• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.775-778
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• 2002

영상 이진화란 명도 영상(gray-scaled image)을 이진 영상(bi-leveled image)으로 변환하는 것을 말한다. 영상 이진화는 문서 인식, 비디오 영상 분석 등과 같이 영상처리 분야에서 많이 사용되는 기본적인 영상 처리 과정에 해당한다. 본 논문은 Intel 사의 Pentium 계열 프로세서에서 지원하는 SIMD(Single-Instruction Multiple-Data) 기술을 이용하여 영상 이진화를 고속으로 수행하는 방법을 소개한다. 우편영상에 대하여 실험한 결과, SSE2 명령어로 구현된 프로그램은 기존의 C 언어로 구현된 프로그램에 비하여 4배 이상의 속도 향상을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.11
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• pp.34-43
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• 1999

A high-speed image processor (HIP) is implemented for a high-speed multi-function peripheral. HIP has a binarization architecture with unified data path. It has the pixel-by-pixel pipelined processing to minimize size of the external memory. It performs pre-processing such as shading correction, automatic gain control (AGC), and gamma correction, and also drives external CCD or CIS modules. The pre-processed data can be enlarged or reduced. Various binarizatin algorithms can be processed in the unified archiecture. The embedded binarization algorithms are simple thresholding, high pass filtering, dithering, error diffusion, and thershold modulated error diffusion. These binarization algorithms are unified based on th threshold modulated error diffusion. The data path is designed to share the common functional block of the binarization algorithms. The complexity of the controls and the gate counts is greatly reduced with this novel architecture.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.634-640
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an automatic extraction algorithm of region of interest(ROI) based on medical x-ray images. The proposed algorithm uses segmentation, feature extraction, and reference image matching to detect lesion sites in the input image. The extracted region is searched for matching lesion images in the reference DB, and the matched results are automatically extracted using the Kalman filter based fitness feedback. The proposed algorithm is extracts the contour of the left hand image for extract growth plate based on the left x-ray input image. It creates a candidate region using multi scale Hessian-matrix based sessionization. As a result, the proposed algorithm was able to split rapidly in 0.02 seconds during the ROI segmentation phase, also when extracting ROI based on segmented image 0.53, the reinforcement phase was able to perform very accurate image segmentation in 0.49 seconds.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.71-74
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• 1997

본 논문은 일반적으로 제약 없는 형식 문서 즉, 논-맨하탄(non-manhattan) 형식의 이진문서영상을 분석하는 기법으로서, 연결요소기법에 기반한 특징추출과 이를 이용한 영역분리 및 분류에 관한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방식은 바텀-업(bottom-up)방식으로서 먼저 처리속도의 고속화와 축소시 특징 영역보존을 위해 임계치 축소기법을 사용하고, 축소된 이진 문서영상내의 각 연결된 검은 화소의 집합을 개체화하고 개체의 특성에 따라 텍스트, 신성분, 해프톤, 도형 그리고 표 등으로 분류한다. 영역분류는 두단계로 이루어지는데, 1차분류에서는 우선, B/W 비, 면적, 외각 테두리의 높이와 너비 비, 테두리선유무 등의 특징을 이용하여 해프톤, 수평 수직선, 테두리(표 및 도형)영역을 분리한다. 이후 2차 분류에서는 문자성분의 수평결합을 통한 텍스트행 성분을 추출한다. 마지막 후처리 과정으로 표분석 알고리듬을 통하여 테두리 영역중 표와 도형을 정확히 구분하고, 또한 도형에 관련한 문서성분을 해당 도형 개체에 연결하는 작업을 수행함으로써 완벽한 영역분류를 한다. 다양한 문서영상을 이용한 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 알고리듬의 성능을 입증한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2006

테니스 경기 영상에서 테니스 코트 영역과 선수의 위치를 추적하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 공의 움직임을 찾기 위해서는 코트와 선수의 위치를 파악해야 하므로 이진화 영상과 형태론적 해석을 통하여 테니스 코트 영역과 선수 영역을 인식하도록 한다. 선수의 위치가 확인되면 공의 움직임이 예측되는 장소를 찾아 공이 지나가는 정보가 제공될 경우 공의 위치를 인식하고 칼만 필터를 이용하여 공의 움직임을 추정하고 공의 위치를 추적한다. 공의 움직임 정보를 이용하여 고속 이동에 의한 이미지의 손실을 개선하는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.14-20
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• 2003

This paper presents a text extraction method of camera based document image. It is more difficult to recognize camera based document image in comparison with scanner based image because of segmentation problem due to variable lighting condition and versatile fonts. Both document binarization and character extraction are important processes to recognize camera based document image. After converting color image into grey level image, gray level normalization is used to extract character region independent of lighting condition and background image. Local adaptive binarization method is then used to extract character from the background after the removal of noise. In this character extraction step, the information of the horizontal and vertical projection and the connected components is used to extract character line, word region and character region. To evaluate the proposed method, we have experimented with documents mixed Hangul, English, symbols and digits of the ETRI database. An encouraging binarization and character extraction results have been obtained.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.1352-1357
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• 2002

