• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.507-516
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• 2014

We present a hybrid method for spectral reflectivity recovery, using 3D extrapolation as a supplemental method for 3D interpolation. The proposed 3D extrapolation is an extended version of 3D interpolation based on the barycentric algorithm. It is faster and more accurate than the conventional spectral-recovery techniques of principal-component analysis and nonnegative matrix transformation. Four different extrapolation techniques (based on nearest neighbors, circumcenters, in-centers, and centroids) are formulated and applied to recover spectral reflectivity. Under the standard conditions of a D65 illuminant and 1964 $10^{\circ}$ observer, all reflectivity data from 1269 Munsell color chips are successfully reconstructed. The superiority of the proposed method is demonstrated using statistical data to compare coefficients of correlation and determination. The proposed hybrid method can be applied for fast and accurate spectral reflectivity recovery in image processing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.94-96
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 기존의 백내장 추출 방법을 개선하기 위해 FCM(Fuzzy C_Means) 알고리즘을 적용하여 백내장을 추출하고 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 애견 안구 영상에서 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에서 Fuzzy Stretching 기법을 적용하여 픽셀의 상한 값과 하한 값을 조정한다. 퍼지 스트레칭 기법이 적용된 ROI 영역에 Max-Min 기반 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역을 이진화한다. 그리고 퍼지 스트레칭 기법이 적용된 ROI 영역에 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하여 양자화한 후에 양자화된 ROI 영역에서 밝기 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화한다. 따라서 Max-Min 기반 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화된 ROI 영역과 밝기 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화된 ROI 영역을 AND 연산을 적용하여 백내장의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 백내장의 후보 영역에서 침식, 팽창 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역의 픽셀 크기를 확대 또는 축소하고 타원 형태를 가진 객체 중에서 ROI의 전체 영역의 크기가 1/5보다 적은 객체를 잡음으로 간주하여 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 백내장의 후보 영역에서 크기가 3/5이상인 영역을 백내장 영역으로 추출한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 분석하기 위하여 기존의 백내장 추출 방법과 제안된 백내장 추출 방법을 15개의 백내장 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 백내장 추출 방법보다 백내장 추출률이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.51-54
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• 2003

The z-transform method is a basic mathematical tool in analyzing and designing digital signal processing systems for discrete input and output signals. There are may cases where the output signal is in the form of a discrete convolution sum of an input function and a designed digital processing algorithm function. It is well known that the z-transform of the convolution sum becomes the product of the two z-transforms of the input function and the digital processing function, whose proofs require the causality of the digital signal processing function in the almost all the available references. However, not all of the convolution sum functions are based on the causality. Many digital signal processing systems such as image processing system may depend not on the time information but on the spatial information, which has nothing to do with causality requirement. Thus, the application of the causality-based z-transform theorem on the convolution sum cannot be used without difficulty in this case. This paper proves the z-transform theorem on the discrete convolution sum without causality requirement, and make it possible for the theorem to be used in analysis and desing for any cases.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.200-205
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• 2006

Abstract This paper presents a personal identification method based on BMME and LDA for images acquired at anterior and posterior occlusion expression of teeth. The method consists of teeth region extraction, BMME, and pattern recognition forthe images acquired at the anterior and posterior occlusion state of teeth. Two occlusions can provide consistent teeth appearance in images and BMME can reduce matching error in pattern recognition. Using teeth images can be beneficial in recognition because teeth, rigid objects, cannot be deformed at the moment of image acquisition. In the experiments, the algorithm was successful in teeth recognition for personal identification for 20 people, which encouraged our method to be able to contribute to multi-modal authentication systems.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.703-715
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• 2017

Mammogram images are sensitive in nature and even a minor change in the environment affects the quality of the images. Due to the lack of expert radiologists, it is difficult to interpret the mammogram images. In this paper an algorithm is proposed for a computer-aided diagnosis system, which is based on the wavelet based adaptive sigmoid function. The cascade feed-forward back propagation technique has been used for training and testing purposes. Due to the poor contrast in digital mammogram images it is difficult to process the images directly. Thus, the images were first processed using the wavelet based adaptive sigmoid function and then the suspicious regions were selected to extract the features. A combination of texture features and gray-level co-occurrence matrix features were extracted and used for training and testing purposes. The system was trained with 150 images, while a total 100 mammogram images were used for testing. A classification accuracy of more than 95% was obtained with our proposed method.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.155-161
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• 2013

