• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.1671-1679
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• 2004

This study has proposed visual-feature extraction methods for each band in wavelet domain with both spatial frequency features and multi resolution features. In addition, it has brought forward similarity measurement method using fuzzy theory and new color feature expression method taking advantage of the frequency of the same color after color quantization for reducing quantization error, a disadvantage of the existing color histogram intersection method. Experiments are performed on a database containing 1,000 color images. The proposed method gives better performance than the conventional method in both objective and subjective performance evaluation.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1453-1461
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• 2015

Since digital images and videos are rapidly increasing in the internet with the spread of mobile computers and smartphones, research on image retrieval has gained tremendous momentum. Color, shape, and texture are major features used in image retrieval. Especially, color information has been widely used in image retrieval, because it is robust in translation, rotation, and a small change of camera view. This paper proposes a new method for histogram refinement based on local color difference. Firstly, the proposed method converts a RGB color image into a HSV color image. Secondly, it reduces the size of color space from 256³ to 32. It classifies pixels in the 32-color image into three groups according to the color difference between a central pixel and its neighbors in a 3x3 local region. Finally, it makes a color difference vector(CDV) representing three refined color histograms, then image retrieval is performed by the CDV matching. The experimental results using public image database show that the proposed method has higher retrieval accuracy than other conventional ones. They also show that the proposed method can be effectively applied to search low resolution images such as thumbnail images.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.651-656
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• 2001

히스토그램 인터섹션은 영상에서 컬러가 가지는 값의 빈도 수를 이용하여 간단하면서도 효율적으로 영상을 검색하는 방법으로, 영상의 글로블 특성을 잘 나타내는 반면 영상에서의 위치 정보가 누락되어 다른 영상을 동일 영상으로 인지하기 쉽고, 영상 내에 포함된 형상 정보를 표현하는 적절한 방법은 아니다. 영상에 대한 1차원 투영을 이용하면 영상의 개략적인 형상 정보와 함께 위치 정보를 나타낼 수 있어 히스토그램의 단점을 극복할 수 있지만, 영상 크기에 따라 투영 벡터의 길이가 달라져 색인 데이타로 사용하기에는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 투영벡터에서 영상이 가지는 형상 정보의 첨두치를 이용하여 첨두치들 간의 상대거리 및 최대 첨두치에 관한 정보를 검색에 사용하였다. 검색 성능의 확인을 위하여 히스토그램 인터섹션 및 투영벡터만을 이용한 경우의 검색 결과와 비교하였고, 실험 결과를 이용하여 각 방법의 장단점을 분석하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅲ
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• pp.1291-1294
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• 2003

This paper presents an approach to extract license plates from parking regulation images which is captured in various photographing direction and complex background. first, we search each row at regular intervals starting from the bottom of a license-plate image, and we set up a rough region for a certain zone in which the sign of intensity vector changes frequently enough and color of license plate is detected enough, assuming it as a candidate location of a license plate. And then, we extract an elaborate area of a license plate by horizontally and vertically projecting vertical edges. Here, tar types of the private and the public, are easily classified according to the color of extracted plates. To evaluate proposed method, we used 200 actual regulation images. As a result, the proposed method showed extraction rate of 96%, which is 9% higher than the previous method using only intensity vector.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.441-445
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• 2009

We have developed a real-time software tool to extract a speech feature vector whose time sequences consist of three groups of vector components; the phonetic/acoustic features such as formant frequencies, the phonemic features as outputs on neural networks, and some distances of Japanese phonemes. In those features, since the phoneme distances for Japanese five vowels are applicable to express vowel articulation, we have designed a switch, a volume control and a color representation which are operated by pronouncing vowel sounds. As examples of those vowel interface, we have developed some speech training tools to display a image character or a rolling color ball and to control a cursor's movement for aurally- or vocally-handicapped children. In this paper, we introduce the functions and the principle of those systems.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.540-553
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• 2023

