• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.4D
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• pp.687-693
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• 2006

Image co-registration is the process of overlaying two images of the same scene, one of which represents a reference image, while the other is geometrically transformed to the one. In order to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the co-registration approach, the author proposed a pre-qualified area matching algorithm which is composed of feature extraction with canny operator and area matching algorithm with cross correlation coefficient. For refining matching points, outlier detection using studentized residual was used and iteratively removes outliers at the level of three standard deviation. Throughout the pre-qualification and the refining processes, the computation time was significantly improved and the registration accuracy is enhanced. A prototype of the proposed algorithm was implemented and the performance test of 3 Landsat images of Korea. showed: (1) average RMSE error of the approach was 0.435 pixel; (2) the average number of matching points was over 25,573; (3) the average processing time was 4.2 min per image with a regular workstation equipped with a 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 CPU and 1 Gbytes Ram. The proposed approach achieved robustness, full automation, and time efficiency.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.29-35
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• 2006

In order to detect and locate edge features precisely in real images we have developed an algorithm by introducing a nonlocal differentiation of intensity profiles called adaptive directional derivative (ADD), which is evaluated independently of varying ramp widths. In this paper, we first develop the edge detector system employing the ADD and then, the performance of the algorithm is illustrated by comparing the results to those from the Canny's edge detector.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.139-142
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• 2006

본 연구는 장면 이미지로부터 텍스트에 존재하는 문자-에지 특징을 이용하여 텍스트를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 캐니(Canny)에지 연산자를 이용하여 장면 이미지로부터 에지를 추출하고, 추출된 에지로부터 16종류의 에지-맵 생성한다. 생성된 에지 맵을 재구성하여 문자 특징을 갖는 8종류의 문자-에지 맵을 만단다. 텍스트는 배경과 잘 분리되는 특징이 있으므로 텍스트에 존재하는 '문자-에지 맵'의 특징을 이용하여 텍스트를 추출한다. 텍스트 영역에 대한 검증은 문자-에지 맵의 분포와 텍스트에 존재하는 글자간의 공백 특징으로 한다. 제안한 방법은 다양한 종류의 장면 이미지를 실험대상으로 하였고, 텍스트는 적어도 2글자 이상으로 구성된다는 제한조건과 너무 크거나 작은 텍스트는 텍스트 추출에서 제외하였다. 실험결과 텍스트 영역 추출률은 약 83%를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 강의 영상에 포함되어 있는 텍스트 정보를 바탕으로 학습에 의미 있는 영역을 추출한다. 실시간으로 입력되는 컬러 영상에서 Canny 연산자를 이용하여 에지 정보를 구하고, 모폴로지 연산(Morphological Operation)과 연결 성분(Connected Component)을 통해 후보 영역을 검색한다. 그리고 검색된 후보 영역내의 색 정보 분석을 통해서 의미 있는 학습 영역을 추출하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 학습에 의미 있는 영역을 추출한 결과, 비교적 단순한 강의 영상과 복잡한 강의 영상 모두에서 정확한 학습 영역의 추출이 가능함을 알 수 있고, 학습에 의미 있는 정보만을 구성함으로써 적은 용량으로 최적화된 강의 영상을 제공할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.89-97
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• 2013

Recently, economic and social damages are globally increased due to the heavy snowfall caused by global warming. To reduce the damages of sudden regional heavy snow in roads, suitable countermeasures should be established based on the accurate detection of snowfall intensity for each roadway segment. In this paper, we deal with snowfall intensity detecting algorithm in the road area from CCD Imagery. First, we determine the MLZ (MotionLess Zone), which does not contain lane markings and moving cars, in the image space. Next, snow streaks trespassing the MLZ are extracted with Canny operator and proposed algorithm. Also, the concept of SII (Snow Intensity Index), which is the number of snow streaks during one minute in the MLZ, is defined. Finally, the effectiveness of proposed algorithm is proved by visually comparing the imagery and SII value obtained during 69 minutes. In consequence, we figured out that the integration of SII is significantly related to an actual amount of snowfall.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.163-171
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• 2012

High resolution satellite images have been used for building and road system analysis, landscape analysis, and ecological assessment for several years. However, in high resolution satellite images, shadows are necessarily cast by manmade objects such as buildings and over-pass bridges. This paper develops the shadow extraction procedures in urban area including various land-use classes, and the extracted shadow areas are evaluated by a manually digitized shadow map. For the shadow extraction, the Canny edge operator and the dilation filter are applied to make building edge buffer area. Also, the object-based segmentation was performed using Gram-Schmitt fusion image, and spectral and spatial parameters are calculated from the segmentation results. Finally, we proposed appropriate parameters and extraction rules for the shadow extraction. The accuracy of the shadow extraction results from the various assessment indices is 80% to 90%.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.395-408
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• 2015

High-resolution satellite image mosaics are becoming increasingly important in the field of remote sensing image analysis as an essential image processing to create a large image constructed from several smaller images. In this paper, we present an automatic seamline extraction technique and the procedure to generate a mosaic image by this technique. For more effective seamline extraction in the overlap region of adjacent images, an NDVI-based seamline extraction technique is developed, which takes advantage of the computational time and memory. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(NDVI) is an index of plant "greeness" or photosynthetic activity that is employed to extract the initial seamline. The NDVI can divide into manmade region and natural region. The cost image is obtained by the canny edge detector and the buffering technique is used to extract the ranging cost image. The seamline is extracted by applying the Dijkstra algorithm to a cost image generated through the labeling process of the extracted edge information. Histogram matching is also conducted to alleviate radiometric distortion between adjacent images acquired at different time. In the experimental results using the KOMPSAT-2/3 satellite imagery, it is confirmed that the proposed method greatly reduces the visual discontinuity caused by geometric difference of adjacent images and the computation time.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.187-193
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• 2022

In the Yeongdong region of Gangwon-do, coastal areas are important resources in terms of cultural, social and economic aspects. However, the coast of Gangwon-do is experiencing severe erosion, and it is concerned that its adverse effects will gradually increase. In this study, coastline changes of Yangyang and Gangneung in Gangwon-do were tracked and analyzed over a long period of time. In order to build time series image data, aerial photos from the 1940s to the present were mainly used, and data from CORONA satellite, which operated from the 1960s to the early 1970s, were collected and used together. Using 51cm resolution ortho image and 2m resolution Digital Elevation Model(DEM) as reference, ground control points were selected to perform geometric correction on the aerial photos and CORONA images. Subsequently, Canny edge detector applied to these images to extract the coastlines. As a result of analyzing the extracted and vectorized coastlines by overlaying them in chronological order, erosion and deposition occurring around the artificial structures and on the nearby beaches were observed. In this study, the effect of seasonal variation, tide, and various coastal management including the beach filling were not considered. Because coastal erosion is greatly affected by geographic factors, each local government must find its own solution. Continuous research and local data accumulation are required.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.441-448
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a method that segments the image, extracts its slope and compensate it in the image that text and background are mixed. The proposed method uses morphology based preprocessing and extracts the edges using canny operator. And after segmenting the image which the edges are extracted, it excludes the areas which the edges are included, only uses the area which the edges are included and creates the projection histograms according to their various direction slopes. Using them, it takes a slope having the greatest edge concentrativeness of each area and compensates the slope of the scene. On extracting the slope of the mixed scene of the text and background, the method can get better results as 0.7% than the existing methods as it excludes the useless areas that the edges do not exist.