• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.179-189
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• 2007

Most of the seeds of cucurbitaceous rootstock species used for grafting were mainly sown by hand. This study was carried out to develop an on-line discriminating algorithm of seed direction using machine vision and an automatic seeding system. The seeding system was composed of a supplying device, feeding device, machine vision system, reversing device, seeding device and system control section. Machine vision was composed of a color CCD camera, frame grabber, image inspection chamber, lighting and personal computer. The seed image was segmented into a region of seed part and background part using thresholding technique in which H value of HSI color coordinate system. A seed direction was discriminated by comparing position between the center of circumscribed rectangle to a seed and the center of seed image. It took about 49ms to identify and redirect seed. Line-up status of seed was good the more than 95% of a sowed seed. Seeding capacity of this system was shown to be 10,140 grains per hour, which is three times faster than that of a typical worker.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2006년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.50-53
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• 2006

본 논문은 적외선 컴퓨터 비전으로 책상형 스크린상에 사용자 조작 물체의 위치와 각도를 실시간으로 추적할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 기존 컴퓨터 비전 시스템의 약점인 주변 조명의 영향을 거의 받지 않는다. 위치뿐만 아니라 각도와 버튼 클릭 상태도 실시간으로 얻어낸다. 이 시스템을 활용하여 컬러랩 박스를 제작하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제15B권5호
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• pp.421-434
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• 2008

컴퓨터 그래픽스, 가상현실 및 증강현실 기술이 발전됨에 따라, 이들 기술을 기반으로 하는 다양한 응용 분야에서 3차원 공간에서의 객체 선택 및 조작 등의 3차원 인터랙션 기능들이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문은 고가의 데스크탑용 3차원 마우스 기능을 시뮬레이션 할 수 있는 비전 기반의 3차원 인터랙션 프레임워크를 제안한다. 제안 프레임워크는 3색 LED를 이용하여 특수하게 제작된 인터랙션 도구를 포함하며, 비디오 시퀀스로부터 LED의 위치 및 색상을 인식하여 다양한 마우스 이벤트와 6 자유도(Degree Of Freedom)의 인터랙션을 지원한다. 제안 도구는 고가이며 숙련된 조작을 필요로 하는 기존의 3차원 마우스에 비하여 직관적이고 편리하여 별도의 학습이나 훈련 없이 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안 프레임워크를 구성하는 3색 LED를 이용한 포인터 제작 방법, 포인터의 3차원 위치 및 방향 계산법, 비디오 영상에서의 LED 색상분석 기법에 대하여 설명한다. 또한, 계산된 3차원 위치 및 방향에 대한 오차 측정 결과를 보임으로써 제안 도구의 정확성 및 유용성을 검증한다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2006

칼라 영상의 잡음 제거 및 복원은 컴퓨터 비젼 및 영상 처리 분야에서 점점 더 많은 연구가 되어지고 있는 분야이다. 칼라얼굴 영상에서의 잡음 제거 및 복원은 색상들 간의 미묘한 상호작용뿐만 아니라 얼굴의 구조학적 특징 때문에 일반적인 영상의 처리보다 더욱 어렵다. 본 논문은 벡터기반의 영상 필터들을 이용하여 제거하기 어려운 칼라 얼굴 영상의 복합 잡음을 제거 하기 위해 PCA 재구성 기반의 잡음 제거 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 PCA를 이용한 정준 고유얼굴 공간의 학습단계, 동적 외양 모델을 이용한 자동적인 얼굴 특징 추출 단계, Bilateral 필터를 이용한 복원된 칼라 영상의 재조명(Relighting) 단계, 학습 데이터들의 분산 값들을 이용한 잡음 영역 추출 단계, 입력 영상의 부분 정보를 이용한 재구성과 이를 원본 영상과 합성하여 잡음이 제거된 영상을 생성하는 단계 등 총 5 단계로 구성된다. 실험결과는 제안된 방법이 입력 얼굴 영상들의 구조적 특징들은 잘 유지하면서 복합적인 칼라 잡음 등을 효과적으로 제거하는 것을 보인다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2013

A robust and efficient text extraction is very important for an accuracy of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems. Natural scene images with degradations such as uneven illumination, perspective distortion, complex background and multi color text give many challenges to computer vision task, especially in text extraction. In this paper, we propose a method for extraction of the text in signboard images based on a combination of mean shift algorithm and weighting scheme of hue and saturation in HSI color space for clustering algorithm. The number of clusters is determined automatically by mean shift-based density estimation, in which local clusters are estimated by repeatedly searching for higher density points in feature vector space. Weighting scheme of hue and saturation is used for formulation a new distance measure in cylindrical coordinate for text extraction. The obtained experimental results through various natural scene images are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1993년도 Proceedings of International Conference for Agricultural Machinery and Process Engineering
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• pp.1230-1242
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• 1993

