• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.2697-2704
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• 2011

In tissue engineering area, researchers observe symbiotic relationship such as proliferation, interaction, division apoptosis with time between cells in process of the 3D cell culture in hydrogels. The 3D cell culture process can be taken photographs into sliced images using confocal microscope. Symbiotic mechanism and changes of cell behaviors can be observed and analyzed from the images acquired by confocal microscope. In this paper, we proposed and developed graded noise elimination method and cluster boundary extraction method to extract boundaries information from sliced confocal images acquired in process of the 3D cell culture in hydrogels. The experiment based algorithm showed excellent performance for eliminating noises that have very small millet-shaped size. It is also showed to extract exact boundaries information for even complex clusters.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.21-29
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a method of detecting the boundary of the intima-media complex for automated measurement based on dynamic programming from carotid artery B-mode ultrasound images and then show the experimental results. We apply the dynamic programming for determining the optimal locations that a cost function is minimized. The cost function includes cost terms which are representing image features such as intensity, intensity gradient and geometrical continuity of the vessel interfaces. Moreover, we improve the boundary continuity by applying the B-spline to smooth the rough boundary due to noise such as speckle, dropout and weak edges. The proposed method has obtained more accurate reproducible results than conventional edge-detection by considering multiple image features and ensures efficient automated measurement by solving the problems of the inter- and intra-observer variability and its inefficiency due to manual measurement.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.8
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• pp.2203-2212
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 정규화 과정을 통해 2차원 물체를 인식하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 이를 위해 우선 입력 영상에 톨이론을 적용하여 화상구조를 파악함으로써 임계치 선정없이 잡음 제거와 경계 추출을 행한다. 그 후 추출된 경계선에 Hough 변환을 이용하여 직선과 원을 추출하여 여기에 프리미티브의 안정성에 기초하여 물체를 이루는 프리미티브에 대한 분리를 행한다. 최종적으로 분리된 프리미티브들로부터 모양 정도를 계산하고 디지털화 과정을 통해 인식 과정을 수행한다. 끝으로 본 논문의 유용성을 실험에 의해 입증하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.167-174
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• 2008

The introduction of confocal microscopy makes it possible to observe the structural change of live neuronal cell. Neuro-degenerative disease, such as Alzheimer;s and Parkinson’s diseases are especially related to the morphological change of dendrite spine. That’s the reason for the study of segmentation and extraction from confocal microscope image. The difficulty comes from uneven intensity distribution and blurred boundary. Therefore, the image processing technique which can overcome these problems and extract the structural information should be suggested. In this paper, we propose robust structural information extracting technique with confocal microscopy images of dendrite in brain neurons. First, we apply the nonlinear diffusion filtering that enhance the boundary recognition. Second, we segment region of interest using iterative threshold selection. Third, we perform skeletonization based on Fast Marching Method that extracts centerline and boundary for analysing segmented structure. The result of the proposed method has been less sensitive to noise and has not been affected by rough boundary condition. Using this method shows more accurate and objective results.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.95-102
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• 2023

Numerous investigations have explored the integration of machine leaning algorithms with high-resolution drone image for object detection in urban settings. However, a prevalent limitation in vehicle extraction studies involves the reliance on bounding boxes rather than instance segmentation. This limitation hinders the precise determination of vehicle direction and exact boundaries. Instance segmentation, while providing detailed object boundaries, necessitates labour intensive labelling for individual objects, prompting the need for research on automating unsupervised instance segmentation in vehicle extraction. In this study, a novel approach was proposed for vehicle extraction utilizing unsupervised SVM classification applied to vehicle bounding boxes in drone images. The method aims to address the challenges associated with bounding box-based approaches and provide a more accurate representation of vehicle boundaries. The study showed promising results, demonstrating an 89% accuracy in vehicle extraction. Notably, the proposed technique proved effective even when dealing with significant variations in spectral characteristics within the vehicles. This research contributes to advancing the field by offering a viable solution for automatic and unsupervised instance segmentation in the context of vehicle extraction from image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.535-537
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 정지영상의 색상을 이용하여 객체의 영역 및 경계선을 추출하고, 각각의 추출된 정보의 정점을 혼합하여 보다 정확한 객체를 추출할 수 있는 Hybrid method를 제안한다. 그리고 이 방법을 사용하여 추출된 독립영력간의 연관관계(포함, 인접)를 파악하여 사용자가 원하는 객체를 보다 쉽게 추출하는 객체 추출 시스템을 개발한다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.13 no.1 s.31
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• pp.19-25
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• 2005

