• International Journal of Contents
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2015

When host images are watermarked with CRT (Chinese Remainder Theorem), the watermark images are still robust in spite of the damage of the host images by maintaining the remainders in an unchanged state within some range of the changes that are incurred by the attacks. This advantage can also be attained by "zero-watermarking," which does not change the host images in any way. This paper proposes an improved zero-watermarking scheme for color images on the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) domain that is based on the CRT. In the scheme, RGB images are converted into YCbCr images, and one channel is used for the DCT transformation. A key is then computed from the DC and three low-frequency AC values of each DCT block using the CRT. The key finally becomes the watermark key after it is combined four times with a scrambled watermark image. When watermark images are extracted, each bit is determined by majority voting. This scheme shows that watermark images are robust against a number of common attacks such as sharpening, blurring, JPEG lossy compression, and cropping.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.251-252
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• 2007

The thesis proposed the Text Extraction Algorithm which is a text extraction algorithm which uses the Coiflet Wavelet, YCbCr Color model and the close curve edge feature of adaptive LoG Operator in order to complement the demerit of the existing research which is weak in complexity of background, variety of light and disordered line and similarity of text and background color. This thesis is simulated with natural images which include naturally text area regardless of size, resolution and slant and so on of image. And the proposed algorithm is confirmed to an excellent by compared with an existing extraction algorithm in same image.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.329-330
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• 2007

This paper presents a simple and robust face detection algorithm that can be utilized to video summary. We firstly apply the Illumination-compensation process for reducing the effect of brightness on the image. And then, we analyze the face region based on color in the YCbCr space to obtain the skin color. Also, we try the morphological image processing called closing algorithm to improve the detection. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our face detection algorithm that leads to 96.7 % precision ratio on average.

• Journal of Semiconductor Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.125-129
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• 2021

As the interest of deep learning, techniques to control the color of images in image processing field are evolving together. However, there is no clear standard for color, and it is not easy to find a way to represent only the color itself like the color-palette. In this paper, we propose a novel color palette extraction system by chroma fine-tuning with reinforcement learning. It helps to recognize the color combination to represent an input image. First, we use RGBY images to create feature maps by transferring the backbone network with well-trained model-weight which is verified at super resolution convolutional neural networks. Second, feature maps are trained to 3 fully connected layers for the color-palette generation with a generative adversarial network (GAN). Third, we use the reinforcement learning method which only changes chroma information of the GAN-output by slightly moving each Y component of YCbCr color gamut of pixel values up and down. The proposed method outperforms existing color palette extraction methods as given the accuracy of 0.9140.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.141-156
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• 2013

In this paper we propose a method to detect human faces in color images. Many existing systems use a window-based classifier that scans the entire image for the presence of the human face and such systems suffers from scale variation, pose variation, illumination changes, etc. Here, we propose a lighting insensitive face detection method based upon the edge and skin tone information of the input color image. First, image enhancement is performed, especially if the image is acquired from an unconstrained illumination condition. Next, skin segmentation in YCbCr and RGB space is conducted. The result of skin segmentation is refined using the skin tone percentage index method. The edges of the input image are combined with the skin tone image to separate all non-face regions from candidate faces. Candidate verification using primitive shape features of the face is applied to decide which of the candidate regions corresponds to a face. The advantage of the proposed method is that it can detect faces that are of different sizes, in different poses, and that are making different expressions under unconstrained illumination conditions.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.1624-1631
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• 2021

With the continued development of image processing technology, we live in a time when it is difficult to visually discriminate processed (or tampered) images from real images. However, as the risk of fake images being misused for crime increases, the importance of image forensic science for identifying fake images is emerging. Currently, various deep learning-based identifiers have been studied, but there are still many problems to be used in real situations. Due to the inherent characteristics of deep learning that strongly relies on given training data, it is very vulnerable to evaluating data that has never been viewed. Therefore, we try to find a way to improve generalization ability of deep learning-based fake image identifiers. First, images with various contents were added to the training dataset to resolve the over-fitting problem that the identifier can only classify real and fake images with specific contents but fails for those with other contents. Next, color spaces other than RGB were exploited. That is, fake image identification was attempted on color spaces not considered when creating fake images, such as HSV and YCbCr. Finally, dropout, which is commonly used for generalization of neural networks, was used. Through experimental results, it has been confirmed that the color space conversion to HSV is the best solution and its combination with the approach of increasing the training dataset significantly can greatly improve the accuracy and generalization ability of deep learning-based identifiers in identifying fake images that have never been seen before.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2010

