• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.78-88
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• 2011

In this paper, we present the Touch Text exTractor (Touch TT), an interactive text segmentation tool for the extraction of scene text from camera-based images. Touch TT provides a natural interface for a user to simply indicate the location of text regions with a simple touchline. Touch TT then automatically estimates the text color and roughly locates the text regions. By inferring text characteristics from the estimated text color and text region, Touch TT can extract text components. Touch TT can also handle partially drawn lines which cover only a small section of text area. The proposed system achieves reasonable accuracy for text extraction from moderately difficult examples from the ICDAR 2003 database and our own database.

• Textile Coloration and Finishing
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.23-27
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• 2008

In this work, poly(diallyldimethylammoniumchloride) (PDDAC) and meso-tetrakis(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin were considered to produce the self-assembly fabrication films. This method is based on the layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition produced by the electrostatic attraction between positively charged PDDAC and negatively charged porphyrin ions. The result of multilayer fabrication was discussed with the level of color strength (K/S). K/S spectra of the fabricated multilayer films showed gradual increase behaviors. In addition, the color photo images of the fabricated multilayer films showed that PDDAC and porphyrin were successfully attracted by electrostatic self-assembly forces.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.222-226
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• 2007

We suggest the fluorescence endoscope system that has light source apparatus providing selectable white or excitation light. White light source generates normal color images and is easily switched over to excitation light with the wide spectrum range from 380 nm to 580 nm. 5-ALA is deposited selectively in the abnormal tissue like cancer and causes fluorescence in the red spectrum range when excited by blue spectrum range. In addition, the others of excitation light make the color background image by reflected light to allow accurate orientation and visualization of the abnormal tissue and around. According to clinical studies, the fluorescence intensity contrast that defines the fluorescence intensity of lesion over the fluorescence intensity of around has more than 2 in tumour. Proposed system is useful and objective way in early diagnosis. Furthermore, it can be used in the biopsy for tumour classification at the highest fluorescence intensity point.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.431-433
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 컬러 화재영상에 포함된 화염의 색상 분석과 시공간적 특징 분석을 통하여 신뢰성 높은 화재 판정 조건을 제시한다. 이를 위하여 컬러영상에서 화염을 판정하는 컬러속성으로서 Y-휘도 성분과 Cr-색차 성분을 조합한 문턱치를 도출하고 화염 후보영역을 선정하였다. 선정된 화염 후보영역에 대해서는 화염의 공간적인 질감분석과 시간적인 동적변화를 DCT와 프레임간 휘도성분 변화량을 분석하여 최종 화염 판정 기준으로 제시하였다. 컴퓨터 모의실험 결과, 제시한 화염 판정 조건의 신뢰성과 실용성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.1737-1744
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• 2004

In the compression methods widely used today, the image compression by VQ is the most popular and shows a good data compression ratio. Almost all the methods by VQ use the LBG algorithm that reads the entire image several times and moves code vectors into optimal position in each step. This complexity of algorithm requires considerable amount of time to execute. To overcome this time consuming constraint, we propose an enhanced self-organizing neural network for color images. VQ is an image coding technique that shows high data compression ratio. In this study, we improved the competitive learning method by employing three methods for the generation of codebook. The results demonstrated that compression ratio by the proposed method was improved to a greater degree compared to the SOM in neural networks.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.747-749
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• 2000

In this paper, we proposed color stereo matching algorithm using dynamic programming. The conventional gray stereo matching algorithms show blur at depth discontinuities and non-existence of matching pixel in occlusion lesions. Also it accompanies matching error by lack of matching information in the untextured region. This paper defines new cost function makes up for the problems happening in conventional gray stereo matching algorithm. New cost function contain the following properties. I) Edge points are corresponded to edge points. ii) Non-edge points are corresponded to non-edge points. iii) In case of exiting the amount of edges, the cost function has some weight in proportion to path distance. Proposed algorithm was applied in various images obtained by parallel camera model. As the result, proposed algorithm showed improved performance in the aspect of matching error and processing in the occlusion region compared to conventional gray stereo matching algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.505-509
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• 2007

색 변환(Color Transfer) 기법은 컴퓨터 비전 및 영상 처리 분야에서 점점 더 많은 연구가 되고 있는 분야이다. 이는 참조 영상의 분위기를 원본 영상에 반영하는 기법이다. 본 논문에서는 채도가 낮은 색상에서 나타나는 잘못된 연산 결과를 해결하기 위해 채도 문턱치에 따라 유채색과 무채색으로 분류하여 인덱싱 하고, Lab색 모델에서 색상 채널인 a, b를 사용하여 그림 영상에서의 색 변환하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 영상의 화소들의 채도 문턱치를 이용하여 유채색과 무채색으로 분류하는 단계, 분류된 화소들의 색 특성을 이용한 cylindrical metric를 이용한 인덱싱 하는 단계, 각 인덱스 내의 위치적 표준편차와 화소수를 이용하여 인덱스들의 우열을 가리는 단계, 인덱스들의 우세한 순서로 Lab 색 모델에서 a 채널과 b 채널을 이용하여 색 변환하는 단계 등 4단계로 구성된다. 실험결과는 제안한 방법이 무채색과 유채색이 잘 분류되어 인덱싱 되었음을 보이고 원본 영상의 색이 참조영상의 색으로 잘 변환된 것을 보인다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.100-104
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• 2008

Generally, it is difficult to find constant patterns on identifiers in a container image, since the identifiers are not normalized in color, size, and position, etc. and their shapes are damaged by external environmental factors. This paper distinguishes identifier areas from background noises and removes noises by using an ART2-based quantization method and general morphological information on the identifiers such as color, size, ratio of height to width, and a distance from other identifiers. Individual identifier is extracted by applying the 8-directional contour tracking method to each identifier area. This paper proposes a refined ART2-based RBF network and applies it to the recognition of identifiers. Through experiments with 300 container images, the proposed algorithm showed more improved accuracy of recognizing container identifiers than the others proposed previously, in spite of using shorter training time.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.217-220
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• 2003

This paper presents a wavelet-based digital watermarking scheme for color images. We insert watermarks in the DWI domain using spread-spectrum correlation-based watermarking in luminance component of the color image. The watermark, two pseudorandom patterns, is inserted by modifying the wavelet coefficients at subband HL2, LH2, HH2 according to message bits. To detect watermark, we calculate the correlation between the watermarked image and pseudorandom patterns. As compared with correlations, the watermark detector determines embedding message. Experimental results show that the scheme is not only invisible but also robust to various attacks such as JPEG compression, noise addition and so on.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.317-320
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• 2003

In this paper, we present real-time, accurate face region detection and tracking technique for an intelligent surveillance system. It is very important to obtain the high-resolution images, which enables accurate identification of an object-of-interest. Conventional surveillance or security systems, however, usually provide poor image quality because they use one or more fixed cameras and keep recording scenes without any clue. We implemented a real-time surveillance system that tracks a moving person using pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. While tracking, the region-of-interest (ROI) can be obtained by using a low-pass filter and background subtraction. Color information in the ROI is updated to extract features for optimal tracking and zooming. The experiment with real human faces showed highly acceptable results in the sense of both accuracy and computational efficiency.