• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.354-362
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• 2006

This paper suggests a method for generating high qualify stereo video avatar to support visual communication in a CAVE$^{TM}$-like system. In such a system because of frequent change of light projected onto screens around user, it is not easy to extract user silhouette robustly, which is an essential step to generate a video avatar. In this study, we use an infrared reflective image acquired by a grayscale camera with a longpass filter so that the change of visible light on a screen is blocked to extract robust user silhouette. In addition, using two color cameras positioned at a distance of a binocular disparity of human eyes, we acquire two stereo images of the user for fast generation and stereoscopic display of a high quality video avatar without 3D reconstruction. We also suggest a fitting algorithm of a silhouette mask on an infrared reflective image into an acquired color image to remove background. Generated stereo images of a video avatar are texture mapped into a plane in virtual world and can be displayed in stereoscopic using frame sequential stereo method. Suggested method have advantages that it generates high quality video avatar taster than 3D approach and it gives stereoscopic feeling to a user 2D based approach can not provide.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2010

Moving object detection is to detect foreground object different from background scene in a new incoming image frame and is an essential ingredient process in some image processing applications such as intelligent visual surveillance, HCI, object-based video compression and etc. Most of previous object detection algorithms are still computationally heavy so that it is difficult to develop real-time multi-channel moving object detection in a workstation or even one-channel real-time moving object detection in an embedded system using them. Foreground mask correction necessary for a more precise object detection is usually accomplished using morphological operations like opening and closing. Morphological operations are not computationally cheap and moreover, they are difficult to be rendered to run simultaneously with the subsequent connected component labeling routine since they need quite different type of processing from what the connected component labeling does. In this paper, we first devise a fast and precise foreground mask correction algorithm, "Neighbor Foreground Pixel Propagation (NFPP)" which utilizes neighbor pixel checking employed in the connected component labeling. Next, we propose a novel moving object detection method based on the devised foreground mask correction algorithm, NFPP where the connected component labeling routine can be executed simultaneously with the foreground mask correction. Through experiments, it is verified that the proposed moving object detection method shows more precise object detection and more than 4 times faster processing speed for a image frame and videos in the given the experiments than the previous moving object detection method using morphological operations.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.697-702
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• 2010

Contour artifact is known as the unintentional result of quantizing a flat area that has smooth gradients. In this letter, a decontouring algorithm is proposed to efficiently remove false contours that occur in typical block-based video coding applications. First, the algorithm goes through a refinement stage to determine candidate blocks probably having noticeable false contours with different kinds of features in a block. Then, pseudo-random noise masking is applied to those blocks to mitigate the contour artifacts. This block-based selective decontouring can efficiently remove the unnecessary processing of those blocks that have no false contour, which incidentally ensures a minor penalty in visual quality and computational complexity. The proposed algorithm was demonstrated, integrated into H.264/AVC, that visual quality can be significantly enhanced with an ignorable rate-distortion (RD) loss and an minor increase in computational complexity.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.943-949
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• 2019

As use of digital equipment in various fields is increasing importance of processing video and signals is rising as well. However, in the process of sending and receiving signals, noise occurs due to different reasons and this noise bring about a huge influence on final output of the system. This research suggests algorithm for effectively repairing video in consideration to characteristics of its noise in condition where impulse and AWGN noises are combined. This algorithm tries to preserve video features by considering inference to noise components and resolution of filtering mask. Depending on features of input resolution, standard value is set and similar resolutions is selected for noise removal. This algorithm showing simulation result had outstanding noise removal and is compared and analyzed with existing methods by using different ways such as PSNR.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.120-125
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• 2016

