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어떤 시각적 사건이 발생했을 때 사람들은 흔히 그 원인을 추론하곤 한다. 본 연구에서는 한 물체의 갑작스런 표면색 변화가 일어났을 때, 관찰자들이 이 결과의 원인을 다른 물체와 공간적 관계에 두려는 경향을 검토하였다. 실험에 사용된 3분짜리 동영상에서 두 개의 초록색 물체는 자유로이 움직이다가 동영상의 끝 무렵에 목표 물체의 색이 빨간색으로 바뀌었다. 네 개의 서로 다른 동영상에서 두 물체의 거리가 멀거나 짧게 혹은 접촉이 1회와 3회로 조작되었다. 실험목적을 최대한 은폐하려고 피험자간 디자인으로 각 참여자는 네 가지 동영상 가운데 하나 만을 관찰한 후 목표 물체의 색 변화와 다른 물체가 얼마나 강한 관계가 있는지를 평정하였다. 그 결과 두 물체의 거리가 가까울수록 그리고 접촉을 한 조건에서 목표 물체의 색 변화는 다른 물체 때문이라고 지각하려는 경향이 발견되었다. 그렇지만 접촉 회수 효과는 발견되지 않았다. 따라서 어떤 물체의 색 변화 사건의 인과성 지각에 다른 물체와 가까운 거리 혹은 단순 접촉 여부가 중요한 요인임을 시사한다.

When an visual event occurs, people try to infer the cause of the event. In this study, it was examined that, when an object changes its surface color, how its spatial distance or contact to another object influenced the perception of causality of the color change. The test animations consisted of two moving objects that were in green initially and one of them changed its surface color into red in the end of the movie. In the 4 different conditions, either the spatial distance or the number of contact between the two objects varied. A between-subjects design was introduced to blind the purpose of the experiment. The observers watched only one of the 4 movies randomly and they were asked to rate how strongly the target object's color change was influenced by the other object. In the result, the observers were more likely to attribute the cause of the color change into the other object in the contact conditions than the distance conditions. Therefore, we concluded that contact played a crucial role for the perception of causality of an object's surface color change event.

본 논문은 영상 속 객체와 배경의 컬러 특징을 이용한 주요 객체의 자동 추출 방법에 관한 연구이다. 인간 이 객체를 판단할 때에는 배경과 객체의 색상 차이를 이용하는데 이러한 요소를 객체 추출 방법에 적용시키기 위해 서는 배경과 객체의 색차를 강조하여야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 원 RGB 영상을 인간의 시각 시스템과 유사한 HSV 색 공간으로 변환하고 각기 다른 분포도의 메디안 필터를 적용한 두 개의 영상을 생성한 뒤 두 개의 메디안 필 터가 적용된 영상들을 합산하였고 데이터 군집화 방법인 Mean Shift 알고리즘을 적용하여 색상 특징을 그룹화 하였 다. 마지막으로 이진화 작업을 위하여 영상의 채널 수를 3 채널에서 1 채널로 정규화 한 뒤 영상 내 픽셀들의 평균 값을 임계값으로 이용하는 이진화 방법으로 객체 지도 영상을 생성하였고 주요 객체를 추출하였다.

This paper is a study on an object extraction method which using color features of an object and background in the image. A human recognizes an object through the color difference of object and background in the image. So we must to emphasize the color's difference that apply to extraction result in this image. Therefore, we have converted to HSV color images which similar to human visual system from original RGB images, and have created two each other images that applied Median Filter and we merged two Median filtered images. And we have applied the Mean Shift algorithm which a data clustering method for clustering color features. Finally, we have normalized 3 image channels to 1 image channel for binarization process. And we have created object map through the binarization which using average value of whole pixels as a threshold. Then, have extracted major object from original image use that object map.

