• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.539-544
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• 2005

An analog CMOS vision chip for edge detection with power consumption below 20mW was designed by adopting electronic switches. An electronic switch separates the edge detection circuit into two parts; one is a logarithmic compression photocircuit, the other is a signal processing circuit for edge detection. The electronic switch controls the connection between the two circuits. When the electronic switch is OFF, it can intercept the current flow through the signal processing circuit and restrict the magnitude of the current flow below several hundred nA. The estimated power consumption of the chip, with $128{\times}128$ pixels, was below 20mW. The vision chip was designed using $0.25{\mu}m$ 1-poly 5-metal standard full custom CMOS process technology.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.59-63
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• 2010

This paper proposes computer visual inspection algorithms for various LCD defects which are found in a manufacturing process. Modular vision processing steps are required in order to detect different types of LCD defects. Those key modules include RGB filtering for pixel defects, gray-scale morphological processing and Hough transform for line defects, and adaptive threshold for spot defects. The proposed algorithms can give users detailed information on the type of defects in the LCD panel, the size of defect, and its location. The machine vision inspection system is implemented using C language in an embedded Linux system for a high-speed real-time image processing. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithms are quite successful.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.211-218
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• 2021

Construction sites have various risk factors. There are various approaches to reduce safety accidents, but they have limitations to some extent. By utilizing the wireless communication technology of IT and the rapidly developing image processing technology, it will be possible to reduce accidents at the construction site if risk factors are identified and actively responded to. Therefore, in this study, a system that can detect risk factors of construction sites in advance is constructed, and a system is proposed to discover and respond to risk factors of construction sites using OpenCV for the purpose of real-time computer vision.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.721-727
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• 2022

Construction safety remains an ongoing concern, and project managers have been increasingly forced to cope with myriad uncertainties related to human operations on construction sites and the lack of a skilled workforce in hazardous circumstances. Various construction fatality monitoring systems have been widely proposed as alternatives to overcome these difficulties and to improve safety management performance. In this study, we propose an intelligent, automatic control system that can proactively protect workers using both the analysis of big data of past safety accidents, as well as the real-time detection of worker non-compliance in using personal protective equipment (PPE) on a construction site. These data are obtained using computer vision technology and data analytics, which are integrated and reinforced by lessons learned from the analysis of big data of safety accidents that occurred in the last 10 years. The system offers data-informed recommendations for high-risk workers, and proactively eliminates the possibility of safety accidents. As an illustrative case, we selected a pilot project and applied the proposed system to workers in uncontrolled environments. Decreases in workers PPE non-compliance rates, improvements in variable compliance rates, reductions in severe fatalities through guidelines that are customized according to the worker, and accelerations in safety performance achievements are expected.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2021

Machine vision is a technology that helps the computer as if a person recognizes and determines things. In recent years, as advanced technologies such as optical systems, artificial intelligence and big data advanced in conventional machine vision system became more accurate quality inspection and it increases the manufacturing efficiency. In machine vision systems using deep learning, the image quality of the input image is very important. However, most images obtained in the industrial field for quality inspection typically contain noise. This noise is a major factor in the performance of the machine vision system. Therefore, in order to improve the performance of the machine vision system, it is necessary to eliminate the noise of the image. There are lots of research being done to remove noise from the image. In this paper, we propose an autoencoder based machine vision system to eliminate noise in the image. Through experiment proposed model showed better performance compared to the basic autoencoder model in denoising and image reconstruction capability for MNIST and fashion MNIST data sets.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.190-196
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• 2009

In a conventional camera system, a target tracking system consists of a camera part and a image processing part. However, in the field of the real time image processing, the vision chip for edge detection which was made by imitating the algorithm of humanis retina is superior to the conventional digital image processing systems because the human retina uses the parallel information processing method. In this paper, we present a high speed target tracking system using the function of the CMOS vision chip for edge detection.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2008

The flow of technology is going to human-oriented direction, from the time when the computer was first invented, to now where new computing environment using mobile and global network are everywhere. On that technology flow, ubiquitous is being suggested as new paradigm of computing environment. Augmented Reality is one of ubiquitous technologies that provide the interactions between human and computer. By adding computer-generated information to real information and their interaction, user can get the improved and more knowledgeable information about real world. The purpose of this paper is to show the possibility of applying vision based augmented reality to maintenance of product system.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2020

In semiconductor manufacturing, defect detection is critical to maintain high yield. Currently, computer vision systems used in semiconductor photo lithography still have adopt to digital image processing algorithm, which often occur inspection faults due to sensitivity to external environment. Thus, we intend to handle this problem by means of using Mask R-CNN instead of digital image processing algorithm. Additionally, Mask R-CNN can be trained with image dataset pre-processed by means of the specific designed digital image filter to extract the enhanced feature map of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our approach converged advantage of digital image processing and instance segmentation with deep learning yields more efficient semiconductor photo lithography inspection system than conventional system.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 한국정보처리학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.357-360
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• 2011

스트레스는 다양한 질병의 원인이 되며 스트레스의 해소는 질병 예방에 중요한 요인이라 할 수 있을 것이다. 스트레스를 해소시키는 방법 중 한 가지는 청각이나 시각을 이용하는 방법이다. 청각과 시각을 동시에 이용할 수 있다면 그 효과를 극대화 할 수 있을 것이다. 이러한 맥락에서 본 논문에서는 음원의 분위기와 분위기 단어의 색상을 수집한 후 수집한 데이터를 이용하여 음악 장르에 따른 분위기 분포와 분위기 단어에 따른 색상을 이용하여 음악 장르에 따른 색상 분포가 다르다는 것을 확인하기 위해 Minitab을 이용하여 $x^2$-test를 실시하였다. 분석결과, P<0.001로 음악 장르에 따라 분위기 색상이 다르게 분포되며 분위기에 따라 색상 및 명도, 채도의 분포도 다르게 나타남을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.661-670
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• 2003

The most recent paradigm shift is ubiquitous technology, or ubicomp for short. The ubicomp vision pushes computational services out of conventional desktop interfaces and into the environment in increasingly transparent forms. Research in ubiquitous computing raises many challenging issues for computer science in general, but successful research in ubiquitous computing requires the deployment of applications that can survive everyday use, and this in itself presents a great software engineering challenge. We will clarify these problems and discuss our approaches towards their solution. In this paper, we discuss the information technologyproblems that arise in conducting research toward this vision of future computer-enhanced environments.