• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07g
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• pp.2427-2429
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• 1998

Digital watermarking is the techinque which embeds the invisible signal into multimedia data such as audio, video, images, for copyright protection, including owner identification and copy control information. This paper proposes a new watermark embedding and extraction technique by extending the direct sequence spread spectrum technique. The proposed technique approximates the frequency component of pixels in spatial domain by using Laplacian mask and adaptively embeds the watermark considering the HVS to reduce the degradation of Image. In watermark extraction process, the proposed technique strengthens the high frequency components of image and extracts the watermark by demodulation. All this processes are performed in spatial domain to reduce the processing time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06b
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• pp.115-120
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 연속적인 입력화상에서 움직임을 나타내는 객체(Object)를 적은 연산량을 사용하여 추출해 내는 알고리즘을 소개한다. 본 알고리즘은 두 가지 단계로 이루어진다. 첫번째 단계로, 이전의 영상과 현재의 영상을 비교하여 움직임의 변화를 보이는 영역을 찾는다. 이 단계에서는 영상을 비교하여 움직임을 추출하기 위하여 창조영상과 현재의 영상, 그리고 영상의 데이터로서 edge정보를 사용한다. 두 번째 단계에서는, 첫번째 단계에서 움직임으로 판단된 Object mask(변화를 가지는 영역)를 가지고 background 제거 및 Object의 정확한 shape을 만들기 위한 post-processing과정을 가지게 된다. 이 두 단계를 거친 후 입력영상에서 background를 떼어낸 최종적인 Object의 shape정보가 추출되게 된다. 이 알고리즘은 object를 기반으로 부호화함으로써 데이터의 압축률을 극대화 시키는 MPEG-4뿐만 아니라, video database, 무선 통신등과 같은 다양한 범위의 application에 적절하게 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.1
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• pp.20-27
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• 2001

얼굴검출은 현재 많은 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있는 분야로 보안, 인식 등 다양한 응용분야를 갖는다. 본 논문은 카메라가 화자의 이동에 따라 이를 추적하여 회전하고 회의상황에 맞는 앵글을 유지하는 지능형 영상회의 시스템 개발의 기본요소인 화자검출의 선행단계로 얼굴검출에 대한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. RGB 색 공간의 입력영상을 YIQ 공간으로 변환한 후 IQ 성분은 피부영역검출에 Y 성분은 얼굴의 특성을 추출하는데 사용된다. 색 분포도를 이용하여 피부영역을 검출하고, 마스크를 누적 적용하여 잡음을 제거한 후 얼굴의 구조적인 특성과 명암의 분포를 이용하여 얼굴영역이 검출된다. 실험결과 다양한 배경의 영상에서 여러 명의 얼굴이 오류 없이 검출됨이 관찰되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• fall
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• pp.208-211
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 합성곱 신경망을 활용하여 영상에서 마스크 착용 및 미착용 상태를 탐지하는 방법을 제안한다. 코로나바이러스감염증-19(COVID-19)의 유행에 따라 감염 및 확산방지를 위해 마스크 정상적 착용이 요구되는데 몇몇 사람들은 이를 지키지 않고 있으며 현재의 감시 시스템은 입구에서 마스크 착용 여부를 검사하는 방식으로 작동될 뿐 공간에 입장한 다음 착용 여부를 알 수 없다. 제안하는 방법은 합성곱 신경망을 통해 영상에서 얼굴을 탐지하여 얻은 데이터를 이용하여 다수사람들의 마스크 착용 및 미착용 상태를 판별하는 방법으로 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.2 s.308
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• pp.65-72
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• 2006

The traffic lights detection and recognition system is an essential module of the driver warning and assistance system. A method which is a color vision-based real time detection and recognition of traffic lights is presented in this paper This method has four main modules : traffic signals lights detection module, traffic lights boundary candidate determination module, boundary detection module and recognition module. In traffic signals lights detection module and boundary detection module, the color thresholding and the subtraction value of saturation and intensity in HSI color space and detection probability mask for lights detection are used to segment the image. In traffic lights boundary candidate determination module, the detection mask of traffic lights boundary is proposed. For the recognition module, the AND operator is applied to the results of two detection modules. The input data for this method is the color image sequence taken from a moving vehicle by a color video camera. The recorded image data was transformed by zooming function of the camera. And traffic lights detection and recognition experimental results was presented in this zoomed image sequence.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.17-22
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• 2009

