• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.26-41
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• 2012

It is necessary to manage, forecast and prepare agricultural production based on accurate and up-to-date information in order to cope with the climate change and its impacts such as global warming, floods and droughts. This study examined the applicability as well as challenges of the object-based image analysis method for developing a land cover image classification algorithm, which can support the fast thematic mapping of wide agricultural areas on a regional scale. In order to test the applicability of RapidEye's multi-temporal spectral information for differentiating agricultural land cover types, the integration of other GIS data was minimized. Under this circumstance, the land cover classification accuracy at the study area of Kimje ($1300km^2$) was 80.3%. The geometric resolution of RapidEye, 6.5m showed the possibility to derive the spatial features of agricultural land use generally cultivated on a small scale in Korea. The object-based image analysis method can realize the expert knowledge in various ways during the classification process, so that the application of spectral image information can be optimized. An additional advantage is that the already developed classification algorithm can be stored, edited with variables in detail with regard to analytical purpose, and may be applied to other images as well as other regions. However, the segmentation process, which is fundamental for the object-based image classification, often cannot be explained quantitatively. Therefore, it is necessary to draw the best results based on expert's empirical and scientific knowledge.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.441-441
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• 2012

본 연구의 목적은 북한지역에 적용할 수 있는 논벼 재배지역 추출 기법을 개발 및 적용하여 논 분포도를 작성하고, 정확도를 평가하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 북한에 적용 가능한 시계열 위성자료를 수집하고, 논벼 재배지역 추출을 위한 토지피복 분류 기법을 개발하여 북한의 논벼 재배지역 분포도를 작성하고자 한다. 최종적으로 작성된 논 분포도를 북한의 농경지 모니터링을 위한 기초 자료로 제공토록 한다. 본 연구에서는 시계열 NDVI를 적용한 객체기반 무감독 토지피복 분류 방법을 활용하여 북한의 황해남도 재령군을 대상으로 토지피복 분류와 논 지역을 추출을 수행하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서 활용한 영상은 RapieEye로서 5개의 위성이 지구를 관측하고 있기 때문에 매일 동일한 지역의 영상을 폭넓게 획득할 수 있다는 장점이 있으며, Red, Green, Blue, Near Infra Red 밴드 외에 Red Edge 밴드에서 데이터를 획득하여 산림 모니터링, 농작물 모니터링 등에 효과적으로 활용할 수 있다는 특징이 있다. 먼저 2010년 4월, 6월, 9월 영상으로 각 영상의 NDVI를 산정하고 이를 활용하여 객체를 생성하였다. 다음으로 생성된 객체를 바탕으로 무감독 토지피복 분류를 수행하였고, 논 적합지역에 대한 지형 정보를 분류결과에 반영하여 최종적인 토지피복지도 및 논 지역 지도를 구축하였다. 본 연구결과는 원격탐사분야의 응용 기술을 확장하고, 향후 북한지역의 농산물 생산량 파악과 농업수자원 평가 분야에서도 폭 넓게 활용될 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Cadastre & Land InformatiX
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.79-90
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• 2017

Urban environment represent one of the most dynamic regions on earth. As in other countries, forests, green areas, agricultural lands are rapidly changing into residential or industrial areas in South Korea. Monitoring such rapid changes in land use requires rapid data acquisition, and satellite imagery can be an effective method to this demand. In general, SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites acquire images with an active system, so the brightness of the image is determined by the surface roughness. Therefore, the water areas appears dark due to low reflection intensity, In the residential area where the artificial structures are distributed, the brightness value is higher than other areas due to the strong reflection intensity. If we use these characteristics of SAR images, settlement areas can be extracted efficiently. In this study, extraction of settlement areas was performed using TerraSAR-X of German high-resolution X-band SAR satellite and KOMPSAT-5 of South Korea, and object-oriented image classification method using the image segmentation technique is applied for extraction. In addition, to improve the accuracy of image segmentation, the speckle divergence was first calculated to adjust the reflection intensity of settlement areas. In order to evaluate the accuracy of the two satellite images, settlement areas are classified by applying a pixel-based K-means image classification method. As a result, in the case of TerraSAR-X, the accuracy of the object-oriented image classification technique was 88.5%, that of the pixel-based image classification was 75.9%, and that of KOMPSAT-5 was 87.3% and 74.4%, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.2 s.40
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• pp.25-33
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• 2006

We propose a method that automatically classifies the images into the object and non-object images. An object image is the image with object(s). An object in an image is defined as a set of regions that lie around center of the image and have significant color distribution against the other surround (or background) regions. We define four measures based on the characteristics of an object to classify the images. The center significance is calculated from the difference in color distribution between the center area and its surrounding region. Second measure is the variance of significantly correlated colors in the image plane. Significantly correlated colors are first defined as the colors of two adjacent pixels that appear more frequently around center of an image rather than at the background of the image. Third one is edge strength at the boundary of candidate for the object. By the way, it is computationally expensive to extract third value because central objects are extracted. So, we define fourth measure which is similar with third measure in characteristic. Fourth one can be calculated more fast but show less accuracy than third one. To classify the images we combine each measure by training the neural network and SYM. We compare classification accuracies of these two classifiers.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.85-89
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• 2010

