• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.5A
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• pp.375-387
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new real-time object tracking algorithm using particle filters with color and texture features in moving CCD camera images. If the user selects an initial object, this region is declared as a target particle and an initial state is modeled. Then, N particles are generated based on random distribution and CS-LBP (Centre Symmetric Local Binary Patterns) for texture model and weighted color distribution is modeled from each particle. For observation likelihoods estimation, Bhattacharyya distance between particles and their feature models are calculated and this observation likelihoods are used for weights of individual particles. After weights estimation, a new particle which has the maximum weight is selected and new particles are re-sampled using the maximum particle. For performance comparison, we tested a few combinations of features and particle filters. The proposed algorithm showed best object tracking performance when we used color and texture model simultaneously for likelihood estimation.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.22-27
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• 2014

Three-dimensional image reconstruction allows us to represent real objects in the virtual space and observe the objects at arbitrary view points. This technique can be used in various application areas such as education, culture, and art. In this paper, we propose an implementation method of the high-quality three-dimensional object using multiple Kinect cameras released from Microsoft. First, We acquire color and depth images from triple Kinect cameras; Kinect cameras are placed in front of the object as a convergence form. Because original depth image includes some areas where have no depth values, we employ joint bilateral filter to refine these areas. In addition to the depth image problem, there is an color mismatch problem in color images of multiview system. In order to solve it, we exploit an color correction method using three-dimensional geometry. Through the experimental results, we found that three-dimensional object which is used the proposed method is more naturally represented than the original three-dimensional object in terms of the color and shape.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.499-501
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 영역기반 검색환경을 제공하는 FRIP(Finding Region in the Pictures) 시스템을 소개한다. FRIP 시스템은 영역 기반 검색환경을 제공하기 위해서, 우선적으로 영상을 분할하고, 각 분할된 영역으로부터 색상, 질감, 크기, 모양, 위치 정보와 같은 최적의 특징 벡터들을 추출하여 색인화시킨다. 그런 뒤에, 사용자가 검색하고자 하는 영역과 검색 영상 수 k를 입력하면, 유사성 측정 식에 의해 가장 유사한 k만큼의 영상을 우선 순위 형태로 사용자에 보여주게 된다. 본 시스템에서는 영상을 분할하기 위해서 기본적인 RGB 색상계를 확장(Scaling 및 이동(Shifting) 알고리즘을 통해 영상의 대비 정도가 향상된 새로운 색상계로 변환시키고, 원형 필터를 설계하여, 영역 안에 포함된 의미 없는 작은 영역을 제거하도록 하였다. 그리고 이렇게 분할된 각 영역들로부터, 본 시스템에서 제안하는 모양 기술자인 MRS(Modified Radius-based Signature)를 포함하여 5가지의 최적의 특징 벡터들을 전처리 단계에서 데이터베이스에 색인으로 저장하고 유사성 측정을 위한 수치로 사용하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.236-239
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• 2014

3차원 영상을 제작하기 위해서는 여러 시점의 색상 영상과 함께 깊이 정보를 필요로 한다. 하지만 깊이 정보를 얻을 때 사용하는 ToF 카메라는 해상도가 낮으며 적외선 신호의 주파수 문제 때문에 최대 3대까지 사용할 수 있다. 따라서 깊이 정보를 색상 영상과 함께 사용하기 위해서 깊이 정보의 업샘플링이 필수적이다. 업샘플링은 깊이 정보를 색상 카메라 위치로 3차원 워핑하고 결합형 양방향 필터(joint bilateral filter, JBF)를 사용하여 빈 영역을 채우는 방법으로 진행된다. 업샘플링은 오랜 시간이 소요되지만 그래픽스 프로세싱 유닛(graphics processing units, GPU)를 이용하여 빠르게 수행될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중 GPU의 병렬 수행을 통하여 빠르게 다시점 깊이맵을 생성할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 다중 GPU 병렬 수행은 범용 목적 GPU(general purpose computing on GPU, GPGPU) 중의 하나인 CUDA를 이용하였으며, 본 논문에서 제안된 방법을 이용하여 3개의 GPU 사용한 실험 결과 초당 35 프레임의 다시점 깊이맵을 생성했다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2009

