• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2010

This paper presents a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of an indoor hallway environment using Rao-Blackwellized particle filter (RBPF) along with a line segment as a landmark. Based on the fact that fluent line features can be extracted around the ceiling and side walls of hallway using vision sensor, a horizontal line segment is extracted from an edge image using Hough transform and is also tracked continuously by an optical flow method. A successive observation of a line segment gives initial state of the line in 3D space. For data association, registered feature and observed feature are matched in image space through a degree of overlap, an orientation of line, and a distance between two lines. Experiments show that a compact environmental map can be constructed with small number of horizontal line features in real-time.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.218-227
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• 2018

Vocal effort detection is important for both robust speech recognition and speaker recognition. In this paper, the spectral information entropy feature which contains more salient information regarding the vocal effort level is firstly proposed. Then, the model fusion method based on complementary model is presented to recognize vocal effort level. Experiments are conducted on isolated words test set, and the results show the spectral information entropy has the best performance among the three kinds of features. Meanwhile, the recognition accuracy of all vocal effort levels reaches 81.6%. Thus, potential of the proposed method is demonstrated.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.235-243
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• 2008

Object tracking is a common vision task to detect and trace objects between consecutive frames. It is also important for a variety of applications such as surveillance, video based traffic monitoring system, and so on. An efficient moving vehicle clustering and tracking algorithm suitable for traffic monitoring system is proposed in this paper. First, automatic background extraction method is used to get a reliable background as a reference. The moving blob(object) is then separated from the background by mean shift method. Second, the scale invariant feature based method extracts the salient features from the clustered foreground blob. It is robust to change the illumination, scale, and affine shape. The simulation results on various road situations demonstrate good performance achieved by proposed method.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.189-202
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 영상 입력 장치로 입력되는 영상 내의 수많은 정보 중에서 지각적으로 중요하다고 여겨지는 현저한(salient) 영역만을 탐지해내는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 인간이 가지고 있는 시각적 주의 기능에 기본 바탕을 두고 있으며, 영상을 구성하고 있는 정보의 특징에 기반을 두고 있다. 가장 먼저 인간의 시각적 주의 기능에 영향을 미친다고 알려져 있는 몇 가지 특징들이 입력되는 영상의 모든 영역에 걸쳐 추출되어 각각의 특징에 해당되는 특징지도들로 형성된다. 이렇게 형성된 각각의 특징지도들을 구성하고 있는 특징 값들은 이들 각각의 국부적인 경쟁력 특성에 의하여 영상의 각 영역에서의 중요도를 나타내는 값으로 변환되어 중요도지도를 형성하게 된다. 이러한 중요도지도들은 모두 통합되어 하나의 현저함지도를 생성하게 된다. 현저함지도는 영상 내 각 장소의 현저함 정도를 미리 계산된 특징들의 공간적 중요도 측정치에 따른 스칼라 값으로 표시함으로써 영상 내에서 가장 현저한 영역을 찾을 수 있도록 가이드 한다. 제안하는 방법에 의해 시스템을 구성하여 실험한 결과, 인간이 중요하다고 여겨지는 주요 영역을 만족스럽게 탐지해 냄을 알 수 있었다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.103-113
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• 2016

This paper aims to propose articulatory features as novel predictors for automatic pronunciation assessment of English produced by Korean learners. Based on the distinctive feature theory, where phonemes are represented as a set of articulatory/phonetic properties, we propose articulatory Goodness-Of-Pronunciation(aGOP) features in terms of the corresponding articulatory attributes, such as nasal, sonorant, anterior, etc. An English speech corpus spoken by Korean learners is used in the assessment modeling. In our system, learners' speech is forced aligned and recognized by using the acoustic and pronunciation models derived from the WSJ corpus (native North American speech) and the CMU pronouncing dictionary, respectively. In order to compute aGOP features, articulatory models are trained for the corresponding articulatory attributes. In addition to the proposed features, various features which are divided into four categories such as RATE, SEGMENT, SILENCE, and GOP are applied as a baseline. In order to enhance the assessment modeling performance and investigate the weights of the salient features, relevant features are extracted by using Best Subset Selection(BSS). The results show that the proposed model using aGOP features outperform the baseline. In addition, analysis of relevant features extracted by BSS reveals that the selected aGOP features represent the salient variations of Korean learners of English. The results are expected to be effective for automatic pronunciation error detection, as well.

