• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.4C
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• pp.363-370
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• 2009

Image interpolation addresses the problem of generating a high-resolution image from its low-resolution version. Classical linear interpolation algorithms are simple and popular, but they produce interpolated image with blurred edges and annoying artifacts, Thus, many edge-based interpolation algorithms have been proposed to improve the subjective quality of the interpolated image, especially around edges on the image. In this paper, we propose a new interpolation algorithm which uses edges extracted from binary image. The proposed algorithm is applied to the image after interpolating using 6-Tap FIR filter. The values of interpolation pixels on edges extracted from binary image are modified using neighborhood pixels on the same edge. Experimental results for various images show that the proposed method provides better performance than existing methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.193-199
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• 2015

Active thermography techniques have the capability of inspecting a broad range simultaneously. By evaluating the phase difference between the defected area and the healthy area, the technique indicates the qualitative location and size of the defect. Previously, the development of the defect detection method used a variety of materials and the test specimen was done. In this study, the proposed technique of lock-in is verified with artificial specimens that have different size and depth of subsurface defects. Finally, the defect detection capability was evaluated using comparisons of the phase image and the amplitude image according to the size and depth of defects.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.9-12
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• 2019

지난 수 년 동안 계속해서 일반 실상 카메라를 이용한 영상분석기술에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 최근에는 딥러닝 기술을 적용한 지능형 영상분석기술로 발전해 왔으며 국방기지방호, CCTV, 사용자 얼굴인식, 머신비전, 자동차, 드론 산업이 활성화되면서 많은 시너지를 효과를 일으키고 있다. 그러나 어두운 밤과 안개, 날씨, 연기 등 다양한 여건에서 따라서 카메라의 영상분석 정확성 감소와 오류가 수반될 수 있으며 일반적으로 딥러닝 기술을 활용하기 위해서는 고사양의 GPU를 필요로 하기 때문에 다른 추가적인 시스템이 요구된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 열적외선 영상의 객체 검출에 적용하기 위해 SSD(Single Shot MultiBox Detector) 기반의 경량적인 MobilNet 네트워크로 재구성하여, 모바일 기기 등 낮은 사양의 낮은 임베디드 시스템에서도 활용 할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 모의 실험결과 제안된 방식의 모델은 적외선 열화상 카메라에서 객체검출과 학습시간이 줄어든 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.71-77
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a learning based super resolution algorithm using local block for image enhancement of vehicle license plate. Local block is defined as the minimum measure of block size containing the associative information in the image. Proposed method essentially generates appropriate local block sets suitable for various imaging conditions. In particular, local block training set is first constructed as ordered pair between high resolution local block and low resolution local block. We then generate low resolution local block training set of various size and blur conditions for matching to all possible blur condition of vehicle license plates. Finally, we perform association and merging of information to reconstruct into enhanced form of image from training local block sets. Representative experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.1097-1100
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• 2021

열영상과 IoT를 이용한 AI 바이러스 차단 시스템 개발에 필요한 열화상 체온 측정기의 열 측정 정확도 향상과 얼굴 인식 시간 단축을 위해 열화상에 사용되는 딥러닝 알고리즘을 비교하며 효율적인 알고리즘 발굴 및 열영상을 이용한 바이러스 차단 시스템에 적합한 열영상 알고리즘 보완 방법을 찾는 연구이다.

• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2021

The ability to recognize human emotions by computer vision is a very important task, with many potential applications. Therefore the demand for emotion recognition using not only RGB images but also thermal images is increasing. Compared to RGB images, thermal images has the advantage of being less affected by lighting conditions but require a more sophisticated recognition method with low-resolution sources. In this paper, we propose a Divide and Conquer-based CNN training strategy to improve the performance of facial thermal image-based emotion recognition. The proposed method first trains to classify difficult-to-classify similar emotion classes into the same class group by confusion matrix analysis and then divides and solves the problem so that the emotion group classified into the same class group is recognized again as actual emotions. In experiments, the proposed method has improved accuracy in all the tests than when recognizing all the presented emotions with a single CNN model.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.57-62
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• 2015

Recently, thermography camera have been using for body-temperature monitoring. We report on fabrication of prototype thermography camera using the chalcogenide-glass lens and the camera test by analysis of thermal image. In this work, it was found out that thermography camera discerned body-temperature between 20 and $50^{\circ}C$ with noise equivalent temperature difference(NETD) of 87.7mK. It is confirmed that thermography camera using the chalcogenide-glass lens is applicable to the body-temperature monitoring system.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.146-153
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• 2018

This paper presents a superresolution demosaicing technique that can restore high-resolution color image from differently blurred low resolution images in Bayer domain. The proposed superresolution demosaicing algorithm uses an aperture mask wheel to get differently blurred low resolution images, so we just need to estimate point spread function at each frame. In addition, it does not require image registration because there is no translational motion between low resolution images. By using a rotatable aperture mask wheel, consecutive captured images provide sufficiently exclusive information for superresolution. Therefore, the proposed method can reduce the registration error between the low-resolution image as well as the calculation amount for superresolution restoration. The existing lens system of the camera can be extended to obtain a superresolution image by only adding an rotatable aperture mask wheels. Finally, in order to verify the performance of the proposed system, experimental results are performed. The proposed method showed the significant improvements in the sense of spatial and color resolution.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.2138-2144
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• 2015

Multimodal dual camera system has a stereo-like configuration equipped with an infrared thermal and optical camera. This paper presents stereo calibration methods on multimodal dual camera system using a target board that can be recognized by both thermal and optical camera. While a typical stereo calibration method usually performed with extracted intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameter, consecutive image processing steps were applied in this paper as follows. Firstly, the corner points were detected from the two images, and then the pixel error rate, the size difference, the rotation degree between the two images were calculated by using the pixel coordinates of detected corner points. Secondly, calibration was performed with the calculated values via affine transform. Lastly, result image was reconstructed with mapping regions on calibrated image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.657-660
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• 2009

An image interpolation is a basis technique for various image processing and is required to minimize approaches for image quality deterioration. In this paper, we propose an improved bilinear interpolation using loss information estimation. In the proposed algorithm, we estimate loss information of low resolution image using down-sampling and interpolation of acquisition low resolution. The estimated loss information is utilized interpolated image, and it decrease image quality deterioration. Our experiments obtained the average PSNR 0.97~1.79dB which is improved results better than conventional method for sensitive image quality. Also, subjective image quality with edge region is more clearness. The proposed method may be helpful for applications in various multimedia systems such as image resolution enhancement and image restoration.