이미지 내에서 객체를 검출하고 해당 위치를 추출하는 지역화 기법은 컴퓨터 비전에서 많이 활용되는 기술이다. 기존 연구들은 하나의 객체를 대상으로 위치 검출을 수행하지만, 실제 사진에서는 다수의 유사 객체를 포함하는 경우가 많기 때문에, 활용에 한계가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 이미지 인식을 위해 객체 지역화의 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 알고리즘은 YCbCr 색채 성분에서 코렐로그램 역투영 기법을 활용하여 객체 지역화 문제를 해결한다. 제안 알고리즘에서는 질의 이미지의 객체가 포함되는 이미지의 위치를 검출할 수 있으며, 다수의 유사 객체가 존재할 경우 포함되는 객체 개수 정보 없이도 유사 후보 객체의 영역과 위치를 검출할 수 있다. 제안 알고리즘의 성능을 평가할 실험 결과, 기존에 연구된 방법에 비해, 21%의 성능 향상을 보였다. 이러한 결과를 통해, 색상 코렐로그램이 히스토그램 기법보다 성능적 우위를 보였다. 본 논문의 주요 공헌은 색 공간과 공간-색상 정보를 통해 객체 지역화 문제를 해결할 수 있는 또다른 기술을 제시한 것으로 학문적 기여를 검증하였다.

Localizing an object in image is a common task in the field of computer vision. As the existing methods provide a detection for the single object in an image, they have an utilization limit for the use of the application, due to similar objects are in the actual picture. This paper proposes an efficient method of object localization for image recognition. The new proposed method uses color correlation back-projection in the YCbCr chromaticity color space to deal with the object localization problem. Using the proposed algorithm enables users to detect and locate primary location of object within the image, as well as candidate regions can be detected accurately without any information about object counts. To evaluate performance of the proposed algorithm, we estimate success rate of locating object with common used image database. Experimental results reveal that improvement of 21% success ratio was observed. This study builds on spatially localized color features and correlation-based localization, and the main contribution of this paper is that a different way of using correlogram is applied in object localization.

컬러 영상 처리 기반의 연기 검출은 화재의 조기 검출에 적합한 검출 대상이다. 연기 검출을 위한 방법으로 움직임과 색상이 전처리로서 처리되며, 확산, 질감, 형태, 방향성 등의 성질이 후처리로서 사용된다. 본 논문은 연기의 특성 중 밀도적인 분포 특성 검출방법을 제안한다. 연기의 움직임을 10Frame 간격으로 1초 동안 축적한 이미지에 색상을 문턱치 처리해 후보영역을 생성하고,OBTP(Object Block Ternary Pattern)을 적용해 연기의 패턴임을 확인한다. 모든 처리는 Block 기반으로, 움직임 검출은 차분 영상에 적응 문턱치를 적용해 움직이는 물체의 후보영역을 결정했다. 결정된 후보영역을 1초간 축적하고 연기 색상의 문턱치 조건을적용한다. 각각의 연기 후보 영역을 특정 위치의 16개 Block 값을 중앙 Block 값과 비교하고 삼진화 된 패턴을 연기의 패턴과 비교하여 연기를 결정한다.

Color image processing based on smoke detection is suitable detecting target to early detection of fire smoke. A methodfor detecting the smoke is processed in the pre-processing movement and color. And Next, characteristics of smoke suchas diffusion, texture, shape, and directionality are used to post-processing. In this paper, propose the detection method ofdensity distribution characteristic in characteristics of smoke. the generate a candidate regions by color thresholding imagein Detecting the movement of smoke to the 10Frame interval and accumulated while 1second image. then check whetherthe pattern of the smoke by candidate regions to applying OBTP(Object Block Ternary Pattern). every processing isBlock-based processing, moving detection is decided the candidate regions of the moving object by applying an adaptivethreshold to frame difference image. The decided candidate region accumulates one second and apply the threshold conditionof the smoke color. make the ternary pattern compare the center block value with block value of 16 position in eachcandidate region of the smoke, and determine the smoke by compare the candidate ternary pattern and smoke ternary pattern