For the purpose of protecting personal property and lives from incidents, accidents, and threats such as terrorism, video surveillance equipment has been installed and operates in many places. Video surveillance technology has gradually developed into high-quality, high-definition equipment, and a lot of products have been launched. However, closed circuit television (CCTV) equipment for security purposes can invade a person's privacy. In this paper, we propose a way to protect personal video images using meta-data in an intelligent Internet protocol (IP) camera. We designed the system to mask personal video information from meta-data, define the method of image-information access according to user privileges, and show how to utilize the meta-data during storage and recorded data searches. The suggested system complies with guidelines for CCTV installation and operation from Korea's Ministry of the Interior. Installed on only a single server so far, due to the limitations and technical difficulties of hardware performance, it has been difficult to find a method that can be applied to personal image information using real-time protection techniques. Applying the method proposed in this paper can satisfy the guidelines, reduce server costs, and reduce system complexity.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.279-282
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 가상의 블루스크린(Virtual Blue Screens, VBS)을 이용한 반자동 영상분할 기법을 제안한다. 가상 블루스크린은 동영상에서 배경영역을 특정한 값으로 채워 만든 참조영상으로 정의한다. 반자동 영상 분할 기법은 크게 화면내 영상분할과 화면간 영상분할의 두 단계로 이루어진다. 화면내 영상분할은 VBS와 원영상의 형태학적 분할 기법을 사용하고, 화면간 영상 분할은 두개의 연속하는 화면에서 변화검출(Change Detection)로 이루어진다 [1]. 본 논문에서는 효과적인 변화검출을 위하여 제안된 VBS를 사용한다. VBS를 이용한 영상분할에서는 우선, 이전화면에서 만들어진 VBS를 참조하여 다음화면에서 움직임 영역을 예측한다. 이렇게 예측된 영상과 원영상에 대해 형태학적 분할 기법(Morphological Segmentation Technique)을 이용해서 각각에 대한 레이블 마스크(Label Mask)를 얻는다 [2]. 두개의 레이블 마스크 사이에는 서로 공통된 영역들이 존재하게 되는데, 이런 공통된 영역을 추출함으로써 움직임 객체를 검출한다. 현재화면에서 검출된 움직임 객체는 다음화면을 위한 가상의 블루 스크린을 만드는데 사용한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.45-54
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• 2003

Security system with web camera remarkably has been developed at an Internet era. Using transmitted images from remote camera, the system can recognize current situation and take a proper action through web. Existing motion detection methods use simply difference image, background image techniques or block matching algorithm which establish initial block by set search area and find similar block. But these methods are difficult to detect exact motion because of useless noise. In this paper, the proposed method is updating changed background image as much as $N{\times}M$pixel mask as time goes on after get a difference between imput image and first background image. And checking image pixel can efficiently detect motion by computing fixed distance pixel instead of operate all pixel.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.1657-1662
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• 2017

Facial expression recognition systems using video devices have emerged as an important component of natural human-machine interfaces which contribute to various practical applications such as security systems, behavioral science and clinical practices. In this work, we present a new method to analyze, represent and recognize human facial expressions using a sequence of facial images. Under our proposed facial expression recognition framework, the overall procedure includes: accurate face detection to remove background and noise effects from the raw image sequences and align each image using vertex mask generation. Furthermore, these features are reduced by principal component analysis. Finally, these augmented features are trained and tested using Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The experimental evaluation demonstrated the proposed approach over two public datasets such as Cohn-Kanade and AT&T datasets of facial expression videos that achieved expression recognition results as 96.75% and 96.92%. Besides, the recognition results show the superiority of the proposed approach over the state of the art methods.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.205-211
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• 1998

The MTF(modulation transfer function) measuring system with a linear CCD(charge coupled-device) was constructed to cvaluate a color CRT(catode ray tube). The measured MTF values were corrected by considering the spectral response and the pixel sizes of CCD. The effects of a spot size, video bandwidth, pitch of shadow mask holes, display luminance, and ambient illumination on image quality were studied. The uniformity of resolution and the contrast Ioss by ambient light of the color CRT monitor were measured, and the results were analyzed by MTFA(modulation threshold area).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.683-684
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• 2006

본 논문은 비디오기반의 얼굴인식에 있어서 환경의 변화나 왜곡, 노이즈 등으로 발생할 수 있는 부분적인 가림현상(Partial Occlusion)에 대한 처리기법을 제시한다. 인증되는 각 사람은 하나의 Manifold 를 구성하며 각 Manifold 는 m 개의 pose-Manifold 로 구성된다. Pose-Manifold 를 구성하기 위한 학습데이터는 매우 유사한 포즈들로 구성되기 때문에 얼굴을 이루는 영역의 픽셀에 대한 Intensity 의 변화는 크지 않다. 입력되는 이미지의 Intensity 를 학습데이터의 Intensity 의 변화량을 고려한 Intensity Distortion 을 이용하면 Occlusion 이 발생한 영역을 찾을 수 있고, Occlusion 이 발생한 정도에 따라 가중치를 부여할 수 있다. 이렇게 Occlusion 에 따라 영역에 중요도를 다르게 하여 얼굴인식률을 높이고자 한다. 실험에서는 제시하는 Mask 를 사용하지 않았을 경우와 기존에 제시된 알고리즘과의 성능을 비교한다.