• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.87-92
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• 2003

This paper describes a system for tracking multiple faces in an input video sequence using facial convex hull based facial segmentation and robust hausdorff distance. The algorithm adapts skin color reference map in YCbCr color space and hair color reference map in RGB color space for classifying face region. Then, we obtain an initial face model with preprocessing and convex hull. For tracking, this algorithm computes displacement of the point set between frames using a robust hausdorff distance and the best possible displacement is selected. Finally, the initial face model is updated using the displacement. We provide an example to illustrate the proposed tracking algorithm, which efficiently tracks rotating and zooming faces as well as existing multiple faces in video sequences obtained from CCD camera.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.417-418
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a new fast algorithm which reduces search range by checking reliability of predicted vector in multi-view video coding (MVC). Block position matching algorithm is implemented to improve the proposed algorithm. The processing time is decreased by from 40 to 60% in each frame in the proposed algorithm.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.810-813
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• 2007

Recently, mobile video communication is getting more and more popular. Visual quality and computational complexity are primary factors affecting performance of video communication. Frame rate up-conversion (FRC) is necessary for achieving high visual quality in mobile projection displays. In this paper, a FRC method using motion compensation based on block matching algorithm (BMA) with adaptive block size is proposed. In order to improve the accuracy of the estimated motion vectors, the motion vector refinement technique is proposed. Experiment results indicate that the proposed technique exhibits better performance with lower hardware complexity compared to the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.114-117
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 video stream내의 움직이는 객체 정보를 추정하고 동적 GTM(genetic tree-map) 알고리즘을 사용하여 얼굴 영역 검출 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 일반적인 객체 추정 기법은 클러스터(cluster)과정을 통하여 영상 정보를 분할하고 그 중 움직이는 객체 부분을 복원함으로서 추정하였다. 제안하는 기법은 BMA(block matching algorithm)［1］ 알고리즘을 사용하여 video stream 에서 움직이는 객체 정보를 얻고 클러스터 알고리즘으로 PCA(principal component analysis)를 사용한다. PCA 기법은 입력 데이터에 관해 통계적 특성을 이용하여 주성분을 찾는다. 주축과 영역분할 알고리즘을 사용하여 데이터를 분할하고, 분할된 객체 정보를 사용하여 특정 객체만을 추정하는 것이 가능하다. 이렇게 추정된 객체를 얼굴영역의 feature에 대하여 신경망 학습인 동적 GTM 알고리즘을 사용하여 생성된 동적 GTM 맵의 정보에 따라 객체의 얼굴영역만을 추출해 낼 수 있다［2-6］.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1218-1230
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• 2019

This study proposes a novel video traffic flow detection method based on machine vision technology. The three-frame difference method, which is one kind of a motion evaluation method, is used to establish initial background image, and then a statistical scoring strategy is chosen to update background image in real time. Finally, the background difference method is used for detecting the moving objects. Meanwhile, a simple but effective shadow elimination method is introduced to improve the accuracy of the detection for moving objects. Furthermore, the study also proposes a vehicle matching and tracking strategy by combining characteristics, such as vehicle's location information, color information and fractal dimension information. Experimental results show that this detection method could quickly and effectively detect various traffic flow parameters, laying a solid foundation for enhancing the degree of automation for traffic management.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.155-160
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• 2016

Applying image processing techniques to education, the face of the learner is photographed, and expression and movement are detected from video, and the system which estimates degree of concentration of the learner is developed. For one learner, the measuring system is designed in terms of estimating a degree of concentration from direction of line of learner's sight and condition of the eye. In case of multiple learners, it must need to measure each concentration level of all learners in the classroom. But it is inefficient because one camera per each learner is required. In this paper, position in the face region is estimated from video which photographs the learner in the class by the difference between frames within the motion direction. And the system which detects the face direction by the face part detection by template matching is proposed. From the result of the difference between frames in the first image of the video, frontal face detection by Viola-Jones method is performed. Also the direction of the motion which arose in the face region is estimated with the migration length and the face region is tracked. Then the face parts are detected to tracking. Finally, the direction of the face is estimated from the result of face tracking and face parts detection.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.35-42
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• 2010

Side information generation techniques play a great role in determining the overall performance of the DVC (Distributed Video Coding) coding system. Most conventional techniques for side information generation are mainly based on the block matching algorithm with symmetric motion estimation between the previously reconstructed key frames. But, these techniques tend to show mismatches between the motion vectors and the real placements of moving objects. So these techniques need to be modified so as to search well the real placements of moving objects. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes a block-centered symmetric motion estimation technique which uses the same coordinates with the given block. Through computer simulations, it is shown that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional schemes in the objective quality.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.1441-1461
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• 2017

Nowadays, Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) has become very popular in streaming multimedia contents. In DASH, a client estimates current network bandwidth and then determines an appropriate video quality with bitrate matching the estimated bandwidth. Thus, estimating accurately the available bandwidth is a significant premise in the quality of video streaming, especially when network traffic fluctuates substantially. To cope with this challenge, researchers have presented various filters to estimate network bandwidth adaptively. However, experiment results show that current schemes either adapt slowly to network changes or adapt fast but are very sensitive to delay jitter and produce sharply changed estimation. This paper presents a novel bandwidth estimation scheme based on Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD). We applied an MACD indicator and its two thresholds to classifying network states into stable state and agile state, based on the network state different filters are applied to estimate network bandwidth. In the paper, we studied the performance of various MACD indicators and the threshold values on bandwidth estimation. Then we used a DASH proxy-based environment to compare the performance of the presented scheme with current well-known schemes. The simulation results illustrate that the MACD-based bandwidth estimation scheme performs superior to existing schemes both in the speed of adaptively to network changes and in stability in bandwidth estimation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.22-31
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new approach for efficient multiview stereo matching and virtual view generation, which are key technologies for 3DTV. We propose semi N-view & N-depth framework to estimate disparity maps efficiently and correctly. This framework reduces the redundancy on disparity estimation by using the information of neighboring views. The proposed method provides a user 2D/3D freeview video, and the user can select 2D/3D modes of freeview video. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields the accurate disparity maps and the synthesized novel view is satisfactory enough to provide user seamless freeview videos.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.43-47
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• 2012

The recent proliferation of multimedia data necessitates the effectively and efficiently retrieving of multimedia data. These research not only focus on the retrieving methods of text matching but also on using the multimedia data features. Therefore, this paper is a similarity measurement method of trajectory using indexing information of moving object in video, for similarity measurement. This method consists of 2 steps. Firstly, Video data is processed indexing for trajectory extraction of moving objects using CCTV. Finally, we describe to compare DTW(Dynamic Time Warping) to TSR(Tansent Space Representation) algorithm.