• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.693-696
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• 2000

RGB 컬러 좌표계상에서는 각 컬러 성분간의 상관도가 매우 높고, 색을 표현할 때 R, G, B 각 성분에 똑같은 대역폭을 주기 때문에 영상의 압축 관점에서 효율적이지 못하다. 대표적인 영상압축 알고리즘인 MPEG-1,MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, JPEG, JPEG-2000등에서는 압축 효율을 높이기 위해서 YCbCr 컬러 좌표계를 사용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 좀 더 효율적인 영상 압축을 위해서 새로운 컬러 좌표계를 제안하고자 한다. 제안하는 컬러 좌표계는 DCT 커널에 기반을 두고 있다. DCT 컬러 좌표계는 각각의 커널끼리 직교하며, 빠른 연산이 가능하고, 구조가 간단하다. 실험결과, DCT 컬러 좌표계의 신호들의 분산이 YCbCr 컬러 좌표계의 신호들의 분산보다 작은 경향을 보이며, 동일한 비트율에서 작은 MSE (Mean Square Error)를 가지는 것을 실험적으로 알 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.20-27
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• 2010

This paper proposes a saturation compensating method by embedding pseudo-random code information in wavelet packet based colorization algorithm. In the color-to-gray process, an input RGB image is converted into YCbCr images, and a 2-level wavelet packet transform is applied to the Y image. And then, color components of CbCr are embedded into two sub-bands including minimum amount of energy on the Y image. At this time, in order to compensate the color saturations of the recovered color image during the printing and scanning process, the maximum and minimum values of CbCr components of an original image are also embedded into the diagonal-diagonal sub-band by a form of pseudo-random code. This pseudo-random code has the maximum and minimum values of an original CbCr components, and is expressed by the number of white pixels. In the gray-to-color process, saturations of the recovered color image are compensated using the ratio of the original CbCr values to the extracted CbCr values. Through the experiments, we can confirm that the proposed method improves color saturations in the recovered color images by the comparison of color difference and PSNR values.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.241-244
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• 2009

최근 모바일폰에 500만 화소 이상의 카메라 모듈이 장착되는 등 모바일 장치에서 고해상도 영상의 인코딩 및 디코딩에 대한 요구가 크게 늘어남에 따라 저성능 시스템에서 실시간으로 동작하는 영상 코덱 구현에 대한 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 본 논문은 JPEG 디코딩의 마지막 단계인 컬러변환 과정에 대해 계산 복잡도를 최적화하는 기법을 제안하고 성능을 평가하였다. 제안된 기법은 JPEG 디코딩 과정에서 IDCT(Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform) 변환과 컬러변환 간의 선형성을 바탕으로 이들 연산 순서를 재배열함으로써 컬러변환 과정에서 요구되는 계산 횟수를 줄이고, 재배열된 부동소수점 연산에 대해 정수 맵핑을 적용하여 계산 복잡도를 줄임으로써 실행시간을 최적화하였다. 임베디드 시스템 개발 플랫폼에서의 성능 평가를 통해 제안된 기법이 기존의 컬러변환 기법들과 비교하여 실행시간을 크게 단축함을 얄 수 있었으나 복원 영상의 화질이 상대적으로 저하됨을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.33-38
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed an algorithm implementing mouse functions using hand motion and number of fingers which are extracted from an image sequence. The sequence is acquired through a web camera and processed with image processing algorithms. The sequence is first converted from RGB model to YCbCr model to efficiently extract skin area and the extracted area is further processed using labeling, opening, and closing operations to decide the center of a hand. Based on the center position, the number of fingers is decided, which serves as the information to decide and perform a mouse function. Experimental results show that 94.0% of pointer moves and 96.0% of finger extractions are successful, which opens the possibility of further development for a commercial product.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.291-298
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• 2009

In this paper we proposed a vision based realtime hand gesture recognition method. To extract skin color, we translate RGB color space into YCbCr color space and use CbCr color for the final extraction. To find the center of extracted hand region we apply practical center point extraction algorithm. We use Kalman filter to tracking hand region and use HMM(Hidden Markov Model) algorithm (learning 6 type of hand gesture image) to recognize it. We demonstrated the effectiveness of our algorithm by some experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1828-1834
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• 2007

