• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.889-897
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• 2010

현대의 대량화된 영상 관리 시스템은 영상의 특징을 표현하는 영상식별자에 대해 왜곡에 강인하며 빠른 검색 속도, 정확성 및 효율적인 저장 등의 기본 성능을 요구한다. 영상식별자 설계 방법은 기하학적 왜곡에 강인한 지역 방식과 빠른 검색 및 적은 저장 용량의 속성을 지닌 전역방식으로 구분 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 왜곡에 강하고 지역적 공간적 제약으로 인한 서로간의 차별성이 강화된 지역 기술자들로부터 각각 개개 차원의 특징 분포도를 분석하여, 두 영상간의 유사도를 빠르고 정확하게 측정할 수 있는 지역 기술자 및 전역 기술자의 속성을 가지고 있는 LFH(Local Feature's Histogram)기반 영상식별자를 제안한다. 또한 GPU를 사용하여 LFH를 구현하는 방법을 제시하며, 제안한 LFH와 대표적인 지역, 전역 방식인 SIFT 및 EHD 방식과 저장용량, 추출 시간, 검색 속도 및 정확률에 대한 성능을 비교하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.305-323
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• 2010

This paper proposes an efficient and yet powerful local descriptor called phase-space partition based descriptor (PPD). This descriptor is designed for the mobile image matching and retrieval. PPD, which is inspired from SIFT, also encodes the salient aspects of the image gradient in the neighborhood around an interest point. However, without employing SIFT's smoothed gradient orientation histogram, we apply the region based gradient statistics in phase space to the construction of a feature representation, which allows to reduce much computation requirements. The feature matching experiments demonstrate that PPD achieves favorable performance close to that of SIFT and faster building and matching. We also present results showing that the use of PPD descriptors in a mobile image retrieval application results in a comparable performance to SIFT.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.165-172
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• 2020

There is growing interest in Vision-based video image matching owing to the constantly developing technology of unmanned-based systems. The purpose of this paper is the development of a fast and effective matching technique for the UAV oblique video image. We first extracted initial matching points using NCC (Normalized Cross-Correlation) algorithm and improved the computational efficiency of NCC algorithm using integral image. Furthermore, we developed a triangulation-based outlier removal algorithm to extract more robust matching points among the initial matching points. In order to evaluate the performance of the propose method, our method was quantitatively compared with existing image matching approaches. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method can process 2.57 frames per second for video image matching and is up to 4 times faster than existing methods. The proposed method therefore has a good potential for the various video-based applications that requires image matching as a pre-processing.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.653-669
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• 2024

Dynamic scene deblurring is a complex computer vision problem owing to its difficulty to model mathematically. In this paper, we present a novel approach for image deblurring with the help of the sharp reference image, which utilizes the reference image for high-quality and high-frequency detail results. To better utilize the clear reference image, we develop an encoder-decoder network and two novel modules are designed to guide the network for better image restoration. The proposed Reference Extraction and Aggregation Module can effectively establish the correspondence between blurry image and reference image and explore the most relevant features for better blur removal and the proposed Spatial Feature Fusion Module enables the encoder to perceive blur information at different spatial scales. In the final, the multi-scale feature maps from the encoder and cascaded Reference Extraction and Aggregation Modules are integrated into the decoder for a global fusion and representation. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experimental results from the different benchmarks show the effectiveness of our proposed method.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.705-711
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 자동적으로 얼굴과 얼굴 특징점(FFPs:Facial Feature Points)을 검출하는 시스템을 제안하였다. 얼굴은 Gabor 특징에 의하여 지정된 특징점의 교점 그래프와 공간적 연결을 나타내는 에지 그래프로 표현하였으며 제안된 탄력적 특징 정합은 모델과 입력 영상에 상응하는 특징을 취하였다. 또한, 정합 모델은 국부적으로 경쟁적이고 전체적으로 협력적인 구조를 이룸으로서 영상공간에서 불규칙 확산 처리와 같은 역할을 하도록 하였으며, 복잡한 배경이나 자세의 변화, 그리고 왜곡된 얼굴 영상에서도 원활하게 동작하는 얼굴 식별 시스템을 구성함으로서 제안된 방법의 효율성을 증명하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.784-794
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• 2010

