• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.415-420
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• 2013

In recent, many researches have been studying sensitivity and psychology of human on color. Among them, a picture of children can be a tool to represent their emotion. Information of colors and direction on a child's picture often represent his internal psychological states unconsciously. In this paper, we propose the method that extract the color and direction information in order to analyze the psychology in the picture of children. Histogram clustering is used for color information detection. Direction information extract from inner edge value. In the result of experiments, we shows that our method is similar to the pattern classification of the general method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.218-221
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• 2006

본 논문은 인터넷의 대표적인 문제점중의 하나인 Adult Image 분류 연구에 대해 기술한다. 특히 우리는 이러한 Adult Image를 분류하기 위한 Data Set을 5가지 타입으로 구성한다. 이러한 각 Image에 대해 Color, Gradient, Edge Direction 특성의 Feature들을 추출하고 이를 Histogram으로 구성한다. 이렇게 구성된 Histogram을 Support Vector Machine에 적용하여 Adult Image를 분류한다. 그 결과, 우리는 8250개의 Test Set에 대하여 Recall(96.53%), Precision(97.33%), False Positive(2.96%), F-Measure(96.93%)의 성능 결과를 보여준다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.37-45
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• 2008

Quality assessment ai s to evaluate if a distorted image or video has a good quality by measuring the difference between the original and distorted images or videos. In this paper, to assess the visual qualify of a distorted image or video, visual features of the distorted image are compared with those of the original image instead of the direct comparison of the distorted image with the original image. We use edge projections from two images as features, where the edge projection can be easily obtained by projecting edge pixels in an edge map along vertical/horizontal direction. In this paper, edge projections are obtained by using vertical/horizontal directions of gradients as well as the magnitude of each gradient. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed quality assessment through the comparison with conventional quality assessment algorithms such as structural similarity(SSIM), edge peak signal-to-noise ratio(EPSNR), and edge histogram descriptor(EHD) methods.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.267-274
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed an algorithm which cognize hand pose in real time using only image. Hand recognizes using edge orientation histogram which comes under a constant quantity of 2D appearance because hand pose is intricate. This method suit hand pose recognition in real time because it extracts hand space accurately, has little computation quantify, and is less sensitive to lighting change using color information in complicated background. Method which reduces recognition error using principal component analysis method to can recognize through hand shape presentation direction change is explained. A case that hand shape changes by turning 3D also by using this method is possible to recognize. Besides, principal component space creation time is reduced remarkably because edge directional data is used.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.60-66
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• 2002

In this paper, an efficient content-based rotation-invariant retrieval of the trademarks is proposed using the edge-direction histogram for a principal symmetry axis and the moment invariants. Rotation invariant retrieval of trademarks is difficult for the conventional retrieval systems because their feature vectors are not rotation-invariant. In this paper, to obtain rotation invariant feature vectors, in addition to invariant moments, the edge-direction histogram for a principal symmetry axis is introduced and is used to solve the bin shift problem of the histogram resulted from the rotated trademark. Performance evaluation has been carried out for a database of 300 kinds of trademarks including 20 kinds of typical trademarks which are reported to be difficult to retrieve when rotated, and the proposed scheme is proved to retrieve trademarks more efficiently, especially for the rotated trademarks, than the conventional methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.9C
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• pp.1269-1278
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• 2004

While the management of digital contents is getting more and more important, many researchers have studied about scene change detection algorithms to reduce similar scenes in the video contents and to efficiently summarize video data. The algorithms using histogram and pixel information are found out as being sensitive to light changes and motion. Therefore, visual rhythm gets used in recent work to solve this problem, which shows some characteristics of scenes and requires even less computational power. In this paper, a new scene detection algorithm using visual rhythm by direction is proposed. The proposed algorithm needs less computational power and is able to keep good performance even in the scenes with motion. Experimental results show the performance improvement of about 30% comparing with conventional methods with histogram. They also show that the proposed algorithm is able to keep the same performance even to music video contents with lots of motion.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2016

