• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.1-6
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• 2003

The study is to automatically or semi-automatically detect the accurate contour of tumors or lesions using active contour models (Snakes) in the MRI images of the brain. In the study we have improved the energy-minimization problem of snakes using dynamic programming and have utilized the values of the canny edge detector by the image force to make the snake less sensitive in noises. For the extracted boundary, the inside area, the perimeter and its center coordinates could be calculated. In addition, the multiple 2D slices with the contour of the lesion wore combined to visualized the shape of the lesion in 3D. We expect that the proposed method in this paper will be useful to make a treatment plan as well as to evaluate the treatments.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.369-376
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• 2014

Recent climate change and ensure each country's marine fisheries resources due to the sharp decline to address the eco-friendly farming has emerged. Marine aquaculture operations to provide ease of use for the fishing ship cranes. In this paper, we use the default handler for the shipping cranes and improve the working environment of the received video equipment in the work area through the monitoring and analysis of visual information to optimize the image, convenient and high visibility for workers to have real-time video guide system is proposed.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.856-873
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• 2011

Reversible watermarking is an open problem in information hiding field, with embedding the encoded bit '1' or '0' into some sensitive images, such as the law enforcement, medical records and military images. The technique can retrieve the original image without distortion, after the embedded message has been extracted. Histogram-based scheme is a remarkable breakthrough in reversible watermarking schemes, in terms of high embedding capacity and low distortion. This scheme is lack of capacity control due to the requirement for embedding large-scale data, because the largest hidden capacity is decided by the amount of pixels with the peak point. In this paper, we propose a reversible watermarking scheme to enlarge the number of pixels with the peak point as large as possible. This algorithm is based on an adaptive edge-guided interpolation, furthermore, hides messages by interpolation-error, i.e. the difference between the original and interpolated image value. Simulation results compared with other state-of-the-art reversible watermarking schemes in this paper demonstrate the validity of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.59-64
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• 2004

Most features of nature and phenomena we encounter in many branches of science are inherently very irregular and have fractal aspects. Thus the analysis of them with the traditional methods such as a differential operator may result in their ill-posed problems. To settle these problems, one may use several type of mean filters which smooth the input signal. However when a given function or data are complex in their nature, there may be loss of some original information during these process. In this paper, we utilized the tangent plane method instead of mean filters for the purpose of less loss of information and more smoothness. After then we attempt to take more accurate edges for the irregular image on the basis of the Otzu threshold. Finally we introduce the effective edge extracting method which use the fractal dimension representing the complexity of the given image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.196-199
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• 2010

The human eyes are important facial landmarks for image normalization due to their relatively constant interocular distance. This paper introduces a novel approach for the eye detection task using optimal segmentation method for eye representation. The method consists of three steps: (1)edge extraction method that can be used to accurately extract eye region from the gray-scale face image, (2)extraction of eye region using labeling method, (3)eye localization based on intensity information. Experimental results show that a correct eye detection rate of 98.9% can be achieved on 2408 FERET images with variations in lighting condition and facial expressions.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.511-515
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• 2013

A Monte Carlo (MC) simulation study has been done in order to investigate the effects of line-edge-roughness (LER) induced by either 1P1E (single-patterning and single-etching) or 2P2E (double-patterning and double-etching) on fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) tri-gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). Three parameters for characterizing the LER profile [i.e., root-mean square deviation (${\sigma}$), correlation length (${\zeta}$), and fractal dimension (D)] are extracted from the image-processed scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image for each photolithography method. It is experimentally verified that two parameters (i.e., ${\sigma}$ and D) are almost the same in each case, but the correlation length in the 2P2E case is longer than that in the 1P1E case. The 2P2E-LER-induced $V_TH$ variation in FDSOI tri-gate MOSFETs is smaller than the 1P1E-LER-induced $V_TH$ variation. The total random variation in $V_TH$, however, is very dependent on the other major random variation sources, such as random dopant fluctuation (RDF) and work-function variation (WFV).

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.34-40
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• 1998

The burr produced on piece part edges in machining operations must be removed for most parts to function effectively. Although considerable cost have been expended in improving deburring methods, little energy has been applied toward minimizing burrs. This study has been carried out to prevent the burrs produced on pure aluminium under various working condition and specimen shape in turning operations. The computer image processing system was used for measurement of size of burr, such as burr length, burr depth and burr area. The size of burr showed a decreasing tendency with the increase of rake angle and side cutting angle but it increased rapidly with the increase of depth of cut and the cutting speed has no effect on size of burrs. The size of burr rapidly decreased with the increase of edge angle and burrs are not occurred if edge angle is over 80$^{\circ}$.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.33-42
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an enhancement of the ultrasonic image for non-destructive inspection of aircraft composite materials. The ultrasonic images are corrupted by a speckle noise which has the characteristic of granular pattern noise and is in all types of coherent imaging systems, the signal independent and multiplicative noise. In this paper, we derive a filter, called the AWLF(Adaptive Window Log Filter), from the nature of the speckle. The filter is made of the MEAN Filter in the edge region and Log Filter in the flat or noise region. To make a distinction between edge and flat region, we calculate the inclination around the local window instead of computing the local statistics of pixels such as local mean ${\bar{M}}$ and standard deviation ${\sigma}_s$. According to the obtained region, edge region is performed by the mean filter and flat region by the Log filter. Performance of the proposed filter is evaluated by the Enhanced Factor$(F_e)$ and the Speckle Index(SI).

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.570-581
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 윤곽선(edge) 기반의 형태 정보와 웨이브렛 변환(wavelet transform)에 의한 방향(direction) 정보를 사요하는데 2단계 상표 영상 검색 시스템을 제안한다. 1 단계에서는 후보 상표 영상을 추출하기 위해 영상의 전반적인 정보로 원 상표 영상(original trademark image)을 웨이브렛 변환하여 얻은 X, Y 방향 고주파(high frequency) 성분으로부터 구한 방향 정보와 영상의 윤곽선에 대해 모멘트를 구하는 향상된 불변 모멘트(improved invariant moment)를 이용한다. 2단계에서는 후부 영상들에 대해 영상의 세부 정보인 윤곽선 각도(edge angle)와 윤곽선 반지름(edge radius) 정보를 추출하여 유사도 측정 알고리즘을 통해 결과 영상을 산출하게 된다. 본 상표 영상 검색 시스템은 문자 색인으로는 색인이 용이 하지 않은 기하학적도형 상표 영상만을 사용하였다. 본 시스템에서는 색상과는 상관없는 특징인 형태 정보와 방향 정보만을 이용하므로 같은 색상 구성을 가진 유사 영상뿐만 아니라, 유사하지만 바탕이 반전된 영상이나 색상이 다른 유사 영상에 대해서도 바르게 검색할 수 있으며, 각 특징을 일반화해줌으로 이동.회전.크기 변화에도 불변하는 견고성을 가진다. 또한 효율적인 검색을 위해 2단계의 구조를 사용하였으며, 각 단계마다 계산량을 줄여 검색 시간을 감소시키도록 설계되었다.

• KSCI Review
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.130-139
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• 1995

This paper suggests the method to shorten the search area by using edge detection and subimage partition. For the purpose reduce encoding time, The Domain areas are reduced 1/64 by partitioning original image to subimage, and classified them into edge area and shade area so that detect only the area in the same class. for achieving an encoding with good fidelity, tried to differ the search method as the threshold value of edge which is included in subimage, and compared the compression rate and fidelity when set the size of range block as $4{\times}4$ and $8{\times}8$.