• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 1998

In this paper, we present the degradation of focusing induced by velocity inhomogeneity in human tissue. For simulation, the fatty layer which is the major factor of degradation for its lower velocity, is modeled as a uniform velocity perturbation layer. And we simulate the degradation of resolution resulting from change of beam path due to refraction and the time delay due to velocity difference. We show that focusing error can be compensated for considering the velocity inhomogeneity only. The proposed compensation method can be operated in real time in the presently used digital focusing systems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.358-379
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• 2010

Multiple object association is an important capability in visual surveillance system with multiple cameras. In this paper, we introduce locally initiating line-based object association with the parallel projection camera model, which can be applicable to the situation without the common (ground) plane. The parallel projection camera model supports the camera movement (i.e. panning, tilting and zooming) by using the simple table based compensation for non-ideal camera parameters. We propose the threshold distance based homographic line generation algorithm. This takes account of uncertain parameters such as transformation error, height uncertainty of objects and synchronization issue between cameras. Thus, the proposed algorithm associates multiple objects on demand in the surveillance system where the camera movement dynamically changes. We verify the proposed method with actual image frames. Finally, we discuss the strategy to improve the association performance by using the temporal and spatial redundancy.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.54-63
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• 2004

A new motion compensated frame Interpolation (MCI) algorithm by block based motion estimation (BME) is proposed. The block for the BME is composed of a large overlapped block for practical object motion estimation (ME) and a small block (which has a coinciding center with the ME-block) for the more precise motion compensated image description. Pixels in the block for the ME are sub-sampled to reduce computational complexity. The proposed method is executed with the various ME-blocks which have different size and sub-sampling ratio, and compared to the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.80-82
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 깊이 정보를 이용하여 영상을 색상 분포가 각각 다른 객체 영상으로 분리하고 개별적으로 히스토그램 매칭 기법을 적용하는 조명 보상 기법을 제안한다. 서로 위치가 다른 다시점 카메라의 경우, 다시점 비디오 부호화(multi-view video coding)의 성능을 저하시키는 인접 시점 영상 간 조명 불일치 현상이 발생한다. 이러한 조명 불일치를 보상하기 위한 히스토그램 매칭(histogram matching)을 이용한 전처리 기법이 제안되었다. 모든 시점의 다시점 영상 히스토그램은 정해진 참조 시점 영상의 히스토그램으로 매칭되어 조명 불일치와 다시점 비디오 부호화의 성능을 개선할 수 있다. 하지만 일반적인 영상은 색상 분포와 깊이 정보가 상호 독립적인 객체들로 구성되어 있다. 또한 다시점 비디오는 시점에 따라 획득된 영상 간에 동일 객체의 위치와 깊이가 서로 달라 정해진 참조 시점의 히스토그램으로 매칭하는 기존의 방법은 적합하지 않다. 본 논문에서는 주어진 영상 내에서 깊이 정보를 이용하여 객체를 먼저 분리하고, 객체 영상별로 히스토그램 매칭 기법을 적용하여 색상 보상을 수행하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 객체 단위의 조명 보상 기법이 향상된 다시점 비디오 부호화 효율을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.773-780
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• 2009

This study proposed a face region detection algorithm using fuzzy inference of pixel hue and intensity. The proposed algorithm is composed of light compensate and face detection. The light compensation process performs calibration for the change of light. The face detection process evaluates similarity by generating membership functions using as feature parameters hue and intensity calculated from 20 skin color models. From the extracted face region candidate, the eyes were detected with element C of color model CMY, and the mouth was detected with element Q of color model YIQ, the face region was detected based on the knowledge of an ordinary face. The result of experiment are conducted with frontal face color images of face as input images, the method detected the face region regardless of the position and size of face images.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1233-1240
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• 2010

In the flat panel display and semiconductor industries, the visual alignment system is considered as a core technology which determines the productivity of a manufacturing line. It consists of the vision system to extract the centroids of alignment marks and the stage control system to compensate the alignment error. In this paper, we develop a Kalman filter algorithm to estimate the alignment mark postures and propose a coarse-fine alignment control method which utilizes both original fine images and reduced coarse ones in the visual feedback. The error compensation trajectory for the distributed joint servos of the alignment stage is generated in terms of the inverse kinematic solution for the misalignment in task space. In constructing the estimation algorithm, the equation of motion for the alignment marks is given by using the forward kinematics of alignment stage. Secondly, the measurements for the alignment mark centroids are obtained from the reduced images by applying the geometric template matching. As a result, the proposed Kalman filter based coarse-fine alignment control method enables a considerable reduction of alignment time.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.370-379
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• 2011

The increasing complexity of complex buildings, such as high-rise buildings and underground subway stations, presents new challenges to firefighters. In a fire in complex buildings, the importance of the collaboration between firefighters is clear. The increased demand on firefighter training for such environment is now evident. Due to cost, time, and safety issues, it is impossible to experience a real fire in such environments for training. In addition, the use of real fire for training does not enable repeatable training and the evaluation of the training is difficult. We developed a team-based firefighter training simulator for complex buildings using the virtual reality technology. It provides the training and evaluation of firefighting and mission-based team training. To model real fire phenomena in virtual space, a numerical analysis method based on fire dynamics is used. To achieve an immersive virtual environment, an augmented reality technique for the compensation of real world image and a haptic technique for heat experience are adopted. The developed training simulator can help the firefighter to respond to large and complex firefighting scenarios, while maintaining the safety of the trainees.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.4C
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• pp.396-400
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• 2007

This paper proposes the fast partial difference elimination (PDE) algorithm. When the conventional PDE cannot skip the rest of matching procedure in a candidate block using a partial matching error, the proposed algorithm estimates to skip it again using the block matching error predicted from the computed partial matching error. The proposed algorithm can eliminate impossible candidate blocks earlier than the conventional PDE since the predicted block matching error is always bigger than the partial matching error. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce the computations while keeping image quality as good as the conventional PDE.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.8C
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• pp.497-504
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• 2011

This paper presents an adaptive retinex algorithm, In order to solve typical problems of retinex algorithm such as expensive computational cost, halo artifact, and color distortion, a function of skewness that represents a statistical distribution of pixels is defined to compensate contrast and color distortion. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm leads to subjectively better performance than typical retinex algorithm, and that the proposed algorithm has the capability to reduce approximately 40% computational cost than typical retinex algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.379-388
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• 2002

In this paper, the real-time algorithm is proposed for automatic detection of the face and facial features. In the face region, we extracted eyes, nose, mouth and so forth. There are two methods to extract them; one is the method of using the location information of them, other is the method of using Gaussian second derivatives filters. This system have high speed and accuracy because the facial feature extraction is processed only by detected face region, not by whole image. There are some kinds of good experimental result for the proposed algorithm; high face detection rate of 95%, high speed of lower than 1sec. the reduction of illumination effect, and the compensation of face tilt.