• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.502-511
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 자연 이미지에 포함되어 있는 텍스트를 추출하기 위해 명도 정보를 사용한 하이브리드 분석 방법(HAM)을 제안하였다. 즉, 제안한 방법은 명도 정보 분석(Gray-intensity Information Analysis)과 분할/합병 분석(Split/Merge Analysis)을 결합하였다. 제안한 방법의 추출 결과를 보면 단순한 영상과 복잡한 영상 모두에서 기존의 연구 결과보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.787-795
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 영상의 화질개선을 위해 로지스틱 함수에 기반을 둔 히스토그램 평활화 방법을 제안하였다. 여기서 히스토그램 평활화는 영상의 밝기를 조정함으로써 화질을 개선하는 간단하고 효과적인 공간영역 기반 처리기법이다. 또한 로지스틱 함수는 비선형의 변환함수로 영상의 명암도 발생빈도수에 따라 밝기개선 정도를 적응적으로 조정하기 위함이다. 특히 영상의 히스토그램에서 최대 발생빈도수를 가지는 명암도와 최대 명암도 및 전체 픽셀수만을 이용한 유연한 비대칭의 로지스틱 함수를 제안함으로써, 기존 로지스틱 함수에서의 지수함수 계산 부담과 최적의 계수 값을 경험적으로 사전에 설정해야하는 제약을 해결하였다. 제안된 기법을 다양한 크기의 해상도와 히스토그램 분포를 가지는 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 히스토그램 평활화와 적응적 변형 히스토그램 평활화보다도 우수한 화질개선 성능과 빠른 평활화 속도가 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 제안된 기법은 멀티미디어 시스템에서 실시간 평활화 기법으로도 충분히 이용될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.202-208
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• 2013

In the image processing for VS (Video Surveillance), the detection of moving entities in a monitored scene is an important step. A background subtraction technique has been widely employed to find the moving entities. However, the extracted foreground regions often include not only real entities but also their cast shadows, and this can cause errors in following image processing steps, such as tracking, recognition, and analysis. In this paper, a novel technique is proposed to determine the shadow pixels of moving objects in the foreground image of a VS camera. Compared to existing techniques where the same decision criteria are applied to all moving pixels, the proposed technique determines shadow pixels using local features based on two facts: First, the amount of pixel intensity drop due to a shadow depends on the intensity level of background. Second, the distribution pattern of pixel intensities remains even if a shadow is cast. The proposed method has been tested at various situations with different backgrounds and moving humans in different colors.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.1737-1742
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• 2001

The fractal-based method for describing rubbed surface texture has aroused great interest. The determination of rubbed surface topography is believed to be extremely important in the areas of contact mechanics, adhesion and friction. In order to describe topography of the rubbed surface, the wear test was carried out with annular surfaces of wear testing specimens in dry friction. furthermore, the relation between the fractal dimensions and the frictional conditions are also investigated and fractal descriptors was applied to rubbed surface with image processing. Fractal dimension can be determined by sum of intensity difference of image surface pixel. Fractal dimension increased according as the applied load and sliding distance increase. Topography of the rubbed surface can be effectively obtained by fractal dimensions.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.575-591
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• 2013

Most of the edge detection methods available in literature are gradient based, which further apply thresholding, to find the final edge map in an image. In this paper, we propose a novel method that is based on fuzzy logic for edge detection in gray images without using the gradient and thresholding. Fuzzy logic is a mathematical logic that attempts to solve problems by assigning values to an imprecise spectrum of data in order to arrive at the most accurate conclusion possible. Here, the fuzzy logic is used to conclude whether a pixel is an edge pixel or not. The proposed technique begins by fuzzifying the gray values of a pixel into two fuzzy variables, namely the black and the white. Fuzzy rules are defined to find the edge pixels in the fuzzified image. The resultant edge map may contain some extraneous edges, which are further removed from the edge map by separately examining the intermediate intensity range pixels. Finally, the edge map is improved by finding some left out edge pixels by defining a new membership function for the pixels that have their entire 8-neighbourhood pixels classified as white. We have compared our proposed method with some of the existing standard edge detector operators that are available in the literature on image processing. The quantitative analysis of the proposed method is given in terms of entropy value.

