• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.201-209
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• 2011

This paper suggests a panorama image stitching system which consists of an image matching algorithm: modified SURF (Speeded Up Robust Feature) and an image blending algorithm: multi-band blending. In this paper, first, Modified SURF is described and SURF is compared with SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform), which also gives the reason why modified SURF is chosen instead of SIFT. Then, multi-band blending is described, Lastly, the structure of a panorama image stitching system is suggested and evaluated by experiments, which includes stitching quality test and time cost experiment. According to the experiments, the proposed system can make the stitching seam invisible and get a perfect panorama for large image data, In addition, it is faster than the sift based stitching system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.193-196
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• 2009

여러 개의 영상으로부터 스케일, 조명, 시점 등의 환경변화를 고려하여 대응점을 찾는 일은 쉽지 않다. SURF는 이러한 환경변화에 불변하는 특징점을 찾는 알고리즘중 하나로서 일반적으로 성능이 우수하다고 알려진 SIFT와 견줄만한 성능을 보이면서 속도를 크게 향상시킨 알고리즘이다. 하지만 SURF는 그레이공간 상의 정보만 이용함에 따라 컬러공간상에 주어진 많은 유용한 특징들을 활용하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 강인한 컬러특정정보를 포함하는 확장된 SURF알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법의 우수성은 다양한 조명환경과 시점변화에 따른 영상을 SIFT와 SURF 그리고 제안하는 컬러정보를 적용한 SURF알고리즘과 비교 실험을 통해 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2013

SURF algorithm is an algorithm to extract feature points and to generate descriptors from input images. It is robust to change of environment such as scale, rotation, illumination and view points. Because of these features, it is used for many image processing applications such as object recognition, constructing panorama pictures and 3D image restoration. But there is disadvantage for real time operation because many recognition algorithms such as SURF algorithm requires a lot of calculations. In this paper, we propose a design of feature extractor and descriptor generator based on SURF for high memory efficiency. The proposed design reduced a memory access and memory usage to operate in real time.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.808-816
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• 2012

Face recognition has been actively studied and developed in various fields. In recent years, interest point extraction algorithms mainly used for object recognition were being applied to face recognition. The SURF(Speeded Up Robust Features) algorithm was used in this paper which was one of typical interest point extraction algorithms. Generally, the interest points extracted from human faces are less distinctive than the interest points extracted from objects due to the similar shapes of human faces. Thus, the accuracy of the face recognition using SURF tends to be low. In order to improve it, we propose a face recognition algorithm which performs interest point extraction by SURF and the Gabor wavelet transform to extract descriptors from the interest points. In the result, the proposed method shows around 23% better recognition accuracy than SURF-based conventional methods.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.43-52
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose the target detection method using image displacement, and classification method using SURF(Speeded Up Robust Features) feature points and BAS(Beam Angle Statistics) in infrared images. The SURF method that is a typical correspondence matching method in the area of image processing has been widely used, because it is significantly faster than the SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) method, and produces a similar performance. In addition, in most SURF based object recognition method, it consists of feature point extraction and matching process. In proposed method, it detects the target area using the displacement, and target classification is performed by using the geometry of SURF feature points. The proposed method was applied to the unmanned target detection/recognition system. The experimental results in virtual images and real images, we have approximately 73~85% of the classification performance.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.163-175
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• 2003

SURF is a compliance engine, checking document content against detail in an established agreement. It provides a single vehicle for handling documentary trade settlement, regardless of the risk profile and financing requirements of the parties involved. That is, SURF, a Value Added Service connected to the Core Messaging Platform, is a documentary trade settlement service. It offers users of the system automated document compliance checking and a tool to manage the workflow in connection with documentary trade settlement. The Service supports varying degrees of risk transfer between buyer, sellers and banks and supports transactions from open account to more complex Letters of Credit.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.19-22
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 대표적인 특징점 추출 알고리즘인 SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features)와 얼굴인식에서 널리 쓰이는 Gabor 기술어를 이용한 얼굴 인식 방법을 소개한다. SURF 기반 영상인식 방법은 특징점을 찾고 해당 특징점에서 기술어를 추출한 후, 정합을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 SURF 를 통해 추출한 특징점에서 Gabor 웨이블릿 변환을 사용해 기술어를 추출하는 얼굴인식 방법을 제안한다. 잘 알려진 ORL 데이터베이스에서의 실험에서 제안한 방법이 기존 SURF 기반의 얼굴 인식 방법에 비해 더 높은 얼굴 인식 성능을 보여줄 뿐 아니라 정합시간을 포함한 처리 속도면에서도 더 우수한 성능을 보였다. 이러한 실험 결과를 통하여 제안하는 방법이 SURF 보다 얼굴 인식에 적합함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.43-46
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• 2012

컴퓨터 비전을 이용한 다양한 응용 분야에 있어서, 특징점을 이용한 응용 분야가 많이 이루어지고 있다. 그 중에 Global feature는 표현의 위험성과 부정확성으로 인해서 많이 사용되고 있지 않으며, Local feature를 이용한 연구가 주로 이루고 있다. 그 중에 SURF(Speeded-Up Robust Features) 알고리즘은 다수의 영상에서 같은 물리적 위치에 있는 동일한 특징점을 찾아서 매칭하는 방법으로 널리 알려진 특징점 매칭 알고리즘이다. 하지만 SURF 알고리즘을 이용하여 특징점을 매칭하여 정합 쌍을 구하였을 때 매칭되는 특징점들의 정확도가 떨어지는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 특징점 매칭 알고리즘인 SURF를 사용하여 대응되는 특징점들을 들로네 삼각형의 기하학적 특징을 이용하여 정확도가 높은 특징점을 분류하여 SURF 알고리즘의 매칭되는 대응점들의 정확도를 높이는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.344-358
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• 2019

Surveillance cameras have installed in many places because security and safety is becoming important in modern society. Through surveillance cameras installed, we can deal with troubles and prevent accidents. However, watching surveillance videos and judging the accidental situations is very labor-intensive. So now, the need for research to analyze surveillance videos is growing. This study proposes an algorithm to track multiple persons using SURF and background subtraction. While the SURF algorithm, as a person-tracking algorithm, is robust to scaling, rotating and different viewpoints, SURF makes tracking errors with sudden changes in videos. To resolve such tracking errors, we combined SURF with a background subtraction algorithm and showed that the proposed approach increased the tracking accuracy. In addition, the background subtraction algorithm can detect persons in videos, and SURF can initialize tracking targets with these detected persons, and thus the proposed algorithm can automatically detect the enter/exit of persons.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.46-53
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• 2011

This paper proposes a SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) based face recognition method which is one of typical interest point extraction algorithms. In general, SURF based object recognition is performed in interest point extraction and matching. In this paper, although, proposed method is employed not only in interest point extraction and matching, but also in face image rotation and interest point verification. image rotation is performed to increase the number of interest points and interest point verification is performed to find interest points which were matched correctly. Although proposed SURF based face recognition method requires more computation time than PCA based one, it shows better recognition rate than PCA algorithm. Through this experimental result, I confirmed that interest point extraction algorithm also can be adopted in face recognition.