• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.365-370
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• 1997

In this paper we suggest a development of surface defect inspection algorithms for cold mill strip using tree structure. The defects which exist in a surface of cold mill strip have a scattering or singular distribution. This paper consists of preprocessing, feature extraction and defect classification. By preprocessing, the binarized defect image is achieved. In this procedure, Top-hit transform, adaptive thresholding, thinning and noise rejection are used. Especially, Top-hit transform using local min/max operation diminishes the effect of bad lighting. In feature extraction, geometric, moment, co-occurrence matrix, histogram-ratio features are calculated. The histogram-ratio feature is taken from the gray-level image. For the defect classification, we suggest a tree structure of which nodes are multilayer neural network clasifiers. The proposed algorithm reduced error rate comparing to one stage structure.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.1356-1367
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• 2019

This paper proposes a novel active stereo matching technique using white auxiliary stripe pattern. The conventional active stereo matching techniques that uses two cameras and an active source such as projector can accurately estimate disparity information even in the areas with low texture compared to the passive ones. However, it is difficult that the conventional active stereo matching techniques using color code patterns acquire these patterns robustly if the object is composed of various colors or is exposed to complex lighting condition. To overcome this problem, the proposed method uses an additional white auxiliary stripe pattern to get and localize the color code patterns robustly. This paper proposes a process based on adaptive thresholding and thinning to obtain the auxiliary pattern accurately. Experimental results show that the proposed method more precisely measures the stepped sample whose depth is known in advance than the conventional method.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.499-507
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• 2016

Medical imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Ultrasound (US) produce a large amount of digital medical images. Hence, compression of digital images becomes essential and is very much desired in medical applications to solve both storage and transmission problems. But at the same time, an efficient image compression scheme that reduces the size of medical images without sacrificing diagnostic information is required. This paper proposes a novel threshold-based medical image compression algorithm to reduce the size of the medical image without degradation in the diagnostic information. This algorithm discusses a novel type of thresholding to maximize Compression Ratio (CR) without sacrificing diagnostic information. The compression algorithm is designed to get image with high optimum compression efficiency and also with high fidelity, especially for Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) greater than or equal to 36 dB. This value of PSNR is chosen because it has been suggested by previous researchers that medical images, if have PSNR from 30 dB to 50 dB, will retain diagnostic information. The compression algorithm utilizes one-level wavelet decomposition with threshold-based coefficient selection.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.478-480
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 실제 도로 영상에서 움직이는 물체를 검출하고 판별하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 연속된 영상의 차영상에 적응적 임계간을 적용하여 움직임이 있는 후보 영역을 검출한다. 검출된 후보영역에 관심의 대상이 되는 물체의 포함 여부를 판별하기 위해 신경망을 사용한다. 신경망의 입력으로 사용되는 특징 벡터들의 차원을 줄이기 위해, 후보 영역의 스케일 공간 웨이블릿 특징 벡터 (scale-space wavelet feature vector)들을 사용한다. 제안된 방법은 비디오 기반의 응용 프로그램에 유용하게 이용될 수 있으며 특히, 시간에 따라 조명이 변하거나 잡음이 포함된 비디오 영상에 대해 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.799-800
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• 2008

An efficient intra mode selection algorithm is proposed to reduce the computational complexity of inter frames for the H.264|AVC video encoding system. We propose an adaptive thresholding algorithm based on distribution characteristics of the sum of the absolute differences (SAD) of the best inter mode. Through comparative analysis, the proposed algorithm shows better speed up ratio with a negligible quality loss.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.30 no.1 s.244
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• pp.8-15
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• 2006

