• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1155-1163
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new pre-processing algorithm applied to depth map to improve the coding efficiency. Now, 3DV/FTV group in the MPEG is working for standard of 3DVC(3D video coding), but compression method for depth map images are not confirmed yet. In the proposed algorithm, after dividing the histogram distribution of a given depth map by EM clustering method based on GMM, we classify the depth map into several layered images. Then, we apply different mean shift filter to each classified image according to the existence of background or foreground in it. In other words, we try to maximize the coding efficiency while keeping the boundary of each object and taking average operation toward inner field of the boundary. The experiments are performed with many test images and the results show that the proposed algorithm achieves bits reduction of 19% ~ 20% and computation time is also reduced.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.267-274
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• 2009

Recently, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are expected much as the Unmanned Systems for various missions. These missions are often based on the Vision System. Especially, missions such as surveillance and pursuit have a process which is carried on through the transmitted vision data from the UAV. In case of small UAVs, monocular vision is often used to consider weights and expenses. Research of missions performance using the monocular vision is continued but, actually, ground and target model have difference in distance from the UAV. So, 3D distance measurement is still incorrect. In this study, Mean-Shift Algorithm, Optical Flow and Subspace Method are posed to estimate the relative depth. Mean-Shift Algorithm is used for target tracking and determining Region of Interest (ROI). Optical Flow includes image motion information using pixel intensity. After that, Subspace Method computes the translation and rotation of image and estimates the relative depth. Finally, we present the results of this study using images obtained from the UAV experiments.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.119-125
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a method that merges and splits players in the MeanShift tracking framework. The MeanShift tracking moves the center of tracking window to the maximum probability location given the target probability distribution. This tracking method has been widely used for real-time tracking problems because of its fast processing speed. However, it hardly handles occlusions in multiple object tracking systems. Occlusions can be usually solved by applying data association methods. In this paper, we propose a method that can be applied before data association methods. The proposed method automatically merges and splits the overlapped players by adjusting the each player's tracking map. We have compared the tracking performance of the MeanSfhit tracking algorithm and the proposed method.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.610-619
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• 2015

*In this paper, we propose a real-time face tracking system using an adaptive face detector and a tracking algorithm. An image is divided into the regions of background and face candidate by a real-time updated skin color identifying system in order to accurately detect facial features. The facial characteristics are extracted using the five types of simple Haar-like features. The extracted features are reinterpreted by Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and the interpreted principal components are processed by Support Vector Machine (SVM) that classifies into facial and non-facial areas. The movement of the face is traced by Kalman filter and Mean shift, which use the static information of the detected faces and the differences between previous and current frames. The proposed system identifies the initial skin color and updates it through a real-time color detecting system. A similar background color can be removed by updating the skin color. Also, the performance increases up to 20% when the background color is reduced in comparison to extracting features from the entire region. The increased detection rate and speed are acquired by the usage of Kalman filter and Mean shift.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.425-435
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a classification model by analyzing raw material images recorded using a color CCD camera to automatically classify good and defective agricultural products such as rice, coffee, and green tea, and raw materials. The current classifying agricultural products mainly depends on visual selection by skilled laborers. However, classification ability may drop owing to repeated labor for a long period of time. To resolve the problems of existing human dependant commercial products, we propose a vision based automatic raw material classification combining mean shift clustering and stepwise region merging algorithm. In this paper, the image is divided into N cluster regions by applying the mean-shift clustering algorithm to the foreground map image. Second, the representative regions among the N cluster regions are selected and stepwise region-merging method is applied to integrate similar cluster regions by comparing both color and positional proximity to neighboring regions. The merged raw material objects thereby are expressed in a 2D color distribution of RG, GB, and BR. Third, a threshold is used to detect good and defective products based on color distribution ellipse for merged material objects. From the results of carrying out an experiment with diverse raw material images using the proposed method, less artificial manipulation by the user is required compared to existing clustering and commercial methods, and classification accuracy on raw materials is improved.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.33-40
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• 2009

