• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.779-789
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• 2021

Cracks in railway sleeper are an inevitable condition and has a significant influence on the safety of railway system. Although the technology of railway sleeper condition monitoring using machine learning (ML) models has been widely applied, the crack recognition accuracy is still in need of improvement. In this paper, a two-stage method using edge detection and convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed to reduce the burden of computing for detecting cracks in railway sleepers with high accuracy. In the first stage, the edge detection is carried out by using the 3×3 neighborhood range algorithm to find out the possible crack areas, and a series of mathematical morphology operations are further used to eliminate the influence of noise targets to the edge detection results. In the second stage, a CNN model is employed to classify the results of edge detection. Through the analysis of abundant images of sleepers with cracks, it is proved that the cracks detected by the neighborhood range algorithm are superior to those detected by Sobel and Canny algorithms, which can be classified by proposed CNN model with high accuracy.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1244-1248
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose fuzzy c-means (FCM) to solve recognition errors in invariant range image, multi-pose face recognition. Scale, center and pose error problems were solved using geometric transformation. Range image face data was digitized into range image data by using the laser range finder that does not depend on the ambient light source. Then, the digitized range image face data is used as a model to generate multi-pose data. Each pose data size was reduced by linear reduction into the database. The reduced range image face data was transformed to the gradient face model for facial feature image extraction and also for matching using the fuzzy membership adjusted by fuzzy c-means. The proposed method was tested using facial range images from 40 people with normal facial expressions. The output of the detection and recognition system has to be accurate to about 93 percent. Simultaneously, the system must be robust enough to overcome typical image-acquisition problems such as noise, vertical rotated face and range resolution.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2009

This paper proposes a novel face detection method that finds tiny faces located at a long range even with low-resolution input images captured by a mobile robot. The proposed approach can locate extremely small-sized face regions of $12{\times}12$ pixels. We solve a tiny face detection problem by organizing a system that consists of multiple detectors including a mean-shift color tracker, short- and long-rage face detectors, and an omega shape detector. The proposed method adopts the long-range face detector that is well trained enough to detect tiny faces at a long range, and limiting its operation to only within a search region that is automatically determined by the mean-shift color tracker and the omega shape detector. By focusing on limiting the face search region as much as possible, the proposed method can accurately detect tiny faces at a long distance even with a low-resolution image, and decrease false positives sharply. According to the experimental results on realistic databases, the performance of the proposed approach is at a sufficiently practical level for various robot applications such as face recognition of non-cooperative users, human-following, and gesture recognition for long-range interaction.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.421-427
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• 2020

A novel privacy-protection device to prevent visual hacking is realized by using a directional backlight and facial recognition. The proposed method is able to overcome the limitations of previous privacy-protection methods that simply restrict the viewing angle to a narrow range. The accuracy of user tracking is accomplished by the combination of a time-of-flight sensor and facial recognition with no restriction of detection range. In addition, an experimental demonstration is provided to verify the proposed scheme.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.699-701
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• 2017

장거리 관측용 카메라의 일반적인 운용방법은 광각에서 표적에 대한 탐지를 하며, 망원으로 표적에 대한 인지/식별을 하게 된다. 탐지/인지거리 성능은 방산용 적외선카메라의 성능을 평가하는 중요한 항목이다. 탐지거리 성능이 증가하려면 카메라의 시야가 좁아져야 하고, 좁은 시야각으로 인하여 표적을 찾게 될 확률이 상대적으로 낮아지게 된다. 본 연구에서는 탐지거리 성능을 유지하면서 넓은 시야각을 제공하여 표적에 대한 탐색을 용이하게 할 수 있는 방안을 검토하였다. 그리고 M&S 및 최적화 설계를 통하여 시야 확장형 적외선카메라를 제작하고 시험한 결과를 정리하였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.280-286
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• 2022

