• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.179-185
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• 2001

In this study, a visual sensor system for weld seam tracking the I-butt weld joints in GMA welding was constructed. The sensor system consists of a CCD camera, a diode laser with a cylindrical lens and a band-pass-filter to overcome the degrading of image due to spatters and arc light. In order to obtain the enhanced image, quantitative relationship between laser intensity and iris number was investigated. Throughout the repeated experiments, the shutter speed was set at 1-milisecond for minimizing the effect of spatters on the image, and therefore most of the spatter trace in the image have been found to be reduced. Region of interest was defined from the entire image and gray level of searched laser line was compared to that of weld line. The differences between these gray levels lead to spot the position of weld joint using central difference method. The results showed that, as long as weld line was within $^\pm$15$^\circ$from the longitudinal straight fine, the system constructed in this study could track the weld line successful1y. Since the processing time reduced to 0.05 sec, it is expected that the developed method could be adopted to high speed welding such as laser welding.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1856-1863
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• 2005

In this study, a visual sensor system for weld seam tracking the I-butt weld joints in GMA welding was constructed. The sensor system consists of a CCD camera, a diode laser with a cylindrical lens and a band-pass-filter to overcome the degrading of image due to spatters and arc light. In order to obtain the enhanced image, quantitative relationship between laser intensity and iris opening was investigated. Throughout the repeated experiments, the shutter speed was set at 1/1000 second for minimizing the effect of spatters on the image, and therefore the image without the spatter traces could be obtained. Region of interest was defined from the entire image and gray level of the searched laser stripe was compared to that of weld line. The differences between these gray levels lead to spot the position of weld joint using central difference method. The results showed that, as long as weld line is within $\pm15^{o}$ from the longitudinal straight line, the system constructed in this study could track the weld line successfully. Since the processing time is no longer than 0.05 sec, it is expected that the developed method could be adopted to high speed welding such as laser welding.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2016

A new lane detection algorithm is proposed for the analysis of DNA fingerprints from a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) gel electrophoresis image. Although several research results have been previously reported, it is still challenging to extract lanes precisely from images having abrupt background brightness difference and bent lanes. We propose an edge based algorithm for calculating the average lane width and lane cycle. Our method adopts sub-pixel algorithm for extracting rising-edges and falling edges precisely and estimates the lane width and cycle by using k-means clustering algorithm. To handle the curved lanes, we partition the gel image into small portions, and track the lane centers in each partitioned image. 32 gel images including 534 lanes are used to evaluate the performance of our method. Experimental results show that our method is robust to images having background difference and bent lanes without any preprocessing.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제42권10호
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• pp.1294-1302
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• 2015

현재까지 인간 시각 체계를 정확하게 반영하기 위한 이미지 평가 기법에 대한 연구가 많이 이루어져 오고 있다. SSIM은 인간의 시각 체계가 이미지의 구조적 정보에 예민하다는 점을 이용하여 구조적 정보를 이용하여 이미지를 평가하는 대표적인 인간 시각 체계를 만족시키는 평가 기법이다. 하지만 SSIM은 이미지의 색 차이를 반영하지 못하는 문제가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해, HSI 색 공간을 활용한 SHSIM 기법이 제안되었으나 두 컬러 이미지 간 인지적 색 차이를 충분히 반영하지는 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 CIE Lab 색 공간을 도입하여 대응 되는 픽셀들의 인지적 색 차이를 계산하여 이미지 평가에 활용하는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 연구를 더 확장하여, SVM 분류기를 활용하여 왜곡 종류에 따라 최적의 평가 수식을 적용하는 최적화 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법을 평가하기 위해, 이미지 평가분야에서 가장 많이 알려진 LIVE 데이터베이스를 사용하였으며 네 종류의 평가 기준들을 이용하였다. 실험 결과에서는 제안하는 기법이 다른 기법들보다 인간 시각 체계와 더 상관성이 높다는 것을 보여준다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제10권3호
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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.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.250-257
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 이동 카메라 영상에서 움직임 정보와 SVM(Support Vector Machine)을 이용하여 다수의 보행자를 검출하는 방법을 제안하였다. 먼저 연속된 영상의 특징점을 이용하여 카메라 자체의 움직임 보상용 한 후 차 영상과 프로젝션 히스토그램을 통해 움직이는 보행자를 검출한다. 차 영상을 이용한 보행자 검출은 간단한 방법이지만 움직임이 없는 보행자는 검출하지 못하는 단점이 있다. 따라서 이러한 단점을 보완하기 위하여 SVM을 이용하여 움직이지 않는 보행자를 검출하였다. SVM은 보행자 검출과 같은 이진 분류 문제에 우수한 성능을 보이는 것으로 알려져 있다. 하지만 영상 내에 보행자가 서로 인접해 있거나 팔과 다리를 과도하게 움직이는 경우 검출하지 못하는 단점이 있다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 움직임 정보와 SVM을 이용하여 움직임이 없는 보행자와 보행자가 서로 인접해 있거나 과도한 동작을 취하는 경우에도 강건하게 검출할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 다양한 실세계 영상을 이용하여 수행하였으며, 그 결과 평균 검출률이 94%, FP(False Positive)가 2.8%로 제안된 방법의 우수성을 입증하였다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권7호
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• pp.911-921
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• 2004

