• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제3권12호
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• pp.1669-1678
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• 2002

대칭 영역 탐색은 대칭 정보를 이용하여 사전 정보없이 얼굴영역을 추출 할 수 있다. 그러나 눈, 코, 입등과 같은 얼굴의 특징 부위보다 탐색할 마스크의 크기가 커져야 함으로 이 방법은 계산 시간이 많이 걸린다. 본 논문에서는 얼굴 영상에 대하여 사전 정보 없이, 적은 계산량으로 얼굴 영역 추출이 간으하도록 대칭 영역 탐색을 이용한 축소 영상에서의 얼굴 영역의 추출과 그 특징에서의 대칭값에 따른 영상을 이용하여 원영상에서는 영역 분할을 통한 얼굴 영역 추출 방법을 제안하고 실험을 통하여 이를 확인하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권5호
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• pp.1025-1034
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• 2009

In steel making production line, steel slabs are given a unique identification number. This identification number, Slab management number(SMN), gives information about the use of the slab. Identification of SMN has been done by humans for several years, but this is expensive and not accurate and it has been a heavy burden on the workers. Consequently, to improve efficiency, automatic recognition system is desirable. Generally, a recognition system consists of text localization, text extraction, character segmentation, and character recognition. For exact SMN identification, all the stage of the recognition system must be successful. In particular, the text localization is great important stage and difficult to process. However, because of many text-like patterns in a complex background and high fuzziness between the slab and background, directly extracting text region is difficult to process. If the slab region including SMN can be detected precisely, text localization algorithm will be able to be developed on the more simple method and the processing time of the overall recognition system will be reduced. This paper describes about the slab region localization using SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) features in the image. First, SIFT algorithm is applied the captured background and slab image, then features of two images are matched by Nearest Neighbor(NN) algorithm. However, correct matching rate can be low when two images are matched. Thus, to remove incorrect match between the features of two images, geometric locations of the matched two feature points are used. Finally, search rectangle method is performed in correct matching features, and then the top boundary and side boundaries of the slab region are determined. For this processes, we can reduce search region for extraction of SMN from the slab image. Most cases, to extract text region, search region is heuristically fixed [1][2]. However, the proposed algorithm is more analytic than other algorithms, because the search region is not fixed and the slab region is searched in the whole image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has a good performance.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.868-874
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• 2007

This paper proposes an efficient partial matching system and representation by using a region-based method for 2D image, and we applied to an extraction of the ROI(Region of Interest) according to its matching score. The matching templates consist of the global pattern and the local one. The global pattern can make it by using region-based relation between center region and its rest regions in an object. And, the local pattern can be obtained appling to the same method as global, except relation between objects. As the templates can be normalized, we use this templates for extraction of ROI with invariant to size and position. And, our system operates only one try to match, due to normalizing of region size. To use our system for searching and examining if it's the ROI by evaluating the matching function, at first, we are searching to find candidate regions with the global template. Then, we try to find the ROI among the candidates, and it works this time by using the local template. We experimented to the binary and the color image respectively, they showed that the proposed system can be used efficiently for representing of the template and the useful applications, such as partially retrievals of 2D image.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.74-82
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• 2008

The objective of this paper is to remove noises of image based on the heuristic noises filter and to extract a tumor region by using morphology techniques in breast ultrasound image. Similar objective studies have been conducted based on ultrasound image of high resolution. As a result, efficiency of noise removal is not fine enough for low resolution image. Moreover, when ultrasound image has multiple tumors, the extraction of ROI (Region Of Interest) is not accomplished or processed by a manual selection. In this paper, our method is done 4 kinds of process for noises removal and the extraction of ROI for solving problems of restrictive automated segmentation. First process is that pixel value is acquired as matrix type. Second process is a image preprocessing phase that is aimed to maximize a contrast of image and prevent a leak of personal information. In next process, the heuristic noise filter that is based on opinion of medical specialist is applied to remove noises. The last process is to extract a tumor region by using morphology techniques. As a result, the noise is effectively eliminated in all images and a extraction of tumor regions is possible though one ultrasound image has several tumors.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.319-326
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 물체의 경계선을 고려한 칼라 영상 분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 먼저 원영상을 벡터 양자화한 후 양자화된 영상의 인덱스 맵을 이용하여 초기 영역을 설정하였다. 그 후 HSI컬러 공간을 이용한 영역 병합에서 물체의 경계선을 고려하기 위해 경계선 제한 성분을 적용하여 영역들을 병합하였다. 또한 RGB 컬러 공간을 이용하여 HSI 컬러 공간에서 병합되지 않은 영역들을 병합하였다. 그리 고 영역병합 알고리즘을 통해 반복적인 처리를 감소시킴으로써 처리 시간을 줄였다. 실험 결과에서는 다양한 영상에 대해 주요 영역들의 분할 결과 및 처리소요시간에서 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.94-101
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• 2004

