• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1035-1041
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• 2016

Internal cracks in products are invisible and can lead to fatal crashes or damage. Since X-rays can penetrate materials and be attenuated according to the material’s thickness and density, they have rapidly become the accepted technology for non-destructive inspection of internal cracks. This paper presents a robust crack filter based on local gray level variation and multiscale analysis for automatic detection of cracks in X-ray images. The proposed filter takes advantage of the image gray level and its local variations to detect cracks in the X-ray image. To overcome the problems of image noise and the non-uniform intensity of the X-ray image, a new method of estimating the local gray level variation is proposed in this paper. In order to detect various sizes of crack, this paper proposes using different neighboring distances to construct an image pyramid for multiscale analysis. By use of local gray level variation and multiscale analysis, the proposed crack filter is able to detect cracks of various sizes in X-ray images while contending with the problems of noise and non-uniform intensity. Experimental results show that the proposed crack filter outperforms the Gaussian model based crack filter and the LBP model based method in terms of detection accuracy, false detection ratio and processing speed.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.420-438
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• 2004

이미지에 인위적 또는 자연적으로 포함된 텍스트는 이미지의 내용을 함축적이고 구체적으로 표현하는 중요한 정의이다. 이러한 정보를 실시간에 추출하여 정확히 인식할 수 있다면 다양한 분야에서 활용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 자연이미지에 포함된 장면 텍스트를 추출하는 방법으로서 텍스트의 색 연속성, 자기 변화 및 색 변화와 같은 낮은 수준의 이미지 특징으로 텍스트 후보 영역을 찾고, 다해상도 (Multi-resolution) 웨이블릿(Wavelet) 변환을 이용하여 높은 수준의 텍스트 특징인 획의 구성 여부로 검증하는 계층적인 구조를 제안한다. 색 연속성 특징은 대부분의 텍스트는 동일한 색으로 구성된다는 특징을 이용하는 것이고, 밝기 변화 특징은 텍스트 영역은 주변과의 밝기 변화가 존재하며 에지 밀도가 높은 특징을 이용한다. 또한, 색 변화 특징은 텍스트 영역은 주변 배경과의 색 변화가 존재하며, 밝기 변화보다 민감한 색 분산 값으로 표현할 수 있다는 장점을 이용한다. 높은 수준의 텍스트 특징으로서 다해상도 웨이블릿 변환을 이용하여 텍스트 획의 방향성 정보를 추출하고, 추출된 정보를 SVM(Support Vector Machine) 분류기로 검증하여 최종 영역을 확정한다. 제안한 방법을 다양한 종류의 이미지에 적용한 결과 배경이 복잡해도 비교적 안정적으로 텍스트 영역을 추출하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.5-9
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• 2004

This study was carried out to develop methods of reducing the effect of solar illumination on pixel gray-levels of machine vision for agricultural field use. Two kinds of monochrome CCD cameras with manual and auto-iris lenses were used to take pictures within a range of 15 to 120 klux of solar illumination. A camera having more precise automatic control functions gave much better result. Four kinds of indices using pixel gray-level of the $99\%$ white DRS (diffuse reflectance standard) as a reference were tried to compensate pixel gray-levels of an image for variable illumination. Coefficients of variation of the indices within a range of illumination were used as a criterion for comparison. The study concluded that an index of (A+B)/A, where A is gray-level of the $99\%$ DRS and B is gray-level of the tested material, gave the best consistency in the range of solar illumination.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.640-646
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• 2003

We presents an edge-based point correlation algorithm for fast and stable visual inspection system. Conventional algorithms based on NGC(normalized gray-level correlation) have to overcome some difficulties in applying automated inspection systems to real factory environment. First of all, NGC algorithms involve highly complex computation and thus require high performance hardware for realtime process. In addition, lighting condition in realistic factory environments is not stable and therefore intensity variation from uncontrolled lights gives many troubles for applying NGC directly as pattern matching algorithm. We propose an algorithm to solve these problems, using thinned and binarized edge data, which are obtained from the original image. A point correlation algorithm with the thinned edges is introduced with image pyramid technique to reduce the computational complexity. Matching edges instead of using original gray-level image pixels overcomes problems in NGC method and pyramid of edges also provides fast and stable processing. All proposed methods are proved by the experiments using real images.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.221-227
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• 1989

