• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.20-27
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• 2003

In this paper, we implemented a content-based image retrieval system that user can choose a wanted query region of object and retrieve similar object from image database. Query image is induced to wavelet transformation after divided into hue components and gray components that hue features is extracted through color autocorrelogram and dispersion in hue components. Texture feature is extracted through autocorrelogram and GLCM in gray components also. Using features of two components, retrieval is processed to compare each similarity with database image. In here, weight value is applied to each similarity value. We make up for each defect by deriving features from two components beside one that elevations of recall and precision are verified in experiment results. Moreover, retrieval efficiency is improved by weight value. And various features of database images are indexed automatically in feature library that make possible to rapid image retrieval.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.127-136
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• 2010

In multi-view video, illumination disharmony between neighboring views can occur on account of different location of each camera and imperfect camera calibration, and so on. Such discrepancy can be the cause of the performance decrease of multi-view video coding by mismatch of inter-view prediction which refer to the pictures obtained from the neighboring views at the same time. In this paper, we propose an efficient histogram-based prefiltering algorithm to compensate mismatches between the luminance and chrominance components in multi-view video for improving its coding efficiency. To compensate illumination variation efficiently, all camera frames of a multi-view sequence are adjusted to a predefined reference through the histogram matching. A Cosited filter that is used for chroma subsampling in many video encoding schemes is applied to each color component prior to histogram matching to improve its performance. The histogram matching is carried out in the RGB color space after color space converting from YCbCr color space. The effective color conversion skill that has respect to direction of edge and range of pixel value in an image is employed in the process. Experimental results show that the compression ratio for the proposed algorithm is improved comparing with other methods.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.37-43
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a robust lip detection algorithm using color clustering. At first, we adopt AdaBoost algorithm to extract facial region and convert facial region into Lab color space. Because a and b components in Lab color space are known as that they could well express lip color and its complementary color, we use a and b component as the features for color clustering. The nearest neighbour clustering algorithm is applied to separate the skin region from the facial region and K-Means color clustering is applied to extract lip-candidate region. Then geometric characteristics are used to extract final lip region. The proposed algorithm can detect lip region robustly which has been shown by experimental results.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.4
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• pp.255-262
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• 2007

This paper proposes an enhanced skin color-based detection method to find a region of human face in color images. The proposed detection method combines three color spaces, RGB, $YC_bC_r$, YIQ and builds color union histograms of luminance and chrominance components respectively. Combined color union histograms are then fed in to the back-propagation neural network for training and Levenberg-Marquadt algorithm is applied to the iteration process of training. Proposed method with Levenberg-Marquadt algorithm applied to training process of neural network contributes to solve a local minimum problem of back-propagation neural network, one of common methods of training for face detection, and lead to make lower a detection error rate. Further, proposed color-based detection method using combined color union histograms which give emphasis to chrominance components divided from luminance components inputs more confident values at the neural network and shows higher detection accuracy in comparison to the histogram of single color space. The experiments show that these approaches perform a good capability for face region detection, and these are robust to illumination conditions.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.909-914
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• 2007

본 논문은 조명변화가 심한 주변환경에서 동적객체의 특징정보를 안정적으로 추출하는 기법을 제시한다. 제안기법에서는 우선 조명변화의 효과를 최소화 하기위해 HSI 컬러공간에서 색상(Hue) 강도 및 색상기울기에 대한 평균값과 표준편차 값으로 이루어진 배경모델을 생성한다. 실시간으로 입력되는 동적 객체를 포함한 연속영상에 대하여 각 화소에 대한 색상(Hue) 성분을 추출하고 이웃 화소와의 색상성분에 대한 기울기 크기를 계산한다. 이를 기구축된 배경모델과 비교하여 그 차분값이 일정 임계값을 초과하는 경우 동적 객체의 영역으로 판별한다. 마지막으로 모폴로지 연산을 수행하여 배경영상의 노이즈 영역을 제거한다. 본 논문에서는 기존 동적객체 추출기법과 제안기법을 핸드 트래킹과 전체 몸 움직임 추적의 비교실험을 통하여 제안 기법의 안정성을 보였다. 제안 기법은 극심한 조명변화에 강건하게 동적 객체의 영역정보를 실시간 추출하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.472-474
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 특징점 기반 색상보정을 이용한 다시점 비디오 부호화 전처리 방법을 제안 한다. 다시점 영상은 조명 및 카메라 간의 특성차이로 인해 인접 시점 간 색상차를 보인다. 이를 보정하기 위한 여러 가지 방법 중, 본 논문에서는 영상간의 대응되는 특징점들을 기반으로 상대적인 카메라의 특성을 모델링하고 이를 통해 색상을 보정하는 방법을 이용하였다. 대응되는 특징점을 추출하기 위해 Harris 코너 검출법을 사용하였고, 모델링 된 수식의 계수는 가우스-뉴튼 순환 기법으로 추정하였다. 참조 영상을 기준으로 보정해야할 타겟 영상의 색상값을 RGB 성분별로 보정했다. 테스트 영상을 가지고 실험한 결과 제안한 전처리 방법으로 보정을 하였을 경우, 전처리 과정을 거치지 않았을 때보다 화질 및 압축효율이 향상됨을 알 수 있었다. 또한 누적 히스토그램 기반의 전처리 방식과 비교했을 때, PSNR은 성분별로 0.5 dB ~ 0.8dB 정도 올랐고 Bit rate는 14% 정도 절감되는 효과를 확인 하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.11-22
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• 2006

