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Vehicle Detection and Tracking Using Difference Frame Image for Traffic Measurement System (교통량 측정 시스템에서의 프레임간 차영상을 이용한 차량 검출 및 추적)

  • Kim, Hyung-Soo;Hwang, Gi-Hyeon
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2016
  • Intelligent Transport Systems (Intelligent Transportation System: ITS) is a system for inducing a flow of ideal car for using the most advanced technology, it is determined the status of the road, and take appropriate action. In order to be measured at various time points, and is managed, the information about the traffic situation is used image using a computer mainly. The image processing using a computer, it is an easy way to collect parameters of the various traffic in real time, technology has developed more and more. Vehicle detection of transport parameters of intelligent transportation system is a very important technology basically. Therefore, technology detection method using car background images and the contour line extraction method using an edge is used, however, problems have been raised on the accuracy of the detection rate.

The Efficacy of Voice Therapy for the Treatment of Vocal Fold Bowing (궁형 성대를 보이는 환자들에 있어 음성치료의 효과)

  • 신혜정;김진경;김은아;고영민;박애경;정성민
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.94-97
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    • 2003
  • Background and Objectives : Bowing of the vocal fold, a bowed edge of the vocal fold results from various disorder causes glottic incompetence resulting in voice disorders. The results of treatment were not satisfactory even though a variety of methods of treatment were applied. The goal of this study is to evaluate of efficacy of the non-surgical, voice therapy in patients with vocal fold bowing. Materials and Method : Twenty two patients of vocal fold bowing not resulting from vocal fold palsy and sulcus vocalis were analyzed. After voice therapy and medical treatment, parameters of perceptual, acoustic, aerodynamic analysis and stroboscopic findings were compared those of pretreatment results. Results and Conclusion : Jitter, shimmer and maximal phonation time were significantly improved and subjective satisfaction was improved in 73% of patients. In the videostroboscopic examination, vocal fold gap was decreased in 27% of patents. The result of this study indicates that voice therapy alone has effect in treatment of vocal fold bowing. Voice therapy is one of the mainstay of treatment of vocal fold bowing.

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Design of Visual Quantizer for very low Bit-rate Coding on JPEG2000 (JPEG2000에서 저 전송 부호화를 위한 비주얼 양자화기 설계)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyeok;Jeon, Joon-Hyeon
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.47 no.4
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 2010
  • The irreversible 9/7 JPEG2000, which is one of sub-band coding techniques, has a problem of severe picture quality distortion at the edge and the background caused by the quantization error below 0.15bpp. In this paper, to solve such problems we propose a VQ(Visual Quantizer) based on L-pdf(Laplace probability density function) statistical characteristics of high frequency sub-bands. The proposed VQ is designed by visual parameter for improving the subjective quality and weighting parameter for increasing the compression ratio. A proposed method, based on 9/7 JPEG2000 scheme, gives the high subjective quality to reconstructed images below 0.15bpp and provides minimum MSE(Mean-Squared Error) regardless of the compression ratio.

Sketch-based 3D modeling by aligning outlines of an image

  • Li, Chunxiao;Lee, Hyowon;Zhang, Dongliang;Jiang, Hao
    • Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.286-294
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    • 2016
  • In this paper we present an efficient technique for sketch-based 3D modeling using automatically extracted image features. Creating a 3D model often requires a drawing of irregular shapes composed of curved lines as a starting point but it is difficult to hand-draw such lines without introducing awkward bumps and edges along the lines. We propose an automatic alignment of a user's hand-drawn sketch lines to the contour lines of an image, facilitating a considerable level of ease with which the user can carelessly continue sketching while the system intelligently snaps the sketch lines to a background image contour, no longer requiring the strenuous effort and stress of trying to make a perfect line during the modeling task. This interactive technique seamlessly combines the efficiency and perception of the human user with the accuracy of computational power, applied to the domain of 3D modeling where the utmost precision of on-screen drawing has been one of the hurdles of the task hitherto considered a job requiring a highly skilled and careful manipulation by the user. We provide several examples to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the method with which complex shapes were achieved easily and quickly in the interactive outline drawing task.

Depth Map Coding Using Histogram-Based Segmentation and Depth Range Updating

  • Lin, Chunyu;Zhao, Yao;Xiao, Jimin;Tillo, Tammam
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.1121-1139
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    • 2015
  • In texture-plus-depth format, depth map compression is an important task. Different from normal texture images, depth maps have less texture information, while contain many homogeneous regions separated by sharp edges. This feature will be employed to form an efficient depth map coding scheme in this paper. Firstly, the histogram of the depth map will be analyzed to find an appropriate threshold that segments the depth map into the foreground and background regions, allowing the edge between these two kinds of regions to be obtained. Secondly, the two regions will be encoded through rate distortion optimization with a shape adaptive wavelet transform, while the edges are lossless encoded with JBIG2. Finally, a depth-updating algorithm based on the threshold and the depth range is applied to enhance the quality of the decoded depth maps. Experimental results demonstrate the effective performance on both the depth map quality and the synthesized view quality.