본 논문은 서베일런스 네트워크에서 영상의 색상 정보를 이용한 객체 추적 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 적 응적인 색상 모델을 이용한 객체 검출을 수행한다. 객체 윤곽선 검출은 객체 인식과 같은 응용에서 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 실험 결과는 색상과 크기에서 객체의 다양한 변화가 있을 때에도 성공적인 객체 검출을 증명한다. 실시간 으로 객체를 검출하는 응용 분야에서 대량의 영상 데이터를 전송할 때 색상 분포의 형태를 찾아내는 것이 가능하다. 객체의 특정 색상 정보는 입력 영상에서 동적으로 변화하는 색상에서 자주 수정되어진다. 그래서, 이 알고리즘은 해 당 추적 영역 안에서 객체의 추적 영역 정보를 탐지하고 그 객체의 움직임만을 추적한다. 실험을 통해, 본 논문은 어떤 이상적인 상황하에서 제안하는 객체 추적 알고리즘이 다른 방법보다 더 강인한 면이 있다는 것을 보여준다.

In this paper, we propose an object tracking method using the color information of the image in surveillance network. This method perform a object detection using of adaptive color model. Object contour detection plays an important role in application such as object recognition. Experimental results demonstrate successful object detection over a wide range of object’s variation in color and scale. In applications to detect an object in real time, when transmitting a large amount of image data it is possible to find the mode of a color distribution. The specific color of an object is modified at dynamically changing color in image. So, this algorithm detects the tracking area information of object within relevant tracking area and only tracking the movement of that object.Through experiments, we show that proposed method is more robust than other methods under certain ideal situations.

본 논문은 영상에서 실시간으로 움직임 물체와 물체의 위치를 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 첫째로 영상으로부터 2개의 연속된 프레임차분을 통해 움직이는 물체를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 만약 두 프레임이 캡쳐되는 사이의 간격이 길다면, 실제 움직이는 물체의꼬리 같은 거짓 움직임 물체를 생성한다. 두번째로 본 논문은 도플러 효과와 HSV 색상 모델을 사용하여 이 문제들을 해결하는 방법을 제안한다. 마지막으로 물체의 분할과 위치 설정은 상기의 단계에서 얻은 결과가 조합되어 완료된다. 제안된 방법은 99.2%의 검출율을 갖고, 과거에 제안된 다른 비슷한 방법들 보다는 비교적 빠른 속도를 갖는다. 알고리즘의 복잡성은 시스템의 속도에 직접적인영향을 끼치기 때문에, 제안된 방법은 낮은 복잡성을 가져 실시간 움직임 검출을 위해 사용 될 수 있다.

This paper propose a method to detect moving object and locating in real time from video sequence. first the proposedmethod extract moving object by differencing two consecutive frames from the video sequence. If the interval betweencaptured two frames is long, it cause to generate fake moving object as tail of the real moving object. secondly this paperproposed method to overcome this problem by using doppler effects and HSV color model. finally the object segmentationand locating is done by combining the result that obtained from steps above. The proposed method has 99.2% of detectionrate in practical and also this method is comparatively speed than other similar methods those proposed in past. Since thecomplexity of the algorithm is directly affects to the speed of the system, the proposed method can be used as lowcomplexity algorithm for real time moving object detection.

The existing structured light measurement technologies mainly focus on the single color objects, especially for measuring white object. Mainly because of in the process of three-dimensional measurement for color objects, color object’s surface has a great influence on color components of structured light, leading to the color of structured light changing, this will cause serious errors in the decoding process. To solve this problem, combined with the actual measurements for colored objects, this paper adopts a color Gray code for encoding and decoding structured light, and presents an obtaining technical for color components of structured light, which first through regression analysis builds a mathematical model, and then uses the least squares method for solving it, at last restores the color of the projected stripes to ensure the correctness of decoding, to achieve the measurement for color object and to improve the measurement accuracy. The experimental results show that this method has a good effect on decoding.

A mobile robot with various types of sensors via ubiquitous networks is introduced. We designed a mobile robot composed of TCP/IP network, wireless camera and several sensors in an environment, and show object avoiding and tracking methods necessary for providing diverse services desired by the people. To avoid obstacles(objects), active sensors such as infrared rays sensors and supersonic waves sensors are employed together and measures the range in real time between the obstacles and the robot. We focus on how to track a object well because it gives robots the ability of working for human. This paper suggests effective visual tracking system for moving objects with specified color and motion information. The proposed tracking system includes the object extraction and definition process which uses color transformation and AWUPC computation to decide the existence of moving object. Active contour information and shape energy function are used to exactly tract the objects with shape changes. Finally, real time mobile robot avoiding and tracking objects is implemented.

