• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.2277-2282
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed a new recognition method can be used in application systems using morphological features, difference operators and ART2 algorithm. At first, edges are extracted from an acquired car image by a camera using difference operators and the image of extracted edges is binarized by a block binarization method. In order to extract license plate area, noise areas are eliminated by applying morphological features of new and existing types of license plate to the 8-directional edge tracking algorithm in the binarized image. After the extraction of license plate area, mean binarization and mini-max binarization methods are applied to the extracted license plate area in order to eliminated noises by morphological features of individual elements in the license plate area, and then each character is extracted and combined by Labeling algorithm. The extracted and combined characters(letter and number symbols) are recognized after the learning by ART2 algorithm. In order to evaluate the extraction and recognition performances of the proposed method, 200 vehicle license plate images (100 for green type and 100 for white type) are used for experiment, and the experimental results show the proposed method is effective.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.192-198
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• 2018

Recently, the use of drone has been increasing rapidly in many ways. A drone can capture remote objects efficiently so it is suitable for surveillance and security systems. This paper discusses three methods for detecting moving vehicles using a drone. We compare three target detection methods using a background frame, preceding frames, or moving average frames. They are subtracted from a current frame. After the frame subtraction, morphological filters are applied to increase the detection rate and reduce the false alarm rate. In addition, the false alarm region is removed based on the true size of targets. In the experiments, three moving vehicles were captured by a drone, and the detection rate and the false alarm rate were obtained by three different methods and the results are compared.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.127-133
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• 2011

Characters in natural image are an important information with various context. Previous work of character region detection algorithms is not detect of character region in case of image complexity and the surrounding lighting, similar background to character, so this paper propose an method of character region detection in natural image using edge and connected component by morphological reconstructions. Firstly, we detect edge using Canny-edge detector and connected component with local min/max value by morphological reconstructed-operation in gray-scale image, and labeling each of detected connected component elements. lastly, detected candidate of text regions was merged for generation for one candidate text region, Final text region detected by checking the similarity and adjacency of neighbor of text candidate individual character. As the results of experiments, proposed algorithm improved the correctness of character regions detection using edge and connected components.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.844-846
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 3차원 모델을 검색하기 위한 형태 기반 기술자를 추출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 모델의 기하학적인 특성을 고려하여 레이 캐스팅 샘플링과 구면조화함수를 이용하는 방법이다. 레이 캐스팅 기법은 모델의 외형을 고려한 적응적인 방법으로 샘플링 하여 기술자에 포함되는 형태 정보를 증가시켜 기술자의 식별성을 높인다. 또한 구면조화함수 계수 추출에서는 기하학적인 주파수 특성을 고려하여 적응적인 계수를 추출한다. 이 방법은 검색 성능에 영향을 미치지 않고 기술자를 조밀하고 간결하게 만든다. 최종적으로 두 방법을 결합함으로써 검색 엔진에서 이용 가능한 기술자를 생성한다. 실험 결과에서는 제안된 알고리즘의 성능이 기존 방법에 비해 약 $12.5\%$ 향상 된 것을 확인 할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.135-143
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• 2022

Rock platforms and TTP (breakwater) are dangerous environments commonly subject to tidal and high wave energy on the open coast. This paper is a study on risk assessment to provide risk information, which is a representative method for preventing coastal safety accidents. Risk assessment based on geo-morphological information was conducted for the Halmi-Halabi rock platform in Anmyeon-eup, Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do. As a result of the risk assessment in 16 directions, the risk was evaluated high in the NE, ENE, S, SSW, and W directions, where there are many sections with slopes exceeding ±20°, and the NW direction was the lowest. Geo-morphology on rock platform is central to understanding what makes one stretch of complex coastline more hazardous than another, and it can be used to create site-specific morphological risk item. In particular, it will be assisting coastal managers in an effort to reduce the number of injuries and drowning incidents by providing hazard information to assess the relative risk.

