• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.6A
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• pp.610-617
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• 2002

In this paper, a new intermediate view reconstruction technique by using a disparity estimation method based-on the adaptive matching window size is proposed. In the proposed method, once the feature values are extracted from the input stereo image, then the matching window size for the intermediate view reconstruction is adaptively selected in accordance with the magnitude of this feature values. That is, coarse matching is performed in the region having smaller feature values while accurate matching is carried out in the region having larger feature values by comparing with the predetermined threshold value. Accordingly, this new approach is not only able to reduce the mismatching probability of the disparity vector mostly happened in the accurate disparity estimation with a small matching window size, but is also able to reduce the blocking effect occurred in the disparity estimation with a large matching window size. Some experimental results on the 'Parts' and 'Piano' images show that the proposed method improves the PSNR about 2.32∼4.16dB and reduces the execution time to about 39.34∼65.58% than those of the conventional matching methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.181-187
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• 2018

Line-laser beams are used for depth measurement of welding beads along the circumference of a pipe. For this, first we project a line-laser beam on an rotating pipe and take a sequence of images of the beam projected on the pipe using a CCD camera. Second, the projected line laser beam in each image is detected, converted into a thin curve. Finally measure the distance between the thinned curve and an imaginary line. When a line-laser beam is projected to a rough metal surface such as arc welding beads, the beam is severely scattered. This severe scattering makes the thinned curve perturbed. In this paper, we propose a thinning method robust against scattering of line lasers. First, we extract a projected line laser beam region using an adaptive threshold. Second, we model a thinned curve with a spline curve with control points. Next, we adjust the control points to fit the curve to the projected line-laser beam. Finally, we take a weighted mean of thin curves on a sequence of image frames. Experiments shows that the proposed thinning method results in a thinning curve, which is smooth and fit to the projected line-laser beam with small error.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.467-473
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• 2004

Caption in video plays an important role that delivers video content. Existing caption region extraction methods are difficult to extract caption region from background because they are sensitive to noise. This paper proposes the method to extract caption region in sports video using multiple frame merge and MBR(Minimum Bounding Rectangles). As preprocessing, adaptive threshold can be extracted using contrast stretching and Othu Method. Caption frame interval is extracted by multiple frame merge and caption region is efficiently extracted by median filtering, morphological dilation, region labeling, candidate character region filtering, and MBR extraction.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.9
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• pp.1251-1260
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• 2002

Real-time application programs have synchronization constraints which need to be met between media-data. Synchronization method represents feedback method including virtual client-side buffer. This buffer is used in buffer level method. It is client-leading synchronization that is absorbing variable transmission delay time and that is synchronizing by feedback control. It is the important factor for playback rate and QoS if the buffer level is normal or not. To solve the problems, we can control the start of transmission in multimedia server by appling filtering, control and network evaluation function. Synchronization method is processing for smooth presentation without cut-off while media is playing out. When audio frame which is master media is in high threshold buffer level we decrease play out time gradually, otherwise we increase it slowly.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.579-586
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• 2011

It is very critical for image processing of IIR (Imaging Infrared) seekers to achieve improved guidance performance for missile systems to determine appropriate thresholds in various environments. In this paper, we propose automatic threshold determination methods for proper thresholds to extract definite target signals in an EOCM (Electro-Optical Countermeasures) environment with low SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratios). In particular, thresholds are found to be too low to extract target signals if one uses the Otsu method so that we suggest a Shifted Otsu method to solve this problem. Also we improve extracting target signal by changing Shifted Otsu thresholds according to the TBR (Target to Background Ratio). The suggested method is tested for real IIR images and the results are compared with the Otsu method. The HPDAF (Highest Probabilistic Data Association Filter) which selects the target originated measurements by taking into account of both signal intensity and statistical distance information is applied in this study.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.4438-4460
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• 2017

The Kernelized Correlation Filters (KCF) tracker has caused the extensive concern in recent years because of the high efficiency. Numerous improvements have been made successively. However, due to the abrupt motion between the consecutive image frames, these methods cannot track object well. To cope with the problem, we propose an extended KCF tracker based on swarm intelligence method. Unlike existing KCF-based trackers, we firstly introduce a swarm-based sampling method to KCF tracker and design a unified framework to track smooth or abrupt motion simultaneously. Secondly, we propose a global motion estimation method, where the exploration factor is constructed to search the whole state space so as to adapt abrupt motion. Finally, we give an adaptive threshold in light of confidence map, which ensures the accuracy of the motion estimation strategy. Extensive experimental results in both quantitative and qualitative measures demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method in tracking abrupt motion.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.866-871
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• 2011

In this paper, an improved method of hand detecting and hand gesture recognition is proposed, it can be applied in different illumination condition and complex background. We use Adaptive Skin Threshold (AST) to detect the areas of hand. Then the result of hand detection is used to hand recognition through the improved HMM algorithm. At last, we design a simple program using the result of hand recognition for recognizing "stone, scissors, cloth" these three kinds of hand gesture. Experimental results had proved that the hand and gesture can be detected and recognized with high average recognition rate (92.41%) and better than some other methods such as syntactical analysis, neural based approach by using our approach.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.355-358
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• 2012

배경 영상에서 움직이는 물체 검출은 대상의 정확한 분류나 움직임, 패턴의 이해 또는 감시 시스템에 활용이 된다. 동적 물체 검출을 위한 여러 방법이 연구되고 제시되었으며, 그 중 일반적으로 차 영상 검출 방법이 많이 사용된다. 이는 시간적으로 연속된 영상 프레임간의 차를 구하고, 이 차 영상에 임계값을 설정하여 이진 영상을 만들어 물체를 검출한다. 기존 여러 연구에서는 이 임계값을 대부분을 고정하여 사용하거나 특정 환경에만 적합하게 설정하였다. 본 논문에서는 주변 환경에 적응하여 임계값을 자동으로 설정하는 방법을 제시하였고, 차 영상 검출 방법에 실제 적용하여 기존 방법에 비해 더 나은 결과를 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.127.1-127
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• 2001

In this paper we propose an input/output model based fault diagnosis method to detect and isolate single faults in the robot arm control system. The proposed algorithm is functionally composed of three main parts-parameter estimation, fault detection, and isolation, When a change in the system occurs, the errors between the system output and the estimated output cross a predetermined threshold, and once a fault in the system is detected, and in this zone the estimated parameters are transferred to the fault classifier by ART2(adaptive resonance theory 2) neural network for fault isolation. Since ART2 neural network is an unsupervised neural network fault classifier does not require the knowledge of all possible faults to isolate the faults occurred in the system. Simulations are carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed ...

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.222-226
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 장시간 심전도를 측정하더라고 착용의 불편함을 최소화하기 위해 가슴에 착용 가능한 벨트형 심전도 전극을 제작하였다. 그리고 심전도 신호의 검출을 위하여 초저전력 계측시스템을 구현하였으며, Zigbee호환의 무선노드를 이용하여 계측된 심전도 신호를 PC측으로 무선 전송하는 시스템을 구현하였다. 또한 착용을 통해 장시간 심전도 측정이 가능하도록 움직임에 따른 동잡음을 제거하고자 하였으며, 이를 위해 적응 신호처리기법을 사용하였다. 그리고 가변 기준값을 이용하여 보다 정확한 심전도 R피크를 검출하고자 하였다. 구현된 적응신호처리와 R피크검출의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 MIT-BIH 데이터를 이용한 잡음제거성능 및 피크검출 실험을 수행하였으며, 실제 피검자를 대상으로 활동 중 심전도 계측 실험을 통해 구현된 시스템의 성능평가를 수행하였다.