The hollow letter CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is an optimized version of solid CAPTCHA, specifically designed to weaken characteristic information and increase the difficulty of machine recognition. Although convolutional neural networks can solve CAPTCHA in a single step, a good attack result heavily relies on sufficient training data. To address this challenge, we propose a seed filling algorithm that converts hollow characters to solid ones after contour line restoration and applies three rounds of detection to remove noise background by eliminating noise blocks. Subsequently, we utilize a support vector machine to construct a feature vector for recognition. Security analysis and experiments show the effectiveness of this algorithm during the pre-processing stage, providing favorable conditions for subsequent recognition tasks and enhancing the accuracy of recognition for hollow CAPTCHA.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.589-601
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• 2014

The performance of edge detection often relies on its ability to correctly determine the dissimilarities of connected pixels. For grayscale images, the dissimilarity of two pixels is estimated by a scalar difference of their intensities and for color images, this is done by using the vector difference (color distance) of the three-color components. The Euclidean distance in the RGB color space typically measures a color distance. However, the RGB space is not suitable for edge detection since its color components do not coincide with the information human perception uses to separate objects from backgrounds. In this paper, we propose a novel method for color edge detection by taking advantage of the HSV color space and the Mahalanobis distance. The HSV space models colors in a manner similar to human perception. The Mahalanobis distance independently considers the hue, saturation, and lightness and gives them different degrees of contribution for the measurement of color distances. Therefore, our method is robust against the change of lightness as compared to previous approaches. Furthermore, we will introduce a noise-resistant technique for determining image gradients. Various experiments on simulated and real-world images show that our approach outperforms several existing methods, especially when the images vary in lightness or are corrupted by noise.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.216-221
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 다양한 환경하에서 인간의 식별과 감정을 인식할 수 있는 감정 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘을 구현하기 위해, 먼저, CCD 칼라 카메라에 의해 획득한 원 영상으로부터 피부색을 이용해 얼굴영상을 얻는 과정을 거친다. 그 다음, 주요 요소분석을 기본으로 하는 얼굴인식기술인 Eigenface를 사용하여 이미지들을 고차원의 픽셀공간으로부터 저차원공간으로의 변환하는 과정을 거친다. 제안된 개인에 대한 식별과 감성인식은 사용한 특징벡터들의 추출로 인한 Eigenface의 가중치와 상관관계를 통해 이루어진다. 즉, 영상의 가중치로부터 개인에 대한 식별과 감성정보를 찾는 방법을 제안한다. 마지막으로, 실험을 통해 제안된 방법의 응용가능성을 보인다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.813-816
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• 2005

귀 영역 검출은 무구속 귀 인식 시스템에서 중요한 요소 중에 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 얼굴 측면 영상에서의 귀 영역 검출방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 모양정보와 색상정보를 활용하는 인간의 인식과정을 모방하여 만들었다. 먼저 획득된 영상에서 피부색을 이용하여 얼굴영역을 검출하고, 검출된 얼굴영역에서 에지정보를 이용하여 귀후보 영역을 검출한다. 그리고 실제 귀영역인지를 검증하기 위해서는 통계적 학습 이론에 근거한 SVM(Support Vector Machine)을 이용한다 제안된 방법은 조명이 안정적인 실내 환경에서 높은 검출율을 보였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.40-48
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• 2021

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system plays a vital role to retrieve the relevant images as per the user perception from the huge database is a challenging task. Images are represented is to employ a combination of low-level features as per their visual content to form a feature vector. To reduce the search time of a large database while retrieving images, a novel image retrieval technique based on feature dimensionality reduction is being proposed with the exploit of metaheuristic optimization techniques based on Genetic Algorithm (GA), Extended Binary Cuckoo Search (EBCS) and Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA). Each image in the database is indexed using a feature vector comprising of fuzzified based color histogram descriptor for color and Median binary pattern were derived in the color space from HSI for texture feature variants respectively. Finally, results are being compared in terms of Precision, Recall, F-measure, Accuracy, and error rate with benchmark classification algorithms (Linear discriminant analysis, CatBoost, Extra Trees, Random Forest, Naive Bayes, light gradient boosting, Extreme gradient boosting, k-NN, and Ridge) to validate the efficiency of the proposed approach. Finally, a ranking of the techniques using TOPSIS has been considered choosing the best feature selection technique based on different model parameters.