• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.4929-4947
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• 2017

In visual object tracking, Correlation Filter-based Tracking (CFT) systems have arouse recently to be the most accurate and efficient methods. The CFT's circularly shifts the larger search window to find most likely position of the target. The need of larger search window to cover both background and object make an algorithm sensitive to the background and the target occlusions. Further, the use of fixed-sized windows for training makes them incapable to handle scale variations during tracking. To address these problems, we propose two layer target representation in which both global and local appearances of the target is considered. Multiple local patches in the local layer provide robustness to the background changes and the target occlusion. The target representation is enhanced by employing additional reversed RGB channels to prevent the loss of black objects in background during tracking. The final target position is obtained by the adaptive weighted average of confidence maps from global and local layers. Furthermore, the target scale variation in tracking is handled by the statistical model, which is governed by adaptive constraints to ensure reliability and accuracy in scale estimation. The proposed structural enhancement is tested on VTBv1.0 benchmark for its accuracy and robustness.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권8호
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• pp.67-80
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 추정된 시공간 배경 정보를 이용하여 자유 시점에서 합성영상을 생성하기 위한 홀채움 방식을 제안한다. 시간적 배경 정보를 추정하기 위해 비겹침 패치 기반의 배경 코드북을 이용한 새로운 시간적 배경 모델을 소개한다. 더불어, 공간적 배경 후보의 하한 및 상한 값의 제약 조건을 설정하는 깊이영상 기반 공간적 국부 배경 예측 방식에 대해 제안한다. 추정된 시간적 배경 정보와 공간적 배경 정보의 유사도를 비교하여 가려짐 배경 영역의 홀채움 과정을 수행한다. 또한 3-D 워핑 후 발생하는 컬러영상과 깊이영상간의 불일치 문제를 해결하기 위해 깊이영상 기반의 고스트 제거 필터를 기술한다. 마지막으로 잔여 홀을 채우기 위해 새로운 깊이 항을 포함한 우선순위 함수를 이용하여 인페인팅 방식이 적용된다. 실험 결과를 통해 기존의 홀채움 방식들과 비교하여 제안하는 방식의 객관적, 주관적 성능의 우수성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.694-701
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 능동카메라 환경에서 카메라의 움직임에 의해 유발되는 광역움직임(global motion)과 이동물체에 의해 발생하는 지역움직임(local motion)을 분리한 후, 카메라 팬틸트를 제어하여 물체를 추적하는 특징기반의 추적 시스템을 제안했다. 제안한 시스템은 블록기반 움직임 계측을 통해 연속한 2 프레임 사이의 이동 움직임을 찾고, 이 움직임에서 카메라의 움직임으로 인한 광역 움직임을 제거함으로써 전경물체의 지역 움직임만을 추적한다. 이때, 배경만의 움직임만으로 카메라 움직임을 강건하게 계측하기 위하여, 블록기반 움직임에서 배경움직임을 분류하기 위한 지배적인 움직임 추출방법을 제시한다. 또한 분리된 지역움직임으로부터 잡음물체의 움직임을 제거하기 위하여 꼭지점 특징의 추적궤적 속성에 따른 군집화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 추적시스템은 여러가지 실험에서 좋은 결과를 보였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1839-1845
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• 2016

Detecting remote targets is important to active protection system (APS) or infrared search and track (IRST) applications. In normal situation, the well-known constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector works properly. However, decoys in APS or closely spaced targets in IRST degrade the detection capability by increasing background noise level in the CFAR detector. This paper presents a context aware CFAR detector by the intensity sorting and selection of background region to reduce the effect of neighboring targets that lead to incorrect estimation of background statistics. The existence of neighboring targets can be recognized by intensity sorting where neighboring targets usually show highest ranks. The proposed background statistics (mean, standard deviation) estimation method from median local pixels can be aware of the background context and reduce the effects of the neighboring targets, which increase the signal-to-clutter ratio. The experimental results on the synthetic APS sequence, real adjacent target sequence, and remote pedestrian sequence validated that the proposed method produced an enhanced detection rate with the same false alarm rate compared with the hysteresis-CFAR (H-CFAR) detection.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.1981-1986
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• 2009

