• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.201-206
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• 2011

FRUC (Frame Rate Up-Conversion) technique needs an effective frame interpolation algorithm using motion information between adjacent neighboring frames. In order to have good visual qualities in the interpolated frames, it is necessary to develop an effective detection and interpolation algorithms for occluded regions. For this aim, this paper proposes an effective occluded region detection algorithm through the adaptive forward and backward motion searches and also by introducing the minimum value of normalized cross-correlation coefficient (NCCC). That is, the proposed scheme looks for the location with the minimum sum of absolute differences (SAD) and this value is compared to that of the location with the maximum value of NCCC based on the statistics of those relations. And, these results are compared with the size of motion vector and then the proposed algorithm decides whether the given block is the occluded region or not. Furthermore, once the occluded regions are classified, then this paper proposes an adaptive interpolation algorithm for occluded regions, which still exist in the merged frame, by using the neighboring pixel information and the available data in the occluded block. Computer simulations show that the proposed algorithm can effectively classify the occluded region, compared to the conventional SAD-based method and the performance of the proposed interpolation algorithm has better PSNR than the conventional algorithms.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.310-310
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• 2000

The main problem in stereo vision is to find corresponding points in left and right image known as correspondence problem. Once correspondences determined, the depth information of those points are easily computed form the pairs of points in both image. In this paper, dynamic programming considering half-occluded region is used fer solving correspondence problem.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.339-352
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• 1992

A numerical simulation of the steady and pulsatile flow across the end-to-side anastomosis was performed In order to understand the role of flow dynamics in the preferential bevel opment of distal anastomotic intimal hyperplasla. The finite element technique was employed to solve two-dimensional unsteady pulsatile flow in that region. The results of the steady flow revealed that low shear stresses occur at the proximally occluded host artery and at the recirculation region in the Inner wall just distal to the toe region of the anastomosis. The nor- mal;zed wall shear rate was increased, as was the recirculation zone size in the host artery of the by-pass graft anastomosis, with increased anastomotic junction angle. In order to min imize the size of the low wall shear region which might result in the intimal hyperplasia in the by-pass graft anastomosis, a smaller anastomotic junction angle is recommended. The pulsatile flow simulation revealed flow that regions of low and ascillating mali shear do exist near the anastomosis as In the steady simulation. The shift of stagnation point depends on the pulsation of the flow. As the flow was accelerated at systole, the stagnation point moved downstream, disappered at early diastole and reappeared during late diastole. Low shear stress was also found along both walls of the occluded proximal artery. However, the diastolic flow behavior is quite different from the steady results. The vortex near the occluded artery moved downstream and inwardly during late systole, and disappeared during diastole. Recirculations proximal to the toe and heel regions were significant during diastole. Shear stress oscillation was found along the opposite wall. The results of the present study revealed that tow shear occurs at the proximally occluded host artery aud the recirculation region in the inner wall Just dlstal to the toe region of the anastomosis. The present study suggested that the regions of fluctuated wall shear stress wit flow separation is correlated with the preferential developing regions of anastomosis neointial fibrous hyperplasia.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.110-114
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• 2015

This paper reports a novel object-detection technique in video sequences. The proposed algorithm consists of detection of objects in illuminated and occluded videos by using object features and a neural network technique. It consists of two functional modules: region-based object feature extraction and continuous detection of objects in video sequences with region features. This scheme is proposed as an enhancement of the Lowe's scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) object detection method. This technique solved the high computation time problem of feature generation in the SIFT method. The improvement is achieved by region-based feature classification in the objects to be detected; optimal neural network-based feature reduction is presented in order to reduce the object region feature dataset with winner pixel estimation between the video frames of the video sequence. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves better overall performance than other object detection techniques, and region-based feature detection is faster in comparison to other recent techniques.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제13B권2호
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• pp.115-120
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• 2006

