• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.89-102
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• 2013

The paper presents a fuzzy based impulse noise filter for both gray scale and color images. The proposed approach is based on the technique of boundary discriminative noise detection. The algorithm is a multi-step process comprising detection, filtering and color correction stages. The detection procedure classifies the pixels as corrupted and uncorrupted by computing decision boundaries, which are fuzzified to improve the outputs obtained. In the case of color images, a correction term is added by examining the interactions between the color components for further improvement. Quantitative and qualitative analysis, performed on standard gray scale and color image, shows improved performance of the proposed technique over existing state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and color difference metrics. The analysis proves the applicability of the proposed algorithm to random valued impulse noise.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.114-127
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• 2017

This paper proposes a color image coding algorithm based on shape-adaptive all phase biorthogonal transform (SA-APBT). This algorithm is implemented through four procedures: color space conversion, image segmentation, shape coding, and texture coding. Region-of-interest (ROI) and background area are obtained by image segmentation. Shape coding uses chain code. The texture coding of the ROI is prior to the background area. SA-APBT and uniform quantization are adopted in texture coding. Compared with the color image coding algorithm based on shape-adaptive discrete cosine transform (SA-DCT) at the same bit rates, experimental results on test color images reveal that the objective quality and subjective effects of the reconstructed images using the proposed algorithm are better, especially at low bit rates. Moreover, the complexity of the proposed algorithm is reduced because of uniform quantization.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.715-719
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 TV에 있어서 위상 정보를 이용하여 특정색을 조정할 경우 색신호의 천이 시간에서 발생하는 검출 오류들과 색신호의 안정화를 위한 색향상 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안한 색향상 시스템은 시간차 보정 방법을 적용하여 색신호와 색부 반송 신호의 전송 과정에서 발생하는 시간차를 보정하여 색신호 검출 오류를 줄였다. 또한 변화하는 색신호의 위상을 검출함에 있어서 실제적으로 존재하는 천이 시간에 따른 검출 오류를 개선하고자 수평 동기 시간내에서 검출 전압값의 평균 차성분을 구하여 이웃한 색신호의 최소 구별 전압값보다 큰값을 가질 때 설정 기준색을 조정하도록 하는 안정화 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 개선된 색향상 시스템은 기타의 색신호로부터 보정 범위가 중복되지 않고 특정색의 검출 및 조정이 개선되었다.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2014

본 논문은 이미지 처리 기술을 이용한 광 카메라 통신(OCC: Optical Camera Communications) 기술을 제안한다. OCC 시스템의 구조 및 동작을 제안한다. 상용 30fps 카메라의 샘플링 동작에 의해 제한되는 데이터율을 증가시키기 위해 칼라 이미지 처리기술을 이용한 멀티칼러 전송기법을 제안한다. 멀티칼라 부호화 및 이미지 처리기반의 복호화 기법을 제안한다.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.60-67
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• 2008

피부색은 자동화된 얼굴 인식을 위한 매우 중요한 정보 중의 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 컬러 정보와 피부색 모델을 이용한 피부 영역 검출 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 적응적 조명 보정 기법을 통해 피부색 영역의 검출 성능을 개선하였고 전처리 필터를 적용하여 피부색이 아닌 영역을 먼저 제거시킴으로써 처리 속도를 향상시켰다. 또한 피부색 검출 성능이 우수한 ST 컬러 공간을 수정하여, 보다 정확한 피부색 영역을 추출할 수 있도록 하였다. 제안된 방법의 실험 결과 기존의 방법과 비교하여 보다 우수한 검출 결과를 나타냈으며, 처리 속도 또한 약 $33{\sim}48%$ 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.589-601
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• 2014

The performance of edge detection often relies on its ability to correctly determine the dissimilarities of connected pixels. For grayscale images, the dissimilarity of two pixels is estimated by a scalar difference of their intensities and for color images, this is done by using the vector difference (color distance) of the three-color components. The Euclidean distance in the RGB color space typically measures a color distance. However, the RGB space is not suitable for edge detection since its color components do not coincide with the information human perception uses to separate objects from backgrounds. In this paper, we propose a novel method for color edge detection by taking advantage of the HSV color space and the Mahalanobis distance. The HSV space models colors in a manner similar to human perception. The Mahalanobis distance independently considers the hue, saturation, and lightness and gives them different degrees of contribution for the measurement of color distances. Therefore, our method is robust against the change of lightness as compared to previous approaches. Furthermore, we will introduce a noise-resistant technique for determining image gradients. Various experiments on simulated and real-world images show that our approach outperforms several existing methods, especially when the images vary in lightness or are corrupted by noise.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.283-299
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• 2014