• 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.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.449-459
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• 1996

The main goal of this paper is to introduce a novel definition for fuzzy mathematical morphology and a neural network implementation. The generalized- mean operator plays the key role for the definition. Such definition is well suited for neural network implementation. The first stage of the shared-weight neural network has adequate architecture to perform morphological operation. The shared- weight network performs classification based on the features extracted with the fuzzy morphological operation defined in this paper. Therefore, the parameters for the fuzzy definition can be optimized using neural network learning paradigm. Learning rules for the structuring elements, degree of membership, and weighting factors are precisely described. In application to handwritten digit recognition problem, the fuzzy morphological shared-weight neural network produced the results which are comparable to the state-of art for this problem.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.27-35
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a method that can compensate the geometric distortions of image caused from an arbitrary nonflat display surface(or wall) under the environment of portable overhead projector without a flat screen. In the proposed method, we first project a grid pattern to an arbitrary nonflat display surface and then derive an equation of straight line that represents the geometry relationship between the distorted grid pattern and the original grid pattern. Next, after determining the proper size of the original grid pattern according to the form of the display surface, we generate a compensation pattern from the derived equation of straight line, which can symmetrically compensate for the distorted image. Finally, we compensate for the geometric distortions of the projected image by segmenting the real image to be projected from portable overhead projector and prewarping it according to the compensation pattern. To evaluate the proposed method, we performed experiments of image compensation on inclined surface, bent surface and curved surface that are frequently occurred in the environment of portable overhead projector without a flat screen. From the experimental results, we found that the proposed method could be very effective in compensating for the general types of the geometric distortions of the projected images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.847-849
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 3차원 객체의 전체적인 기하학적 특성을 3차원 형태 기술자로 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기술자는 기존의 방법에서 문제가 된 부분적 자세변화에 대한 민감성 부분을 해결한다. 3차원 객체의 평면상의 모든 점들을 대상으로 형태 함수를 이용하여 형태 분포(Shape Distribution)를 생성한다. 이때 평면상의 두 정의 거리를 측정하는 기존의 D2 형태 함수를 최단경로를 사용하여 거리를 측정하는 방법으로 변형해 3차원 객체의 부분적 자세 변화에 강건하도록 하였다. 기존의 형태 분포와 비교하여 성능 평가한 결과 관절 객체에 대해서는 약 $ 51\%$, 전체에 대해서는 약 $24\%$의 성능 향상을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.430-432
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• 2001

일반적으로 안과 의사들과 안경사 등을 포함하는 시각 관련 전문가들은 시력 피검자에 대한 굴절력 측정시 약 30% 이상의 오류율을 가진다고 한다. 이는 검사를 행하는 전문가의 비 숙련도에 기인한다기보다는 그만큼 시각 관련 측정이 유동적이고 민감해서 정확한 측정값을 얻어내는 것이 어렵다는 것을 말해주는 것이다. 만약 자동화된 시스템이 광학계로부터 나오는 영상을 이용하여 내부 처리를 거친 후 정확한 시각 측정치를 검사자에게 알려줄 수 있다면 잘못 측정되는 측정 횟수를 크게 줄일 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구는 형태학적 필터링(morphological filtering)과 그레이-레벨의 신호 강조(signal enhance) 기술들을 이용한 자동 시각 굴절력 측정 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템에서는 광학계로부터 도출된 영상으로부터 첫째로 형태학적 필터링 처리를 행한다. 이 과정은 처리가 어려운 원 영상을 좀 더 다루기 쉬운 상태로 바꿔주는 역할을 하게 된다. 둘째는 일차 처리된 영상에 가해주는 그레이 수준 한계 기법을 통한 신호 강조 기법으로서 이는 영상의 그레이 값 분포가 다양함으로 인해서 발생되는 오차를 줄이기 위해서 사용된다. 그리하여 본 시스템은 정확한 측정값 도출이 어려운 시각 영상에 적용되어 효과적으로 오차를 줄임으로써 보다 효율적인 시각 측정을 가능하게 하였다.