• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.4 s.107
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• pp.417-420
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• 2006

Detection of faces on still color images with arbitrary backgrounds is attempted in this paper. The newly proposed method is invariant to arbitrary background, number of faces, scale, orientation, skin color, and illumination through the steps of color clustering, cluster scanning, sub-block processing, face area detection, and face verification. The sub-block method makes the proposed method invariant to the size and the number of faces in the image. The proposed method does not need any pre-training steps or a preliminary face database. The proposed method may be applied to areas such as security control, video and photo indexing, and other automatic computer vision-related fields.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.12C
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• pp.1214-1221
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a digital watermarking method for still images, in which the human visual system (HVS) is used in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. The modulation transfer function (MTF) of the HVS model is employed to increase the invisibility of the inserted watermark in images. The proposed watermarking method is shown to be robust to several common image processing techniques, including lowpass filtering and cropping. Also, using the energy relationship of the DCT, we derive the equation that directly computes the watermark weighting factor in the DCT domain for the specified peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) of the still image and the length of watermark to be inserted. The difference between desired PSNR and PSNR in spatial domain is within 0.07dB for the 7 test images.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.1730-1733
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• 1997

In this paper, a realization of a subband coding with TMS320C80 is studied. TMS320C80 is a multi-media processor specially designed for an image process. A main topic of this paper, as mentioned above, is an application of TMS320C80 to subband coding. Subband coding is the coding that devides full image to several subbands and encodes each subband with different coding methods. As using that methods, good image compression can be obtained. First above all, goal of this paper deals with TMS320C80 in coding still image and useds it in expending it's application to 3-D video coding.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.79-86
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• 1998

The image of architecture changes with its age. In spite of its age, traditional architecture still looks like beautiful. This study is to define the change of image for traditional architecture with its appearance. I-se Jingu, Japan was selected for subject architecture because of its new and old one were in same site. In part 1, the image was considered with six scales: gorgeous-modest, strict-loose, hard-soft, orderly-disorder, new-old, and beautiful-ugly. The image of strict-loose, hard-soft, orderly-disorder related with the style, roof materials and damage of materials. Respectively the image of gorgeous-modest is relevent to "beautifulness", regardless of its age.f its age.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.883-891
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• 2008

The design shows the high-technology of the High Speed Train and its renovated services which is still to be solved. This research presents the process held in approaching the design of the streamline nose using the ‘Image Implementation Technique’. The image that has been brought out through the ‘Image Implementation Technique’ and applied to 'Idea-Creation' and 'Idea-Embodiment' is in order to embody the identity of the nose. We have drawn design and form elements through scientific and analytic approach, bringing up the image of the nose.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.47-50
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• 2006

An active contour model has been used to detect the edges in a still image. In order to apply the active contour model to edge detection, the energy function which consists of internal, external and image energies should be defined. After defining the energy function, the edge of an object is detected through minimization of the value of the energy function. In this paper, the modified internal energy function is proposed to improve the convergence of the energy function when the active contour model is applied to the tracking of deformable objects using the greedy algorithm. In order to show the performance of the proposed energy function, experiments were carried out for the still and animated images.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.426-431
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• 2008

In this paper, an improved AE system for digital still camera is proposed. AE system is auto exposure system to maintain optimized brightness of output image. But there is limitation for mobile devices to get high quality image with the conventional AE algorithm, because of organizational restriction of system. The conventional research has been studied only electronic shutter and AGC on the AE algorithm. In this paper, we suggest new AE algorithm included target setting, frame delay, Gamma Correction as well as electronic shutter and AGC to get high quality image. The proposed algorithm show improved result at control speed and ability of luminance expression.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1025-1030
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• 2005

With the increasing use of multimedia technologies, image compression requires higher performance as well as new functionality. Specially, in the specific area of still image encoding, a new standard, JPEG2000 was developed. This paper proposed Set Partitioning Sorting Algorithm that uses a method to optimized selection of threshold from feature of wavelet transform coefficients and to removes sign bit in LL area on JPEG2000. Experimental results show the proposed algorithm achieves more improved bit rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.43 no.3 s.309
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• pp.51-59
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose an excellent ultrasonic transceiver system based on a QPSK modulation technique for underwater communication. The transmitter sends a still image at the level of 187dB re $1{\mu}Pa/V@1m$ through a power amplifier by driving an ultrasonic sensor. The receiver performs digital conversion at the 100kHz sampling frequency, demodulation and decoding process for the image sent from the transmitter through the underwater communication. We have shown that the processed image at the receiver is almost the same as the orignal one. The maximum detection distance of the system proposed in this paper is approximately 1.17km. To cope with the difficulties of transmission loss, this paper proposes, implements and analyzes important parameters of sensors and circuits used in the system. Most of the underwater communication has focused on the transmission of audio signal, but this paper suggests an efficient underwater communication system for still image transmission.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.27-34
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• 2003

Digital image manipulation software is now readily available on personal computers. It is therefore very simple to tamper with any image and make it available to others. Therefore. copyright protection of digital contents and insurance of digital image integrity become major issues. In this paper, we propose a hybrid watermarking method to identify locations of tampered region as well as copyright. Our proposed algorithms embed the PN-sequence into low frequency sub-band of the wavelet transform domain and it doesn't need the original image in extraction procedure. The experimental results show good robustness against any signal processing with tamper detection on still image.