• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.182-187
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 이미지 상에 나타난 색상 정보를 추출하기 위한 새로운 커널 메소드(Kernel method)인 Grid kernel을 제안한다. 제안한 Grid kernel은 Convolution kernel의 하나로 이미지 상에 나타나는 자질을 주변 픽셀에서 나타나는 자질로 정의 하고 이를 재귀적으로 적용함으로써 두 이미지를 비교한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 커널을 차량 색상 인식 문제에 적용하여 차량 색상 인식 모델을 제안한다. 이미지 생성시 나타나는 주변 요인으로 인해 차량의 색상을 추출하는 것은 어려운 문제이다. 이미지가 야외에서 촬영되기 때문에 시간, 날씨 등의 주변 요인은 같은 차량이라 하더라도 다른 색상을 보이게 할 수 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 Grid kernel이 적용된 차량 색상 인식 모델은 이미지를 HSV (Hue-Saturation-Value) 색상 공간으로 사상하여 명도를 배제하였다. 제안한 커널과 색상 인식 모델을 검증하기 위해 5가지 색상을 가진 차량 이미지를 이용하여 실험을 하였으며, 실험 결과 92.4%의 정확율과 92.0%의 재현율을 보였다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.49-56
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a control method of virtual hand by the recognition of a user's hand in the virtual reality game environment. We display virtual hand on the game screen after getting the information of the user's hand movement and the direction thru input images by camera. We can utilize the movement of a user's hand as an input interface for virtual hand to select and move the object. As a hand recognition method based on the vision technology, the proposed method transforms input image from RGB color space to HSV color space, then segments the hand area using double threshold of H, S value and connected component analysis. Next, The center of gravity of the hand area can be calculated by 0 and 1 moment implementation of the segmented area. Since the center of gravity is positioned onto the center of the hand, the further apart pixels from the center of the gravity among the pixels in the segmented image can be recognized as fingertips. Finally, the axis of the hand is obtained as the vector of the center of gravity and the fingertips. In order to increase recognition stability and performance the method using a history buffer and a bounding box is also shown. The experiments on various input images show that our hand recognition method provides high level of accuracy and relatively fast stable results.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1414-1419
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• 2015

A method for detecting a skin region on the image is generally used to detect the color information. However, If saturation lowered, skin detection is difficult because hue information of the pixels is lost. So in this paper, we propose a method of correcting color of lower saturation of skin region images by the lighting. Color correction process of this method is saturation image acquisition and low-saturation region classification, segmentation, and the saturation of the split in the low saturation region extraction and color values, the color correction sequence. This method extracts the low saturation regions in the image and extract the color and saturation in the region and the surrounding region to produce a color similar to the original color. Therefore, the method of extracting the low saturation region should be correctly preceding. Because more accurate segmentation in the process of obtaining a low saturation regions, we use a multi-threshold method proposed Otsu in Hue values of the HSV color space, and create a binary image. Our experimental results for 170 portrait images show a possibility that the proposed method could be used efficiently preprocessing of skin color detection method, because the detection result of proposed method is 5.8% higher than not used it.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.1 s.104
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• pp.47-52
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• 2006

This paper proposes a method of content-based image retrieval using region feature vector in order to overcome disadvantages of existing color histogram methods. The color histogram methods have a weak point that reduces accuracy because of quantization error, and more. In order to solve this, we convert color information to HSV space and quantize hue factor being purecolor information and calculate histogram and then use thus for retrieval feature that is robust in brightness, movement, and rotation. Also we solve an insufficient part that is the most serious problem in color histogram methods by dividing an image into sixteen regions and then comparing each region. We improve accuracy by edge and DC of DCT transformation. As a result of experimenting with 1,000 color images, the proposed method has showed better precision than the existing methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.5 s.311
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• pp.12-21
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a technique for extracting attentive objects in images using feature maps, regardless of the complexity of images and the position of objects. The proposed method uses feature maps with edge and color information in order to extract attentive objects. We also propose a reference map which is created by integrating feature maps. In order to create a reference map, feature maps which represent visually attentive regions in images are constructed. Three feature maps including edge map, CbCr map and H map are utilized. These maps contain the information about boundary regions by the difference of intensity or colors. Then the combination map which represents the meaningful boundary is created by integrating the reference map and feature maps. Since the combination map simply represents the boundary of objects we extract the candidate object regions including meaningful boundaries from the combination map. In order to extract candidate object regions, we use the convex hull algorithm. By applying a segmentation algorithm to the area of candidate regions to separate object regions and background regions, real object regions are extracted from the candidate object regions. Experiment results show that the proposed method extracts the attentive regions and attentive objects efficiently, with 84.3% Precision rate and 81.3% recall rate.