• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.479-481
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• 2023

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have facilitated substantial improvement in single-image super-resolution (SR) by enabling the generation of photo-realistic images. However, the high memory requirements of GAN-based SRs (mainly generators) lead to reduced performance and increased energy consumption, making it difficult to implement them onto resource-constricted devices. In this study, we propose an efficient and compressed architecture for the SR-GAN (generator) model using the model compression technique Knowledge Distillation. Our approach involves the transmission of knowledge from a heavy network to a lightweight one, which reduces the storage requirement of the model by 58% with also an increase in their performance. Experimental results on various benchmarks indicate that our proposed compressed model enhances performance with an increase in PSNR, SSIM, and image quality respectively for x4 super-resolution tasks.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.195-204
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• 2024

In this paper, we investigate the comparative performance of two leading object detection architectures, YOLOv7 and Detection Transformer (DETR), across varying levels of data augmentation using CycleGAN. Our experiments focus on chest scan images within the context of biomedical informatics, specifically targeting the detection of abnormalities. The study reveals that YOLOv7 consistently outperforms DETR across all levels of augmented data, maintaining better performance even with 75% augmented data. Additionally, YOLOv7 demonstrates significantly faster convergence, requiring approximately 30 epochs compared to DETR's 300 epochs. These findings underscore the superiority of YOLOv7 for object detection tasks, especially in scenarios with limited data and when rapid convergence is essential. Our results provide valuable insights for researchers and practitioners in the field of computer vision, highlighting the effectiveness of YOLOv7 and the importance of data augmentation in improving model performance and efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.338-340
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• 2019

Recently, the speed and size of data accumulation are increasing due to the development of networks. There are many difficulties in classifying these data. One of the difficulties is the difficulty of labeling. Labeling is usually done by people, but it is very difficult for everyone to understand the data in the same way and it is very difficult to label them on the same basis. In order to solve this problem, we implemented GAN to generate new image based on input image and to learn input data indirectly by using it for learning. This suggests that the accuracy of classification can be increased by increasing the number of learning data.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.303-310
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• 2021

Cracks in bridges are important factors that indicate the condition of bridges and should be monitored periodically. However, a visual inspection conducted by a human expert has problems in cost, time, and reliability. Therefore, in recent years, researches to apply a deep learning model are started to be conducted. Deep learning requires sufficient data on the situations to be predicted, but bridge crack data is relatively difficult to obtain. In particular, it is difficult to collect a large amount of crack data in a specific situation because the shape of bridge cracks may vary depending on the bridge's design, location, and construction method. This study developed a crack detection model that generates and trains insufficient crack data through a Generative Adversarial Network. GAN successfully generated data statistically similar to the given crack data, and accordingly, crack detection was possible with about 3% higher accuracy when using the generated image than when the generated image was not used. This approach is expected to effectively improve the performance of the detection model as it is applied when crack detection on bridges is required, though there is not enough data, also when there is relatively little or much data f or one class.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a video enhancement method using generative adversarial networks to remove raindrops and restore the background information on the removed region in the coastal wave video imagery distorted by raindrops during rainfall. Two experimental models are implemented: Pix2Pix network widely used for image-to-image translation and Attentive GAN, which is currently performing well for raindrop removal on a single images. The models are trained with a public dataset of paired natural images with and without raindrops and the trained models are evaluated their performance of raindrop removal and background information recovery of rainwater distortion of coastal wave video imagery. In order to improve the performance, we have acquired paired video dataset with and without raindrops at the real coast and conducted transfer learning to the pre-trained models with those new dataset. The performance of fine-tuned models is improved by comparing the results from pre-trained models. The performance is evaluated using the peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity index and the fine-tuned Pix2Pix network by transfer learning shows the best performance to reconstruct distorted coastal wave video imagery by raindrops.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2022

Ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is an important application in marine monitoring for the military and civilian domains. Over the past decade, object detection has achieved significant progress with the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and lot of labeled databases. However, due to difficulty in collecting and labeling SAR images, it is still a challenging task to solve SAR ship detection CNNs. To overcome the problem, some methods have employed conventional data augmentation techniques such as flipping, cropping, and affine transformation, but it is insufficient to achieve robust performance to handle a wide variety of types of ships. In this paper, we present a novel and effective approach for deep SAR ship detection, that exploits label-rich Electro-Optical (EO) images. The proposed method consists of two components: a data augmentation network and a ship detection network. First, we train the data augmentation network based on conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN), which aims to generate additional SAR images from EO images. Since it is trained using unpaired EO and SAR images, we impose the cycle-consistency loss to preserve the structural information while translating the characteristics of the images. After training the data augmentation network, we leverage the augmented dataset constituted with real and translated SAR images to train the ship detection network. The experimental results include qualitative evaluation of the translated SAR images and the comparison of detection performance of the networks, trained with non-augmented and augmented dataset, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.46-57
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• 2019

