• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2006

오차확산 방법은 프린터 등에 적용하기 위해 연속계조의 영상을 흑과 백의 이진영상으로 표현하는 디지털 하프토닝의 방법 중 하나로 우수한 영상 재현 능력을 보인다. 그러나 기존의 오차확산 방법은 임계값을 고정적으로 가지면서 오차확산을 하기 때문에 입력 영상에 대해서 충실한 이진화 처리가 어렵고 눈에 거슬리는 주기적인 패턴이 발생하는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 입력 영상의 충실한 이진화 처리 및 주기적인 패턴을 감소시키기 위해 적응형 임계값을 적용하여 오차 확산하는 방법을 제안하였다. 적응형 임계값은 입력 농담 영상의 밝기분포를 감안하여 평균치를 산출하는 방법을 사용하였다. 이진화 처리 방법에 대해서 고정임계값을 이용한 오차확산 방법과 제안한 방법을 비교 분석한 결과 제안하는 적응형 임계값을 사용한 오차확산 방법이 더 우수한 디지털 하프토닝 방법임을 실험과 비교를 통해 확인할 수 있었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.719-741
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• 2014

Monitoring surface cracks is important to ensure the health of concrete structures. However, traditional visual inspection to monitor the concrete cracks has disadvantages such as subjective inspection nature, associated time and cost, and possible danger to inspectors. To alter the visual inspection, a complete procedure for automated crack assessment based on adaptive digital image processing has been proposed in this study. Crack objects are extracted from the images using the subtraction with median filter and the local binarization using the Niblack's method. To adaptively. determine the optimal window sizes for the median filter and the Niblack's method without distortion of crack object an optimal filter size index (OFSI) is proposed. From the extracted crack objects using the optimal size of window, the crack objects are decomposed to the crack skeletons and edges, and the crack width is calculated using 4-connected normal line according to the orientation of the local skeleton line. For an image, a crack width nephogram is obtained to have an intuitive view of the crack distribution. The proposed procedure is verified from a test on a concrete reaction wall with various types of cracks. From the crack images with different crack widths and patterns, the widths of cracks in the order of submillimeters are calculated with high accuracy.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.240-251
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• 2016

This paper presents a real-time indoor location and pose estimation method that utilizes simple artificial markers and image analysis techniques for the purpose of warehouse automation. The conventional indoor localization methods cannot work robustly in warehouses where severe environmental changes usually occur due to the movement of stocked goods. To overcome this problem, the proposed framework places artificial markers having different interior pattern on the predefined position of the warehouse floor. The proposed algorithm obtains marker candidate regions from a captured image by a simple binarization and labeling procedure. Then it extracts maker interior pattern information from each candidate region in order to decide whether the candidate region is a true marker or not. The extracted interior pattern information and the outer boundary of the marker are used to estimate location and heading angle of the localization system. Experimental results show that the proposed localization method can provide high performance which is almost equivalent to that of the conventional method using an expensive LIDAR sensor and AMCL algorithm.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a smart system that can optically recognize a music score within a document and can play the music after recognition. Many historic handwritten documents have now been digitalized. Converting images of a music score within documents into digital files is particularly difficult and requires considerable resources because a music score consists of a 2D structure with both staff lines and symbols. The proposed system takes an input image using a mobile device equipped with a camera module, and the image is optimized via preprocessing. Binarization, music sheet correction, staff line recognition, vertical line detection, note recognition, and symbol recognition processing are then applied, and a music file is generated in an XML format. The Music XML file is recorded as digital information, and based on that file, we can modify the result, logically correct errors, and finally generate a MIDI file. Our system reduces misrecognition, and a wider range of music score can be recognized because we have implemented distortion correction and vertical line detection. We show that the proposed method is practical, and that is has potential for wide application through an experiment with a variety of music scores.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1244-1248
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• 2003

This paper describes visual tracking procedure of the underwater mobile robot for nuclear reactor vessel inspection, which is required to find the foreign objects such as loose parts. The yellowish underwater robot body tends to present a big contrast to boron solute cold water of nuclear reactor vessel, tinged with indigo by Cerenkov effect. In this paper, we have found and tracked the positions of underwater mobile robot using the two color information, yellow and indigo. The center coordinates extraction procedures are as follows. The first step is to segment the underwater robot body to cold water with indigo background. From the RGB color components of the entire monitoring image taken with the color CCD camera, we have selected the red color component. In the selected red image, we extracted the positions of the underwater mobile robot using the following process sequences; binarization, labelling, and centroid extraction techniques. In the experiment carried out at the Youngkwang unit 5 nuclear reactor vessel, we have tracked the center positions of the underwater robot submerged near the cold leg and the hot leg way, which is fathomed to 10m deep in depth.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.738-744
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• 2016

