• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.130-132
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 에지 디스크립션 템플릿을 이용한 개념기반 이미지 검색 모델을 제안한다. 이 모델은 하나의 개념과 관련된 여러 형태의 이미지 템플릿들을 명시한 지식베이스를 채용한다. 여기서, 이미지 템플릿은MPEG-7국제 표준으로 채택된 에지 히스토그램 디스크립션 방법으로 표현된다 따라서, 하나의 이미지는 자신의 에지 히스토그램과 유사한 템플릿를 가지는 개념으로 색인될 수 있기 때문에 이 모델은 방대한 이미지에 대한 자동 색인과 개념기반 검색을 지 인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.329-341
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• 2014

Kernel-based mean-shift object tracking has gained more interests nowadays, with the aid of its feasibility of reliable real-time implementation of object tracking. This algorithm calculates the best mean-shift vector based on the color histogram similarity between target model and target candidate models, where the color histograms are usually produced after uniform color-space quantization for the implementation of real-time tracker. However, when the image of target model has a reduced contrast, such uniform quantization produces the histogram model having large values only for a few histogram bins, resulting in a reduced accuracy of similarity comparison. To solve this problem, a non-uniform quantization algorithm has been proposed, but it is hard to apply to real-time tracking applications due to its high complexity. Therefore, this paper proposes a fast non-uniform color-space quantization method using the histogram equalization, providing an adjusted histogram distribution such that the bins of target model histogram have as many meaningful values as possible. Using the proposed method, the number of bins involved in similarity comparison has been increased, resulting in an enhanced accuracy of the proposed mean-shift tracker. Simulations with various test videos demonstrate the proposed algorithm provides similar or better tracking results to the previous non-uniform quantization scheme with significantly reduced computation complexity.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 2009

Recently, the research which concerns the object class recognition has been done. Although an object tracking based on most of histograms employs a colored model to improve robustness, the system is not reliable enough yet. In this paper, we presents a method to express and track an object by using the histograms which are composed with visual features through succesive frames. The experimental results shows that this method is reliable to track a car within 80m distance from camera.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.3C
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• pp.274-278
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• 2009

Recently, the research which concerns the object class recognition has been done. Although an object tracking based on most of histograms employs a colored model to improve robustness, the system is not reliable enough yet. In this paper, we presents a method to express and track an object by using the histograms which are composed with visual features through successive frames. The experimental results shows that this method is reliable to track a car within 80m distance from camera.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.141-144
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• 2002

영상에서의 칼라분포 정보는 영상간의 유사성을 표현하는데 매우 유용하여 내용기반 영상검색분야에서 기본적으로 사용하고 있다. 이때, 영상 데이터베이스에서의 각 영상에 대하여 동일한 방식으로 (비)균일하게 양자화하여 표현한 칼라 히스토그램이 주로 사용되고 있다. 그러나, 전체영상에 대하여 동일한 개수의 고정된 양자화를 통해 칼라분포 정보를 표현하는데, 여러 가지 문제점과 성능 차이가 있어 다양한 해결 방안이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는, 적응적 양자화 방법으로 각 영상의 칼라분포 정보를 표현하되, 상이한 양자화 칼라간의 유사도를 정의하여 칼라히스토그램 인터섹션 방법과 유사하게 영상간의 칼라분포 유사도를 계산하는 방법을 제안한다. 양자화 칼라간의 유사도는 거리에 반비례하면서 두 양자화 칼라의 작은 빈도값에 비례하도록 정의하였다. 영상간의 칼라분포 유사도는 칼라 히스토그램 인터섹션 방법을 생산자-소비자 모델로 해석하여 구하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에 의해 기존의 칼라 히스토그램 인터섹션 방법보다 향상된 결과를 얻을 수 있음을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.8A
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• pp.786-795
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• 2002

In this paper, we present a histogram and moment-based vidoe scencd change detection technique using hierarchical Hidden Markov Models(HMMs). The proposed method extracts histograms from a low-frequency subband and moments of edge components from high-frequency subbands of wavelet transformed images. Then each HMM is trained by using histogram difference and directional moment difference, respectively, extracted from manually labeled video. The video segmentation process consists of two steps. A histogram-based HMM is first used to segment the input video sequence into three categories: shot, cut, gradual scene changes. In the second stage, a moment-based HMM is used to further segment the gradual changes into a fade and a dissolve. The experimental results show that the proposed technique is more effective in partitioning video frames than the previous threshold-based methods.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.4
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• pp.255-262
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• 2007

This paper proposes an enhanced skin color-based detection method to find a region of human face in color images. The proposed detection method combines three color spaces, RGB, $YC_bC_r$, YIQ and builds color union histograms of luminance and chrominance components respectively. Combined color union histograms are then fed in to the back-propagation neural network for training and Levenberg-Marquadt algorithm is applied to the iteration process of training. Proposed method with Levenberg-Marquadt algorithm applied to training process of neural network contributes to solve a local minimum problem of back-propagation neural network, one of common methods of training for face detection, and lead to make lower a detection error rate. Further, proposed color-based detection method using combined color union histograms which give emphasis to chrominance components divided from luminance components inputs more confident values at the neural network and shows higher detection accuracy in comparison to the histogram of single color space. The experiments show that these approaches perform a good capability for face region detection, and these are robust to illumination conditions.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.805-814
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• 2013

This paper proposes a robust hand segmentation method using view-invariant characteristic of a wrist-mounted camera, and deals with a hand shape recognition system based on segmented hand information. We actively utilize the advantage of the proposed camera device that provides view-invariant images physically, and segment hand region using a Bayesian rule based on adaptive histograms. We construct HSV histograms from RGB histograms, and update HSV histograms using hand region information from a current image. We also propose a user adaptation method by which hand models gradually approach user-dependent models from user-independent models as the user uses the system. The proposed method was evaluated using 16 Korean manual alphabet, and we obtained increases of 27.91% in recognition success rate.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.61-73
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• 2012

This paper proposes a histogram specification based image enhancement method, which uses the brightness mean and variance of an image to maximize the entropy of the image. In our histogram specification step, the Gaussian distribution is used to fit the input histogram as well as produce the target histogram. Specifically, the input histogram is fitted with the Gaussian distribution whose mean and variance are equal to the brightness mean(${\mu}$) and variance(${\sigma}2$) of the input image, respectively; and the target Gaussian distribution also has the mean of the value ${\mu}$, but takes as the variance the value which is determined such that the output image has the maximum entropy. Experimental results show that compared to the existing methods, the proposed method preserves the mean brightness well and generates more natural looking images.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.77-83
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose an object tracking algorithm based on color histogram and convolutional neural network model. In order to increase the tracking accuracy, we synthesize generic object tracking using regression network algorithm which is one of the convolutional neural network model-based tracking algorithms and a mean-shift tracking algorithm which is a color histogram-based algorithm. Both algorithms are classified through support vector machine and designed to select an algorithm with higher tracking accuracy. The mean-shift tracking algorithm tends to move the bounding box to a large range when the object tracking fails, thus we improve the accuracy by limiting the movement distance of the bounding box. Also, we improve the performance by initializing the tracking start positions of the two algorithms based on the average brightness and the histogram similarity. As a result, the overall accuracy of the proposed algorithm is 1.6% better than the existing generic object tracking using regression network algorithm.