• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.415-422
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• 2011

In this paper, we present a novel vision-based method of recognizing finger actions for use in electronic appliance interfaces. Human skin is first detected by color and consecutive motion information. Then, fingertips are detected by a novel scale-invariant angle detection based on a variable k-cosine. Fingertip tracking is implemented by detected region-based tracking. By analyzing the contour of the tracked fingertip, fingertip parameters, such as position, thickness, and direction, are calculated. Finger actions, such as moving, clicking, and pointing, are recognized by analyzing these fingertip parameters. Experimental results show that the proposed angle detection can correctly detect fingertips, and that the recognized actions can be used for the interface with electronic appliances.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1214-1218
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• 2006

This paper presents method to speed up processing time in construction of panoramic images. The method based on invariant feature uses image down-scaling and image edge information. Reducing image size and applying feature descriptor to image portions superimposed with edge causes to reduce the number of features and to improve processing speed. In the experiments, it was shown that the proposed method was 3.26$\sim$13.87% shorter in processing time than the exiting method fer 24-bit color images of 640$\times$480 size.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.73-79
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• 1998

In this paper, a new traffic sign detection algorithm.. and a symbol recognition algorithm are proposed. For traffic sign detection, a dominant color transform is introduced, which serves as a tool of highlighting a dominant primary color, while discarding the other two primary colors. For symbol recognition, the curvilinear shape distribution on a circle centered on the centroid of symbol, called a circular pattern vector, is used as a spatial feature of symbol. The circular pattern vector is invariant to scaling, translation, and rotation. As simulation results, the effectiveness of traffic sign detection and recognition algorithms are confirmed, and it is shown that group of circular patter vectors based on concentric circles is more effective than circular pattern vector of a single circle for a given equivalent number of elements of vectors.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.58-63
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• 2003

In this paper, an object tracking system in a known environment is proposed. It extracts moving area shaped on objects in video sequences and decides tracks of moving objects. Color invarianoe features are exploited to extract the plausible object blocks and the degree of radial homogeneity, which is utilized as local block feature to find out the block correspondences. The experimental results are given.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.101-109
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• 2002

In this paper, multiple object tracking system in a known environment is proposed. It extracts moving areas shaped on objects in video sequences and detects racks of moving objects. Color invariant co-occurrence matrices are exploited to extract the plausible object blocks and the correspondences between adjacent video frames. The measures of class separability derived from the features of co-occurrence matrices are used to improve the performance of tracking. The experimented results are presented.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.135-135
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• 2001

In recent years there have been increasing interests in real-time object tracking with image information. Since image information is affected by illumination, this paper presents the real-time object tracking method based on neural networks that have robust characteristics under various illuminations. This paper proposes three steps to track the object and the fast tracking method. In the first step the object color is extracted using neural networks. In the second step we detect the object feature information based on invariant moment. Finally the object is tracked through a shape recognition using neural networks. To achieve the fast tracking performance, we have a global search for entire image and then have tracking the object through local search when the object is recognized.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2096-2099
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 입력 영상의 컬러 정보를 이용함으로써 조명 변화나 얼굴의 자세 변화에 둔감하게 얼굴 정보를 고속 검출하는 알고리듬을 제안하였다 계산복잡도가 작으면서도, 조명의 변화에 민감하지 않은 특성을 가진 NCC (normalized color component) 좌표계에서 정의한 살색에 기반하여 얼굴 후보 영역을 검출하고, 검출된 얼굴 후보 영역 내에서의 눈의 검출에도 색상 분포 특성을 이용함으로써 얼굴의 숙임(nod), 돌림(shake), 기울임(tilt)등에 의한 자세 변화에 대해서도 둔감하게 두 눈의 위치를 고속으로 찾도록 하였다. 특히 집중자(concentrator)를 제안 적용하여 유동적인 눈썹의 영향을 줄이고 눈안의 중심 위치를 찾도록 가중치 눈지도(eye map)를 도입하였다. 제안된 알고리듬이 조명 변화나 얼굴의 다양한 자세 변화가 있는 영상에서 얼굴 후보 영역과 두 눈의 위치를 효과적으로 검출함을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.170-176
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• 2015

The stamp is one of the crucial information of traditional historical and cultural for nations. In this paper, we purpose to detect official stamps from scanned document and recognize the Mongolian traditional, historical stamps. Therefore we performed following steps: first, we detect official stamps from scanned document based on red-color segmentation and document standard. Then we collected 234 traditional stamp images with 6 classes and 100 official stamp images from scanned document images. Also we implemented the processing algorithms for noise removing, resize and reshape etc. Finally, we proposed a new scale invariant classification algorithm based on KNN (k-nearest neighbor). In the experimental result, our proposed a method had shown proper recognition rate.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.97-102
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• 2017

Object detection and tracking have become one of the most active research areas in the past few years, and play an important role in computer vision applications over our daily life. Many tracking techniques are proposed, and Camshift is an effective algorithm for real time dynamic object tracking, which uses only color features, so that the algorithm is sensitive to illumination and some other environmental elements. This paper presents and implements an effective moving object detection and tracking to reduce the influence of illumination interference, which improve the performance of tracking under similar color background. The implemented prototype system recognizes object using invariant features, and reduces the dimension of feature descriptor to rectify the problems. The experimental result shows that that the system is superior to the existing methods in processing time, and maintains better problem ratios in various environments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.2271-2283
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a method which infers an accurate disparity map for radiometrically varying stereo images. For this end, firstly, we transform the input color images to the log-chromaticity color space from which a linear relationship can be established during constructing a joint pdf between input stereo images. Based on this linear property, we present a new stereo matching cost by combining weighted mutual information and the SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) descriptor with segment-based plane-fitting constraints to robustly find correspondences for stereo image pairs which undergo radiometric variations. Experimental results show that our method outperforms previous methods and produces accurate disparity maps even for stereo images with severe radiometric differences.