Recently face detection has actively been researched due to its wide range of applications, such as personal identification and security systems. In this paper, a new face detection method based on the distribution map is proposed. Face-like regions are first extracted by applying the skin color map with the frequency to a color image and then, possible eye regions are determined by using the pupil color distribution map within the face-like regions. This enables the reduction of space for finding facial features. Eye candidates are detected by means of a template matching method using weighted window, which utilizes the correlation values of the luminance component and chrominance components as feature vectors. Finally, a cost function for mouth detection and location information between the facial features are applied to each pair of the eye candidates for face detection. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve a high performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.99-102
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• 2016

교통표지판 검출 및 인식은 차량의 자율주행 및 ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System)의 필수적인 요소이다. 교통표지판의 각종 표식을 인식하기 위해서는 먼저 교통표지판 영역을 검출해야 하며, 이 작업은 통상적으로 교통표지판에 포함된 빨간색을 추출하는 컬러 필터링을 통해 이루어진다. 하지만 차량 영상에 나타나는 색상 성분은 태양광의 방향이나 날씨 등에 상당한 영향을 받으며 이러한 조도 환경은 차량이 주행하게 되면 시간적으로도 수시로 변화한다. 더군다나 사용하는 카메라의 내부적인 특성에 따라서도 색상 성분의 분포가 달라지기 때문에 컬러 필터링을 위한 임계값은 고정값을 사용하기 보다는 적응적으로 변화시킬 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 조도 환경과 다양한 카메라 종류에 따라서 영상 내 교통표지판의 빨간색 성분의 분포를 분석하고 이를 바탕으로 임계값을 가변적으로 설정하는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 모의실험을 통해 제안 방법을 적용하면 고정된 임계값을 사용한 방법보다 조도변화에 강인하게 교통표지판 영역을 검출할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.5 s.37
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• pp.87-94
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• 2005

This paper describes the method of detecting the region of vehicle number plate in colored car image with number plate. Vehicle number plate region generally shows formula colors in accordance with type of car. According to this, we use the method to combine a color ingredient H of HSI color model and a color ingredient Q of YIQ color model. However, the defect which a total operation time takes much exists if it uses such method. Therefore, in this paper, the concurrent accomplishes a candidate area extraction operation as draw a color H and Q ingredient among steps of extracting a region of vehicle number Plate. After the above step, as a next step in combination with color H and Q we can accomplish an region extraction fast by comparing to candidate regions extracted from each steps not to do a comparison operation to all of image pixel information. We also show implementation results Processed at each steps and compare with extraction time according to image resolutions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.2527-2533
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• 2011

In this paper we propose a new pre-processing algorithm applied to multi-view video coding using color compensation algorithm based on image features. Multi-view images have a difference between neighboring frames according to illumination and different camera characteristics. To compensate this color difference, first we model the characteristics of cameras based on frame's feature from each camera and then correct the color difference. To extract corresponding features from each frame, we use Harris corner detection algorithm and characteristic coefficients used in the model is estimated by using Gauss-Newton algorithm. In this algorithm, we compensate RGB components of target images, separately from the reference image. The experimental results with many test images show that the proposed algorithm peformed better than the histogram based algorithm as much as 14 % of bit reduction and 0.5 dB ~ 0.8dB of PSNR enhancement.