• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.313-316
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• 2002

이동 물체의 이동 거리 추적이나 대상 물체의 인식과 판별 물체의 특징 추출과 같은 응용분야에서 컴퓨터(Computer)와 비젼시스템(vision system)을 이용한 영상 데이터 처리 분야에 대한 이용률이 증가하면서, 그에 따른 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 따라서 CCD 카메라(Charge-Couple Device Camera)로부터 입력된 그레이 레벨(Gray Level)의 영상을 입력받아 처리과정을 거쳐 위치정보를 전송하는 과정에서 정확한 정보를 얻기 위한 전처리 과정 방법을 제안하고, 실제 시스템에 적용한 결과를 제시한다. 여기서 영상의 전처리 과정 중 입력 영상에서 불필요한 부분을 제거하거나, 배경과 대상물의 분리, 내포된 잡음을 없애기 위하여 흔히 이진화 방법을 많이 사용한다 특히 이진화 과정에서 그레이 레벨의 입력영상에서 히스토그램(histogram) 정보를 이용하여 영상의 이진화시의 임계값을 찾는 것은 아주 중요한 요인이다 따라서 본 논문에서는 신경회로망을 이용하여 실시간으로 CCD 카메라를 통하여 입력되는 그레이 레벨의 입력 영상에 대하여 동적으로 적당한 임계값을 .찾는 방법을 제안하고자한다. 또한 제안한 신경회로망을 이용한 임계값 추출 알고리즘(algorithms)을 구현한 시스템(system)에 적용하여 일반적인 방법과 비교 검토하고 응용 가능성을 확인한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.3
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• pp.375-382
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• 2002

Handwritten character recognition is classified into on-line handwritten character recognition and off-line handwritten character recognition. On-line handwritten character recognition has made a remarkable outcome compared to off-line hacdwritten character recognition. This method can acquire the dynamic written information such as the writing order and the position of a stroke by means of pen-based electronic input device such as a tablet board. On the contrary, Any dynamic information can not be acquired in off-line handwritten character recognition since there are extreme overlapping between consonants and vowels, and heavily noisy images between strokes, which change the recognition performance with the result of the preprocessing. This paper proposes a method that effectively extracts the stroke including dynamic information of characters for off-line Korean handwritten character recognition. First of all, this method makes improvement and binarization of input handwritten character image as preprocessing procedure using watershed algorithm. The next procedure is extraction of skeleton by using the transformed Lu and Wang's thinning: algorithm, and segment pixel array is extracted by abstracting the feature point of the characters. Then, the vectorization is executed with a maximum permission error method. In the case that a few strokes are bound in a segment, a segment pixel array is divided with two or more segment vectors. In order to reconstruct the extracted segment vector with a complete stroke, the directional component of the vector is mortified by using right-hand writing coordinate system. With combination of segment vectors which are adjacent and can be combined, the reconstruction of complete stroke is made out which is suitable for character recognition. As experimentation, it is verified that the proposed method is suitable for handwritten Korean character recognition.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.439-445
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• 2021

Low-cost, ultra-high-speed cameras, made possible by the development of image sensors and small displays, can be very useful in image processing and pattern recognition. This paper introduces an algorithm that corrects irregular lighting from a high-speed image that is continuously input with a slight time interval, and which then obtains an exposed skin color region that is the area of interest in a person from the corrected image. In this study, the non-uniform lighting effect from a received high-speed image is first corrected using a frame blending technique. Then, the region of interest is robustly obtained from the input high-speed color image by applying an elliptical skin color distribution model generated from iterative learning in advance. Experimental results show that the approach presented in this paper corrects illumination in various types of color images, and then accurately acquires the region of interest. The algorithm proposed in this study is expected to be useful in various types of practical applications related to image recognition, such as face recognition and tracking, lighting correction, and video indexing and retrieval.