• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.268-270
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• 2014

Object extraction problem is one of the most important topics in the research area of computer vision, this type of technique can be widely used in practical, such as image processing, robot vision, automatically traffic guide and so on. In this paper, we propose a different way to estimate the background and foreground without any previous training procedure, this approach can be used for automatic object extraction in the future. A simple experiment result shows that our approach has a good potential for the further more practical application.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.235-243
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• 2008

Object tracking is a common vision task to detect and trace objects between consecutive frames. It is also important for a variety of applications such as surveillance, video based traffic monitoring system, and so on. An efficient moving vehicle clustering and tracking algorithm suitable for traffic monitoring system is proposed in this paper. First, automatic background extraction method is used to get a reliable background as a reference. The moving blob(object) is then separated from the background by mean shift method. Second, the scale invariant feature based method extracts the salient features from the clustered foreground blob. It is robust to change the illumination, scale, and affine shape. The simulation results on various road situations demonstrate good performance achieved by proposed method.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.246-253
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• 2016

Infrared (IR) imaging has been researched for various applications such as surveillance. IR radiation has the capability to detect thermal characteristics of objects under low-light conditions. However, automatic segmentation for finding the object of interest would be challenging since the IR detector often provides the low spatial and contrast resolution image without color and texture information. Another hindrance is that the image can be degraded by noise and clutters. This paper proposes multi-level segmentation for extracting regions of interest (ROIs) and objects of interest (OOIs) in the IR scene. Each level of the multi-level segmentation is composed of a k-means clustering algorithm, an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and a decision process. The k-means clustering initializes the parameters of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), and the EM algorithm estimates those parameters iteratively. During the multi-level segmentation, the area extracted at one level becomes the input to the next level segmentation. Thus, the segmentation is consecutively performed narrowing the area to be processed. The foreground objects are individually extracted from the final ROI windows. In the experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated using several IR images, in which human subjects are captured at a long distance. The average probability of error is shown to be lower than that obtained from other conventional methods such as Gonzalez, Otsu, k-means, and EM methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.176-186
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• 1999

In order to produce an image that lends realism to audience in the virtual studio system. it is important to synchronize precisely between foreground objects and background image provided by computer graphics. In this paper, we propose a method of camera parameter extraction for the synchronization by tracking the pose of TV camera. We derive an equation for extracting camera parameters from inverse perspective equations for tracking the pose of the camera and 3-D transformation between base coordinates and estimated coordinates. We show the validity of the proposed method in terms of the accuracy ratio between the parameters computed from the equation and the real parameters that applied to a TV camera.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.2
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• pp.81-88
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• 2007

We implement automobile license plates recognition system. These days automobile license plate recognition systems are widely used for tracing stolen cars. managing parking facilities, ticketing speeding cars, and so on. Recognition systems largely consist of three parts plates extraction, segments extraction, and segment recognition. For plates extraction, we measure the degree of inclination of plate. We use filters that extract only the horizontal components of the front of an automobile to measure the degree of inclination. For segment extraction, we trace the change of the number of blocks that consist solely of foreground pixels or background pixels as the horizontal scanning line moves along upward. For recognition of each individual letter or digit, we devise a variant of template matching method, called comparative template matching. Through experiments, we show that comparative template matching is less prone misled by noises and exhibits higher performance compared to the traditional method of template matching or histogram based recognition.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1197-1206
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• 2019

Suncheon Bay is a very important natural resource and various efforts have been made to protect it from the environmental pollution. Although the project to monitor the environmental changes in periodically by observing the creatures in tidal flats is processing, it is being done inefficiently by people directly observing it. In this paper, we propose an object segmentation method that can be applied to the method to automatically monitor the living creatures in the tidal flats. In the proposed method, a foreground map representing the location of objects is obtained by using a temporal difference method, and a superpixel method is applied to detect the detailed boundary of an image. Finally the region of crab is extracted by combining the foreground map and the superpixel information. Experimental results show that the proposed method separates crab regions from a tidal flat image easily and accurately.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.17-22
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• 2009

DaVinci processors are popular media processors for implementing embedded multimedia applications. They support dual core architecture: ARM9 core for video I/O handling as well as system management and peripheral handling, and DSP C64+ core for effective digital signal processing. In this paper, we propose our efforts for optimal implementation of object tracking algorithm in DaVinci-based smart camera which is being designed and implemented by our laboratory. The smart camera in this paper is supposed to support object detection, object tracking, object classification and detection of intrusion into surveillance regions and sending the detection event to remote clients using IP protocol. Object tracking algorithm is computationally expensive since it needs to process several procedures such as foreground mask extraction, foreground mask correction, connected component labeling, blob region calculation, object prediction, and etc. which require large amount of computation times. Thus, if it is not implemented optimally in Davinci-based processors, one cannot expect real-time performance of the smart camera.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.97-103
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• 2008

This study is to present a fainting motion recognizing method by using fish-eye lens images to sense emergency situations. The camera with fish-eye lens located at the center of the ceiling of the living room sends images, and then the foreground pixels are extracted by means of the adaptive background modeling method based on the Gaussian complex model, which is followed by tracing of outer points in the foreground pixel area and the elliptical mapping. During the elliptical tracing, the fish-eye lens images are converted to fluoroscope images. the size and location changes, and moving speed information are extracted to judge whether the movement, pause, and motion are similar to fainting motion. The results show that compared to using fish-eye lens image, extraction of the size and location changes. and moving speed by means of the conversed fluoroscope images has good recognition rates.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.345-359
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• 2017

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that has been a main research topic of computer vision and artificial intelligence now extend its applications to detection of text area from video or image contents taken by camera devices and retrieval of text information from the area. This paper aims to implement a binarization algorithm that removes user intervention and provides robust performance to outdoor lights by using TopHat algorithm and channel transformation technique. In this study, we particularly concentrate on text information of outdoor signboards and validate our proposed technique using those data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.187-188
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 실시간으로 web-cam을 이용해, 후숙과일의 불량 여부를 판단, 분류하고 불량이 없는 후숙과일의 이미지 분석을 통하여 숙성도 예측하는 시스템을 소개한다. 실시간 다중 객체인식에 탁월한 yolo모델을 활용해, 과일의 불량여부 판단 후 분류하고, 이미지를 획득한 뒤, k-mean clustering 알고리즘을 이용해, 이미지를 segmentation 한다. segmentation된 이미지에 grabcut 알고리즘의 foreground-extraction을 사용해 배경 제거를 한 뒤, cluster의 중심색상값 색상값의 면적%, 전체 면적을 이용해 현재 숙성도를 계산하고 이를 이용해 과일의 후숙 시간 데이터와 비교, 숙성이 완료될 시간을 예측한다. 기존 수작업으로 이루어지고 있는 과일의 분류작업의 인력 감소 및 정확성을 높일 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다.