• 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 the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1459-1466
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• 2013

Recently, various types of three-dimensional cameras have been used to analyze surrounding environments. In this paper, we suggest a mechanism of adaptively switching active and passive cameras of hybrid cameras, which can extract 3D image information more accurately. The suggested method first obtains brightness and texture features representing the environment from input images. It then adaptively selects active and passive cameras by generating rules that reflect the extracted features. In experimental results, we show that a hybrid 3D camera consisting of passive and active cameras is set up and the proposed method can effectively choose appropriate cameras in the hybrid camera and make it possible to extract three dimensional information more accurately.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.255-265
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• 2015

Very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery provide valuable information on urban change monitoring due to multi-temporal observation over large areas. Recently, there has been increased interest in the urban change detection technique using VHR Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging system, because it can take images regardless of solar illumination and weather condition. In this paper, we proposed a texture-based urban change detection method using the VHR SAR texture features generated from Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM). In order to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed method, the result was compared, visually and quantitatively, with the result of Non-Coherent Change Detection (NCCD) which is widely used for the change detection of VHR SAR image. The experimental results showed the greater detection accuracy and the visually satisfactory result compared with the NCCD method. In conclusion, the proposed method has shown a great potential for the extraction of urban change information from VHR SAR imagery.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.6
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• pp.281-288
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• 2010

In this paper, we describe the development of a system for generating a 3-dimensional human face using 3D scanned facial data and photo images, and morphing animation. The system comprises a facial feature input tool, a 3-dimensional texture mapping interface, and a 3-dimensional facial morphing interface. The facial feature input tool supports texture mapping and morphing animation - facial morphing areas between two facial models are defined by inputting facial feature points interactively. The texture mapping is done first by means of three photo images - a front and two side images - of a face model. The morphing interface allows for the generation of a morphing animation between corresponding areas of two facial models after texture mapping. This system allows users to interactively generate morphing animations between two facial models, without programming, using 3D scanned facial data and photo images.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.807-811
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 기존의 연구에서 여러 단계를 거쳐 복잡한 연산을 한 후에 수묵화 표현이 가능했던 것과 달리 기존에 요구되었던 채색과정을 줄임으로써 렌더링의 효율을 높인 실시간 3차원 수묵화 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 기법은 모델이 보여지는 방향에 따라 다른 조명 값과 법선 벡터 값을 계산한 후 연산 값에 따라서 여러장의 텍스처를 일정 비율에 맞춰서 모델에 적용함으로써 수묵화의 특징인 농담, 발묵 효과를 한 번에 적용할 수 있게 한다. 그리고 모델의 윤곽선을 표현하는데 사용자의 입력에 따라 붓의 굵기를 조절하게 하여 보다 사실적인 수묵화 느낌을 살렸다. 또한 텍스처 매핑 이후 에도 동양화적인 느낌을 살리기 위해서 두 가지의 종이질감효과를 추가하였다. 이 2 가지의 종이질감 효과는 일종의 안개 필터로서 기존의 안개 필터와 달리 모델이 그려지는 위치에 따라서 각각 가중치가 다른 필터가 적용되게 하였다. 이렇게 필터가 적용된 렌더링의 결과는 일반적으로 채색된 3차원 모델과 느낌이 다른 자연스러운 결과를 생성할 수 있다. 본 연구는 또한 간단한 구현에 장점을 두고 있기 때문에 간단한 애니메이션이나 일반 3차원 게임 등 여러 분야에서 기존에 적용하기 어려웠던 수묵화 기법을 다양하게 활용할 수 있는 가능성을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.121-123
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• 2006