Assessing Landscape Impacts of Apartment Complex on Suburban Hilly Openspace; Multilateral Approach by Analysis of Physical Landscape Variables and Eye Fixation Movements (도시주변 능선녹지를 배경으로 하는 아파트 경관의 시각적 영향 - 물리적 경관변수 및 와시점분석에 의한 다각적 접근-)

  • Choi, Yun;Cho, Tong-Buhm
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.81-103
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    • 1994
  • In recent years, the visual characteristics of natural open space and greenbelt surrounding the urban landscapes have been changed with sprawling of residential areas and highrised residential buildings. Since these natural areas being the background element of residential areas are topographically sloped mountains in many cities. It is easy to be seen in the distance and it is important to preserve these areas as a visual infrastructure of the urban landscape. The purposes of this study are to extract the factors of landscape impact evaluation for these areas and to clarify the physical landscape variables representing these factors, and to infer the visual-perceptional relationships between image and landscape variables. As results, conceptional three factors were extracted with semantic differential evaluation to classified 18 landscape slide, and three regression models were established with factor score of landscapes and physical variables measured in photographs. On the basis of these relationships, visual-perceptional characteristics were discussed by analyzing the data form eye-movement recording to each of landscapes. The factors of "spatial unfolding of backdropped hilly greenspace", "horizontal quence of residential buildings", and "landscape complexity" prove to be important. And it prove important variables of "skyline of mountainous ridge" and "visual edge of building structure" in regression models and eye fixation movements.

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Development of Classification System for Thermal Comfort Behavior of Pigs by Image Processing and Neural Network (영상처리와 인공신경망을 이용한 돼지의 체온조절행동 분류 시스템 개발)

  • 장동일;임영일;장홍희
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.431-438
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    • 1999
  • The environmental control based on interactive thermoregulatory behavior for swine production has many advantages over the conventional temperature-based control methods. Therefore, this study was conducted to compare various feature selection methods using postural images of growing pigs under various environmental conditions. A color CCD camera was used to capture the behavioral images which were then modified to binary images. The binary images were processed by thresholding, edge detection, and thinning techniques to separate the pigs from their background. Following feature were used for the input patterns to the neural network ; \circled1 perimeter, \circled2 area, \circled3 Fourier coefficients (5$\times$5), \circled4 combination of (\circled1 + \circled2), \circled5 combination of (\circled1 + \circled3), \circled6 combination of (\circled2 + \circled3), and \circled7 combination of (\circled1 + \circled2 + \circled3). Using the above each input pattern, the neural network could classify training images with the success rates of 96%, 96%, 96%, 100%, 100%, 96%, 100%, and testing images with those of 88%, 86%, 93%, 96%, 91%, 90%, 98%, respectively. Thus, the combination of perimeter, area and Fourier coefficients of the thinning images as neural network features gave the best performance (98%) in the behavioral classification.

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Image Retrieval Using Entropy-Based Image Segmentation (엔트로피에 기반한 영상분할을 이용한 영상검색)

  • Jang, Dong-Sik;Yoo, Hun-Woo;Kang, Ho-Jueng
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.333-337
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    • 2002
  • A content-based image retrieval method using color, texture, and shape features is proposed in this paper. A region segmentation technique using PIM(Picture Information Measure) entropy is used for similarity indexing. For segmentation, a color image is first transformed to a gray image and it is divided into n$\times$n non-overlapping blocks. Entropy using PIM is obtained from each block. Adequate variance to perform good segmentation of images in the database is obtained heuristically. As variance increases up to some bound, objects within the image can be easily segmented from the background. Therefore, variance is a good indication for adequate image segmentation. For high variance image, the image is segmented into two regions-high and low entropy regions. In high entropy region, hue-saturation-intensity and canny edge histograms are used for image similarity calculation. For image having lower variance is well represented by global texture information. Experiments show that the proposed method displayed similar images at the average of 4th rank for top-10 retrieval case.

A Study on the Ontological Meaning of Architectural Space of Suwon Hwaseong from the Viewpoint of Culture-Technology Convergence (문화기술 융합적 관점으로 본 수원 화성 건축공간의 존재론적 의미 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Eun;Park, Eun-Soo
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.100-107
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    • 2014
  • Traditional architectural space, which is a historical cultural heritage must be connected mutually as a organic flow of various elements such as the environment of the time, political background and values, rather than approaching with fragmentary point of view. The Silhak Philosophy, the basis of late Chosun society developed equity thoughts on the basis of ideology of humanism, and it asserted the promotion of technology and industry as a measure to realize the pursuit of truth which is practically useful. Thus, we could verify the possibility of convergent interpretation of cultural technology of Hwaseong architectural space through the humanistic viewpoint of pioneer spirit of Silhak Philosophy which regards human as a main agent of desire of life, and the pursuit of truth which is useful for reality, and the realization of ethical value by aesthetic practicalism. Based on this, the ontological meaning and value of Suwon Hwaseong by the viewpoint of convergence of culture and technology have been drawn as the construction of planned new town by the practice of filial duty, the plan of city space based on rational values, the realization of a metropolis where self-sufficient economic activities are possible, the introduction of thorough construction management system, the introduction of advanced culture and its creative application, and the application of scientifical knowledges and cutting-edge technology.

New Approach to Two-wheeler Detection using Correlation Coefficient based on Histogram of Oriented Gradients

  • Lee, Yeunghak;Shim, Jaechang
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.119-128
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to suggest a new algorithm for detecting two-wheelers on road that have various shapes according to the viewing angle for vision based intelligent vehicles. This article describes a new approach to two-wheelers detection algorithm riding on people based on modified Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) using correlation coefficient (CC). The CC between two local area variables, in which one is the person riding a bike and other is its background, can represent correlation relation. First, we extract edge vectors using HOG which includes gradient information and differential magnitude as cell based. And then, the value, which is calculated by the CC between the area of each cell and one of two-wheelers, can be extracted as the weighting factor in process for normalizing the modified HOG cell. This paper applied the Adaboost algorithm to make a strong classification from weak classification. In this experiment, we can get the result that the detection rate of the proposed method is higher than that of the traditional method.