Tracking multiple objects in real-time videos represents a challenging area in the era of computer vision. This paper proposes a new method to track the multiple objects under different environment conditions such as rotation, illumination, blurred, occlusion, and many others. In addition, the kinect color depth image processing is used to estimate the distance of the objects. The tracking of multiple objects is formulated as classification task which competitively use the object features in the different video frames of the video sequences. To obtain the optimal configuration of feature classification, a neural network based framework is presented to make a global influence based on winner pixel estimation between the video frames. The objects are tracked efficiently in less time as compared with SIFT techniques and distance of objects is calculated with kinect based depth image processing. Experimental results are given for real-time scenes, and many experiments are conducted to examine the performance of the proposed approach. The proposed method resulted into efficient tracking of multiple objects in various conditions including rotation, scaling, occlusion, etc. The distance of multiple tracked objects is estimated using the kinect depth processing.

Texture segmentation is the process of partitioning an image into regions with different textures containing similar group of pixels. Texture is an important spatial feature, useful for identifying object or region of interest. In texture analysis the foremost task is to extract texture features, which efficiently embody the information about the textural characteristics of the image. This can be used for the segmentation of different textured images. This paper presents a new approach for color texture segmentation using Haralick’s features extracted from color co-occurrence matrices. The originality of this approach is to select the most discriminating color texture features extracted from the color co-occurrence. Symbolic Object Approach is used for achieving texture segmentation.

In recent years there have been increasing interests in real-time object tracking with image information. Since image information is affected by illumination, this paper presents the real-time object tracking method based on neural networks that have robust characteristics under various illuminations. This paper proposes three steps to track the object and the fast tracking method. In the first step the object color is extracted using neural networks. In the second step we detect the object feature information based on invariant moment. Finally the object is tracked through a shape recognition using neural networks. To achieve the fast tracking performance, we have a global search for entire image and then have tracking the object through local search when the object is recognized.

Recently, autonomous robots which can achieve the complex tasks have been required with the advance of robotics. Advanced robot vision for recognition is necessary for the realization of such robots. In this paper, we propose a method to recognize an object in the actual environment. We assume that a 3D-object model used in our proposal method is the voxel data. Its inside is full up and its surface has color information. We also define the word "recognition" as the estimation of a target object's condition. This condition means the posture and the position of a target object in the actual environment. The proposal method consists of three steps. In Step 1, we extract features from the 3D-object model. In Step 2, we estimate the position of the target object. At last, we estimate the posture of the target object in Step 3. And we experiment in the actual environment. We also confirm the performance of our proposal method from results.

As technology related to digital imaging equipment is developed and generalized, digital imaging system is used for various purposes in fields of society. The object tracking technology from digital image data in real time is one of the core technologies required in various fields such as security system and robot system. Among the existing object tracking technologies, cam shift technology is a technique of tracking an object using color information of an object. Recently, digital image data using infrared camera functions are widely used due to various demands of digital image equipment. However, the existing cam shift method can not track objects in image data without color information. Our proposed tracking algorithm tracks the object by analyzing the color if valid color information exists in the digital image data, otherwise it generates the lightness feature information and tracks the object through it. The brightness feature information is generated from the ratio information of the width and the height of the area divided by the brightness. Experimental results shows that our tracking algorithm can track objects in real time not only in general image data including color information but also in image data captured by an infrared camera.

In this paper, we propose a new color histogram model for object tracking. The proposed model incorporates the color arrangement of the target that encodes the relative spatial distribution of the colors inside the object. Using the color arrangement, we can determine which color bin is more reliable for tracking. Based on the proposed color histogram model, we derive a mean shift framework using a modified Bhattacharyya distance. In addition, we present a method of updating an object scale and a target model to cope with changes in the target appearance. Unlike conventional mean shift based methods, our algorithm produces satisfactory results even when the object being tracked shares similar colors with the background.

