• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.205-211
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 변환과 Haar 변환을 기반으로 적응적 문턱치와 가중치를 이용하여 의료영상의 화질을 개선하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 첫째, 화질이 저하된 의료영상에 대해 웨이블릿 변환을 수행하고 분해된 고주파 밴드에 대해 Haar 변환을 수행한다. 둘째, 고주파 각 밴드에 대해 적응적 문턱치를 이용하여 잡음을 제거한다. 셋째, 잡음이 제거된 고주파 밴드에 대해 적응적인 가중치를 이용하여 계수를 향상한 후, Haar 역변환 및 웨이블릿 역변환을 수행하여 복원영상을 얻는다. 마지막 단계에서는 복원된 영상의 화소 값의 범위가 좁아졌으므로 비선형 히스토그램 평활을 이용하여 화소 값의 범위를 조절하고 명암 대비가 좋은 향상된 영상을 얻는다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.303-310
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• 2015

Vulnerable road users such as bike, motorcycle, small automobiles, and etc. are easily attacked or threatened with bigger vehicles than them. So this paper suggests a new approach two-wheelers detection system riding on people based on modified histogram of oriented gradients (HOGs) which is weighted by curvature and local correlation coefficient. This correlation coefficient between two variables, in which one is the person riding a bike and other is its background, can represent correlation relation. First, we extract edge vectors using the curvature of Gaussian and Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) which includes gradient information and differential magnitude as cell based. And then, the value, which is calculated by the correlation coefficient between the area of each cell and one of bike, can be used as the weighting factor in process for normalizing the HOG cell. This paper applied the Adaboost algorithm to make a strong classification from weak classification. The experimental results validate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm show higher than that of the traditional method and under challenging, such as various two-wheeler postures, complex background, and even conclusion.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.336-344
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• 2011

This article describes a new recognition algorithm using correlation coefficient for intelligent wheelchair to avoid collision for elderly or disabled people. The correlation coefficient can be used to represent the relationship of two different areas. The algorithm has three steps: Firstly, we extract an edge vector using the Histogram of Oriented Gradients(HOG) which includes gradient information and unique magnitude for each cell. From this result, the correlation coefficients are calculated between one cell and others. Secondly, correlation coefficients are used as the weighting factors for normalizing the HOG cell. And finally, these features are used to classify or detect variable and complicated shapes of two wheelers using Adaboost algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new feature vectors which is calculated by weighted cell unit to classify with multiple view-based shapes: frontal, rear and side views($60^{\circ}$, $90^{\circ}$ and mixed angle). Our experimental results show that two wheeler detection system based on a proposed approach leads to a higher detection accuracy than the method using traditional features in a similar detection time.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.1409-1416
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• 2012

An image segmentation result depends on pre-processing steps such as contrast enhancement, edge detection, and smooth filtering etc. Especially medical images are low contrast and contain some noises. Therefore, the contrast enhancement and noise removal techniques are required in the pre-processing. In this study, we present an extension by a novel histogram equalization in which both local and global contrast is enhanced using neighborhood metrics. When checking neighborhood information, filters can simultaneously improve image quality. Most important is that original image information can be used for both global brightness preserving and local contrast enhancement, and image quality improvement filtering. Our experiments confirmed that the proposed method is more effective than other similar techniques reported previously.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1207-1214
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• 2009

In this study, we propose a novel color-image segmentation algorithm to discern the teeth region utilizing RG intensity and its relevant RGB histogram features with resolving the variations of its maximum intensity in terms of peaks and valleys. Tooth candidates in a CCD image are first extracted by applying RGB color multi-threshold levels and consequently the successive morphological image operations and a Sobel-mask edge processing are performed to resolve the teeth region and its contour.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.217-227
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• 2017

Crosswalk detection is an important part of the Pedestrian Protection System in autonomous vehicles. Different methods of crosswalk detection have been introduced so far using crosswalk edge features, the distance between crosswalk blocks, laser scanning, Hough Transformation, and Fourier Transformation. However, most of these methods failed to detect crosswalks accurately, when they are damaged, faded away or partly occluded. Furthermore, these methods face difficulties when applying on real road environment where there are lot of vehicles. In this paper, we solve this problem by first using a region based binarization technique and x-axis histogram to detect the candidate crosswalk areas. Then, we apply Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classification method to decide whether the candidate areas contain a crosswalk or not. Experiment results prove that our method can detect crosswalks in different environment conditions with higher recognition rate even they are faded away or partly occluded.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.264-269
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• 2015

