• International Journal of Contents
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.26-31
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• 2009

This paper describes a new image watermarking scheme invariant to rotation, scaling and translation (RST) attacks. For obtaining the invariance properties we propose to present an image of watermark by wedges and rings to convert its rotation to shift and then utilize the shift invariance property of the Direct Fourier Transform (DFT). But in contrast to conversional schemes based on the Fourier-Mellin transform (FMT), we do not use a log-polar mapping (LPM). As a result, our scheme preserves high quality of original image since it is not underwent to LPM For withstanding against JPEG compression, noise addition and low-pass (LP) filtering attacks a low frequency watermark is embedded into middle frequencies of the original image. Experiments with various attacks show the robustness of the proposed scheme.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.999-1000
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• 2008

Image Registration is used many works in image processing widely. But It is difficult to find the accuracy informations such as translation, rotation, and scaling between images. This paper proposes an algorithm that Fourier based image registration using the pyramid edge detection and line fitting. It can be estimated the informations by each sub-pixels. The proposed algorithm can be used for image registrations which high efficiency is required such as GIS, or MRI, CT, image mosaicing, weather forecasting, etc.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.45-50
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• 2008

The Fourier-Mellin transform is the theoretical basis for the translation, rotation, and scale invariance of an image. However, its implementation requires a log-polar map of the original image, which requires logarithmic sampling of a radial variable in that image. This means that the mapping process is accompanied by considerable loss of data. To solve this problem, we propose a dual log-polar map that uses both a forward image map and a reverse image map simultaneously. Data loss due to the forward map sub-sampling can be offset by the reverse map. This is the first step in creating an invertible log-polar map. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.653-659
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for constructing cylindrical panoramic image. At first, we describe a fast image alignment algorithm, which matches image strips located on equal distance for image centers. And then, we explain how to estimate accurately the effective focal length of camera by a bisection method. Although there is a limitation in that the image should be taken by a camera with pure panning motion, the proposed simple and fast algorithm is applicable to practical application.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.251-254
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• 2000

This paper proposes an enhanced algorithm for person identification system utilizing hand vein pattern. The conventional algorithm does not cope with distortion caused by image rotation caused by misplaced hands on the imaging device. A straightforward approach to consider the rotaional compensation required too much computational load, thus, we devised an approach to expect the rotation direction along with image translation, reducing the compuational requirement dramatically In this paper, we present the details of the algorithm with experimental results with the new algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.535-543
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new gaze detection method using 2-D facial images captured by a camera on top of the monitor. We consider only the facial rotation and translation and not the eyes' movements. The proposed method computes the gaze point caused by the facial rotation and the amount of the facial translation respectively, and by combining these two the final gaze point on a monitor screen can be obtained. We detected the gaze point caused by the facial rotation by using a neural network(a multi-layered perceptron) whose inputs are the 2-D geometric changes of the facial features' points and estimated the amount of the facial translation by image processing algorithms in real time. Experimental results show that the gaze point detection accuracy between the computed positions and the real ones is about 2.11 inches in RMS error when the distance between the user and a 19-inch monitor is about 50~70cm. The processing time is about 0.7 second with a Pentium PC(233MHz) and 320${\times}$240 pixel-size images.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.44-50
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• 2011

This paper presents the algorithm for attitude determination of an aircraft using binary image. An image feature vector, which is invariant to translation, scale and rotation, is constructed to capture the functional relations between the feature vector and the corresponding aircraft attitude. An iterated least squares method is suggested for estimating the attitude of given aircraft using the constructed feature vector library. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm yields good estimates of aircraft attitude in most viewing range, although a relatively large error occurs in some limited viewing direction.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.466-477
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• 2014

Many image hiding schemes based on least significant bit (LSB) transformation have been proposed. One of the LSB-based image hiding schemes that employs diamond encoding was proposed in 2008. In this scheme, the binary secret data is converted into base n representation, and the converted secret data is concealed in the cover image. Here, we show that this scheme has two vulnerabilities: noticeable spots in the stego-image, i.e., a non-smooth embedding result, and inefficiency caused by rough re-adjustment of falling-off-boundary value and impractical base translation. Moreover, we propose a new scheme that is efficient and produces a smooth and high quality embedding result by restricting n to power of 2 and using a sophisticated re-adjustment procedure. Our experimental results show that our scheme yields high quality stego-images and is secure against RS detection attack.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.548-555
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• 2001

In this paper, we proposed a HVS(human visual system) model-based digital image watermarking which is not only invariant to rotation and translation but also more robust to lossy compression, cropping, and scaling as compared to the conventional method. Fourier transform and log-polar mapping is used to make the proposed algorithm invariant to rotation and translation, and in addition, watermark energy is embedded maximally based on spatial frequency sensitivity of HVS without the deterioration of the invisibility. As a result, the robustness of watermarking is improved both in general image processing operations such as cropping, low pass filtering, and lossy compression and in geometrical transforms such as rotation, translation, and scaling. And, by disjoint embedding of the watermark and the template without intersection, the deterioration of invisibility and robustness is prevented. Experimental results show that proposed watermarking is about 30~75 [%] more robust af compared to the conventional methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.292-302
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• 2020

Machine learning algorithms have made immense contributions in various fields including sonar and radar applications. Recently developed Cycle-Consistency Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN), a variant of GAN has been successfully used for unpaired image-to-image translation. We present a modified CycleGAN for translation of underwater ship engine sounds with high perceptual quality. The proposed network is composed of an improved generator model trained to translate underwater audio from one vessel type to other, an improved discriminator to identify the data as real or fake and a modified cycle-consistency loss function. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the proposed CycleGAN are performed on publicly available underwater dataset ShipsEar by evaluating and comparing Mel-cepstral distortion, pitch contour matching, nearest neighbor comparison and mean opinion score with existing algorithms. The analysis results of the proposed network demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed network.