• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.769-776
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• 2014

It is necessary to detect the feature points existing simultaneously in both images and then find the corresponding relationship between the detected feature points. We propose a new feature detector based on geometric mean of two eigenvalues of gradient matrix which is able to measure the change of pixel intensities. The corner response of the proposed detector is proportional to the geometric mean and also the difference of two eigenvalues in the case of same geometric mean. We analyzed the localization error of the feature detection using aerial image and artificial image with various types of corners. The localization error of the proposed detector was smaller than that of the typical corner detector, Harris detector.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.646-648
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• 2012

In this paper, an image detection technique is proposed to extract image features in a mobile terminal environment. To detect objects, the HSI color model of the image is used. The object's corner points are detected using the Harris corner detection method. Finally we detect the object of interest using region growing The experiment results show that the proposed method improves detection performance and reduces the amount of computation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.6 s.38
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

Facial analysis is used in many applications like face recognition systems, human-computer interface through head movements or facial expressions, model based coding, or virtual reality. In all these applications a very precise extraction of facial feature points are necessary. In this paper we presents a method for automatic extraction of the facial features Points such as mouth corners, eye corners, eyebrow corners. First, face region is detected by AdaBoost-based object detection algorithm. Then a combination of three kinds of feature energy for facial features are computed; valley energy, intensity energy and edge energy. After feature area are detected by searching horizontal rectangles which has high feature energy. Finally, a corner detection algorithm is applied on the end region of each feature area. Because we integrate three feature energy and the suggested estimation method for valley energy and intensity energy are adaptive to the illumination change, the proposed feature extraction method is robust under various conditions.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.919-927
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose an accurate camera calibration method for acquiring multiview stereoscopic images. Generally, camera calibration is performed by using checkerboard structured patterns. The checkerboard pattern simplifies feature point extraction process and utilizes previously recognized lattice structure, which results in the accurate estimation of relations between the point on 2-dimensional image and the point on 3-dimensional space. Since estimation accuracy of camera parameters is dependent on feature matching, accurate detection of checkerboard corner is crucial. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the method that performs accurate camera calibration method through accurate detection of checkerboard corners. Proposed method detects checkerboard corner candidates by utilizing 1-dimensional gaussian filters with succeeding corner refinement process to remove outliers from corner candidates and accurately detect checkerboard corners in sub-pixel unit. In order to verify the proposed method, we check reprojection errors and camera location estimation results to confirm camera intrinsic parameters and extrinsic parameters estimation accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.379-383
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 자연 이미지에서 한글 텍스트가 갖고 있는 에지 코너 특징을 이용한 한글 텍스트 검출방법을 제안한다. 자연영상으로부터 에지를 검출하고, 검출된 에지를 20종류의 에지 구조 성분을 갖는 에지 맵을 생성한다. 생성된 에지 맵에서 한글 텍스트 특징 갖는 특징들을 조합하여 모두 8가지의 텍스트 영역 후보 특징을 추출한다. 추출된 텍스트 영역의 특징을 수평 및 수직방향으로 검사하여 텍스트의 시작 라인과 끝라인을 검출하여 텍스트 영역의 수평좌표를 구한다. 추출된 텍스트 후보 영역에서 최종적으로 텍스트 영역을 결정한다. 제안한 방법은 다양한 종류의 자연 이미지에서 텍스트 영역을 검출에서 좋은 성능을 나타냈다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.283-288
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• 2011

This paper have proposed an object retrieval using the corners area variability based on correlogram. The proposed algorithm is processed as follows. First, the corner points of the object in an image are extracted and then the feature vectors are obtained. It are rearranged according to the number dimension and consist of sequence vectors. And the similarity based on the maximum of sequence vectors is measured. The proposed technique is invariant to the rotation or the transfer of the objects and more efficient in case that the objects present simple structure. In simulation that use Wang's database, the method presents that the recall property is improved by 0.03% and more than the standard corner patch histogram.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new method of improving accuracy of motion estimation in mobile environments, compared with Rosten's algorithm. The present method selects corners as feature points. The Rosten's algorithm uses simple addition and subtraction to detect the corners. Although it has the advantage of faster processing speed, Rosten's algorithm has a drawback of low performance in motion estimation. We use the NCC(Normalized Cross Correlation) coefficients to match the corners, and remove in two steps the outliers of inaccurate matching corners. We compare the proposed algorithm with Rosten's algorithm by applying both to the real images. We find that the proposed method shows better performance than Rosten's algorithm in motion estimation. In addition, we implement the present method on mobile devices and confirm that it works in mobile environments in real time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.58-61
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• 2011

방송 콘텐츠 제작에는 카메라, VCR, NLE, 인코더 등의 장비가 사용되고 있으며, VCR 헤더 불량, 테이프 노후화/보관불량, NLE 편집 오류, 인코더 장비 불량 등의 다양한 이유로 콘텐츠에 예기치 않은 비디오 및 오디오 오류가 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 콘텐츠에 포함된 다양한 비디오 및 오디오 오류를 자동으로 검사할 수 있는 자동 검사 시스템이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 다양한 오류를 자동으로 검사할 수 있는 방법 중 특히 비디오 내에 종종 포함되는 블록 오류를 대상으로 하는 고속 오류 검출 방법을 설명한다. 제안한 방법은 비디오 내의 매 프레임의 코너 수를 계산하고, 시간 증가에 따른 코너 수의 변화량을 검사하여 블록 오류가 포함될 것으로 예상되는 후보 프레임을 찾는 1단계 과정과, 후보 프레임을 대상으로 Adaboost 인식 기술을 사용하여 학습한 분류기를 통해 최종 블록 오류가 포함된 프레임을 검출하는 2단계 과정으로 구성된다. 시스템 구현 실험 결과, 비디오 내에 포함된 블록 오류를 프레임 단위로 정확하게 고속 검출 하는 것이 가능함을 확인하였다. SD급의 경우 실시간 대비 2.3배속 가량의 고속 검사가 가능하고 HD의 경우에도 0.8배속 수준의 고속 검사가 가능하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.646-654
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• 2007

In recent years, the use of text inserted into TV contents has grown to provide viewers with better visual understanding. In this paper, video text is defined as superimposed text region located of the bottom of video. Video text extraction is the first step for video information retrieval and video indexing. Most of video text detection and extraction methods in the previous work are based on text color, contrast between text and background, edge, character filter, and so on. However, the video text extraction has big problems due to low resolution of video and complex background. To solve these problems, we propose a method to extract text from videos using the Harris corner detector. The proposed algorithm consists of four steps: corer map generation using the Harris corner detector, extraction of text candidates considering density of comers, text region determination using labeling, and post-processing. The proposed algorithm is language independent and can be applied to texts with various colors. Text region update between frames is also exploited to reduce the processing time. Experiments are performed on diverse videos to confirm the efficiency of the proposed method.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.709-717
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• 2014

The objective of this study is to analyze the degree of correspondences among corners found in building facade imagery when the projective transformation parameters are applied to. Additionally, an appropriate corner detection operator is determined through experiments. Modeling of the shape of a building has been studied in numerous approaches using various type of data such as aerial imagery, aerial lidar scanner imagery, terrestrial imagery, and terrestrial lidar imagery. This study compared the Harris operator with FAST operator and found that the Harris operator is superior in extracting major corner points. After extracting corners using the Harris operator and assessing the degree of correspondence among corners in difference images, real corresponding corners were found to be located in the closest distance. The experiment of the projective transformation with varying corners shows that more corner control points with a good distribution enhances the accuracy of the correspondences.