• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.97-100
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a detection method of the character rather than cursive, containing many components of the vertical and horizontal direction in complex background image. The characters have many dense corners but the background has few sparse corners. So we use harris corner detector and cluster the corners by using the position of the detected corners for detecting character regions. To merge or filter character regions, we analysis a histogram of gray image of character regions. In each improved region, we compare histograms of R, G, B channels to detect characters.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.73-79
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• 2009

In this paper, a method is proposed that enhances the performance of the facial expression recognition using template matching of Local Binary Pattern(LBP) histogram. In this method, the face image is segmented into blocks, and the LBP histogram is constructed to be used as the feature of the block. Block dissimilarity is calculated between a block of input image and the corresponding block of the model image. Image dissimilarity is defined as the weighted sum of the block dissimilarities. In conventional methods, the block weights are assigned by intuition. In this paper a new method is proposed that optimizes the weights from training samples. An experiment shows the recognition rate is enhanced by the proposed method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.57-65
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a universal steganalysis scheme. The proposed method extract features of two types. First feature set is extracted from histogram characteristic of the wavelet subbands. Second feature set is determined by statistical moments of wavelet characteristic functions. 3-level wavelet decomposition is performed for stego image and cover image using the Haar wavelet basis. We extract one features from 9 high frequency subbands of 12 subbands. The number of second features is 39. We use total 48 features for steganalysis. Multi layer perceptron(MLP) is applied as classifier to distinguish between cover images and stego images. To evaluate the proposed steganalysis method, we use the CorelDraw image database. We test the performance of our proposed steganalysis method over LSB method, spread spectrum data hiding method, blind spread spectrum data hiding method and F5 data hiding method. The proposed method outperforms the previous methods in sensitivity, specificity, error rate and area under ROC curve, etc.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.111-120
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• 2004

The MPEG-7 standard defines a set of descriptors that extracts low-level features such as color, texture and object shape from an image and generates metadata in order to represent these extracted information. But the matching performance for image mining ma y not be satisfactory by u sing only on e of these features. Rather than by combining these features we can achieve a better query performance. In this paper we propose a new image retrieval technique for image mining that combines the features extracted from MPEG-7 visual color and texture descriptors. Specifically, we use only some specifications of Scalable Color Descriptor (SCD) and Non-Homogeneous Texture Descriptor also known as Edge Histogram Descriptor (EHD) for the implementation of the color and edge histograms respectively. MPEG-7 standard defines $l_{1}$-norm based matching in EHD and SCD. But in our approach, for distance measurement, we achieve a better result by using cosine similarity coefficient for color histograms and Euclidean distance for edge histograms. Our approach toward this system is more experimental based than hypothetical.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.605-616
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• 2004

A new practical implementation of a facial verification system using cumulative histogram of surface curvatures for the local and contour line areas is proposed, in this paper. The approach works by finding the nose tip that has a protrusion shape on the face. In feature recognition of 3D face images, one has to take into consideration the orientated frontal posture to normalize after extracting face area from the original image. The feature vectors are extracted by using the cumulative histogram which is calculated from the curvature of surface for the contour line areas: 20, 30 and 40, and nose, mouth and eyes regions, which has depth and surface characteristic information. The L1 measure for comparing two feature vectors were used, because it was simple and robust. In the experimental results, the maximum curvature achieved recognition rate of 96% among the proposed methods.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.149-159
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• 2003

