• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.697-700
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• 2004

We propose a method that realizes the modified illumination by implementing a binary phase grating at the backside of a photomask. By modeling the relationship between the shape of a grating on the photomask and the light intensity at the pupil plane, we developed a program named MIDAS that finds the optimum grating pattern with a stochastic approach. After applying the program to several examples, we found that the program finds the grating pattern for the modified illumination that we want. By applying the grating at the backside of a photomask, the light efficiency of modified illumination may be improved.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.212-215
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• 2005

Modified illumination techniques have been used to enhance the resolution of the sub-wavelength lithography. But, since they shield the central part of incident light, the light efficiency is seriously degraded, which in turn reduces the throughput of a lithography process. In this research, we introduced an annular illumination structure that enhances the light efficiency with a concentric circular grating at the backside of a photomask. The efficiency of the structure was theoretically analyzed.

• 센서학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.196-203
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• 2021

In this study, an optical identification system was developed, wherein visible light is used to transmit the interrogating signal, and infrared is used to send the response signal. In the reader, visible light from a light emitting diode (LED) array was modulated via modified pulse width modulation for flicker-free illumination and dimming control. Moreover, the duty factor of the dimming control time was employed to control the illumination from the LED. In the transponder, the spike signal in the output of the high-pass filter was utilized to recover the interrogating signal while preventing interference from the 120-Hz noise from adjacent lighting lamps. The illumination was controlled in 26-86% range of the constant wave LED illumination by changing the duty factor from 20% to 90%. This configuration is advantageous for the construction of optical identification systems for automatic security check and car fare calculation at toll gates or parking facilities.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.203-212
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• 2015

본 논문은 도로주행 영상에서 도로표지판을 인식하는 방법을 제안한다. 지능형 차량에서 얻어지는 도로표지판 영상은 일반적인 사물 영상과는 다른 두 가지 특징이 있다. 첫째는 대상이 되는 사물들은 종류가 제한적이고 형태가 단순한 도형인 경우가 대부분이다. 둘째는 일반적인 도로주행 영상은 다양한 조명 환경과 날씨 상태로 인해서 선명한 영상을 취득하기 어려운 점이다. 본 논문에서는 조명 변화가 심한 도로주행 영상에 대해서 효과적으로 특징을 추출하기 위해서 Modified Census Transform(MCT)을 개선한 특징추출 방법을 제안한다. 추출된 특징들은 히스토그램으로 쌓여지고 영상 전반에 걸쳐 아주 고차원의 기술자(Descriptor)로 변환되며, 변환된 수많은 기술자들은 가우시안 혼합 모델(Gaussian Mixture Model)을 활용한 Fisher-vector 방법에 의해서 저차원으로 변형하여 특징으로 사용한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 일반적인 표지판 인식 방법에 비해서 조명변화에 강한 검출 결과를 보여주었으며, 실시간 검출 및 인식도 가능하였다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.9-19
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• 2013

This paper gives a review on three illumination issues of face tracking on smart phones: dark scenes, sudden lighting change and backlit effect. First, we propose a fast and robust face tracking method utilizing continuous adaptive mean shift algorithm (CAMSHIFT) and CbCr skin locus. Initially, the skin locus obtained from training video data. After that, a modified CAMSHIFT version based on the skin locus is accordingly provided. Second, we suggest an enhancement method to increase the chance of detecting faces, an important initialization step for face tracking, under dark illumination. The proposed method works comparably with traditional CAMSHIFT or particle filter, and outperforms these methods when dealing with our public video data with the three illumination issues mentioned above.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.1222-1236
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an improved distributed multi-view video coding method that is robust to illumination changes among different views. The use of view dependency is not effective for multi-view video because each view has different intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters. In this paper, a modified distributed multi-view coding method is presented that applies illumination compensation when generating side information. The proposed encoder codes DC values of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients separately by entropy coding. The proposed decoder can generate more accurate side information by using the transmitted DC coefficients to compensate for illumination changes. Furthermore, AC coefficients are coded with conventional entropy or channel coders depending on the frequency band. We found that the proposed algorithm is about 0.1~0.5 dB better than conventional algorithms.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.71-79
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• 2011

