• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.283-294
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• 2022

딥 러닝 네트워크에서 사용되는 특징 맵은 일반적으로 영상보다 데이터가 크며 특징 맵을 전송하기 위해서는 영상의 압축률보다 더 높은 압축률이 요구된다. 본 논문은 딥러닝 기반의 영상처리에서 객체의 크기에 대한 강인성을 가지는 FPN 구조의 네트워크에서 사용되는 피라미드 특징 맵을 높은 압축률로 전송하기 위해 제안한 복원-예측 네트워크를 통해 전송된 일부 계층의 피라미드 특징 맵으로 전송하지 않은 계층의 피라미드 특징 맵을 예측하며, 압축으로 인한 손상을 복원하는 구조를 제안한다. 제안한 방법의 COCO 데이터셋 2017 Train images에 대한 객체 탐지의 성능은 rate-precision 그래프에서 VTM12.0을 통해 특징 맵을 압축한 결과 대비 BD-rate 31.25%의 성능향상을 보였고, PCA와 DeepCABAC을 통한 압축을 수행한 방법 대비 BD-rate 57.79%의 성능향상을 보였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.758-768
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• 2017

In this paper, we present a novel method to extract face representation based on multi-resolution spatial pyramid. In our method, a face is subdivided into increasingly finer sub-regions (local regions) and represented at multiple levels of histogram representations. To cope with misaligned problem, patch-based local descriptor extraction has been also developed in a novel way. To preserve multiple levels of detail in local characteristics and also encode holistic spatial configuration, histograms from all levels of spatial pyramid are integrated by using dimensionality reduction and feature combination, leading to our spatial-pyramid face feature representation. We incorporate our proposed face features into general face recognition pipeline and achieve state-of-the-art results on challenging face recognition problems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4439-4455
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• 2021

Compared with two-stage object detection algorithms, one-stage algorithms provide a better trade-off between real-time performance and accuracy. However, these methods treat the intermediate features equally, which lacks the flexibility to emphasize meaningful information for classification and location. Besides, they ignore the interaction of contextual information from different scales, which is important for medium and small objects detection. To tackle these problems, we propose an image pyramid network based on dual attention mechanism (DAIPNet), which builds an image pyramid to enrich the spatial information while emphasizing multi-scale informative features based on dual attention mechanisms for one-stage object detection. Our framework utilizes a pre-trained backbone as standard detection network, where the designed image pyramid network (IPN) is used as auxiliary network to provide complementary information. Here, the dual attention mechanism is composed of the adaptive feature fusion module (AFFM) and the progressive attention fusion module (PAFM). AFFM is designed to automatically pay attention to the feature maps with different importance from the backbone and auxiliary network, while PAFM is utilized to adaptively learn the channel attentive information in the context transfer process. Furthermore, in the IPN, we build an image pyramid to extract scale-wise features from downsampled images of different scales, where the features are further fused at different states to enrich scale-wise information and learn more comprehensive feature representations. Experimental results are shown on MS COCO dataset. Our proposed detector with a 300 × 300 input achieves superior performance of 32.6% mAP on the MS COCO test-dev compared with state-of-the-art methods.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.362-373
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• 2020

최근 자율 주행 자동차와 지능형 CCTV에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 효율적인 객체 검출의 중요성은 필수적인 요소이다. 본 논문의 기반이 되는 DPM(Deformable Part Models)은 객체에 대한 변형 가능한 부분의 혼합을 사용하여 가변적인 객체를 나타낼 수 있는 대표적인 검출기로 다양한 분야에서 많이 연구 되고 있다. 객체 모델의 파트 모양과 구성을 잡아내는 기법으로 높은 검출 성능을 보여주지만 복잡한 알고리즘으로 인해 실제 어플리케이션에서 사용하기에는 한계가 있다. 이를 개선하기 위해 본 논문에서는 DPM에서 많은 연산을 필요로 하는 이미지 특징 피라미드(feature pyramid)를 구성하는 과정 대신, 특정 스케일에서 구해진 소수의 특징(feature) 맵에 적응적인 쌍선형(bilinear) 보간법을 이용하여 이미지 특징 피라미드를 재구성해 연산 속도를 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 모의실험 결과, 제안된 방식의 DPM은 기존 DPM 방식 대비 검출 성능은 2.82%가 낮아졌지만 평균 연산 시간 10%를 향상시킴을 알 수 있었다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.11-15
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• 2020

