• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.457-461
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 RGB 컬러 정보와 오류 역전파 알고리즘을 이용한 신 차량 번호판 인식 방법을 제안한다. 차량 영상에서 평균 Blue값을 이용하여 차량 영상을 보정한다. 보정된 차량 영상에서 순수 Red픽셀과 현재 픽셀의 차이와 순수 Green 픽셀과 현재의 픽셀의 차이를 각각 구하여 Red 후보 영역과 Green 후보 영역으로 구분한다. 구분된 2개의 후보 영역의 픽셀 값을 오류 역전파 알고리즘에 적용하여 최종 Green 영역을 찾는다. 그리고 오류 역전파 알고리즘에 의해서 Green 영역으로 판명된 영역을 제외한 영역들은 잡음으로 처리한다. 잡음이 제거된 영역에 대해 수평 및 수직 히스토그램의 빈도수를 이용하여 번호판 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 번호판 영역에서 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 개별 코드들을 추출하고, 오류 역전파 알고리즘을 적용하여 개별 코드들을 인식한다. 제안된 차량 번호판 추출 및 인식 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 실제 비영업용 신 차량 번호판에 적용한 결과, 제안된 번호판 추출 방법이 기존의 HSI 정보를 이용한 번호판 추출 방법보다 추출률이 개선되었고 제안된 차량 번호판 인식 방법이 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.43 no.3 s.309
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• pp.67-77
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• 2006

This thesis proposes an effi챠ent method for extracting a prostate volume from 3D ultrasound image by using wavelet transform and SVM classification. In the proposed method, a modulus image for each 2D slice is generated by averaging detail images of horizontal and vertical orientations at several scales, which has the sharpest local maxima and the lowest noise power compared to those of all single scales. Prostate contour vertices are determined accurately using a SVM classifier, where feature vectors are composed of intensity and texture moments investigated along radial lines. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields absolute mean distance of on average 1.89 pixels when the contours obtained manually by an expert are used as reference data.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.15 no.6
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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.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.195-203
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• 2012

This paper proposes ground target classification algorithm based on decision fusion and feature extraction method using multi-sensor images. The decisions obtained from the individual classifiers are fused by applying a weighted voting method to improve target recognition rate. For classifying the targets belong to the individual sensors images, features robust to scale and rotation are extracted using the difference of brightness of CM images obtained from CCD image and the boundary similarity and the width ratio between the vehicle body and turret of target in FLIR image. Finally, we verity the performance of proposed ground target classification algorithm and feature extraction method by the experimentation.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.173-178
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• 2012

In this paper, a new saliency map generation method is discussed which extracts objects effectively using extracted Salient Region. Feature map is constructed first using four features of edge, hue of HSV color model, focus and entropy and then conspicuity map is generated from Center Surround Differences using the feature map. Final saliency map is constructed by the combination of conspicuity maps. Saliency map generated using this procedure is compared to the conventional technique and confirmed that new technique has better results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.63-64
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 Saliency map과 Max Filter를 이용한 영상의 자막영역을 추출 한다. Saliency map은 눈에 띄는 영역, 즉 영상에서 주변영역에 비해 밝기 차이가 심한 영역과 윤곽선에 대한 특징이 강한 영역을 돌출하는 것을 말하며, MaxFilter는 중심 픽셀을 최대 윈도우 값을 사용하는 것으로 극단적인 Impulse Noise를 제거하는데 효과적이며 특히 어두운 스파이크를 제거하는데 유용하게 사용된다. 이 두 가지의 특징들을 이용하여 영상의 자막 영역을 추출한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.653-654
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 문화재 손상 검출을 위한 직선 검출 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 문화재 건물의 볼록함, 즉 배부름 현상을 검출하기 위하여 원본 이미지의 직선과 윤곽을 탐지하여 두 선을 비교한다. 배부름 현상이 나타난 문화재의 경우 곡선이 볼록하게 검출되기 때문에 직선과 비교했을 때 일치하지 않는다. 직선 탐지 기법과 윤곽 탐지 기법은 컴퓨터 비전을 기반으로 이루어져 있으며, 이 선들은 이미지의 엣지를 이용하여 검출한다. 배부름 현상은 문화재의 전체 부분 중 일부분에 발생하기 때문에 직선과 윤곽을 비교했을 때 차이를 드러내므로 우수한 성능을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.403-408
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• 2003

A general meaning of caricaturing is that a representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. In other words, a caricature is defined as a rough sketch(dessin) which is made by detecting features from human face and exaggerating or warping those. There have been developed many methods which can make a caricature image from human face using computer. In this paper, we propose a new caricaturing system. The system uses a real-time image or supplied image as an input image and deals with it on four processing steps and then creates a caricatured image finally. The four Processing steps are like that. The first step is detecting a face from input image. The second step is extracting special coordinate values as facial geometric information. The third step is deforming the face image using local warping method and the coordinate values acquired in the second step. In fourth step, the system transforms the deformed image into the better improved edge image using a fuzzy Sobel method and then creates a caricatured image finally. In this paper , we can realize a caricaturing system which is simpler than any other exiting systems in ways that create a caricatured image and does not need complex algorithms using many image processing methods like image recognition, transformation and edge detection.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.5
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• pp.391-400
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• 2004

Within multimodal medical image registration techniques, which correlate different images and Provide integrated information, surface registration methods generally minimize the surface distance between two modalities. However, the features of two modalities acquired from one subject are similar. So, it can improve the accuracy of registration result to match two images based on optimization of both surface distance and shape feature. This research proposes a registration method which optimizes surface distance and surface curvature of two brain modalities. The registration process has two steps. First, surface information is extracted from the reference images and the test images. Next, the optimization process is performed. In the former step, the surface boundaries of regions of interest are extracted from the two modalities. And for the boundary of reference volume image, distance map and curvature map are generated. In the optimization step, a transformation minimizing both surface distance and surface curvature difference is determined by a cost function referring to the distance map and curvature map. The applying of the result transformation makes test volume be registered to reference volume. The suggested cost function makes possible a more robust and accurate registration result than that of the cost function using the surface distance only. Also, this research provides an efficient means for image analysis through volume visualization of the registration result.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.850-853
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• 2009

반도체 조립공정에서 사용되는 Pick and Placement장비는 반도체패키지를 컴퓨터 비젼을 이용하여 위치 정렬하고 Placement Tray에 적재하는 장비로서 고속,고정밀도가 요구된다. 다변량 통계적 분석방법인 주성분 분석법은 주어진 데이터에서 특징이 되는 일정한 패턴을 찾는 방법으로 영상의 차원감소를 위해 최근 많이 사용되어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 반도체패키지의 기하학적 형태를 이용하여 위치정렬을 하도록 한 후 성능을 검증하도록 하였다. 패키지 원영상에서 밝기값의 차이에 따른 윤곽선을 인식한 후, 각 위치값들을 주성분 분석법을 이용해 직선을 추출한 방법으로 위치정렬한 결과 신뢰할만한 위치정렬 성능을 보였다.