Intelligent Space(ISpace) is the space where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors, are distributed. According to the cooperation of many intelligent devices, the environment, it is very important that the system knows the location information to offer the useful services. In order to achieve these goals, we present a method for representing, tracking and human following by fusing distributed multiple vision systems in ISpace, with application to pedestrian tracking in a crowd. And the article presents the integration of color distributions into particle filtering. Particle filters provide a robust tracking framework under ambiguity conditions. We propose to track the moving objects by generating hypotheses not in the image plan but on the top-view reconstruction of the scene. Comparative results on real video sequences show the advantage of our method for multi-object tracking. Simulations are carried out to evaluate the proposed performance. Also, the method is applied to the intelligent environment and its performance is verified by the experiments.

Motion tracking and object segmentation are the most fundamental and critical problems in vision tasks suck as motion analysis. An active contour model, snake, was developed as a useful segmenting and tracking tool for rigid or non-rigid objects. Snake is designed no the basis of snake energies. Segmenting and tracking can be executed successfully by energy minimization. In this research, two new paradigms for segmentation and tracking are suggested. First, because the conventional method uses only intensity information, it is difficult to separate an object from its complex background. Therefore, a new energy and design schemes should be proposed for the better segmentation of objects. Second, conventional snake can be applied in situations where the change between images is small. If a fast moving object exists in successive images, conventional snake will not operate well because the moving object may have large differences in its position or shape, between successive images. Snakes's nodes may also fall into the local minima in their motion to the new positions of the target object in the succeeding image. For robust tracking, the condensation algorithm was adopted to control the parameters of the proposed snake model called "adaptive color snake model(SCSM)". The effectiveness of the ACSM is verified by appropriate simulations and experiments.

One of future remote sensing techniques for transportation application is vehicle detection from the space, which could be the basis of measuring traffic volume and recognizing traffic condition in the future. This paper introduces an approach to vehicle detection using image object segmentation approach. The object-oriented image processing is particularly beneficial to high-resolution image classification of urban area, which suffers from noisy components in general. The project site was Dae-Jeon metropolitan area and a set of true color aerial images at 10cm resolution was used for the test. Authors investigated a variety of parameters such as scale, color, and shape and produced a customized solution for vehicle detection, which is based on a knowledge-based hierarchical model in the environment of eCognition. The highest tumbling block of the vehicle detection in the given data sets was to discriminate vehicles in dark color from new black asphalt pavement. Except for the cases, the overall accuracy was over 90%.

In this paper, we propose the color fuzzy decision algorithm to face segmentation in a color image. Our algorithm can segment without the user's interaction by fuzzy decision marking. And it removes small parts such as a noise using wavelet morphology in the image obtained by applying the fuzzy decision algorithm. Also, it merges and chooses the face region in each quantization image through rough sets. This video object division algorithm is shown to be superior to a conventional algorithm.

We propose a method that classifies images into two object types man-made and natural objects. A central object is extracted from each image by using central object extraction method[1] before classification. A central object in an images defined as a set of regions that lies around center of the image and has significant color distribution against its surrounding. We define three measures to classify the object images. The first measure is energy of edge direction histogram. The energy is calculated based on the direction of only non-circular edges. The second measure is an energy difference along directions in Gabor filter dictionary. Maximum and minimum energy along directions in Gabor filter dictionary are selected and the energy difference is computed as the ratio of the maximum to the minimum value. The last one is a shape of an object, which is also represented by Gabor filter dictionary. Gabor filter dictionary for the shape of an object differs from the one for the texture in an object in which the former is computed from a binarized object image. Each measure is combined by using majority rule tin which decisions are made by the majority. A test with 600 images shows a classification accuracy of 86%.

This paper presents an object tracking with radical change of color. Conventional Mean Shift do not provide appropriate result when major color distribution disappear. Our tracking approach is based on Mean Shift as basic tracking method. However we propose tracking algorithm that shows good results for an object of radical variation. The key idea is iterative update previous color information of an object that shows different color by using EM algorithm. As experiment results, we show that our proposed algorithm is an effective approach in tracking for a real object include an object having radical change of color.