The chest X-ray image cannot be focused in the same manner that optical lenses are and the resultant image generally tends to be slightly blurred. Therefore, the methods to improve the quality of chest X-ray image have been studied. In this paper, the inherent noises of the input images are suppressed by adding the Laplacian image to the original. First, the chest X-ray image using an Gaussian high pass filter and an optimal high frequency emphasis filter has shown improvements in the edges and contrast of flat areas. Second, using fuzzy logic_histogram equalization, each pixel of the chest X-ray image shows the normal distribution of intensities that are not overexposed. As a result, the proposed method has shown the enhanced edge and contrast of the images with the noise canceling effect.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2008

This paper presents an approach to Back-propagation and Radial Basis Function neural network method with various training set for automatic vehicle detection from aerial images. The initial extraction of candidate object is based on Mean-shift algorithm with symmetric property of a vehicle structure. By fusing the density and the symmetry, the method can remove the ambiguous objects and reduce the cost of processing in the next stage. To extract features from the detected object, we describe the object as a log-polar shape histogram using edge strengths of object and represent the orientation and distance from its center. The spatial histogram is used for calculating the momentum of object and compensating the direction of object. BPNN and RBFNN are applied to verify the object as a vehicle using a variety of non-car training sets. The proposed algorithm shows the results which are according to the training data. By comparing the training sets, advantages and disadvantages of them have been discussed.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.1059-1067
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• 2021

In this paper, a HDR algorithm for a single image is proposed using the exposure fusion, that adaptively calculates gamma correction coefficients according to the image distribution. Since typical HDR methods should use at least three images with different exposure values at the same scene, the main problem was that they could not be applied at the single shot image. Thus, HDR enhancements based on a single image using tone mapping and histogram modifications were recently presented, but these created some location-specific noises due to improper corrections. Therefore, the proposed algorithm calculates proper gamma coefficients according to the distribution of the input image and generates different exposure images which are corrected by the dark and the bright region stretching. A HDR image reproduction controlling exposure fusion weights among the gamma corrected and the original pixels is presented. As the result, the proposed algorithm can reduce certain noises at both the flat and the edge areas and obtain subjectively superior image quality to that of conventional methods.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.155-163
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• 1999

본 논문은 새로운 장면 전환 검출과 키 프레임 선태 기법을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 MPEG 압축 동영상에서 직접 DC 영상 및 에지(edge) 영상을 추출하여 이용하는데, 공간 영역으로 변환 후 에지 연상을 추출할 경우 계산량이 많다는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 그 계산량을 줄이기 위해 DCT 블록 당 5개의 저 대역 AC 계수들만을 이용하여 축소된 에지 영상을 고속으로 추출하는 방법을 제안하고, 이를 바탕으로 AC 예측(prediction)을 이용한 고속 에지 추출 기법도 추가적으로 제안하였다. 화질 측면에서 전자가 후자보다 약간 우수하지만, 두 방법 모두 영상의 중요한 에지 특징들을 잘 추출할 수 있다. 이와 같이 얻어진 에지 영상 및DC 영상을 이용하여 에지 에너지 다이어그램(dege energy diagram)과 히스토그램(histogram)을 구하여 급진적인 장면 전환 및 페이드(fade), 디졸브(dissolve) 같은 점진적인 장면 전환을 정확하게 검출함을 모의 실험을 통해 확인하였다. 또한 공간 영역에서 구한 에지 영상들에 비해 제안한 방법들에 의한 에지 영상들이 점진적인 장면 검출에 있어 훨씬 적은 계산량으로 비슷한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 HVS(human visual system)에 기반하여 각 장면에서 키 프레임을 선택하는 방법도 제안하였다. 위에서 얻어진 에지 및 DC 영상을 이용하기 때문에 optical flow를 이용하는 기존 방법에 비해 적은 계산량으로 의미 있는 키 프레임을 선택할 수 있었다.