• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.425-435
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• 2014

The research for extracting man-made features such as building and road from the aerial photograph or satellite imagery has been performed actively. As lately the resolution of digital aerial photographs was improved, unwanted features(noise) would be often detected. An edge detection algorithm is developed to make up for such a noise problem, make boundaries of wanted objects clear and extract only needed features. The algorithm developed in this research performs separating RGB channels, differencing between channels, transforming in to binary images, excluding noises and restoring shapes, and edge extraction in order. The images to be used for edge detection are prepared through bundle adjustment, DTM extraction, orthorectification and mosaicking. The roof edges of small building on preprocessed digital aerial orthophotos were extracted using the algorithm developed in this study. The validity of the algorithms was proved by comparing edge results of small building extracted in this study with those of conventional methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.434-442
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• 2006

This paper proposes a color-matching 3D look-up table that simplifies the complex color-matching procedure between a monitor and a mobile display device, where the image colors are processed in a device-independent color space, such as CIEXYZ or CIELAB, and gamut mapping performed to compensate the gamut difference. The transform from a device-dependent RGB color space to a device-independent color space is implemented by performing display characterization. The mobile LCD characterization error using the S-curve model is larger than the tolerance error since the mobile LCD has the channel-chromaticity-inconstancy and channel-dependence characteristics. In this paper we reduced the characterization error using the electro-optical transfer functions of X, Y, and Z value for R, G, B, C, M, Y, K components. Experimental results demonstrated that 64 ($4{\times}4{\times}4$) was the smallest size of color-matching look-up table that could produce an image with an acceptable reproduction error, based on a comparison of color-matched images resulting from the proposed color-matching look-up table and complex step-by-step color-matching procedures.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.738-747
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• 2015

It is difficult to use a recognition algorithm of an image in a foggy environment because the color and edge information is removed. One of the famous defogging algorithm is haze removal by using 'Dark Channel Prior(DCP)' which is used to predict for transmission rate using color information of an image and eliminates fog from the image. However, in case that the image has factors such as sunset or yellow dust, there is overemphasized problem on the color of certain channel after haze removal. Furthermore, in case that the image includes an object containing high RGB channel, the transmission related to this area causes a misestimated issue. In this paper, we purpose an enhanced fog elimination algorithm by using improved color normalization and haze rate revision which correct mis-estimation haze area on the basis of color information and edge information of an image. By eliminating the color distortion, we can obtain more natural clean image from the haze image.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.43-48
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• 2011

Among various methods proposed earlier, fuzzy image filtering is usually one of the favored techniques because it has less blurring effect and the decrease of noise removal rate after filtering. However, fuzzy filtering is ineffective on color images since it is firstly developed with gray scale. Thus, in this paper, we propose a fuzzy filtering algorithm for color images. First, we divide RGB color information from image into three channels of R, G, and B and judge the possibility of each pixel with mask by fuzzy logic independently. The output pixel value might be the average or median according to the degree of noise. Our experiment successfully verifies the effectiveness of new algorithm in color image.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2009

This paper proposes a cancellation algorithm of impulse noise using a rank-order method. The proposed method is a fast and simple algorithm that is composed of two parts. The first part involves noise detection using a fuzzy technique, where an image is divided into RGB color channels. Then every pixel in each color channel is investigated and assigned a probability indicating its chances of being a noise pixel. At this time, the rank order method using a noise-detection mask is utilized for accurate noise detection. Thereafter, the second part involves noise-cancellation, where each noise-pixel value in an image is replaced in proportion to its fuzzy probability. Through the experiments, both the conventional and proposed methods were simulated and compared. As a result, it is shown that proposed method is able to detect noisy pixels more accurately, and produce resulting images with high PSNR values.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.717-724
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• 2016

This paper proposes a change detection method based on the covariance matrices of color and edge gradient in a color video. The YCbCr color format was used instead of RGB. The color covariance matrix was calculated from the CbCr-channels and the edge gradient covariance matrix was calculated from the Y-channels. The covariance matrices were effectively calculated at each pixel by calculating the sum, squared sum, and sum of two values' multiplication of a rectangle area using the integral images from a background image. The background image was updated by a running the average between the background image and a current frame. The change areas in a current frame image against the background were detected using the Mahalanobis distance, which is a measure of the statistical distance using covariance matrices. The experimental results of an expressway color video showed that the proposed approach can effectively detect change regions for color and edge gradients against the background.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.159-164
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• 2019

Detecting wildfire using only color in image information is a very difficult issue. This paper proposes an algorithm to detect forest fire area by analyzing color and motion of the area in the video including forest fire. The proposed algorithm removes the background region using the Gaussian Mixture based background segmentation algorithm, which does not depend on the lighting conditions. In addition, the RGB channel is changed to an HSV channel to extract flame candidates based on color. The extracted flame candidates judge that it is not a flame if the area moves while labeling and tracking. If the flame candidate areas extracted in this way are in the same position for more than 2 minutes, it is regarded as flame. Experimental results using the implemented algorithm confirmed the validity.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.808-810
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• 2016

Color constancy는 다양한 광원 아래에서 사물의 색을 인지하는 능력이다. 사람의 눈은 절대적인 색상을 인지하는 것이 아니라 주변 환경과의 상대적인 색상을 인지하지만[1], 기계는 절대적인 색상 값으로 받아들이므로 기계가 광원의 영향을 받은 사물의 색상을 정확히 알기 위해서는 기계가 받아들이는 색상 값에서 광원의 영향을 제거해 주는 과정이 필요하다. 이를 카메라에서는 화이트 밸런싱 또는 칼라 밸런싱이라 부르기도 하며 이러한 과정을 위해서 다양한 기법들이 존재하는데, 영상 전체의 각 색상 채널의 평균값은 무채색이라는 Grey world 기법[2]부터, 영상에서 가장 높은 색상 값을 갖는 곳이 광원을 가장 잘 표현한다고 가정하는 White patch(Max RGB)기법[1], 색상 히스토그램 보정을 통한 화이트 밸런싱[3], 최근에는 무채색 지점에서의 각 색상 채널의 변화량이 모두 같다는 가정을 통해 무채색 지점을 찾는 Grey pixel[4] 등 많은 기법이 연구되었다. 본 연구에서는 칼라 히스토그램 보정으로 칼라 대비 개선 효과를 통해 각 색상 채널의 비율이 비슷한 곳을 무채색 지점으로 표본을 수집하여 해당 표본으로부터 칼라 벡터로서 PCA를 통한 대표 값을 추출하여 광원을 예측하는 기법을 소개한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.265-269
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose an automatic extraction method of gastric cancer region from electronic endoscopic images. We use the brightness and saturation of HSI in removing noises by illumination and shadows by the crookedness occurring in the endoscopic process. We partition the image into several areas with similar pigments of hemoglobin using IHb. The candidate areas for gastric cancer are defined as the areas that have high hemoglobin pigments and high value in every channel of RGB. Then the morphological characteristics of gastric cancer are used to decide the target region. In experiment, our method is sufficiently accurate in that it correctly identifies most cases (18 out of 20 cases) from real electronic endoscopic images, obtained by expert endoscopists.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.780-785
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• 2010

This paper introduces GP(Genetic Programming) based color detection model for an object detection and tracking. Existing color detection methods have used linear/nonlinear transformatin of RGB color-model and improved color model for illumination variation by optimization or learning techniques. However, most of cases have difficulties to classify various of colors because of interference of among color channels and are not robust for illumination variation. To solve these problems, we propose illumination robust and non-parametric multi-colors detection model using evolution of GP. The proposed method is compared to the existing color-models for various colors and images with different lighting conditions.