• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.287-295
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• 2006

This paper compares two different approaches based on wavelet and Gabor decomposition towards representing the texture of an arbitrary region. The Gabor-domain mean and standard deviation combination is considered to be best in representing the texture of rectangular regions. However, texture representation of arbitrary regions would enable generalized object-based image retrieval and other applications in the future. In this study, we have found that the wavelet features perform better than the Gabor features in representing the texture of arbitrary regions. Particularly, the wavelet-domain standard deviation and entropy combination results in the best retrieval accuracy. Based on our experiment with texture image sets, we present and compare tile retrieval accuracy of multiple wavelet and Gabor feature combinations.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.237-248
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• 2010

When scenes in the real world are perceived for the purpose of computer/robot vision fields, there are great deals of texture based patterns in them. This paper introduces a texture feature representation on a coordinate system in which many different patterns can be represented with a mathematical model (Gabor function). The representation of texture features of each pattern on the coordinate system results in the high performance/competence of texture pattern classification. A decision tree algorithm is used to classify pattern data represented on the proposed coordinate system. The experimental results for the texture pattern classification show that the proposed method is better than previous researches.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.249-256
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• 2011

Finding a new set of features representing textured images is one of the most important studies in textured image analysis. This is because it is impossible to construct a perfect set of features representing every textured image, and it is inevitable to choose some relevant features which are efficient to on-going image processing jobs. This paper intends to find relevant features which are efficient to textured image segmentation. In this regards, this paper presents a different method for the segmentation of textured images based on the Gabor filter. Gabor filter is known to be a very efficient and effective tool which represents human visual system for texture analysis. Filtering a real-valued input image by the Gabor filter results in complex-valued output data defined in the spatial frequency domain. This complex value, as usual, gives the module and the phase. This paper focused its attention on the phase information, rather than the module information. In fact, the module information is considered very useful at region analysis in texture, while the phase information was considered almost of no use. But this paper shows that the phase information can also be fully useful and effective at region analysis in texture, once a good method introduced. We now propose "phase derivated method", which is an efficient and effective way to compute the useful phase information directly from the filtered value. This new method reduces effectively computing burden and widen applicable textured images.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.437-443
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• 2015

This paper presents face recognition based on the fusion of visible image and thermal infrared (IR) texture estimated from the face image in the visible spectrum. The proposed face recognition scheme uses a multi- layer neural network to estimate thermal texture from visible imagery. In the training process, a set of visible and thermal IR image pairs are used to determine the parameters of the neural network to learn a complex mapping from a visible image to its thermal texture in the low-dimensional feature space. The trained neural network estimates the principal components of the thermal texture corresponding to the input visible image. Extensive experiments on face recognition were performed using two popular face recognition algorithms, Eigenfaces and Fisherfaces for NIST/Equinox database for benchmarking. The fusion of visible image and thermal IR texture demonstrated improved face recognition accuracies over conventional face recognition in terms of receiver operating characteristics (ROC) as well as first matching performances.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.699-704
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• 2006

본 논문은 회전 및 천이불변 이미지 텍스처 검색의 새로운 방식을 소개한다. 주파수 영역의 극좌표계에서 동일한 공간 주파수에서 각도 방향으로 투영을 하는 각도 투영법을 제안하며, 제안된 각도 투영법을 이용하여 주파수 영역에서 푸리에 계수이 합과 표준편차를 특징벡터로 이용한다. 각도 투영법을 쉽게 구현하기 위해 극좌표계에서 라돈변환이 수행된다. 실험 시 MPEG-7 데이터를 이용하였으며 그 결과는 여러 텍스처 이미지를 검색하는데 있어서 특징을 잘 구별해 내는 결과를 보여준다. 또한 제안된 회전 및 천이불변 특징 추출 알고리듬은 등방성 텍스처나 국부적인 방향성을 보이는 텍스처 영상 검색에도 효율적인 검색률을 보인다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.472-484
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• 2012

Raised or plain block is widely used for the pedestrian's safe passage. The insincere construction, insufficient maintenance and obstacle overlaid on the pavement cause pedestrian's accidents. This paper proposes a method to detect brick path by analyzing the shape pattern and texture feature of brick located in visible distance for a safe passage. A brick appears to a regular type because of its specific shape which repeats with its sized gap and its type varies according to the surrounding environment or use. This paper shows a method which extracts the shape pattern by analyzing single surface polygon and its frequency appearing in road area. The shape pattern is used to detect similar shape regions. Some regions are not detected because extraneous substances or chopped bricks distort the original shape. This problem can be solved by analyzing the texture feature vector. The analyzed vector of the previously detected regions yields the Gaussian distribution. This value in each undetected region is computed and checked whether it's satisfied with Gaussian distribution or not. The satisfied region is detected as the brick path. The experiment was performed with the various type's bricks to recognize so that the results showed as accurate as 95.9% in average.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.10-18
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• 2012