Automatic facial expression recognition has many potential applications in different areas of human computer interaction. However, they are not yet fully realized due to the lack of an effective facial feature descriptor. In this paper, we present a new appearance-based feature descriptor, the local directional pattern (LDP), to represent facial geometry and analyze its performance in expression recognition. An LDP feature is obtained by computing the edge response values in 8 directions at each pixel and encoding them into an 8 bit binary number using the relative strength of these edge responses. The LDP descriptor, a distribution of LDP codes within an image or image patch, is used to describe each expression image. The effectiveness of dimensionality reduction techniques, such as principal component analysis and AdaBoost, is also analyzed in terms of computational cost saving and classification accuracy. Two well-known machine learning methods, template matching and support vector machine, are used for classification using the Cohn-Kanade and Japanese female facial expression databases. Better classification accuracy shows the superiority of LDP descriptor against other appearance-based feature descriptors.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume II
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• pp.643-646
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• 2006

This paper addresses the approach to extract linear features from satellite imagery using an efficient segmentation method. The extraction of linear features from satellite images has been the main concern of many scientists. There is a need to develop a more capable and cost effective method for the Iranian map revision tasks. The conventional approaches for producing, maintaining, and updating GIS map are time consuming and costly process. Hence, this research is intended to investigate how to obtain linear features from SPOT satellite imagery. This was accomplished using a discontinuity-based segmentation technique that encompasses four stages: low level bottom-up, middle level bottom-up, edge thinning and accuracy assessment. The first step is geometric correction and noise removal using suitable operator. The second step includes choosing the appropriate edge detection method, finding its proper threshold and designing the built-up image. The next step is implementing edge thinning method using mathematical morphology technique. Lastly, the geometric accuracy assessment task for feature extraction as well as an assessment for the built-up result has been carried out. Overall, this approach has been applied successfully for linear feature extraction from SPOT image.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권9호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 영상접합 조작 검출을 위한 효율적인 마코프 특징을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법에서 사용하는 마코프 상태는 이산 코사인 변환 영역에서 인접한 블록간 계수의 차이로 구성되며, 블록간 대칭성을 이용하여 다양한 1차 마코프 천이확률을 접합 검출을 위한 특징으로 추출한다. 아울러 마코프 확률의 분포를 분석하여 특징의 수를 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 추출된 특징 벡터를 SVM(support vector machine) 분류기를 이용하여 학습한 후 영상의 접합 여부를 판별한다. 실험 결과를 통하여 본 논문의 방법이 기존의 방법보다 적은 수의 특징으로 높은 영상접합 조작 결과를 보임을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.957-962
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• 2010

If we want to recognize the human's emotion via the facial image, first of all, we need to extract the emotional features from the facial image by using a feature extraction algorithm. And we need to classify the emotional status by using pattern classification method. The AAM (Active Appearance Model) is a well-known method that can represent a non-rigid object, such as face, facial expression. The Bayesian Network is a probability based classifier that can represent the probabilistic relationships between a set of facial features. In this paper, our approach to facial feature extraction lies in the proposed feature extraction method based on combining AAM with FACS (Facial Action Coding System) for automatically modeling and extracting the facial emotional features. To recognize the facial emotion, we use the DBNs (Dynamic Bayesian Networks) for modeling and understanding the temporal phases of facial expressions in image sequences. The result of emotion recognition can be used to rehabilitate based on biofeedback for emotional disabled.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2008

얼굴 특징들을 추출하는 것은 자동 독화나 휴먼컴퓨터 인터페이스, 얼굴 인식, 얼굴 이미지 테이터베이스 관리 등에서 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 영상에 존재하는 다양한 색상 정보를 이용하여 얼굴 영역에서 자동 독화를 위한 특징점이 추출되도록 하였다. 얼굴의 특징들은 휘도와 채도 성분으로 인하여 다양한 색 공간에서 다양한 표현 값을 갖는다. 이를 이용하여 각 표현 값들을 증폭하거나 축소, 대비시킴으로서 얼굴 특징들을 추출되게 하였다. 눈과 코, 안쪽 입의 외곽선, 이의 외곽선을 찾았고 실험하여 좋은 결과를 얻었다.