• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.1720-1728
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• 2017

Active shape model is widely used in the field of image processing especially on arbitrary meaningful shape extraction from single gray level image. Cootes et. al. showed efficient detection of variable shape from image by using covariance and mean shape from learning. There are two stages of learning and testing. Hahn applied enhanced shape alignment method rather than using Cootes's rotation and scale scheme. Hahn did not modified the profile itself. In this paper, the method using directional one dimensional profile is proposed to enhance Cootes's one dimensional profile and the shape alignment algorithm of Hahn is combined. The performance of the proposed method was superior to Cootes's and Hahn's. Average landmark estimation error for each image was 27.72 pixels and 39.46 for Cootes's and 33.73 for Hahn's each.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.221-228
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• 2018

Skin-color information is not sufficient for palmprint segmentation in complex scenes, including mobile environments. Traditional active shape model (ASM) combines gray information and shape information, but its performance is not good in complex scenes. An improved ASM method is developed for palmprint segmentation, in which Perux method normalizes the shape of the palm. Then the shape model of the palm is calculated with principal component analysis. Finally, the color likelihood degree is used to replace the gray information for target fitting. The improved ASM method reduces the complexity, while improves the accuracy and robustness.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.335-336
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose an active shape image segmentation method for three-dimensional(3-D) medical images using a generation method of the 3-D shape model. The proposed method generates the shape model using a distance transform and a tetrahedron method for landmarking. After generating the 3-D model, we extend the training and segmentation processes of 2-D active shape model(ASM) and improve the searching process. The proposed method provides comparative results to 2-D ASM, region-based or contour-based methods. Experimental results demonstrate that this algorithm is effective for a semi-automatic segmentation method of 3-D medical images.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.1412-1417
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• 2014

The corpus callosum is the largest part of the brain, which is related to many neurological diseases. Snake model or active contour model is widely used in medical image processing field, especially image segmentation they look into the nearby edge, localizing them accurately. In this paper, corpus callosum segmentation using the snake model, is proposed. We tested a snake model on brain MRI. Then we compared the result with an active shape approach and found that snake model had better segmentation accuracy also faster than active shape approach.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1096-1100
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 MR 영상에서 중간형상정보를 이용한 활성형상모델 기반의 반월상 연골 자동 분할 기법을 제안한다. 첫째, 훈련집합 내의 형상 변형을 반영하기 위해 반월상 연골 통계형상모델을 생성한다. 둘째, 큰 변형을 갖는 반월상 연골의 견고한 분할을 위해 유사도에 따른 가중치 기법을 이용하여 중간형상정보 생성 기법을 제안한다. 마지막으로 활성형상모탤 적합을 통해 반월상 연골 자동 분할을 수행한다. 제안 방법의 평가를 위하여 육안평가와 정확성 평가 그리고 수행시간을 측정하였다. 정확성 평가는 자동 분할과 반자동 분할 결과간의 평균거리차이를 측정하였고 이를 컬러맵으로 표현하였다. 실험 결과 평균거리차이는 내측 반월상 연골은 $0.54{\pm}0.16mm$, 외측 반월상 연골은 $0.73{\pm}0.39mm$으로 측정되었고, 수행시간은 평균 4.87초로 측정되었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 ASM(active shape model)의 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 형태(shape) 정렬 방법과 이차원 특징벡터 추출 방법을 제안한다. 기존 알고리즘은 입력 이미지의 중간 검출 랜드마크와 기준 모델 간의 정렬을 위하여 스케일, 회전, 이동 정보 만을 이용한다. 하지만 위의 평면적인 정보 만으로는 얼굴과 같이 입체적인 물체의 포즈 변화나 삼차원적인 움직임 등을 제대로 반영할 수 없다. 이를 개선하기 위하여 자유도를 증가시킴으로써 형태의 복잡한 변화에 보다 강인한 형태정렬 방식을 제안한다. 또한, 멀티스케일로 이차원 프로파일을 구하고 이들의 공분산 행렬을 trimming하여 검출속도를 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 비교적 다양한 포즈로 촬영한 얼굴 이미지 데이터베이스를 이용하여 제안 알고리즘의 형태 검출 성능을 확인한다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.161-164
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• 2003

This paper proposes a hierarchical approach to active shape model using wavelet transform. The proposed algorithm allows us to use both global shape characteristics and finer details for model deformation. The statistical properties of the wavelet transform of a deformable model are analyzed by principal component analysis and used as priors in the contour's deformation.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2014

Hippocampus is an important part of brain which is related with early memory storage and spatial navigation. By observing the anatomy of hippocampus, some brain diseases effecting human memory (e.g. Alzheimer, schizophrenia, etc.) can be diagnosed and predicted earlier. The diagnosis process is highly related with hippocampus segmentation. In this paper, hippocampus segmentation using Active Shape Model, which not only works based on image intensity, but also by using prior knowledge of hippocampus shape and intensity from the training images, is proposed. The results show that ASM is applicable in segmenting hippocampus from whole brain MR image. It also shows that adding more images in the training set results in better accuracy of hippocampus segmentation.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.1827-1835
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• 2010

본 논문은 사용자 사진에서 ASM(Active Shape Model)을 이용하여 얼굴의 각 특징 점을 추출하고, 추출 된 특징점을 이용하여 화장할 부분의 영역을 생성 한다. 기존의 가상 메이크업 프로그램에서는 사용자가 수동적으로 몇 개의 특징 점을 정확히 선택해야 하는데서 불편함을 초래했다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 가상 메이크업 프로그램에서는 ASM을 이용하여 사용자의 입력을 필요로 하지 않는다. 자연스러운 화장 효과를 표현하기 위해서 기본적인 알파 블렌딩을 각각 화장품의 특징에 맞게 변형하여 사용자 피부색과 화장품의 색을 혼합한다. 얼굴 윤곽, 눈, 눈썹, 입술, 볼의 영역을 생성하고, Foundation, Blush, Lip Stick, Lip Liner, Eye Pencil, Eye Liner, Eye Shadow 종류의 화장을 할 수 있게 구현하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.697-704
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• 2003

In this paper, the visual tracking system for arbitrary shaped moving object is proposed. The established tracking system can be divided into model based method that needs previous model for target object and image based method that uses image feature. In the model based method, the reliable tracking is possible, but simplification of the shape is necessary and the application is restricted to definite target mod el. On the other hand, in the image based method, the process speed can be increased, but the shape information is lost and the tracking system is sensitive to image noise. The proposed tracking system is composed of the extraction process that recognizes the existence of moving object and tracking process that extracts dynamic characteristics and shape information of the target objects. Specially, active contour model is used to effectively track the object that is undergoing shape change. In initializatio n process of the contour model, the semi-automatic operation can be avoided and the convergence speed of the contour can be increased by the proposed effective initialization method. Also, for the efficient solution of the correspondence problem in multiple objects tracking, the variation function that uses the variation of position structure in image frame and snake energy level is proposed. In order to verify the validity and effectiveness of the proposed tracking system, real time tracking experiment for multiple moving objects is implemented.