• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.381-382
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• 2007

In this paper, crack detection technique of concrete bridge is proposed robust against shadow and noise. Our technique consists of two steps. In the first step, crack candidate region is detected by preprocessing. Preprocessing techniques such as median filter, isolated point filter and morphological techniques, use utilized for detection of crack candidate regions. In the final step, crack is detected from crack candidate region by considering any connectivity between cracks. By experimental results, performance is improved 6.8% over the existing method.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.131-139
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• 1999

An easy and efficient method is proposed for a computation of reliability of preprocessing filters in the fire control system when the sensor data are frequently unreliable depending on the operation environment. It computes state transition probability matrix after modeling filter states as a Markov process, and computing false alarm and detection probability of each filter state under the given sensor failure probability. It shows that two important indices such as distributed state probability and error variance can be derived easily for a reliability assessment of the given sensor fusion system.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.106-109
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• 2017

Recently, ancient documents are actively studied and discussed. However, ancient documents has a few problems on interpretation. The antique documents are too fragile to hand over. So, some studies have been carried out using terahertz to read ancient documents without damaging them. Three techniques are necessary to read letters using terahertz. First, PPEX algorithm, which distinguishes pages. Second, TGSI technique, which distinguishes text from paper on a page. Third, CCSC algorithm, which transforms signals to letters. In this paper, we will describe the preprocessing process to facilitate the recognition of letters before applying the post processing as we mentioned above. Histogram equalization, Histogram stretching and the Sobel filter were applied to the preprocessing.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.193-204
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• 1997

In this research we propose the design of the Order Statistic-Adaptive Weighted Average Hybrid(OS-AWAH) filter which can suppress noise from the corrupted image sequence effectively while preserving the image structure. The proposed filter combines the desirable properties of the order static based spatial filter which can preserve the image structure while reducing noise and the adaptive weighted average based temporal filter which can adapt the filtering weights according to the amount of motion without motion estimation. Performance characteristics of the OS-AWAH filter in noisy sequences containing moving step edges are investigated throuth computer simulations and compared with the median based filters such as 3-D WM(weighted median) filter, MMF (multistage median filter), ADCWM(adaptive directional center weighted median) filter. The visual evaluations are also carried out by applyin gthe filters to the real images. The statistical analysis and experimental reslts show that the OS-AWAH filter is effective in preserving image structures while suppressing noise effectively without motion compensation preprocessing.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제6권10호
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• pp.2830-2837
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• 1999

Image processing steps are consist of image acquisition, preprocessing, region, segmentation and recognition. But image corrupted commonly by noise reduction methods, many filters were proposed like mean filter, median filter, weighted median filter, Cheikh filter, and Kyu-cheol lee filter as spatial noise reduction filtering. We propose a new edge detection algorithm so that we find out edge existence and nonexistence. In non-edge area, we selectively apply weighted median filter based upon using information of difference value between weighted median filter's value and center pixel's value. As a result, we finally prove a better performance of noise reduction by applying adaptive weighted median filter and improvement of processing time through using simple algorithm.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.103-116
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• 2013

Prostate cancer is one of the most frequent cancers in men and is a major cause of mortality in the most of countries. In many diagnostic and treatment procedures for prostate disease accurate detection of prostate boundaries in transrectal ultrasound(TRUS) images is required. This is a challenging and difficult task due to weak prostate boundaries, speckle noise and the short range of gray levels. In this paper a method for automatic prostate segmentation in TRUS images using Gabor feature extraction and snake-like contour is presented. This method involves preprocessing, extracting Gabor feature, training, and prostate segmentation. The speckle reduction for preprocessing step has been achieved by using stick filter and top-hat transform has been implemented for smoothing the contour. A Gabor filter bank for extraction of rotation-invariant texture features has been implemented. A support vector machine(SVM) for training step has been used to get each feature of prostate and nonprostate. Finally, the boundary of prostate is extracted by the snake-like contour algorithm. A number of experiments are conducted to validate this method and results showed that this new algorithm extracted the prostate boundary with less than 10.2% of the accuracy which is relative to boundary provided manually by experts.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 카메라 자동 교정을 통한 3차원 재구성 과정에서 생기는 오차로 인해 포함되는 잡음을 특성에 따라 효과적으로 제거하여 정교한 3차원 데이터를 얻기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 잡음 평활화 과정은 잡음 때문에 면적이 큰 메쉬는 3차원으로 재구성하는데 문제점이 존재한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 메쉬의 면적이 중요하기 때문에 취득된 3차원 데이터는 불필요한 삼각형 메쉬들을 사전에 제거하는 전처리 과정이 필요하다. 본 연구는 3차원 메쉬의 면적 정보를 이용하여 잡음의 특성을 분석하고, 그 특성에 따라 피크 잡음과 가우스 잡음을 분리하여 효과적으로 잡음을 제거한다. 본 알고리즘의 성능은 재구성 데이터에 대한 정량적인 비교 분석을 통해 기존의 메쉬 평활화 방법보다 더 정교한 3차원 데이터를 얻음을 확인하였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.315-328
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• 2019

영상 스테그아날리시스는 입력 영상을 스테가노그래피 알고리즘이 적용된 스테고 영상과 스테가노그래피 알고리즘이 적용되지 않은 커버 영상으로 분류하는 알고리즘이다. 기존에는 주로 수제 특징 기반의 스테그아날리시스를 연구하였다. 하지만 CNN 기반의 물체 인식이 큰 성과를 이루면서 최근 CNN 기반의 스테그아날리시스가 활발히 연구되고 있다. CNN 기반의 스테그아날리시스는 물체 인식과는 달리 커버 영상과 스테고 영상의 미세한 차이를 식별하기 위해서 전처리 필터를 필요로 한다. 그러므로, CNN 기반의 스테그아날리시스 연구들은 효과적인 전처리 필터와 네트워크 구조를 개발하는 데 초점을 두고 있다. 본 논문에서는 동일한 실험 조건에서 기존 연구들을 비교하고, 그 결과를 기반으로 전처리 필터와 네트워크 구조적인 차이에 의한 성능 변화를 분석한다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1002-1005
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• 1995

This paper presents an enhanced preprocessing and recognition algorithm for automatic vehicle license plate recognition system. The algorithm first applies horizontal gradient filter followed by thresholding and mathematical morphology operation for preprocessing. The final stage of the preprocessing is the application of connected component analysis in order to estimate the license plate region. For the recognition of the serial numbers of the plates, we developed a very effective algorithm. We call this zerocrossing count algorithm. This paper presents a detail of this algorithm and compare the performance with a template matching algorithm which utilizes correlation coefficient.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 제13회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.193-196
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• 2000

An stereophonic acoustic echo canceller cannot exactly estimate the echo path in the receiving room, because of the cross-correlation between stereo signals. In this paper, the new preprocessing filter is proposed to reduce the cross-correlation between the signals without influence on stereophonic sound. Two channel signals are linearly decorrelated by using orthogonality principles and the attenuated absolute values of the decorrelated signals are added to each channel input signals. Assuming that the power of each channel signal is larger than that of the cross-correlation, computational burden is reduced.