• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.48-57
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• 2011

The computer vision system was designed and constructed to measure the weight of a dairy cattle. Its development involved the functions of image capture, image preprocessing, image algorithm, and control integrated into one program. The experiments were conducted with the model dairy cattle and the real dairy cattle by two ways. First experiment with the model dairy cattle was conducted by using the indoor vision experimental system, which was built to measure the model dairy cattle in the laboratory. Second experiment with real dairy cattle was conducted by using the outdoor vision experimental system, which was built for measuring 229 heads of cows in the cattle facilities. This vision system proved to a reliable system by conducting their performance test with 15 heads of real cow in the cattle facilities. Indirect weight measuring with four methods were conducted by using the image processing system, which was the same system for measuring of body parameters. Error value of transform equation using chest girth was 30%. This error was seen as the cause of accumulated error by manually measurement. So it was not appropriate to estimate cow weight by using the transform equation, which was calculated from pixel values of the chest girth. Measurement of cow weight by multiple regression equation from top and side view images has relatively less error value, 5%. When cow weight was measured indirectly by image surface area from the pixel of top and side view images, maximum error value was 11.7%. When measured cow weight by image volume, maximum error weight was 57 kg. Generally, weight error was within 30 kg but maximum error 10.7%. Volume transform method, out of 4 measuring weight methods, was minimum error weight 21.8 kg.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.280-287
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• 2023

딥러닝의 발전은 컴퓨터 비전 문제를 해결할 수 있지만, 높은 정확도를 위해서는 대규모 데이터셋이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 객체 바운딩 박스와 이미지 엣지 성분을 이용한 이미지 생성 기법을 제안한다. 객체 탐지를 통해 이미지 내의 객체 바운딩 박스를 추출하고 이미지 엣지 성분을 함께 이미지 생성모델의 입력값으로 사용하여 새로운 이미지 데이터를 생성한다. 실험 결과, 제안 기법으로 생성된 이미지는 이미지 품질 평가에서 소스 이미지와 유사한 품질을 보였고, 딥러닝 훈련과정에서도 좋은 성능을 보였다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.46-54
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• 2020

Oil spill accidents at sea result in a wide range of damages, including the destruction of ocean environments and ecosystems, as well as human illnesses by the generation of harmful gases caused by phase changes in crude oil. When an oil spill occurs, an immediate initial action should be performed to minimize the potential damage. Existing studies have attempted to identify crude oil spillage by calculating the crude oil spill range using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite images. However, SAR cannot capture rapidly evolving events because of its low acquisition frequency. Herein, an algorithm for estimating an oil spill area from an image obtained using a digital camera is proposed. Noise that may occur in the image when it is captured is first eliminated by preprocessing, and then the image is analyzed. After analyzing the characteristics of the digital image, a strategy to binarize an image using the color, saturation, or lightness contained in it is adopted. It is found that the oil spill area can be readily estimated from a digital image, allowing for a faster analysis than any conventional method. The usefulness of the oil spill area measurement was confirmed by applying the developed algorithm to various oil spill images.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 PDP 상판의 패턴결함을 검출하는 영상처리 알고리즘을 제안하고, 이를 실시간으로 처리하기 위한 영상처리 하드웨어의 구현을 나타낸다. 제안된 영상처리 알고리즘은 참조영상의 패턴간격을 이용하여 결함영상을 추출하는 알고리즘이며, 영상처리 시스템은 실시간 구조로 설계된 고속 영상처리 하드웨어와 여러 개의 영상처리 하드웨어 제어를 위한 데이터관리 및 시스템제어 하드웨어에로 나누어 구현하였다. 또한, 본 논문에서는 구현한 영상처리 시스템을 이용하여 실제 PDP 상판의 결함을 검사하는 실험 환경을 구성하여 패턴의 결함을 검사하는 실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 제안한 알고리즘과 구현한 하드웨어의 우수성을 입증 하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.8-16
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• 2012

An image obtained from a low light environment results in a low-exposure problem caused by non-ideal camera settings, i.e. aperture size and shutter speed. Of particular note, the multiple color-filter aperture (MCA) system inherently suffers from low-exposure problems and performance degradation in its image classification and registration processes due to its finite size of the apertures. In this context, this paper presents a novel method for the color enhancement of low-exposure images and its application to color shift model-based MCA system for image refocusing. Although various histogram equalization (HE) approaches have been proposed, they tend to distort the color information of the processed image due to the range limits of the histogram. The proposed color enhancement algorithm enhances the global brightness by analyzing the basic cause of the low-exposure phenomenon, and then compensates for the contrast degradation artifacts by using an adaptive histogram specification. We also apply the proposed algorithm to the preprocessing step of the refocusing technique in the MCA system to enhance the color image. The experimental results confirm that the proposed method can enhance the contrast of any low-exposure color image acquired by a conventional camera, and is suitable for commercial low-cost, high-quality imaging devices, such as consumer-grade camcorders, real-time 3D reconstruction systems, digital, and computational cameras.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2005

