• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.231-233
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• 2009

The object recognition is one of the major computer vision fields. The object recognition using features(SIFT) is finding common features in input images and query images. But the object recognition using feature methods has suffered of difficulties due to heavy calculations when resizing input images and query images. In this paper, we focused on speed up finding features in the images. we proposed method using block segmentation and histogram. Block segmentation used diving input image and than histogram decided correlation between each 1]lock and query image. This paper has confirmed that tile matching time reduced for object recognition since reducing block.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10c
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• pp.799-801
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 대역폭이 보장되지 않는 네트워크 상에서 비디오 서비스를 제공하기 위한 매체변환 방법 중 비디오 프레임 크기를 변환시켜 비트율을 효율적으로 제어하는 방법을 제안한다. H.263으로 부호화된 스트림을 DCT 공간에서 크기를 변환시킴으로써 완전 복호화 후 다시 부호화하는 과정에서 생기는 계산량을 대폭 감소시켜 보다 효율적인 방법으로 비트율을 제어할 수 있다. 움직임 정보뿐만 아니라 이전 프레임과의 차이값을 다시 사용하기 위해 크기변환 후 H.263 표준의 향상된 예측 모드 (Advanced Prediction Mode)를 사용하여 화질열화도 최소화한다. 실험결과 화질면에서는 블록화 현상(Block Artifact)이 크게 감소하였고, 프레임이 진행됨에 따라 PSNR은 낮아졌지만, 매체변환은 기존의 방법에 비해 라론 속도로 이루어 질 수 있었다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.1030-1035
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• 2014

Machine vision inspection systems have replaced human inspectors in defect inspection fields for several decades. However, the inspection results of machine vision are often affected by small changes of illumination. When small changes of illumination appear in image histograms, the influence of illumination can be decreased by transformation of the histogram. In this paper, we propose an enhanced histogram matching algorithm which corrects distorted histograms by variations of illumination. We use the resolution resizing method for an optimal matching of input and reference histograms and reduction of quantization errors from the digitizing process. The proposed algorithm aims not only for improvement of the accuracy of defect detection, but also robustness against variations of illumination in machine vision inspection. The experimental results show that the proposed method maintains uniform inspection error rates under dramatic illumination changes whereas the conventional inspection method reveals inconsistent inspection results in the same illumination conditions.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.7 s.96
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• pp.813-820
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• 2004

This paper proposes a digital image watermarking which is robust to geometric distortions using an independent component analysis(ICA) of fixed-point(FP) algorithm based on secant method. The FP algorithm of secant method is applied for better performance in a separation time and rate, and ICA is applied to reject the prior knowledges for original image, key, and watermark such as locations and size, etc. The proposed method embeds the watermark into the spatial domain of original image The proposed watermarking technique has been applied to lena, key, and two watermarks(text and Gaussian noise) respectively. The simulation results show that the proposed method has higher speed and better rate for extracting the original images than the FP algorithm of Newton method. And the proposed method has a watermarking which is robust to geometric distortions such as resizing, rotation, and cropping. Especially, the watermark of images with Gaussian noise has better extraction performance than the watermark with text since Gaussian noise has lower correlation coefficient than the text to the original and key images. The watermarking of ICA doesn't require the prior knowledge for the original images.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.646-651
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• 2012

Meaningful logos or random sequences have been used in the current digital watermarking techniques of 2D bar code. The meaningful logos can not only be created by copyright holders based on their unique information, but are also very effective when representing their copyrights. The random sequences enhance the security of the watermark for verifying one's copyrights against intentional or unintentional attacks. In this paper, we propose a new watermarking technique taking advantage of Data Matrix as well as encryption keys. The Data Matrix not only recovers the original data by an error checking and correction algorithm, even when its high-density data storage and barcode are damaged, but also encrypts the copyright verification information by randomization of the barcode, including ownership keys. Furthermore, the encryption keys and the patterns are used to localize the watermark, and make the watermark robust against attacks, respectively. Through the comparison experiments of the copyright information extracted from the watermark, we can verify that the proposed method has good quality and is robust to various attacks, such as JPEG compression, filtering and resizing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.199-202
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• 2008

