• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.137-140
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• 2003

캐리커처의 일반적인 의미는 어떤 사람이나 사물의 특징을 추출하여 익살스럽게 풍자한 그림이나 글이다. 다시 말해, 캐리커처는 사람의 얼굴에서 특징을 잡아 과장하거나 왜곡하여 그린 데생이라고 한다. 컴퓨터를 이용한 기존의 캐리커처 제작방법으로는, 입력 이미지 좌표의 통계적인 차이값을 이용하는 PICASSO System 방법[1], 제작자의 애매한 느낌을 퍼지 논리를 이용하여 표현하는 방법, 이미지를 와핑하는 방법, 여러 단계의 벡터 필드 변환을 이용하는 방법등이 연구되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 또는 준비된 영상을 입력으로 받아 저장한 후, 네 단계의 과정으로 처리한 후 최종적으로 캐리커처된 이미지를 생성하게 된다. 각 단계별 처리 내용으로는 첫번째 단계에서는 영상에서 얼굴을 검출하고 두번째 단계에서는 특정 얼굴부위의 기하학적 정보를 좌표값으로 추출한다. 세번째 단계에서는 전 단계에서 얻은 좌표값으로 로컬 와핑 기법을 이용하여 영상을 변환한다. 네 번째 단계에서는 변형된 영상으로 퍼지 논리를 이용하여 보다 개선된 윤곽선 이미지로 변환하여 캐리커처 이미지를 얻는다. 본 논문에서는 영상 인식, 변환 및 윤곽선 검출 및 둥의 여러 가지 영상 처리 기법을 이용하여 기존의 캐리커처 제작 방식보다 간단하고, 복잡한 연산 과정이 없는 캐리커처 제작 시스템을 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.129-132
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 카메라 영상으로부터 사각형 형태의 마커를 검출하고 인식하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 사각형 형태의 마커 검출을 위하여 입력 영상을 이진 영상으로 변환하고 객체들의 윤곽선을 추출한 다음에 윤곽선을 선분으로 근사화 한다. 근사화된 선분으로부터 기하학적 특징을 이용하여 사각형을 찾는다. 마커의 사각형 영역을 찾은 다음에는 워핑 기법을 이용하여 사각형 마커 영상으로부터 특징 벡터를 추출하고 표준 마커에 대한 특징 벡터와의 최소 거래법에 의해 마커의 종류를 인식한다. 인식 실험 결과 마커의 종류가 50개일 때에 최대 98%의 인식률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.137-140
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 Spatial Edge와 Temporal Edge를 이용한 이동 객체의 윤곽선 검출 방법을 제안한다. 카메라로부터 연속적으로 입력되는 영상에서 이동 객체의 윤곽선이 존재하는 후보 영역을 검출하기 위해, 새로운 방법의 Temporal Edge를 제안한다. Temporal Edge를 통해 검출된 후보 영역을 중심으로 Spatial Edge를 구하고, 후처리 과정을 통해 노이즈를 제거한 후 최종적으로 이동 객체의 윤곽선을 검출한다. 제안한 방법은 실험을 통해 그 성능을 확인하였고, 배경 차 방법과 비교 하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.474-486
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new method for detection moving object contour using spatial and temporal edge. In general, contour pixels of the moving object are likely present around pixels with high gradient value along the time axis and the spatial axis. Therefore, we can detect the contour of the moving objects by finding pixels which have high gradient value in the time axis and spatial axis. In this paper, we introduce a new computation method, termed as temporal edge, to compute an gradient value along the time axis for any pixel on an image. The temporal edge can be computed using two input gray images at time t and t-2 using the Sobel operator. Temporal edge is utilized to detect a candidate region of the moving object contour and then the detected candidate region is used to extract spatial edge information. The final contour of the moving object is detected using the combination of these two edge information, which are temporal edge and spatial edge, and then the post processing such as a morphological operation and a background edge removing procedure are applied to remove noise regions. The complexity of the proposed method is very low because it dose not use any background scene and high complex operation, therefore it can be applied to real-time applications. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional contour extraction methods in term of processing effort and a ghost effect which is occurred in the case of entropy method.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.76-83
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a method that converts a inputted real image to a image feeling like printmaking. That is, this method converts a inputted real image to man made rubber printmaking style image using image processing techniques such as spatial filters, image bit-block transfer, etc. The process is as follows. First, after detecting edges in source image, we get the first image by deleting noise lines and points, then by sharpening. Secondly, we get second image using the similar method to the first image. Finally, we blend the first and the second image by logical AND operation This processing enables us to represent rubber panel and knife effects. Also, the proposed method shows that double edge detecting is effective in enhancing line-width and removing the tiny lines.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.101-109
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• 2014

