• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.1023-1031
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• 2015

In infrared (IR) images, near targets have a transient distribution at the boundary region, as opposed to a steady one at the inner region. Based on this fact, this paper proposes a novel IR target extraction method that uses both a weighted information entropy (WIE) and an adaptive opening filter to extract near finely shaped targets in IR images. Firstly, the boundary region of a target is detected using a local variance WIE of an original image. Next, a coarse target region is estimated via a labeling process used on the boundary region of the target. From the estimated coarse target region, a fine target shape is extracted by means of an opening filter having an adaptive structure element. The size of the structure element is decided in accordance with the width information of the target boundary and mean WIE values of windows of varying size. Our experimental results show that the proposed method obtains a better extraction performance than existing algorithms.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권6호
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• pp.332-338
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• 2013

We propose a method for target detection in Infrared images. In order to effectively detect a target region from an image with noises and clutters, spatial information of the target is first considered by analyzing pixel distributions of projections in horizontal and vertical directions. These distributions are represented as Gaussian distributions, and Gaussian Mixture Model is created from these distributions in order to find thresholding points of the target region. Through analyzing the calculated Gaussian Mixture Model, the target region is detected by eliminating various backgrounds such as noises and clutters. This is performed by using a novel thresholding method which can effectively detect the target region. As experimental results, the proposed method has achieved better performance than existing methods.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.195-198
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• 2002

One-dimensional radar signature, such as range profile, is highly dependent on the aspect angle. Therefore, radar target recognition over wide angular region is a very difficult task. In this paper, we propose the Bayes classifier with Gaussian mixture model for radar target recognition over wide-angular region and compare performances of proposed technique and radar target recognition with subclasses concept in the literature of probability of correct classification ratio.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.834-847
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• 1996

A selective coding scheme is proposed that describes a method for coding image sequences distinguishing bits between background and target region. The suggested method initially estimates global motion parameters and local motion vectors. Then segmentation is performed with a hierarchical clustering scheme and a quadtree algorithm in order to divide the processing image into the backgraound and target region. Finally image coding is done by assigning more bits to the target region and less bits to background so that the target region may be reconstructed with high quality. Simulations show that the suggested algorithm performs well especially in the circumstances where background changes and target regionis small enough compared with that of background.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1226-1230
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• 2001

Multi-target tracking systems need to tracking several targets simultaneously. To track a target among the measurements of several targets, data association is needed. In this paper, a method using the cou-pled confidence region of predicted target position is proposed. The proposed method shows good performance in simulations of multi-target tracking systems.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.92-99
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• 2002

To obtain visual information of a target object, a camera should be placed within the visibility region. As the visibility region is dependent on the relative position of the target object and the surrounding object, the position change of the surrounding object during a task requires recalculation of the visibility region. For a fast computation of the visibility region so as to modify the camera position to be located within the visibility region, we propose a spherical projection method. After being projected onto the sphere the visibility region is represented in $\theta$-$\psi$ spaces of the spherical coordinates. The reduction of calculation space enables a fast modification of the camera location according to the motion of the surrounding objects so that the continuous observation of the target object during the task is possible.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권9C호
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• pp.546-554
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• 2011

적외선 영상의 근거리 표적 (near targets)은 표적의 내부영역은 화소 값이 균일하고, 경계 영역은 배경과 인접해 있기 때문에 화소 값 변화가 불균일하다. 이러한 특성에 기초하여 본 논문은 적응적 구조요소 (adaptive structure element)를 이용한 열림 연산자에 의한 적외선 영상 표적 검출 기법을 제안한다 먼저, 국부 분산 가중치 정보 엔트로피 (weighted information entropy, WIE)를 이용하여 후보 표적군의 위치와 경계영역을 추출한 후, 이 경계 영역에 대하여 라벨링 연산을 수행하여 대략의 표적 영역을 검출한다. 이 대략의 표적 영역에 대하여 제한한 적응적 구조 요소를 이용한 열림 연산자를 수행함으로써 정확한 표적 모양을 검출한다. 이 구조 요소는 표적 경계 영역에서 필터창의 가중치 정보 엔트로피의 평균값을 계산함으로써 얻어진 표적 경계 폭에 의한 결정된다. 실험 결과로부터 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비해 추출 성능이 뛰어남을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1991년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.9-12
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• 1991

The correlation search method yields velocity information by tracking scatter patterns between medical image frames. The displacement vector between a target region and the best correlated search region indicates the magnitude and direction of the inter-frame motion of that particular region. However, if the noise sources in the target region and the search region are correlated Gaussian, then the cross-correlation technique fails to work well because it estimates the cross-correlation of both signals and noises. In this paper we develop a new correlation search method which seeks the best correlated third-order statistics between a target and the search region to suppress the effect of correlated Gaussian noise sources. Our new method yields better estimations of velocity than the conventional cross-correlation method.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.206-211
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• 2018

In this paper, we proposed a two-level feature vector fusion technique to improve the performance of target classification. The proposed method combines feature vectors of the early-time region and late-time region in the first-level fusion. In the second-level fusion, we combine the monostatic and bistatic features obtained in the first level. The radar cross section (RCS) of the 3D full-scale model is obtained using the electromagnetic analysis tool FEKO, and then, the feature vector of the target is extracted from it. The feature vector based on the waveform structure is used as the feature vector of the early-time region, while the resonance frequency extracted using the evolutionary programming-based CLEAN algorithm is used as the feature vector of the late-time region. The study results show that the two-level fusion method is better than the one-level fusion method.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 낮은 SNR을 가지는 적외선 영상에서 강인한 소형 표적 검출을 위해 모폴로지 차 연산을 수행하여 표적 후보 영역을 찾고 화소 라벨링을 통해 후보 영역의 위치를 찾는다. 기존의 모폴로지 연산 기반의 표적 검출 방법들은 적외선 영상에 존재하는 클러터에 취약하다는 단점으로 인해 검출 정확도가 낮다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 후보 영역에서 표적과 배경 잡음을 분류하기 위해 Moravec 알고리즘과 LCM(Local Contrast Measure) 알고리즘을 결합함으로써 표적 향상과 배경 잡음 억제를 동시에 달성한다. 또한, 제안하는 알고리즘은 기존에 실시간 표적 검출을 위해 개발되었던 모폴로지 연산과 가우시안 거리 함수를 이용한 표적 검출 방법의 단일 객체에 제한적인 검출 문제를 해결하여 복수 객체를 효율적으로 검출할 수 있다.