• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.19-32
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• 2001

This paper proposes a local adaptive thresholding method based on a water flow model, in which an image surface is considered as a 3-dimensional (3-D) terrain. To extract characters from backgrounds, we pour water onto the terrain surface. Water flows down to the lower regions of the terrain and fills valleys. Then, the amount of filled water is thresholded, in which the proposed thresholding method is applied to gray level document images consisting of characters and backgrounds. The proposed method based on a water flow model shows the property of locally adaptive thresholding. Computer simulation with synthetic and real document images shows that the proposed method yields effective adaptive thresholding results for binarization of document images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.311-313
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• 2011

대부문의 이진화 알고리즘은 임계치를 결정하기 위하여 히스토그램을 사용하여 밝기분포를 분석한다. 배경과 물체의 명도차이가 큰 경우에는 분할을 위해 양봉(bimadal) 히스토그램으로 표현하여 최적의 임계치를 찾기 위해 히스토그램 골짜기(valley)를 선택하는 것만으로도 양호한 임계치 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 하지만 배경과 물체의 밝기 차이가 크지 않거나 밝기 분포가 양봉 특성이 보이지 않을 때는 히스토그램 분석만으로 적절한 임계치를 얻기 어렵다. 그리고 한 영상에서는 넓은 영역에 걸쳐 명암도 변화가 일어나고 다양한 유형의 물체가 있을 때 스케치 특징점의 유무를 판별하는 임계치의 결정에는 애매모호함이 존재한다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 영상에 대한 삼각형 타입의 소속함수를 적용하여 임계치를 동적으로 설정하고 영상을 이진화하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 퍼지 이진화 알고리즘은 원 영상을 특정 크기의 윈도우로 나누어서 윈도우의 소속 함수에 대한 소속도를 구하여 영상을 이진화한다. 다양한 영상에 적용한 결과, 기존의 이진화 기법보다 제안된 퍼지 이진화 알고리즘이 효율적인 것을 알 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.5073-5086
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• 2015

The rock fracture detection by image analysis is significant for fracture measurement and assessment engineering. The paper proposes a novel image segmentation algorithm for the centerline tracing of a rock fracture based on Hessian Matrix at Multi-scales and Steger algorithm. A traditional fracture detection method, which does edge detection first, then makes image binarization, and finally performs noise removal and fracture gap linking, is difficult for images of rough rock surfaces. To overcome the problem, the new algorithm extracts the centerlines directly from a gray level image. It includes three steps: (1) Hessian Matrix and Frangi filter are adopted to enhance the curvilinear structures, then after image binarization, the spurious-fractures and noise are removed by synthesizing the area, circularity and rectangularity; (2) On the binary image, Steger algorithm is used to detect fracture centerline points, then the centerline points or segments are linked according to the gap distance and the angle differences; and (3) Based on the above centerline detection roughly, the centerline points are searched in the original image in a local window along the direction perpendicular to the normal of the centerline, then these points are linked. A number of rock fracture images have been tested, and the testing results show that compared to other traditional algorithms, the proposed algorithm can extract rock fracture centerlines accurately.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.75-77
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• 2012

In this paper, We proposed that real-time pupil detection using local binarization at each region of eyes in image. In image obtained a single low-resolution web-camera, we detect a region of face using haar-like feature and then detect each region of eyes depending upon the rate of width and height of region of face respectively. In each region of eyes, we detect the pupil after local preprocessing and binarizing. This pupil detection can be variously used for HCI(Human-Computer Interface) systems.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.1686-1692
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• 1999

This paper describes the feature area-based vehicle plate recognition system(VPRS). For the extraction of vehicle plate in a vehicle image, we used the method which extracts vehicle plate area from a s vehicle image using intensity variation. For the extraction of the feature area containing character from the extracted vehicle plate, we used the histogram-based approach and the relative location information of individual characters in the extracted vehicle plate. The extracted feature area is used as the input vector of ART2 neural network. The proposed method simplifies the existing complex preprocessing the solves the problem of distortion and noise in the binarization process. In the difficult cases of character extraction by binarization process of previous method, our method efficiently extracts characters regions and recognizes it.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.205-214
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• 2006

