• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.336-344
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• 2005

In this paper, we extracted the contour of lung parenchyma on EBT images with the improved active contour model. The objects boundary in conventional active contour model can be extracted by controlling internal energy and external energy as energy minimizing form. However, there are a number of problems such as initialization and the poor convergence about concave part. Expecially, contour can not enter the concave region by discouraging characteristic about stretching and bending in internal energy. We controlled internal energy by moving local perpendicular bisector point of each control point in the contour and implemented the object boundary by minimizing energy with external energy The convergence of concave part could be efficiently implemented toward lung parenchyma region by this internal energy and both lung images for initial contour could also be detected by multi-detection method. We were sure this method could be applied detection of lung parenchyma region in medical image.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.47-50
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• 2006

An active contour model has been used to detect the edges in a still image. In order to apply the active contour model to edge detection, the energy function which consists of internal, external and image energies should be defined. After defining the energy function, the edge of an object is detected through minimization of the value of the energy function. In this paper, the modified internal energy function is proposed to improve the convergence of the energy function when the active contour model is applied to the tracking of deformable objects using the greedy algorithm. In order to show the performance of the proposed energy function, experiments were carried out for the still and animated images.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.129-136
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• 1998

This paper deals with a problem encountered in the course of constructing digital elevation model from a contour map. Deficiencies of widely used linear interpolation method is described, and an interpolation method for internal points of a single closed contour is proposed. Control points not on a plane are searched and interpolated. The method is applied to an artificial contour lines and real contour lines. The result shows natural and accurate reconstruction.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.157-164
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• 2008

While developing physical prototype from CAD model, rapid prototyping mainly focuses on two key points reducing time and material consumption. So, we have to change from a traditional solid model to building a hollowed prototype. In this paper, a new method is presented to hollow out solid objects with uniform wall thickness to increase RP efficiency. To achieve uniform wall thickness, it is necessary to generate internal contour by slicing the offset model of an STL model. Due to many difficulties in this method, this paper proposes a new algorithm that computes internal contours computing offset model which is generated from external contour using wall thickness. Proposed method can easily compute the internal contour by slicing the offset surface defined by the sum of circle swept volumes of external contours without actual offset and the circle wept volumes. Internal contour existences are confirmed by using the external point. Presented algorithm uses the 2D geometric algorithm allowing RP implementation more efficient. Various examples have been tested with implementation of the algorithm, and some examples are presented for illustration.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.357-363
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• 2005

Active contour models have been extensively used to segment, match, and track objects of interest in computer vision and image processing applications, particularly to locate object boundaries. With conventional methods an object boundary can be extracted by controlling the internal energy and external energy based on energy minimization. However, this still leaves a number of problems, such as initialization and poor convergence in concave regions. In particular, a contour is unable to enter a concave region based on the stretching and bending characteristic of the internal energy. Therefore, this study proposes a method that controls the internal energy by moving the local perpendicular bisector point of each control point on the contour, and determines the object boundary by minimizing the energy relative to the external energy. Convergence at a concave region can then be effectively implemented as regards the feature of interest using the internal energy, plus several objects can be detected using a multi-detection method based on the initial contour. The proposed method is compared with other conventional methods through objective validation and subjective consideration. As a result, it is anticipated that the proposed method can be efficiently applied to the detection of the pulmonary parenchyma region in medical images.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2396-2398
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• 2001

Active contour로 알려져 있는 snake는 반복적인 계산으로 이미지상에서 찾고자 하는 물체의 외곽선에 수렴하는 contour로 이미지 상의 물체의 외곽선으로부터 발생하는 외부 에너지(external energy)와 contour 자체로부터 기인하는 내부 에너지(internal energy)를 최소화하는 방향으로 움직인다. 그러나 물체의 윤곽선으로부터 발생하는 외부 에너지는 찾고자 하는 물체뿐만 아니라 주위의 다른 물체로부터도 발생하므로 만일 추적하고자 하는 물체의 주변에 다른 물체들이 존재한다면 snake은 올바르게 동작하지 않게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위하여 물체의 색상정보를 이용하는 방식을 제안하였다. 물체의 색상 정보는 물체의 고유한 특성 중의 하나로 본 논문에서는 색상정보를 이용하여 원래의 이미지를 찾고자 하는 물체의 색상과 얼마나 유사한가를 나타내는 확률 이미지로 변환하였다. 이렇게 변환된 확률 이미지 상에서 snake 알고리즘을 적용함으로써 배경의 다른 물체로부터 발생하는 외부 에너지를 효과적으로 제거할 수 있다. 또한 본 논문에서는 물체가 이동함에 따라 변화하는 색상 정보를 지속적으로 갱신함으로써 물체의 추적이 효과적으로 이루어지도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.77-85
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• 1999

In this paper. improved the formula of Kass. First of all, improved initial guess inside and outside of an object. So, prevent the of shrink, find more easily and faster the contour of object. Secondly, proposed the algorithm which moved to local minimum with the improvement of formula of the internal energy and $3{times}3$ matrix. Process the noise of local minimum with use of medial filtering. In third, process the phenomenon which edge points gather one point with imposing energy to the energy term. Improve the algorithm to find the contour precisely with the use of threshold. The result of these improvements, make an initial guess easily and find the contour of objects which have higher curvature. Improve the speed of process by reducing the repetition of feedback system.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.59-69
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to examine the variation of pitch contour observed in the reading of Korean sentences produced by Chinese Korean-learners. In the reading context, Korean sentence intonation can be described by considering accentual phrases' pitch pattern and intonational phrases' boundary tone. But when APs and IPs connect to each other to form sentences, another aspect of speech production must be considered, that is declination of pitch contour. So, in order to examine how Chinese speakers produce Korean sentence intonation, we have analysed the sentences' pitch contours produced by fourteen Chinese speakers differing in proficiency, and compared them to pitch contours produced by six Korean native speakers. The results show that Chinese speakers tend to decline the pitch contour in shorter sentences, but for longer sentences, the declination was not observed. Moreover, even though Chinese speakers produced sentences with declination, internal tonal modulation differs from native speakers.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.575-591
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• 2011

We present a novel active contour-based two-pass approach to extract smooth feature regions from a triangular mesh. In the first pass, an active contour formulated in level-set surfaces is devised to extract feature regions with rough boundaries. In the second pass, the rough boundary curve is smoothed by minimizing internal energy, which is derived from its curvature. The separation of the extraction and smoothing process enables us to extract feature regions with smooth boundaries from a triangular mesh without user's initial model. Furthermore, smooth feature curves can also be obtained by skeletonizing the smooth feature regions. We tested our algorithm on facial models and proved its excellence.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.167-172
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• 2012

This paper presents the technique separating objects on the single frame image from the background using region segmentation technique based on active contour. Active contour is to extract contours of objects from the image, which is set to have multi-search starting point to extract each objects contours for multi-object segmentation. Initial rough object segments are generated from binary-coded image using object specific contour information, and then the hole filling is performed to compensate internal segmentation caused by the change of inner object hole area and pixels. This procedure complements the problems caused by the noise from the region segmentation and the errors of segmentation near by the contour. The proposed method and conventional method is compared to verify the superiority of the proposed method.