지문영상으로부터 특징점을 정확하게 추출하는 것은 효과적인 지문인식 시스템의 구축에 매우 중요하다. 하지만 지문영상의 품질에 따라 특징점 추출의 정확도가 달라지기 때문에 지문인식 시스템에서의 영상 전처리 과정은 시스템의 성능에 크게 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서는 지문영상으로부터 명암값의 평균 및 분산, 블록 방향성 차, 방향성 변화도, 융선과 골의 두께 비율 등의 5가지 특징을 추출하고 계층적 클러스터링 알고리즘으로 클러스터링하여 영상의 품질 특성을 분석한 후 습성(oily), 보통(neutral), 건성(dry)의 특성에 적합하게 영상을 개선하는 지식기반 전처리 방법을 제안한다. NIST DB 4와 인하대학교 데이타를 이용하여 실험한 결과, 클러스터링 기법이 영상의 특성을 제대로 구분함을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 제안한 방법의 성능 평가를 위해 품질 지수와 블록 방향성 차이를 측정하여 일반적인 전처리 방법보다 지식기반 전처리 방법이 품질 지수와 블록 방향성 차이를 향상시킴을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2017

This paper proposes a method to improve the image quality by designing Unsharp Mask Filter (UMF) based on Retinex theory which controls the frequency pass characteristics adaptively. Conventional unsharp masking technique uses blurring image to emphasize sharpness of image. Unsharp Masking(UM) adjusts the original image and sigma to obtain a high frequency component to be emphasized by the difference between the blurred image and the high frequency component to the original image, thereby improving the contrast ratio of the image. In this paper, we design a Unsharp Mask Filter(UMF) that can process the contrast ratio improvement method of Unsharp Masking(UM) technique with one filtering. We adaptively process the contrast ratio improvement using Unsharp Mask Filter(UMF). We propose a method based on Retinex theory for adaptive processing. For adaptive filtering, we control the weights of Unsharp Mask Filter(UMF) based on the human visual system and output more effective results.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.234-239
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• 2014

This paper proposes a new automatic detection method to inspect mura defects on display film surface using morphological image processing and labeling. This automatic detection method for mura defects on display films comprises 3 phases of preprocessing with morphological image processing, Gabor filtering, and labeling. Since distorted results could be obtained with the presence of non-uniform illumination, preprocessing step reduces illumination components using morphological image processing. In Gabor filtering, mura images are created with binary coded mura components using Gabor filters. Subsequently, labeling is a final phase of finding the mura defect area using the difference between large mura defects and values in the periphery. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed detection method, detection rate was assessed by applying the method in 200 display film samples. As a result, the detection rate was high at about 95.5%. Moreover, the study was able to acquire reliable results using the Semu index for luminance mura in image quality inspection.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.58-61
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a new performance comparison method of various Interpolation methods for image enlargement The conventional methods employs PSNR and edge characteristic evaluation for performance comparison of interpolation methods. The proposed performance comparison method uses the position Information for each difference pixel's value and the frequency characteristic information between original image and Interpolated image. The proposed methods might be useful for performance comparison of various Interpolation methods through the computer simulation.