• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.20-27
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• 2006

Multi-level thresholding is a method that is widely used in image segmentation. However most of the existing methods are not suited to be directly used in applicable fields and moreover expanded until a step of image segmentation. This paper proposes region-based multi-level thresholding as an image segmentation method. At first we classify pixels of each color channel to two clusters by using EWFCM(Entropy-based Weighted Fuzzy C-Means) algorithm that is an improved FCM algorithm with spatial information between pixels. To obtain better segmentation results, a reduction of clusters is then performed by a region-based reclassification step based on a similarity between regions existing in a cluster and the other clusters. The clusters are created using the classification information of pixels according to color channel. We finally perform a region merging by Bayesian algorithm based on Kullback-Leibler distance between a region and the neighboring regions as a post-processing method as many regions still exist in image. Experiments show that region-based multi-level thresholding is superior to cluster-, pixel-based multi-level thresholding, and the existing mettled. And much better segmentation results are obtained by the post-processing method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.73-82
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• 2005

This paper proposes a multi-level thresholding method using weighted FCM(Fuzzy C-Means) algorithm in color image. FCM algerian determines a more optimal thresholding value than the existing methods and can extend to multi-level thresholding. But FCM algerian is sensitive to noise because it doesn't include spatial information. To solve the problem, we can remove noise by applying a weight based on entropy that is obtained from neighboring pixels to FCM algerian. And we determine the optimal cluster number by using within-class distance in code image based on the clustered pixels of each color component. In the experiments, we show that the proposed method is more tolerant to noise and is more superior than the existing methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.333-338
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• 2006

This paper proposes an improved do-noising method using multi-thresholding function based on translation-invariant (W) wavelet proposed by Donoho et al. for underwater radiated noise measurement. The traditional wavelet thresholding de-noising method causes Pseudo-Gibbs phenomena near singularities due to discrete wavelet transform. In order to suppress Pseudo-Gibbs Phenomena, a do-noising method combining multi-thresholding function with the translation-invariant wavelet transform is proposed in this paper. The multi-thresholding function is a modified soft-thresholding to each node according to the discriminated threshold so as to reject かon external noise and white gaussian noise. It is verified by numerical simulation. And the experimental results are confirmed through sea-trial using multi-single sensors.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.5 s.101
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• pp.587-594
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• 2005

This paper proposes a multi-level thresholding method for image segmentation using fuzzy clustering algorithm in transition region. Most of threshold-based image segmentation methods determine thresholds based on the histogram distribution of a given image. Therefore, the methods have difficulty in determining thresholds for real-image, which has a complex and undistinguished distribution, and demand much computational time and memory size. To solve these problems, we determine thresholds for real-image using fuzzy clustering algorithm after extracting transition region consisting of essential and important components in image. Transition region is extracted based on Inか entropy, which is robust to noise and is well-known as a tool that describes image information. And fuzzy clustering algorithm can determine optimal thresholds for real-image and be easily extended to multi-level thresholding. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for performance.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.231-234
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• 2009

Speckle noise reduction for power Doppler ventricle coherent image for restoration and enhancement using Fast Wavelet Transform with multi-thresholding and multi-filtering on the each subbands is presented. Fast Wavelet Transform divides into low frequency component image to high frequency component image to be multi-resolved. Speckle noise is located on high frequency component in multi-resolution image mainly. A Doppler ventricle image is transformed and inversed with separated threshold function and filtering from low to high resolved images for restoration to utilize visualization for ventricle diagnosis. The experimental result shows that the proposed method has better performance in comparison with the conventional method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1987.10b
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• pp.488-491
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• 1987

In this paper. a heuristic multi-thresholding algorithm is proposed to extract objects from background. Specifically the proposed algorithm finds out multi valleys from gray level histogram automatically and non-recursively. Some experimental result for various types of image. are presented, to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.445-452
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• 2010

Adequate segmentation of target objects from the background plays an important role for the performance of automatic target recognition(ATR) system. This paper presents a new segmentation algorithm using fuzzy thresholding to extract a target. The proposed algorithm consists of two steps. In the first step, the region of interest(ROI) including the target can be automatically selected by the proposed robust method based on the frame difference of each image sensor. In the second step, fuzzy thresholding with a proposed membership function is performed within the only ROI selected in the first step. The proposed membership function is based on the similarity of intensity and the adjacency of target area on each image. Experimental results applied to real CCD/IR images show a good performance and the proposed algorithm is expected to enhance the performance of ATR system using multi-sensors.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.325-333
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• 2015

Vision based night-time vehicle detection has been an emerging research field in various advanced driver assistance systems(ADAS) and automotive vehicle as well as automatic head-lamp control. In this paper, we propose night-time vehicle detection method based on multi-class support vector machine(SVM) that consists of thresholding, labeling, feature extraction, and multi-class SVM. Vehicle light candidate blobs are extracted by local mean based thresholding following by labeling process. Seven geometric and stochastic features are extracted from each candidate through the feature extraction step. Each candidate blob is classified into vehicle light or not by multi-class SVM. Four different multi-class SVM including one-against-all(OAA), one-against-one(OAO), top-down tree structured and bottom-up tree structured SVM classifiers are implemented and evaluated in terms of vehicle detection performances. Through the simulations tested on road video sequences, we prove that top-down tree structured and bottom-up tree structured SVM have relatively better performances than the others.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.435-437
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• 1998

영상에 대한 영역분할은 영상에 대한 인식 시스템에서 가장 중요하고도 어려운 분야로 알려져 있다. 주로 사용되는 방법은 화소중심기법과 영역중심기법이 사용되는데, 화소중심기법은 적은 시간이 걸리는데 비해 영역분할 효과가 떨어지고, 영역중심기법은 상대적으로 양질의 영역분할 효과를 얻을 수 있지만 많은 시간이 걸린다. 본 논문에서는 영역분할에 대한 방법으로 thresholding방법을 이용한 2단계로 이루어진 영역분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 화소의 전역정보와 지역정보를 모두 사용하여 기존의 전역 thresholding방법에 비해 향상된 영역 분할을 수행하고, 지역정보를 이용하는 영역중심 기법에 비해 시간을 단축하는 효과를 가지고 있다. 첫 번째 단계에서는 기존에 알려진 전역 thresholding방법을 사용하여 영역분할을 하고, 두 번째 단계에서는 영상에 대해 미리 알려진 사전지식을 이용하여 영역분할이 제대로 되지 않은 영역을 구분하여 해당 영역에 대해서만 thresholding작업을 수행한다. 사용된 영상은 자궁경부 세포진 영상으로 대상이 되는 영역은 자궁경부 세포의 핵으로 제한하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.279-284
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• 2010

The plane curve approach which was proposed by Boukharouba et. al. is a multi-threshold selection method through searching peak-valley based on histogram cumulative distribution function. However the method is required to select parameters to compose plane curve, and the shape of plane curve is affected according to parameters. Therefore detection of peak-valley is effected by parameters. In this paper, we propose an entropy maximizing-based method to select optimal plane curve parameters, and propose a multi-thresholding method based on the selected parameters. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by multi-thresholding experiments on various images and comparison with other conventional thresholding methods based on histogram.