• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.110-115
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• 2005

This paper proposes the method to detect contours of a face, eyes and a mouth in a color image for making an avatar automatically. First, we use the HSI color model to exclude the effect of various light condition, and we find skin regions in an input image by using the skin color is defined on HS-plane. And then, we use deformable templates and Genetic Algorithm(GA) to detect contours of a face, eyes and a mouth. Deformable templates consist of B-spline curves and control point vectors. Those can represent various shape of a face, eyes and a mouth. And GA is very useful search procedure based on the mechanics of natural selection and natural genetics. Second, an avatar is created automatically by using contours and Fuzzy C-means clustering(FCM). FCM is used to reduce the number of face color As a result, we could create avatars like handmade caricatures which can represent the user's identity, differing from ones generated by the existing methods.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.655-664
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• 2020

Free viewpoint image synthesis technology is one of the important technologies in the MPEG-I (Immersive) standard. RVS (Reference View Synthesizer) developed by MPEG-I and in use in MPEG group is a DIBR (Depth Information-Based Rendering) program that generates an image at a virtual (intermediate) viewpoint from multiple viewpoints' inputs. RVS uses the mesh surface method based on computer graphics, and outperforms the pixel-based ones by 2.5dB or more compared to the previous pixel method. Even though its OpenGL version provides 10 times speed up over the non OpenGL based one, it still shows a non-real-time processing speed, i.e., 0.75 fps on the two 2k resolution input images. In this paper, we analyze the internal of RVS implementation and modify its structure, achieving 34 times speed up, therefore, real-time performance (22-26 fps), through the 3 key improvements: 1) the reuse of OpenGL buffers and texture objects 2) the parallelization of file I/O and OpenGL execution 3) the parallelization of GPU shader program and buffer transfer.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.175-186
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• 2018

Due to global warming, various natural disasters such as floods and localized heavy rains are increasing. If a natural disaster can be detected and analyzed in advance and effectively, it can prevent enormous damage due to natural disasters. Recent development in visual sensor technologies has encouraged various studies on monitoring environments including rivers. In this paper, we propose a method to detect river regions from river images which can be exploited for river surveillance systems using video sensor networks. In the proposed method, we first analyze the color properties of the river region and the background region of a image and then propose a way to select the proper color channel and binarize the image to detect the river region. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed method is simple but detects river regions accurately.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.179-187
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• 2008

In this paper, we apply a set of algorithms to classily normal and cancer nucleus from uterine cervical pap-smear images. First, we use lightening compensation algorithm to restore color images that have defamation through the process of obtaining $1{\times}400$ microscope magnification. Then, we remove the background from images with the histogram distributions of RGB regions. We extract nucleus areas from candidates by applying histogram brightness, Kapur method, and our own 8-direction contour tracing algorithm. Various binarization, cumulative entropy, masking algorithms are used in that process. Then, we are able to recognize normal and cancer nucleus from those areas by using three morphological features - directional information, the size of nucleus, and area ratio - with fuzzy membership functions and deciding rules we devised. The experimental result shows our method has low false recognition rate.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02c
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• pp.194-198
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• 2007

본 연구의 주제는 텍스트를 어떻게 회화적이미지로 전환시킬 수 있을까?에 대한 것이다. 오늘날 디지털 환경 속에 있는 우리는 이미지 중심의 세계 속에 살고 있다. 과거 텍스트가 해왔던 정보의 생산과 전달 그리고 저장의 역할을 오늘날은 상당부분 이미지가 하게 되었다. 하지만 그럼에도 불구하고 아날로그 방식과 정서는 여전히 우리 곁에 남아있는 것도 사실이다. "Yesterday to Today"는 문자의 최소 단위인 알파벳을 통하여 이미지를 재현하려는 작품이다. 이 작품은 크게 두 가지 Idea로 이루어지는데 하나는 복수개의 실시간 영상 소스를 이용하여 이미지를 구성해내는 것과, 다른 하나는 텍스트에 의한 이미지의 변환이다. 복수개의 실시간 영상 소스는 프로그램이 작동하는 컴퓨터와 직/간접적으로 연결되어 전달되는데, 직접적으로 연결되어 근거리의 특정한 지점으로부터 영상 소스를 받을 수 있고, 또 하나의 방법은 인터넷을 통한하나 이상의 원거리 지점으로부터 보내어지는 영상을 조합하여 받을 수 있다. 프로그램 구현 개념은 픽셀 소스 카메라에서 캡쳐된 최초 이미지를 명도, 색상, 채도로 분류하고, 이것의 각각을 26개의 구간-자판의 개수에 의하여 정해짐-으로 나누고, 다시 그 각각의 구간을 26단계로 나눈다. 이렇게 나누어진 구간들은 알파벳과 1:1로 대응시켜 결과이미지의 해당 부분을 수치대로 재현하도록 프로그램 시킨다. 이미지의 부분들을 지정하기 위하여 특정한 텍스트로부터 알파벳의 빈도수를 조사했는데, 이 조사를 바탕으로 빈도수의 많고 적음에 따라 이미지부분들이 26개 구간으로 정해졌다. 이미지 재현 방법은 사용자가 모니터 위의 Result Image Cam을 통하여 얻고자 하는 이미지를 캡쳐한 후, 특정한 텍스트를 타이핑하면 이미지를 재현할 수 있는데, -입력된 텍스트의 알파벳은 프로그램이 지정한 HSI 컬러 모델의 영역과 1:1로 대응하게 하였다-이 이미지는 특정 장소에 실시간으로 받아진 영상을 데이터화 한 소스에 의하여 만들어진다. 이미지를 재현할 때 텍스트에 따라 알파벳 빈도수는 달라질 수 있으므로 비록 최초 이미지가 동일할지라도 얻고자하는 결과 이미지가 달라진다. 그러므로 사용자는다양한 창조적 경험을 할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.158-169
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• 2017