이미징 파이프라인(imaging pipeline)의 목적은 디스플레이 되는 영상을 원영상과 비슷하게 변환하는 것이다. 이를 위해 감마 조정 혹은 히스토그램기반 방법이 영상대비와 세부 영역을 개선하기 위해 제안되었다. 그러나 이러한 방법들은 조도성분과 색도성분이 위치에 따라 변화하므로 영상 개선에 한계가 있다. 따라서 MSR (Multi-Scale Retinex) 기법이 제안되었으며, 이는 영상에 따른 가우시안 필터의 크기에 의존하며, 독립적인 로그 신호를 기반으로 한다. 그러므로 영상 보정 후 후광효과(Halo), 색상변화(Color change or graying-out), 특정 색상의 두드러짐 등의 영상 왜곡(image distortion)이 발생한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영상을 전역조명성분, 국부조명성분, 반사성분으로 나누는 새로운 색상 보정 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서 전역조명성분은 가우시안 필터를 작용하여 획득하며, 국부 조명성분은 JND(Just-noticeable difference)기반 적응적 필터를 적용하여 획득한다. 반사성분은 원 영상에 획득된 전역조명성분과 국부조명성분으로 나누어 줌으로써 획득된다. 개선된 영상은 멱함수(power function)를 수행한 후 이들의 곱으로 획득되며, sRGB로 표현된다. 실험 결과에서 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비해 우수한 성능을 보인다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.205-208
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• 2013

일반적으로 이진패턴 변환은 조명 변화에 강인한 특성을 가지므로, 얼굴인식 및 표정인식 분야에 널리 사용되고 있다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 기존의 LDP(Local Directional Pattern)의 텍스처 성분을 개선한 MLDP(Modified LDP) 변환 영상에 2D-PCA(Two-Dimensional Principal Component Analysis) 알고리즘을 결합한 조명변화에 강인한 얼굴인식 방법에 대하여 제안한다. 기존의 LBP(Local Binary Pattern)나 LDP와 같은 이진패턴 변환들이 히스토그램 특징 추출을 위해 주로 사용되는 것과는 다르게, 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 MLDP 영상을 2D-PCA 특징추출을 위해 직접 사용한다는 특성을 갖는다. 제안 방법의 성능평가는 PCA(Principal Component Analysis), 2D-PCA 및 가버변환 영상과 LBP를 결합한 알고리즘을 사용하여, 다양한 조명변화 환경에서 구축된 Yale B 및 CMU-PIE 데이터베이스를 이용하여 수행되었다. 실험 결과, MLDP 영상과 2D-PCA를 사용한 제안 방법이 가장 우수한 인식 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.32-39
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• 2004

The color-based vision systems have been used to recognize our team robots, the opponent team robots and a ball in the robot soccer system. The color-based vision systems have the difficulty in that they are very sensitive to color variations brought by brightness changes. In this paper, a neural network trained with data obtained from various illumination conditions is used to classify colors in the modified YUV color space for the robot soccer vision system. For this, a new method to measure brightness is proposed by use of a color card. After the neural network is constructed, a look-up-table is generated to replace the neural network in order to reduce the computation time. Experimental results show that the proposed color classification method is robust under illumination variations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1824-1845
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• 2016

The GMM is a conventional approach which has been recently applied in many face recognition studies. However, the question about how to deal with illumination changes while ensuring high performance is still a challenge, especially with real-world databases. In this paper, we propose a Visual Observation Confidence (VOC) measure for robust face recognition for illumination changes. Our VOC value is a combined confidence value of three measurements: Flatness Measure (FM), Centrality Measure (CM), and Illumination Normality Measure (IM). While FM measures the discrimination ability of one face, IM represents the degree of illumination impact on that face. In addition, we introduce CM as a centrality measure to help FM to reduce some of the errors from unnecessary areas such as the hair, neck or background. The VOC then accompanies the feature vectors in the EM process to estimate the optimal models by modified-GMM training. In the experiments, we introduce a real-world database, called KoFace, besides applying some public databases such as the Yale and the ORL database. The KoFace database is composed of 106 face subjects under diverse illumination effects including shadows and highlights. The results show that our proposed approach gives a higher Face Recognition Rate (FRR) than the GMM baseline for indoor and outdoor datasets in the real-world KoFace database (94% and 85%, respectively) and in ORL, Yale databases (97% and 100% respectively).