• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.510-516
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• 2015

This paper describes an approach to detect interesting objects using satellite images. This paper focuses on the interesting objects that have common special patterns but do not have identical shapes and sizes. The previous technologies are still insufficient for automatic finding of the interesting objects based on operation of special pattern analysis. In order to overcome the circumstances, this paper proposes a methodology to obtain the special patterns of interesting objects considering their common features and their related characteristics. This paper applies MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) for the region detection and corner detector in order to extract the features of the interesting object. This paper conducts a case study and obtains the experimental results of the case study, which is efficient in reducing processing time and efforts comparing to the previous manual searching.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.123-129
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• 2015

This paper proposes an efficient method to detect direction indicators on road surfaces to support drivers in driving safely using the Simulink model. In the proposed method, the ROIs are detected using the detection method of maximally stable extremal regions (MSER), and the road indicator regions are detected using the speeded up robust features (SURF) matching method for the corresponding point matching of the detected ROIs and the road indicator templates. Experiments on various road satiations show that the processing time of about 0.32 sec per frame was required, and a detection rate of 91% was achieved.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.220-228
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• 2022

Image always carry useful information, detecting a text from scene images is imperative. The proposed work's purpose is to recognize scene text image, example boarding image kept on highways. Scene text detection on highways boarding's plays a vital role in road safety measures. At initial stage applying preprocessing techniques to the image is to sharpen and improve the features exist in the image. Likely, morphological operator were applied on images to remove the close gaps exists between objects. Here we proposed a two phase algorithm for extracting and recognizing text from scene images. In phase I text from scenery image is extracted by applying various image preprocessing techniques like blurring, erosion, tophat followed by applying thresholding, morphological gradient and by fixing kernel sizes, then canny edge detector is applied to detect the text contained in the scene images. In phase II text from scenery image recognized using MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Region) and OCR; Proposed work aimed to detect the text contained in the scenery images from popular dataset repositories SVT, ICDAR 2003, MSRA-TD 500; these images were captured at various illumination and angles. Proposed algorithm produces higher accuracy in minimal execution time compared with state-of-the-art methodologies.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2018

This paper presents an autonomous detection and aiming point computation of a battle tank by using RGB images. Maximally stable extremal regions algorithm was implemented to find features of the tank, which are matched with images extracted from streaming video to figure out the region of interest where the tank is present. The median filter was applied to remove noises in the region of interest and decrease camouflage effects of the tank. For the tank segmentation, k-mean clustering was used to autonomously distinguish the tank from its background. Also, both erosion and dilation algorithms of morphology techniques were applied to extract the tank shape without noises and generate the binary image with 1 for the tank and 0 for the background. After that, Sobel's edge detection was used to measure the outline of the tank by which the aiming point at the center of the tank was calculated. For performance measurement, accuracy, precision, recall, and F-measure were analyzed by confusion matrix, resulting in 91.6%, 90.4%, 85.8%, and 88.1%, respectively.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.843-852
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• 2015

Binarization of document images is a critical pre-processing step required for character recognition. Even though various research efforts have been devoted, the quality of binarization results largely depends on the noise amount and condition of images. We propose a new binarization method that combines Maximally Stable External Region(MSER) with down-sampling. Particularly, we propose to apply different threshold values for character regions, which turns out to be effective in reducing noise. Through a set of experiments on test images, we confirmed that the proposed method was superior to existing methods in reducing noise, while the increase of execution time is limited.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.194-196
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 안드로이드 환경에서 글자 인식을 위한 전처리 과정으로 입력 영상에서 글자 영역만을 추출하는 기법을 제안한다. 대부분의 글자 인식 어플리케이션에서 글자를 인식하는 방법은 RoI(Region of Interest)에 인식하려는 글자를 위치시켜 놓고 사용자가 촬영함으로써 진행된다. 하지만 촬영된 영상 그대로를 인식에 사용하기 때문에 잡음 및 글자가 아닌 영역들을 글자로 인식하는 문제 등으로 인하여 인식률이 현저히 떨어진다. 제안하는 기법에서는 MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) 기법을 통해 각각의 글자를 추출한 후, 글자의 특성을 이용하여 글자 영역만을 추출한다. 기법의 성능 평가는 무료 OCR(Optical Character Recognition) 엔진인 Tesseract-OCR을 통해 글자 인식률을 비교하였으며, 제안하는 기법을 적용한 글자 인식 시스템이 적용하지 않은 시스템보다 글자의 인식률이 향상되는 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.11-21
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• 2014

Multi-scale image segmentation is important in many applications such as image stylization and medical diagnosis. This paper proposes a novel segmentation algorithm based on MSER(maximally stable extremal region) which captures multi-scale structure and is stable and efficient. The algorithm collects MSERs and then partitions the image plane by redrawing MSERs in specific order. To denoise and smooth the region boundaries, hierarchical morphological operations are developed. To illustrate effectiveness of the algorithm's multi-scale structure, effects of various types of LOD control are shown for image stylization. The proposed technique achieves this without time-consuming multi-level Gaussian smoothing. The comparisons of segmentation quality and timing efficiency with mean shift-based Edison system are presented.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.27-34
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a method to remove the background area by analyzing the pattern of the character area. In the character detection result of the MSER(Maximally Stable External Regions) method which distinguishes a region having a constant contrast background regions were detected. To solve this problem, we use the MSER method in natural images, the background is removed by calculating the change rate by searching the character area and the background area which are not different from the areas where the contrast values are different from each other. However, in the background removed image, using the LBP(Local Binary Patterns) method, the area with uniform values in the image was determined to be a character area and character detection was performed. Experiments were carried out with simple images with backgrounds, images with frontal characters, and images with slanted images. The proposed method has a high detection rate of 1.73% compared with the conventional MSER and MSER + LBP method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.181-182
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 어파인(affine) 변환에 불변하는 지역 검출기에 대하여 다양한 기술자의 성능을 비교하였다. 지난 수 년간 다양한 특징 기술자들이 연구되어 왔고, 이러한 특징 기술자들은 각각의 목적에 따라 상이한 특성을 갖고 있기 때문에 동일한 조건에서 다양한 기술자들의 성능을 비교하는 연구가 필요하다. 그러나 어파인 변환에 불변하는 지역 검출기에 대해 최적의 특징 기술자를 찾는 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 지역적인 패치 기반의 특징 기술자뿐만 아니라 바이너리 기술자와 최근에 제안된 기술자들의 성능을 비교하였다. 제안하는 실험에서는 MSER (maximally stable extremal regions) 검출기를 이용하여 어파인 변환에 불변하는 지역을 검출하였고, 영상 확대 및 축소, 회전, 시점 변환 및 변형 가능한 물체에 대하여 각각 기술자의 성능을 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.61-68
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a method of character detection by analyzing image enhancement and character type to detect characters in natural images that can be acquired in everyday life. The proposed method emphasizes the boundaries of the object part using the unsharp mask in order to improve the detection rate of the area to be recognized as a character in a natural image. By using the boundary of the enhanced object, the character candidate region of the image is detected using Maximal Stable Extermal Regions (MSER). In order to detect the region to be judged as a real character in the detected character candidate region, the shape of each region is analyzed and the non-character region other than the region having the character characteristic is removed to increase the detection rate of the actual character region. In order to compare the objective test of this paper, we compare the detection rate and the accuracy of the character region with the existing methods. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the detection rate and accuracy of the character region over the existing character detection method.