PURPOSES: This study is to develop a road traffic sign recognition and automatic positioning for road facility management. METHODS: In this study, we installed the GPS, IMU, DMI, camera, laser sensor on the van and surveyed the car position, fore-sight image, point cloud of traffic signs. To insert automatic position of traffic sign, the automatic traffic sign recognition S/W developed and it can log the traffic sign type and approximate position, this study suggests a methodology to transform the laser point-cloud to the map coordinate system with the 3D axis rotation algorithm. RESULTS: Result show that on a clear day, traffic sign recognition ratio is 92.98%, and on cloudy day recognition ratio is 80.58%. To insert exact traffic sign position. This study examined the point difference with the road surveying results. The result RMSE is 0.227m and average is 1.51m which is the GPS positioning error. Including these error we can insert the traffic sign position within 1.51m CONCLUSIONS: As a result of this study, we can automatically survey the traffic sign type, position data of the traffic sign position error and analysis the road safety, speed limit consistency, which can be used in traffic sign DB.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.277-279
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• 2003

The study utilizes remote sensing as the main monitoring means. With different spatial high-resolution, multichannel ASTER remote sensing image as the main information in Beijing city zone; with regional border and statistical data as auxiliary factor a study between the thermal space distribution character and the underground medium is analyzed based on the GIS logical algorithm and synthetic analysis technology. Results show thermal forming mechanism and the rule of distribution is mainly related to the underground medium and the change of the city distribution. Different underground medium has different degree and intensity influence on the thermal space distribution. Furthermore, urban greenbelt and water areas can reduce the thermal effect and large-scale greenbelt creates green island effect. In addition, Road net, residential area, population density, heat resources and so on have some positive effect on the thermal distribution, which increase the local temperature and intensity on the other hand. It is important to study the thermal distribution and its related factors, which contributes to the plan, construction and development of the city.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.531-546
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• 2009

The main objective of this study is to analyse the polarimetric characteristics of the various terrain targets by ground-based polarimetric SAR system and to confirm the compatible and effective polarimetric analysis method to reveal the polarization properties of different terrain targets by the GB-SAR. The fully polarimetric GB-SAR data with HH, HV, VH, and VV components were focused using the Deramp-FFT (DF) algorithm. The focused GB-SAR images were processed by the H/A/$\alpha$ polarimetric decomposition and the combined H/$\alpha$ or H/A/$\alpha$ and Wishart classification method. The segmented image and distribution graphs in H/$\alpha$ plane using Cloude and Pottier's method showed a reliable result that this quad-polarization GB-SAR data could be useful to classified corresponding scattering mechanism. The H/$\alpha$-Wishart and H/A/$\alpha$-Wishart classification results showed that a natural media and an artificial target were discriminated by the combined classification, in particular, after applying multi-looking and the Lee refined speckle filter.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.50-56
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• 2013

Optical-fiber electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is a non-contact, non-destructive examination technique with the advantages of rapid measurement, high accuracy, and full-field measurement. The optical-fiber ESPI system used in this study was compact and portable with the advantages of easy set-up and signal acquisition. By suitably configuring the optical-fiber ESPI system, producing an image signal in a charge-coupled device camera, and periodically modulating beam phases, we obtained phase information from the speckle pattern using a four-step phase shifting algorithm. Moreover, we compared the actual defect size with that of interference fringes which appeared on a screen after calculating the pixel value according to the distance between the object and the CCD camera. Conventional methods of measuring defects are time-consuming and resource-intensive because the estimated values are relative. However, our simple method could quantitatively estimate the defect length by carrying out numerical analysis for obtaining values on the X-axis in a line profile. The results showed reliable values for average error rates and a decrease in the error rate with increasing defect length or pressure.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.613-618
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• 2021

Facial expression recognition has long been established as a subject of continuous research in various fields. In this paper, the relationship between each landmark is analyzed using the features obtained by calculating the distance between the facial landmarks in the image, and five facial expressions are classified. We increased data and label reliability based on our labeling work with multiple observers. In addition, faces were recognized from the original data and landmark coordinates were extracted and used as features. A genetic algorithm was used to select features that are relatively more helpful for classification. We performed facial recognition classification and analysis with the method proposed in this paper, which shows the validity and effectiveness of the proposed method.