본 논문은 인공신경망을 이용한 새로운 매팅 기법을 제안한다. 매팅이란 영상에서 객체의 불투명도를 추정하는 기술이다. 매팅 기법을 이용하면 객체를 자연스럽게 추출할 수 있다. 먼저 trimap을 이용하여 영상을 배경 영역, 전경 영역, 미지 영역으로 구분한다. 배경 영역과 전경 영역의 정보를 이용하여 미지 영역 화소의 불투명도를 추정한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 배경 영역과 전경 영역의 정보를 SOM을 이용하여 학습하고 그 결과를 이용하여 미지 영역의 각 화소의 불투명도를 추정한다. 본 논문에서는 배경 영역과 전경 영역의 정보를 학습하는 방법에 따라서 전역적 SOM matting과 지역적 SOM matting으로 구별한다. 제안하는 알고리즘의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 영상에 적용해보았다. 이를 통해 제안하는 알고리즘이 객체를 영상에서 분리 가능함을 확인 할 수 있다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2016

Regarding global and local factors of a set of features, a given single image or multiple images is a common approach in image processing. This paper introduces an application of an adaptive version of non-local filter whose original version searches non-local similarity for removing noise. Since most images involve texture partner in both foreground and background, extraction of signified regions with texture is a challenging task. Aiming to the detection of visual attention regions for images with texture, we present the contrast analysis of image patches located in a whole image but not nearby with assistance of the adaptive filter for estimation of non-local divergence. The method allows extraction of signified regions with texture of images of wild life. Experimental results for a benchmark demonstrate the ability of the proposed method to deal with the mentioned challenge.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2018

This paper proposes a robust digital video stabilization algorithm to extract and track an object, which uses a phase correlation-based motion correction. The proposed video stabilization algorithm consists of background stabilization based on motion estimation and extraction of a moving object. The motion vectors can be estimated by calculating the phase correlation of a series of frames in the eight sub-images, which are located in the corner of the video. The global motion vector can be estimated and the image can be compensated by using the multiple local motions of sub-images. Through the calculations of the phase correlation, the motion of the background can be subtracted from the former frame and the compensated frame, which share the same background. The moving objects in the video can also be extracted. In this paper, calculating the phase correlation to track the robust motion vectors results in the compensation of vibrations, such as movement, rotation, expansion and the downsize of videos from all directions of the sub-images. Experimental results show that the proposed digital image stabilization algorithm can provide continuously stabilized videos and tracking object movements.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.92-100
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• 2014

"삼국유사" '수로부인'에 나오는 '헌화가'의 배경 설화를 토대로 헌화가와 해가의 배경지를 다양한 관점에서 추정해보고 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1) 헌화가 배경지는 경북 영덕군 남정면 부경리 지경천 골곡포(骨谷浦) 부근 암석단애지 일대로 판단된다. 2) 해가 배경지(임해정 옛터)는 헌화가 배경지인 골곡포에서 이틀거리(약 60km)에 위치하는 울진의 월송정 일대로 판 단된다. 3) 일부 지자체에서 주장하는 헌화가 배경지와 해가 배경지는 지자체들의 장소 마케팅(place marketing) 차원에서 설정된 경향이 강해 설득력이 없다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.1109-1122
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• 1996

Generally, moving images contain the various components in motions, which reange from a static object and background to a fast moving object. To extract the accurate motion parameters, we must consider the various motions. That requires a wide search egion in motion estimation. The wide search, however, causes a high computational complexity. If we have a few knowledge about the motion direction and magnitude before motion estimation, we can determine the search location and search window size using the already-known information about the motion. In this paper, we present a local adaptive motion estimation approach that predicts a block motion based on spatio-temporal neighborhood blocks and adaptively defines the search location and search window size. This paper presents a technique for reducing computational complexity, while having high accuracy in motion estimation. The proposed algorithm is introduced the forward and backward projection techniques. The search windeo size for a block is adaptively determined by previous motion vectors and prediction errors. Simulations show significant improvements in the qualities of the motion compensated images and in the reduction of the computational complexity.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.55-68
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• 2014

Automatic segmentation of foreground text from the background in degraded document images is very much essential for the smooth reading of the document content and recognition tasks by machine. In this paper, we present a novel approach to the binarization of degraded document images. The proposed method uses a new local contrast feature extracted based on the stroke width of text. First, a pre-processing method is carried out for noise removal. Text boundary detection is then performed on the image constructed from the contrast feature. Then local estimation follows to extract text from the background. Finally, a refinement procedure is applied to the binarized image as a post-processing step to improve the quality of the final results. Experiments and comparisons of extracting text from degraded handwriting and machine-printed document image against some well-known binarization algorithms demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.