Texts in images have significant and detailed information about the scenes, and if we can automatically detect and recognize those texts in real-time, it can be used in various applications. In this paper, we propose a new text detection method that can find texts from the various camera-captured images and propose a text segmentation method from the detected text regions. The detection method proposes color variance as a detection feature in RGB color space, and the segmentation method suggests an improved K-means color clustering in RGB color space. We have tested the proposed methods using various kinds of document style and natural scene images captured by digital cameras and mobile-phone camera, and we also tested the method with a portion of ICDAR[1] contest images.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.18-26
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• 2015

Geometric distortion and shadow effect due to capturing angle could be included in document copy images that are captured by a camera in stead of a scanner. In this paper, a clean black and white document image generation algorithm by distortion correction and shadow elimination based on a camera, is proposed. In order to correct geometric distortion such as straightening un-straight boundary lines occurred by camera lens radial distortion and eliminating outlying area included by camera direction, second derivative filter based document boundary detection method is developed. Black and white images have been generated by adaptive binarization method by eliminating shadow effect. Experimental results of the black and white document image generation algorithm by recovering geometrical distortion and eliminating shadow effect for the document images captured by smart phone camera, shows very good processing results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.481-483
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• 2018

AR은 VR과 달리 실세계 공간의 객체에 대한 서비스를 제공하므로 서비스 개발을 방해하는 많은 요인들이 발생한다. 이를 보완하기위해 비주얼 마커, SLAM, 객체인식 등 여러 AR 기술이 존재한다. 본 논문은 AR 기술 중에서 객체인식의 정확도 향상을 위해 지역가변 이진화(Local variable binarization)와 색상의 군집화를 사용해서 이미지에서 객체를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 지역 가변화는 픽셀을 순차적으로 읽어 들이면서 픽셀 주위의 값의 평균을 구하고, 이 값을 해당 픽셀의 임계 값으로 사용하는 알고리즘이다. 픽셀마다 주위 색상 값에 의해 임계 값이 변화되므로 윤곽선 표현이 기존의 이진화보다 뚜렷이 나타난다. 색상의 군집화는 객체의 중요색상과 배경의 중요색상을 중심으로 유사한 색상끼리 군집화 하는 것이다. 객체 내에서 가장 많이 나온 값과 객체 외에 가장 많이 나온 값을 각 각 기준으로 색조와 채도의 값을 Euclidean 거리를 사용해 객체의 색상과 배경 색상을 분리했다.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.77-82
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• 2017

In this paper, a new security algorithm to recognize the type of the vehicle with the vehicle image as a input image is suggested. The vehicle recognition security algorithm is composed of five core parts, such as the input image, background removal, edge areas extraction, pre-processing(binarization), and the vehicle recognition. Therefore, the final recognition rate of the security algorithm for vehicle type recognition can be affected by the function and efficiency of each step. After inputting image into a gray scale image and removing backgrounds, the binarization is performed by extracting only the edge region. After the pre-treatment process for making outlines clear, the type of vehicles is categorized into large vehicles, passenger cars and motorcycles through the ratio of height and width of the vehicle.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Information Technology
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.75-83
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a method that can detect and trace the end point of real - time reinforcement steel to various environmental conditions of industrial field by using Median flow and Depth information. We proposed a method to derive two steel end points by using Median filter, Binarization, Morphology, and Blob algorithm on image depth information. The coordinates of the final position were determined by comparing the coordinates of the reinforcement steel endpoints detected in the Depth image and the position tracking coordinates of the reinforcement steel using Median Flow. As a result, when the existing Median Flow method was used, the success rate of the final position determination of reinforcement steel of 75% was increased to 95% when the Depth of reinforcement steel was used.