• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.512-522
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• 2013

In this paper, the radius weight mean (RWM) and the feature-embedding technique are used to present a novel watermarking scheme for color images. Simulations validate that the stego-images generated by the proposed scheme are robust against most common image-processing operations, such as compression, color quantization, bit truncation, noise addition, cropping, blurring, mosaicking, zigzagging, inversion, (edge) sharpening, and so on. The proposed method possesses outstanding performance in resisting high compression ratio attacks: JPEG2000 and JPEG. Further, to provide extra hiding storage, a steganographic method using the RWM with the least significant bit substitution technique is suggested. Experiment results indicate that the resulting perceived quality is desirable, whereas the peak signal-to-noise ratio is high. The payload generated using the proposed method is also superior to that generated by existing approaches.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.142-148
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose the color fuzzy decision algorithm to face segmentation in a color image. Our algorithm can segment without the user's interaction by fuzzy decision marking. And it removes small parts such as a noise using wavelet morphology in the image obtained by applying the fuzzy decision algorithm. Also, it merges and chooses the face region in each quantization image through rough sets. This video object division algorithm is shown to be superior to a conventional algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.77-85
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• 2004

This paper proposes a multi-level vector error diffusion method using 64 primary colors to improve color impulse artifact in bright region. Vector error diffusion method causes color impulse artifact in bright region because we only use the Euclidean distance measure in quantization process. In order to reduce this artifact, the proposed method divides input color into chromatic color and achromatic color according to chroma value. In the case of chromatic color, input color is classified into bright region, middle bright region, and dark region according to lightness value. N candidate primary color is organized using lightness difference between input vector and 60 chromatic primary color vector in the case of bright region. Then, primary color with minimum vector norm between input vector and N candidate primary color in addition to 4 achromatic primary colors is selected as output color. As a result of experiments, the proposed method showed visually pleasing halftone output.

• Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.157-165
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• 2022

Chickens are a species of vertebrate with varying colors. Various colors of chickens must be classified to find color-related genes. In the past, color scoring was performed based on human visual observation. Therefore, chicken colors have not been measured with precise standards. In order to solve this problem, a computer vision approach was used in this study. Image quantization based on k-means clustering for all pixels of RGB values can objectively distinguish inherited colors that are expressed in various ways. This study was also conducted to determine whether plumage color differences exist in the reciprocal cross lines between two breeds: black Yeonsan Ogye (YO) and White Leghorn (WL). Line B is a crossbred line between YO males and WL females while Line L is a reciprocal crossbred line between WL males and YO females. One male and ten females were selected for each F₁ line, and full-sib mating was conducted to generate 883 F₂ birds. The results indicate that the distribution of light and dark colors of k-means clustering converged to 7:3. Additionally, the color of Line B was lighter than that of Line L (P<0.01). This study suggests that the genes underlying plumage colors can be identified using quantification values from the computer vision approach described in this study.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.262-264
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• 1999

본 논문은 IJG(Independent JPEG Group)의 JPEG 부호기의 처리 과정과 동작을 기술한다. IJG JPEG 부호기의 구조는 color conversion, downsampling, preprocessing 과정과 MCU 처리, FDCT, quantization, entropy encoding(sequential 혹은 progressive, huffman 혹은 arithmetic)의 실제적인 JPEG 압축 과정인 JPEG proper로 구성된다. 또한 이러한 모듈들외에 시스템 전체 controller, marker 생성기, 기억장소 관리, 에러 처리를 위한 모듈들을 포함하고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 IJG JPEG 부호기의 전체 시스템 구조 및 controller 와 주요 모듈간 인터페이스, 시스템에서 사용하는 주요 자료 구조에 대하여 분석하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.126-131
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• 2001

현재 널리 사용되는 hand-held형 단말기들은 영상을 표현할 때 제한된 수의 칼라만으로 표현할 수 있다. 따라서 자연색 칼라 팔레트를 이용하여 단말기에 나타낼 때 최적의 칼라 팔레트를 구현하는 것과 원영상의 각각의 칼라로부터 팔레트 칼라로 최적으로 정합 시키는 것이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 효율적으로 칼라 팔레트를 설계하는 히스토그램 기반 영상 의존적 스칼라 양자화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 칼라 우선순위 결정 부분과 양자화 부분으로 구성되며 양자화 후 ANC(Adaptive Neighborhood-Clustering) 알고리즘을 적용하여 성능을 개선한다. 이 방법은 자연색 칼라 영상을 적은 비트로 표현했음에도 출력 영상이 인간의 눈에 적합하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.222-223
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• 2007

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.2994-3001
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• 2000

In this paper. a method for color image segmentation using region merging is proposed. A inhomogeneity which exists in image is reduced by smoothing with non-linear filtering. saturation enhancement and intensity averaging in previous step of image segmentation. and a similar regions are segmented by non-uniform quantization using zero-crossing information of color histogram. A edge strength of initial region is measured using high frequency energy of wavelet transform. A candidate region which is merged in next step is selected by doing this process. A similarity measure for region merging is processed using Euclidean distance of R. G. B color channels. A Proposed method can reduce an over-segmentation results by irregular light sources et. al, and we illustrated that the proposed method is reasonable by simulation.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.74-83
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• 1997

We have proposed a composite feature measure which combines the color and shape features of an image for image retrieval. We improved the performance of retrieval based on the efficient color quantization using the Lloyd-Max quanizer and on the Histogram matrix matching method which considers the spatial correlation of quantized color group. We also supplemented the color information using shape information with the Improved Moment Invarlants. We have tested our technique on Image database consisting of 200 actual trademark images. Our experimental results showed that our approach improved the performance compared to the previous method under the various situations such as rotation images, translation images, noise added images, gamma corrected images and so on. The efficiency of retrieval is found to be very high and experimental results are

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

With the widespread use of vision-based surveillance systems, the capability for person identification is now an essential component. However, the CCTV cameras used in surveillance systems tend to produce relatively low-resolution images, making it difficult to use face recognition techniques for person identification. Therefore, an algorithm is proposed for person identification in CCTV camera images based on the clothing. Whenever a person is authenticated at the main entrance of a building, the clothing feature of that person is extracted and added to the database. Using a given image, the clothing area is detected using background subtraction and skin color detection techniques. The clothing feature vector is then composed of textural and color features of the clothing region, where the textural feature is extracted based on a local edge histogram, while the color feature is extracted using octree-based quantization of a color map. When given a query image, the person can then be identified by finding the most similar clothing feature from the database, where the Euclidean distance is used as the similarity measure. Experimental results show an 80% success rate for person identification with the proposed algorithm, and only a 43% success rate when using face recognition.