골격선 추출에 대한 향상된 디지털 이미지를 획득하기 위해서 효과적인 골격화 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 임계값을 이용한 이진화를 거친 후에 본 방법 을 적용하여 영상 골격화 효율을 높이고자 한다. 골격선의 비교분석을 위해서 기존의 골격화 방법들과 SPTA방법을 사용하였다. 기존방법들의 단점은 확장과 수축이 심하고 잡영가지로 인해서 원형의 영상을 유지하기 어렵다. 이러한 단점을 보안한 새로운 방법인 SPTA방법 을 제안한다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.345-350
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• 2002

In this study, researchers classifying the artificial flaws in semiconductor packages are performed by pattern recognition technology. For this purposes, image pattern recognition package including the user made software was developed and total procedure including ultrasonic image acquisition, equalization filtration, binary process, edge detection and classifier design is treated by Backpropagation Neural Network. Specially, it is compared with various weights of Backpropagation Neural Network and it is compared with threshold level of edge detection in preprocessing method fur entrance into Multi-Layer Perceptron(Backpropagation Neural network). Also, the pattern recognition techniques is applied to the classification problem of defects in semiconductor packages as normal, crack, delamination. According to this results, it is possible to acquire the recognition rate of 100% for Backpropagation Neural Network.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2202-2205
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• 2001

This paper is composed of two parts. One is image preprocessing part to measure the condition of the lane and vehicle. This finds the information of lines using RGB ratio cutting algorithm, the edge detection and Hough transform. The other obtains the situation of other vehicles using the image processing and viewport. At first, 2 dimension image information derived from vision sensor is interpreted to the 3 dimension information by the angle and position of the CCD camera. Through these processes, if vehicle knows the driving conditions which are lane angle, distance error and real position of other vehicles, we should calculate the reference steering angle by steering controller.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.721-726
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• 2005

In this study, researchers classifying the artificial flaws in semiconductor. packages are performed by pattern recognition technology. For this purposes, image pattern recognition package including the user made software was developed and total procedure including ultrasonic image acquisition, equalization filtration, binary process, edge detection and classifier design is treated by Backpropagation Neural Network. Specially, it is compared with various weights of Backpropagation Neural Network and it is compared with threshold level of edge detection in preprocessing method for entrance into Multi-Layer Perceptron(Backpropagation Neural network). Also, the pattern recognition techniques is applied to the classification problem of defects in semiconductor packages as normal, crack, delamination. According to this results, it is possible to acquire the recognition rate of 100% for Backpropagation Neural Network.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.345-350
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• 2018

본 연구는 지정맥 인식에 중요한 정맥 패턴 특징검출을 위한 알고리즘이다. 특징검출 알고리즘은 패턴인식 시 인식결과에 많은 영향을 끼치므로 중요하다. 인식률은 손가락 위치 변화에 따라 기준도 변화되므로 저하되는 특징을 가지고 있다. 또한, 손가락에 적외선 광을 조사하여 획득한 영상은 영상 배경과 혈관 패턴을 분리하기에 어렵고, 영상 전처리과정을 수행하므로 검출시간이 증대되는 특징을 가지고 있다. 이를 위해, 제시하는 알고리즘은 영상 전처리과정이 없이 수행되어 검출 시간을 줄일 수 있고, 지정맥 영상에 SWDA(Shifted Waveform Data Analysis) 알고리즘을 적용하여 손가락 마디 위치 및 정맥 패턴 검출이 가능한 특징을 가지고 있다. 적외선 투과율이 낮아 상대적으로 어두운 정맥 영상도 검출 오류 최소화가 가능한 특징을 보였다. 또한, 손가락 마디 위치는 분류 단계에서 기준으로 활용하면 인식률 저하를 보완할 수 있는 특징을 가지고 있다. 추후 손바닥, 손목 등 신체 여러 인식분야에 제안하는 알고리즘을 적용한다면 생체 특징 검출 정확도 향상 및 인식 수행 시간 감소에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.