• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.1787-1793
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• 2018

Shadow is a common phenomenon observed in natural scenes, but it has a negative influence on image analysis such as object recognition, feature detection and scene analysis. Therefore, the process of detecting and removing shadows included in digital images must be considered as a pre-processing process of image analysis. In this paper, the existing methods for acquiring 1D invariant images, one of the feature elements for detecting and removing shadows contained in a single natural image, are described, and a method for obtaining 1D invariant images based on linear regression has been proposed. The proposed method calculates the log of the band-ratio between each channel of the RGB color image, and obtains the grayscale image line by linear regression. The final 1D invariant images were obtained by projecting the log image of the band-ratio onto the estimated grayscale image line. Experimental results show that the proposed method has lower computational complexity than the existing projection method using entropy minimization, and shadow detection and removal based on 1D invariant images are performed effectively.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.763-774
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• 2015

Hand posture recognition has been a wide region of applications in Human Computer Interaction and Computer Vision for many years. The problem arises mainly due to the high dexterity of hand and self-occlusions created in the limited view of the camera or illumination variations. To remedy these problems, a hand posture recognition method using 3-D point cloud is proposed to explicitly utilize 3-D information from depth maps in this paper. Firstly, hand region is segmented by a set of depth threshold. Next, hand image normalization will be performed to ensure that the extracted feature descriptors are scale and rotation invariant. By robustly coding and pooling 3-D facets, the proposed descriptor can effectively represent the various hand postures. After that, SVM with Gaussian kernel function is used to address the issue of posture recognition. Experimental results based on posture dataset captured by Kinect sensor (from 1 to 10) demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and the average recognition rate of our method is over 96%.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.22-31
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• 2004

This paper deals with the dynamic hand gesture recognition based on computer vision using neural networks. This paper proposes a global search method and a local search method to recognize the hand gesture. The global search recognizes a hand among the hand candidates through the entire image search, and the local search recognizes and tracks only the hand through the block search. Dynamic hand gesture recognition method is based on the skin-color and shape analysis with the invariant moment and direction information. Starting point and ending point of the dynamic hand gesture are obtained from hand shape. Experiments have been conducted for hand extraction, hand recognition and dynamic hand gesture recognition. Experimental results show the validity of the proposed method.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• 제48권11호
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• pp.1464-1471
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• 1999

This paper introduces complex-valued competitive learning neural network for spatio-temporal pattern recognition. There have been quite a few neural networks for spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Among them, recurrent neural network, TDNN, and avalanche model are acknowledged as standard neural network paradigms for spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Recurrent neural network has complicated learning rules and does not guarantee convergence to global minima. TDNN requires too many neurons, and can not be regarded to deal with spatio-temporal pattern basically. Grossberg's avalanche model is not able to distinguish long patterns, and has to be indicated which layer is to be used in learning. In order to remedy drawbacks of the above networks, unsupervised competitive learning using complex umber is proposed. Suggested neural network also features simultaneous recognition, time-shift invariant recognition, stable categorizing, and learning rate modulation. The network is evaluated by computer simulation with randomly generated patterns.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.334-338
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• 2022

In visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM), the correct recognition of a place benefits in relocalization and improved map accuracy. However, its performance is significantly affected by the environmental conditions such as variation in light, viewpoints, seasons, and presence of dynamic objects. This research addresses the problem of feature occlusion caused by interference of dynamic objects leading to the poor performance of visual place recognition algorithm. To overcome the aforementioned problem, this research analyzes the role of scene semantics in correct detection of a place in challenging environments and presents a semantics aided visual place recognition method. Semantics being invariant to viewpoint changes and dynamic environment can improve the overall performance of the place matching method. The proposed method is evaluated on the two benchmark datasets with dynamic environment and seasonal changes. Experimental results show the improved performance of the visual place recognition method for vSLAM.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• 제35S권6호
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• pp.81-87
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• 1998

This paper proposes an efficient face recognition system using phase difference between the face images. We use a Karhunen-Loeve transform for image compression and reconstruction, and obtain the phase difference by using normalized inner product of the two compressed images. The proposed system is rotation and light-invariant due to using the normalized phase difference, and somewhat shift-invariant due to applying the cosine function. The faster recognition than the conventional system and incremental training is possible in the proposed system. Simulations are conducted on the ORL images of 40 persons, in which each person has 10 facial images, and the result shows that the faster recognition than conventional recognizer using convolution network under the same recognition error rate of 8% does.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.716-721
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• 2003

This paper deals with the iris recognition as one of biometric techniques which are applied to identify a person using his/her behavior or congenital characteristics. The iris of a human eye has a texture that is unique and time invariant for each individual. First, we obtain the feature vector from the 2D iris pattern having a property of size invariant and divide it into 24 sectors which are further through three types of 2D Gabor filters. At the recognition process, we compute the similarity measure based on the correlation values. Here, since we use three different matching values obtained from three different directional Gabor filters and select the maximum value among them, it is possible to minimize the recognition error rate. To show the usefulness of the proposed algorithm, we applied it to a biometric database consisting of 50 iris patterns extracted from 10 subjects and finally get more higher than 90% recognition rate.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2012

Iris recognition is a biometric technology which can identify a person using the iris pattern. It is important for the iris recognition system to extract the feature which is invariant to changes in iris patterns. Those changes can be occurred by the influence of lights, changes in the size of the pupil, and head tilting. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on Zernike Moment which is robust to rotations of iris patterns. we utilized a selection of Zernike moments for the fast and effective recognition by selecting global optimum moments and local optimum moments for optimal matching of each iris class. The proposed method enables high-speed feature extraction and feature comparison because it requires no additional processing to obtain the rotation invariance, and shows comparable performance to the well-known previous methods.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• 제28B권12호
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• pp.59-67
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• 1991

In this paper, we aimed to develop associative pattern recognizer based on neural network for aircraft identification. For obtaining invariant feature space description of an object regardless of its scale change and rotation, Log-polar sampling technique recently developed partly due to its similarity to the human visual system was introduced with Fourier transform post-processing. In addition to the recognition results, image recall was associatively performed and also used for the visualization of the recognition reliability. The multilayer perceptron model was learned by backpropagation algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.305-308
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• 2002

패턴 인식(Patterns Recognition)은 인공 지능의 한 분야로서 이해할 수 있는데, 요즈음은 보안과 관련하여 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 웨이블렛 변환(Wavelet Transform)은 공간-주파수 영역에서 신호의 국소화를 효율적으로 구현할 수 있다. 하지만, 이를 패턴 인식의 특징 추출에 그대로 이용할 경우 입력 신호의 위치 이동 등이 문제가 되며, 이것은 또한 에러 요인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 웨이블렛 변환을 패턴 인식에 적용할 경우 발생하는 입력 신호의 위치이동에 따른 문제점을 보완하여, 개선된 방법으로 패턴 인식에 사용할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하며, 실험 결과를 바탕으로 그의 타당성을 보인다.