Most images are composed as union of the various objects which can describe meaning respectively. Unlike human perception, The general computer systems used for image processing analyze images based on low level features like color, texture and shape. The semantic gap between low level image features and the richness of user semantic knowledges can bring about unsatisfactory classification results from user expectation. In order to deal with this problem, we propose a semantic cue based image classification method using salient points from object of interest. Salient points are used to extract low level features from images and to link high level semantic concepts, and they represent distinct semantic information. The proposed algorithm can reduce semantic gap using salient points modeling which are used for image classification like human perception. and also it can improve classification accuracy of natural images according to their semantic concept relative to certain object information by using salient points. The experimental result shows both a high efficiency of the proposed methods and a good performance.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.44-51
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• 2020

동영상 프레임 내 객체 영역들을 배경으로부터 분할하는 기술인 동영상 객체 분할(video object segmentation)은 다양한 컴퓨터 비전 분야에 활용 가능한 연구 분야이다. 최근, 동영상 객체 분할과 관련된 연구 내용으로 CVPR, ICCV, ECCV의 컴퓨터 비전 최우수 학회에 매년 20편 가까이 발표될 정도로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 동영상 객체 분할은 사용자가 제공하는 정보에 따라 비지도(unsupervised) 동영상 객체 분할, 준지도(semi-supervised) 동영상 객체 분할, 인터렉티브(interactive) 동영상 객체 분할의 세 카테고리로 분류할 수 있다. 본 고에서는 최근 연구가 활발하게 수행되고 있는 비지도 동영상 객체 분할과 준지도 동영상 객체 분할 연구의 최신 동향에 대해 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.627-636
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• 2010

Image segmentation technique is becoming increasingly important in the field of remote sensing image analysis in areas such as object oriented image classification to extract object regions of interest within images. This paper presents a new method for image segmentation to consider spectral and spatial information of high resolution satellite image. Firstly, the initial seeds were automatically selected using local variation of multi-spectral edge information. After automatic selection of significant seeds, a segmentation was achieved by applying MSRG which determines the priority of region growing using information drawn from similarity between the extracted each seed and its neighboring points. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, the results obtained using the proposed method were compared with the results obtained using conventional region growing and watershed method. The quantitative comparison was done using the unsupervised objective evaluation method and the object-based classification result. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method has good potential for application in the object-based analysis of high resolution satellite images.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.105-113
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• 2011

Since existing thematic maps have been made with medium- to low-resolution satellite images, they have several shortcomings including low positional accuracy and low precision of presented thematic information. Digital aerial photo image taken recently can express panchromatic and color bands as well as NIR (Near Infrared) bands which can be used in interpreting forest areas. High resolution images are also available, so it would be possible to conduct precision land cover classification. In this context, this paper implemented object-based land cover classification by using digital aerial photos with 0.12m GSD (Ground Sample Distance) resolution and IKONOS satellite images with 1m GSD resolution, both of which were taken on the same area, and also executed qualitative analysis with ortho images and existing land cover maps to check the possibility of object-based land cover classification using digital aerial photos and to present usability of digital aerial photos. Also, the accuracy of such classification was analyzed by generating TTA(Training and Test Area) masks and also analyzed their accuracy through comparison of classified areas using screen digitizing. The result showed that it was possible to make a land cover map with digital aerial photos, which allows more detailed classification compared to satellite images.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.213-221
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• 2007

This paper showed how to analysis the object-based classification for wildfire fuel type map using Hyperion hyperspectral remote sensing data acquired in April, 2002 and compared the results of the object-based classification with the results of the pixel-based classification. Our methodological approach for wildfire fuel type map firstly processed correcting abnormal pixels and atypical bands and also calibrating atmospheric noise for enhanced image quality. Fuel type map is characterized by the results of the spectral mixture analysis(SMA). Object-based approach was based on segment-based endmember selection, while pixel-based method used standard SMA. To validate and compare, we used true-color high resolution orthoimagery.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.48-57
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• 2010

본 고는 휴먼 객체 검출 및 분류를 위한 것으로서, 입력된 동영상에서 배경 이미지와의 차분 영상을 통해 객체 영역을 검출하고, 검출된 객체 영역에서 얼굴 즉 헤드 영역을 검출하는 방법에 대해서 설명한다. 실시간으로 녹화된 동영상에서 사람이 움직이는 위치와, 크기 등이 아주 다양하며, 또한 한 사람이 아닌 여러 사람 객체를 검출하기 위하여 다중의 사람객체 검출기를 이용한 캐스케이드 사람 객체 추출 방법을 제안한다. 얼굴 크기 등을 고려하여 헤드 영역의 shape 를 기반으로 하여 1차 검출을 수행하고, 검출되지 않은 영역에 대하여 히스토그램 기반의 얼굴 영역을 검출한다. 또한 중복된 영상에 대해 베이지안 얼굴 검출기를 통해 인증함으로써 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다.