• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.7-16
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• 2010

Face recognition of face images is an active subject in the area of computer pattern recognition, which has a wide range of potential. Automatic extraction of face image of the feature points is an important step during automatic face recognition. Whether correctly extract the facial feature has a direct influence to the face recognition. In this paper, a new method of facial feature extraction based on Discrete Wavelet Transform is proposed. Firstly, get the face image by using PC Camera. Secondly, decompose the face image using discrete wavelet transform. Finally, we use the horizontal direction, vertical direction projection method to extract the features of human face. According to the results of the features of human face, we can achieve face recognition. The result show that this method could extract feature points of human face quickly and accurately. This system not only can detect the face feature points with great accuracy, but also more robust than the tradition method to locate facial feature image.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.569-591
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• 2022

This study aims to investigate the educational effects of the visualization of heat conduction using a thermal imaging camera on elementary school students through small group activities. It endeavors to explain the reason for why metal feels cold. The scholars conducted in-depth interviews before and after learning the unit "Temperature and Heat" for four students in fifth grade in Seoul. Recorded video and audio materials of the activities, their outputs, and journals of scholars were collected, reviewed, and analyzed. The result demonstrated that visualizing heat conduction using the thermal imaging camera aroused curiosity and provided an opportunity for sophisticated observation and integrated thinking. In addition, the visualization of the heat conduction phenomenon was used as the basis for interpretation and rebuttal for active communication during the small group activities of the students. Consequently, the students changed their non-scientific beliefs, refined their knowledge, and developed their mental models through a small group discussion based on a thermal image video.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.73-75
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• 2005

The latest scientific highlights obtained with the Subaru telescope are given together with its current status and on-going instrumentation. We have been successfully operating the telescope and 8 observatory instruments (including an adaptive optics system) since January 1999, when the first light was accomplished. Open-use of Subaru began in December 2000. Subaru has a unique capability of its prime focus among other 8-10 meter class telescopes and has an excellent imaging performance as a result of its sophisticated active optics combined with the high stability of the sky at Mauna Kea. Scientific highlights are given on the discoveries of the most distant galaxies, spiral structure on a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur, and planetesimal belts in the debris disk around $\beta$ Pic. Brief summaries are given for three new instruments: the Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS), 188 element adaptive optics system, and Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS)

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.377-380
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 실내에서 액티브 카메라를 사용하여 다중 인물의 얼굴의 위치를 검출하고. 추적할 수 있으며 조명과 배경 등의 영향에 강인한 추적 알고리즘을 제시하고자 한다. 알고리즘은 얼굴영역 검출, 추적의 2단계로 구성되며, 빠르고 효율적인 얼굴영역 검출은 추적 알고리즘의 성능향상으로 이어지므로, 이를 위해 독특한 색상영역 분포를 갖는 피부 색상 특징을 이용하였다. 표본영상에서 추출된 피부색상 픽셀들을 바탕으로 YCbCr 색상계를 사용하여 얼굴 색상모델을 구축한 후, Gaussian 함수를 사용하여 입력 영상의 픽셀과 얼굴색상모델과의 유사도를 결정하였다. 최종 얼굴 영역은 추출된 영역에 대한 얼굴의 타원특징, 해부학적 특징을 이용하여 결정된다. 추적은 추출된 얼굴영역과 temporal Gaussian 필터를 적용한 움직임 추정을 통한 움직임 검출의 조합으로 이루어진다. 또한, 예측버퍼의 사용으로 탐색영역의 축소로 인한 계산량 감소와 처리 속도의 증가시켰으며, pan/tilt가 가능한 카메라를 사용하여 상호 피드백이 가능하도록 하였다. 제시된 알고리즘은 PC 상에서 시뮬레이션되었으며, 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.256-267
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• 2017

An active research area in computer vision, stereo matching is aimed at obtaining three-dimensional (3D) information from a stereo image pair captured by a stereo camera. To extract accurate 3D information, a number of studies have examined stereo matching algorithms that employ adaptive support weight. Among them, the adaptive census transform (ACT) algorithm has yielded a relatively strong matching capability. The drawbacks of the ACT, however, are that it produces low matching accuracy at the border of an object and is vulnerable to noise. To mitigate these drawbacks, this paper proposes and analyzes the features of an improved stereo matching algorithm that not only enhances matching accuracy but also is also robust to noise. The proposed algorithm, based on the ACT, adopts the truncated absolute difference and the multiple sparse windows method. The experimental results show that compared to the ACT, the proposed algorithm reduces the average error rate of depth maps on Middlebury dataset images by as much as 2% and that is has a strong robustness to noise.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.284-286
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• 2012

There has been increasing attention about the prevention and counter-measure of disasters. Particularly, for the case of fire disaster, early detection reduces the damage caused by fire significantly and effective detection method is important. Since most existing detectors need to be located at a close distance to fire, analyzing camera images to find fire becomes active research topic. In this paper, we analyze the color characteristics of fire images in various color spaces and report the experimental detection results. The best result is 77.8% success rate in YIQ space.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.53-56
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 비디오 지리정보시스템 구축을 위해 특징점을 이용한 객체 추적 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 특징점을 이용한 객체 추적 알고리즘은 카메라의 움직임이 배제된, 즉 배경이 고정된 영상에서 객체의 특성을 이용한 방식으로, 운행중인 차량에 부착된 카메라에서 획득한 영상에서는 배경이 움직이므로 객체를 정확하게 추적하지 못하는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 연속된 카메라 영상에서 모션벡터를 이용해 시간에 따른 객체의 변화율을 유도하고 유도된 변화율을 이용하여 객체 추적 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.61-69
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• 2007

In this paper, we developed not only a reliable sound localization system including a VAD(Voice Activity Detection) component using three microphones but also a face tracking system using a vision camera. Moreover, we proposed a way to integrate three systems in the human-robot interaction to compensate errors in the localization of a speaker and to reject unnecessary speech or noise signals entering from undesired directions effectively. For the purpose of verifying our system's performances, we installed the proposed audio-visual system in a prototype robot, called IROBAA(Intelligent ROBot for Active Audition), and demonstrated how to integrate the audio-visual system.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.13 no.1 s.14
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• pp.17-30
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• 1998

To study kinematics of solar prominences, we have made Ha spectrographic study of an eruptive prominence which appeared on the 27th of August, 1992 with a position angle of 270 deg. The observation was carried out by a Littrow type spectrograph and a G1 CCD camera attached to the 25cm coronagraph at Norikura Coronal Station. In taking the spectral data the slit was placed in parallel to the solar limb at 7 different heights, each being separated by 5 arcsec with a time step of 30 sec. The observed eruptive prominence shows a wide range of line of sight Doppler velocity, spanning from $V_{dopp}=-17.5km/s\;to\;V_{dopp}=58.2km/s$. It is also found that the velocity increases with height at the rate of ${\Delta}V= 0.86 km/s/arcsec$.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.41.3-41
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• 2002

Motion estimation using Full-Search(FS) and Block-Matching Algorithm(BMA) is often used in the case of moving object tracking by vision sensors. However these methods often miss the real-time vision data because these schemes suffer the heavy computational load. When the image size of moving object is changed in an image frame according to the distance between the camera of mobile robot and the moving object, the tracking performance of a moving object may decline with these methods because of the shortage of active handling. In this paper, the variable-representative block that can reduce a lot of data computations, is defined and optimized by changing the size of representative block accor...