This Paper describes algorithm to extract license plates in vehicle images. Conventional methods perform preprocessing on the entire vehicle image to produce the edge image and binarize it. Hough transform is applied to the binary image to find horizontal and vertical lines, and the license plate area is extracted using the characteristics of license plates. Problems with this approach are that real-time processing is not feasible due to long processing time and that the license plate area is not extracted when lighting is irregular such as at night or when the plate boundary does not show up in the image. This research uses the gray level transition characteristics of license plates to verify the digit area by examining the digit width and the level difference between the background area the digit area, and then extracts the plate area by testing the distance between the verified digits. This research solves the problem of failure in extracting the license plates due to degraded plate boundary as in the conventional methods and resolves the problem of the time requirement by processing the real time such that practical application is possible. This paper Presents a power automated license plate recognition system, which is able to read license numbers of cars, even under circumstances, which are far from ideal. In a real-life test, the percentage of rejected plates wan 13%, whereas 0.4% of the plates were misclassified. Suggestions for further improvements are given.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.171-174
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 인가의 인지학적인 두뇌 원리인 대뇌피질과 해마 신경망을 공학적으로 모델링하여 얼굴 영상의 특징 벡터들을 고속 학습하고, 각 영상의 최적의 특징을 구성할 수 있는 해마 학습 알고리즘(Hippocampal Learning Algorithm)을 개발하여 RFID를 이용한 생체인식 시스템을 제안한다. 입력되는 얼굴 영상 데이터들은 NMF(Non-negative Matrix Factorization)를 이용하여 특징이 구성되고, 이러한 특징들은 해마의 치아 이랑 영역에서 호감도 조정에 따라서 반응 패턴으로 이진화 되고, CA3 영역에서 자기 연상 메모리 단계를 거쳐 노이즈를 제거한다. CA3의 정보를 받는 CA1영역에서는 단층 신경망에 의해 단기기억과 장기기억으로 나누어서 저장되고 해당 특징의 누적 개수가 문턱치(threshold)를 만족하면 장기 기억 장소로 저장시키도록 한다. 위와 같은 개념을 바탕으로 구현되는 RFID 생체인식 시스템은 특징의 분별력과 학습속도면에서 우수한 성능을 보일 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.423-430
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• 2013

Recently, the personal identification technologies using vein pattern of back of the hand, palm, and finger have been developed actively because it has the advantage that the vein blood vessel in the body is impossible to damage, make a replication and forge. However, it is difficult to extract clearly the vein region from captured vein images through common image prcessing based region segmentation method, because of the light scattering and non-uniform internal tissue by skin layer and inside layer skeleton, etc. Especially, it takes a long time for processing time and makes a discontinuity of blood vessel just in a image because it has non-uniform illumination due to use a locally different adaptive threshold for the binarization of acquired finger-vein image. To solve this problem, we propose illumination normalization based fast method for extracting the finger-vein region. The proposed method has advantages compared to the previous methods as follows. Firstly, for remove a non-uniform illumination of the captured vein image, we obtain a illumination component of the captured vein image by using a low-pass filter. Secondly, by extracting the finger-vein path using one time binarization of a single threshold selection, we were able to reduce the processing time. Through experimental results, we confirmed that the accuracy of extracting the finger-vein region was increased and the processing time was shortened than prior methods.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.117-126
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• 2020

A maritime object detection system is an intelligent assistance system to maritime autonomous surface ship(MASS). It detects automatically floating debris, which has a clash risk with objects in the surrounding water and used to be checked by a captain with a naked eye, at a similar level of accuracy to the human check method. It is used to detect objects around a ship. In the past, they were detected with information gathered from radars or sonar devices. With the development of artificial intelligence technology, intelligent CCTV installed in a ship are used to detect various types of floating debris on the course of sailing. If the speed of processing video data slows down due to the various requirements and complexity of MASS, however, there is no guarantee for safety as well as smooth service support. Trying to solve this issue, this study conducted research on the minimization of computation volumes for video data and the increased speed of data processing to detect maritime objects. Unlike previous studies that used the Hough transform algorithm to find the horizon and secure the areas of interest for the concerned objects, the present study proposed a new method of optimizing a binarization algorithm and finding areas whose locations were similar to actual objects in order to improve the speed. A maritime object detection system was materialized based on deep learning CNN to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed method and assess the performance of the algorithm. The proposed algorithm performed at a speed that was 4 times faster than the old method while keeping the detection accuracy of the old method.