이 논문에서 겹쳐지고 잘린 이미지내의 타원형 객체들 가운데 부분적으로 겹쳐져 보이지 않는 외형과 영역을 재구성하고 계산하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 대칭적인 속성에 기반을 두고, 불완전한 객체 인식을 위해 타원형 객체의 윤곽에 기반을 둔 방법이다. 이 방법은 한 객체 안에서 대칭 축을 이용하는 영역 복사를 통한 겹쳐져 보이지 않는 영역을 재구성하는 간결한 기교를 제공한다. 부분적으로 겹쳐져 보이지 않는 영역에 대한 측정된 변수에 기반을 두고, 분류 트리의 객체 인지를 수행하는데, 이 방법은 통계 수치보다 대칭에 기반을 둔 객체 재구성에 의존하기 때문이다. 이는 크기 변경과, 객체의 자세, 회전, 등에서 비록 객체 자세에는 한계를 가지고 있지만 부분적으로 겹쳐져 보이지 않는 객체의 인지에서 탁월하다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.418-422
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• 2009

Generally, algorithms for generating disparity maps can be clssified into two categories: region-based method and feature-based method. The main focus of this research is to generate a disparity map with an accuracy depth information for 3-dimensional reconstructing. Basically, the region-based method and the feature-based method are simultaneously included in the proposed algorithm, so that the existing problems including false matching and occlusion can be effectively solved. As a region-based method, regions of false matching are extracted by the proposed MMAD(Modified Mean of Absolute Differences) algorithm which is a modification of the existing MAD(Mean of Absolute Differences) algorithm. As a feature-based method, the proposed method eliminates false matching errors by calculating the vector with SIFT and compensates the occluded regions by using a pair of adjacent SIFT matching points, so that the errors are reduced and the disparity map becomes more accurate.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); 포항공과대학교, 포항; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.260-263
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• 1996

THe Purpose of this paper is to match the feature point of man-made structure and to obtain the DEM which are occluded in a image plane. We use the trinocular matching with epipolar lines and planes. If an occlusion appears at one of the trinocular images, the DEM mapping is used to estimate the height of feature points in it.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제15B권2호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2008

이 논문에서 겹쳐지고 잘린 이미지내의 타원형 객체들 가운데 부분적으로 겹쳐져 보이지 않는 외형과 객체 내 영역을 재구성하고 계산하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 대칭 속성을 이용하여 부분적으로 겹쳐져 보이지 않는 객체를 인식하기 위해서 객체내의 부분인식에 기반을 둔 방법이다. 이 방법은 객체 내에서 대칭축을 이용하여 영역 복사를 통한 보이지 않는 영역을 복원하는 간결한 방법을 제시한다. 이 방법은 통계적 예측보다 대칭 기반의 객체 복원에 의존하기 때문에 부분적으로 겹쳐져 보이지 않는 부분에 대해서 측정된 변수를 가지고 분류 트리를 이용하여 객체 인식를 수행한다. 이는 비록 객체의 자세에는 한계를 가지고 있지만 크기 변경이나 회전, 시각의 변화에서 부분적으로 가려진 객체를 인식하는데 뛰어난 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.248-254
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• 2015

In this paper we propose an improved version of the computational integral imaging reconstruction (CIIR) for visualizing a partially occluded object by utilizing an image inpainting technique. In the proposed method the elemental images for a partially occluded three-dimensional (3D) object are recorded through the integral imaging pickup process. Next, the depth of occlusion within the elemental images is estimated using two different CIIR methods, and the weight mask pattern for occlusion is generated. After that, we apply our image inpainting technique to the recorded elemental images to fill in the occluding area with reliable data, using information from neighboring pixels. Finally, the inpainted elemental images for the occluded region are reconstructed using the CIIR process. To verify the validity of the proposed system, we carry out preliminary experiments in which faces are the objects. The experimental results reveal that the proposed system can dramatically improve the quality of a reconstructed CIIR image.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.217-227
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• 2017

Crosswalk detection is an important part of the Pedestrian Protection System in autonomous vehicles. Different methods of crosswalk detection have been introduced so far using crosswalk edge features, the distance between crosswalk blocks, laser scanning, Hough Transformation, and Fourier Transformation. However, most of these methods failed to detect crosswalks accurately, when they are damaged, faded away or partly occluded. Furthermore, these methods face difficulties when applying on real road environment where there are lot of vehicles. In this paper, we solve this problem by first using a region based binarization technique and x-axis histogram to detect the candidate crosswalk areas. Then, we apply Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classification method to decide whether the candidate areas contain a crosswalk or not. Experiment results prove that our method can detect crosswalks in different environment conditions with higher recognition rate even they are faded away or partly occluded.