• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.383-391
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• 2017

In image processing, image segmentation has been studied by various methods in a long time. Image segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple objects and face detection is a typical image segmentation field being used in a variety of applications that identifies human faces in digital images. In this paper, we propose a method for extracting the contours of faces included in images. Using the Viola-Jones algorithm, to do this, we detect the approximate locations of faces from images. But, the Viola-Jones algorithm could detected the approximate location of face not the correct position. In order to extract a more accurate face region from image, we use skin color in this paper. In details, face region would be extracted using the analysis of horizontal and vertical histograms on the skin area. Finally, the face contour is extracted using snake algorithm for the extracted face area. In this paperr, a modified snake energy function is proposed for face contour extraction based snake algorithm proposed by Williams et al.[7]

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.628-638
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• 1999

In this paper, we presents a method of retrieving 24 bpp RGB images based on color-spatial features. For each image, it is subdivided into regions by using similarity of color after converting RGB color space to CIE L*u*v* color space that is perceptually uniform. Our segmentation algorithm constrains the size of region because a small region is discardable and a large region is difficult to extract spatial feature. For each region, averaging color and center of region are extracted to construct color-spatial features. During the image retrieval process, the color and spatial features of query are compared with those of the database images using our similarity measure to determine the set of candidate images to be retrieved. We implement a content-based color image retrieval system using the proposed method. The system is able to retrieve images by user graphic or example image query. Experimental results show that Recall/Precision is 0.80/0.84.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.234-239
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• 2002

영상 검색의 수행 방법으로 사람의 시각 시스템의 특성을 기반으로 효과적인 특징 추출 통한 계층적인 내용 기반 검색 시스템을 제안한다. 영상 고유의 특징을 얻기 위해 영상내에 존재하는 형태 정보와 질감 방향성 및 칼라 정보를 이용한다. 본 논문에서는 형태 정보의 추출을 위하여 사용자의 질의 영상에서 에지 특징 정보를 추출하고 부분 영역으로 분할된 영상에서 GLCM(Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix)의 Contrast를 질감 특징으로 추출한다. 이들 두 특징을 이용하여 1차 분류 과정을 거치고 2차 검사에서는 보다 정확한 검색을 수행하기 위하여 1차로 분류된 후보영상들에 대하여 영상의 세부 정보인 칼라 정보를 기반으로 유사도를 측정함으로써 유사한 칼라와 형태를 가지는 영상뿐만 아니라 칼라가 다른 유사한 영상에도 효율적인 검색 성능을 보였다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.376-379
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• 2008

This paper presents an image retrieval algorithm based on feature vector using color of histogram refinement for a faster and more efficient search in the process of content based image retrieval. First, we segment each of R, G, and B images from RGB color image and extract their respective histograms. Secondly, these histograms of individual R, G and B are divided into sixteen of bins each. Finally, we extract the maximum pixel values in each bins' histogram, which are calculated, compared and analyzed, Now, we can perform image retrieval technique using these maximum pixel value. Hence, the proposed algorithm of this paper effectively extracts features by comparing input and database images, making features from R, G and B into a feature vector table, and prove a batter searching performance than the current algorithm that uses histogram matching and ranks, only.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.422-424
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 질감 특징과 신경회로망을 이용한 유방암조직영상의 분할 방법을 제안한다. 신경회로망의 입력 노드에 사용될 질감 특징을 얻기 위해 10개의 영상에 대해 각 영역(양성세포핵, 음성세포핵, 배경)에서 10개씩의 화소를 선택하고, 그 화소를 중심으로 하는 5$\times$5 영역 30개를 획득, 총 300개의 영역에 대해 R, G, B 각각의 밴드에서 18개의 질감특징을 추출한다. 54개의 입력노드, 28개의 은닉노드, 3개의 출력노드의 구조를 가진 신경회로망을 구성하고, 역전파 학습 알고리즘을 사용하여 신경회로망을 최대오차율이 10-3보다 작을 때까지 학습시킨다. 학습에 의해 획득되어진 분류기를 이용하여 유방암 조직 세포영상을 양성세포핵, 음성세포핵, 배경부분으로 자동 분할한다.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.223-226
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• 2003

When we detect side-view face in color image, we decide a candidate face region using skin-tone color, and confirm to the face by template matching. Cang Wei use a left and a right template of face, calculate to similarity value by hausdorff method, and decide the final side-view face. It has a characteristic that side-view face is wide spreading neck region. To get exactly result, face region is separated vertically by 3 pixel unit, and matched template. In this paper, we assume that a side-view face is a right side-view or a left side-view face. We separate a half of the candidate face region vertically, and regard a left side as left candidate face, a right side as right candidate face by template matching. This method detect faster than Gang Wei method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.27-32
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• 2004

If the areas existing in an object are composed of different color sets, the applicable object is segmented into independent areas so it gets to lose the meaning as an object. Therefore, it is required to selectively apply other information on the areas in addition to color information. Based on this methodology, this study, in addition to color information, has also analyzed the shape of isophotes that connect equivalence of brightness as a way of expressing cubic effect. And, through the analyzed information, it has judges independence or dependence of the areas, and then, proposed a way of object separation through significant regional matching of an object.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1-12
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• 2009

The correct detection of skin color is an important preliminary process in fields of face detection and human motion analysis. It is generally performed by three steps: transforming the pixel color to a non-RGB color space, dropping the illuminance component of skin color, and classifying the pixels by the skin color distribution model. Skin detection depends on by various factors such as color space, presence of the illumination, skin modeling method. In this paper we propose a 3d skin color model that can segment pixels with several ethnic skin color from images with various illumination condition and complicated backgrounds. This proposed skin color model are formed with each components(Y, Cb, Cr) which transform pixel color to YCbCr color space. In order to segment the skin color of several ethnic groups together, we first create the skin color model of each ethnic group, and then merge the skin color model using its skin color probability. Further, proposed model makes several steps of skin color areas that can help to classify proper skin color areas using small training data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.496-498
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• 2001

Snake 모델(active contour model)은 초기값을 설정해주면 자동으로 임의의 물체의 윤곽을 찾아내는 알고리즘으로 영상에서 특정 영역을 분할하여 할 때 많이 이용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 칼라 영상에서 얼굴과 얼굴의 특징점을 찾는 방법으로 이 알고리즘을 적용한다. 특히, 주어진 영상의 RGB 값을 정규화(normalization) 해주는 전처리 과정을 통해 얼굴의 특징점 후보 영역을 얻어내는 초기 값을 설정해주어야 하는 과정을 생략해주고 보다 정확한 값을 얻을 수 있도록 구현한다. RGB 값을 이용한 정규화 과정을 적용한 방법과 적용하지 않은 방법을 구현한 결과를 비교해줌으로써, 정규화 과정을 거친 방법의 성능이 더 우수함을 보여준다.