다시점 비디오는 카메라간의 다른 위치와 불완전한 카메라 보정(calibration)으로 인접한 시점의 영상 내에 존재하는 동일물체 간에 색상 차이가 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 색상 불일치(color mismatch)는 시점 간 움직임 예측(inter-view prediction) 수행 시, 오정합을 발생시켜 다시점 비디오 부호화(Multi-view Video Coding : MVC) 성능을 저하시키는 원인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 이웃하는 영상 간에 존재하는 휘도 및 색차 성분 불일치를 보상하여 다시점 비디오 부호화의 압축률을 향상시키는 전처리 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서는 모든 시점의 영상을 히스토그램 매칭 기법에 의해 정해진 참조 시점 영상의 색상을 기준으로 보정된다. 또한 히스토그램 매칭 수행 전에 YCbCr 색상공간 변경 시에 색차 성분의 대표 값 추출(chrominance subsampling)에 사용되는 Cosited filter를 영상의 각 색상성분에 적용하여 성능을 더욱 높일 수 있다. 히스토그램 매칭은 YCbCr 색상공간에서 RGB 색상공간으로 변환하여 각 색상성분에 적용한다. 이 과정에서 영상에 존재하는 에지의 방향성과 화소 값의 존재 범위를 고려한 효과적인 색상 변환 기법이 사용된다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 전처리 기법이 다른 기법들에 비해 향상된 부호화 효율을 가지는 것을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.120-121
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• 2006

In this paper, We have designed a face recognition system based on the embedded Linux. This paper has an aim in embedded system to recognize the face more exactly. At first, the contrast of the face image is adjusted with lightening compensation method, the skin and lip color is founded based on YCbCr values from the compensated image. To take advantage of the method based on feature and appearance, these methods are applied to the eyes which has the most highly recognition rate of all the part of the human face. For eyes detecting, which is the most important component of the face recognition, we calculate the horizontal gradient of the face image and the maximum value. This part of the face is resized for fitting the eye image. The image, which is resized for fit to the eye image stored to be compared, is extracted to be the feature vectors using the continuous wavelet transform and these vectors are decided to be whether the same person or not with PNN, to miminize the error rate, the accuracy is analyzed due to the rotation or movement of the face. Also last part of this paper we represent many cases to prove the algorithm contains the feature vector extraction and accuracy of the comparison method.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.263-271
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• 2016

이미지 내에서 객체를 검출하고 해당 위치를 추출하는 지역화 기법은 컴퓨터 비전에서 많이 활용되는 기술이다. 기존 연구들은 하나의 객체를 대상으로 위치 검출을 수행하지만, 실제 사진에서는 다수의 유사 객체를 포함하는 경우가 많기 때문에, 활용에 한계가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 이미지 인식을 위해 객체 지역화의 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 YCbCr 색채 성분에서 코렐로그램 역투영 기법을 활용하여 객체 지역화 문제를 해결한다. 제안 알고리즘에서는 질의 이미지의 객체가 포함되는 이미지의 위치를 검출할 수 있으며, 다수의 유사 객체가 존재할 경우 포함되는 객체 개수 정보 없이도 유사 후보 객체의 영역과 위치를 검출할 수 있다. 제안 알고리즘의 성능을 평가할 실험 결과, 기존에 연구된 방법에 비해, 21%의 성능 향상을 보였다. 이러한 결과를 통해, 색상 코렐로그램이 히스토그램 기법보다 성능적 우위를 보였다. 본 논문의 주요 공헌은 색 공간과 공간-색상 정보를 통해 객체 지역화 문제를 해결할 수 있는 또다른 기술을 제시한 것으로 학문적 기여를 검증하였다.

• 한국정보기술학회 영문논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.115-125
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• 2019

In this paper, the image is received from the camera and the lane is sensed. There are various ways to detect lanes. Generally, the method of detecting edges uses a lot of the Sobel edge detection and the Canny edge detection. The minimum use of multiplication and division is used when designing for the hardware configuration. The images are tested using a black box image mounted on the vehicle. Because the top of the image of the used the black box is mostly background, the calculation process is excluded. Also, to speed up, YCbCr is calculated from the image and only the data for the desired color, white and yellow lane, is obtained to detect the lane. The median filter is used to remove noise from images. Intermediate filters excel at noise rejection, but they generally take a long time to compare all values. In this paper, by using addition, the time can be shortened by obtaining and using the result value of the median filter. In case of the Sobel edge detection, the speed is faster and noise sensitive compared to the Canny edge detection. These shortcomings are constructed using complementary algorithms. It also organizes and processes data into parallel processing pipelines. To reduce the size of memory, the system does not use memory to store all data at each step, but stores it using four line buffers. Three line buffers perform mask operations, and one line buffer stores new data at the same time as the operation. Through this work, memory can use six times faster the processing speed and about 33% greater quantity than other methods presented in this paper. The target operating frequency is designed so that the system operates at 50MHz. It is possible to use 2157fps for the images of 640by360 size based on the target operating frequency, 540fps for the HD images and 240fps for the Full HD images, which can be used for most images with 30fps as well as 60fps for the images with 60fps. The maximum operating frequency can be used for larger amounts of the frame processing.