• 감성과학
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.11-20
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• 2002

There are Two new models developed for objective evaluation of fabric color patterns by applying a multiple regression analysis and an adaptive foray-rule-based system. The physical features of fabric color patterns are extracted through digital image processing and the emotional features are collected based on the psychological experiments of Soen[3, 4]. The principle physical features are hue, saturation, intensity and the texture of color patterns. The emotional features arc represented thirteen pairs of adverse adjectives. The multiple regression analyses and the adaptive fuzzy system are used as a tool to analyze the relations between physical and emotional features. As a result, both of the proposed models show competent performance for the approximation and the similar linguistic interpretation to the Soen's psychological experiments.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2002

본 논문은 동영상의 대표프레임에서 eigen value와 휘도 성분을 이용한 내용기반 검색 기법에 관한 연구이다. video를 shot단위로 분할하여 shot을 대표하는 대표프레임을 얻어내고, 그 대표프레임을 Eigen Component Analysis(ECA)를 이용하여 데이터베이스를 생성하여 shot들의 휘도값 분포를 구한다. 생성된 코드북과 각 대표 프레임에 대한 코드북 인덱스 값, 휘도값을 database화하여 질의 영상과 video database간의 저장된 비디오들의 코드북과 코드워드간의 유클리디안 거리를 이용하여 유사도 높은 비디오를 찾고, 검색되어진 video에 포함된 대표프레임들의 코드북 인덱스 값과 입력 영상의 코드북 인덱스 값을 비교하여 입력 영상의 특징과 가장 유사한 대표프레임을 얻어낸다. 실험결과 제안된 방법이 검색에 있어서 영상의 형태에 대한 전체적인 특징을 제공하는 대표프레임의 eigen value와 휘도 성분을 이용함으로서 보다 검색 결과가 우수하며, 영상의 통계적인 특성을 이용함으로서 시간과 메모리 공간을 줄일 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.640-646
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• 2003

We presents an edge-based point correlation algorithm for fast and stable visual inspection system. Conventional algorithms based on NGC(normalized gray-level correlation) have to overcome some difficulties in applying automated inspection systems to real factory environment. First of all, NGC algorithms involve highly complex computation and thus require high performance hardware for realtime process. In addition, lighting condition in realistic factory environments is not stable and therefore intensity variation from uncontrolled lights gives many troubles for applying NGC directly as pattern matching algorithm. We propose an algorithm to solve these problems, using thinned and binarized edge data, which are obtained from the original image. A point correlation algorithm with the thinned edges is introduced with image pyramid technique to reduce the computational complexity. Matching edges instead of using original gray-level image pixels overcomes problems in NGC method and pyramid of edges also provides fast and stable processing. All proposed methods are proved by the experiments using real images.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.173.2-173
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• 2001

In this paper, an Internet-based monitoring system is studied which analyzes visual image of drifted snow and measures the amount of snowing. The system is composed with reference ruler where LED's are attached, a camera, and PC with a controller. The length of the ruler is 1.5m and the interval of the LED's is 1cm. The controller synchronizes the on-off control of each LED with the image frame of the camera. When the snow is accumulated along the ruler, the corresponding LED is blocked and the lowest position of the lighted LED is estimated with this captured image of the camera. Because of week intensity of LED light and light rays of outdoors, it is hard to discriminate which LED is blocked due to snow. Image processing method is used to obtain proper resolution and good accuracy. This system ...

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.59-74
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• 2022

During the last decade, the security of digital images has received considerable attention in various multimedia transmission schemes. However, many current cryptosystems tend to adopt a single-layer permutation or diffusion algorithm, resulting in inadequate security. A hierarchical bilateral diffusion architecture for color image encryption is proposed in response to this issue, based on a hyperchaotic system and DNA sequence operation. Primarily, two hyperchaotic systems are adopted and combined with cipher matrixes generation algorithm to overcome exhaustive attacks. Further, the proposed architecture involves designing pixelpermutation, pixel-diffusion, and DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) based block-diffusion algorithm, considering system security and transmission efficiency. The pixel-permutation aims to reduce the correlation of adjacent pixels and provide excellent initial conditions for subsequent diffusion procedures, while the diffusion architecture confuses the image matrix in a bilateral direction with ultra-low power consumption. The proposed system achieves preferable number of pixel change rate (NPCR) and unified average changing intensity (UACI) of 99.61% and 33.46%, and a lower encryption time of 3.30 seconds, which performs better than some current image encryption algorithms. The simulated results and security analysis demonstrate that the proposed mechanism can resist various potential attacks with comparatively low computational time consumption.