• Title/Summary/Keyword: Image Extraction and Segmentation

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A Study for a real-time variety region(object) extraction algorithm to implement MPEG-4 based Video Phones. (MPEG-4 기반의 영상전화기 구현을 위한 실시간 변환영역(객체) 추출에 관한 알고리즘)

  • Oh, In-Gwon;Shon, Young-Woo;Namgung, Jae-Chan
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.29 no.1C
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    • pp.92-101
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    • 2004
  • This paper proposes a algorithm to extract the variety region (object) from video for the real-time encoding of MPEG-4 based. The previous object segmentation methods cannot used the videophone or videoconference required by real-time processing. It is difficult to transfer a video to real-time because it increased complexity for the operation of each pixel on the spatial segmentation and temporal segmentation method proposed by MPEG-4 Working Group. But algorithm proposed for this thesis not operates a pixel unit but operates a macro block unit. Thus this enables real-time transfer. But this algorithm cannot extract several object for a image using proposed algorithm as previous algorithm. On system constructed by encoder and decoder. A proposed algorithm inserted for encoder as pre-process.

Locating Text in Web Images Using Image Based Approaches (웹 이미지로부터 이미지기반 문자추출)

  • Chin, Seongah;Choo, Moonwon
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.27-39
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    • 2002
  • A locating text technique capable of locating and extracting text blocks in various Web images is presented here. Until now this area of work has been ignored by researchers even if this sort of text may be meaningful for internet users. The algorithms associated with the technique work without prior knowledge of the text orientation, size or font. In the work presented in this research, our text extraction algorithm utilizes useful edge detection followed by histogram analysis on the genuine characteristics of letters defined by text clustering region, to properly perform extraction of the text region that does not depend on font styles and sizes. By a number of experiments we have showed impressively acceptable results.

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A Dynamic Segmentation Method for Representative Key-frame Extraction from Video data (동적 분할 기법을 이용한 비디오 데이터의 대표키 프레임 추출)

  • Lee, Soon-Hee;Kim, Young-Hee;Ryu, Keun-Ho
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.46-57
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    • 2001
  • To access the multimedia data, such as video data with temporal properties, the content-based image retrieval technique is required. Moreover, one of the basic techniques for content-based image retrieval is an extraction of representative key-frames. Not only did we implement this method, but also by analyzing the video data, we have proven the proposed method to be both effective and accurate. In addition, this method is expected to solve the real world problem of building video databases, as it is very useful in building an index.

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Extraction of Sizes and Velocities of Spray Droplets by Optical Imaging Method

  • Choo, Yeonjun;Kang, Boseon
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.1236-1245
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    • 2004
  • In this study, an optical imaging method was developed for the measurements of the sizes and velocities of droplets in sprays. Double-exposure single-frame spray images were captured by the imaging system. An image processing program was developed for the measurements of the sizes and positions of individual particles including separation of the overlapped particles and particle tracking and pairing at two time instants. To recognize and separate overlapping particles, the morphological method based on watershed segmentation as well as separation using the perimeter and convex hull of image was used consecutively. Better results in separation were obtained by utilization of both methods especially for the multiple or heavily-overlapped particles. The match probability method was adopted for particle tracking and pairing after identifying the positions of individual particles and it produced good matching results even for large particles like droplets in sprays. Therefore, the developed optical imaging method could provide a reliable way of analyzing the motion and size distribution of droplets produced by various sprays and atomization devices.

Wavelet-based Feature Extraction Algorithm for an Iris Recognition System

  • Panganiban, Ayra;Linsangan, Noel;Caluyo, Felicito
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.425-434
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    • 2011
  • The success of iris recognition depends mainly on two factors: image acquisition and an iris recognition algorithm. In this study, we present a system that considers both factors and focuses on the latter. The proposed algorithm aims to find out the most efficient wavelet family and its coefficients for encoding the iris template of the experiment samples. The algorithm implemented in software performs segmentation, normalization, feature encoding, data storage, and matching. By using the Haar and Biorthogonal wavelet families at various levels feature encoding is performed by decomposing the normalized iris image. The vertical coefficient is encoded into the iris template and is stored in the database. The performance of the system is evaluated by using the number of degrees of freedom, False Reject Rate (FRR), False Accept Rate (FAR), and Equal Error Rate (EER) and the metrics show that the proposed algorithm can be employed for an iris recognition system.