It is an essential element for the establishment of image processing related systems to find the exact contour from the image of an arbitrary object. In particular, if a vision system is established to inspect the products in the automated production process, it is very important to detect the contours for standardized shapes such lines and curves. In this paper, we propose a prototype adaptive dynamic contour model, p-Snake with improved contour extraction algorithms by adding the prototype energy. The proposed method is to find the initial contour by applying the existing Snake algorithm after Sobel operation is performed for prototype analysis. Next, the final contour of the object is detected by analyzing prototypes such as lines and circles, defining prototype energy and using it as an additional energy item in the existing Snake function on the basis of information on initial contour. We performed experiments on 340 images obtained by using an environment that duplicated the background of an industrial site. It was found that even if objects are not clearly distinguished from the background due to noise and lighting or the edges being insufficiently visible in the images, the contour can be extracted. In addition, in the case of similarity which is the measure representing how much it matches the prototype, the prototype similarity of contour extracted from the proposed p-ACM is superior to that of ACM by 9.85%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.633-638
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• 2005

The extraction of a face is a very important part for human interface, biometrics and security. In this paper, we applies DCM(Dilation of Color and Motion) filter and Active Contour Models to extract facial outline. First, DCM filter is made by applying morphology dilation to the combination of facial color image and differential image applied by dilation previously. This filter is used to remove complex background and to detect facial outline. Because Active Contour Models receive a large effect according to initial curves, we calculate rotational degree using geometric ratio of face, eyes and mouth. We use edgeness and intensity as an image energy, in order to extract outline in the area of weak edge. We acquire various head-pose images with both eyes from five persons in inner space with complex background. As an experimental result with total 125 images gathered by 25 per person, it shows that average extraction rate of facial outline is 98.1% and average processing time is 0.2sec.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.79-82
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose new image processing method to detect fire image. At captured image from camera, we using OpenCV library to implement various image processing techniques such like differential image, binarization image, contour extraction, remove noise(morphology open, close), pixel calculation, flickering extraction, etc.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.6
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• pp.429-436
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• 2010

This paper presents a method to extract 3D outlines of objects in an image obtained from a monocular vision. After detecting the general outlines of the object by MOPS(Multi-Scale Oriented Patches) -algorithm and we obtain their spatial coordinates. Simultaneously, it obtains the space-coordinates with feature points to be immanent within the outlines of objects through SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform)-algorithm. It grasps a form of objects to join the space-coordinates of outlines and SIFT feature points. The method which is proposed in this paper, it forms general outlines of objects, so that it enables a rapid calculation, and also it has the advantage capable of collecting a detailed data because it supplies the internal-data of outlines through SIFT feature points.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.141-148
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose an algorithm of welding bead detection and evaluation using geodesic active contour algorithm and high pass filter with image processing technique. The algorithm uses histogram equalization and high pass filter as gaussian filter to improve contrast. The image processing techniques smoothens the welding beads reduce the noise on an image. Then, the algorithm detects the welding bead area by applying the geodesic active contour algorithm and morphological ooperation. It also applies the balloon force that either inflates in, or deflates out the evolving contour for a better segmentation. After that, we propose a method for determining the quality of welding bead using effective length and width of the detected bead. In the experiments, our algorithm achieved the highest recall, precision, F-measure and IOU as 0.9894, 0.9668, 0.9780, and 0.8957 respectively. We compared the proposed algorithm with the conventional algorithms to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm. The proposed algorithm achieved better performance compared to the conventional ones with a maximum computational time of 0.6 seconds for segmenting and evaluating one welding bead.