From the Beckmann's reflection model of wave incident, reflected light from a surface is known to have not only specular but also diffuse components. The specular component dominant a surface for a mirror-like surface is distributed on the almost the same area as the spot on the surface, but the diffuse component region dominant f3r a rough surface spreads scattered on the larger areas than the spot. Therefore, statistic parameters from the scattered light distribution are more meaningful in the diffuse region, while the magnitude of rather meaning in the specular region. In usual, there need two sensors to acquire two kinds of information: Photo-detector for light intensity magnitude and image sensor for light intensity distribution. But dual sensor scheme requires a beam splitter usually to feed light to each sensor, and moreover there is not a combination rule to relieve the different sensor characteristics. In this study a new method is proposed for acquisition of the dual information using only an image sensor. Specular region is established on an image area being distinguished from a diffuse component, and laser power is adjusted so that no pixel of the image sensor in the specular region is saturated. Simulation based on the light reflection theory and the experimental results are quite well matched, and thus the proposed method was proved to be very useful for mirror-like surface measurement.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.421-430
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• 2010

영상분할은 관심대상이 되는 물체의 영역을 추출하기 위한 객체기반 영상분류의 전처리과정으로서 원격탐사 영상분석에서 그 중요성 날로 커지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 개선된 SRG(Seeded Region Growing) 기법과 영역병합과정을 이용하여 고해상도 영상분할을 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 우선 QuickBird 융합영상에서 추출된 다중분광 에지정보를 이용하여 초기 시드포인트를 자동으로 추출하였다. 추출된 시드포인트에 영상의 기하학적인 정보와 분광정보를 반영할 수 있는 개선된 SRG 기법을 적용하여 초기 영상 분할을 수행하였다. 최종적으로 앞선 초기분할 결과 향상을 위해 분할된 영역의 평균분광정보를 활용하여 영역병합을 수행하여 최종분할결과를 도출하였다. 제안된 기법의 효율성을 평가하기 위해 무감독 영상분할 평가측정치를 이용하여 정확도 평가를 수행하였다. 실험결과 제안한 기법은 고해상도 영상분할에 유용하게 적용될 수 있으리라 판단된다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.1874-1884
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• 1996

In this paper, we proposed automatic searching algorithm of thresholding value using multilevel thresholding for face segmentation from input bust image effectively. The proposed algorithm extracted the thresholding value of brightness that is formed background region, face region and hair region without illumination, background and face size from input image. The statistical projection analysis project the brightness of multilevel thresholding image into horizontal and vertical direction and decide the thresholding value of face. And the algorithm extracted elliptical type block of face from input image in order to reduce the back ground region and hair region efficiently. The proposed algorithm can reduce searching area of feature extraction and processing time for face recognication.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.129-142
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• 2014

We propose a variational segmentation model based on statistical information of intensities in an image. The model consists of both a local region-based energy and a global region-based energy in order to handle misclassification which happens in a typical statistical variational model with an assumption that an image is a mixture of two Gaussian distributions. We find local ambiguous regions where misclassification might happen due to a small difference between two Gaussian distributions. Based on statistical information restricted to the local ambiguous regions, we design a local region-based energy in order to reduce the misclassification. We suggest an algorithm to avoid the difficulty of the Euler-Lagrange equations of the proposed variational model.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.469-480
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• 1997

For moving image coding, the variable size of region coding based on local motion is more efficient than fixed size of region coding. It can be applied well to complex motions and is more stable for wide motions because images are segmented according to local motions. In this paper, new image coding method using the segmentation of motion vectors is proposed. First, motion vector field is smoothed by filtering and segmented by smoothed motion vectors. The region growing method is used for decomposition of regions, and merging of regions is decided by motion vector and prediction errors of the region. Edge of regions is excluded because of the correlation of image, and neighbor motion vectors are used evaluation of current block and construction of region. The results of computer simulation show the proposed method is superior than the existing methods in aspect of coding efficiency.