• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.24-27
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• 2004

An enhancement of tracking capacity to find a position of the Iris images is presented in this paper. The propose algorithm is called FFDP (Four Points Diagonal Positioning) that the image is positioned with arbitrary 4 points on the edge of iris and the selective 4 points are drawn by a diagonal line on the cross. The experiment result shows that the algorithm is efficient to track on the eyelid.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.685-687
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• 2004

MPEG-7은 형태나 질감, 컬러 등의 속성 및 분포 등을 나타내기 위한 여러 가지 기술자(descriptor)들을 제공함으로써 검색의 효율을 높일 수 있는 방법을 포함한 표준화를 제시하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 영상의 특징을 MPEG-7의 설러 기술자중 에지 히스토그램 기술자(Edge Histogram Descriptor)를 통해 얻는다 추출된 에지 특징을 이용하여 영상의 정해진 각 역의 전체 후보영상과의 상대적 유사도를 비교하여 검색에 반영함으로써 검색의 효율을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.122-128
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• 1998

This paper presents compression of image sequences based on the classification of interframe difference image blocks. classification process consists of image activity classification and energy distribution classification. In the activity classification, interframe difference image blocks are classified into activity blocks and non-activity blocks using the edge detection. In the distribution classification, activity blocks are further classified into vertical blocks, horizontal blocks, and small activity blocks using the AC energy distribution features. The RBFN, trained with numerical classification results, successfully classifies difference image blocks according to image details. Image sequence compressing based on the classification of interframe difference image blocks using the RBFN shows better compression results and less training time than the classical sorting method and the MLP network.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.468-476
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• 2002

The confidence of information from image processing depends on the original image quality. Enhancing the confidence by an algorithm has an essential limitation. Especially, road images are exposed to lots of noisy sources, which makes image processing difficult. We, in this paper, propose a FNN (fuzzy-neural network) capable oi deciding the quality of a road image prior to extracting lane-related information. According to the decision by the FNN, road images are classified into good or bad to extract lane-related information. A CDF (cumulative distribution function), a function of edge histogram, is utilized to construct input parameters of the FNN, it is based on the fact that the shape of the CDF and the image quality has large correlation. Input pattern vector to the FNN consists of ten parameters in which nine parameters are from the CDF and the other one is from intensity distribution of raw image. Correlation analysis shows that each parameter represents the image quality well. According to the experimental results, the proposed FNN system was quite successful. We carried out simulations with real images taken by various lighting and weather conditions and achieved about 99% successful decision-making.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.2447-2456
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• 1998

Edge detection in the presence of noise is a well-known problem. this pper atempts to implement edge detection algorithms using fuzzy reasoning of fuzzy membership models. It examines an application-motived approach for solving the problem. Our approach is divided into three stages; fitering, segmentation and tracing. Filtering removes the noise from the original image and segmentation determines the edges and deects them. Finally, tracing assembles the edges into the related structure. Proposed method can be used effectively on these procedures by using fuzzy reasoning based on fuzzy models. In is compared with the previous edge detectio algorithms with fvorable results. Simulation results of the research are presented and discussed.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.7 no.1 s.13
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• pp.75-86
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• 1999

Three dimensional city model is composed of man-made and natural features, among these, most of man-made features are buildings. Therefore, it is very important to extract the building informations accurately and promptly to update the existing database. To achieve this, DTM can be reconstructed using building Information which is extracted from DTM, then this can be used as three dimensional city model. Thus, this paper aims to extract building boundaries and heights from high resolution DTM and edge informations of aerial photograph using mathematical morphology and image segmentation. We found that it is possible to extract buildings using opening operation in mathematical morphology and to improve the accuracy of building extraction using edge informations from aerial photograph.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.769-776
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• 2000

Visible spectral characteristics of cross-sectional emissions from a partially premixed methane/air and propane/air flames have been investigated. An optical train with a two-axis scanning mirror system was used to record line-of-sight emission spectra from 354nm to 618nm, and inversion technique was adapted to obtain cross-sectional emission spectra. By analyzing the reconstructed emission spectra, cross-sectional intensities of CH and $C_2$ radicals were separated from the background emissions. The blue flame edge and yellow flame edge were also obtained by image processing technique for edge detection with color photograph of flame. These edges were compared with radial distributions of CH, $C_2$ radicals and background emissions. The CH radicals were observed at blue flame edge. The background emissions were generated by soot precursor at upstream of flame and by soot at downstream of flame. The $C_2$ radicals in propane/air flame were observed more than those in methane/air flame.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.593-598
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• 2006

High-resolution satellite imagery has many benefits, compared to aerial photo in the wide area as well as multi-spectral character. So, it can be used well for constructing GIS data when making digital map. This study analysed the possibilities that road information derived automatically from IKONOS can be used for making ITS system or updating digital map of the urban areas where change frequently and producing satellite image map. In this study, Sobel was applied for road edge dectection after low pass filtering. As the results, it's possible for low pass filtering and high pass filtering to be used as the basic data for ITS construction when extracting edge roads and constructs according to the characteristic of high-resolution satellite imagery.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.127-137
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose the method of extracting edge information from MPEG video sequences for the detection of scene changes. In a the proposed method, five significant AC coefficients of each MPEG block are utilized to obtain edge images from the MPEG video. AC edge images obtained by the proposed scheme not only produce better object boundary information than conventional methods using only DC coefficients, but also can reduce the boundary effects produced by DC-based. Since the AC edge image contains the content information of each frame, it can be effectively utilized for the detection of scene change as well as the content-based video query. Experimental results show that the proposed method can be effectively utilized for the detection of scene changes.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.11
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• pp.2051-2057
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• 2007

In Oriental medicine, the status of a tongue is the important indicator to diagnose one's health like physiological and clinicopathological changes of inner parts of the body. The method of tongue diagnosis is not only convenient but also non-invasive and widely used in Oriental medicine. However, tongue diagnosis is affected by examination circumstances a lot like a light source, patient's posture and doctor's condition. To develop an automatic tongue diagnosis system for an objective and standardized diagnosis, segmenting a tongue is inevitable but difficult since the colors of a tongue, lips and skin in a mouth are similar. The proposed method includes preprocessing, graph-based over-segmentation, detecting positions with a local minimum over shading, detecting edge with color difference and estimating edge geometry from the probable structure of a tongue, where preprocessing performs down-sampling to reduce computation time, histogram equalization and edge enhancement. A tongue was segmented from a face image with a tongue from a digital tongue diagnosis system by the proposed method. According to three oriental medical doctors' evaluation, it produced the segmented region to include effective information and exclude a non-tongue region. It can be used to make an objective and standardized diagnosis.