• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.106-114
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• 2017

This paper presents an automated subsurface micro void detection technique based on pulsed infrared thermography for inspecting epoxy molding compounds (EMC) used in electronic device packaging. Subsurface micro voids are first detected and visualized by extracting a lock-in amplitude image from raw thermal images. Binary imaging follows to achieve better visualization of subsurface micro voids. A median filter is then applied for removing sparse noise components. The performance of the proposed technique is tested using 36 EMC samples, which have subsurface (below $150{\mu}m{\sim}300{\mu}m$ from the inspection surface) micro voids ($150{\mu}m{\sim}300{\mu}m$ in diameter). The experimental results show that the subsurface micro voids can be successfully detected without causing any damage to the EMC samples, making it suitable for automated online inspection.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.53-60
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• 2013

We propose a method for improving detection speed of small target detection system using SAD algorithm. First, the proposed method deletes clutters using a median filter. Next, it does closing and opening operation using various size of structure elements, and extracts candidate pixels for a target with subtraction operation between the results of closing and opening operation. It finally detects a small target using a gaussian distance function from the candidate pixels. To improve detection speed, it detects a target performing SAD algorithm only for the predicted target areas for next every 7 frames. The proposed method not only enables a real time process because it considers only predicted area but also shows detecting rate of 97%.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Rice plant numbers and density are key factors for yield and quality of rice grains. Precise and properly estimated rice plant numbers and density can assure high yield from rice fields. The main objective of this study was to automatically detect and count rice plants using images of usual field condition from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We proposed an automatic image processing method based on morphological operation and boundaries of the connected component to count rice plant numbers after transplanting. We converted RGB images to binary images and applied adaptive median filter to remove distortion and noises. Then we applied a morphological operation to the binary image and draw boundaries to the connected component to count rice plants using those images. The result reveals the algorithm can conduct a performance of 89% by the F-measure, corresponding to a Precision of 87% and a Recall of 91%. The best fit image gives a performance of 93% by the F-measure, corresponding to a Precision of 91% and a Recall of 96%. Comparison between the numbers of rice plants detected and counted by the naked eye and the numbers of rice plants found by the proposed method provided viable and acceptable results. The $R^2$ value was approximately 0.893.

• Physical Therapy Korea
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.31-43
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• 2001

19명의 건강한 성인 남자의 우세팔쪽 위팔두갈래근에서 피로가 생길 때까지 2.4초를 하나의 주기로 팔꿉을 반복적 등장성으로 굽히고 펴서 표면근전도 신호를 얻었다. 처리과정 A 중앙주파수(MDF )는 이 신호의 0.5초 구간을 power spectrum analy sis (PSA)로 계산하였는데 상당량의 잡음이 있었다. 중앙주파수의 잡음 양을 비교하기 위해, 동일한 표면근전도에서 3번까지 신호를 받았다 (2.4초 구간을 PSA로 계산한 처리과정 B, 13 point 로 moving averages한 처리과정 C, digital low pass filter한 처리과정 D). 그리고 나서 그 신호의 주요 주파수 성분을 뽑아내었다. 위의 중앙주파수 자료와 시간간의 회귀직선을 분석하면 초기 중앙주파수, 회귀기울기, 그리고 피로지수와 같은 모수를 얻을 수 있다. 비모수 검정의 하나인 Kendall 기법으로 네 개의 처리과정간의 모수를 비교하였다. 통계결과 잡음이 처리과정 A보다 B, C, D에서 적었고, D에서 가장 적게 나타났다. 중앙주파수를 digital low pass로 여과(filtering)함으로써 앞으로 있게 될 동적 운동 시 근피로 모니터기의 신뢰도를 높일 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.376-380
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• 2015

This paper proposes new recognition method of road lanes misty day. The method enables autonomous-driving of cars and the safety of the drivers while driving with bad visibility in foggy roads. The proposed method, firstly, determines whether the foggy or not according to pixel number distributions and starting point of the fog period from input images. If it is foggy then the median filter's size of the Retinex algorithm is set to 1000 or more and it performs histogram equalization and normalization. The computer simulation results show that the proposed method can recognize better long distances and fine detection than earlier methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.1021-1024
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• 2001

