• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.69-75
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• 2014

Existing People Counting System using a single overhead mounted camera has limitation in object recognition and counting in various environments. Those limitations are attributable to overlapping, occlusion and external factors, such as over-sized belongings and dramatic light change. Thus, this paper proposes the new concept of People Counting System by Facial Age Group using two depth cameras, at overhead and frontal viewpoints, in order to improve object recognition accuracy and robust people counting to external factors. The proposed system is counting the pedestrians by five process such as overhead image processing, frontal image processing, identical object recognition, facial age group classification and in-coming/out-going counting. The proposed system developed by C++, OpenCV and Kinect SDK, and it target group of 40 people(10 people by each age group) was setup for People Counting and Facial Age Group classification performance evaluation. The experimental results indicated approximately 98% accuracy in People Counting and 74.23% accuracy in the Facial Age Group classification.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.10
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• pp.1239-1246
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• 2015

Cell counting is extensively used to analyze cell growth in biomedical research, and as a result automated cell counting methods have been developed to provide a more convenient and means to analyze cell growth. However, there are still many challenges to improving the accuracy of the cell counting for cells that proliferate abnormally, divide rapidly, and cluster easily, such as cancer cells. In this paper, we present an automated cell counting method for HeLa cells, which are used as reference for cancer research. We recognize and classify the morphological conditions of the cells by using a cell segmentation algorithm based on cell membrane extraction, and we then apply a cell back-tracking algorithm to improve the cell counting accuracy in cell clusters that have indistinct cell boundary lines. The experimental results indicate that our proposed segmentation method can identify each of the cells more accurately when compared to existing methods and, consequently, can improve the cell counting accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.652-654
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 다중 심도 카메라 기반의 실시간 피플 카운팅 시스템을 제안 한다. 카메라 영상으로부터 사람을 감지하고 추적하는 시스템 및 그 방법에 관한 것으로, 피플 카운팅 시스템은 쇼핑몰이나 대형건물의 출입구 등과 같은 다양한 환경에 적용될 수 있다. 기존 피플 카운팅 시스템에서의 급격한 조명의 변화나 겹침 현상, 가림 현상에 대한 해결 방법으로, 다중 심도 카메라 환경에서 동일 객체 추적을 위해 RLM(Range Laser Method)를 적용하고, 조명 등 환경 변화에 강인한 배경 제거 및 물체 검출 기법으로 가우시안 혼합 모델(Gaussian Mixture Model)을 적용해 객체인식에 대한 정확도를 높인다. 또한, 객체를 블랍(Blob)으로 지정해 확장 칼만 필터(Extended Kalman Filter, EKF) 방법으로 객체를 추적한다. 본 제안은 피플 카운팅 시스템에의 객체 검출 및 인식에 대한 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있으리라 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.371-374
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• 2008

n개의 이진 변수 집합 중에 k개를 선택하는 카운팅 문제(Counting Problem)들은 여러 방법으로 풀이가 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 카운팅 문제를 풀기 위해 SAT, PB, SMT를 소개하고, 칸 칠하기(Fill-a-Pix) 퍼즐을 예로 들어 카운팅 문제의 인코딩 방법을 제시하고 처리 결과를 비교해 보았다. SAT이 상대적으로 인코딩은 가장 복잡했으나, 처리 시 가장 우수한 성능을 보였다. 따라서 본 논문은 카운팅 문제를 다룰 때에는 SAT이 가장 적합하다는 것을 제안한다.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.73-81
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• 2022

본 연구는 다중이용시설 이용자들의 쾌적함과 안전 그리고 시설내부 에너지 사용량의 최적 절감을 위하여 이용자수를 분석예측한 정보에 따른 공기질품질제어시스템 운영을 통해 국민 중심의 안전하고 쾌적한 서비스를 제공할 필요로 수행되었다. 이를 위하여 실내유동인구수를 카운팅하는 로컬시스템을 제작하고 수집된 유동인구 카운팅 정보를 시계열 모델링을 기반으로 분석예측하는 연구를 진행하였다. 개발된 시스템 성능평가 결과 유동인구 카운팅시스템은 95% 이상 정확도를 보여주었고, 예측시스템은 83~95% 정확도를 확보하였다. 본 연구결과 개발된 시스템은 다중이용시설에 즉시 적용가능하며 향후 남녀노소 인식을 진행하고 이를 예측한 정보에 의한 보다 다양한 서비스 개발을 추진할 계획이다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.3-10
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• 2017

