• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.93-100
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• 2014

3D object recognition using only 2D images is a difficult work because each images are generated different to according to the view direction of cameras. Because SIFT algorithm defines the local features of the projected images, recognition result is particularly limited in case of input images with strong perspective transformation. In this paper, we propose the object recognition method that improves SIFT algorithm by using several sequential images captured from rotating 3D object around a rotation axis. We use the geometric relationship between adjacent images and merge several images into a generated feature space during recognizing object. To clarify effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we keep constantly the camera position and illumination conditions. This method can recognize the appearance of 3D objects that previous approach can not recognize with usually SIFT algorithm.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.124-135
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• 2021

Object detection is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision that plays an important role in object recognition, tracking, scene analysis and understanding. This paper aims to propose a multiproperty fusion algorithm for moving object detection. First, we build a scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) vector field and analyze vectors in the SIFT vector field to divide vectors in the SIFT vector field into different classes. Second, the distance of each class is calculated by dispersion analysis. Next, the target and contour can be extracted, and then we segment the different images, reversal process and carry on morphological processing, the moving objects can be detected. The experimental results have good stability, accuracy and efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.349-351
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 VR 영상의 스티칭을 위한 특징점 추출 방식의 하나인 SIFT 알고리즘의 고속화 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 SIFT 의 각 단계 모두에 최적화 방법을 적용하여 CPU 에 최적화된 알고리즘을 구축하였다. 그리고 비독립적인 과정들로 이루어진 SIFT 특징점 추출 연산을 병렬화하기 위한 방법으로, 영상 분할 방법을 제시하며 SIFT 의 새로운 병렬화 방법을 제안한다. 특히 최적화 과정을 통해 Scale-space Extrema Detection 과 Orientation Assignment 과정에서 큰 시간 단축 효과를 보여 총 75.5%의 시간을 단축하였다. 이를 OpenMP 와 영상 분할 방법을 활용한 CPU 병렬화로 FullHD($1920{\times}1080$)해상도 영상에서 약 4000 개의 특징점을 추출하는 데 평균 91ms 의 성능을 보이며 기존 GPU 고속화 논문 대비 약 30%의 성능 개선 효과를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1841-1842
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• 2008

본 논문은 Scale Invariant Feature Transform(SIFT)알고리즘으로부터 얻어진 로컬 특징점으로부터 물체를 인식하는 방법에 대하여 논하였다. SIFT알고리즘은 물체의 스케일, 회전에 강인하고, 또한 3차원 시점의 변화에도 부분적으로 강인한 특징점을 추출한다. SIFT 알고리즘은 입력영상에 크기가 다른 가우시안 함수를 적용하고, 블러링된 영상들의 차 영상에서 극값을 추출하여 특징점으로 사용한다. 하지만 SIFT알고리즘에서 가우시안 함수를 적용하는 것은 상당히 많은 연산을 필요로 하기 때문에 본 논문에서는 하나의 옥타브를 사용하여 연산시간을 단축하였다. 하나의 옥타브를 사용함으로써 물체의 스케일이 크게 변하였을 때는 문제가 발생한다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 대상 물체의 작은 스케일, 큰 스케일에서 추출된 특징점을 혼합하여 DB를 생성하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.17-24
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• 2015

In this paper, a novel scheme for correcting rotated region in medical images using SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm is presented. Using the feature extraction function of SIFT, the rotation angle of rotated object in medical images is calculated as follows. First, keypoints of both reference and rotated medical images are extracted by SIFT. Second, the matching process is performed to the keypoints located at the predetermined ROI(Region Of Interest) at which objects are not cropped or added by rotating the image. Finally, degrees of matched keypoints are calculated and the rotation angle of the rotated object is determined by averaging the difference of the degrees. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme has excellent performance for correcting the rotated region in medical images.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.201-209
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• 2011

This paper suggests a panorama image stitching system which consists of an image matching algorithm: modified SURF (Speeded Up Robust Feature) and an image blending algorithm: multi-band blending. In this paper, first, Modified SURF is described and SURF is compared with SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform), which also gives the reason why modified SURF is chosen instead of SIFT. Then, multi-band blending is described, Lastly, the structure of a panorama image stitching system is suggested and evaluated by experiments, which includes stitching quality test and time cost experiment. According to the experiments, the proposed system can make the stitching seam invisible and get a perfect panorama for large image data, In addition, it is faster than the sift based stitching system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.275-279
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• 2013

Recently, as multimedia information becomes popular, there are many studies to retrieve images based on images in the web. However, it is hard to find the matching images which users want to find because of various patterns in images. In this paper, we suggest an efficient images retrieval system based on images for finding products in internet shopping malls. We extract features for image retrieval by using SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm, repeat keypoint matching in various dimension by using PCA-SIFT, and find the image which users search for by combining them. To verify efficiency of the proposed method, we compare the performance of our approach with that of SIFT and PCA-SIFT by using images with various patterns. We verify that the proposed method shows the best distinction in the case that product labels are not included in images.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.123-128
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a multi-vehicle object detection algorithm using feature point matching that tracks efficient vehicle objects. The proposed algorithm extracts the feature points of the vehicle using the FAST algorithm for efficient vehicle object tracking. And True if the feature points are included in the image segmented into the 5X5 region. If the feature point is not included, it is processed as False and the corresponding area is blacked to remove unnecessary object information excluding the vehicle object. Then, the post processed area is set as the maximum search window size of the vehicle. And A minimum search window using the outermost feature points of the vehicle is set. By using the set search window, we compensate the disadvantages of the search window size of mean-shift algorithm and track vehicle object. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, SIFT and SURF algorithms are compared and tested. The result is about four times faster than the SIFT algorithm. And it has the advantage of detecting more efficiently than the process of SUFR algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.345-355
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• 2008

SIFT is popularly used in computer vision application such as object recognition, motion tracking, and 3D reconstruction among various shape descriptors. However, it is not easy to apply SIFT into the image similarity search as it is since it uses many high dimensional keypoint vectors. In this paper, we present a SIFT based image similarity search method using an edge image pyramid and an interesting region detection. The proposed method extracts keypoints, which is invariant to contrast, scale, and rotation of image, by using the edge image pyramid and removes many unnecessary keypoints from the image by using the hough transform. The proposed hough transform can detect objects of ellipse type so that it can be used to find interesting regions. Experimental results demonstrate that the retrieval performance of the proposed method is about 20% better than that of traditional SIFT in average recall.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.102-103
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 임베디드 환경을 위한 객체인식 시스템의 구조 및 실시간 처리를 위한 객체인식기의 하드웨어설계를 제안한다. 제안된 구조는 SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform)를 이용하여 사물의 특징점을 추출하고, 비교하여 객체를 인식한다. SIFT는 영상의 크기 및 회전 등의 변화에 적응이 뛰어난 알고리즘이지만, 복잡한 연산이 반복되어 연산시간이 많은 특성상 임베디드 환경에서 실시간 처리가 어렵다. 따라서 해당 알고리즘을 하프웨어로 설계하여, 임베디드 사물인식 시스템에 적용한다. 사물인식의 빠른 처리와 인식영역의 구분을 위해 JSEG 영상분할 알고리즘을 활용하며, SIFT 특징점 추출 연산과 병렬 실행이 가능하도록 SIFT와 함께 하드웨어 구조로 설계한다.