• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.31-40
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose an edge histogram to efficiently represent the edge distribution in the image for MPEG-7. To this end, we adopt global, semi-global, and local edge histogram bins. Also, we extract the edge information from the image in terms of image blocks rather than pixels, which reduces the extraction complexity and is also applicable to the block-based compression standards such as MPEG-1, and 2. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields better retrieval accuracy and feature extraction speed comparing to other non-homogeneous texture descriptors of MPEG-7 including the wavelet-based descriptor and local edge-based descriptor.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.27-34
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a combined region-based image retrieval system using EHD(Edge Histogram Descriptor) and CLD(Color Layout Descriptor) of MPEG-7 descriptors. The combined descriptor can efficiently describe edge and color features in terms of sub-image regions. That is, the basic unit for the selection of the region-of-interest (ROI) in the image is the sub-image block of the EHD, which corresponds to 16 (i.e., $4{\times}4)$ non-overlapping image blocks in the image space. This implies that, to have a one-to-one region correspondence between ELE and CLD, we need to take an $8{\times}8$ inverse DCT (IDCT) for the CLD. Experimental results show that the proposed retrieval scheme can be used for image retrieval with the ROI based image retrieval for MPEG-7 indexed images.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.446-454
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• 2009

Among various region detector and shape feature extraction method, MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Region) and SIFT and its variant methods are popularly used in computer vision application. However, since SIFT is sensitive to the illumination change and MSER is sensitive to the scale change, it is not easy to apply the image similarity retrieval. In this paper, we present a Scale and Rotation Invariant Region Feature(SRIRF) descriptor using scale pyramid, MSER and affine normalization. The proposed SRIRF method is robust to scale, rotation, illumination change of image since it uses the affine normalization and the scale pyramid. We have tested the SRIRF method on various images. Experimental results demonstrate that the retrieval performance of the SRIRF method is about 20%, 38%, 11%, 24% better than those of traditional SIFT, PCA-SIFT, CE-SIFT and SURF, respectively.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.38 no.9
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• pp.1112-1118
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a local descriptor and a similarity measure that is robust to radiometic variations. The proposed local descriptor is made up Haar wavelet filter and it can contain frequency informations about the feature point and its surrounding pixels in fixed region, and it is able to describe feature point clearly under ununiform illumination condition. And a proposed similarity measure is combined with conventional entropy-based similarity and another similarities that is generated by local descriptor. It can reflect similarities between image regions accurately under radiometic illumination variations. We validate with experimental results on some images and we confirm that the proposed algorithm is more superior than conventional algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.201-204
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• 2010

물체 인식 및 추적 기술은 기계가 영상 정보를 기반으로 주변을 인지하고 정황을 파악하는 컴퓨터 비전 분야의 매우 중요한 연구 영역 중 하나이다. 현재까지 이러한 물체 인식/추적에 대한 다양한 연구들이 있어 왔고, 최근 증강현실에 대한 높은 관심을 바탕으로 증강현실을 위한 영상 정보 기반의 정확하고 정교한 추적 기술에 대한 관심 또한 매우 높아졌다. 본 논문에서는 텍스쳐가 없는 단색의 블록에 대해 증강현실을 실현하기 위한 물체 추적 방식을 제안한다. 제안하는 방식은 다수의 블록들을 조합하여 구성하고, 이 조합으로부터 추출한 특징점에 색상 정보 기반의 지역 서술자를 정의함으로써 사전에 정의된 서술자와 의 비교를 통해 물체를 추적하는 방식이다. 제안된 추적 방식은 사전에 기준이 되는 지역 서술자를 정의함에 있어서 기준 영상에 다양한 어파인 변환을 적용함으로써 카메라와 대상물과의 각도가 큰 입력 영상에 대해서도 추적에 실패하지 않는다. 실험을 통해 제안된 방식을 집 모양으로 구성한 블록 조합에 적용하여 3차원 가상 콘텐츠를 증강시켜 봄으로써 제안된 방식의 유용성을 확인하였다. 제안된 방식은 텍스쳐가 없는 환경에서 사용자의 상호작용으로 텍스쳐를 구성하고 이를 추적하는 방식으로 향후 아이들을 위한 교육 프로그램, 모바일 기기에서의 응용 프로그램 등으로 적용 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.01a
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• pp.205-208
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• 2012

