• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.38-46
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• 2004

Image segmentation is the task which partitions the image into meaningful regions and considered to be one of the most important steps in computer vision and image processing. Image segmentation is also widely used in object-based video compression such as MPEG-4 to extract out the object regions from the given frame. Watershed algorithm is frequently used to obtain the more accurate region boundaries. But, it is well known that the watershed algorithm is extremely sensitive to gradient noise and usually results in oversegmentation. To solve such a problem, we propose an image segmentation method which is robust to noise by using stabilized inverse diffusion equation (SIDE) and is more efficient in segmentation by employing multiresolution approach. In this paper, we apply both the region projection method using labels of adjacent regions and the region merging method based on region adjacency graph (RAG). Experimental results on noisy image show that the oversegmenation is reduced and segmentation efficiency is increased.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.379-386
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• 2004

Video segmentation is a fundamental task in video indexing and it includes two kinds of shot change detections such as the abrupt transition and the gradual transition. The abrupt shot boundaries are detected by computing the image-based distance between adjacent frames and comparing this distance with a pre-determined threshold value. However, the gradual shot boundaries are difficult to detect with this approach. To overcome this difficulty, we propose the method that detects gradual transition in the MPEG compressed video using the HMM (Hidden Markov Model). We take two different HMMs such as a discrete HMM and a continuous HMM with a Gaussian mixture model. As image features for HMM's observations, we use two distinct features such as the difference of histogram of DC images between two adjacent frames and the difference of each individual macroblock's deviations at the corresponding macroblock's between two adjacent frames, where deviation means an arithmetic difference of each macroblock's DC value from the mean of DC values in the given frame. Furthermore, we obtain the DC sequences of P and B frame by the first order approximation for a fast and effective computation. Experiment results show that we obtain the best detection and classification performance of gradual transitions when a continuous HMM with one Gaussian model is taken and two image features are used together.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.123-127
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• 2005

This paper addresses the problem of extracting video objects from compressed video signals. Compressed videos include several informations about moving objects. An useful cue for object segmentation is motion vector per macroblock which sparse in MPEG. We propose a method for automatically estimating and extracting moving objects using motion vectors of macroblocks in this work.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2000

디지털 비디오 데이터를 효율적으로 브라우징 하는데 필요한 비디오 분할에 관한 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 비디오 데이터를 Shot단위로 분할하고, Shot내부에서 카메라 동작과 객체 움직임 분석을 이용한 sub-shot으로 분할하고자 한다. 연구 방법으로는 I-frame의 DC 영상을 이용하여 픽쳐그룹을 Shot(장면이 바뀐 경우), Move(카메라 동작,객체움직임), Static(영상의 변화가 거의 없는 경우)로 세분화하고 해당 픽쳐 그룹의 P, B-frame을 검사하여 정확한 컷 발생 위치, 디졸브, 카메라동작, 객체 움직임을 검출하게 된다. 픽쳐그룹 분류에서 정확성을 높이기 위해 계층적 신경망과 다중 특징을 이용한다. 정확한 컷 발생위치 검출하기 위해서 P, B프레임의 메크로블럭 타입을 이용한 통계적 방법을 이용하고, 디졸브, 카메라 동작, 객체 움직임을 검출하기 위해서 P, B-frame의 메크로블럭 타입과 움직임 벡터를 이용한 신경망으로 검출한다. 본 연구에서는 계층적 탐색을 이용하여 시간을 단축할 수 있고, 계층적 신경망과 다중 특징을 이용하여 픽쳐 그룹을 세분화 할 수 있고, 메크로 블록 타입과 통계적 방법을 이용하여 정확한 컷 검출을 할수 있고, 신경망을 이용하여 디졸브, 카메라 동작, 객체움직임을 검출 할 수 있음을 확인한다.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.30-38
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• 2006

This paper is used the color space distribution HMMD model presented in MPEG-7 in order to segment and detect the wanted image parts as a real time without the user's manufacturing in the video object segmentation. Here, it is applied the wavelet morphology to remove a small part that is regarded as a noise in image and a part excepting for the face image. Also, it did the optimal composition by the rough set. In this paper, tile proposed video object detection algorithm is confirmed to be superior as detecting the face object exactly than the conventional algorithm by applying those to the different size images.put the of paper here.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.683-696
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• 2024

