• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집B
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• pp.670-675
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• 2001

This paper is to propose image segmentation method based on chamfer algorithm. First, we get original image from CCD camera and transform it into gray image. Second, we extract maximum gray value of background and reconstruct and eliminate the background using surface fitting method and bilinear interpolation. Third, we subtract the reconstructed background from gray image to remove noises in gray image. Fourth, we transform the subtracted image into binary image using Otsu's optimal thresholding method. Fifth, we use morphological filters such as areaopen, opening, filling filter etc. to remove noises and isolated points. Sixth, we use chamfer distance or Euclidean distance to this filtered image. Finally, we use watershed algorithm and count microorganisms in image by labeling. To prove the effectiveness, we apply the proposed algorithm to one of Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, Acinetobacter sp. It is shown that both Euclidean algorithm and chamfer algorithm show over-segmentation. But Chamfer algorithm shows less over-segmentation than Euclidean algorithm.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.689-699
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• 2016

LCD 수요 증가에 따라 LCD 생산 효율성 개선을 위한 검사장비의 중요성이 지속적으로 부각되고 있다. 패턴 검사기는 라인 스캔 카메라와 같은 광학 장비를 통해 미세한 패턴 결함을 빠른 속도로 검출하는 장비이다. 이러한 패턴 검사기는 실시간 검사를 위해 패턴 내에서 단일 기준값을 사용하여 픽셀 단위의 결함 여부를 판단하고 있다. 하지만 패턴 내 각 영역별 특징을 반영하여 서로 다른 기준값을 적용하는 적응적 이진화를 이용하는 경우 결함 검출 성능을 크게 향상시킬 수 있다. 이러한 적응적 이진화를 적용하기 위해서는 특정 검사 대상 픽셀이 어떠한 영역에 속하는지에 대한 정보를 필요로 한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 각각의 검사 대상 픽셀이 어떠한 영역에 속하는지를 판단하는 영역 매칭 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 머신 비전의 실시간성을 고려한 패턴 정합에 기반을 둔 알고리즘으로 실제 시스템에 적용될 수 있도록 GPGPU를 이용하여 구현된다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 방법이 실제 시스템이 요구하는 처리 속도를 만족시킬 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 결함 검출의 성능을 개선할 수 있음을 보인다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2006

얼굴검출은 얼굴인식과 비디오감시 시스템, HCI등 응용분야가 다양하므로 많은 연구가 필요하다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 실시간으로 얼굴을 검출하기 위하여 카메라에서 연속 얼굴 영상을 획득 한 후, 이 영상을 YCbCr 칼라 공간으로 변환하였다. 변환된 칼라 공간에서는 필터를 이용하여 피부색만을 분리하여 연결성분 분석으로 얼굴후보 블록을 결정하였다. 또한 외부 환경 변화에 영향을 받지 않기 위해 밝기 분포 평준화를 수행하였다. 밝기 분포를 평준화한 영상에서는 눈 영역이 다른 영역에 비해 뚜렷하게 구별되기 때문에 임의의 임계값을 적용하여 이진화 영상으로 변환 후 눈 검출을 할 수 있었다. 순차 임계값은 낮은 값에서부터 순차적으로 값을 증가시키면서 눈을 검출하고, 실패하였을 경우는 임계값이 조정되어 다시 눈을 검출한다. 순차 임계법에 의해 검출된 눈 영역은 정규화과정을 거친 후 역전파 알고리듬을 이용하여 눈 검증을 실시하고, 최종적으로 얼굴 검출을 수행하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.3490-3507
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• 2014

License plate detection (LPD) is one of the most important aspects of an automatic license plate recognition system. Although there have been some successful license plate recognition (LPR) methods in past decades, it is still a challenging problem because of the diversity of plate formats and outdoor illumination conditions in image acquisition. Because the accurate detection of license plates under different conditions directly affects overall recognition system accuracy, different methods have been developed for LPD systems. In this paper, we propose a license plate detection method that is rapid and robust against variation, especially variations in illumination conditions. Taking the aspects of accuracy and speed into consideration, the proposed system consists of two stages. For each stage, Haar-like features are used to compute and select features from license plate images and a cascade classifier based on the concatenation of classifiers where each classifier is trained by an AdaBoost algorithm is used to classify parts of an image within a search window as either license plate or non-license plate. And it is followed by connected component analysis (CCA) for eliminating false positives. The two stages use different image preprocessing blocks: image preprocessing without adaptive thresholding for the first stage and image preprocessing with adaptive thresholding for the second stage. The method is faster and more accurate than most existing methods used in LPD. Experimental results demonstrate that the LPD rate is 98.38% and the average computational time is 54.64 ms.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.1877-1884
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• 2006

