• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8B
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• pp.1161-1167
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 칼라 영상에 대한 인간 시각 특성과 무채색으로부터 정보를 추출하여 칼라 정지 영상에 효과적으로 워터마크 신호를 삽입하는 방법을 제안하였다. 워터마크는 이진 워터마크를 사용하였으며, 일반적으로 인간 시각 체계 특성에서 무채색(achromatic) 신호보다 유채색(chromatic) 신호에 대한 변별력이 떨어지는 특성을 이용하여 입·출력 장치로 획득된 RGB 좌표계의 칼라 정지 영상을 무채색 성분과 유채색 성분으로 완벽히 분리되는 다른 좌표계로 변환하여 워터마크를 유채색 포화도 성분에 삽입한다. 워터마크를 검출하는 과정은 원영상을 사용하지 않고 유채색 포화도 성분의 변경 형태를 추정하여 삽입된 워터마크를 검출 가능하였다. 실험 결과 특히 비가시성 특성 부분에서는 기존 방법들과 비교할 때 향상된 결과를 얻을 수 있었으며 강인성 또한 좋은 결과를 얻었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.589-596
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• 2011

Picture Quality Improvement Systems(PQIS) have been developed for user's needs with the development of display technology. Most PQIS change the all input data, so there were some color distortion. In order to compensate such problems, the PQIS using Skin Protection Algorithm(SPA) have been proposed. But the PQIS using SPA is performed simplex color emphasis, as a result occurred color saturation and decoloration. In this paper, we proposed the modified PQIS using SPA on CIE 1976 u'v' chromaticity coordinate. The modified method operated chromaticity extension and reduction at the same time about brightness value to prevent the saturation and decoloration. We evaluated by comparing the conventional method with the proposed method of RGB Gamut variation rate using 42 test image.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.927-934
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose an effective method for recognizing daily human activities from a stream of three dimensional body poses, which can be obtained by using Kinect-like RGB-D sensors. The body pose data provided by Kinect SDK or OpenNI may suffer from both the view variance problem and the scale variance problem, since they are represented in the 3D Cartesian coordinate system, the origin of which is located on the center of Kinect. In order to resolve the problem and get the view-invariant and scale-invariant features, we transform the pose data into the spherical coordinate system of which the origin is placed on the center of the subject's hip, and then perform on them the scale normalization using the length of the subject's arm. In order to represent effectively complex internal structures of high-level daily activities, we utilize Hidden state Conditional Random Field (HCRF), which is one of probabilistic graphical models. Through various experiments using two different datasets, KAD-70 and CAD-60, we showed the high performance of our method and the implementation system.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.41-50
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• 2022

In this paper, a method to directly calculate the major elements of skin color such as melanin and hemoglobin from the RGB signal of the camera is proposed. The main elements of skin color typically measure spectral reflectance using specific equipment, and reconfigure the values at some wavelengths of the measured light. The values calculated by this method include such things as melanin index and erythema index, and require special equipment such as a spectral reflectance measuring device or a multi-spectral camera. It is difficult to find a direct calculation method for such component elements from a general digital camera, and a method of indirectly calculating the concentration of melanin and hemoglobin using independent component analysis has been proposed. This method targets a region of a certain RGB image, extracts characteristic vectors of melanin and hemoglobin, and calculates the concentration in a manner similar to that of Principal Component Analysis. The disadvantage of this method is that it is difficult to directly calculate the pixel unit because a group of pixels in a certain area is used as an input, and since the extracted feature vector is implemented by an optimization method, it tends to be calculated with a different value each time it is executed. The final calculation is determined in the form of an image representing the components of melanin and hemoglobin by converting it back to the RGB coordinate system without using the feature vector itself. In order to improve the disadvantages of this method, the proposed method is to calculate the component values of melanin and hemoglobin in a feature space rather than an RGB coordinate system using a feature vector, and calculate the spectral reflectance corresponding to the skin color using a general digital camera. Methods and methods of calculating detailed components constituting skin pigments such as melanin, oxidized hemoglobin, deoxidized hemoglobin, and carotenoid using spectral reflectance. The proposed method does not require special equipment such as a spectral reflectance measuring device or a multi-spectral camera, and unlike the existing method, direct calculation of the pixel unit is possible, and the same characteristics can be obtained even in repeated execution. The standard diviation of density for melanin and hemoglobin of proposed method was 15% compared to conventional and therefore gives 6 times stable.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.118-124
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• 2001

In this paper, we proposed the novel digital watermarking for color still image using the characteristics of human visual system and the distribution of DCT coefficients. We insert watermark signal in the chromatic components of YCrCb color space according the characteristics of the human visual system that chromatic component are less sensitive than achromatic components. In order to extract the watermark signal, we use the relationship among the DCT coefficients of watermarked image without using original one. Simulation results show that the proposed watermarking method is better quality on invisibility than the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.377-379
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 축구 경기 장면 분석시스템의 일부인 경기 장면에서 선수의 위치와 운동장 모델에서의 선수의 위치 간의 매핑에 관해 기술한다. 이 때 두 좌표계 간의 사상(mapping)시 발생되는 hole에 관한 문제를 주로 사용되는 보간법이 아니라 역 방향 매핑을 이용하여 해결하고, 또한 운동장 모델의 전체 영역이 아니라 원 영상에서 얻어진 정보를 이용하여 최소한의 영역만을 변환함으로써 계산의 효율성을 높였다. 본 연구에서는 PC상에서 초당 3~5 Frame로 입력된 280$\times$640 해상도의 100여개의 RGB 영상을 대상하여 실험하였다. 축구 경기장면을 분석한 결과 대부분의 경우 두 좌표계간의 매핑이 올바로 이루어 졌다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.17-22
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose the new side-view face detection method in color images which contain faces over one. It uses color and the geometrical distance between nose and chin. We convert RGB to YCbCr color space. We extract candidate regions of face using skin color information from image. And then, the extracted regions are processed by morphological filter, and the processed regions are labeled. Also, we correct the gradient of inclined face image using projected character of nose. And we detect the inclined side-view faces that have right and left 45 tips by within via ordinate. And we get 92% detection rate in 100 test images.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1828-1834
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• 2007

This study proposes a new digital watermarking technique based on wavelet transformation on color image. First the $YC_bC_r$ coordinates obtain from RGB color space. then, the correlation of watermark is decreased by Arnold transformation. Next, watermark which has been enlarged by Linear Bit-expansion is inserted at a given intensity in Color images' low frequency sub-bands. When detecting the presence of watermark, F-norm function is applied. As a result of the various experiments on color images, the proposed watermarking technique has outstanding quality in regards to fidelity and robustness.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.243-246
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• 2002

The proliferation of digitized media(audio, image and video) is creating a processing need for copyright enforcement schemes that protect copyright ownership. we argue that a watermark must be placed in perceptually significant components of a signal if it is to be robust to signal distortions and malicious attack. In this paper, RGB coordinate image is transformed into LUV coordinate, it include the characteristics of, Human vision and then the UV component is transformed into NxN block DCT transform. we propose a technique for embedding the watermark of visually recognizable mark into the middle frequency domain of image.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.382-386
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• 2005

In this paper we introduce a fire-detection system which is robust to light sources and environment changing. We can decide the threshold values that classify the regions between a fire flame and light sources by analyzing them in RGB color space. The mean histogram difference technique make it possible to extract flame region more efficient because fire flame is continuously changing after it occurs. In order to detect flame region, this paper proposes to count fire pixels.