• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.499-501
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 영역기반 검색환경을 제공하는 FRIP(Finding Region in the Pictures) 시스템을 소개한다. FRIP 시스템은 영역 기반 검색환경을 제공하기 위해서, 우선적으로 영상을 분할하고, 각 분할된 영역으로부터 색상, 질감, 크기, 모양, 위치 정보와 같은 최적의 특징 벡터들을 추출하여 색인화시킨다. 그런 뒤에, 사용자가 검색하고자 하는 영역과 검색 영상 수 k를 입력하면, 유사성 측정 식에 의해 가장 유사한 k만큼의 영상을 우선 순위 형태로 사용자에 보여주게 된다. 본 시스템에서는 영상을 분할하기 위해서 기본적인 RGB 색상계를 확장(Scaling 및 이동(Shifting) 알고리즘을 통해 영상의 대비 정도가 향상된 새로운 색상계로 변환시키고, 원형 필터를 설계하여, 영역 안에 포함된 의미 없는 작은 영역을 제거하도록 하였다. 그리고 이렇게 분할된 각 영역들로부터, 본 시스템에서 제안하는 모양 기술자인 MRS(Modified Radius-based Signature)를 포함하여 5가지의 최적의 특징 벡터들을 전처리 단계에서 데이터베이스에 색인으로 저장하고 유사성 측정을 위한 수치로 사용하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.519-524
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• 2006

Segmentation for the region of nucleus in the image of uterine cervical cytodiagnosis is known as the most difficult and important part in the automatic cervical cancer recognition system. In this paper, the region of nucleus is extracted from an image of uterine cervical cytodiagnosis using the fuzzy grey morphology operation. The characteristics of the nucleus are extracted from the analysis of morphemetric features, densitometric features, colormetric features, and textural features based on the detected region of nucleus area. The classification criterion of a nucleus is defined according to the standard categories of the Bethesda system. The enhanced fuzzy ART algorithm is used to the extracted nucleus and the results show that the proposed method is efficient in nucleus recognition and uterine cervical Pap-Smears extraction.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.53-64
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• 2000

This paper is related to color image segmentation scheme which makes it possible to achieve the excellent segmented results by block-based segmentation using Y/C bit-plane summation image. First, normalized chrominance summation image is obtained by normalizing the image which is summed up the absolutes of color-differential values between R, G, B images. Secondly, upper 2 bits of the luminance image and upper 6bits of and the normalized chrominance summation image are bitwise operated by the pixel to generate the Y/C bit-plane summation image. Next, the Y/C bit-plane summation image divided into predetermined block size, is classified into monotone blocks, texture blocks and edge blocks, and then each classified block is merged to the regions including one more blocks in the individual block type, and each region is selectively allocated to unique marker according to predetermined marker allocation rules. Finally, fine segmented results are obtained by applying the watershed algorithm to each pixel in the unmarked blocks. As shown in computer simulation, the main advantage of the proposed method is that it suppresses the over-segmentation in the texture regions and reduces computational load. Furthermore, it is able to apply global parameters to various images with different pixel distribution properties because they are nonsensitive for pixel distribution. Especially, the proposed method offers reasonable segmentation results in edge areas with lower contrast owing to the regional characteristics of the color components reflected in the Y/C bit-plane summation image.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.623-632
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• 2008

In this paper, we used the color transfer function and the opacity transfer function for the internal 3D object visualization of an image volume data. In transfer function, creating values of between boundaries generally is ambiguous. We concentrated to extract boundary features for segmenting the visual volume rendering objects. Consequently we extracted an image gradient feature in spatial domain and created a multi-dimensional transfer function according to the GPU efficient improvement. Finally using these functions we obtained a good research result as an implementing object boundary visualization of the graphic hardware based 3D texture mapping.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.106-108
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• 2004