지하철 실내의 표지판은 다양한 정보들을 포함하고 있다. 그 중에서 시설물의 형상을 단순화하여 나타낸 픽토그램 사인은 국제적으로 표준화 되어 있어 검출이 용이하다고 볼 수 있다. 일반적으로 객체를 인식하는 방법은 후보영역을 설정하는 검출단계와 후보영역을 인식하는 단계로 나뉘어 진다. 본 논문에서는 후보영역 검출단계에서 단일 값을 가지는 이진화로 픽토그램 영역이 분리가 잘 안되는 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 적응적 이진화를 사용하였고 인식을 위한 특징추출로 HOG서술자를 사용하고 학습과 인식에는 SVM을 사용하였다. 실험 결과를 통하여 HOG서술자로 픽토그램 사인을 인식하는 것이 적합한 것인지 확인한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.51-59
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• 2016

This paper presents a method of DCT-based illuminant compensation to enhance the accuracy of face recognition under an illuminant change. The basis of the proposed method is that the illuminant is generally located in low-frequency components in the DCT domain. Therefore, the effect of the illuminant can be compensated by controlling the low-frequency components. Moreover, a directional high-order local pattern descriptor is used to detect robust features in the case of face motion. Experiments confirm the performance of the proposed algorithm got up to 95% when tested using a real database.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.375-382
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• 2015

Textbooks corresponding to curriculum goals are necessary because they are specific products of curriculum and are the most important materials for teaching, learning, and evaluation. In particular, learning objectives written in textbooks should be clearly described because they play a role in promoting learning by showing learning goals to learners clearly. This study analyzed the characteristics of verbs used as predicate of learning objectives written in high school physics I and II textbooks of Korea and compared them with physics textbooks of Singapore and the United States. Results show that Korean textbooks have less kinds of verbs compared to those of Singapore and the United States, and the verbs with abstract and comprehensive meaning such as 'understand' and 'know' were mainly used. In American textbooks, it was noticeable that no verbs have been used by more than 10%. When classifying the learning objectives in the two Korean textbooks, cognitive domain accounted for 98 to 99%, and inquiry domain accounted for only 1% to 2%. With regard to physics textbooks of the United States, inquiry domain accounted for a large proportion of domains in learning objectives compared with physics textbooks of Korea and Singapore. Physics textbooks of Singapore were similar to those of Korea in that learning objectives were biased toward cognitive domain, but differed from those of Korea in that learning objectives were specifically described using action verbs.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.13-24
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• 2002

This paper presents an automatic approach to detect face and facial feature from face images based on the color information and deformable model. Skin color information has been widely used for face and facial feature diction since it is effective for object recognition and has less computational burden, In this paper, we propose how to compensates varying light condition and utilize the transformed YCbCr color model to detect candidates region of face and facial feature from color images, Moreover, the detected face facial feature areas are subsequently assigned to a initial condition of active contour model to extract optimal boundaries of face and facial feature by resolving initial boundary problem when the active contour is used, The experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed method, The face and facial feature information will be used for face recognition and facial feature descriptor.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.13-22
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• 2004

Because video sequence consists of dynamic objects in nature, the object motion in video is an effective feature in describing the contents of video sequence and motion feature plays an important role in video retrieval. In this paper, we propose a method that converts motion vectors (MVs) to a uniform set on MPEG coded domain, independent of the frame type and the direction of prediction, and utilizes these normalized MVs (N-MVs) as motion descriptor to understand video contents. We describe a frame-type independent representation of the various types of frames presented in an MPEG video in which all frames can be considered equivalently, without full-decoding. In the experiments, we show that the proposed method is better than the conventional one in terms of performance.