This study proposes a new digital watermarking technique based on wavelet transformation on color image. First the $YC_bC_r$ coordinates obtain from RGB color space. then, the correlation of watermark is decreased by Arnold transformation. Next, watermark which has been enlarged by Linear Bit-expansion is inserted at a given intensity in Color images' low frequency sub-bands. When detecting the presence of watermark, F-norm function is applied. As a result of the various experiments on color images, the proposed watermarking technique has outstanding quality in regards to fidelity and robustness.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.461-472
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose face feature extraction algorithm through stereo image's matching value. The proposed algorithm detected face region by change the RGB color space of skin color information to the YCbCr color space. Applying eye-template from extracted face region geometrical feature vector of feature about distance and lean, nose and mouth between eye extracted. And, Proposed method could do feature of eyes, nose and mouth through stereo image's matching as well as 2D feature information extract. In the experiment, the proposed algorithm shows the consistency rate of 73% in distance within about 1m and the consistency rate of 52%in distance since about 1m.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.488-491
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 실시간 CCD 카메라 입력 영상으로부터 다중 컬러 정보를 이용하여 얼굴 영역을 검출 및 추적하고 기울어진 얼굴을 보정하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 먼저 획득된 RGB 영상에서 YCbCr컬러 모델과 YIQ컬러 모델로 변환한 후 Cr성분과 I성분을 추출하여 얼굴 피부색을 검출, 얼굴 영역 추출에 사용하였다. 또한 추출된 얼굴 후보 영역에서 수평, 수직 투영(Projection)정보로부터 최종 얼굴 영역으로 검출한 다음 검출된 얼굴 중심 좌표와 이전에 검출된 얼굴 중심 좌표 값을 유클리드언 거리로 얼굴을 추적하였으며 검출된 얼굴로부터 레이블링(Labeling)기법으로 눈 특징자를 검출, 눈의 기울기 각도를 보정함으로써 얼굴 기울기를 보정하였다. 제안한 얼굴 추적 및 기울기 보정 알고리즘을 사용하여 실험한 결과 다중 색상 정보를 사용함으로써 주위환경 변화에 강인하게 실시간 얼굴 영역 김출 및 추적이 가능하였고, 기울어진 얼굴 영상을 자동 보정함으로써 인식에 용이하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.2429-2434
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a method to extract and analyze palm line with fuzzy method. In order to extract the palm part, we transform the original RGB color space to YCbCr color space and extract sin colors ranging Y:65-255, Cb:25-255, Cr:130-255 and use it as a threshold. Possible noise is removed by 8-directional contour tracking algorithm and morphological characteristic of the palm. Then the edge is extracted from that noise-free image by stretching method and sobel mask Then the fuzzy binarization algorithm is applied to remove any minute noise so that we have only the palm lines and the boundary of the hand. Since the palm line reading is done with major lines, we use the morphological characteristics of the analyzable palm lines and fuzzy inference rules. Experiment verifies that the proposed method is better in visibility and thus more analyzable in palm reading than the old method.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.243-248
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new method to extract palm lines and read it with simple techniques from one photo. We use morphological information and 8-directional contour tracking algorithm. From the digitalized image, we transform original RGB information to YCbCr color model which is less sensitive to the brightness information. The palm region is extracted by simple threshold as Y:65~255, Cb:25~255, Cr:130~255 of skin color. Noise removal process is then followed with morphological information of the palm such that the palm area has more than quarter of the pixels and the rate of width vs height is more than 2:1 and 8-directional contour tracking algorithm. Then, the stretching algorithm and Sobel mask are applied to extract edges. Another morphological information that the meaningful edges(palm lines) have between 10 and 20 pixels is used to exclude noise edges and boundary lines of the hand from block binarized image. Main palm lines are extracted then by labeling method. This algorithm is quite effective even reading the palm from a photographed by a mobile phone, which suggests that this method could be used in various applications.