• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.01a
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• pp.137-138
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 연속된 영상에서 다중해상도 에지정보의 차이를 이용하여 이동하는 물체를 탐지하고 계수하는 시스템을 제안한다. 연속적으로 입력되는 영상에 대하여 이산 웨이블릿 연산을 수행하여 다중해상도 에지를 추출하고, 인접한 프레임 사이의 다중해상도 에지 차이를 이용하여 이동물체를 추출한다. 가중치가 부여된 유클리디언 거리를 이용하여 물체를 추적한 다음, 칼만필터를 이용하여 물체 궤적의 위치 정보를 보정한다. 마지막으로, 관심영역에 대한 물체 궤적의 상대적인 위치를 고려하여 이동물체를 계수한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.105-112
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• 1989

A new simple edge-based segmentation method composed of edge tracing, region filling, and post processing is proposed. Solving so called the small gap problem common to most of edge-based methods, this method segments images so completely as to be suitable for image coding. Experimental results show that our methods has much less (1/3) computation time than Perkins' one, and its reconstructed images is good on visual perception.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.130-133
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• 2014

본 논문은 Laplacian of Gaussians (LoG)에 캐니 에지 검출 기법을 접목한 새로운 색상 보간 알고리듬을 제안한다. 캐니 에지 검출 기법은 영상 스무딩, 기울기 크기와 각도 계산, 세션화, 이중 문턱치 처리 과정으로 이루어진다. 이때 앞의 두 과정을 LoG를 이용하여 처리함으로써 기존의 캐니 애지 검출법보다 정확한 방향 정보를 얻을 수 있다. 실험결과를 통해 기존의 색상 보간 알고리듬에 비해 Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (CPSNR)이 상승함을 확인하였으며, 에지 영역 주변에서 발생하였던 무지개 에러가 현저히 감소하였음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.5 s.305
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• pp.95-102
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• 2005

When images compressed with block-based compression techniques are transmitted over a noisy channel, unexpected block losses occur. In this paper, we present a post-processing-based block recovery scheme using Haar wavelet features. No consideration of the edge-direction, when recover the lost blocks, can cause block-blurring effects. The proposed directional recovery method in this paper is effective for the strong edge because exploit the varying neighboring blocks adaptively according to the edges and the directional information in the image. First, the adaptive selection of neighbor blocks is performed based on the energy of wavelet subbands (EWS) and difference of DC values (DDC). The lost blocks are recovered by the linear interpolation in the spatial domain using selected blocks. The method using only EWS performs well for horizontal and vertical edges, but not as well for diagonal edges. Conversely, only using DDC performs well diagonal edges with the exception of line- or roof-type edge profiles. Therefore, we combined EWS and DDC for better results. The proposed methods out performed the previous methods using fixed blocks.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.223-232
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a novel post-filtering algorithm with low computational complexity that improves the visual quality of decoded images using block boundary classification and simple adaptive filter (SAF). At first, each block boundary is classified into smooth or complex sub-region. And for smooth-smooth sub-regions, the existence of blocking artifacts is determined using blocky strength. And simple adaptive filtering is processed in each block boundary area. The proposed method processes adaptively, that is, a nonlinear 1-D 8-tap filter is applied to smooth-smooth sub-regions with blocking artifacts, and for smooth-complex or complex-smooth sub-regions, a nonlinear 1-D variant filter is applied to block boundary pixels so as to reduce the blocking and ringing artifacts. And for complex-complex sub-regions, a nonlinear 1-D 2-tap filter is only applied to adjust two block boundary pixels so as to preserve the image details. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm produced better results than those of conventional algorithms both subjective and objective viewpoints.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.127-132
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a novel method of adult image classification by combining skin color regions and edges in an input image. The proposed method consists of four steps. In the first step, initial skin color regions are detected by logical AND operation of all skin color regions detected by the existing methods of skin color detection. In the second step, a skin color probability map is created by modeling the distribution of skin color in the initial regions. Then, a binary image is generated by using threshold value from the skin color probability map. In the third step, after using the binary image and edge information, we detect final skin color regions using a region growing method. In the final step, adult image classification is performed by support vector machine(SVM). To this end, a feature vector is extracted by combining the final skin color regions and neighboring edges of them. As experimental results, the proposed method improves performance of the adult image classification by 9.6%, compared to the existing method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.199-207
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• 2001

In this paper, we suggest an edge-based surface segmentation algorithm of 3D image using curvature. For the first, in this proposed method, we approximate 3D depth data to second order curves by each scan line and decide splitting points of 3D edges by curvature of the approximated curves. And finally make a group as 3D surface with the region of input image by the 3D edges. In the conventional algorithms, there are some difficulties in detecting 3D edge with the separated processes for the jump edge and the crease edge and especially, in deciding the ambiguous discontinuity of surface directions about the crease edge. The proposed algorithm decides curvature discontinuity using curvature which is simply calculated by a geometrical approximation. Furthermore, the algorithm has a cooperated process to calculate the jump and crease edges. The results of computer simulations with several 3D images show that the proposed method yields better performance as comparing with the conventional methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.89-101
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• 2014

In this paper, we proposed a new local micro pattern, Signed Local Directional Pattern(SLDP). SLDP uses information of edges to represent the face's texture. This can produce a more discriminating and efficient code than other state-of-the-art methods. Each micro pattern of SLDP is encoded by sign and its major directions in which maximum edge responses exist-which allows it to distinguish among similar edge patterns that have different intensity transitions. In this paper, we divide the face image into several regions, each of which is used to calculate the distributions of the SLDP codes. Each distribution represents features of the region and these features are concatenated into a feature vector. We carried out facial expression recognition with feature vectors and SVM(Support Vector Machine) on Cohn-Kanade and JAFFE databases. SLDP shows better classification accuracy than other existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.790-792
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• 2017

As the demand of digital image processing devices has been rapidly increased recently, the excellent image quality is required. However, degradation can be occurred with multiple causes during transmission and processing process. Therefore, the needs to eliminate the noise are increased and the noise elimination technology became the major study area. Therefore, image restoration algorithm was suggested to apply the filter differently by edge and non-edge areas, using modified edge detection with preprocessing process so as to relieve the effect of additive white Gaussian noise(AWGN) which is added in the image, in this article. In addition, it was compared with the existing methods using peak signal to noise ratio(PSNR) as the objective determination standard of the improvement effect.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.263-279
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• 2009

Shape features in a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system are divided into two classes: contour-based and region-based. Contour-based shape features are simple but they are not as efficient as region-based shape features. Most systems using the region-based shape feature have to extract the region firs t. The prior works on region-based systems still have shortcomings. They are complex to implement, particularly with respect to region extraction, and do not sufficiently use the spatial relationship between regions in the distance model In this paper, a region extraction method that is the combination of an edge-based method and a region growing method is proposed to accurately extract regions inside an object. Edges inside an object are accurately detected based on the Canny edge detector and the Hough transform. And the modified Integrated Region Matching (IRM) scheme which includes the adjacency relationship of regions is also proposed. It is used to compute the distance between images for the similarity search using shape features. The experimental results show the effectiveness of our region extraction method as well as the modified IRM. In comparison with other works, it is shown that the new region extraction method outperforms others.