Crab Region Extraction Method from Suncheon Bay Tidal Flat Images (순천만 갯벌 영상에서 게 영역 추출 방법)

  • Park, Sang-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1197-1206
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    • 2019
  • Suncheon Bay is a very important natural resource and various efforts have been made to protect it from the environmental pollution. Although the project to monitor the environmental changes in periodically by observing the creatures in tidal flats is processing, it is being done inefficiently by people directly observing it. In this paper, we propose an object segmentation method that can be applied to the method to automatically monitor the living creatures in the tidal flats. In the proposed method, a foreground map representing the location of objects is obtained by using a temporal difference method, and a superpixel method is applied to detect the detailed boundary of an image. Finally the region of crab is extracted by combining the foreground map and the superpixel information. Experimental results show that the proposed method separates crab regions from a tidal flat image easily and accurately.

Visualization Of Aerial Color Imagery Through Shadow Effect Correction

  • Sohn, Hong-Gyoo;Yun, Kong-Hyun;Yang, In-Tae;Lee, Kangwon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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    • 2004.02a
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    • pp.64-72
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    • 2004
  • Correction of shadow effects is critical step for image interpretation and feature extraction from aerial imagery. In this paper, an efficient algorithm to correct shadow effects from aerial color imagery is presented. The following steps have been performed to remove the shadow effect. First, the shadow regions are precisely located using the solar position and the height of ground objects derived from LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data. Subsequently, segmentation of context regions is implemented for accurate correction with existing digital map. Next step, to calculate correction factor the comparison between the context region and the same non-shadowed context region is made. Finally, corrected image is generated by correcting the shadow effect. The result presented here helps to accurately extract and interpret geo-spatial information from aerial color imagery

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Color Space Based Objects Detection System from Video Sequences

  • Alom, Md. Zahangir;Lee, Hyo Jong
    • Annual Conference of KIPS
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.347-350
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    • 2011
  • This paper propose a statistical color model of background extraction base on Hue-Saturation-Value(HSV) color space, instead of the traditional RGB space, and shows that it provides a better use of the color information. HSV color space corresponds closely to the human perception of color and it has revealed more accuracy to distinguish shadows [3] [4]. The key feature of this segmentation method is based on processing hue component of color in HSV color space on image area. The HSV color model is used, its color components are efficiently analyzed and treated separately so that the proposed algorithm can adapt to different environmental illumination condition and shadows. Polar and linear statistical operations are used to calculate the background from the video frames. The experimental results show that the proposed background subtraction method can automatically segment video objects robustly and accurately in various illuminating and shadow environments.

Nucleus Recognition of Uterine Cervical Pap-Smears using FCM Clustering Algorithm

  • Kim, Kwang-Baek
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.94-99
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    • 2008
  • Segmentation for the region of nucleus in the image of uterine cervical cytodiagnosis is known as the most difficult and important part in the automatic cervical cancer recognition system. In this paper, the region of nucleus is extracted from an image of uterine cervical cytodiagnosis using the HSI model. The characteristics of the nucleus are extracted from the analysis of morphemetric features, densitometric features, colormetric features, and textural features based on the detected region of nucleus area. The classification criterion of a nucleus is defined according to the standard categories of the Bethesda system. The fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm is employed to the extracted nucleus and the results show that the proposed method is efficient in nucleus recognition and uterine cervical Pap-Smears extraction.

Manchu Script Letters Dataset Creation and Labeling

  • Aaron Daniel Snowberger;Choong Ho Lee
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.80-87
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    • 2024
  • The Manchu language holds historical significance, but a complete dataset of Manchu script letters for training optical character recognition machine-learning models is currently unavailable. Therefore, this paper describes the process of creating a robust dataset of extracted Manchu script letters. Rather than performing automatic letter segmentation based on whitespace or the thickness of the central word stem, an image of the Manchu script was manually inspected, and one copy of the desired letter was selected as a region of interest. This selected region of interest was used as a template to match all other occurrences of the same letter within the Manchu script image. Although the dataset in this study contained only 4,000 images of five Manchu script letters, these letters were collected from twenty-eight writing styles. A full dataset of Manchu letters is expected to be obtained through this process. The collected dataset was normalized and trained using a simple convolutional neural network to verify its effectiveness.