영상의 깊이 정보를 추출하는 것은 매우 어려운 연구이다. 다양한 유형의 영상 구조의 분석이 필요하지만 많은 경우에 주관적인 판단의 도움이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 로스 텍스처 필터를 기반으로 정지 영상의 깊이를 자동으로 생성하는 방법을 제안한다. 로스 텍스처 필터는 단안 비전에서 3D 깊이를 얻기 위한 방법으로 활용되었는데, 실제 2D 영상에서 깊이를 예측하기 위해 텍스처 편차, 텍스처 기울기, 색상 등을 활용한다. 로스 필터는 $1{\times}5$ 벡터로부터 콘볼루션을 이용하여, 20여개의 $5{\times}5$ 콘볼루션 필터가 구해지는데, 영상에 필터를 적용하여 로스 에너지를 계산한다. 구해진 에너지를 깊이 맵으로 변환하고, 깊이 맵에서 특징 점을 구하고, 특징 점들로부터 델러노이 삼각화를 이용하여 삼각형 깊이 메쉬를 얻는다. 구해진 깊이 맵의 성능을 측정하기 위해 카메라 시점을 변경하면서 영상의 3D 구조를 분석하였으며, 입체영상을 생성하여 3D 입체 시청 결과를 분석하였다. 실험에서는 로스 텍스처 필터를 이용하는 깊이 생성 방법이 좋은 효과를 얻는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.27-35
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• 2010

Extracting skin color is significant in adult image detection. However, conventional methods still have essential problems in extracting skin color. That is, colors of human skins are basically not the same because of individual skin difference or difference races. Moreover, skin regions of images may not have identical color due to makeup, different cameras used, etc. Therefore, most of the existing methods use predefined skin color models. To resolve these problems, in this paper, we propose a new adult image detection method that robustly segments skin areas with an input image-adapted skin color distribution model, and verifies if the segmented skin regions contain naked bodies by fusing several representative features through a neural network scheme. Experimental results show that our method outperforms others through various experiments. We expect that the suggested method will be useful in many applications such as face detection and objectionable image filtering.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.126-136
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• 2004

This paper proposes a new content-based image retrieval algorithm using color-spatial information. For the purpose, the paper suggests two kinds of indexing key to prune away irrelevant images to a given query image; MCS(Main Colors' Set), which is related with color information and DBS (Distribution Block Signature), which is related with spatial information. After successively applying these filters to a database, we could get a small amount of high potential candidates that are somewhat similar to the query image. Then we would make use of new QM(Quad modeling) and relevance feedback mechanism to obtain more accurate retrieval. It would enhance the retrieval effectiveness by dynamically modulating the weights of color-spatial information. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm can apply successfully image retrieval applications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.12C
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• pp.1004-1009
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• 2010

ost digital cameras use single sensor array with color filter array to reduce size and cost. However images taken by single sensor array have only one color component per pixel, to obtain a color image missing two color components need to be reconstructed. This reconstructing process is called as demosaicking. This paper propose a new directional demosaicking method and proposed method achieves better image quality with enhanced weighting function. With comparing objective and subjective performance, we show proposed method achieves better performance than the conventional methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.260-272
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• 2001

In this paper, we have designed a region-based image retrieval system, FRIP(Finding Region In the Pictures). This system includes a robust image segmentation scheme using color and texture direction and retrieval scheme based on features of each region. For image segmentation, by using a circular filter, we can protect the boundary of round object and merge stripes or spots of objects into body region. It also combines scaled and shifted color coordinate and texture direction. After image segmentation, in order to improve the storage management effectively and reduce the computation time, we extract compact features from each region and store as index. For user interface, by the user specified constraints such as color-care / don't care. scale-care / dont care, shape-care / dont care and location-care / dont care, the overal/ matching score is estimated and the top Ie nearest images are reported in the ascending order of the final score.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.111-119
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• 2016

Most commercial digital cameras acquire the colors of an image through the color filter array, and interpolate missing pixels of the image. Because of this fact, original pixels and interpolated pixels have different statistical characteristics. If colors of an image are modified, the color filter array pattern that consists of RGB channels is changed. Using this pattern change, a color forgery detection method were presented. The conventional method uses the number of pixels that exceeds the maximum or minimum value of pre-defined block by only exploiting green component. However, this algorithm cannot remove the flat area which is occurred when color is changed. And the conventional method has demerit that cannot detect the forged image with rare green pixels. In this paper, we propose an enhanced color forgery detection algorithm using the normalization and weighted sum of the color components. Our method can reduce the detection error by using all color components and removing flat area. Through simulations, we observe that our proposed method shows better detection performance compared to the conventional method.