In the context of the number of Tablet PC users which increases rapidly, online shopping application has also been a corresponding rapid development. However, as a practical matter, the differences among the consumers' ability will affect the purchase of application for the realization of user needs. Therefore, shopping application in the GUI design to improve consumers use needs to be improved to meet the demands of different users. In view of this problem, this paper has carried on the related research on the GUI design of Tablet PC application, and fully considers the visualization image elements of information transmission, then analyzed the top five shopping application in Chinese market via three visual elements - icon, label and color. In addition, it conducted a questionnaire which based on the object of Tablet PC shopping application Chinese users. Consequently, what obtained is, based on the survey findings, the GUI design proposal which reasonable reflects the shopping application with functionality and designability. Through the research results of this paper, we can get the conclusion that the three kinds of visual GUI elements-icon, label and color- have the influence on the user's usability. In addition, this study can be expected as a reference in the shopping software GUI design.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.81-89
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• 2004

In this paper, we compare face recognition rate by PCA algorithm using distance change and embedded data being input left side and right side image in stereo images. The proposed method detects face region from RGB color space to YCbCr color space. Also, The extracted face image's scale up/down according to distance change and extracts more robust face region. The proposed method through an experiment could establish standard distance (100cm) in distance about 30∼200cm, and get 99.05% (100cm) as an average recognition result by scale change. The definition of super state is specification region in normalized size (92${\times}$112), and the embedded data extracts the inner factor of defined super state, achieved face recognition through PCA algorithm. The orignal images can receive specification data in limited image's size (92${\times}$112) because embedded data to do learning not that do all learning, in image of 92${\times}$112 size averagely 99.05%, shows face recognition rate of test 1 99.05%, test 2 98.93%, test 3 98.54%, test 4 97.85%. Therefore, the proposed method through an experiment showed that if apply distance change rate could get high recognition rate, and the processing speed improved as well as reduce face information.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.396-404
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• 2014

The field of searching clothing, which is very difficult due to the nature of the informal sector, has been in an effort to reduce the recognition error and computational complexity. However, there is no concrete examples of the whole progress of learning and recognizing for cloth, and the related technologies are still showing many limitations. In this paper, the whole process including identifying both the person and cloth in an image and analyzing both its color and texture pattern is specifically shown for classification. Especially, deformable search descriptor, LBPROT_35 is proposed for identifying the pattern of clothing. The proposed method is scale and rotation invariant, so we can obtain even higher detection rate even though the scale and angle of the image changes. In addition, the color classifier with the color space quantization is proposed not to loose color similarity. In simulation, we build database by training a total of 810 images from the clothing images on the internet, and test some of them. As a result, the proposed method shows a good performance as it has 94.4% matching rate while the former Dense-SIFT method has 63.9%.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.91-102
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• 2010

This study investigates the dominant degree of product design factors through the process of change of design factors. The previous research suggested a concrete measurement method of dominant designs, but it did not investigate empirically the degree of dominance due to the limited data for changes of designs. In this research, thus, after collecting design data of mobile phones and we measured the dominance and structure change of the designs by year. The analyses showed the following two things. First, in design factors of mobile phone the dominance on the body form and the edge grows more and both of them as dominant design factors tend to converge into the rectangular body form and the round edge, respectively. Second, the dominance on other design factors(e.g. the button type, the open type, whether or not to have digital multimedia broadcasting(DMB) and video telephony functions, the combination of colors and the body color) increases and decreases; and hence, design levels tend to diverge. In conclusion, the measurement of dominance on product design factors contributes to marketing managers and designers who are required to establish a strategy for products under the rapidly changing circumstances of market. This research aims to provide those managers and designers with a guide line for a successful development of new product to prepare for the dominant design from this empirical study.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.533-541
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• 2017

In the rapidly changing 21st century, image management has become more important. Under these circumstances, as a lot of hair colors and beaching agents are used to create diverse hair colors, hair damage resulting from frequent chemical hair coloring has been inevitable. This study investigated how to reduce morphological changes in hair and hair damage after dividing hair into healthy hair('Group A') and damaged hair('Group B'), using the following bleaching agents: basic bleaching agent(a), beaching agent diluted with water(b), oil ingredient-added bleaching agent(c), water-shampoo mixed bleaching agent(d). The results found that even though hair damage can be prevented by a bleaching agent diluted with a mixture of diverse additives, there were better effects on hair texture in both 'Group A(4.83)' and 'Group B(4.41)' at a sensory test when hair was bleached with an addition of Camellia oil, according to blinded experiment, in particular. As a result, hair damage could be reduced. Therefore, this study expects that hair bleaching with an addition of Camellia oil to the mixture of a bleaching agent would bring the development of diverse new materials which can minimize hair damage as well as regulate hair brightness and make a contribution to the development of cosmetology market.