• International Journal of Contents
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.26-31
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• 2009

This paper describes a new image watermarking scheme invariant to rotation, scaling and translation (RST) attacks. For obtaining the invariance properties we propose to present an image of watermark by wedges and rings to convert its rotation to shift and then utilize the shift invariance property of the Direct Fourier Transform (DFT). But in contrast to conversional schemes based on the Fourier-Mellin transform (FMT), we do not use a log-polar mapping (LPM). As a result, our scheme preserves high quality of original image since it is not underwent to LPM For withstanding against JPEG compression, noise addition and low-pass (LP) filtering attacks a low frequency watermark is embedded into middle frequencies of the original image. Experiments with various attacks show the robustness of the proposed scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.99-104
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• 1999

This paper proposes an efficient method constructing a local map using the data of a scanning laser range finder. A laser range finder yields distance data of polar form, that is, distance data corresponding to every scanning directions. So, the data consists of directional angle and distance. We propose a new method to find a line fitting with a set of such data. The method uses Log-Hough Transformation. Usually, map building from these data requires some transformations between different coordinate systems. The new method alleviates such complication. Also, the method simplifies computation for line recognition and eliminates the slope quantization problems inherent in the classical Cartesian Hough transform method. To show the efficiency of the proposed method, it is applied to find a local map using the data from a laser range finder PLS(Proximity Laser Scanner, made by SICK).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.25-30
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• 2000

KUeyes(Korea University's eyes)는 인간의 시각 정보처리 과정을 모델로 하여 고려대학교 인공시각연구센터에서 개발된, 스테레오 컬러 영상을 실시간으로 처리할 수 있는 능동시각 시스템이다. 실시간 처리를 위하여 KUeyes는 병렬 처리가 가능하도록 개발된 영상 획득 및 영상 처리 모듈을 가지고 있으며, 다해상도 영상 변환 기법을 사용하여 입력 영상의 처리속도를 증진시키고 있다. 이 시스템은 외형적으로는 처리된 영상에 따라 반응하여 움직이는 10-자유도의 헤드 아이 시스템으로 구성되어 있다. 본 연구에서는 영상의 칼라 정보와 움직임 정보 등을 실시간으로 분석하여 지능적이고 빠르게 개체를 탐지하고 추적하는 인간의 시각 반응 및 인식 모델을 KUeyes에 탑재하여 구현하고 실험하였다. 실험에서 얻어진 결과는 KUeyes가 인간의 시각, 인식시스템을 적절히 모델링하고 있음을 보여 주었다. 이는 KUeyes의 작동 방식과 거기에 탑재된 영상 처리 기법들이 인간의 시각 정보처리 과정을 이해하는데 매우 적합한 것임을 시사한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.450-455
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• 2009

Amplitude-only logarithmic Radon transform (ALR transform) for pattern matching is proposed. This method provides robustness for object translation, scaling, and rotation. An ALR image is invariant even if objects are translated in a picture. For the object scaling and rotation, the ALR image is merely translated. The objects are identified using a phase-only matched filter to the ALR image. The ratio of size, the difference of rotation angle, and the position between the two objects are detected. Our pattern matching procedure is described, herein, and its simulation is executed. We compare matching scores with the Fourier-Mellin transform, and the general phase-only matched filter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.946-948
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• 2005

본 논문은 얼굴의 크기에 무관하게 적용 가능한 효율적인 얼굴 검출 및 얼굴 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템에서는 먼저 스킨필터(skin filter)를 이용하여 눈, 코, 입을 포함한 얼굴 영역을 검출하며, 검출된 얼굴 영역을 로그-극좌표(log-polar) 이미지로 변환한다. 변환된 로그-극좌표 이미지에서 자동상관관계(autocorrelation) 기법을 이용하여 얼굴의 특징을 추출한 후, 고유얼굴(eigenface) 인식 기법으로 얼굴을 인식한다. 실험을 통하여 제안된 시스템이 평균 $97.83\%$의 인식률을 보여주었다.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.77-88
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• 1993

In this paper, we propose a stereo vision system to solve correspondence problem with large disparity and sudden change in environment which result from small distance between camera and working objects. First of all, a specific feature is divided by predfined elementary feature. And then these are combined to obtain coded data for solving correspondence problem. We use Neural Network to extract elementary features from specific feature and to have adaptability to noise and some change of the shape. Fourier transformation and Log-polar mapping are used for obtaining appropriate Neural Network input data which has a shift, scale, and rotation invariability. Finally, we use associative memory to obtain coded data of the specific feature from the combination of elementary features. In spite of specific feature with some variation in shapes, we could obtain satisfactory 3-dimensional data from corresponded codes.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.341-351
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• 2003

Digital image watermarking is the method that can protect the copyright of the image by embedding copyright information, which is called watermark. Watermarking must have robustness to intentional or unintentional data changing, called attack. The conventional watermarking schemes are robust to waveform attacks such as image compression, filtering etc. However, they are vulnerable to geometrical attacks such as rotation, scaling, translation, and cropping. Accordingly, this paper proposes new watermarking scheme that is robust to geometrical attacks by using invariant centroid. Invariant centroid is the gravity center of a central area in a gray scale image that remains unchanged even when the image is attacked by RST including cropping and proposed scheme uses invariant centroids of original and inverted image as the template. To make geometrically invariant domain, template and angle compensated Log -Polar Map(LPM) is used. Then Discrete Cosine Transform(DCT) is performed and the watermark is embedded into the DCT coefficients. Futhermore, to prevent a watermarked image from degrading due to interpolation during coordinate system conversion, only the image of the watermark signal is extracted and added to the original image. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is especially robust to RST attacks including cropping.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.26-35
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• 2003

For the recognizing system to be classified the same or different images in the nature the rotation, scale and transition invariant features is to be necessary. There are many investigations to get the feature for the recognition system and the log-polar transform which is to be get the invariant feature for the scale and rotation is used. In this paper, we suggested the character recognition methods which are used the centroid method and the log-polar transform with the interpolation to get invariant features for the character recognition system and obtained the results of the above 50% differential ratio for the character features. And we obtained the about 90% recognition ratio from the suggested character recognition system using the BPEJTC which is used the invariant feature from the Mellin transform method for the reference image. and can be recognized the scaled and rotated input character. Therefore, we suggested the image character recognition system using the Mellin transform method and the BPEJTC is possible to recognize with the invariant feature for rotation scale and transition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.165-170
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• 2003

This paper presents an integrated approach to unconstrained face recognition in arbitrary scenes. The front end of the system comprises of a scale and pose tolerant face detector. Scale normalization is achieved through novel combination of a skin color segmentation and log-polar mapping procedure. Principal component analysis is used with the multi-view approach proposed in[10] to handle the pose variations. For a given color input image, the detector encloses a face in a complex scene within a circular boundary and indicates the position of the nose. Next, for recognition, a radial grid mapping centered on the nose yields a feature vector within the circular boundary. As the width of the color segmented region provides an estimated size for the face, the extracted feature vector is scale normalized by the estimated size. The feature vector is input to a trained neural network classifier for face identification. The system was evaluated using a database of 20 person's faces with varying scale and pose obtained on different complex backgrounds. The performance of the face recognizer was also quite good except for sensitivity to small scale face images. The integrated system achieved average recognition rates of 87% to 92%.