• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.110-114
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• 2015

This paper reports a novel object-detection technique in video sequences. The proposed algorithm consists of detection of objects in illuminated and occluded videos by using object features and a neural network technique. It consists of two functional modules: region-based object feature extraction and continuous detection of objects in video sequences with region features. This scheme is proposed as an enhancement of the Lowe's scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) object detection method. This technique solved the high computation time problem of feature generation in the SIFT method. The improvement is achieved by region-based feature classification in the objects to be detected; optimal neural network-based feature reduction is presented in order to reduce the object region feature dataset with winner pixel estimation between the video frames of the video sequence. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves better overall performance than other object detection techniques, and region-based feature detection is faster in comparison to other recent techniques.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제63호
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• pp.125-137
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• 2007

Recently, many techniques have been proposed to improve the noise robustness for speaker verification. In this paper, we consider the feature recombination technique in multi-band approach. In the conventional feature recombination for speaker verification, to compute the likelihoods of speaker models or universal background model, whole feature components are used. This computation method is not effective in a view point of multi-band approach. To deal with non-effectiveness of the conventional feature recombination technique, we introduce a subband likelihood computation, and propose a modified feature recombination using subband likelihoods. In decision step of speaker verification system in noise environments, a few very low likelihood scores of a speaker model or universal background model cause speaker verification system to make wrong decision. To overcome this problem, a reliable feature selection method is proposed. The low likelihood scores of unreliable feature are substituted by likelihood scores of the adaptive noise model. In here, this adaptive noise model is estimated by maximum a posteriori adaptation technique using noise features directly obtained from noisy test speech. The proposed method using subband-based reliable feature selection obtains better performance than conventional feature recombination system. The error reduction rate is more than 31 % compared with the feature recombination-based speaker verification system.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.817-824
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• 2010

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) has been successfully applied for dimension reduction in face recognition. However, LDA requires the transformation of a face image to a one-dimensional vector and this process can cause the correlation information among neighboring pixels to be disregarded. On the other hand, 2D-LDA uses 2D images directly without a transformation process and it has been shown to be superior to the traditional LDA. Nevertheless, there are some problems in 2D-LDA. First, it is difficult to determine the optimal number of feature vectors in a reduced dimensional space. Second, the size of rectangular windows used in 2D-LDA makes strong impacts on classification accuracies but there is no reliable way to determine an optimal window size. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to overcome those problems in 2D-LDA. We adopt an ensemble approach which combines several classifiers obtained by utilizing various window sizes. And a practical method to determine the number of feature vectors is also presented. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can overcome the difficulties with choosing an optimal window size and the number of feature vectors.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.842-847
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• 2005

This paper proposes a novel real-time EMG pattern recognition for the control of a multifunction myoelectric hand from four channel EMG signals. To cope with the nonstationary signal property of the EMG, features are extracted by wavelet packet transform. For dimensionality reduction and nonlinear mapping of the features, we also propose a linear-nonlinear feature projection composed of PCA and SOFM. The dimensionality reduction by PCA simplifies the structure of the classifier, and reduces processing time for the pattern recognition. The nonlinear mapping by SOFM transforms the PCA-reduced features to a new feature space with high class separability. Finally a multilayer neural network is employed as the pattern classifier. We implement a real-time control system for a multifunction virtual hand. From experimental results, we show that all processes, including virtual hand control, are completed within 125 msec, and the proposed method is applicable to real-time myoelectric hand control without an operation time delay.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.176-184
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• 2000

Reverse engineering (RE) is a process to create computer aided design (CAD) models from the scanned data of an existing part acquired using 3D position scanners. This paper proposes a novel methodology of extracting geometric features directly from a set of 3D scanned points, which utilizes the concepts of feature-based technology and artificial neural networks (ANNs). The use of ANN has enabled the development of a flexible feature-based RE application that can be trained to deal with various features. The following four main tasks were mainly investigated and implemented: (1) Data reduction; (2) edge detection; (3) ANN-based feature recognition; (4) feature extraction. This approach was validated with a variety of real industrial components. The test results show that the developed feature-based RE application proved to be suitable for reconstructing prismatic features such as block, pocket, step, slot, hole, and boss, which are very common and crucial in mechanical engineering products.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.475-483
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• 2012

음성 신호의 특성은 인접한 프레임에서 크게 변화하지 않는다. 따라서 비슷한 특징벡터들에 내재된 중복성을 줄이는 것이 바람직하다. 본 논문의 목적은 음성인식에 있어서 음성 특징벡터가 최소의 중복성과 최대의 유효한 정보를 갖는 조건을 찾는 것이다. 이를 이하여 우리는 하나의 감시 파라미터를 통하여 중복성 저감을 실현하고, 그 결과가 FVQ/HMM을 사용한 화자독립 음성인식에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 실험 결과, 인식률을 저하시키지 않고 특징벡터의 수를 30% 줄일 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.113-118
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• 2007

In this paper, a new method is proposed for robust proportional- integral - derivative (PID) control that is to ensure specified phase margin and iso - damping property using reduction model. This method is based on the second order plus dead time(SOPDT) reduction model of the high order model. Reduction model used to ensure iso-damping property in the feature frequency. Simulation results gives proof of effectiveness of proposed method.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1127-1139
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• 2013

다양한 영상장비로 획득된 영상을 구현할 때, 원영상에 여러 가지 원인으로 인한 잡음이 추가되는 것이 일반적인 현상이며 이러한 잡음을 완벽하게 막는 것은 매우 어려운 것이 사실이다. 이러한 이유로 추가된 잡음을 탐지하여 제거하거나 가능한 줄이는 것이 영상처리의 중요한 기본목적이다. 본 연구에서는 영상의 특징에 대한 방향을 탐지하고, 영상을 오염시키고 있는 잡음의 상대적인 크기를 측정하여 잡음에 대한 분산의 수준을 추정하였다. 또한 추정된 분산을 영상처리 분야에서 자주 사용되는 잡음제거 기법인 시그마 필터에 적용하고, 특징의 방향을 가중치로 사용하여 잡음을 효과적으로 제거하는 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 결론적으로, 본 연구에서 제안한 잡음제거 방법을 통해 기존의 시그마 필터보다 개선된 잡음제거 결과를 얻을 수 있었으며, 추정된 잡음의 분산에 민감하지 않은 잡음제거 성능을 확인하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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• pp.209-212
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• 2005

Hyperspectral data consists of more than 200 spectral bands that are highly correlated. In order to utilize hyperspectral data for classification, dimensional reduction or feature extraction is desired. By applying feature extraction, computational complexity of classification can be reduced and classification accuracy may be improved. In this paper, a genetic algorithm based feature extraction technique is proposed. Measure from discriminant analysis is utilized as optimization criterion. A subset of spectral bands is selected by genetic algorithm. Dimension of feature space is further reduced by linear transformation. Feasibility of the proposed technique is evaluated with AVIRIS data.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.1081-1088
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• 2013

Hyperspectral cameras acquire reflectance values at many different wavelength bands. Dimensions tend to increase because spectral information is stored in each pixel. Several attempts have been made to reduce dimensional problems such as the feature selection using Adaboost and dimension reduction using the Simulated Annealing technique. We propose a novel material detection method that consists of four steps: feature band selection, feature extraction, SVM (Support Vector Machine) learning, and target and specific region detection. It is a combination of the band ratio method and Simulated Annealing algorithm based on detection rate. The experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed feature selection and band ratio method.