Automatic smoke detection systems using a surveillance camera requires a reliable smoke detection method. When an image sequence is captured from smoke spreading over in the air, not only has each smoke image frame a special texture, called static texture, but the difference between two smoke image frames also has a peculiar texture, called dynamic texture. Even though an object has a static texture similar to that of the smoke, its dynamic texture cannot be similar to that of the smoke if its movement differs from the diffraction action of the smoke. This paper presents a reliable smoke detection method using these two textures. The proposed method first detects change regions using accumulated frame difference, and then picks out smoke regions using Haralick features extracted from two textures.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.878-880
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• 2015

파티클 필터 기반 얼굴추적은 비교적 빠른 속도와 구현의 용이성으로 널리 사용되고 있으나 조명이나 포즈변화가 있는 영상에서 드리프트(drift) 현상에 의해 얼굴추적의 정확도가 급격히 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 앞에 언급한 얼굴의 다양성에 강인한 얼굴 텍스처 특징을 제안한다. 제안방법은 인접한 픽셀들 간의 관계를 고려한 텍스처 패턴을 정의할 때 인접한 픽셀들의 평균(average)을 적용하여 조명변화에 강인하다. 또한 얼굴의 구조적 정보를 반영한 블록 기반의 텍스처 패턴 풀링(pooling)에 의해 포즈변화에 강인하다. 실제 감시환경을 가정해 CCTV 카메라로 자체 제작한 비디오 영상에서 Local Binary Pattern(LBP)와 같은 대표적인 특징들과 비교 실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과, 드리프트(drift) 폭이 적어 더 높은 얼굴추적 정확도를 보였으며 초당 28 프레임의 매우 빠른 처리속도를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2009

영상의 깊이 정보를 추출하는 것은 매우 어려운 연구이다. 다양한 유형의 영상 구조의 분석이 필요하지만 많은 경우에 주관적인 판단의 도움이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 로스 텍스처 필터를 기반으로 정지 영상의 깊이를 자동으로 생성하는 방법을 제안한다. 로스 텍스처 필터는 단안 비전에서 3D 깊이를 얻기 위한 방법으로 활용되었는데, 실제 2D 영상에서 깊이를 예측하기 위해 텍스처 편차, 텍스처 기울기, 색상 등을 활용한다. 로스 필터는 $1{\times}5$ 벡터로부터 콘볼루션을 이용하여, 20여개의 $5{\times}5$ 콘볼루션 필터가 구해지는데, 영상에 필터를 적용하여 로스 에너지를 계산한다. 구해진 에너지를 깊이 맵으로 변환하고, 깊이 맵에서 특징 점을 구하고, 특징 점들로부터 델러노이 삼각화를 이용하여 삼각형 깊이 메쉬를 얻는다. 구해진 깊이 맵의 성능을 측정하기 위해 카메라 시점을 변경하면서 영상의 3D 구조를 분석하였으며, 입체영상을 생성하여 3D 입체 시청 결과를 분석하였다. 실험에서는 로스 텍스처 필터를 이용하는 깊이 생성 방법이 좋은 효과를 얻는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.581-587
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• 2003

독립 요소 분석 (Independent Component Analysis: ICA)는 텍스처를 의미 있는 특징으로 변환하는 강인한 영상 필터를 생성하기 위한 확률적 방법이다. ICA는 고차통계적 특성을 사용하여 ICA 필터와 독립 요소를 동시에 학습한다. 제안한 분류 방법은 fast ICA 알고리즘을 사용하여 KOMPSAT 영상으로부터 ICA 필터를 생성한 다음, 필터에 의해 투영된 텍스처들의 특징들을 독립 평면상에서 무감독 방법으로 분류한다. KOMPSAT 영상은 텍스처 성분이 뚜렷하지 않는 영역이 존재하기 때문에 본 논문에서는 투영된 특징 값들과 윈도우 내의 정규화된 평균 화소값으로 특징 벡터를 재구성하였다. 분류 방법으로는 K-means 클러스터링을 적용하였다. 6.6m 해상도를 가진 KOMPSAT 흑백 영상에 대해 제안한 방법은 우수한 분류 성능을 보인다.