Symmetry is everywhere in the world around us from galaxy to microbes. From ancient times symmetry is considered to be a reflection of the harmony of universe. Symmetry is not only a significant clue for human cognitive process, but also useful information for computer vision such as image understanding system. Application areas include face detection and recognition, indexing of image database, image segmentation and detection, analysis of medical images, and so on. The technique used in this paper extracts edges, and the perpendicular bisector of any two edge points is considered to be a candidate axis of symmetry. The coefficients of candidate axis are accumulated in the coefficient space. Then the axis of symmetry is determined to be the line for which the coefficient histogram has maximum value. In this paper, an improved method is proposed that utilizes the directional information of edges, which is a byproduct of the edge detection process. Experiment on 20 test images shows that the proposed method performs 22.7 times faster than the original method. In another test on 5 images with 4% salt-and-pepper noise, the proposed method detects the symmetry successfully, while the original method fails. This result reveals that the proposed method enhances the speed and accuracy of detection process at the same time.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.473-481
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• 2008

This paper presents an approach to Back-propagation and Radial Basis Function neural network method with various training set for automatic vehicle detection from aerial images. The initial extraction of candidate object is based on Mean-shift algorithm with symmetric property of a vehicle structure. By fusing the density and the symmetry, the method can remove the ambiguous objects and reduce the cost of processing in the next stage. To extract features from the detected object, we describe the object as a log-polar shape histogram using edge strengths of object and represent the orientation and distance from its center. The spatial histogram is used for calculating the momentum of object and compensating the direction of object. BPNN and RBFNN are applied to verify the object as a vehicle using a variety of non-car training sets. The proposed algorithm shows the results which are according to the training data. By comparing the training sets, advantages and disadvantages of them have been discussed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8C
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• pp.782-789
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for creating stereoscopic video from a monoscopic video. Parallel straight lines in a 3D space get narrower as they are farther from the perspective images on a 2D plane and finally meet at one point that is called a vanishing point. A viewer uses depth perception clues called a vanishing point which is the farthest from a viewer's viewpoint in order to perceive depth information from objects and surroundings thereof to the viewer. The viewer estimates the vanishing point with geometrical features in monoscopic images, and can perceive the depth information with the relationship between the position of the vanishing point and the viewer's viewpoint. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate a vanishing point with edge direction histogram in a general monoscopic image and to create a depth map depending on the position of the vanishing point. With the conversion method proposed through the experimental results, it is seen that stable stereoscopic conversion of a given monoscopic video is achieved.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.656-659
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• 2004

최근 많은 연구에서, 동일한 영상그룹들로부터 추출된 저수준의 특징들을 이용해서 고수준의 정보를 분석한 뒤, 이를 이용해서 영상을 분류하는 방법들을 소개하고 있다. 이러한 연구는 CBIR의 인덱싱에서 저수준의 특징만을 사용할 때 발생하는 의미적인 차이(semantic gap)문제를 해결하여, 검색의 효율을 높일 수 있게 한다. 하지만 이들 연구는 대부분 전경(scenery)영상만을 대상으로 하고 있다. 한편 영상을 객체 단위로 다루는 것은 CBIR의 성능을 크게 향상 시킬 수 있는 요인이 된다. 왜냐하면 대부분의 사용자는 관심있는 객체가 포함된 영상을 검색하기 원하기 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 영상의 객체를 인공객체와 자연객체로 분류하는 방법을 제안한다. 인공객체의 경우 자연객체에 비해 상대적으로 직선형태의 에지가 많이 발견되며 객체를 구성하는 패턴이 규칙적이고 방향성을 가진다. 또한 인공객체는 자연객체에 비해 객체영역의 경계가 직선에 의한 단순한 형태로 나타난다. 이러한 특징들을 EDH(edge Direction Histogram)의 에너지, EDAS(Energy Difference of Adjacent Sector)와 가버 필터를 통해 추출하여 분류에 이용한다. 실험을 통하여 각 특징들을 개별적으로 사용해서 76%에서 84% 사이의 분류 정확성을 얻었으며, 제안한 머징 방법을 이용하여 최종적으로 약 90%의 정확성으로 분류하였다.