영상의 이진화는 영상을 물체와 배경으로 구분하는 전처리 과정으로써, 처리해야 할 대상이 되는 물체를 규정하기 위한 매우 중요한 처리과정이며 크게 전역 임계 값 설정 방법과 지 역 임계값 설정 방법으로 분류할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 전역적 이진화 방법의 장점과지역적 이진화 방법의 장점을 결합하여 문자 영역에 대한 효율적이고 적응적인 이진화 방법을 제안한다. 한글 명도 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과 지역적 이진화 알고리즘보다 훨씬 빠른 속도로 더 좋은 품질의 문자 이진화가 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.950-956
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• 2014

In this paper, the real-time detection method of a DDP (Driving Direction Point) is proposed for an unmanned vehicle to safely follow the center of the road. Since the DDP is defined as a center point between two lanes, the lane is first detected using a web camera. For robust detection of the lane, the binary thresholding and the labeling methods are applied to the color camera image as image preprocessing. From the preprocessed image, the lane is detected, taking the intrinsic characteristics of the lane such as width into consideration. If both lanes are detected, the DDP can be directly obtained from the preprocessed image. However, if one lane is detected, the DDP is obtained from the inverse perspective image to guarantee reliability. To verify the proposed method, several experiments to detect the DDPs are carried out using a 4 wheeled vehicle ERP-42 with a web camera.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.575-591
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• 2013

Most of the edge detection methods available in literature are gradient based, which further apply thresholding, to find the final edge map in an image. In this paper, we propose a novel method that is based on fuzzy logic for edge detection in gray images without using the gradient and thresholding. Fuzzy logic is a mathematical logic that attempts to solve problems by assigning values to an imprecise spectrum of data in order to arrive at the most accurate conclusion possible. Here, the fuzzy logic is used to conclude whether a pixel is an edge pixel or not. The proposed technique begins by fuzzifying the gray values of a pixel into two fuzzy variables, namely the black and the white. Fuzzy rules are defined to find the edge pixels in the fuzzified image. The resultant edge map may contain some extraneous edges, which are further removed from the edge map by separately examining the intermediate intensity range pixels. Finally, the edge map is improved by finding some left out edge pixels by defining a new membership function for the pixels that have their entire 8-neighbourhood pixels classified as white. We have compared our proposed method with some of the existing standard edge detector operators that are available in the literature on image processing. The quantitative analysis of the proposed method is given in terms of entropy value.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.83-88
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• 2004

The Classification of defected oil-seals using a vision system with the artificial neural network is presented. The artificial neural network fur classification consists of 27 input nodes, 10 hidden nodes, and one output node. The selection of the number of the input nodes is based on an observation that the difference among the defected, non-defected, and smeared oil-seals is greatly pronounced in the 26 step gray-scale level thresholding. The number of the hidden nodes is chosen as a result of a trade-off between accuracy and computing time. The back-propagation algorithm is used for teaching the network. The proposed network is capable of successfully classifying the defected from the smeared oil-seals which tend to be classified as the defected ones using the binary thresholding. It is envisaged that the proposed method improves the reliability and productivity of the automotive vision inspection system.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1183-1195
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• 2020

Visual saliency detection is an essential task because it is an important part of various vision-based applications. There are many techniques for saliency detection in color images. However, the number of methods for saliency detection in infrared images is limited. In this paper, we introduce a simple approach for saliency detection in infrared images based on the thresholding technique. The input image is thresholded into several Boolean maps, and an initial saliency map is calculated as a weighted sum of the created Boolean maps. The initial map is further refined by using thresholding, morphology operation, and a Gaussian filter to produce the final, high-quality saliency map. The experiment showed that the proposed method has high performance when applied to real-life data.

• Fibers and Polymers
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.162-168
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• 2005

A methodology for the objective evaluation of water repellency is studied using image analysis of the sprayed pattern on woven fabrics according to a standard spray test (AATCC Test Method 22-2001). The wet area ratio obtained from the spray standard test ranking is found to be exponentially related with its water repellency rating. Mean filtering is used to remove the effect of weave texture and the transmitted light through interyarn spaces. The ring frame of the instrument and wet region are recognized using Otsu thresholding technique. And Hough transform and outline operation are used to obtain the size and position of the ring frame. The objective assessment of the water repellency using image processing can reduce unnecessary confusion in the subjective determination of the water repellency.