• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.167-172
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• 2006

An image retrieval system retrieves and offers same of similar image based on various features of image. This paper present a brand image retrieval system based on color and shape of image. We use the image for a color information by dividing into the area and extracting the area color distribution histogram. We use for the shape information by preprocessing of the boundary extraction, the centroid extraction, angular sampling etc. and calculating of the sum of the distance from the centroid to the boundary, the standard deviation, and the rate of long axis to short axis. We accomplish the retrieval through a similarity measurement by using the color and shape information which is extracted in this way.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.1329-1332
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• 2000

캐리커처 생성 시스템은 입력된 인물 사진을 세그먼테이션을 통하여 특징(이목구비)을 추출하고, 추출된 특징정보를 이용하여 기와 유사한 특징정보를 가지는 캐리커처 이미지를 검색하여 매핑시키는 시스템이다. 캐리커처 생성 시스템에 얼굴 특징정보 추출은 색상과 모양에 대한 정보를 이용한다. 본 논문은 캐리커처생성을 위한 인물 사진을 세그멘테이션 처리하여 부분 영역 특징정보를 추출하는데 그 목적이 있다. 이때 사용하는 이목구비의 특징정보를 위해 수직, 수평의 히스토그램이 주요하게 사용된다. 또한 인물 사진에서 위치정보를 이용하여 얼굴내의 이목구비를 확인하고, 추출하므로 정확한 정보를 이용할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.300-304
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 원격 탐사 영상 정합에서 정확도는 유지하면서 특징점 매칭 (Matching) 복잡도를 줄이기 위해 입력 영상을 전처리하는 구조물 검출 네트워크를 이용한 원격 탐사 영상 정합 방법을 제안한다. 영상 정합의 기존 방법은 입력 영상에서 특징점을 추출하고 설명자 (Descriptor)를 생성한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 입력 영상에서 특징점 매칭에 영향을 미치는 구조물만 추출하여 새로운 영상을 만들어 특징점을 추출한다. 추출된 특징점은 필터링 (Filtering)을 거쳐 원본 영상에 매핑 (Mapping)되어 설명자를 생성하여 특징점 매칭 속도를 향상시킨다. 또한 구조물 검출 네트워크에서 학습 영상과 시험 영상의 특성의 차이로 생기는 성능 저하 문제를 개선하기 위해 히스토그램 매핑 기법을 이용한다. 아리랑 3 호가 획득한 원격 탐사 영상에 대한 실험을 통해 제안하는 방법은 정확도를 유지하면서 계산 시간을 SURF 보다 87.5%, SIFT 보다 92.6% 감소시킬 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.1-11
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• 2009

To classifying and filtering of adult images, in recent the computer vision techniques are actively investigated because rapidly increase for the amount of adult images accessible on the Internet. In this paper, we investigate and develop the tool filtering of adult images using skin color model. The tool is consisting of two steps. In the first step, we use a skin color classifier to extract skin color regions from an image. In the nest step, we use a region feature classifier to determine whether an image is an adult image or not an adult image depending on extracted skin color regions. Using histogram color model, a skin color classifier is trained for RGB color values of adult images and not adult images. Using SVM, a region feature classifier is trained for skin color ratio on 29 regions of adult images. Experimental results show that suggested classifier achieve a detection rate of 92.80% with 6.73% false positives.

• 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 Broadcast Engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.91-100
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• 2003

In this paper, to improve the retrieval Performance, an efficient combination of the MPEG-7 visual descriptors, such as the edge histogram descriptor (EHD), the color layout descriptor (CLD), and the homogeneous texture descriptor (HTD), is proposed in the framework of the relevance feedback approach. The EHD represents spatial distribution of edges in local image regions and it is considered as an important feature to represent the content of the image. The CLD specifies spatial distribution of colors and is widely used in image retrieval due to its simplicity and fast operation speed. The HTD describes precise statistical distribution of the image texture. Both the feature vector for the query image and the weighting factors among the combined descriptors are adaptively determined during the relevance feedback. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the retrieval performance significantly tot natural images.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.402-411
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• 2000

It is an important step in video indexing and retrieval to detect shot boundaries on video data. Some approaches are proposed to detect shot changes by computing color histogram differences or the variances of DCT coefficients. However, these approaches do not consider the content or meaningful features in the image data which are useful in high level video processing. In particular, it is desirable to detect these features from compressed video data because this requires less processing overhead. In this paper, we propose a new method to detect shot boundaries from MPEG data using region flow and color information. First, we reconstruct DC images and compute region flow information and color histogram differences from HSV quantized images. Then, we compute the points at which region flow has discontinuities or color histogram differences are high. Finally, we decide those points as shot boundaries according to our proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.11
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• pp.137-146
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a pothole detection method using various features of intensity and motion. Segmentation, decision steps of pothole detection are processed according to the values which are derived from feature characteristics. For segmentation using intensity, we use a binarization method using histogram to separate pothole region from background. For segmentation using motion, we filter using high pass filter and get standard deviation value. This value is divided by regression value according to camera environment such as photographing angle, height, velocity, etc. We get binary image by histogram based binarization. For decision, candidate regions are decided whether pothole or not using comparison of candidate and background's features. Experimental results show that our proposed pothole detection method has better results than existing methods and good performance in discrimination between pothole and similar patterns.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.865-871
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a method of extracting prostate region using morphological characteristics of ultra-sonic image of prostate. In the first step of the proposed method, the edge area of the prostate image is extracted. The histogram of ultra-sonic image is used to extract base objects to detect the upper edge of prostate region by altering the contrast of the image, then, the lower edges of the extracted base objects are connected by using monotone cubic spline interpolation to extract the upper edge. Step 2, Otsu's binarization is applied to the region under the extracted upper edge of the prostate ultra-sonic image to extract the lower edge of prostate. In the last step, the upper and the lower edges are connected to extract prostate region and by comparing the extracted region of prostate with the one measured manually, the result showed that the morphological characteristics of prostate in ultrasonic image can be utilized to extract the prostate region.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.5 s.305
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• pp.103-114
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• 2005

This paper presents a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) method using the combination of color and texture features. As a color feature, a color autocorrelogram is chosen which is extracted from the hue and saturation components of a color image. As a texture feature, BDIP(block difference of inverse probabilities) and BVLC(block variation of local correlation coefficients) are chosen which are extracted from the value component. When the features are extracted, the color autocorrelogram and the BVLC are simplified in consideration of their calculation complexity. After the feature extraction, vector components of these features are efficiently quantized in consideration of their storage space. Experiments for Corel and VisTex DBs show that the proposed retrieval method yields 9.5% maximum precision gain over the method using only the color autucorrelogram and 4.0% over the BDIP-BVLC. Also, the proposed method yields 12.6%, 14.6%, and 27.9% maximum precision gains over the methods using wavelet moments, CSD, and color histogram, respectively.