Facial recognition system is a biometric manipulation. Its applicability is simpler, and its work range is broader than fingerprints, iris scans, signatures, etc. The system utilizes two technologies, such as face detection and recognition. This study aims to develop a facial recognition system to recognize person's faces. Facial recognition system can map facial characteristics from photos or videos and compare the information with a given facial database to find a match, which helps identify a face. The proposed system can assist in face recognition. The developed system records several images, processes recorded images, checks for any match in the database, and returns the result. The developed technology can recognize multiple faces in live recordings.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.69-74
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• 2001

Detection of operation lines in farm works, object recognition and obstacle avoidance are essential pre-requisite technologies for unmanned agricultural machinery. A CCD camera, which has been largely used for these functions, is expensive and has difficulty in real-time signal processing. In this study, a laser range sensor was selected as the guiding vision for unmanned agricultural machinery such as a tractor. To achieve this capability, algorithms for distance measurement, signal filtering, object recognition, and obstacle avoidance were developed. Computer simulations were carried out to evaluate performance of the algorithms. Experiments were also conducted with various materials and shapes, Laser beam lost its intensity for poor reflective materials, resulting in less range value than actual, so a compensation technique was considered to be necessary. Object detection system was fabricated on an agricultural tractor and the performance was evaluated. As test result for obstacle detection and avoidance in field, to detect and avoid obstacle for path finding with guiding system for unmanned agricultural machinery was enable.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a traffic light detection and recognition (TLDR) algorithm in the daytime. The proposed algorithm utilizes the color and shape information for the TLDR. At first, a traffic light is detected and recognized based on its shape information. Then, the color range of the detected traffic light is investigated in HSV color space. The input data of the proposed TLDR algorithm is the color image captured using the black box camera during driving. Our simulations demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve a high detection and recognition performance for the images including traffic lights.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

일반적으로 동적 손동작 인식을 위해서는 전처리, 손 추적, 손 모양 검출의 단계가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 전처리와 손 모양 검출 방법을 개선함으로써 성능을 향상시킨 동적 손동작 인식 방법을 제안한다. 전처리 단계에서는 동적테이블을 이용하여 노이즈제거 성능을 높이고, YCbCr 컬러공간을 이용한 기존의 피부색 검출 방식에서 피부색의 범위를 조절할 수 있도록 하여 피부색 검출 성능을 높인다. 특히 손 모양 검출 단계에서는 가이드라인을 이용하여 동적 손동작 인식의 요소인 시작이미지(Start Image)와 정지 이미지(Stop Image)를 검출하여 동적 손동작을 인식하기 때문에 학습예제를 사용한 손동작 인식 방법에 비해 인식 속도가 빠르다는 이점이 있다. 가이드라인이란 웹캠을 통해 입력되는 손의 모양과 비교하여 검출하기 위해 화면에 출력하는 손 모양의 라인이다. 가이드라인을 이용한 동적 손동작 인식 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 웹캠을 사용하여 복잡한 배경과 단순한 배경으로 구분된 9가지 동영상을 대상으로 실험하였다. 그 결과 CPU 점유율이 낮고, 메모리 사용량도 적기 때문에 시스템 부하가 높은 환경에 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a smart system that can optically recognize a music score within a document and can play the music after recognition. Many historic handwritten documents have now been digitalized. Converting images of a music score within documents into digital files is particularly difficult and requires considerable resources because a music score consists of a 2D structure with both staff lines and symbols. The proposed system takes an input image using a mobile device equipped with a camera module, and the image is optimized via preprocessing. Binarization, music sheet correction, staff line recognition, vertical line detection, note recognition, and symbol recognition processing are then applied, and a music file is generated in an XML format. The Music XML file is recorded as digital information, and based on that file, we can modify the result, logically correct errors, and finally generate a MIDI file. Our system reduces misrecognition, and a wider range of music score can be recognized because we have implemented distortion correction and vertical line detection. We show that the proposed method is practical, and that is has potential for wide application through an experiment with a variety of music scores.