The point cloud provides viewers with intuitive geometric understanding but requires a huge amount of data. Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has developed video-based point-cloud compression in the range of 300-700. As the compression rate increases, the complexity increases to the extent that it takes 101.36 s to compress one frame in an experimental environment using a personal computer. To realize real-time point-cloud compression processing, the direct patch projection (DPP) method proposed herein simplifies the complex patch segmentation process by classifying and projecting points according to their geometric positions. The DPP method decreases the complexity of the patch segmentation from 25.75 s to 0.10 s per frame, and the entire process becomes 8.76 times faster than the conventional one. Consequently, this proposed DPP method yields similar peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) outcomes to those of the conventional method at reduced times (4.7-5.5 times) at the cost of bitrate overhead. The objective and subjective results show that the proposed DPP method can be considered when low-complexity requirements are required in lightweight device environments.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.128-139
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• 2005

Moving object boundary is very important for moving object segmentation. But the moving object boundary shows broken boundary We invent a novel space-oriented boundary linking algorithm to link the broken boundary The boundary linking algorithm forms a quadrant around the terminating pixel in the broken boundary and searches forward other terminating pixel to link within a radius. The boundary linking algorithm guarantees shortest distance linking. We also register the background from image sequence. We construct two object masks, one from the result of boundary linking and the other from the registered background, and use these two complementary object masks together for moving object segmentation. We also suppress the moving cast shadow using Roberts gradient operator. The major advantages of the proposed algorithms are more accurate moving object segmentation and the segmentation of the object which has holes in its region using these two object masks. We experiment the algorithms using the standard MPEG-4 test sequences and real video sequence. The proposed algorithms are very efficient and can process QCIF image more than 48 fps and CIF image more than 19 fps using a 2.0GHz Pentium-4 computer.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.5 s.305
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• pp.29-40
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• 2005

According as base of digital hologram has been magnified, discussion of compression technology is expected as a international standard which defines the compression technique of 3D image and video has been progressed in form of 3DAV which is a part of MPEG. As we can identify in case of 3DAV, the coding technique has high possibility to be formed into the hybrid type which is a merged, refined, or mixid with the various previous technique. Therefore, we wish to present the relationship between various image/video coding techniques and digital hologram In this paper, we propose an efficient coding method of digital hologram using standard compression tools for video and image. At first, we convert fringe patterns into video data using a principle of CGH(Computer Generated Hologram), and then encode it. In this research, we propose a compression algorithm is made up of various method such as pre-processing for transform, local segmentation with global information of object image, frequency transform for coding, scanning to make fringe to video stream, classification of coefficients, and hybrid video coding. Finally the proposed hybrid compression algorithm is all of these methods. The tool for still image coding is JPEG2000, and the toots for video coding include various international compression algorithm such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 and various lossless compression algorithm. The proposed algorithm illustrated that it have better properties for reconstruction than the previous researches on far greater compression rate above from four times to eight times as much. Therefore we expect that the proposed technique for digital hologram coding is to be a good preceding research.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.96-106
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• 2002

We introduce a novel scheme to characterize and index events in TV golf programs using MPEG-7 descriptors. Our goal is to identify and localize the golf events of interest to facilitate highlight-based video indexing and summarization. In particular, we analyze multiple (low-level) visual features using domain-specific model to create a perceptual relation for semantically meaningful(high-level) event identification. Furthermore, we summarize a TV golf program with TV-Anytime segmentation metadata, a standard form of an XML-based metadata description, in which the golf events are represented by temporally localized segments and segment groups of highlights. Experimental results show that our proposed technique provides reasonable performance for identifying a variety of golf events.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.113-119
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose an improved watershed algorithm that resolves the oversegmentation problem shown in the previous watershed algorithm and its modifications when the spatial video segmentation is performed. The principal idea of the proposed algorithm is merging the shallow catchment basin whose depth is less than a given threshold into the deeper one during flooding step. In the flooding process, the growth of the existing catchment basins and the extraction of newly flooded ones are accomplished. We present the experimental results using several MPEG test sequences in the last part of the paper. As a consequence, the proposed algorithm shows good segmentation results according to the thresholds applied by adding very small amount of calculations.