• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.845-850
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a license plate locating algorithm by using SVM. Tipically, the features regarding license plate format include height-to-width ratio, color, and spatial frequency. The method is dived into three steps which are image acquisition, detecting license plate candidate regions, verifying the license plate accurately. In the course of detecting license plate candidate regions, color filtering and edge detecting are performed to detect candidate regions, and then verify candidate region using Support Vector Machines(SVM) with DCT coefficients of candidates. It is possible to perform reliable license plate location bemuse we can protect false detection through these verification process. We validate our approach with experimental results.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.13-17
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• 2024

A color sensor is an optical sensor used to take pictures of objects, including the human body, and reproduce them on a monitor. A color sensor quantifies the red, green, and blue light coming from an object and expresses it as a digital number, and can judge the state of the object by comparing the values ​​or the ratio.In this study, the standard colors displayed on the monitor were measured using a color sensor, and the magnitudes of the red, green, and blue components, or RGB values, were compared with the values ​​indicated by the computer. When measured with the TCS 34725 color sensor, even when the light generated by the computer consists of only one or two of red, green, and blue light, the color sensor detected all three components. Additionally, when the colors of two monitors with the same RGB values ​​were measured using a color sensor, different RGB values ​​were measured. These results can be attributed to the imperfection of the color filters used to express colors on the monitor and the imperfect optical characteristics of the photodiodes used in the color sensor. When photographing an object and judging its condition based on its color, you must use the same type of camera or smartphone.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.283-295
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• 2021

This paper proposes a method for generating dense depth map using information of color images and depth map generated based on lidar based on self-organizing map. The proposed depth map upsampling method consists of an initial depth prediction step for an area that has not been acquired from LiDAR and an initial depth filtering step. In the initial depth prediction step, stereo matching is performed on two color images to predict an initial depth value. In the depth map filtering step, in order to reduce the error of the predicted initial depth value, a self-organizing map technique is performed on the predicted depth pixel by using the measured depth pixel around the predicted depth pixel. In the process of self-organization map, a weight is determined according to a difference between a distance between a predicted depth pixel and an measured depth pixel and a color value corresponding to each pixel. In this paper, we compared the proposed method with the bilateral filter and k-nearest neighbor widely used as a depth map upsampling method for performance comparison. Compared to the bilateral filter and the k-nearest neighbor, the proposed method reduced by about 6.4% and 8.6% in terms of MAE, and about 10.8% and 14.3% in terms of RMSE.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.11 s.353
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• pp.26-36
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a cost-effective color filter may (CFA) demosaicing method for digital still cameras in which a single CCD or CMOS image sensor is used. Since a CFA is adopted, we must interpolate missing color values in the red, green and blue channels at each pixel location. While most state-of-the-art algorithms invest a great deal of computational effort in the enhancement of the reconstructed image to overcome the color artifacts, we focus on eliminating the color artifacts with low computational complexity. Using spatial correlation of the adjacent pixels, the edge-directional information of the neighbor pixels is used for determining the edge direction of the current pixel. We apply our method to the state-of-the-art algorithms which use edge-directed methods to interpolate the missing color channels. The experiment results show that the proposed method enhances the demosaiced image qualify from $0.09{\sim}0.47dB$ in PSNR depending on the basis algorithm by removing most of the color artifacts. The proposed method was implemented and verified successfully using verilog HDL and FPGA. It was synthesized to gate-level circuits using 0.25um CMOS standard cell library. The total logic gate count is 12K, and five line memories are used.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.33-38
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• 2008

본 논문은 핀홀 카메라 모델에 의해 렌더링한 컬러와 깊이 이미지의 후처리에 의한 실시간 필드심도 렌더링 방법을 제안한다. 필드심도 렌더링은 최근의 향상에도, 큰 스케일의 블러링에 필요한 계산 때문에 실용적으로 사용되지 못해 왔다. 본 방법은 이방성 가우시안 필터로 생성된 밉맵 이미지들을 비선형으로 보간하여 필드심도 효과에 필요한 블러링을 수행한다. 모든 계산 과정은 GPU로 가속되어, 안정적이고 확장 가능한 실시간 수행 성능을 확보한다. 또한, 후처리 방식의 두 가지 결점인 강도 누출과 블러링 불연속성을 이방성 가우시안 필터와 블러링 정도를 부드럽게 하여 제거한다. 본 방법은 뛰어난 실시간 성능과 함께 고품질의 필드심도 효과를 생성한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06b
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• pp.363-365
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• 2012