The effect of sulfur content and inoculant on solidification microstructure and mechanical properties of gray cast iron have been investigated. The main results obtained are as follows, 1. In the FeSi3Ca1Ba inoculated irons, with the variation of sulfur content, low sulfur levels (${\sim}0.03%$) yield low chill depth, high tensile strength, good wear resistance and type A graphite with a pearlite matrix. High sulfur levels( >0.08%) provide high chill depth, low mechanical proper ties and type D graphite with small amount ferrite. 2. In case of inoculant variation with normal FeSi, FeSi3Ca1Ba, 30CaSi and uninoculation at 0.03%S level, lower chill depth and higher tensile strength was obtained in the order ; 30CaSi, FeSi3Ca1Ba normal FeSi, uninoculation.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.50-53
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• 2007

This paper presents face features detection and a new physiological neuro-fuzzy learning method by using two-dimensional variances based on variation of gray level and by learning for a statistical distribution of the detected face features. This paper reports a method to learn by not using partial face image but using global face image. Face detection process of this method is performed by describing differences of variance change between edge region and stationary region by gray-scale variation of global face having featured regions including nose, mouse, and couple of eyes. To process the learning stage, we use the input layer obtained by statistical distribution of the featured regions for performing the new physiological neuro-fuzzy algorithm.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.118-123
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• 2006

We present an optical security method for binary data information by using 4-step phase-shifting digital holography and we analyze tolerance error for the decrypted data. 4-step phase-shifting digital holograms are acquired by moving the PZT mirror with equidistant phase steps of ${\pi}/2$ in the Mach-Zender type interferometer. The digital hologram in this method is a Fourier transform hologram and is quantized with 256 gray level. The decryption performance of the binary data information is analyzed. One of the most important errors is the quantization error in detecting the hologram intensity on CCD. The greater the number of quantization error pixels and the variation of gray level increase, the more the number of error bits increases for decryption. Computer experiments show the results for encryption and decryption with the proposed method and show the graph to analyze the tolerance of the quantization error in the system.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.244-251
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• 2011

We propose a new 2-step phase-shifting digital holographic optical encryption technique and analyze tolerance error for this cipher system. 2-step phase-shifting digital holograms are acquired by moving the PZT mirror with phase step of 0 or ${\pi}$/2 in the reference beam path of the Mach-Zehnder type interferometer. Digital hologram with the encrypted information is Fourier transform hologram and is recorded on CCD camera with 256 gray-level quantized intensities. The decryption performance of binary bit data and image data is analyzed by considering error factors. One of the most important errors is quantization error in detecting the digital hologram intensity on CCD. The more the number of quantization error pixels and the variation of gray-level increase, the more the number of error bits increases for decryption. Computer experiments show the results to be carried out encryption and decryption with the proposed method and the graph to analyze the tolerance of the quantization error in the system.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.204-209
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• 2013

영상매체의 발전으로 영상처리가 여러 분야에 적용되고 있으며, 영상의 밝기가 급격히 변화하는 경계 부분은 에지가 중요한 정보와 특징을 포함하므로 영상의 특징을 분석함에 있어서 중요한 요소이다. 이러한 에지를 검출하기 위한 많은 연구가 계속되어 왔으며, 기존의 에지 검출 방법은 인접한 화소 사이에 대한 관계를 이용하여 수행 속도는 우수하나, 휘도 변화를 고려하지 않는 고정된 마스크를 이용하므로 에지검출 특성이 다소 미흡하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 마스크의 휘도 변화를 이용한 새로운 알고리즘을 제안하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.50-57
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• 2005

We present a simple and effective method of face and facial feature detection under pose variation of user face in complex background for the human-robot interaction. Our approach is a flexible method that can be performed in both color and gray facial image and is also feasible for detecting facial features in quasi real-time. Based on the characteristics of the intensity of neighborhood area of facial features, new directional template for facial feature is defined. From applying this template to input facial image, novel edge-like blob map (EBM) with multiple intensity strengths is constructed. Regardless of color information of input image, using this map and conditions for facial characteristics, we show that the locations of face and its features - i.e., two eyes and a mouth-can be successfully estimated. Without the information of facial area boundary, final candidate face region is determined by both obtained locations of facial features and weighted correlation values with standard facial templates. Experimental results from many color images and well-known gray level face database images authorize the usefulness of proposed algorithm.