Counting Bloom filters (CBFs) have been popularly used in many network algorithms and applications for the membership queries of dynamic sets, since CBFs can provide delete operations, which are not provided in a standard 1-bit vector Bloom filter. However, because of the counting functions, a CBF can have overflows and accordingly false negatives. CBFs composed of 4-bit counters are generally used, but the 4-bit CBF wastes memory spaces by allocating 4 bits for every counter. In this paper, we propose a simple alternative of a 4-bit CBF named ternary Bloom filter (TBF). In the proposed TBF structure, if two or more elements are mapped to a counter in programming, the counters are not used for insertion or deletion operations any more. When the TBF consumes the same amount of memory space as a 4-bit CBF, it is shown through simulation that the TBF provides a better false positive rate than the CBF as well as the TBF does not generate false negatives.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.1 s.111
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• pp.13-22
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose an audience counting method in an auditorium based on pattern comparison. The previous counting methods based on object detection can't exactly count the audience in real time because auditorium has coarse illumination condition and so many audiences. Therefore, in this paper, we count the audience in an auditorium with fixed seats by the method which the pattern from each reference seat is compared to the pattern from each input seat. Especially, to overcome limitations based on either illumination or noise, two pattern comparison methods are efficiently employed and combined. One is based on the amplitude projection, and the other is based on Walsh-Hadamard Kernel. Walsh-Hadamard Kernel has the characteristic which complements amplitude projection. Therefore, we ran achieve the accurate counting in the presence of coarse illumination and noise. The experimental results show that our method performs well on sequences of images acquired in an auditorium. We also verify a realistic possibility for other applications applying our method to the parking positioning system.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.929-934
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• 2018

Studies for counting and detecting X-rays for the improvement of image quality and material analysis are active. In this work, the detector for X-ray photon counting was designed using Multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC) array and the detector characteristics were evaluated through simulation. Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) was used to obtain the position where the X-ray and the scintillation interacted, and this position was used as the light generation position of DETECT2000. 0.5 mm and 1 mm thick Gadolinium Aluminium Gallium Garnet (GAGG) scintillators were used and the light generated through a $4{\times}4$ array of MPPCs was acquired. The spatial resolution of the designed detector was evaluated by reconstructed image using the light signal acquired for each channel. We obtained images of more than 2 lp/mm in both 0.5 mm and 1 mm thick GAGG scintillation. When this detector is used in a X-ray system, a low-cost system capable of photon counting can be made.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.342-351
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• 2024

Effective pest control in the agricultural field is essential for improving crop productivity. To do so, information on the type and timing of pests, as well as the amount of pests generated, is required. Mada-CenterNet, a prior study on pest counting, which is a method of identifying the amount of pest occurrence, has improved the accuracy of pest counting by utilizing transformable convolution and multiscale attention fusion and is reported to be the best in the field. In this study, a new transformer structure with a dual block was applied instead of multiscale attention, which is the transformer structure of Mada-CenterNet. More sophisticated feature maps were extracted through cross-attention of pixel path and semantic path. As a result of the experiment, the proposed model has improved the accuracy of pest counting. It is better than the existing Mada-CenterNet and effectively alleviates obstruction problems, damage to pests' bodies, and detection difficulties caused by various appearances. Unlike conventional pest counting methods, it can secure the advantage of reducing manpower and time costs, and it is expected that it can be used in other agricultural fields that require counting of objects.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.878-884
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• 2013

Recent C ++ developers take advantage of the many advantages in memory management in the development of reference counting smart pointer. However, these have a problem more than the normal pointer. In this paper, we not only complement these by reference counting smart pointer which pointing a large dynamic object to perform a delete operation to improve performance by creating a thread for the delete operation but also Generalize all data types, we propose a convenient way to operate.