• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.339-345
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• 2010

This paper introduces GP(Genetic Programming) based robust corner detectors for scaled and rotated images. Various empirical algorithms have been studied to improve computational speed and accuracy including approaches, such as the Harris and SUSAN, FAST corner detectors. These techniques are highly efficient for well-defined corners, but are limited to corner-like edges which are often generated in rotated images. It is very difficult to detect correctly edges which have characteristics similar to corners. In this paper, we have focused the above challenging problem and proposed Genetic Programming-based automated generation of corner detectors which is robust to scaled and rotated images. The proposed method is compared to the existing corner detectors on test images and shows superior results.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.53-58
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• 2017

Recently, advance in technology have increased the importance of visual inspection in semiconductor inspection areas. In PCB visual inspection, accurate line estimation is critical to the accuracy of the entire process, since it is utilized in preprocessing steps such as calibration and alignment. We propose a line estimation method that is differently weighted for the line candidates using a histogram of gradient information, when the position of the initial approximate corner points is known. Using the obtained line equation of the outline, corner points can be calculated accurately. The proposed method is compared with the existing method in terms of the accuracy of the detected corner points. The proposed method accurately detects corner points even when the existing method fails. For high-resolution frames of 3.5mega-pixels, the proposed method is performed in 89.01ms.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.108-111
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) 추적기에서 특징점의 개수를 일정하게 유지시키기 위해 존재하는 특징점의 관리 부분을 FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array)에 구현하기 위한 구조를 제안한다. FPGA 에 구현하기 위해 한정된 자원을 효과적으로 사용하도록 하는 것을 목표로 연산량이 많은 부분을 적은 연산량으로 구현 가능한 것으로 대체하고, 메모리의 크기와 접근 회수를 줄이기 위한 방법을 고려했다. 구현이 간단한 Harris 코너 검출기를 이용하여 특징점을 선택하고, 나눗셈 연산이 필요 없는 히스토그램을 이용하여 임계값을 설정해 특징점을 관리했다. C 언어로 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 제안한 방법을 확인했고, 기존의 특징점 관리 방법과의 비교를 통해 검증했다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.271-273
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• 2023

불수의적인 혀 움직임과 떨림은 다른 신체 부위의 떨림증상이 없이 혀만 움직이는 증상을 말하며, 신경 정신과적 문제와 한의학의 기혈허약 등의 증상에 의해 발생할 수 있다. 혀 영상 촬영 장치로 정면과 측면의 혀를 연속을 촬영하여 혀의 움직임과 떨림을 탐색하려 한다. 혀의 표면은 코너와 같은 특징점을 구하기 어려운 모양이므로 혀의 움직임의 특성을 찾아내는 것은 매우 어려운 일이다. 움직임을 추적하는 방법 중에서 Farnebäck optical flow 방법은 모든 픽셀에 대해서 optical flow를 계산하여 혀의 움직임을 추적할 수 있었다. 이러한 움직임의 크기를 정면과 측면 영상에 대해서 구할 수 있었고, 움직임의 방향도 구할 수 있었다. 혀의 움직임과 떨림에 대한 위치별 정보와 세기 정보를 이용하여 건강상태를 진단할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.559-571
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• 2013

This paper has presented a few problems when the 2D video superimposed the overlay text was converted to the 3D stereoscopic video. To resolve the problems, it proposes the scenario which the original video is divided into two parts, one is the video only with overlay text graphic region and the other is the video with holes, and then processed respectively. And this paper focuses on research only to detect and extract the overlay text graphic region, which is a first step among the processes in the proposed scenario. To decide whether the overlay text is included or not within a frame, it is used the corner density map based on the Harris corner detector. Following that, the overlay text region is extracted using the hybrid method of color and motion information of the overlay text region. The experiment shows the results of the overlay text region detection and extraction process in a few genre video sequence.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.5
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• pp.681-688
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• 2002

