• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 2015

Recently, patent images are growing importance and thus patent image retrieval is a growing area of research. However, most existing patent image retrieval systems use edges extracted in the images, whose performance is affected by the quality of edge detection in the image pre-processing step. To overcome this disadvantage, we propose a SURF-based patent image retrieval method which uses the morphological characteristics of the images. The proposed method detects SURF interest points with directions and computes regional histograms. We apply the proposed method to a patent image database with 2000 binary images and we show the proposed retrieval system achieves excellent results, even when the images have some loss or degradation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.587-589
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• 1995

The safe navigation of a mobile robot requires the recognition of the environment in terms of vision processing. To be guided in the given path, the robot should acquire the information about where the wall and corridor are located. Also unexpected obstacles should be detected as rapid as possible for the safe obstacle avoidance. In the paper, we assume that the mobile robot should be navigated in the flat surface. In terms of this assumption we simplify the correspondence problem by the free navigation surface and matching features in that coordinate system. Basically, the vision processing system adopts line segment of edge as the feature. The extracted line segments of edge out of both image are matched in the free nevigation surface. According to the matching result, each line segment is labeled by the attributes regarding obstacle and free surface and the 3D shape of obstacle is interpreted. This proposed vision processing method is verified in terms of various simulations and experimentation using real images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.449-451
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 내용기반 이미지 검색 시스템을 제작하기 위하여 필수적으로 선행되어야 하는 이미지의 영역구분에 대한 새로운 방법인 경계값을 이용한 영역추출 방법을 소개한다. 빠르고 정확한 이미지 검색엔진을 구현하기 위하여 질의의 결과가 될 이미지들은 전처리기에 의하여 모든 영역을 추출한 뒤 각각의 영역에 따른 특성(feature)를 저장하고 있어야 한다. 정확한 질의 결과를 얻기 위하여는 정확히 영역을 추출할 수 있고 그 특성도 추출할 수 있는 전처리기를 사용하여야 한다. 또한 정확도만을 중시하여 너무 복잡한 알고리즘을 사용한다면 그 또한 실용적이지 못하게 된다. 경계값을 이용한 영역추출 방법은 이미지의 각 점에 대한 경계값(edge value)을 이용하여 그 경계값이 작은 점으로부터 시작하여 경계값이 큰 점들을 병합해 가면서 인접한 영역간의 크기, 색상 등을 고려하여 각각의 영역을 구분해 낸다. 이 방법의 가장 큰 특징은 텍스쳐(texture)를 제외한 일반적인 영역뿐 아니라 텍스쳐 포함하는 영역도 추출할 수 있는 점과 빠른 처리 속도에 있다.

• 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 Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.142-150
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• 2009

It is very important to generate a simplified model from a complex 3D character in computer game. We propose a new method of extracting feature lines from a 3D game character. Given an unstructured 3D character model containing texture information, we use model feature map (MFM), which is a 2D map that abstracts the variation of texture and curvature in the 3D character model. The MFM is created from both a texture map and a curvature map, which are produced separately by edge-detection to locate line features. The MFM can be edited interactively using standard image-processing tools. We demonstrate the technique on several data sets, including, but not limited to facial character.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.61-65
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• 2016

Facial feature detection is a fundamental function in the field of computer vision such as security, bio-metrics, 3D modeling, and face recognition. There are many algorithms for the function, active shape model is one of the most popular local texture models. This paper addresses issues related to face detection, and implements an efficient extraction algorithm for extracting the facial feature points to use on iOS platform. In this paper, we extend the original ASM algorithm to improve its performance by four modifications. First, to detect a face and to initialize the shape model, we apply a face detection API provided from iOS CoreImage framework. Second, we construct a weighted local structure model for landmarks to utilize the edge points of the face contour. Third, we build a modified model definition and fitting more landmarks than the classical ASM. And last, we extend and build two-dimensional profile model for detecting faces within input images. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on experimental test set containing over 500 face images, and found to successfully extract facial feature points, clearly outperforming the original ASM.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.286-291
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• 2001

We propose a new saliency map model for selecting an attended location in an arbitrary visual scene, which is one of the most important characteristics of human vision system. In selecting an attended location, an edge information can be considered as a feature basis to construct the saliency map. Edge filters are obtained from the independent component analysis(ICA) that is the best way to find independent edges in natural gray scenes. In order to reflect the non-uniform density in our retina, we use a multi-scaled pyramid input image instead of using an original input image. Computer simulation results show that the proposed saliency map model with multi-scale property successfully generates the plausible attended locations.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.2558-2562
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• 1999

This paper proposes on the methods of noise removal and edge extraction which is done by eliminating the ambiguities of the image using normalization and minimizing the entropy. Pre-existing methods have their own peculiarities and limitations, such as gray level distributions change very slowly or two regions which having similar gray level distribution are touched. This affects on the post processing such as feature extraction, as a result, this leads to false-recognition or no-recognition. Therefore, this paper proposes on the methods which overcome these problems. Finally, the effectiveness of this paper is demonstrated by several experiments.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.2294-2301
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• 1998

The aim of this paper is to extract features from each news scenes for example, symbol icon which can be distinct each broadcasting corp, icon and caption which are has feature and important information for the scene in respectively, In this paper, we propose extraction methods of caption that has important prohlem of news videos and it can be classified in three steps, First of al!, we converted that input images from video frame to YIQ color vector in first stage. And then, we divide input image into regions in clear hy using equalized color histogram of input image, In last, we extracts caption using edge histogram based on vertical and horizontal line, We also propose the method which can extract news icon in selected key frames by the difference of inter-histogram and can divide each scene by the extracted icon. In this paper, we used comparison method of edge histogram instead of complex methcxls based on color histogram or wavelet or moving objects, so we shorten computation through using simpler algorithm. and we shown good result of feature's extraction.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.91-100
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• 2003

In this paper, to improve the retrieval Performance, an efficient combination of the MPEG-7 visual descriptors, such as the edge histogram descriptor (EHD), the color layout descriptor (CLD), and the homogeneous texture descriptor (HTD), is proposed in the framework of the relevance feedback approach. The EHD represents spatial distribution of edges in local image regions and it is considered as an important feature to represent the content of the image. The CLD specifies spatial distribution of colors and is widely used in image retrieval due to its simplicity and fast operation speed. The HTD describes precise statistical distribution of the image texture. Both the feature vector for the query image and the weighting factors among the combined descriptors are adaptively determined during the relevance feedback. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the retrieval performance significantly tot natural images.