• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.263-266
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• 2007

We introduce a vision-based hand gesture recognition fer understanding musical time and patterns without extra special devices. We suggest a simple and reliable vision-based hand gesture recognition having two features First, the motion-direction code is proposed, which is a quantized code for motion directions. Second, the conducting feature point (CFP) where the point of sudden motion changes is also proposed. The proposed hand gesture recognition system extracts the human hand region by segmenting the depth information generated by stereo matching of image sequences. And then, it follows the motion of the center of the gravity(COG) of the extracted hand region and generates the gesture features such as CFP and the direction-code finally, we obtain the current timing pattern of beat and tempo of the playing music. The experimental results on the test data set show that the musical time pattern and tempo recognition rate is over 86.42% for the motion histogram matching, and 79.75% fer the CFP tracking only.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.313-314
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• 2006

Obtained disparity map from the stereo camera by using the several stereo matching algorithms carries lots of noise because of various causes. In our approach, mode filtering and noise elimination technique using the histogram and projection-based region merging methods are adopted for improving the quality of disparity map and image segmentation. The proposed algorithms are implemented in VHDL and the real-time experimentation shows the accurately divided objects.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.938-946
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• 1992

A novel 2-dimensional matched filter of the parallel-jaw type using fuzzy logic is proposed for bin picking. Specifically, the averaged pixel intensity of the windowed region for the filtering is considered to be fuzzy. Also membership functions for darkness and brightness are designed by employing the intensity histogram of the image. Then a rule is given to know how much a windowed region can be a possible holdsite. Furthermore eight rules are made to determine the part orientation, where Mamdani's reasoning method is applied. The proposed technique shows better performances than that of the conventional matched filtering technique in the following senses` 1) most of holdsites determined by the proposed technique are not concentrated at the locations nearly the end of part and 2) our filter is rather insensitive to noises than the conventional method. To show the validities of our proposed technique, some experimental results are illustrated and compared with the results by conventional matched filter technique.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.633-636
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• 2002

기존에 얼굴인식이나 얼굴영역을 추출하는 방법들은 대부분 얼굴의 외곽선은 고려하지 않은 상태에서 얼굴의 특징인 눈, 코, 입 부분만을 추출하는 경우가 많아 정확한 얼굴을 추출하기가 어려웠다. 본 논문에서는 얼굴의 색상과 영역분할 기법(Region Segmentation technique)을 함께 사용해서 얼굴부분과 얼굴의 특징을 추출하여 보다 정확한 얼굴 부분을 분할하고자 한다. 얼굴추출방법을 대표색상 추출과정과 실제 영역을 분할하여 얼굴부분을 추출하는 과정으로 나누어 히스토그램을 이용하여 대표색상을 추출한 후, 영역분할 기법을 이용하여 대표색상을 포함하고 있는 영역에 대해 얼굴이라는 가정을 배제하고, 이미지들을 객체(Object)화 하여 조건에 맞지 않는 객체들을 모두 제거함으로써, 정확한 얼굴부분을 분할해 낸다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.703-705
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 기울기 크기 기반의 3차원 영역확장 알고리즘을 사용하여 small animal PET(Positron Emission Tomography) 영상으로부터 종양을 분할하는 연구를 수행하였다. 픽셀 값의 범위가 다양하고 저해상도의 특성을 갖는 PET영상으로부터 대상영역을 정확하게 분할하기 위해서 전처리(preprocessing)과정으로 영상 픽셀값의 분포를 펼쳐줌으로써 영상의 가시화를 높이는 히스토그램 스트레칭(histogram stretching) 기법을 적용하고 대상영역과 픽셀값이 유사한 인접영역과의 경계를 찾기 위해 가우시안의 1차 미분 함수를 사용하여 계산된 기울기 크기(gradient magnitude) 기반의 3차원 영역확장(region growing) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 영역확장의 결과에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 적절한 동질성 기준의 선택으로 대상영역의 분할을 성공적으로 수행하여 일반적인 영역확장의 단점을 보완하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.97-102
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• 2008

In this paper we propose an object-based image retrieval method using spatial color model and feature points registration method for an effective color query detection. The proposed method in other to overcome disadvantages of existing color histogram methods and then this method is use the HMMD model and rough set in order to segment and detect the wanted image parts as a real time without the user's manufacturing in the database image and query image. Here, we select candidate regions in the similarity between the query image and database image. And we use SIFT registration methods in the selected region for object retrieving. The experimental results show that the proposed method is more satisfactory detection radio than conventional method.

• Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.149-156
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• 2000

This study presents an investigation of the changes that have occurred in the coastal ocean area of Kwangyang Bay located in the South Coastal region of Korea using remote sensing data based on Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) multispectral digital data from 1988 and 1996. The coastal changes were detected using the digital histogram method and vector trace method. All the images were preprocessed, i.e. geometrically corrected, before the training set selection. when comparing the histograms of 7-band TM data, it was found that the band 5 image exhibited two critical Digital Number(DN) peaks, thereby indicating new coastal water and coastal land data. Based on this information, the coastal ocean area of the band 5 image was calculated using the vector tracing method supported by a CAD program. The result shows that the coastal ocean area decreased by about 5 % between 1988 to 1994. Accordingly, this gives a strong indication that the continuing land development will have a serious impact on the ecosystem of Kwangyang Bay.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.97-100
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a detection method of the character rather than cursive, containing many components of the vertical and horizontal direction in complex background image. The characters have many dense corners but the background has few sparse corners. So we use harris corner detector and cluster the corners by using the position of the detected corners for detecting character regions. To merge or filter character regions, we analysis a histogram of gray image of character regions. In each improved region, we compare histograms of R, G, B channels to detect characters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.363-366
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a method for detecting pedestrian, problem-solving situations that occur in a cross. When a pedestrian crossing and other, there occurs a problem of detecting the other pedestrians for detecting a specific pedestrian in the image. The proposed method for solving the problem is as follows. First, select a specific pedestrian detected by bounding box, and extracts the area as a template. Detecting a pedestrian from the image using the HOG, and designated as a candidate region. The final choice of the pedestrian detected by comparison with a candidate pedestrian with the specific pedestrian extracted for template. In comparison, using the Template matching, Histogram comparison and LBP.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.363-375
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• 2000

In this paper we propose a content-based image retrieval method that can search large image databases efficiently by color, texture, and shape content. Quantized RGB histograms and the dominant triple (hue, saturation, and value), which are extracted from quantized HSV joint histogram in the local image region, are used for representing global/local color information in the image. Entropy and maximum entry from co-occurrence matrices are used for texture information and edge angle histogram is used for representing shape information. Relevance feedback approach, which has coupled proposed features, is used for obtaining better retrieval accuracy. Simulation results illustrate the above method provides 77.5 percent precision rate without relevance feedback and increased precision rate using relevance feedback for overall queries. We also present a new indexing method that supports fast retrieval in large image databases. Tree structures constructed by k-means algorithm, along with the idea of triangle inequality, eliminate candidate images for similarity calculation between query image and each database image. We find that the proposed method reduces calculation up to average 92.9 percent of the images from direct comparison.