In a case of mushroom (Lentinus Edodes L.) , visual features are crucial for grading and the quantitative evaluation of the growth state. The extracted quantitative visual features can be used as a performance index for the drying process control or used for the automatic sorting and grading task. First, primary external features of the front and back sides of mushroom were analyzed. And computer vision based algorithm were developed for the extraction and measurement of those features. An automatic thresholding algorithm , which is the combined type of the window extension and maximum depth finding was developed. Freeman's chain coding was modified by gradually expanding the mask size from 3X3 to 9X9 to preserve the boundary connectivity. According to the side of mushroom determined from the automatic recognition algorithm size thickness, overall shape, and skin texture such as pattern, color (lightness) ,membrane state, and crack were quantified and measured. A portion of t e stalk was also identified and automatically removed , while reconstructing a new boundary using the Overhauser curve formulation . Algorithms applied and developed were coded using MS_C language Ver, 6.0, PC VISION Plus library functions, and VGA graphic function as a menu driven way.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.37-54
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• 1996

In this thesis, a new superimposition scheme using a computer vision system was proposed with 7 pairs of skull and ante-mortem photographs, which were already identified through other tests and DNA fingerprints at the Korea National Institute of Scientific Investigation. At this computer vision system, an unidentified skull was caught by video-camcoder with the MPEG and a ante-mortem photograph was scanned by scanner. These two images were processed and superimposed using pixel processing. Recognition of the individual identification by anatomical references was performed on the two superimposed images. These results were as followings. 1. For the enhancement of skull and ante-mortem photographs, various image processing schemes, such as SMOOTH, SHARPEN, EMBOSS, MOSAIC, ENGRAVE, INVERT, NEON and COLOR TO MONO, were applied using 3*5 window processing. As an image processing result of these methods, the optimal techniques were NEON, INVERT and ENGRAVE for the edge detection of skull and ante-mortem photograph. 2. Using various superimposition image processing techniques (SRCOR, SRCAND, SRCINVERT, SRCERASE, DSTINVERT, MERGEPAINT) were compared for the enhancement of image recognition. 3. By means of the video camera, the skull image was inputed directly to a computer system : superimposing it on the ante-mortem photograph made the identification more precise and time-saving. As mentioned above, this image processing techniques for the superimposition of skull and ante-mortem photographs simply used the previous approach, In other wrods, taking skull photographs and developing it to the same size as the ante-mortem photographs. This system using various image processing techniques on computer screen, a more precise and time-saving superimposition technique could be able to be applied in the area of individual identification in forensic practice.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.740-745
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• 2003

Motion tracking and object segmentation are the most fundamental and critical problems in vision tasks suck as motion analysis. An active contour model, snake, was developed as a useful segmenting and tracking tool for rigid or non-rigid objects. Snake is designed no the basis of snake energies. Segmenting and tracking can be executed successfully by energy minimization. In this research, two new paradigms for segmentation and tracking are suggested. First, because the conventional method uses only intensity information, it is difficult to separate an object from its complex background. Therefore, a new energy and design schemes should be proposed for the better segmentation of objects. Second, conventional snake can be applied in situations where the change between images is small. If a fast moving object exists in successive images, conventional snake will not operate well because the moving object may have large differences in its position or shape, between successive images. Snakes's nodes may also fall into the local minima in their motion to the new positions of the target object in the succeeding image. For robust tracking, the condensation algorithm was adopted to control the parameters of the proposed snake model called "adaptive color snake model(SCSM)". The effectiveness of the ACSM is verified by appropriate simulations and experiments.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.3037-3040
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• 2000

Real-Time object tracking has emerged as an important component in several application areas including machine vision. surveillance. Human-Computer Interaction. image-based control. and so on. And there has been developed various algorithms for a long time. But in many cases. they have showed limited results under uncontrolled situation such as illumination changes or cluttered background. In this paper. we present a novel. computationally efficient algorithm for tracking human face robustly under illumination changes and cluttered backgrounds. Previous algorithms usually defines color model as a 2D membership function in a color space without consideration for illumination changes. Our new algorithm developed here. however. constructs a 3D color model by analysing plenty of images acquired under various illumination conditions. The algorithm described is applied to a mobile head-eye robot and experimented under various uncontrolled environments. It can track an human face more than 100 frames per second excluding image acquisition time.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.8-12
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• 1999

에지검출방법은 영상내의 객체를 인식하거나 특정부분을 추적하는 등의 유일한 방법은 아니지만 컴퓨터비젼 분야의 많은 응용에서 매우 중요한 요소들 중의 하나이다. 만약, 에지검출이 신속하고 정확히 이루어진다면 가장 효율적인 방법이 될 수 있다. 지금까지 제안되어 왔던 많은 알고리즘들은 주로 명도영상에 적용되어 오고 있다. 그러나, 명도정보만으로 에지를 검출하는데는 많은 한계점을 가지고 있어 컬러 정보를 이용하려는 연구가 수행되고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 컬러 정보를 이용한 에지검출 알고리즘을 제안하고 기존의 방법들 중에 많이 사용되고 있는 알고리즘을 구현하고 비교하였다. 실험결과 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘은 미세한 부분들과 그림자부분에서 보다 우수한 성능을 보였다.