데이터의 규모 및 활용도, 그리고 사용자 접근성 측면에서 실세계 데이터에서 가장 중요한 이슈가 되는 것은 비디오 데이터이다. 장르나 등장인물, 배경 등이 매우 상이한 대량의 비디오 데이터들이 등장하고 있기 때문에, 통일된 사전지식을 이용한 비디오 데이터 분석이 매우 비현실적이 되어가고 있으며 사전지식을 활용하지 않는 비디오 분석기법의 중요성이 커지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 진화 파티를 필터링과 우점 이미지를 이용하여 비디오 데이터를 분절(Segmentation)하는 기법을 소개한다. 이미지 분절화 과정에서 해결해야 할 난점은 시점 변화 및 움직임 등에 의해 발생하는 사소한 변화가 컴퓨터 관점에서는 무시하기 어려운 큰 변화로 해석될 수 있다는 점이다. 동일장면에서의 시점 변화와 같은 사소한 변화로 인하여 동일 세그먼트를 추정하지 못하는 어려움을 해결하기 위하여 우리는 이미지 일부를 표현하는 파티클의 개체군을 생성하여 협력적인 방식으로 개별 이미지 세그먼트를 표현하는 방법을 개발하였다. 또한 동일 인물의 움직임과 같은 변화에 대응할 수 있도록 진화 파티를 필터링 방법을 컬러 히스토그램 방법과 결합하여 추론 성능을 한층 개선하였다. 실제 TV 드라마에 대하여 수행된 인간 평가자의 분절 평가 결과와 비교하여 제안 방법의 성능을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.131-136
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• 2007

This paper proposes a new approach to eliminate the reflectance component for the detection of text in color images. Color images, printed by color printing technology, normally have an illumination component as well as a reflectance component. It is well known that a reflectance component usually obstructs the task of detecting and recognizing objects like texts in the scene, since it blurs out an overall image. We have developed an approach that efficiently removes reflectance components while preserving illumination components. We decided whether an input image hits Normal or Polarized for determining the light environment, using the histogram which consisted of a red component. We were able to go ahead through the ability to extract by reducing the blur phenomenon of text by light because reflection component by an illumination change and removed it and extracted text. The experimental results have shown a superior performance even when an image has a complex background. Text detection and recognition performance is influenced by changing the illumination condition. Our method is robust to the images with different illumination conditions.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.634-638
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• 2018

Haze is a factor that degrades the performance of various image processing algorithms, such as those for detection, tracking, and recognition using an electro-optical sensor. For robust operation of an electro-optical sensor-based unmanned system used outdoors, an algorithm capable of effectively removing haze is needed. As a haze removal method using a single electro-optical sensor, the dark channel prior using statistical properties of the electro-optical sensor is most widely known. Previous methods used a square filter in the process of obtaining a transmission using the dark channel prior. When a square filter is used, the effect of removing haze becomes smaller as the size of the filter becomes larger. When the size of the filter becomes excessively small, over-saturation occurs, and color information in the image is lost. Since the size of the filter greatly affects the performance of the algorithm, a relatively large filter is generally used, or a small filter is used so that no over-saturation occurs, depending on the image. In this paper, we propose an improved haze removal method using color image segmentation. The parameters of the color image segmentation are automatically set according to the information complexity of the image, and the over-saturation phenomenon does not occur by estimating the amount of transmission based on the parameters.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.529-537
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a stable scale adaptive tracking method that uses centroids of the target colors. Most scale adaptive tracking methods have utilized histograms to determine target window sizes. However, in certain cases, histograms fail to provide good estimates of target sizes, for example, in the case of occlusion or the appearance of colors in the background that are similar to the target colors. This is due to the fact that histograms are related to the numbers of pixels that correspond to the target colors. Therefore, we propose the use of centroids that correspond to the target colors in the scale adaptation algorithm, since centroids are less sensitive to changes in the number of pixels that correspond to the target colors. Due to the spatial information inherent in centroids, a direct relationship can be established between centroids and the scale of target regions. Generally, after the zooming factors that correspond to all the target colors are calculated, the unreliable zooming factors are filtered out to produce a reliable zooming factor that determines the new scale of the target. Combined with the centroid based tracking algorithm, the proposed scale adaptation method results in a stable scale adaptive tracking algorithm. It tracks objects in a stable way, even when the background colors are similar to the colors of the object.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.60-67
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• 2008

Skin color is a very important information for an automatic face recognition. In this paper, we proposed a skin region extraction method using color information and skin color model. We use the adaptive lighting compensation technique for improved performance of skin region extraction. Also, using an preprocessing filter, normally large areas of easily distinct non skin pixels, are eliminated from further processing. And we use the modified ST color space, where undesired effects are reduced and the skin color distribution fits better than others color space. Experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance than the conventional methods, and reduces processing time by $35{\sim}40%$ on average.