• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.19-27
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• 2010

This paper proposes a method for enhancing detection performance and reducing computational cost when detecting a human face by applying B-spline active contour to the frame difference of consecutive images. Firstly, the method estimates amount of user's motion using kurtosis. If the kurtosis is smaller than a pre-defined threshold, it is considered that the amount of user's motion is insufficient and thus the contour fitting is not applied. Otherwise, the contour fitting is applied by exploiting the fact that the amount of motion is sufficient. Secondly, for the contour fitting, difference edges are detected by combining the distance transformation of the binarized frame difference and the edges of current frame. Lastly, the face is located by assigning the contour fitting process to the detected difference edges. Kurtosis-based motion amount estimation can reduce a computational cost and stabilize the results of the contour fitting. In addition, distance transformation-based difference edge detection can enhance the problems of contour lag and discontinuous difference edges. Experimental results confirm that the proposed method can reduce the face localization error caused by the contour lag and discontinuity of edges, and decrease the computational cost by omitting approximately 39% of the contour fitting.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.255-264
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• 1999

We calculate the theoretical line profiles in order to investigate the influence of various velocity parameters. Line profiles are calculated by using the exponential velocoty law with two acceleration regions for orbital phases $\phi$ = 0.07 and $\phi$ = 0.06. From this compttation we find that the influence of the wind velocity gradient on a giant star is more important in the region near the star than in the region away from the star. The observed lines show stronger emission than the calculated line profiles and we interpret the difference is caused by the inhomogeniety in the atmosphere of 32 Cyg.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.97-101
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a method of measuring Fine dust in images using K-means and Sobel-mask based edge detection techniques using CCTV. The proposed algorithm collects images using a CCTV camera and designates an image range through a region of interest. When clustering is completed by applying the K-means algorithm, outline is detected through Sobel-mask, edge strength is measured, and the concentration of fine dust is determined based on the measured data. The proposed method extracts the contour of the mountain range using the characteristics of Sobel-mask, which has an advantage in diagonal measurement, and shows the difference in detection according to the concentration of fine dust as an experimental result.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.193-196
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a method to classify the types of vehicle as full, medium, or small size. The proposed method is composed of three steps. First, after obtaining vehicle contour from template candidate image, edge distance template is created by distance transform of the vehicle's contour. Second, the vehicle type of input image is classified as the type of template which has minimal edge distance with input image. The edge distance value means the measurement of distance between input image and template at each pixel which is part of vehicle contour. Experimental results demonstrate that our method presented a good performance of 80% about test images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.361-363
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• 2013

비파괴 검사란 재료나 제품을 원형과 기능에 변화를 주지 않고 실시하여 원하는 정보를 획득할 수 있는 검사를 의미한다. 비파괴검사는 점검자의 육안 조사를 통한 수작업으로 이루어지고 있기 때문에 점검자의 주관이 개입되며, 점검자에 따라 검사 결과의 차이가 있을 수 있으므로 신뢰도의 차이가 발생하게 된다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 비파괴 검사를 이용하여 획득한 세라믹 소재 영상에서 효율적으로 결함을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 세라믹 소재 영상에 가우시안 필터링 기법을 적용하여 잡음을 제거하고, Ends-in Search Stretching 기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조한다. 명암 대비가 강조된 영상에 샤프닝 기법을 적용하여 윤곽선을 강조한다. 윤곽선이 강조된 영상에 $3{\times}3 $ Roberts 마스크를 적용하여 강조된 윤곽선을 추출하고, Glassfire 기법을 적용하여 라벨링한 후, 시그마 퍼지 이진화 기법과 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 잡음을 제거하고 결함 영역을 검출한다. 제안된 방법을 세라믹 소재 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 효율적으로 결함을 검출하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1696-1705
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• 1996