얼굴의 표정은 얼굴의 구성요소 같은 기하학적 정보와 조명이나 주름 같은 세부적인 정보들로 표현된다. 얼굴 표정은 기하학적 변형만으로는 실감적인 표정을 생성하기 힘들기 때문에 기하학적 변형과 더불어 텍스쳐 같은 세부적인 정보도 함께 변형해야만 실감적인 표현을 할 수 있다. 표정비율이미지 (Expression Ratio Image)같은 얼굴 텍스처의 세부적인 정보를 변형하기 위한 기존 방법들은 조명에 따른 피부색의 변화를 정확히 표현할 수 없는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 서로 다른 조명 조건에서도 실감적인 표정 텍스처 정보를 적용할 수 있는 비선형 피부색 모델 기반의 표정 합성 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 동적 외양 모델을 이용한 자동적인 얼굴 특징 추출과 와핑을 통한 표정 변형 단계, 비선형 피부색 변화 모델을 이용한 표정 생성 단계, Euclidean Distance Transform (EDT)에 의해 계산된 혼합 비율을 사용한 원본 얼굴 영상과 생성된 표정의 합성 등 총 3 단계로 구성된다. 실험결과는 제안된 방법이 다양한 조명조건에서도 자연스럽고 실감적인 표정을 표현한다는 것을 보인다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.120-124
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• 2010

This paper presents a method that can automatically detect variety of degradations (i.e., scratches and blotches) in old film archive. The proposed method consists of candidate detection and verification. Degradations are first identified by finding the local extreme of a frame in spatiotemporal domains, thereby using edge detector and SROD detector. Then, to remove some false alarms occurred in the first stages, the verification is performed using the texture and shape properties of scratches and blotches. The textural properties of scratches and blotches are learned using neural networks (NNs) and their shapes are represented using morphological filters. The experiments were performed on several old films, then the results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method, where it has a precision of 81% and a recall of 79%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.787-789
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 퍼지 시스템을 이용하여 칼라 패턴으로부터 인간의 강성을 예측하는 텍스타일 인덱싱 시스템을 제안한다. 텍스타일 인덱싱이란 입력받은 직물 영상을 섬유의 영상을 강성 특징으로 색인화 하는 것이다. 제안된 시스템은 입력 영상에 대해 warm-cold, strong-weak, heavy-light특징이 어느 정도 있는지 조사한다. 제안된 시스템은 크게 특징추출 부분과 감성 분류로 구성한다. 특징 추출은 입력 영상에서 컬러 점보와 텍스처 정보를 추출하고, 감성 분류는 특징 추출 부분으로부터 얻어진 정보들을 분석하여 영상 내 포함된 강성을 찾아낸다. 이때 분류를 위해서 본 논문에서는 퍼지 시스템을 사용한다. 퍼지 룰은 80개의 영상에 대하여 70명의 설문조사를 기반으로 하여 경험적으로 얻어졌다. 제안된 시스템은 80개의 영상에 대하여 테스트 해본 결과는 제안된 시스템의 효율성을 보여주었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.322-327
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• 2003

Based on dynamic muscle model to construct efficient face animation in this paper 30 face modelling techniques propose. Composed face muscle by faceline that connect 256 point and this point based on dynamic muscle model, and constructed wireframe because using this. After compose standard model who use wireframe, because using front side and side 2D picture, enforce texture mapping and created 3D individual face model. Used front side of characteristic points and side part for correct mapping, after make face that have texture coordinates using 2D coordinate of front side image and front side characteristic points, constructed face that have texture coordinates using 2D coordinate of side image and side characteristic points.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.8
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• pp.579-588
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• 2013

This paper proposes an effective watermarking approach for copyright protection of fire video images. The proposed watermarking approach efficiently utilizes the inherent characteristics of fire data with respect to color and texture by using a gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering. GLCM is used to generate a texture feature dataset by computing energy and homogeneity properties for each candidate fire image block. FCM is used to segment color of the fire image and to select fire texture blocks for embedding watermarks. Each selected block is then decomposed into a one-level wavelet structure with four subbands [LL, LH, HL, HH] using a discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and LH subband coefficients with a gain factor are selected for embedding watermark, where the visibility of the image does not affect. Experimental results show that the proposed watermarking approach achieves about 48 dB of high peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and 1.6 to 2.0 of low M-singular value decomposition (M-SVD) values. In addition, the proposed approach outperforms conventional image watermarking approach in terms of normalized correlation (NC) values against several image processing attacks including noise addition, filtering, cropping, and JPEG compression.