현재 사회 전반에 걸쳐 급격히 증가하고 있는 멀티미디어 정보를 효율적으로 관리, 활용할 수 있는 방법이 다양하게 연구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 내용기반 영상검색을 위한 다중 영상특징 추출방법과 특징결합 방법을 제시한다. 우선 전처리 및 캐니 에지 검출법으로 질의영상내 물체영역의 에지를 검출한다. 그 다음에 제안한 볼록 다각형 알고리즘을 통해 분할된 물체영상을 획득한다. 분할된 물체영상은 HSV 공간으로 변환되고 히스토그램 인터섹션 방법으로 유사도가 측정된다. 또한 분할된 물체영상은 웨블릿 변환 영상으로도 변환된다. 이러한 변환후 웨블릿 부밴드의 LL 영역에 제안하는 거리 밴드 평균 오토코릴로그램 알고리즘을 적용하여 오토코릴로그램 유사도를 측정한다. 그리고 GLCM을 이용한 엔트로피와 콘트라스트 유사도는 LH, HL 영역에서 측정된다. 전 과정을 통해 얻은 4개의 다중 영상특징은 수정된 보다 카운트 방법으로 결합되고 최종 유사도가 결정된다. 실험결과 제안한 다중 영상특징을 사용한 검색 방법이 단일 영상특징을 사용하는 검색 방법보다 소환성과 정확성의 성능에 있어 우수함을 보였다. 그리고 NMRR 측정에서도 개선된 성능을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.141-144
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• 2000

본 논문은 교통 안전 표지판 인식에 적용이 가능한 새로운 영상의 특징 정보 추출 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 인간의 인식 시스템에서 이용하는 기본 특징인 색과 형태정보를 이용하여 영상 인식에 적용한다. 색 정보의 추출은 RGB성분의 히스토그램 분포를 이용하고 형태 정보의 추출은 기하학적인 형태 정보 추출 방법과 모멘트를 이용한다. 본 논문은 유사 영상 검색을 위한 새로운 특징 정보 추출 방법과 간단한 특징 정보 표현 그리고 계산량의 감소 효과를 얻었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.1564-1572
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new histogram based hand recognition algorithm for augmented reality. Hand recognition system makes it possible a useful interaction between an user and computer. However, there is difficulty in vision-based hand gesture recognition with viewing angle dependency due to the complexity of human hand shape. A new hand recognition system proposed in this paper is based on the features from hand geometry. The proposed recognition system consists of two steps. In the first step, hand region is extracted from the image captured by a camera and then hand gestures are recognized in the second step. At first, we extract hand region by deleting background and using skin color information. Then we recognize hand shape by determining hand feature point using histogram of the obtained hand region. Finally, we design a augmented reality system by controlling a 3D object with the recognized hand gesture. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm gives more than 91% accuracy for the hand recognition with less computational power.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.10
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• pp.162-170
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• 2013

In recent years, the interests and needs of the Pedestrian Protection System (PPS), which is mounted on the vehicle for the purpose of traffic safety improvement is increasing. In this paper, we propose a pedestrian candidate window extraction and unit cell histogram based HOG descriptor calculation methods. At pedestrian detection candidate windows extraction stage, the bright ratio of pedestrian and its circumference region, vertical edge projection, edge factor, and PCA reconstruction image are used. Dalal's HOG requires pixel based histogram calculation by Gaussian weights and trilinear interpolation on overlapping blocks, But our method performs Gaussian down-weight and computes histogram on a per-cell basis, and then the histogram is combined with the adjacent cell, so our method can be calculated faster than Dalal's method. Our PCA reconstruction error based pedestrian detection candidate window extraction method efficiently classifies background based on the difference between pedestrian's head and shoulder area. The proposed method improves detection speed compared to the conventional HOG just using image without any prior information from camera calibration or depth map obtained from stereo cameras.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.47-55
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed a recognition system of smile facial expression for smile treatment training. The proposed system detects face candidate regions by using Haar-like features from camera images. After that, it verifies if the detected face candidate region is a face or non-face by using SVM(Support Vector Machine) classification. For the detected face image, it applies illumination normalization based on histogram matching in order to minimize the effect of illumination change. In the facial expression recognition step, it computes facial feature vector by using PCA(Principal Component Analysis) and recognizes smile expression by using a multilayer perceptron artificial network. The proposed system let the user train smile expression by recognizing the user's smile expression in real-time and displaying the amount of smile expression. Experimental result show that the proposed system improve the correct recognition rate by using face region verification based on SVM and using illumination normalization based on histogram matching.