• 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.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.93-100
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• 2014

3D object recognition using only 2D images is a difficult work because each images are generated different to according to the view direction of cameras. Because SIFT algorithm defines the local features of the projected images, recognition result is particularly limited in case of input images with strong perspective transformation. In this paper, we propose the object recognition method that improves SIFT algorithm by using several sequential images captured from rotating 3D object around a rotation axis. We use the geometric relationship between adjacent images and merge several images into a generated feature space during recognizing object. To clarify effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we keep constantly the camera position and illumination conditions. This method can recognize the appearance of 3D objects that previous approach can not recognize with usually SIFT algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.30-42
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• 2022

Due to the increase in construction of tunnels, the burdens of maintenance works for tunnel structures have been increasing in Korea. In addition, the increase of traffic volume and aging of materials also threatens the safety of tunnel facilities, therefore, maintenance costs are expected to increase significantly in the future. Accordingly, automated condition assessment technologies like image-based tunnel scanning system for inspection and diagnosis of tunnel facilities have been proposed. For image-based tunnel scanning system, it is key to create a planar image through stitching of multiple images captured by tunnel scanning system. In this study, performance of feature-based stitching algorithms suitable for stitching tunnel scanning images was evaluated. In order to find a suitable algorithm SIFT, ORB, and BRISK are compared. The performance of the proposed algorithm was determined by the number of feature extraction, calculation speed, accuracy of feature matching, and image stitching result. As for stitching performance, SIFT algorithm was the best in all parts of tunnel image. ORB and BRISK also showed satisfactory performance and short calculation time. SIFT can be used to generate precise planar images. ORB and BRISK also showed satisfactory stitching results, confirming the possibility of being used when real-time stitching is required.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.939-947
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• 2019

With the revitalization of the media market, the necessity of compression, searching, editing and copyright protection of videos is increasing. In this paper, we propose a method to detect scene change in all these fields. We propose a pre-processing, feature point extraction using SIFT, and matching algorithm for detecting the same scene change even if distortions such as resolution change, subtitle insertion, compression, and flip are added in the distribution process. Also, it is applied to filtering technology and it is confirmed that it is effective for all transformations other than considering transform.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.561-563
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• 2019

This paper proposes a watermarking method for copyright protection of images used in VR. The Embedding method is that finds the point through the SIFT feature points, inserts the watermark by using DWT and QIM on the surrounding area. The objective image to extract the embedded watermark is the projected image and its method finds the SIFT feature points and extracts watermark data from its surrounding areas after correction by using inverse process of matching and projection in the VR image production process. By comparing the NCC and BER between the extracted watermark and the inserted watermark, the watermark is determined by accumulating the watermark having a threshold value or more. This is confirmed by comparing with a conventional method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1841-1842
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• 2008

본 논문은 Scale Invariant Feature Transform(SIFT)알고리즘으로부터 얻어진 로컬 특징점으로부터 물체를 인식하는 방법에 대하여 논하였다. SIFT알고리즘은 물체의 스케일, 회전에 강인하고, 또한 3차원 시점의 변화에도 부분적으로 강인한 특징점을 추출한다. SIFT 알고리즘은 입력영상에 크기가 다른 가우시안 함수를 적용하고, 블러링된 영상들의 차 영상에서 극값을 추출하여 특징점으로 사용한다. 하지만 SIFT알고리즘에서 가우시안 함수를 적용하는 것은 상당히 많은 연산을 필요로 하기 때문에 본 논문에서는 하나의 옥타브를 사용하여 연산시간을 단축하였다. 하나의 옥타브를 사용함으로써 물체의 스케일이 크게 변하였을 때는 문제가 발생한다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 대상 물체의 작은 스케일, 큰 스케일에서 추출된 특징점을 혼합하여 DB를 생성하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.143-150
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• 2010

Markerless augmented reality system must have the capability to recognize and match natural objects both in indoor and outdoor environment. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for extracting features and recognizing natural objects using visual descriptors and codebooks. Since the augmented reality applications are sensitive to speed of operation and real time performance, our work mainly focused on recognition of multi-class natural objects and reduce the computing time for classification and feature extraction. SIFT(scale invariant feature transforms) and SURF(speeded up robust feature) are used to extract features from natural objects during training and testing, and their performance is compared. Then we form visual codebook from the high dimensional feature vectors using clustering algorithm and recognize the objects using naive Bayes classifier.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.168-173
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• 2012

This paper presents a new human identification algorithm using partial features of the uncovered portion of face when a person wears a mask. After the face area is detected, the feature is extracted from the eye area above the mask. The identification process is performed by comparing the acquired one with the registered features. For extracting features SIFT(scale invariant feature transform) algorithm is used. The extracted features are independent of brightness and size- and rotation-invariant for the image. The experiment results show the effectiveness of the suggested algorithm.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1-10
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• 2019

Object-based image matching algorithms have been widely used in the image processing and computer vision fields. A variety of applications based on image matching algorithms have been recently developed for object recognition, 3D modeling, video tracking, and biomedical informatics. One prominent example of image matching features is the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) scheme. However many applications using the SIFT algorithm have implemented based on stand-alone basis, not client-server architecture. In this paper, We initially implemented based on client-server structure by using SIFT algorithms to identify and match objects in biomedical images to provide useful information to the user based on the recently released Mobile platform. The major methodological contribution of this work is leveraging the convenient user interface and ubiquitous Internet connection on Mobile device for interactive delineation, segmentation, representation, matching and retrieval of biomedical images. With these technologies, our paper showcased examples of performing reliable image matching from different views of an object in the applications of semantic image search for biomedical informatics.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.101-107
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• 2013

Generally the commercial high-resolution images have their coordinates, but the locations are locally different according to the pose of sensors at the acquisition time and relief displacement of terrain. Therefore, a process of image co-registration has to be applied to use the multi-temporal images together. However, co-registration is interrupted especially when images include the cloud-covered regions because of the difficulties of extracting matching points and lots of false-matched points. This paper proposes an automatic co-registration method for the cloud-covered high-resolution images. A scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), which is one of the representative feature-based matching method, is used, and only features of the target (cloud-covered) images within a circular buffer from each feature of reference image are used for the candidate of the matching process. Study sites composed of multi-temporal KOMPSAT-2 images including cloud-covered regions were employed to apply the proposed algorithm. The result showed that the proposed method presented a higher correct-match rate than original SIFT method and acceptable registration accuracies in all sites.