In a typical initial setup of a PCB component inspection system, operators should manually input various information such as category, position, and inspection area for each component to be inspected, thus causing much inconvenience and longer setup time. Although there are many deep learning based object detectors, RetinaNet is regarded as one of best object detectors currently available. In this paper, a method using an extended RetinaNet is proposed that automatically detects its component category and position for each component mounted on PCBs from a high-resolution color input image. We extended the basic RetinaNet feature pyramid network by adding a feature pyramid layer having higher spatial resolution to the basic feature pyramid. It was demonstrated by experiments that the extended RetinaNet can detect successfully very small components that could be missed by the basic RetinaNet. Using the proposed method could enable automatic generation of inspection areas, thus considerably reducing the setup time of PCB component inspection systems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.701-720
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• 2023

Aerial objects are more challenging to segment than normal objects, which are usually smaller and have less textural detail. In the process of segmentation, target objects are easily omitted and misdetected, which is problematic. To alleviate these issues, we propose local aggregation feature pyramid networks (LAFPNs) and pyramid integrated context modules (PICMs) for aerial object segmentation. First, using an LAFPN, while strengthening the deep features, the extent to which low-level features interfere with high-level features is reduced, and numerous dense and small aerial targets are prevented from being mistakenly detected as a whole. Second, the PICM uses global information to guide local features, which enhances the network's comprehensive understanding of an entire image and reduces the missed detection of small aerial objects due to insufficient texture information. We evaluate our network with the MS COCO dataset using three categories: airplanes, birds, and kites. Compared with Mask R-CNN, our network achieves performance improvements of 1.7%, 4.9%, and 7.7% in terms of the AP metrics for the three categories. Without pretraining or any postprocessing, the segmentation performance of our network for aerial objects is superior to that of several recent methods based on classic algorithms.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.523-529
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• 2021

4차산업 혁명 시대를 맞아, 기술의 변화가 다양한 분야에 적용되고 있다. 고지서 분야에서도 자동화, 디지털화, 데이터관리가 되고 있다. 사회에서 유통되는 고지서의 형태는 수만 가지 이상이며, 이를 자동화, 디지털화, 데이터관리를 위해서는 고지서 인식이 필수적이다. 현재 다양한 고지서들을 관리하기 위해서 OCR(Optical Character Recognition) 기술을 활용한다. 이때, 정확도를 높이기 위해, 먼저 고지서 양식을 인식하면, OCR 인식 시 더 높은 인식률을 가질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 고지서 양식을 구분하기 위해 인덱스로 사용할 수 있는 로고를 객체 인식하였으며, 이때 로고의 크기가 전체 고지서 대비 작으므로 딥러닝 기술 중 FPN(Feature Pyramid Network)을 작은 객체 검출에 활용하였다. 결과적으로, 제안하는 알고리즘을 통해서 자원 낭비를 줄이고, OCR 인식 정확도를 높일 수 있었다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2019년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.398-400
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• 2019

Faced with the increasing demand for image recognition on mobile devices, how to run convolutional neural network (CNN) models on mobile devices with limited computing power and limited storage resources encourages people to study efficient model design. In recent years, many effective architectures have been proposed, such as mobilenet_v1, mobilenet_v2 and PeleeNet. However, in the process of feature selection, all these models neglect some information of shallow features, which reduces the capture of shallow feature location and semantics. In this study, we propose an effective framework based on Feature Pyramid Networks to improve the recognition accuracy of deep and shallow images while guaranteeing the recognition speed of PeleeNet structured images. Compared with PeleeNet, the accuracy of structure recognition on CIFA-10 data set increased by 4.0%.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.149-154
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• 2023

This paper presents a novel approach to multi-focus image fusion using light field cameras. The proposed neural network, LFFCNN (Light Field Focus Convolutional Neural Network), is composed of three main modules: feature extraction, feature fusion, and feature reconstruction. Specifically, the feature extraction module incorporates SPP (Spatial Pyramid Pooling) to effectively handle images of various scales. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model not only effectively fuses a single All-in-Focus image from images with multi focus images but also offers more efficient and robust focus fusion compared to existing methods.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.60-79
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• 2022

The U-Net architecture-based segmentation models attained remarkable performance in numerous medical image segmentation missions like skin lesion segmentation. Nevertheless, the resolution gradually decreases and the loss of spatial information increases with deeper network. The fusion of adjacent layers is not enough to make up for the lost spatial information, thus resulting in errors of segmentation boundary so as to decline the accuracy of segmentation. To tackle the issue, we propose a new deep learning-based segmentation model. In the decoding stage, the feature channels of each decoding unit are concatenated with all the feature channels of the upper coding unit. Which is done in order to ensure the segmentation effect by integrating spatial and semantic information, and promotes the robustness and generalization of our model by combining the atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) module and channel attention module (CAM). Extensive experiments on ISIC2016 and ISIC2017 common datasets proved that our model implements well and outperforms compared segmentation models for skin lesion segmentation.