• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.155-166
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• 2021

Most object detection algorithms are studied based on RGB images. Because the RGB cameras are capturing images based on light, however, the object detection performance is poor when the light condition is not good, e.g., at night or foggy days. On the other hand, high-quality infrared(IR) images regardless of weather condition and light can be acquired because IR images are captured by an IR sensor that makes images with heat information. In this paper, we performed the object detection algorithm based on the compression ratio in RGB and IR images to show the detection capabilities. We selected RGB and IR images that were taken at night from the Free FLIR Thermal dataset for the ADAS(Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) research. We used the pre-trained object detection network for RGB images and a fine-tuned network that is tuned based on night RGB and IR images. Experimental results show that higher object detection performance can be acquired using IR images than using RGB images in both networks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.259-261
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 RGB-IR 이미징 센서가 탑재된 드론을 사용하여 태양광 발전소의 태양광(PV) 패널을 탐지하는 방법을 제안한다. 태양광 발전소에서 드론에 설치된 IR 영상의 활용은 PV 패널의 결함 여부를 판단하는데 큰 도움이 된다. 그러나 IR 영상만을 사용해서 태양광 패널을 탐지하고 결함 여부를 판단하는 것은 태양광에 의해 생긴 정반사로 인해 정확도가 떨어진다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시스템은 드론을 이용해서 IR 영상과 RGB 영상을 동시에 획득하고 활용하는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템으로부터 IR 영상과 RGB 영상으로 패널 탐지의 정확도를 향상시키고, 태양광에 의한 정반사와 같이 오검출 될 수 있는 문제를 극복할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.359-362
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 광학센서와 적외선 센서를 사용하는 Multi-sensor 시스템에서 영상 정보를 통한 물체의 추적 및 인식에 필요한 영상을 분리하는데 필요한 전처리와 object 기반의 추적 방법을 제안하였다. 일반적인 추적 알고리즘의 목표는 consistency를 유지하는데 있다. 그러나 인식에 필요한 영상을 분리하기 위해서는 물체의 범위를 정확히 판단 할 수 있는 능력이 중요하다. 이를 위해 CCD와 IR영상에 동시에 적용 가능한 전처리 기법과 object 기반의 two-step 추적 알고리즘을 통해 consistency외에도, 물체의 범위를 estimation하여 인식에 필요한 범위를 분리해 낸다. 본 논문에서는 ITS 의 ETCS application을 위해 이종 센서인 CCD와 IR의 야간 차량 영상정보를 이용하여 알고리즘을 test 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.152-153
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• 2015

일반 영상의 영상확대를 위한 다양한 알고리즘이 존재한다. 하지만 IR 영상의 경우 일반영상과 다른 특성을 가지고 있기 때문에 IR 영상을 위한 영상 확대 알고리즘이 필요하다. 따라서 IR 영상이 일반영상에 비해 디테일이 없다는 특성을 고려하여 복잡한 알고리즘을 적용시키기 보다는 ADRC[1]와 같은 단순한 분류 기법을 활용하여 LR-HR 패치를 분류하고 학습된 데이터를 이용하여 영상확대 알고리즘에 적용하였다. 또한 알고리즘의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 학습과정에 전처리 과정을 추가하여 알고리즘 작동 시 연산량의 증가 없이 확대 영상의 선명도를 향상시키고자 하였다. 이와 같은 방법으로 영상 확대 알고리즘을 수행하였을 때 통상적인 영상확대 기법인 bi-cubic interpolation 기법보다 CPBD 수치가 평균 0.0527 만큼 높은 결과를 확인할 수 있었고 전처리 과정을 추가하였을 때 이전보다 평균 0.0119 만큼 더 선명해진 영상을 얻었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.260-267
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• 2011

This paper proposes a method for segmenting objects from the background in IR(Infrared) images based on GrabCut algorithm. The GrabCut algorithm needs the window encompassing the interesting known object. This procedure is processed by user. However, to apply it for object recognition problems in image sequences. the location of window should be determined automatically. For this, we adopted the Otsu' algorithm for segmenting the interesting but unknown objects in an image coarsely. After applying the Otsu' algorithm, the window is located automatically by blob analysis. The GrabCut algorithm needs the probability distributions of both the candidate object region and the background region surrounding closely the object for estimating the Gaussian mixture models(GMMs) of the object and the background. The probability distribution of the background is computed from the background window, which has the same number of pixels within the candidate object region. Experiments for various IR images show that the proposed method is proper to segment out the interesting object in IR image sequences. To evaluate performance of proposed segmentation method, we compare other segmentation methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.297-304
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• 2015