Out of all metal-cutting processes, the hole-making process is the most widely used. It is estimated to be more than 30% of the total metal-cutting process. It is therefore desirable to monitor and detect drill wear during the hole-drilling process. In this paper, the vision system of the sensing methods of drill flank wear on the basis of image processing is used to detect the wear pattern by non-contact and direct method and get the reliable wear information about drill. In image processing of acquired image, median filter is applied for noise removal. The vision flank wear area of the drill was measured. Backpropagation neural networks (BPns) were used for no-line detection of drill wear. The neural network consisted of three layers: input, hidden and output. The input vectors comprised of spindle rotational speed, feed rates, vision flank wear, thrust and torque signals. The output was the drill wear state which was either usable or failure. Drilling experiments with various spindle rotational speed and feed rates were carried out. The learning process was peformed effectively by utilizing backpropagation. The detection of the abnormal states using BPNs achieved 96.4% reliability even when the spindle rotational speed and feedrate were changed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.1
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• pp.128-132
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• 1996

In [1], it is shown that a subclass of ETBFs, which are self-dual ETBFs, can be expressed as a weighted average of median subfiltered outputs. In this paper, we extend this result to general ETBFs. In particular, we show that any ETBF can be represented as a weighted average of minimum (or maximum) subfiltered outputs. These representations naturally lead to a subclass of ETBF, called the K-th order ETBF (K-ETBF) that employs only those subfilters whose window sizes are less than or equal to K. By designing K-ETBFs under the mean square error criterion for various values of K and applying them to restore noisy signals, the tradeoff between the performance and the complexity of this class of filters is examined.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.1491-1501
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a method to measure respiration rate by dividing the respiration related region in depth image using level set method. In the conventional method, the respiration related region was separated using the pre-defined region designated by the user. We separate the respiration related region using level set method combining shape prior knowledge. Median filter and clipping are performed as a preprocessing method for noise reduction in the depth image. As a feasibility test, respiration activity was recorded using depth camera in various environments with arm movements or body movements during breathing. Respiration activity was also measured simultaneously using a chest belt to verify the accuracy of calculated respiration rate. Experimental results show that our proposed method shows good performance for respiration rate estimation in various situation compared with the conventional method.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.284-288
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• 2010

Video surveillance is widely used in establishing the societal security network. In this paper, intrusion detection based on visual information acquired by static camera is proposed. Proposed approach uses background model constructed by approximated median filter(AMF) to find a foreground candidate, and detected object is calculated by analyzing motion information. Motion detection is determined by the relative size of 2D object in RGB space, finally, the threshold value for detecting object is determined by heuristic method. Experimental results showed that the performance of intrusion detection is better one when the spatio-temporal candidate informations change abruptly.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.165-168
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 카메라 또는 카메라 플랫폼의 흔들림 등 외부 영향과 비디오 시퀀스내의 모션이 함께 존재할 경우 출렁이는 비디오를 전자적으로 안정화하는 방법을 제안한다. 일반적인 영상 안정 시스템은 모션 측정과 모션 보상의 두 과정으로 구성되는데 모션 측정에서는 프레임간 모션 모델을 가정하고 파라메타를 측정하며 모션 보상에서는 측정된 파라메타를 이용하여 모션을 보상한다. 영상 내에 카메라 모션 이외의 움직임이 있을 경우 파라메타의 측정을 일관성 없게 만들 수 있으므로 이를 해결하기 위해 MVSD(Motion Vector Scatter Diagram)에 기반한 영상 안정 방법이 제안되었다. 그러나 이 방법은 최적화 파라메타를 정량화 하는데 한계가 있고 또한 계산 시간이 오래 걸리는 단점이 있어 이의 해결을 위해 본 논문에서는 선 기반(Line-based) 영상 안정 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 먼저 기준 영상에서 median filter를 이용해 영상 내의 코너를 검출하고 특징적인 두 점을 선택하여 이를 선으로 연결한다. 현재 영상에서 correlation을 이용하여 상응하는 두 특징점을 찾고 subpixel 방법으로 정확한 위치를 계산하여 선을 구한다. 이 두 선을 일치시키는 과정에서 모션 파라메타를 구하는데 먼저 평행 이동을 통해 한쪽 글을 일치시키고 이 과정에서 translation x, y 파라메타를 구한다. 다음 단계에서 한 쪽 끝이 일치된 두 선이 이루는 각을 계산하여 rotation 파라메타를 구한다. 이 방법으로 구해진 파라메타를 이용하여 모션 보상을 함으로서 영상 안정을 이를 수 있었다.