• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.108-114
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• 2017

Lip reading is a field of image processing to assist the process of sound recognition. In some environment, the capture of sound signal usually has significant noise and therefore, the recognition rate of sound signal decreases. Lip reading can be a good feature for the increase of recognition rates. Conventional lip extraction methods have been proposed widely. Maia et. al. proposed a method by the sum of Cr and Cb. However, there are two problems as follows: the point with maximum saturation is not always regarded as lips region and the inner part of lips such as oral cavity and teeth can be classified as lips. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a method which adopts the histogram-based classifier for the extraction of lips region. The proposed method consists of two stages, learning and test. The amount of computation is minimized because this method has no color conversion. The performance of proposed method gives 66.8% of detection rate compared to 28% of conventional ones.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1995년도 학술대회
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• pp.83-86
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• 1995

Many image display devices allow only a limited number of colors to be simultaneously displayed. In displaying of natural color image using color palette, it is necessary to construct an optimal color palette and map each pixel of the original image to a color palette with fast. In this paper, we proposed the clustering algorithm using local region block centered one color cluster in the prequantized 3-D histogram. Cluster pairs which have the least distortion error are merged by considering distortion measure. The clustering process is continued until to obtain the desired number of colors. Same as the clustering process, original color image is mapped to palette color via a local region block centering around prequantized original color value. The proposed algorithm incorporated with a spatial activity weighting value which is smoothing region. The method produces high quality display images and considerably reduces computation time.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.1551-1555
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• 2003

본 논문은 뇌 자기공명영상에 대해 셀룰러 오토마타를 이용하여 뇌 영역을 추출한 연구이다. 입력된 뇌 자기공명영상의 배경영상을 임계값으로 제거한다. 임계값은 히스토그램 분석기법으로 설정된다. 분리된 영상정보는 셀룰러 오토마타 규칙을 적용하여 뇌 영역을 추출한다. 실험결과 평균 PSNR은 42㏈이상 향상되었으며, 상관도 측정 결과 98%이상 일치되었다. 본 연구 결과는 의료 뇌 영상의 자동 진단 시스템 등에 활용 할 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권8C호
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• pp.651-660
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 깊이정보를 이용하여 레이어별 객체를 분리하고 개별적으로 히스토그램 매칭기법을 적용하는 색상 불일치 보상기법을 제안한다. 다시점 비디오의 조명 불일치 현상은 서로 다른 카메라의 위치와 카메라간의 잘못된 보정으로 인하여 발생한다. 이러한 색상 불일치는 다시점 비디오 부호화의 성능을 저하시키는 요인이 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 히스토그램 매칭을 이용한 전처리기법이 제안되었다. 히스토그램 매칭을 통해 모든 시점의 다시점 영상 히스토그램은 정해진 참조 시점영상의 히스토그램과 매칭이 되고, 다시점 비디오 부호화의 성능을 개선할 수 있다. 그러나 일반적으로 영상은 상호 독립적인 색상 분포와 히스토그램 분포을 가지는 여러 개의 객체로 구성된다. 특히 다시점 영상은 시점에 따른 프레임마다 객체의 구성과 위치 및 그 깊이가 각각 다르다. 본 논문에서는 주어진 영상 내에서 깊이정보를 이용하여 객체를 먼저 분리하고, 객체별로 히스토그램 매칭기법을 적용하여 색상 보상을 수행하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 객체 단위의 조명 보상기법이 기존의 영상 단위의 조명 보상기법보다 향상된 다시점 비디오 부호화 효율을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제4권9호
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• pp.2315-2332
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• 1997

In this paper, we implement a content based image retrieval system for image searching by visual features from the image databases on WWW (world wide web). The image retrieval system finds the images that contain the most similar color regions after the system automatically extracts color features from the input image. We can select one of two query methods which use a full image of $4{\times}4$ 16 sketched color region. The image similarity is calculated on the histogram intersection distance and the histogram Euclidean distance. As the experimental results show that the two different query types provide the precision/recall 0.84/0.92 and 0.85/0.93 respectively, this retrieval system has been able to obtain high performance and validity.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.217-227
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• 2017

Crosswalk detection is an important part of the Pedestrian Protection System in autonomous vehicles. Different methods of crosswalk detection have been introduced so far using crosswalk edge features, the distance between crosswalk blocks, laser scanning, Hough Transformation, and Fourier Transformation. However, most of these methods failed to detect crosswalks accurately, when they are damaged, faded away or partly occluded. Furthermore, these methods face difficulties when applying on real road environment where there are lot of vehicles. In this paper, we solve this problem by first using a region based binarization technique and x-axis histogram to detect the candidate crosswalk areas. Then, we apply Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classification method to decide whether the candidate areas contain a crosswalk or not. Experiment results prove that our method can detect crosswalks in different environment conditions with higher recognition rate even they are faded away or partly occluded.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.781-784
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• 1998

An image segmentation approach based on the fuzzy worm searching and MIN-MAx clusterng algorithm is proposed in this paper. This algorithm deals with fuzzy worm value and min-max node at a gross scene level, which investigates the edge information including fuzzy worm action. But current segmentation methods based edge extraction methods generally need the mask information for the algebraic model, and take long run times at mask operation, wheras the proposed algorithm has single operation ccording to active searching of fuzzy worms. In addition, we also genetic min-max clustering using genetic algorithm to complete clustering and fuzyz searching on grey-histogram of image for the optimum solution, which can automatically determine the size of rnages and has both strong robust and speedy calculation. The simulation results showed that the proposed algorithm adaptively divided the quantized images in histogram region and performed single searching methods, significantly alleviating the increase of the computational load and the memory requirements.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.138.3-138
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• 2001

Because face has non-rigid structure and is influenced by illumination, we need robust face detection algorithm with the variations of external environments (orientation of lighting and face, complex background, etc.). In this paper we develop a new face detection algorithm to achieve robustness. First we transform RGB color into other color space, in which we can reduce lighting effect much. Second, hierarchical image segmentation technique is used for dividing a image into homogeneous regions. This process uses not only color information, but also spatial information. One of them is used in segmentation by histogram analysis, the other is used in segmentation by grouping. And we can select face region among the homogeneous regions by using facial features.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.142-150
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• 2018

This paper describes the algorithm that lowers the dimension, maintains the object recognition and significantly reduces the eigenspace configuration time by combining the edge orientation histogram and principle component analysis. By using the detected object region as a recognition input image, in this paper the object recognition method combined with principle component analysis and the multi-layer network which is one of the intelligent classification was suggested and its performance was evaluated. As a pre-processing algorithm of input object image, this method computes the eigenspace through principle component analysis and expresses the training images with it as a fundamental vector. Each image takes the set of weights for the fundamental vector as a feature vector and it reduces the dimension of image at the same time, and then the object recognition is performed by inputting the multi-layer neural network.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.585-589
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• 2018

Consumer demand for high quality image/video services led to growing trend in image quality enhancement study. Therefore, recent years was a period of substantial progress in this research field. Through careful observation of the image quality after processing by image enhancement algorithms, we perceived that the dark region in the image usually suffered loss of contrast to a certain extent. In this paper, the low-light stretch preprocessing algorithm is, hence, proposed to resolve the aforementioned issue. The proposed approach is evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively against the well-known histogram equalization and Photoshop curve adjustment. The evaluation results validate the efficiency and superiority of the low-light stretch over the benchmarking methods. In addition, we also propose the 255MHz-capable hardware implementation to ease the process of incorporating low-light stretch into real-time imaging systems, such as aerial surveillance and monitoring with drones and driving aiding systems.