A Sparse Point Representation(SPR) based on interpolation wavelets is presented. The SPR is implemented for the purpose of CFD data compression. Unlike conventional wavelet transformation, the SPR relieves computing workload in the similar fashion of lifting scheme that includes splitting and prediction procedures in sequence. However, SPR skips update procedure that is major part of lifting scheme. Data compression can be achieved by proper thresholding method. The advantage of the SPR method is that, by keeping even point physical values, low frequency filtering procedure is omitted and its related unphysical thresholing mechanism can be avoided in reconstruction process. Extra singular feature detection algorithm is implemented for preserving singular features such as shock and vortices. Several numerical tests show the adequacy of SPR for the CFD data. It is also shown that it can be easily extended to nonlinear adaptive wavelets for enhanced feature capturing.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.499-505
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• 1998

In developing an automated surface inspect algorithm, we have designed a hierarchical classifier using neural network. The defects which exist on the surface of cold mill strip have a scattering or singular distribution. We have considered three major problems, that is preprocessing, feature extraction and defect classification. In preprocessing, Top-hit transform, adaptive thresholding, thinning and noise rejection are used Especially, Top-hit transform using local minimax operation diminishes the effect of bad lighting. In feature extraction, geometric, moment, co-occurrence matrix, and histogram ratio features are calculated. The histogram ratio feature is taken from the gray-level image. For defect classification, we suggest a hierarchical structure of which nodes are multilayer neural network classifiers. The proposed algorithm reduced error rate by comparing to one-stage structure.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2387-2390
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• 2003

움직이는 물체의 자동 분할은 컴퓨터 비젼의 여러 응용분야에서 중요한 문제로 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 감시 시스템에서 에지와 적응적 임계값을 이용한 효과적인 자동 움직임 분할 방법을 제안하였다. 먼저 연속 영상에서 현재 영상과 배경 영상과의 차를 얻어서 그 히스토그램을 만든다. 이 때 앞에서 얻은 히스토그램은 영상 잡음의 평균이 0 인 가우시안 분포를 가진다고 가정한다. 그리고, 이 히스토그램을 이용하여 영상잡음의 분산을 찾는다 이 분산 값을 이용하여 적응적 임계값과 움직임 영역창을 결정한다. 적응적 임계값에 의한 결과 영상에서 움직이는 물체를 분할하기 위해 본 논문에서는 움직임 영역창을 이용하는 방법을 제안하였다. 이 움직임 영역창에 의해 더욱 효과적인 움직임 분할이 이루어진다. 또, 잡음의 제거를 위해 수학적 모폴로지(mathematical morphology)와 화소의 연결성이 이용된다.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.44-50
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• 2015

The computational efficiency of flow simulations with Multi-resolution analysis (MRA) was enhanced via the boundary treatment of the computational domain. In MRA, an adaptive dataset to a solution is constructed through data decomposition with interpolating polynomial and thresholding. During the decomposition process, the basis points of interpolation should exceed the boundary of the computational domain. In order to resolve this problem, the weight coefficients of interpolating polynomial were adjusted near the boundaries. By this boundary treatment, the computational efficiency of MRA was enhanced while the numerical accuracy of a solution was unchanged. This modified MRA was applied to two-dimensional steady Euler equations and the enhancement of computational efficiency and the maintenance of numerical accuracy were assessed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.934-936
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 피라미드 계층간에 나타나는 잡음 신호의 특성을 바탕으로 라플라시안 피라미드를 이용한 X-ray 영상의 잡음 제거 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 잡음 제거를 위해 X-ray 영상 신호의 지역적 표준 편차와 신호의 영역적 특징을 이용하였다. 지역적 표준 편차는 영상의 경계선 정도와 비례하는 특징을 가지기 때문에 지역적 표준 편차를 이용하여 경계 정보의 손실을 막았다. 또한 라플라시안 피라미드의 각 계층에 잡음 신호가 좁은 면적을 가지며 분포되는 영역적 특징을 이용하여 평평한 지역에서 잡음 신호의 제거 성능을 높였다. X-ray영상 및 잡음이 첨가된 표준 영상에 대한 실험을 통해 제안된 방법이 경계 정보의 유지와 잡음 제거에서 기존의 방법보다 향상된 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.