• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.209-217
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• 2014

It is very important to classify a lot of table-form documents into the same type of classes or to extract information filled in the template automatically. For these, it is necessary to accurately analyze table-form structure. This paper proposes an algorithm to extract corner points based on line edge segments and to classify the type of junction from table-form images. The algorithm preprocesses image through binarization, skew correction, deletion of isolated small area of black color because that they are probably generated by noises.. And then, it processes detections of edge block, line edges from a edge block, corner points. The extracted corner points are classified as 9 types of junction based on the combination of horizontal/vertical line edge segments in a block. The proposed method is applied to the several unconstraint document images such as tax form, transaction receipt, ordinary document containing tables, etc. The experimental results show that the performance of point detection is over 99%. Considering that almost corner points make a correspondence pair in the table, the information of type of corner and width of line may be useful to analyse the structure of table-form document.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2785-2791
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• 2015

In this paper, neddle detection algorithm for the removal of needle stuck into skin in oriental clinic is presented. First, in the proposed method, potential candidate areas of each needle are selected by using the morphological open operation in a gray image, and the false candidates are removed by considering their area size. Next, edge points are extracted using canny edge detector in selected candidate areas, line segments are approximated using the edge points. Based on the direction of line segment and the distance between two line segments, two main line segments of the needle are extracted. The final verification of needle is accomplished by using the morphological analysis of these two line segments. In the experiments, the detection rate of proposed method reaches to 97.5% for the 16 images containing 119 needles.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.11-20
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• 2007

This paper proposes a new efficient method to detect ellipses using a segment merging based Randomized Hough Transform. The key idea of the proposed method is to separate single line segments from an edge image, to estimate ellipses from any pair of the single line segments using Randomized Hough Transform (RHT), and to merge the ellipses. This algorithm is able to accuracy estimate the number of ellipses and largely improves the computational time by reducing iterations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.548-550
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• 2000

본 논문은 재구성 가능한 메쉬(RMESH) 병렬 모델에서 상수 시간에 구멍이 있는 다각형의 한 점으로부터의 가시성 다각형을 구하는 문제를 고려한다. 알고리즘의 기본 전략은 프로세서의 수에 있어 준-최적인 상수 시간 알고리즘을 사용하여 문제의 크기를 감소시킴으로써 최적인 상수 시간 알고리즘을 얻는 것이다. 이 전략을 사용해 모두 N개의 에지로 구성된 구멍이 있는 다각형에 대한 가시성 다각형을 N$\times$N RMESH에서 상수 시간에 구하는 알고리즘을 제시한다. 이 알고리즘은 다각형들의 집합이 주어져 있을 때 외부의 한 점에서 가시 영역을 구하거나, 선분들의 집합이 주어져 있을 때 평면상의 한 점에서 가시 영역을 구하는 문제도 해결할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1318-1324
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• 2012

This paper proposes a novel method for Game character classification based on texture and edge orientation feature. The character dose not move(NPC) and move the character is classified. Classification of property within the character of straight line segments are used to extract features. First, the character inside edge feature extraction and then calculates EEDH, SSPD. The extracted attribute represents the energy of a particular direction. Thus, these properties were used to classify of NPC and Monster. The proposed method, the user can reduce the unnecessary time in the game.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.233-238
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• 2004

Comer point is a very important information to a pattern recognition of image processing. And so, many researchers develope various detecting comer point algoritms. But, there are some problems to get comer points by 8 directional chain code when the degree of edge line is not integer multiplication of 45 degree. So, we propose a new algorithm which is combined with morphology and human visual conception for optimal comer points without the above defects. We get a good simulation result by this proposed algorithm Ana so, we think this algorithm is very useful to FA(factory automation} and ship's radar system to know some coastal area from its image.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.73-80
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a medical image processing method for detection of periodontal disease. The proposed method is the method of an automatic image alignment and detection of minute changes, to overcome defects in the conventional subtraction radiography by digital image processing technique, that is necessary for getting subtraction image and ROI(Region of Interest) focused on a selection method using the structured features in target images. And the method services accuracy, consistency and objective information or data to results. In result, easily and visually we can identify minute differences in the affected parts whether they have problems or not, and using application system.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a directional feature extraction method for off-line handwritten numerals by using the morphological operations. Direction features are obtained from four directional line images, each of which contains horizontal, vertical, right-diagonal and left-diagonal lines in entire numeral lines. Conventional method for extracting directional features uses Kirsch masks which generate edge-shaped double line images for each direction, whereas our method uses directional erosion operations and generate single line images for each direction. To apply these directional erosion operations to the numeral image, preprocessing steps such as thinning and dilation are required, but resultant directional lines are more similar to numeral lines themselves. Our four [$4{\times}4$] directional features of a numeral are obtained from four directional line images through a zoning method. For obtaining the higher recognition rates of the handwrittern numerals, we use the multiple feature which is comprised of our proposed feature and the conventional features of a kirsch directional feature and a concavity feature. For recognition test with given features, we use a multi-layer perceptron neural network classifier which is trained with the back propagation algorithm. Through the experiments with the CENPARMI numeral database of Concordia University, we have achieved a recognition rate of 98.35%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.586-588
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• 1998

영상처리의 결과로 얻어지는 에지나 선분과 같은 영상특성들은 그래픽의 기본 요소인 프리미티브들로 표현될 수 있다. 영상처리 결과를 그래픽 프리미티브로 표현하게 되면 보다 효율적으로 visualization할 수 있고 그래픽 환경의 편집기능을 이용하여 새로운 그래픽스를 생성할 수 있다. 반대로 그래픽 기술을 이용하여 생성된 영상은 패턴인식이나 Model Based 삼차원 물체인식 등에 사용될 수 있다. 이처럼 영상처리와 그래픽스는 서로 밀접한 관계를 가지고 있지만 이 두 분야를 지원하는 자료구조는 이를 반영하지 않고 있다. 영상처리를 위한 자료구조는 신속한 접근을 목표로 개발된 반면 그래픽스를 위한 자료구조는 공간절약과 빠른 display를 목표로 설계되었다. 본 연구에서는 영상처리와 그래픽스를 동시에 효과적으로 지원할 수 있는 자료구조를 설계하고 구현한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.94-97
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 실제 도로 환경에서의 실시간 차선 인식 방법을 제안한다. 전방주시카메라를 활용하여 촬영한 입력영상으로부터 도로영역에 해당하는 관심영역을 추출하고 반복적인 평균 명도를 측정하여 이진화함으로써 차선 특징을 검출하고 YCbCr 변환한 영상에 대한 실험 임계값을 적용하여 중앙선의 특징을 검출하였다. 이에 Canny 알고리즘을 이용한 에지 추출로 허프 변환시의 작업량을 최소화하였으며 허프 변환하여 얻은 차선 후보군으로부터 각도를 기반으로 필터링하여 통계적으로 우선순위가 높은 선분을 차선으로 인식하였다. 또한 실제 도로 환경에서 수집한 동영상으로 실험한 결과 강건한 차선 인식률을 보였다.