of the new observer is proved by Liapunov stability theorem. Battery tests are performed with simulated FUDS cycles. The proposed observer is used for the SOC estimation on both unchanging parameter and changing parameter models. The estimation results show that the new observer is robust and that the estimation precision can be improved base on a more accurate battery model.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2005.09a
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• pp.767-768
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• 2005

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.4 no.12
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• pp.1075-1082
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an Efficient Center-Biased Hybrid Seearch (ECBHS) for motion estimation based on Center-Biased Hybrid Search(CBHS). This proposed algorithm employ hybrid of a compact plus shaped search, X shaped search, and diamond search to reduce the search point for motion vectors which distributed within 3pels radius of center of search window. ECBHS reduces the computations for motion estimation of CBHS with similar accuracy The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was verified by experimental results.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.114-116
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• 1989

A method has been proposed for the fully automatic detection of left ventricular endocardial boundary in 2D short axis echocardiogram using geometric model. The procedure has the following three distinct stages. First, the initial center is estimated by the initial center estimation algorithm which is applied to decimated image. Second, the center estimation algorithm is applied to original image and then best-fit elliptic model estimation is processed. Third, best-fit boundary is detected by the cost function which is based on the best-fit elliptic model. The proposed method shows effective result without manual intervention by a human operator.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11c
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• pp.153-155
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• 2004

This paper proposes a real-time approach on the rotational motion estimation and correction for the roll stabilization of the sight system. This method first estimates a rotation center by the least-mean square algorithm based on the motion vectors of some feature points. And, then, a rotation angle is searched for a best matching block between a reference block image and seccessive input images using MPC(maximum pixel count) matching criterion. Finally, motion correction is performed by the bilinear interpolation technique. Various computer simulations show that the estimation performance is good and the proposed algorithm is a real-time implementable one to the TMS320C6415(500MHz) DSP.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.173-175
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a fast and low-complexity Motion Estimation (ME) algorithm for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). Motion estimation occupies 77~81% of the amount of computation in HEVC. After all, the main key of codec implementation is to find a fast and low-complexity motion estimation algorithm and architecture. The proposed algorithm uses only 1% of the amount of operations compared to full search algorithm while maintaining compression performance with slight loss of 0.6% (BDBR).

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.277-283
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a distributed fusion estimation for sensor networks using a receding horizon strategy. Communication channels were modelled as Markov jump systems, and a posterior probability distribution for communication channel characteristics was calculated and incorporated into the filter to allow distributed fusion estimation to handle path loss observation situations automatically. To implement distributed fusion estimation, a Kalman-Consensus filter was then used to obtain the average consensus, based on the estimates of sensors randomly distributed across sensor networks. The advantages of the proposed algorithms were then verified using a large-scale sensor network example.