The theory of stack filtering, which is a generalization of median filtering, is used to the detection of intensity edges in noisey images. The proposed approach, called the Difference of Estimates(DoE) approach, is a new formulation of a morphological scheme which has been very sensitive to impulse noise. In this approach, stack filters are applied to a noisy image to obtain local estimates of the dilated and eroded versions of the noise-free image. Thresholding the difference between these two estimates yields the binary edge map. We find that this approach yields results comparable to those obtained with the Canny operator for images with additive Gaussian noise, burt works much better when the noise is impulsive.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.511-513
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 세라믹 영상에서 사람의 눈으로 판단하기 어려운 결함 영역을 검출하기 위해 배경을 제거한 후에 지역 기반 오츠 이진화와 양방향 소벨 마스크를 적용하여 세라믹 영상의 윤곽선을 검출한다. 윤곽선이 검출된 영상을 수평으로 4등분하고, 각각의 영역에서 밝기 값이 변화는 지점을 탐색한다. 탐색된 좌표 중에서 최대 명암도 값을 이용하여 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 결함 영역 검출의 효율성을 높이기 위한 전 단계로 배경을 제거하기 위해 ROI 영역과 최소값 필터가 적용된 ROI 영역 간의 명암도의 차이를 이용하여 배경을 제거한다. 명암도의 차이를 통해 배경이 제거된 ROI 영역에서 개선된 명암 대비 스트레칭 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역의 명암 대비를 강조한다. 명암이 강조된 ROI 영역에서 10mm, 11mm, 16mm, 22mm 영상의 결함 영역을 검출하기 위해 히스토그램 이진화 기법을 적용하여 결함의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 결함 후보 영역이 검출된 ROI 영역에서 미세 잡음을 제거하기 위해 중간값 필터와 침식과 팽창을 적용한 후에 최종적인 결함 영역을 검출한다. 제안된 방법을 8mm, 10mm, 11mm, 16mm, 22mm 세라믹 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 검출 방법이 기존의 검출 방법보다 모든 mm 세라믹 영상에서 효과적으로 결함 영역이 검출되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.33-40
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a text extraction method by pattern analysis on contour for effective text detection in image. Text extraction algorithms using edge based methods show good performance in images with simple backgrounds, The images of complex background has a poor performance shortcomings. The proposed method simplifies the color of the image by using K-means clustering in the preprocessing process to detect the character region in the image. Enhance the boundaries of the object through the High pass filter to improve the inaccuracy of the boundary of the object in the color simplification process. Then, by using the difference between the expansion and erosion of the morphology technique, the edges of the object is detected, and the character candidate region is discriminated by analyzing the pattern of the contour portion of the acquired region to remove the unnecessary region (picture, background). As a final result, we have shown that the characters included in the candidate character region are extracted by removing unnecessary regions.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.7
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• pp.149-156
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• 2013

This paper presents a hardware edge detector of image signal at pixel level of CMOS image sensor (CIS). The circuit detects edges of an image based on a bump circuit combining with the pixels. The APS converts light into electrical signals and the bump circuit compares the brightness between the target pixel and its neighbor pixels. Each column on CIS 64 by 64 pixels array shares a comparator. The comparator decides a peak level of the target pixel comparing with a reference voltage. The proposed edge detector is implemented using 0.18um CMOS technology. The circuit shows higher fill factor 34% and power dissipation by 0.9uW per pixel at 1.8V supply.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.101-109
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• 2012

In many diagnostic and treatment procedures for prostate disease accurate detection of prostate boundaries in transrectal ultrasound(TRUS) images is required. This is a challenging and difficult task due to weak prostate boundaries, speckle noise and the short range of gray levels. In this paper a method for automatic prostate segmentation inTRUS images using support vectors and snake-like contour is presented. This method involves preprocessing, extracting Gabor feature, training, and prostate segmentation. Gabor filter bank for extracting the texture features has been implemented. A support vector machine(SVM) for training step has been used to get each feature of prostate and nonprostate. The boundary of prostate is extracted by the snake-like contour algorithm. The results showed that this new algorithm extracted the prostate boundary with less than 9.3% relative to boundary provided manually by experts.