In recent research, deep learning-based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision tasks. However, these methods are commonly supervised, and require huge amounts of annotated data to train. Acquisition of data demands an additional costly effort, particularly for the tasks where it becomes challenging to obtain large amounts of data considering the time constraints and the requirement of professional human diligence. In this paper, we present a data level synthetic sampling solution to learn from small and imbalanced data sets using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The reason for using GANs are the challenges posed in various fields to manage with the small datasets and fluctuating amounts of samples per class. As a result, we present an approach that can improve learning with respect to data distributions, reducing the partiality introduced by class imbalance and hence shifting the classification decision boundary towards more accurate results. Our novel method is demonstrated on a small dataset of 2789 tomato plant disease images, highly corrupted with class imbalance in 9 disease categories. Moreover, we evaluate our results in terms of different metrics and compare the quality of these results for distinct classes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.1794-1806
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• 2023

This study presents a method for capturing photographs of users as input and converting them into 2D character animation sprites using a generative adversarial network-based artificial intelligence network. Traditionally, 2D character animations have been created by manually creating an entire sequence of sprite images, which incurs high development costs. To address this issue, this study proposes a technique that combines motion videos and sample 2D images. In the 2D sprite generation process that uses the proposed technique, a sequence of images is extracted from real-life images captured by the user, and these are combined with character images from within the game. Our research aims to leverage cutting-edge deep learning-based image manipulation techniques, such as the GAN-based motion transfer network (impersonator) and background noise removal (U² -Net), to generate a sequence of animation sprites from a single image. The proposed technique enables the creation of diverse animations and motions just one image. By utilizing these advancements, we focus on enhancing productivity in the game and animation industry through improved efficiency and streamlined production processes. By employing state-of-the-art techniques, our research enables the generation of 2D sprite images with various motions, offering significant potential for boosting productivity and creativity in the industry.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.609-612
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• 2018

기계학습 분야에서 분류 문제를 해결하기 위해 다양한 알고리즘들이 연구되고 있다. 하지만 기존에 연구된 분류 알고리즘 대부분은 각 클래스에 속한 데이터 수가 거의 같다는 가정하에 학습을 진행하기 때문에 각 클래스의 데이터 수가 불균형한 경우 분류 정확도가 다소 떨어지는 현상을 보인다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks(CGAN)을 활용하여 데이터 수의 균형을 맞추는 오버샘플링 기법을 제안한다. CGAN은 데이터 수가 적은 클래스에 속한 데이터 특징을 학습하고 실제 데이터와 유사한 데이터를 생성한다. 이를 통해 클래스별 데이터의 수를 맞춰 분류 알고리즘의 분류 정확도를 높인다. 실제 수집된 데이터를 이용하여 CGAN을 활용한 오버샘플링 기법이 효과가 있음을 보이고 기존 오버샘플링 기법들과 비교하여 기존 기법들보다 우수함을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.293-296
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• 2018

생성적 적대 네트워크를 활용하여 텍스트, 스케치 등 다양한 자원으로부터 이미지를 생성하기 위한 연구는 활발하게 진행되고 있으며 많은 실용적인 연구가 존재한다. 하지만 기존 연구들은 텍스트나 스케치 등 각 하나의 자원을 통해 이미지를 생성하기 때문에 설명이 부족한 텍스트, 실제 이미지와 상이한 스케치와 같이 자원의 정보가 불완전한 경우에는 제대로 된 이미지를 생성하지 못한다는 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 연구의 한계점올 극복하기 위해 텍스트와 스케치 두 개의 자원을 동시에 활용하여 이미지를 생성하는 새로운 생성 기법 TS-GAN 을 제안한다. TS-GAN 은 두 단계로 이루어져 있으며 각 단계를 통해 더욱 사실적인 이미지를 생성한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 기법은 컴퓨터 비전 분야에서 많이 활용되는 CUB 데이터세트를 사용하여 이미지 생성 결과의 우수성을 보인다.