• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2004

For the handwritten digit recognition, this paper Proposes a hierarchical Gator features extraction method and a Bayesian network for them. Proposed Gator features are able to represent hierarchically different level information and Bayesian network is constructed to represent hierarchically structured dependencies among these Gator features. In order to extract such features, we define Gabor filters level by level and choose optimal Gabor filters by using Fisher's Linear Discriminant measure. Hierarchical Gator features are extracted by optimal Gabor filters and represent more localized information in the lower level. Proposed methods were successfully applied to handwritten digit recognition with well-known naive Bayesian classifier, k-nearest neighbor classifier. and backpropagation neural network and showed good performance.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• 제10B권3호
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• pp.311-320
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• 2003

The Optimal filter yielding optimal texture feature separation is a most effective technique for extracting the texture objects from multiple textures images. But, most optimal filter design approaches are restricted to the issue of supervised problems. No full-unsupervised method is based on the recognition of texture objects in image. We propose a novel approach that uses unsupervised learning schemes for efficient texture image analysis, and the band-pass feature of Gabor-filter is used for the optimal filter design. In our approach, the self-organizing neural network for multiple texture image identification is based on block-based clustering. The optimal frequency of Gabor-filter is turned to the optimal frequency of the distinct texture in frequency domain by analyzing the spatial frequency. In order to show the performance of the designed filters, after we have attempted to build a various texture images. The texture objects extraction is achieved by using the designed Gabor-filter. Our experimental results show that the performance of the system is very successful.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.147-153
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• 2017

Efficient texture representation is very important in computer vision fields. The performance of texture classification or/and segmentation can be improved based on efficient texture representation. Gabor filter is a representation method that has long history for texture representation based on multi-scale analysis. Gabor filter shows good performance in texture classification and segmentation but requires much processing time. In this paper, we propose new texture representation method that is also based on multi-scale analysis. The proposed representation can provide similar performance in texture classification but can reduce processing time against Gabor filter. Experimental results show good performance of our method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2008

In this paper, an extraction method of objects of interest in the color images is proposed. It is possible to extract objects of interest from a complex background without any prior-knowledge based on the proposed method. For object extraction, Gator images that contain information of object location, are created by using Gator filter. Based on the images the initial location of attention windows is determined, from which image features are selected to extract objects. To extract object, I modify the previous method partially and apply the modified method. To evaluate the performance of propsed method, precision, recall and F-measure are calculated between the extraction results from propsed method and manually extracted results. I verify the performance of the proposed methods based on these accuracies. Also through comparison of the results with the existing method, I verily the superiority of the proposed method over the existing method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.2836-2842
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• 2010

An NPC grouping method is proposed for various 3D games depending on their characteristics. Immovable objects tend to have particular orientation features in their Gabor filtering results whereas the movable objects controlled by AI appearing as a human or an animal do not. First of all, We analyzed directional and frequency domain features in the NPC object and configured them as 24 Gabor filter banks. Then, 24-dimensional feature vectors according to the scale and direction of the filter are calculated. Each extracted vector represents the energy of a certain direction. This energy indicates the particular direction strength of the object texture. Thus, using this property, NPCs could be grouped as artificial objects and natural objects effectively and it draws the game more speed and strategic actions as a result.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2002

The design of optimal filter yielding optimal texture feature separation is a most effective technique in many torture analyzing areas, such as perception of surface, object, shape and depth. But, most optimal filter design approaches are restricted to the issue of computational complexity and supervised problems. In this paper, Our proposed method yields new insight into the design of optimal Gabor filters for segmenting multiple texture images. The optimal frequency of Gator filter is turned to the optimal frequency of the distinct texture in frequency domain. In order to show the performance of the designed filters, we have attempted to build a various texture images. Our experimental results show that the performance of the system is very successful.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 한국정보처리학회 2005년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.813-816
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• 2005

