• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.373-376
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• 2002

In this paper, we give the definition of the two dimensional q-Gabor wavelet. It consists of the q-normal distribution, which is also given in this paper. If the q-normal distribution is used as a kernel of the Gabor wavelet instead of the normal distribution, the q-Gabor wavelet is obtained. Furthermore, the q-Gabor wavelet is compared with the Gabor and the Haar wavelets to show how good The q-Gabor wavelet is.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.287-295
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• 2006

This paper compares two different approaches based on wavelet and Gabor decomposition towards representing the texture of an arbitrary region. The Gabor-domain mean and standard deviation combination is considered to be best in representing the texture of rectangular regions. However, texture representation of arbitrary regions would enable generalized object-based image retrieval and other applications in the future. In this study, we have found that the wavelet features perform better than the Gabor features in representing the texture of arbitrary regions. Particularly, the wavelet-domain standard deviation and entropy combination results in the best retrieval accuracy. Based on our experiment with texture image sets, we present and compare tile retrieval accuracy of multiple wavelet and Gabor feature combinations.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.3E
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• pp.77-83
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• 2008

In the process of the sonar image textures produced, the orientation and scale factors are very significant. However, most of the related methods ignore the directional information and scale invariance or just pay attention to one of them. To overcome this problem, we apply Gabor wavelet to extract the features of sonar images, which combine the advantages of both the Gabor filter and traditional wavelet function. The mother wavelet is designed with constrained parameters and the optimal parameters will be selected at each orientation, with the help of bandwidth parameters based on the Fisher criterion. The Gabor wavelet can have the properties of both multi-scale and multi-orientation. Based on our experiment, this method is more appropriate than traditional wavelet or single Gabor filter as it provides the better discrimination of the textures and improves the recognition rate effectively. Meanwhile, comparing with other fusion methods, it can reduce the complexity and improve the calculation efficiency.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.393-396
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• 2002

In this paper, we give the definitions of the q-Haar and q-Gabor wavelet. Instead of using the conventional Gaussian distribution as a kernel of the Gabor wavelet, if the q-normal distribution is used, we can get the q-Gabor wavelet as a possible generalization of the Gabor wavelet. The q-normal distribution, which is given by the author, is one of the generalized Gaussian distribution. On the other hand, if two sets of the q-normal distribution are connected anti-symmetrically, we can get the q-Haar wavelet as a possible generalization of the Haiw wavelet. We give experiments on the q-eabor and q-Haar wavelet and discuss about the q-Gabor and q-Haar wavelet.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.835-837
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 가보 웨이블릿을 통해 얼굴 이미지로부터 특징을 추출하고, 그에 Genetic Algorithm 을 통해 구한 특징점별 가중치를 적용하여 얼굴 인식을 하는 방법을 소개한다. 각 특징점별로 가중치를 적용하는 방법은, 기존의 Gabor wavelet 을 사용한 얼굴 인식 방법들에 비해 높은 인식률을 보인다. 특징점별 가중치들은 진화 알고리즘을 통해 학습 되어진다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.76-85
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a texture feature-based language identification using Gabor feature and wavelet-domain BDIP (block difference of inverse probabilities) and BVLC (block variance of local correlation coefficients) features. In the proposed method, Gabor and wavelet transforms are first applied to a test image. The wavelet subbands are next denoised by Donoho's soft-thresholding. The magnitude operator is then applied to the Gabor image and the BDIP and BVLC operators to the wavelet subbands. Moments for Gabor magnitude image and each subband of BDIP and BVLC are computed and fused into a feature vector. In classification, the WPCA (whitened principal component analysis) classifier, which is usually adopted in the face identification, searches the training feature vector most similar to the test feature vector. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields excellent language identification with rather low feature dimension for a document image DB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.176-181
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• 2002

The continuous Gabor wavelet transform (GWT) has been utilized as a useful time-frequency analysis tool to identify the rapidly-varying characteristics of some wave signals. In the application of GWT, it is important to select the Gabor wavelet with the optimal shape factor by which the time-frequency distribution of a signal can be accurately estimated. To find the signal-dependent optimal Gabor wavelet shape factor, the notion of the Shannon entropy which mesures the extent of signal energy concentration in the time-frequency plane is employed. To verify the validity of the present entropy-based scheme, we have applied it to the time-frequency analysis of a set of elastic bending wave signals generated by an impact in a solid cylinder.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.324.1-324
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• 2002

The continuous Gabor wavelet transform (GWT) has been utilized as a useful time-frequency analysis tool to identify the rapidly-varying characteristics of some wave signals. In the application of GWT, it is important to select the Gabor wavelet with the optimal shape factor by which the time-frequency distribution of a signal can be accurately estimated. To find the signal-dependent optimal Gator wavelet shape factor, the notion of the Shannon entropy which measures the extent of signal energy concentration in the time-frequency plane is employed. (omitted)

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.28 no.B
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• pp.143-148
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• 2008

A real-time face detection is to find human faces robustly under the cluttered background free from the effect of occlusion by other objects or various lightening conditions. We propose a face detection system for real-time applications using wavelet decomposition method based on Gabor features. Firstly, skin candidate regions are extracted from the given image by skin color filtering and projection method. Then Gabor-feature based template matching is performed to choose face cadidate from the skin candidate regions. The chosen face candidate region is transformed into 2-level wavelet decomposition images, from which feature vectors are extracted for classification. Based on the extracted feature vectors, the face candidate region is finally classified into either face or nonface class by the Levenberg-Marguardt back-propagation neural network.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.427-430
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• 2005

사람의 홍채는 태어날 때 한번 정해지면 평생 변화하지 않는 특성을 가지고 있으며, 개개인별로 모양이 모두 다른 것으로 알려져 있다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 홍채영상 취득시 조명에 의한 동공의 크기 변화에 민감하지 않은 2차원의 홍채패턴을 취득하여, 2D Gabor Wavelet과 Fuzzy LDA를 이용하여 특징 벡터를 추출한다. 인식과정에서는 correlation 계수를 이용하여 서로 다른 홍채의 특징 값에 대해 유사도를 측정하고 유사도가 가장 큰 대상을 찾게 된다. 이때, 4개 방향의 Gabor Wavelet을 거쳐 얻어진 영상에 대해 최고의 값을 인식 대상자로 인정하므로 오 인식 될 확률을 최소화 할 수 있다. 제안한 알고리듬의 유용성을 확인하기 위해 대상자 50명에 대하여 각각 6회씩 촬영한 두 가지 데이터베이스(CASIA, CBNU)를 이용하였으며, 실험 결과 90% 이상의 높은 인식률을 얻었다.