• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1183-1195
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• 2020

Visual saliency detection is an essential task because it is an important part of various vision-based applications. There are many techniques for saliency detection in color images. However, the number of methods for saliency detection in infrared images is limited. In this paper, we introduce a simple approach for saliency detection in infrared images based on the thresholding technique. The input image is thresholded into several Boolean maps, and an initial saliency map is calculated as a weighted sum of the created Boolean maps. The initial map is further refined by using thresholding, morphology operation, and a Gaussian filter to produce the final, high-quality saliency map. The experiment showed that the proposed method has high performance when applied to real-life data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.615-618
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• 2019

Visual saliency detection is an important part in various vision-based applications. There are a myriad of techniques for saliency detection in color images. However, the number of methods for saliency detection in infrared images is inadequate. In this paper, we introduce a simple approach for pedestrian identification in infrared images using saliency. The input image is thresholded into several Boolean maps, an initial saliency map is then calculated as a weighted sum of created Boolean maps. The initial map is further refined by using thresholding, morphology operation, and Gaussian filter to produce the final, high-quality saliency map. The experiment showed that the proposed method produced high performance results when applied to real-life data.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.5
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• pp.765-771
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• 2017

This paper presents concurrent design methods of surface permanent magnet synchronous machines for saliency-tracking self-sensing position estimation. Magnetic saliency for the self-sensing is created by stator pole saturation due to the rotor zigzag leakage flux. The power conversion properties such as saliency ratio, torque ripple, and efficiency vary according to motor design. The property change due to design modification is analysed by using finite element analysis, and with the appropriate design modification, proper saliency is created while preserving their power conversion capabilities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.213-216
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 객체 위주의 컬러 영상 검색을 위하여 영상의 saliency map을 이용해 객체 중심의 영상을 생성하고, 객체와 그 주변 영역에서의 대표 색상이 가지는 통계적 특성과 공간적 분포 정보를 이용하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저, 영상의 saliency map을 이진화하여 영상을 객체/배경으로 분할하고 객체를 중심으로 객체/배경의 비율이 일정한 일정 크기의 영상을 생성한다. 생성된 영상에서 대표 색상을 추출하고, 각 색상이 영상에서 어떻게 분포하는가를 나타내는 이진 공간분포 지도를 형성한다. 그 후 영상 간의 대표 색상마다 이진 공간분포의 차이를 비교함으로써, 색상의 통계적 특성과 공간적 분포가 동시에 반영된 특징으로 영상을 검색한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 saliency map을 이용한 대표 색상 기반의 영상 검색 기법은 기존의 대표 색상 기반의 영상 검색보다 우수한 성능을 보여준다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.286-291
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• 2001

We propose a new saliency map model for selecting an attended location in an arbitrary visual scene, which is one of the most important characteristics of human vision system. In selecting an attended location, an edge information can be considered as a feature basis to construct the saliency map. Edge filters are obtained from the independent component analysis(ICA) that is the best way to find independent edges in natural gray scenes. In order to reflect the non-uniform density in our retina, we use a multi-scaled pyramid input image instead of using an original input image. Computer simulation results show that the proposed saliency map model with multi-scale property successfully generates the plausible attended locations.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.50 no.9
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• pp.453-458
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• 2001

This paper presents a new vector control algorithm of the surface mounted permanent magnet motor (SMPMM) without any rotational tranceducer. Originally, SMPMM does not have any magnetic saliency in structure, but it has a little magnetic saliency due to the saturation by the flux of the permanent magnet. Moreover, it varies according to the load conditions and the control performance of schematics using the saliency can be easily degraded. To prevent it and to improve the performance of the proposed algorithm, the saliency of a SMPMM under various load conditions is analyzed. In the proposed algorithm, the saliency or the impedance difference related to the saliency is utilized in order to estimate the position and speed of the rotor. And the high frequency signal is injected into the motor to measure the impedance difference and also to enhance the control performance of the system. The experimental results verify the performance of the proposed sensorless algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.4976-4994
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• 2018

The diffusion-based salient object detection methods have shown excellent detection results and more efficient computation in recent years. However, the current diffusion-based salient object detection methods still have disadvantage of detecting the object appearing at the image boundaries and different scales. To address the above mentioned issues, this paper proposes a multi-scale diffusion-based salient object detection algorithm with background and objectness seeds. In specific, the image is firstly over-segmented at several scales. Secondly, the background and objectness saliency of each superpixel is then calculated and fused in each scale. Thirdly, manifold ranking method is chosen to propagate the Bayessian fusion of background and objectness saliency to the whole image. Finally, the pixel-level saliency map is constructed by weighted summation of saliency values under different scales. We evaluate our salient object detection algorithm with other 24 state-of-the-art methods on four public benchmark datasets, i.e., ASD, SED1, SED2 and SOD. The results show that the proposed method performs favorably against 24 state-of-the-art salient object detection approaches in term of popular measures of PR curve and F-measure. And the visual comparison results also show that our method highlights the salient objects more effectively.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.52-61
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• 2001

We propose a new saccadic eye movement system with visual selective attention. Saliency map models generate the scan pathways in a natural scene, of which the output makes an attended location. Saccadic eye movement model is used for producing the target trajectories to move the attended locations very rapidly. To categorize human saccadic eye movement, saccadic eye movement model was divided into three parts, each of which was then individually modeled using different neural networks to reflect a principal functionality of brain structures related with the saccadic eye movement in our brain. Based on the proposed saliency map models and the saccadic eye movement model, an active vision system using a CCD type camera and BLDC motor was developed and demonstrated with experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.49 no.5
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• pp.338-344
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• 2000

This paper proposes a field-oriented control strategy without speed sensor in overall speed range. At low speed region including zero speed, the electrical saliency which is due to the main flux saturation is used in order to estimate an instantaneous flux position. This electrical saliency can be obtained from the difference of high frequency impedance by the high frequency signal injection. This method enables the stable operation at zero speed or stator frequency even under heavily loaded condition. However, because of the high frequency signal injection the loss and noise in motor increase and the voltage margin is reduced as the motor speed increases. Therefore, this algorithm must be supplemented with the algorithm based on the electrical model of motor, which is conventionally used in the region except the low speed. This paper proposes the combination algorithm between the high frequency signal infection method and the adaptive observer, in which the rotor flux and motor speed can be simultaneously estimated by the adaptive control theory. This combination algorithm enables the stable operation of field-oriented speed control without speed sensor in overall speed range. This is verified by experimental results.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1096-1112
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• 2019

The cameras generating 360 VR image are too expensive to be used publically. To overcome this problem, we propose a way to use smart phones instead of VR camera, where more than 100 pictures are taken by smart phone and are stitched into a 360 VR image. In this scenario, when moving objects are in some of the pictures, the stitched 360 VR image has various degradations, for example, ghost effect and mis-aligning. In this paper, we proposed an algorithm to modify the seam finding algorithms, where the saliency map in ROI is generated to check whether the pixel belongs to visually salient objects or not. Various simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is effective to increase the quality of the generated 360 VR image.