Edge detection is very significant in low level image processing. However, majority edge detection methods are not only effective enough cause of the noise points' influence, even not flexible enough to different input images. In order to sort these problems, in this paper an algorithm is presented that has an extra noise reduction stage at first, and then automatically selects the both thresholds depending on gradient amplitude histogram and intra class minimum variance. Using this algorithm, can fade out almost all of the sensitive noise points, and calculate the propose thresholds for different images without setting up the practical parameters artificially, and then choose edge pixels by fuzzy algorithm. In finally, get the better result than the former Canny algorithm.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.566-569
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• 2010

레이저 포인터를 검출하는 과정은 포인터의 위치를 검출하는 과정과 입력된 레이저 포인터의 좌표를 모니터의 좌표로 변환하는 과정으로 나눌 수 있다. 레이저 포인터의 추적에 있어서 다변하는 환경의 영향으로 강건성의 확보가 어렵다. 기존의 추적 방식인 Mean-Shift 알고리즘의 경우에는 계산량이 많아서 실시간으로 입력되는 동영상에는 부적합하다. 반면에 CamShift 알고리즘은 빠른 수행이 가능하여 비디오 영상 및 실시간 영상에 적용하기에 적합하고 배경 변화의 영향을 적게 받는다. 또한 검출하려는 색과 같은 색에 의해서 간섭 받는 현상을 방지할 수 있다. 배경이 복잡한 형태이거나 배경이 동적으로 움직일 때에도 강건한 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 제안된 알고리즘을 실환경에 적용한 결과 검출하고자 하는 물체가 예측 영역을 넘나들거나 또는 화면으로부터 지나치게 멀어지거나 가까워져서 상대적인 크기가 변화할 수 있는 불확실한 변화에도 안정적으로 반응함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.359-364
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a method for extracting a road area by using the mean-shift method and connected-component method. Mean-shift method is very effective to divide the color image by the method of non-parametric statistics to find the center mode. Generally, the feature points of road are extracted by using the information located in the middle and bottom of the road image. And it is possible to extract a road region by using this feature-point and the partitioned color image. However, if a road region is extracted with only the color information and the position information of a road image, it is possible to detect not only noise but also off-road regions. This paper proposes the method to determine the road region by eliminating the noise with the closing / opening operation of the morphology, and by extracting only the portion of the largest area using a connected-components method. The proposed method is simulated and verified by applying the captured road images.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1351-1352
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 지능형 영상 감시 시스템에서 보행자를 검출하고 추적을 수행하기 위해 은닉층 활성함수에 가우시안 대신 FCM를 사용한 RBFNNs 패턴분류기와 객체 추적 알고리즘인 Mean Shift를 융합한 시뮬레이터를 개발한다. 시뮬레이터는 검출부과 추적부로 나누며, 검출부에서는 입력 영상으로부터 기울기의 방향성을 이용한 HOG(Histogram of Oriented Gradient) 특징을 구하고 빠른 처리속도를 위해 PCA 알고리즘을 통해 차원수를 축소하고 pRBFNNs 패턴분류기를 통해 보행자를 검출 한다. 다음 추적부에서 객체 추적 알고리즘인 Mean Shift를 이용하여 검출된 보행자 추적을 수행한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.206-208
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• 2000

본 논문은 칼라 정보와 움직임 정보를 이용한 객체 분할 기법의 설계에 대하여 소개한다. 객체 분할 알고리즘은 L*u*v 공간의 칼라 특성과 움직임 특성을 결합하여 설계하였다. 즉 공간 분할은 mean shift 칼라 클러스터링 알고리즘(color clustering algorithm)을 사용하여 중심 칼라 영역에 따라 동일한 칼라 지역으로 통합한다. 시간 분할은 움직임 검출을 위하여 affine six parameter 움직임 모델과 optical flow equation를 이용하여 움직임이 발생한 부분을 검출한다. 다음에 공간 분할과 시간 분할에 따라 결과를 통합하고 MAD(mean absolute difference)를 사용하여 객체를 추출하는 알고리즘을 설계하였다.