Skin detection is used in many applications, such as face recognition, hand tracking, and human-computer interaction. There are many skin color detection algorithms that are used to extract human skin color regions that are based on the thresholding technique since it is simple and fast for computation. The efficiency of each color space depends on its robustness to the change in lighting and the ability to distinguish skin color pixels in images that have a complex background. For more accurate skin detection, we are proposing a new threshold based on RGB and YUV color spaces. The proposed approach starts by converting the RGB color space to the YUV color model. Then it separates the Y channel, which represents the intensity of the color model from the U and V channels to eliminate the effects of luminance. After that the threshold values are selected based on the testing of the boundary of skin colors with the help of the color histogram. Finally, the threshold was applied to the input image to extract skin parts. The detected skin regions were quantitatively compared to the actual skin parts in the input images to measure the accuracy and to compare the results of our threshold to the results of other's thresholds to prove the efficiency of our approach. The results of the experiment show that the proposed threshold is more robust in terms of dealing with the complex background and light conditions than others.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.299-306
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• 2001

As a part of basic investigation for utilization of canned food processing by-products, a food components of the canned oyster processing waste water such as boiled and released water(BRW), wash water(WW) were investigated and compared with hot-water extracts from oyster. From the results of measuring heavy metal conte수, viable cells and coliform group, the canned oyster processing waste waters might not invoke health risk in using food resource. The contents of taste compounds (free amino acids, ATP related compounds, TMA (O) and total creatinine) of BRW and WW accounted for about 254% and 95%, respectively, in comparison with those of control (hot-water extract from oyster). The BRW showed a very high content of salt in comparing to the WW and control. In descending order, the values of whiteness index was WW, control and BRW. Sensory scores for color, oyster flavor intensity and saline taste were not significantly different between WW and control. But, BRW had the highest score in oyster flavor intensity, while had the lowest score in color and saline taste. But, the color and saline taste of BRW might be able to control by some pretreatment (concentration and drying in mild condition, desalination and recipe control etc). These results indicated that BRW and WW generated from various step during canned oyster processing could be a potential food resource by controlling of saline taste and color intensity.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.881-890
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• 2010

Conventional fire detection systems use physical sensors to detect fire. Chemical properties of particles in the air are acquired by sensors and are used by conventional fire detection systems to raise an alarm. However, this can also cause false alarms; for example, a person smoking in a room may trigger a typical fire alarm system. In order to manage false alarms of conventional fire detection systems, a computer vision-based fire detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. The proposed fire detection algorithm consists of two main parts: fire color modeling and motion detection. The algorithm can be used in parallel with conventional fire detection systems to reduce false alarms. It can also be deployed as a stand-alone system to detect fire by using video frames acquired through a video acquisition device. A novel fire color model is developed in CIE $L^*a^*b^*$ color space to identify fire pixels. The proposed fire color model is tested with ten diverse video sequences including different types of fire. The experimental results are quite encouraging in terms of correctly classifying fire pixels according to color information only. The overall fire detection system's performance is tested over a benchmark fire video database, and its performance is compared with the state-of-the-art fire detection method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.677-680
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• 2003

Perceptual landmarks are an effective solution for a mobile robot realizing steady and reliable long distance navigation. But the prerequisite is those landmarks must be detected and recognized robustly at a higher speed under various lighting conditions. This made image processing more complicated so that its speed and reliability can not be both satisfied at the same time. Color based target detection technique can separate target color regions from non-target color regions in an image with a faster speed, and better results were obtained only under good lighting conditions. Moreover, in the case that there are other things with a target color, we have to consider other target features to tell apart the target from them. Such thing always happens when we detect a target with its single character. On the other hand, we can generally search for only one target for each time so that we can not make use of landmarks efficiently, especially when we want to make more landmarks work together. In this paper, by making use of the moment invariants of each landmark, we can not only search specified target from separated color region but also find multi-target at the same time if necessary. This made the finite landmarks carry on more functions. Because moment invariants were easily used with some low level image processing techniques, such as color based target detection and gradient runs based target detection etc, and moment invariants are more reliable features of each target, the ratio of target detection were improved. Some necessary experiments were carried on to verify its robustness and efficiency of this method.