• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.17D no.1
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• pp.59-66
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• 2010

Traditional OCR engines are designed to the scanned documents in calibrated environment. Three dimensional perspective distortion and smooth distortion in images are critical problems caused by un-calibrated devices, e.g. image from smart phones. To meet the growing demand of character recognition of texts embedded in the photos acquired from the non-calibrated hand-held devices, we address the problem in three categorical aspects: rotational invariant method of text region extraction, scale invariant method of text line segmentation, and three dimensional perspective mapping. With the integration of the methods, we developed an OCR for camera-captured images.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1460-1463
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• 2003

In this study, plastic detection technique was developed, applying remote sensing technology as a method to extract plastic wastes, which is one of the big causes of concern contributing to environmental destruction. It is possible to extract areas where plastic (including polypropylene and polyethylene) wastes are prominent, using ASTER data by taking advantage of its absorptive characteristics of ASTER/SWIR bands. The algorithm is applicable to define large industrial wastes disposal sites and areas where plastic greenhouses are concentrated. However, the detection technique with ASTER/SWIR data has some research tasks to be tackled, which includes a partial secretion of reference spectral, depending on some conditions of plastic wastes and a detection error in a region mixed with vegetations and waters. Following results were obtained after making comparisons between several detection methods and plastic wastes in different conditions; (a)'spectral extraction method' was suitable for areas where plastic wastes exist separated from other objects, such as coastal areas where plastic wastes drifted ashore. (single plastic spectral was used as a reference for the 'spectral extraction method') (b)On the other hand, the 'spectral extraction method' was not suitable for sites where plastic wastes are mixed with vegetation and soil. After making comparison of the processing results of a mixed area, it was found that applying both 'separation method' using un-mixing and ‘spectral extraction method’ with NDVI masked is the most appropriate method to extract plastic wastes. Also, we have investigated the possibility of reducing the influence of vegetation and water, using ASTER/TIR, and successfully extracted some places with plastics. As a conclusion, we have summarized the relationship between detection techniques and conditions of plastic wastes and propose the practical application of remote sensing technology to the extraction of plastic wastes.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.4508-4515
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• 2014

Real-time body detection has been researched actively. On the other hand, the detection rate of color distorted images is low because most existing detection methods use static skin color model. Therefore, this paper proposes a new method for detecting the skin color region using a gradient map and saturation features. The basic procedure of the proposed method sequentially consists of creating a gradient map, extracting a gradient feature of skin regions, noise removal using the saturation features of skin, creating a cluster for extraction regions, detecting skin regions using cluster information, and verifying the results. This method uses features other than the color to strengthen skin detection not affected by light, race, age, individual features, etc. The results of the detection rate showed that the proposed method is 10% or more higher than the traditional methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.768-775
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• 2005

For sign languages are main communication means among hearing-impaired people, there are communication difficulties between speaking-oriented people and sign-language-oriented people. Automated sign-language recognition may resolve these communication problems. In sign languages, finger spelling is used to spell names and words that are not listed in the dictionary. There have been research activities for gesture and posture recognition using glove-based devices. However, these devices are often expensive, cumbersome, and inadequate for recognizing elaborate finger spelling. Use of colored patches or gloves also cause uneasiness. In this paper, a vision-based finger spelling recognition system is introduced. In our method, captured hand region images were separated from the background using a skin detection algorithm assuming that there are no skin-colored objects in the background. Then, hand postures were recognized using a two-dimensional grid analysis method. Our recognition system is not sensitive to the size or the rotation of the input posture images. By optimizing the weights of the posture features using a genetic algorithm, our system achieved high accuracy that matches other systems using devices or colored gloves. We applied our posture recognition system for detecting Korean Sign Language, achieving better than $93\%$ accuracy.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.1686-1694
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• 2014

In this paper, a new scheme to recognize a finger shape in the depth image captured by Kinect is proposed. Rigid transformation of an input finger shape is pre-processed for its robustness against the shape angle of input fingers. After extracting contour map from hand region, observing the change of contour pixel location is performed to calculate rotational compensation angle. For the finger shape recognition, we first acquire three pixel points, the most left, right, and top located pixel points. In the proposed algorithm, we first acquire three pixel points, the most left, right, and top located pixel points for the finger shape recognition, also we use geometrical features of human fingers such as Euclidean distance, the angle of the finger and the pixel area of hand region between each pixel points to recognize the finger shape. Through experimental results, we show that the proposed algorithm performs better than old schemes.

• Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.40-47
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• 2007

Golda farms and depots of selected areas of the different districts of Bangladesh viz. Khulna, Bagerhat, Jessore and Norial area were sampled for the detection of Salmonella sp. and Escherichia coli. Incidence of Salmonella positive samples was 39%, 25%, 50% and 42% in the farms and 30%, 20%, 20% and 30% in the depots of Dumuria under Khulna, Bagerhat Sadar under Bagerhat, Avoynagar under Jessore and Kalia under Norail district respectively. On the other hand, E. coli positive samples was 23%, 42%, 25% and 17% in the farms and 70%, 30%, 50% and 30% in the depots of Dumuria (Khulna), Bagerhat Sadar (Bagerhat), Avoynagar (Jessore) and Kalia (Norail) region respectively. The overall results indicate that the trend of Samonella and E. coli contamination in farms and depots of all the regions is more or less similar although some variations were observed among the farms and depots of different location and region.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.155-166
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new method of estimating the hand pose through the Mean-Shift tracking algorithm using the fusion of color and depth information for marker-less augmented reality. On marker-less augmented reality, the most of previous studies detect the hand region using the skin color from simple experimental background. Because finger features should be detected on the hand, the hand pose that can be measured from cameras is restricted considerably. However, the proposed method can easily detect the hand pose from complex background through the new Mean-Shift tracking method using the fusion of the color and depth information from 3D sensor. The proposed method of estimating the hand pose uses the gravity point and two random points on the hand without largely constraints. The proposed Mean-Shift tracking method has about 50 pixels error less than general tracking method just using color value. The augmented reality experiment of the proposed method shows results of its performance being as good as marker based one on the complex background.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.139-146
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• 2009

This paper describes how a person extracts a unknown object with pointing gesture while interacting with a robot. Using a stereo vision sensor, our proposed method consists of two stages: the detection of the operators' face, the estimation of the pointing direction, and the extraction of the pointed object. The operator's face is recognized by using the Haar-like features. And then we estimate the 3D pointing direction from the shoulder-to-hand line. Finally, we segment an unknown object from 3D point clouds in estimated region of interest. On the basis of this proposed method, we implemented an object registration system with our mobile robot and obtained reliable experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.32-33
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 깊이 영상 카메라를 이용하여 손 영역을 효과적으로 검출하기 위한 방법을 제시한다. 컬러영상 카메라를 통해 손 영역 검출 방법은 주변 환경의 영향에 따라 낮은 인식률을 나타낸다. 또한 고화질의 컬러영상을 획득 하지 못한 경우 손 영역 검출의 인식률이 현저히 떨어지는 결과가 나타난다. 이러한 결점을 보완하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 깊이 영상 카메라를 통해 획득한 깊이 영상 정보를 이용하여 객체들을 검출하고 빠르고 안정적으로 객체들 중에서 손 영역을 검출하는 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.367-370
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• 2009

증강현실에서 자연스럽고 인간 친화적인 인터페이스로는 비전 기반의 손동작을 이용한 인터페이스가 가장 각광받고 있다. 그러나 복잡한 배경에서 손을 찾고 손동작을 인식하는 것은 여전히 어려운 문제로 남아 있다. 특히, 배경에 살색을 가진 물체가 많이 있다면 이 문제는 더욱 해결하기 어려워진다. 이 논문은 손 영역을 정확하게 검출 하는 방법에 초점이 맞춰져 있으며, 효과적인 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 기본적으로 손과 팔을 포함하는 영역이 다른 피부색 영역과 다른 밝기를 가지고 있다고 가정한다. 구체적으로 제안하는 방법은 밝기 차이를 이용하여 피부색 영역으로부터 손과 팔을 포함하는 영역을 검출한다. 본 논문에서는 밝기 차이를 구분하는 방법으로 �o지(edge) 영상을 이용한다. 그 다음 손과 팔의 기하학적 특징을 이용하여 손목을 찾고 손을 포함하는 사각형 영역을 검출한다. 마지막으로 사각형 영역으로부터 손을 찾아낸다. 손을 찾는 방법 또한 약간 다르지만 비슷한 밝기 기반의 추출 방법을 사용한다. 우리는 간단한 손동작 기반의 증강현실 인터페이스를 구현함으로써 제안한 방법의 효용성을 검증한다.