• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.93-100
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• 2014

3D object recognition using only 2D images is a difficult work because each images are generated different to according to the view direction of cameras. Because SIFT algorithm defines the local features of the projected images, recognition result is particularly limited in case of input images with strong perspective transformation. In this paper, we propose the object recognition method that improves SIFT algorithm by using several sequential images captured from rotating 3D object around a rotation axis. We use the geometric relationship between adjacent images and merge several images into a generated feature space during recognizing object. To clarify effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we keep constantly the camera position and illumination conditions. This method can recognize the appearance of 3D objects that previous approach can not recognize with usually SIFT algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.411-412
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• 2009

최근 시각 기반 인터페이스를 위하여, 손 동작 인식 기술 개발의 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 이러한 손 동작 인식 기술에서 손 모양 인식은 중요한 부분이며, 이는 손 영역 검출의 결과에 많은 영향을 받는다. 기존의 많은 손 동작 인식 기술들은 사람의 피부색이 갖는 컬러 특징을 이용하여 손 영역을 검출하였다. 그러나, 이러한 컬러 정보는 배경 및 조도 변화에 매우 민감하다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는, 색 온도 보정 과정을 손 영역 검출에 적용함으로써 배경 및 조도 변화에 강인한 손 모양 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 제안한 방법이 배경 및 조도 변화에 강인함을 보이기 위해, 조명의 밝기 수준을 조절하며, 다양한 색을 배경으로 찍은 손 영상을 입력으로 손 모양 인식 성능을 실험하였다. 기존의 피부색을 이용한 손 영역 검출과의 비교 실험 결과를 통해, 제안한 방법이 배경 및 조도 변화에 강인한 손 모양 인식 성능을 가짐을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.47-57
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• 2009

Event detection and recognition is an active and challenging topic recent in Computer Vision. This paper describes a new method for recognizing events caused by human motion from video sequences in an office environment. The proposed approach analyzes human motions using Motion History Image (MHI) sequences, and is invariant to body shapes. types or colors of clothes and positions of target objects. The proposed method has two advantages; one is thant the proposed method is less sensitive to illumination changes comparing with the method using color information of objects of interest, and the other is scale invariance comparing with the method using a prior knowledge like appearances or shapes of objects of interest. Combined with edge detection, geometrical characteristics of the human shape in the MHI sequences are considered as the features. An advantage of the proposed method is that the event detection framework is easy to extend by inserting the descriptions of events. In addition, the proposed method is the core technology for event detection systems based on context-aware computing as well as surveillance systems based on computer vision techniques.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.66-77
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• 2011

We propose a framework for grouping photographic advertising images that employs a hierarchical indexing scheme based on efficient feature combinations. The study provides one specific application of effective tools for monitoring photographic advertising information through online and offline channels. Specifically, it develops a preprocessor for advertising image information tracking. We consider both global features that contain general information on the overall image and local features that are based on local image characteristics. The developed local features are invariant under image rotation and scale, the addition of noise, and change in illumination. Thus, they successfully achieve reliable matching between different views of a scene across affine transformations and exhibit high accuracy in the search for matched pairs of identical images. The method works with global features in advance to organize coarse clusters that consist of several image groups among the image data and then executes fine matching with local features within each cluster to construct elaborate clusters that are separated by identical image groups. In order to decrease the computational time, we apply a conventional clustering method to group images together that are similar in their global characteristics in order to overcome the drawback of excessive time for fine matching time by using local features between identical images.