DaVinci processors are popular media processors for implementing embedded multimedia applications. They support dual core architecture: ARM9 core for video I/O handling as well as system management and peripheral handling, and DSP C64+ core for effective digital signal processing. In this paper, we propose our efforts for optimal implementation of object tracking algorithm in DaVinci-based smart camera which is being designed and implemented by our laboratory. The smart camera in this paper is supposed to support object detection, object tracking, object classification and detection of intrusion into surveillance regions and sending the detection event to remote clients using IP protocol. Object tracking algorithm is computationally expensive since it needs to process several procedures such as foreground mask extraction, foreground mask correction, connected component labeling, blob region calculation, object prediction, and etc. which require large amount of computation times. Thus, if it is not implemented optimally in Davinci-based processors, one cannot expect real-time performance of the smart camera.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.8C
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• pp.711-720
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• 2012

In this paper, we introduce the implementation of driver fatigue monitering system and its result. Input video device is selected commercially available web-cam camera. Haar transform is used to face detection and adopted illumination normalization is used for arbitrary illumination conditions. Facial image through illumination normalization is extracted using Haar face features easily. Eye candidate area through illumination normalization can be reduced by anthropometric measurement and eye detection is performed by PCA and Circle Mask mixture model. This methods achieve robust eye detection on arbitrary illumination changing conditions. Drowsiness state is determined by the level on illumination normalize eye images by a simple calculation. Our system alarms and operates seatbelt on vibration through controller area network(CAN) when the driver's doze level is detected. Our algorithm is implemented with low computation complexity and high recognition rate. We achieve 97% of correct detection rate through in-car environment experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.475-481
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• 2014

As the society develops to advanced digital information times, many studies are underway about digital video processing technology areas such as image restoration. There are typical methods to restore the image which have been damaged by the impulse noise like SM(standard median) filter and CWM(center weighted median) filter. These filters show excellent noise reduction capabilities in low noise density areas, but in high noise density areas, noise reduction capabilities are not sufficient. In this paper, in order to restore the degraded images in impulse(Salt & Pepper) noise environment, the image restoration filter algorithm was suggested which expands and subdivide the mask focusing on damaged pixels. And to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm used PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) as the standard of judgement.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1483-1489
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• 2022

Recently, due to the influence of the 4th industrial revolution and the development of communication media, various digital video equipment are being used in industrial fields. Image data is easily damaged by noise in the process of acquiring and transmitting and receiving from the camera and sensor, and since the damaged image has a great effect on the processing of the system, noise removal is essential. In this paper, a weight filter algorithm using a weight graph is proposed to restoration images damaged by high-density impulse noise. The proposed algorithm obtains a weight graph using pixel values inside the filtering mask of the image, and restores the image by applying the final weight to the filtering mask. Simulation was conducted to analyze the noise removal performance of the proposed algorithm, and the magnified image and PSNR were used to compare with the existing method. The resulting image of the proposed algorithm showed excellent performance by removing high-density impulse noise.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.616-624
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• 2009

This paper presents a 3D stereoscopic TIP (Tour Into Picture) for Korean classical paintings being composed of persons, boat, and landscape. Unlike conventional TIP methods providing 2D image or video, our proposed TIP can provide users with 3D stereoscopic contents. Navigating a picture with stereoscopic viewing can deliver more realistic and immersive perception. The method firstly makes input data being composed of foreground mask, background image, and depth map. The second step is to navigate the picture and to obtain rendered images by orthographic or perspective projection. Then, two depth enhancement schemes such as depth template and Laws depth are utilized in order to reduce a cardboard effect and thus to enhance 3D perceived depth of the foreground objects. In experiments, the proposed method was tested on 'Danopungjun' and 'Muyigido' that are famous paintings made in Chosun Dynasty. The stereoscopic animation was proved to deliver new 3D perception compared with 2D video.