This paper proposes a system detecting the area of traffic sign, which uses color rate as the information of colors, and corner point and distance rate as the information of morphology. In this system, a candidate area is extracted by performing dilation operation on the binary image made by the color rate of R, G, B components and by detecting corner point and center point through mask. The area of traffic sign with varied shapes is extracted by calculating the distance rate from center point, which is the information of morphology. The results of this experiment demonstrate that in this system which is invariable regardless of its size and location, it is possible to extract the exact area from varied traffic signs such as the shapes of triangle, circle, inverse triangle, and square as well as from the images at both day and night when brightness value is greatly different. Moreover, it demonstrates great accuracy and speed in processing.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.93-102
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• 2011

This paper presents a walking guidance system for blind pedestrians in an outdoor environment using just one single camera. Unlike many existing travel-aid systems that rely on stereo-vision, the proposed system aims to get necessary information of the road environment by using just single camera fixed at the belly of the user. To achieve this goal, a top-view image of the road is used, on which obstacles are detected by first extracting local extreme points and then verified by the polar edge histogram. Meanwhile, user motion is estimated by using optical flow in an area close to the user. Based on these information extracted from image domain, an audio message generation scheme is proposed to deliver guidance instructions via synthetic voice to the blind user. Experiments with several sidewalk video-clips show that the proposed walking guidance system is able to provide useful guidance instructions under certain sidewalk environments.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.13-22
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose the 3D shape reconstruction method that combine the mosaic method and the active stereo matching using the laser beam. The active stereo matching method detects the position information of the irradiated laser beam on object by analyzing the color and brightness variation of left and right image, and acquires the depth information in epipolar line. The mosaic method extracts feature point of image by using harris comer detection and matches the same keypoint between the sequence of images using the keypoint descriptor index method and infers correlation between the sequence of images. The depth information of the sequence image was calculated by the active stereo matching and the mosaic method. The merged depth information was reconstructed to the 3D shape information by wrapping and blending with image color and texture. The proposed reconstruction method could acquire strong the 3D distance information, and overcome constraint of place and distance etc, by using laser slit beam and stereo camera.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.9 no.1 s.16
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• pp.40-46
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• 2005

A process variation compensation method called 'regulated drain detection' is proposed. This paper also shows the how this newly invented method is applied to a typical differential PLL. The proposed RDD(regulated drain detection) and its PLL application has been designed and tested in a $0.18{\mu}m$ 1-poly 3-metal plain digital process so that its stable performance and higher yield can be proven. The implemented PLL aimed to the operation range of 80MHz - 240MHz and the total die size is only $0.18{\mu}m$ including the internal loop filter. The tracking jitter characteristics is measured to less than 150 peak-to-peak under l.8V supply rail.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.12
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• pp.105-112
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• 2009

In this paper, we investigated abnormal ESD failure on guard-rings in the smart power IC fabricated with $0.35{\mu}m$ Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology. Initially, ESD failure occurred below 200 V in the Machine Model (MM) test due to current crowding in the parasitic diode associated with the guard-rings which are generally adopted to prevent latch-up in high voltage devices. Optical Beam Induced Resistance Charge (OBIRCH) and Scanning Electronic Microscope (SEM) were used to find the failure spot and 3-D TCAD was used to verify cause of failure. According to the simulation results, excessive current flows at the comer of the guard-ring isolated by Local Oxidation of Silicon (LOCOS) in the ESD event. Eventually, the ESD failure occurs at that comer of the guard-ring. The modified comer design of the guard-ring is proposed to resolve such ESD failure. The test chips designed by the proposed modification passed MM test over 200 V. Analyzing the test chips statistically, ESD immunity was increased over 20 % in MM mode test. In order to avoid such ESD failure, the automatic method to check the weak point in the guard-ring is also proposed by modifying the Design Rule Check (DRC) used in BCD technology. This DRC was used to check other similar products and 24 errors were found. After correcting the errors, the measured ESD level fulfilled the general industry specification such as HBM 2000 V and MM 200V.