In this paper, a robust visual odometry system has been proposed and implemented in an environment with dynamic illumination. Visual odometry is based on stereo images to estimate the distance to an object. It is very difficult to realize a highly accurate and stable estimation because image quality is highly dependent on the illumination, which is a major disadvantage of visual odometry. Therefore, in order to solve the problem of low performance during the feature detection phase that is caused by illumination variations, it is suggested to determine an optimal threshold value in the image binarization and to use an adaptive threshold value for feature detection. A feature point direction and a magnitude of the motion vector that is not uniform are utilized as the features. The performance of feature detection has been improved by the RANSAC algorithm. As a result, the position of a mobile robot has been estimated using the feature points. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed approach has superior performance against illumination variations.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.1865-1870
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 비파괴 검사를 통하여 얻어진 항공 갑판 영상에서, 조직의 결함의 정도를 자동으로 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 비파괴 검사를 통하여 얻어진 항공 갑판 영상에서 감마상관 변환과 7${\times}$7 소벨 마스크와 13${\times}$13 소벨 마스크를 각각 적용하여 윤곽선을 추출하고 추출된 윤곽선 영역을 평활화와 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 영상을 보정한다. 마지막으로 보정된 영상에서 침식 연산과 팽창 연산을 이용하여 잡음을 제거한 후, 라벨링 기법을 적용하여 항공 갑판의 결함 영역을 추출한다. 실험 결과에서, 항공 갑판에서 결함을 추출하는데 기존의 방법보다 효과적인 것을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2016

Although extensively developed, optical music recognition systems have mostly focused on musical symbols (notes, rests, etc.), while disregarding the chord symbols. The process becomes difficult when the images are distorted or slurred, although this can be resolved using optical character recognition systems. Moreover, the appearance of outliers (lyrics, dynamics, etc.) increases the complexity of the chord recognition. Therefore, we propose a new approach addressing these issues. After binarization, un-distortion, and stave and lyric removal of a musical image, a rule-based method is applied to detect the potential regions of chord symbols. Next, a lexicon-driven approach is used to optimally and simultaneously separate and recognize characters. The score that is returned from the recognition process is used to detect the outliers. The effectiveness of our system is demonstrated through impressive accuracy of experimental results on two datasets having a variety of resolutions.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2003

자동화 지문인식을 위한 과정에서 지문영상의 정보를 보존하면서 최적의 세선화와 특이점추출을 위한 중요한 부분은 이진화 과정이다. 이진화 과정은 그레이-스케일 레벨의 영상을 0과 255값으로 바꾸는 과정이다. 이 과정에서 적절한 기준레벨값(Threshold Value)을 설정해 주지 않으면 지문영상의 정보가 손실된다. 본 논문에서는 이진화 과정 부분에 인공지능 기법을 적용하여 입력되는 지문영상에서 실시간으로 기준레벨(Threshold)을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험결과 기존의 방법과 비교하여 좋은 성능을 보여주고 있음을 나타낸다

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제3권5호
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• pp.511-519
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• 1997

This paper presents the automatic recognition algorithm of the license number in on vehicle image. The proposed algorithm uses the correlation coefficient and Hough transform to detect license plate. The m/n ratio reduction is performed to save time and memory. By the correlation coefficient between the standard pattern and the target pattern, licence plate area is roughly extracted. On the extracted local area, preprocessing and binarization is performed. The Hough transform is applied to find the extract outline of the plate. If the detection fails, a smaller or a larger standard pattern is used to compute the correlation coefficient. Through this process, the license plate of different size can be extracted. Two algorithms to each separate number are proposed. One segments each number with projection-histogram, and the other segments each number with the label. After each character is separated, it is recognized by the neural network. This research overlomes the problems in conventional methods, such as the time requirement or failure in extraction of outlines which are due to the processing of the entire image, and by processing in real time, the practical application is possible.