Nowadays, it is possible to construct the DEMs of urban area effectively and economically by LiDAR system. But the data from LiDAR system has form of DSM which is included various objects as trees and buildings. So the preprocess is necessary to extract the DEMs from LiDAR DSMs for particular purpose as effects analysis of man-made objects for flood prediction. As this study is for extracting DEM from LiDAR DSM of urban area, we detected the edges of various objects using edge detecting algorithm of image process. And, we tried mean value filtering, median value filtering and minimum value filtering or detected edges instead of interpolation method which is used in the previous study and could be modified the source data. it could minimize the modification of source data, and the extracting process of DEMs from DSMs could be simplified and automated.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.55-60
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• 2003

For quantitative analysis of the cardiac diseases. it is necessary to segment the left-ventricle (LY) in MR (Magnetic Resonance) cardiac images. Snake or active contour model has been used to segment LV boundary. However, the contour of the LV front these models may not converge to the desirable one because the contour may fall into local minimum value due to image artifact inside of the LY Therefore, in this paper, we Propose the Preprocessing method using k-means clustering and merging algorithms that can improve the performance of the active contour model. We verified that our proposed algorithm overcomes local minimum convergence problem by experiment results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.940-942
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• 2005

혈관내부의 초음파는 혈관 벽(vessel wail) 전체를 관찰할 수 있는 단면적 영상(cross-sectional image)으로부터 혈관 벽의 서로 다른 층을 평가할 수 있다. IVUS(Intravascular Ultrasound)영상은 잡음에 매우 민감하고 해상도가 낮기 때문에 혈관 벽의 서로 다른 층을 구분된다. IVUS영상이 내강, 혈관 벽, 외막을 둘러싸는 영역으로 구성되어있다고 가정하면 내부와 외부의 두 경계선으로 구분할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 IVUS영상을 웨이블릿 변환하여 주파수 공간에서 관상동맥 벽의 두 경계선을 추출한다. 실험결과를 통하여 관상동맥 벽의 두 경계선이 잘 추출되는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.438-442
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• 1999

제스처 인식은 직관적일 뿐 아니라, 몇 가지의 기본 구성요소에 의하여 코드화(code)가 용이하여, 인간과 컴퓨터의 상호작용(HCI, Human-Computer Interaction)에 있어서 폭넓게 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 손의 모양이나 크기와 같은 개인차 및 조명의 변화나 배율과 같은 입력환경의 영향을 최소화하여, 특별한 초기화 과정이나 모델의 준비과정 없이도 제스처를 인식할 수 있고, 적은 계산량으로 실시간 인식이 가능한 제스처 인식 시스템의 개발을 목표로 한다. 본 논문에서는 손에 부착하는 센서나 마커 없이, CCD 카메라에 의하여 입력된 컬러영상에서, 컬러정보 및 동작정보를 이용하여 손영역을 추출하고, 추출된 손의 경계선 정보를 이용하여 경계선-중심 거리 함수를 생성했다. 그리고, 손가락의 끝 부분에서는 경계선-중심 거리가 극대점을 이룬다는 원리를 이용하여 생성된 함수의 주파수를 분석하여 극대점을 구함으로써 각각의 손가락 끝 위치를 찾고, 손의 자세를 인식하여 제스처를 인식했다. 또한 본 논문에서 제안된 제스처 인식 방법은 PC상에서 구현되어 그 유용성과 실효성이 증명되었다.