• 한국정보보호학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보보호학회 2006년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.251-257
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• 2006

The performance of face recognition methods using subspace projection is directly related to the characteristics of their basis images, especially in the cases of local distortion or partial occlusion. In order for a subspace projection method to be robust to local distortion and partial occlusion, the basis images generated by the method should exhibit a part-based local representation. We propose an effective part-based local representation method named locally salient ICA (LS-ICA) method for face recognition that is robust to local distortion and partial occlusion. The LS-ICA method only employs locally salient information from important facial parts in order to maximize the benefit of applying the idea of 'recognition by parts.' It creates part-based local basis images by imposing additional localization constraint in the process of computing ICA architecture I basis images. We have contrasted the LS-ICA method with other part-based representations such as LNMF (Localized Non-negative Matrix Factorization)and LFA (Local Feature Analysis). Experimental results show that the LS-ICA method performs better than PCA, ICA architecture I, ICA architecture II, LFA, and LNMF methods, especially in the cases of partial occlusions and local distortion

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.262-268
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• 2017

Intelligent video surveillance systems have been developed to monitor global areas and find specific target objects using a large-scale database. However, person re-identification presents some challenges, such as pose change and occlusions. To solve the problems, this paper presents an improved person re-identification method using sparse representation and saliency-based dictionary construction. The proposed method consists of three parts: i) feature description based on salient colors and textures for dictionary elements, ii) orthogonal atom selection using cosine similarity to deal with pose and viewpoint change, and iii) measurement of reconstruction error to rank the gallery corresponding a probe object. The proposed method provides good performance, since robust descriptors used as a dictionary atom are generated by weighting some salient features, and dictionary atoms are selected by reducing excessive redundancy causing low accuracy. Therefore, the proposed method can be applied in a large scale-database surveillance system to search for a specific object.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1843-1859
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• 2013

The continuous increase of the spatial resolution of remote sensing images brings great challenge to image analysis and processing. Traditional prior knowledge-based region detection and target recognition algorithms for processing high resolution remote sensing images generally employ a global searching solution, which results in prohibitive computational complexity. In this paper, a more efficient region of interest (ROI) detection algorithm based on visual attention and threshold segmentation (VA-TS) is proposed, wherein a visual attention mechanism is used to eliminate image segmentation and feature detection to the entire image. The input image is subsampled to decrease the amount of data and the discrete moment transform (DMT) feature is extracted to provide a finer description of the edges. The feature maps are combined with weights according to the amount of the "strong points" and the "salient points". A threshold segmentation strategy is employed to obtain more accurate region of interest shape information with the very low computational complexity. Experimental statistics have shown that the proposed algorithm is computational efficient and provide more visually accurate detection results. The calculation time is only about 0.7% of the traditional Itti's model.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.481-488
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• 2006

부공간 투영기술(subspace projection)을 이용한 얼굴인식기술의 성능은 이들 기저영상들(basis images)의 특징과 밀접한 관련이 있다. 특히 표정변화와 같은 국부적 왜곡이나 오클루전이 있는 경우의 인식성능은 기저영상들의 특징에 의해 영향을 받게 된다. 부공간 투영기반의 얼굴인식 방법이 오클루전이나 표정변화와 같은 국부적인 왜곡발생에 강인하려면 부분국부적 표현(part-based local representation)의 기저벡터를 갖는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 국부적 왜곡과 오클루전에 강인한 효과적인 부분국부적 표현방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 LS-ICA(locally salient ICA) 방법이라고 명명하였다. LS-ICA방법은 ICA 구조I의 기저영상을 구하는 과정에서 공간적인 국부성(locality)의 제약조건을 부과함으로써 부분국부적 기저영상(part-based local basis images)을 얻는 방법이다. 결과적으로 공간적으로 현저한 특징만을 포함하는 기저영상을 사용하게 되며, 이는 "Recognition by Parts"의 방법론과 유사하다. LS-ICA방법과 LNMF(Localized Non-negative Matrix Factorization)와 LFA(Local Feature Analysis)와 같은 기존의 부분 표현방법(part-based representation)들에 대해 다양한 얼굴영상 데이타베이스를 사용하여 실험한 결과, LS-ICA방법이 기존의 방법에 비하여 높은 인식성능을 보였으며, 특히 오클루전이나 국부적인 변형이 포함된 얼굴영상에서 뛰어난 인식성능을 보였다.

• KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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• 제3A권3호
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• pp.139-147
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• 2003

The paper presents a novel approach of constructing the state matrix of the multi-machine power system for SSR (subsynchronous resonance) analysis using the linearized equations of individual devices including electrical transmission network dynamics. The machine models in the local d-q reference frame are integrated with the network models in the common R-I reference frame by simply transforming their output equations into the R-I frame where the transformed output is used as the input to the network dynamics or vice versa. The salient feature of the formulation is that it allows for modular construction of various component models without rearranging the overall state space formulation. This universal SSR small signal stability program provides a flexible tool for systematic analyses of SSR small-signal stability impacts of both conventional devices such as generation systems and novel devices such as power electronic apparatus and their controllers. The paper also presents its application results to IEEE benchmark models.