고객의 통신 니즈가 다양해지고 통신 인프라가 대용량, 고속화 되고 단말이 지능화됨에 따라 이를 기반으로 IPTV의 셋탑, 컴퓨터 모니터, 이동통신 핸드폰이 이르기 까지 다양한 화면 사이즈의 단말을 통하여 서비스를 제공하고 있다. 이를 위해 원영상을 화면의 크기에 적합하게 크기를 변환하는 영상 리사이징 기술을 이용하게 되며, 그 방식은 DCT 방식과 공간 방식으로 나눌 수 있다. DCT방식은 원영상의 고주파 영역의 조정하여 크기를 변화하는 방식으로 열화는 최소화되나 DCT 변환을 위한 계산량이 많고 고정 크기 블록을 사용하므로 유연성이 떨어진다. 공간영역은 객관적인 평가에서 품질이 열화되더라도 시각적으로 눈에 민감한 영역의 변화를 최소화하는 것이다. 본 논문은 인간시각시스템을 기반으로 눈의 민간도가 높은 망막 이심율이 작은 영역에서는 DCT블록의 크기를 변화를 최소화시키고 망막이심율이 큰 영역에서는 블록의 변화를 크게 하는 가변 블록방식을 제안한다. 이를 통해 우수한 영상 품질을 확보하면서도 시각적으로 뛰어난 리사이징 영상을 얻을 수 있다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.525-534
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• 2007

H.264/AVC for DMB is the most advanced video compression standard which provides a high compression rate and a video quality by adopting new technologies. However, these new technologies prevent us from applying some conventional algorithms directly to the H.264/AVC compression domain. For example, we need to study new image resizing schemes in the compressed bit-stream. So, in this paper, we propose a new thumbnail extraction method which can be applied to H.264. The proposed method shows that it can extract a 1/16 size thumbnail video, saving the operation time up to 50% to 70%.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.59-68
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• 2003

An optimization Program is developed to produce new topologies of plane structures under multiload case. A four-node finite element is used in the response analysis to reduce the computation time and to ultimately achieve practical topology optimization. The bilinear finite element is prone to produce chequer-boarding phenomenon and a simple filtering process is therefore adopted. An artificial material model is employed to represent the structural material and the resizing algorithm based on the optimality criteria is adopted to update the material density parameter during optimization process. With newly developed optimization program, the comparison study has been made between single and multiload cases and its results are described in this paper. From numerical results, it appears that multiload case should be considered to achieve the practical topology optimization.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.179-194
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• 2012

Digital image forgery is becoming a topic of great interest with regard to honesty in imaging. We can often see forged digital images in a variety of places, such as the internet, and magazines, and in images used in political ads, etc. These can reduce the reliability and factual basis of the information contained in image. Therefore, objectivity is needed to determine if the image is forged so as to prevent confusion in the viewing public. Most digital forgeries consist of image resizing, rotating including the following interpolations. To find evidence of interpolation in forged images, this paper proposes a new method for detecting digital image forgery using general interpolation factors analyzed through re-interpolation algorithm of the forged images in order to determine the differences in the patterns. Through the re-interpolation algorithm we could detect the forged region and filtering region used image retouching included to interpolation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.494-503
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• 2002

A motion vector re-estimation algorithm for image downscaling in discrete consine transform domain is presented. Kernel functions are difined using SAD (Aum of Absolute Difference) and edge information of a macroblock. The proposed method uses these kernel functions to re-estimate a new motion vector of the downscaled image. The motion vectors from the incoming bitstream of transcoder are reused to reduce computation burden of the block-matching motion estimation, and we also reuse the given motion vectors. Several experiments in this paper show that the computation efficiency and the PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) and better than the previous methods.