최근 휴대폰의 활용 범위는 단순히 사용자간의 통신이라는 기본적인 목적을 넘어서 다양한 기능을 제공하고 있다. 그중 휴대폰에 카메라를 탑재하여 디지털 카메라의 기능을 혼합한 휴대폰은 최근 각광을 받고 있으며 휴대폰에 탑재된 카메라의 기능은 디지털 카메라의 메가 픽셀 급 화질을 제공하는 정도의 수준으로 발전하였으며 이미 그 수요는 대중화되어 가고 있다. 이런 카메라 폰을 응용한 연구 분야로 생체 인식 기술을 적용할 수 있으며, 본 논문에서는 휴대폰 환경에서의 홍채 인식을 위한 홍채 영역에서의 홍채 코드 추출에 관한 방법을 제안한다. 휴대폰에서의 홍채 인식에 사용되는 홍채 코드 추출 과정은 다음과 같다. 먼저 휴대폰 카메라를 통해 얻은 메가 픽셀 급 영상($2048{\times}1536$ pixel 8bit gray Image)에서 동공위치 추적 & 홍채 영역 추출 알고리즘[1]을 이용하여 눈 영상($640{\times}480$ pixel 8bit gray Image))을 추출한다. 이렇게 추출된 눈 영상 중에 홍채 코드 인식 에러율을 좀더 낮추기 위해 눈썹영역, 안경에 의해 반사되는 반사광(Specular Reflection), 눈꺼풀 영역을 눈 영역에서 제거 하는 과정을 거친다. 이 논문에서는 위와 같은 과정을 거쳐 얻어진 홍채 영상에 그대로 극좌표 가버 필터[2]를 씌워 홍채 코드를 추출해내기 때문에 기존 보간법을 이용한 스트레칭 된 홍채 영상에서의 홍채 코드 추출보다 잘못된 홍채 코드 정보를 줄일 수 있으며 휴대폰이라는 특수한 환경에서의 홍채 코드 추출이란 점을 고려하여 가버 필터를 고주파와 저주파로 나누어 미리 설계해두어 좀더 빠르고 정확한 홍채 코드를 추출해 내는 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과, 기존 방식보다 극좌표 가버 필터를 사용한 홍채 코드 추출 실험에서 보다 높은 인식률을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.105-113
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• 2007

In this paper, an image segmentation method which is based on edge salience map and region merging is presented. The edge salience map is calculated by combining a texture edge map with a color edge map. The texture edge map is computed over multiple spatial orientations and frequencies by using Gabor filter. A color edge is computed over the H component of the HSI color model. Then the Watershed transformation technique is applied to the edge salience map to and homogeneous regions where the dissimilarity of color and texture distribution is relatively low. The Watershed transformation tends to over-segment images. To merge the over-segmented regions, first of all, morphological operation is applied to the edge salience map to enhance a contrast of it and also to find mark regions. Then the region characteristics, a Gabor texture vector and a mean color, in the segmented regions is defined and regions that have the similar characteristics, are merged. Experimental results have demonstrated the superiority in segmentation results for various images.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.675-682
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• 2014

Prostate is only an organ of men. To diagnose the disease of the prostate, generally transrectal ultrasound(TRUS) images are used. Detecting its boundary is a challenging and difficult task due to weak prostate boundaries, speckle noise and the short range of gray levels. In this paper a method for automatic prostate segmentation in TRUS images using Support Vector Machine(SVM) is presented. This method involves preprocessing, extracting Gabor feature, training, and prostate segmentation. The speckle reduction for preprocessing step has been achieved by using stick filter and top-hat transform has been implemented for smoothing. Gabor filter bank for extraction of rotation-invariant texture features has been implemented. SVM for training step has been used to get each feature of prostate and nonprostate. Finally, the boundary of prostate is extracted. A number of experiments are conducted to validate this method and results shows that the proposed algorithm extracted the prostate boundary with less than 10% relative to boundary provided manually by doctors.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• 제3권11호
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• pp.495-502
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• 2014

An effective solution to the variation on scale and rotation is required to recognize contactless palmprint. In this study, we firstly minimize the variation by extracting a region of interest(ROI) according to the size and orientation of hand and normalizing the ROI. This paper proposes a contactless palmprint recognition method based on KLT(Kanade-Lukas-Tomasi) feature points. To detect corresponding feature points, texture in local regions around KLT feature points are compared. Then, we recognize palmprint by measuring the similarity among displacement vectors which represent the size and direction of displacement of each pair of corresponding feature points. An experimental results using CASIA public database show that the proposed method is effective in contactless palmprint recognition. Especially, we can get the performance of exceeding 99% correct identification rate using multiple Gabor filters.