• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.7-14
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a Cascade Classifier face detection method using the Haar-like feature, which is complemented by the Flood Fill algorithm for lossy areas due to illumination and shadow in YCbCr color space extraction. The Cascade Classifier using Haar-like features can generate noise and loss regions due to lighting, shadow, etc. because skin color extraction using existing YCbCr color space in image only uses threshold value. In order to solve this problem, noise is removed by erosion and expansion calculation, and the loss region is estimated by using the Flood Fill algorithm to estimate the loss region. A threshold value of the YCbCr color space was further allowed for the estimated area. For the remaining loss area, the color was filled in as the average value of the additional allowed areas among the areas estimated above. We extracted faces using Haar-like Cascade Classifier. The accuracy of the proposed method is improved by about 4% and the detection rate of the proposed method is improved by about 2% than that of the Haar-like Cascade Classifier by using only the YCbCr color space.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.163-165
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 카메라 잡음 제거에 딥 러닝 알고리즘을 적용하는 연구를 진행하였다. 합성된 가우시언 잡음에 대하여 좋은 잡음 제거 성능을 보이는 DnCNN(Denoising Convolutional Network)를 이용하여 카메라 잡음을 제거하는 학습과 실험을 진행하였으며, 기준 실험으로는 RGB 색공간의 3채널 모두에 대하여 학습한 신경망(Neural Network)을 사용하였고, 본 논문의 실험에서는 그레이 이미지에 대하여 학습한 신경망을 사용하였다. 신경망의 평가를 위하여 딥 러닝 알고리즘 입력 이미지를 RGB 색공간(RGB Color Space)과 YCbCr 색공간(YCbCr Color Space) 2가지 색공간으로 표현하여 사용하였고, 입력 이미지에 노이즈를 첨가하기 위해 가우시안 노이즈(Gaussian Noise)를 이용하였다. 또한 가우시안 잡음과 다른 성질을 갖는 실제 카메라 잡음에 대해서도 학습과 테스트를 진행하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.27-34
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• 2004

This thesis proposes a face detection algorithm using the color and edge informations in color image. The proposed algorithm segments skin color by Cb and Cr in YCbCr coordinates. Then face candidate regions are made after morphological filtering and labeling. For the regions, the Sobel vortical operation and horizontal projection are performed in the Y luminance components. The peak value indicates the eye location. Similarly, the chin location is detected by the Sobel horizontal operation and horizontal projection. The computer simulation shows that the proposed method gains similar detection rates of previous method and prevent facial region from including neck by detection of chin.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.385-388
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new saturation enhancement algorithm which is processed on the new color space, called Normalized YCbCr(NYCbCr). The algorithm consists of two processing unit. One is color space conversion from YCbCr to NYCbCr, and the other is using adaptive saturation mapping function(ASMF). NYCbCr color space is designed to prevent shortcomings such as luminance and hue shift of YCbCr color space and by saturation enhancement. ASMF is effective to enhance saturation properly for each image and to protect low saturation regions of color images from over-saturation. we verified our method using several color images. Experimental results show that the proposed method enhance the saturation with minimizing Luminance and Hue shift.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.527-539
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• 2010

Most video coding systems use YCbCr color space for their inputs, but RGB space is more preferred in the field of high fidelity video because the compression gain from YCbCr becomes disappeared in the high quality operation region. In order to improve the coding performance of RGB video signal, this paper presents an adaptive frequency-selective weighted prediction algorithm. Based on the sign agreement and the strength of frequency-domain correlation of residual color planes, the proposed scheme adaptively selects the frequency elements as well as the corresponding prediction weights for better utilization of inter-plane correlation of RGB signal. Experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm improves the coding gain of around 13% bitrate reduction, on average, compared to the common mode of 4:4:4 video coding in the state-of-the-art video compression standard, H.264/AVC.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.770-773
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• 2015

The contrast of the intensity components of color images usually needs to be improved in order to enhance the visual quality of color images. However, pure color regions can be saturated due to the excessive enhancement of that color. In this paper, a new method for enhancing the visual quality of color images using saturation components in the HSI color space is proposed, and the same enhancement technique in the YCbCr color space is proposed. Computer simulations show that the proposed method provides improved visual quality compared to the conventional methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.610-622
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• 2008

Moving object segmentation is an essential technique for various video surveillance applications. The result of moving object segmentation often contains shadow regions caused by the color difference of shadow pixels. Hence, moving object segmentation is usually followed by a shadow elimination process to remove the false detection results. The common assumption adopted in previous works is that, under the illumination variation, the value of chromaticity components are preserved while the value of intensity component is changed. Hence, color transforms which separates luminance component and chromaticity component are usually utilized to remove shadow pixels. In this paper, various color spaces (YCbCr, HSI, normalized rgb, Yxy, Lab, c1c2c3) are examined to find the most appropriate color space for shadow elimination. So far, there have been some research efforts to compare the influence of various color spaces for shadow elimination. However, previous efforts are somewhat insufficient to compare the color distortions under illumination change in diverse color spaces, since they used a specific shadow elimination scheme or different thresholds for different color spaces. In this paper, to relieve the limitations of previous works, (1) the amount of gradients in shadow boundaries drawn to uniform colored regions are examined only for chromaticity components to compare the color distortion under illumination change and (2) the accuracy of background subtraction are analyzed via RoC curves to compare different color spaces without the problem of threshold level selection. Through experiments on real video sequences, YCbCr and normalized rgb color spaces showed good results for shadow elimination among various color spaces used for the experiments.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.8-14
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a new fire detection method using moving features and colors of flames in video sequences. It uses YCbCr color space to separate the luminance from the chrominance components more effectively than RGB color space. In the proposed method, moving regions of flames are detected by cumulating the difference of luminance between two consecutive images and generate candidate flame regions by using the color of flames. Finally, it decides whether the candidate flame regions are flames or not by using their temporal changes of the areas. Experimental results show that the proposed method performs better in segmenting fire regions compared with the conventional fire detection method in video sequences.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.120-126
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• 2016

In this study, we propose a method for effectively detecting and recognizing the face in image using RBFNNs pattern classifier and HCbCr-based skin color feature. Skin color detection is computationally rapid and is robust to pattern variation for face detection, however, the objects with similar colors can be mistakenly detected as face. Thus, in order to enhance the accuracy of the skin detection, we take into consideration the combination of the H and CbCr components jointly obtained from both HSI and YCbCr color space. Then, the exact location of the face is found from the candidate region of skin color by detecting the eyes through the Haar-like feature. Finally, the face recognition is performed by using the proposed FCM-based RBFNNs pattern classifier. We show the results as well as computer simulation experiments carried out by using the image database of Cambridge ICPR.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.318-320
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• 2020

JPEG 은 현재의 디지털 이미지 시장에서 가장 널리 사용되는 형식 중의 하나로 대부분 디지털 이미징 응용에서 많이 사용되고 있다. 이와 같은 환경에서 새로운 이미지 부호화 표준의 적용이 없이 현재의 디지털 시장에 쉽게 적용할 수 있는 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 논문에서는 JPEG 의 부호화에 사용되는 YCbCr 색 공간에서 YCbCr 성분의 좌표축을 변환하여 밝기 성분 (Y 성분)이 보다 많은 정보를 가지도록 하는 CCT (Color Coordinate Tuning) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 실험을 통하여 블록별로 동적으로 CCT 알고리즘을 적용함으로써 기존 JPEG 부호화의 성능이 개선됨을 보였다.