The change detection algorithms, based on remotely sensed satellite imagery, can be applied to various applications, such as the hazard/disaster analysis and the land monitoring. However, unchanged areas sometimes detected as the changed areas due to various errors in relief displacements and noise pixels, included in the original multi-temporal dataset at the application of unsupervised change detection algorithm. In this research, the object-based changed detection for the high-spatial resolution satellite images is applied by using the IR-MAD (Iteratively Reweighted- Multivariate Alteration Detection), which is one of those representative change detection algorithms. In additionally, we tried to increase the accuracy of change detection results with using the additional information, based on the cross-sharpening method. In the experiment, we used the KOMPSAT-2 satellite sensor, and resulted in the object-based IR-MAD algorithm, representing higher changed detection accuracy than that by the pixel-based IR-MAD. Also, the object-based IR-MAD, focused on cross-sharpened images, increased in accuracy of changed detection, compared to the original object-based IR-MAD. Through these experiments, we could conclude that the land monitoring and the change detection with the high-spatial-resolution satellite imagery can be accomplished efficiency by using the object-based IR-MAD algorithm.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.45-51
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• 2013

In this paper, the combination of ultraviolet and infrared sensors based design for flame signal detection algorithms was proposed with the application of light-wavelength from burning. And, the performance result of image detection was compared by an ultraviolet sensor, an infrared sensor, and the proposed dual-mode sensors(combination of ultraviolet and infrared sensors).

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.141-147
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• 2017

Recently there has been an increasing demand for developing a domestic software (S/W) for infrared signature generation to prevent technology leakage and match the domestic operating environment. In this study, we developed a S/W for infrared signature generation and presented its structures and functions for creating and analyzing the IR images of designated spectral bands. The proposed S/W generates IR images of an object through calculations of surface temperatures and IR signals including the self-emitted, surface reflected and path dependent radiances. Moreover, the proposed S/W includes the features of infrared threat analyses from the generated IR images including the infrared contrast radiant intensity (CRI), detection ranges or detection probability analyses, unlike the imported, commercial infrared signature generation S/W.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.174-181
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• 2011

A new registration method for IR image and EO image is proposed in this paper. IR sensor is applicable to many area because it absorbs thermal radiation energy unlike EO sensor does. However, IR sensor has difficulty to extract and match features due to low contrast compared to EO image. In order to register both images, we used modified SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) and block processing to increase feature distinctiveness. To remove outlier, we applied RANSAC(RANdom SAample Concensus) for each block. Finally, we unified matching features into single coordinate system and remove outlier again. We used 3~5um range IR image, and our experiment result showed good robustness in registration with IR image.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.11
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• pp.73-81
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• 2016

In general, infrared images have less sharpness and image details than visible images. So, the prior image upscaling methods are not effective in the infrared images. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes an algorithm which initially up-scales an input infrared (IR) image by using adaptive dynamic range encoding (ADRC)-based super-resolution (SR) method, and then fuses the result with the corresponding visible images. The proposed algorithm consists of a up-scaling phase and a fusion phase. First, an input IR image is up-scaled by the proposed ADRC-based SR algorithm. In the dictionary learning stage of this up-scaling phase, so-called 'pre-emphasis' processing is applied to training-purpose high-resolution images, hence better sharpness is achieved. In the following fusion phase, high-frequency information is extracted from the visible image corresponding to the IR image, and it is adaptively weighted according to the complexity of the IR image. Finally, a up-scaled IR image is obtained by adding the processed high-frequency information to the up-scaled IR image. The experimental results show than the proposed algorithm provides better results than the state-of-the-art SR, i.e., anchored neighborhood regression (A+) algorithm. For example, in terms of just noticeable blur (JNB), the proposed algorithm shows higher value by 0.2184 than the A+. Also, the proposed algorithm outperforms the previous works even in terms of subjective visual quality.