이미지의 유사도나 의미분석을 위해 주요 특징벡터인 색상, 경계선, 질감 등의 연구와 이들을 이미지 전역구간 및 관심영역에 적용하기 위해 데이터베이스에 저장하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 특히, 특징벡터의 분할 방법을 유동적, 또는 크게 할 경우 알고리즘 복잡화로 인해 추출 및 검색시간과 오버헤드가 증가하게 되고, 적게할 경우 정확도가 감소한다. 따라서 본 논문은 색상 및 경계선 벡터를 사분트리 분할 인덱스 구조로 데이터 베이스에 저장하고, 두 가지 문제를 동시에 해결하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 이미지 전역구간을 사분노드로 분할하고, 관심영역의 색상정보를 비교하고, 추출된 전역적 경계분포 순위계수와 비교 알고리즘을 이용하여 이미지에 분포된 객체의 위치정보를 검색함으로써, 검색속도 및 정확성을 개선하였다

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.482-484
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 매개변수 없이 입력 문서 영상을 최대 동질 영역들로 분할한 다음, 각 동질 영역을 텍스트, 그림, 표 그리고 선으로 자동 분류하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 다단계 분석과 하향식 접근 방법을 사용하기 위하여 문서 영상을 피라미드 구조로 계층화하였으며, 어떤 영역을 분할할 지의 여부를 결정하기 위하여 그 영역의 주기성을 이용하여 판단하였다. 이러한 주기성 정보를 이용함으로써, 어떠한 매개변수 없이도 활자체 크기와 행간에 무관하게 텍스트 영역을 정확히 분석할 수 있었으며, 피라미드 구조를 만드는데 걸리는 시간이 질감 분석 접근방법보다 빠른 방법으로 설계되었다. Washington 대학의 문서 영상 데이터베이스를 이용한 실험 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 방법들보다 더 정확하게 문서 영상을 분할 및 분류할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.1-11
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• 2007

As the availability of an image information has been significantly increasing, necessity of system that can manage an image information is increasing. Accordingly, we proposed the region-based content retrieval(CBIR) algorithm based on an efficient combination of an image segmentation, an image texture, a color feature and an image's shape and position information. As a color feature, a HSI color histogram is chosen which is known to measure spatial of colors well. We used active contour and CWT(complex wavelet transform) to perform an image segmentation and extracting an image texture. And shape and position information are obtained using Hu invariant moments in the luminance of HSI model. For efficient similarity computation, the extracted features(color histogram, Hu invariant moments, and complex wavelet transform) are combined and then precision and recall are measured. As a experimental result using DB that was supported by www.freefoto.com. the proposed image retrieval engine have 94.8% precision, 82.7% recall and can apply successfully image retrieval system.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.139-152
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a ground area detection technique based on region segmentation in the spherical image. We modified the Watershed planar image segmentation method to segment spherical images. After regions are segmented, the ground area is detected by comparing colors and textures of pixels of the assumed ground region with the pixels of other regions. The ground detection technique for planar images cannot be used for spherical images due to the spherical distortion. Considering the spherical distortion, we designed the ground shape detection algorithm to detect the ground area in the spherical images. Our experimental results show that the proposed technique properly detects ground areas both for the flat ground and the obstacle-filled ground environments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.8B
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• pp.1391-1399
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• 2000

In this paper, we discussed the region-based image retrieval method using image segmentation. We proposed a segmentation method which can reduce the effect of a irregular light sources. The image segmentation method uses a region-merging, and candidate regions which are merged were selected by the energy values of high frequency bands in discrete wavelet transform. The content-based image retrieval is executed by using the segmented region information, and the images are retrieved by a color, texture, shape feature vector. The similarity measure between regions is processed by the Euclidean distance of the feature vectors. The simulation results shows that the proposed method is reasonable.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.16-25
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• 2009

In this paper we propose the block based image segmentation method using the cyclic properties of hue components in HSI color model. In proposed method we use center point instead of hue mean values as the hue representatives for regions in image segmentation considering hue cyclic properties and we also use directed distance for the hue difference among regions. Furthermore we devise the simple and effective method to get critical values through control parameter to reduce the complexity in the calculation of those in the conventional method. From the experimental results we found that the segmented regions in the proposed method is more natural than those in the conventional method especially in texture and red tone regions. In the simulation results the proposed method is better than the conventional methods in the in the evaluation of the human segmentation dataset presented Berkely Segmentation Database.