• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.27-39
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• 2007

Object tracking in a real time environment is one of challenging subjects in computer vision area during past couple of years. This paper proposes a method of object detection and tracking using adaptive background estimation in real time environment. To obtain a stable and adaptive background, we combine 3-frame differential method and running average single gaussian background model. Using this background model, we can successfully detect moving objects while minimizing false moving objects caused by noise. In the tracking phase, we propose a matching criteria where the weight of position and inner brightness distribution can be controlled by the size of objects. Also, we adopt a Kalman Filter to overcome the occlusion of tracked objects. By experiments, we can successfully detect and track objects in real time environment.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.415-419
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• 2008

Detecting and correcting defects on LCD glasses early in the manufacturing process becomes important for panel makers to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve productivity. Many attempts have been made and were successfully applied to detect and identify simple defects such as scratches, dents, and foreign objects on glasses. However, it is still difficult to robustly detect low-contrast defect region, called Mura or blemish area on glasses. Typically, these defect areas are roughly defined as relatively large, several millimeters of diameter, and relatively dark and/or bright region of low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) against background of low-frequency signal. The aim of this article is to present a robust algorithm to segment these blemish defects. Early 90's, a highly robust estimator, known as the Model-Fitting (MF) estimator was developed by X. Zhuang et. al. and have been successfully used in many computer vision application. Compared to the conventional Least-Square (LS) estimator the MF estimator can successfully estimate model parameters from a dataset of contaminated Gaussian mixture. Such a noise model is defined as a regular white Gaussian noise model with probability $1-\varepsilon$ plus an outlier process with probability $varepsilon$. In the sense of robust estimation, the blemish defect in images can be considered as being a group of outliers in the process of estimating image background model parameters. The algorithm developed in this paper uses a modified MF estimator to robustly estimate the background model and as a by-product to segment the blemish defects, the outliers.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.401-407
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a novel method for the cross-correlation based double-talk detection (DTD), which employing the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) in the frequency domain. The proposed algorithm transforms the cross correlation coefficient used in the time domain into 16 channels in the frequency domain using the discrete fourier transform (DFT). The channels are then selected into seven feature vectors for GMM and we identify three different regions such as far-end, double-talk and near-end speech using the likelihood comparison based on those feature vectors. The presented DTD algorithm detects efficiently the double-talk regions without Voice Activity Detector which has been used in conventional cross correlation based double-talk detection. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated under various conditions and yields better results compared with the conventional schemes. especially, show the robustness against detection errors resulting from the background noises or echo path change which one of the key issues in practical DTD.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.155-156
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• 2013

소셜 TV 사용 시, 사용자들은 TV를 시청하면서 타 사용자와의 소통을 위해 리모컨을 이용해서 텍스트를 작성해야하는 불편함을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소셜 TV의 이러한 불편함을 해결하기 위해 사용자 반응 사운드를 자동으로 인식하여 상대방에게 이모티콘을 전달하기 위한 시스템을 제안하며, 사용자 반응 사운드 인식에 사용되는 분류방식들을 비교한다. 사용자 반응 사운드 인식을 위해 사용되는 분류 방식들 중에서, Gaussian Mixture Model(GMM), Gaussian Mixture Model - Universal Background Model(GMM-UBM), Hidden Markov Model(HMM), Support Vector Machine(SVM)의 성능을 비교하였다. 각 분류기의 성능을 비교하기 위하여 MFCC 특징값을 각 분류기에 적용하여 사용자 반응 사운드 인식에 가장 최적화된 분류기를 선택하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.459-463
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• 2009

Background modeling and motion detection is the one of the most significant real time video processing technique. Until now, many researches are conducted into the topic but it still needs much time for robustness. It is more important when other algorithms are used together such as object tracking, classification or behavior understanding. In this paper, we propose efficient multi-modal background modeling methods which can be understood as simplified learning method of Gaussian mixture model. We present its validity using numerical methods and experimentally show detecting performance.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.112-119
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• 2009

This paper describes a robust visual surveillance algorithm under outdoor environment. One of the difficult problems for outdoor is to obtain effective updating process of background images. Because background images generally contain the shadows of buildings, trees, moving clouds and other objects, they are changed by lapse of time and variation of illumination. They provide the lowering of performance for surveillance system under outdoor. In this paper, a robust algorithm for visual surveillance system under outdoor is proposed, which apply the mixture Gaussian filter and color invariant property on pixel level to update background images. In results, it was showed that the moving objects can be detected on various shadows under outdoor.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.372-378
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• 2015

Background subtraction is the first processing stage in video surveillance. It is a general term for a process which aims to separate foreground objects from a background. The goal is to construct and maintain a statistical representation of the scene that the camera sees. The output of background subtraction will be an input to a higher-level process. Background subtraction under dynamic environment in the video sequences is one such complex task. It is an important research topic in image analysis and computer vision domains. This work deals background modeling based on modified adaptive Gaussian mixture model (GMM) with three temporal differencing (TTD) method in dynamic environment. The results of background subtraction on several sequences in various testing environments show that the proposed method is efficient and robust for the dynamic environment and achieves good accuracy.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.111-117
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an approach to improve the performance of voiced/unvoiced (V/UV) decision under background noise environments for the selectable mode vocoder (SMV) of 3GPP2. We first present an effective analysis of the features and the classification method adopted in the SMV. And then feature vectors which are applied to the GMM are selected from relevant parameters of the SMV for the efficient voiced/unvoiced classification. For the purpose of evaluating the performance of the proposed algorithm, different experiments were carried out under various noise environments and yields better results compared with the conventional scheme of the SMV.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.2153-2160
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• 2015

An analysis of hardware design conditions of moving object detection (MOD) algorithm is described, which is based on effective Gaussian mixture learning (EGML). A simulation model of EGML algorithm is implemented using OpenCV, and the effects of some parameter values on background learning time and MOD sensitivity are analyzed for various images. In addition, optimal design conditions for hardware implementation of EGML-based MOD algorithm are extracted from fixed-point simulations for various bit-widths of parameters. The proposed fixed-point model of the EGML-based MOD uses only half of the bit-width at the expense of the loss of MOD performance within 0.5% when compared with floating-point MOD results.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.13-19
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• 2011

In this paper, a visual surveillance system using SOPC based NIOS II embedded processor and C2H compiler was implemented. In this system, the IP is constructed by C2H compiler for the output of the camera images, image processing, serial communication and network communication, then, it is implemented to effectively control each IP based on the SOPC and the NIOS II embedded processor. And, an algorithm which updates the background images for high speed and robust detection of the moving objects is proposed using the Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Model(AGMM). In results, it can detecte the moving objects(pedestrians and vehicles) under day-time and night-time. It is confirmed that the proposed AGMM algorithm has better performance than the Adaptive Threshold Method(ATM) and the Gaussian Mixture Model(GMM) from our experiments.