• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.13-21
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• 2019

The content based on image retrieval makes use of features of information within image such as color, texture and share for Retrieval data. we present a novel approach for improving retrieval accuracy based on DCT Filter-Bank. First, we perform DCT on a given image, and generate a Filter-Bank using the DCT coefficients for each color channel. In this step, DC and the limited number of AC coefficients are used. Next, a feature vector is obtained from the histogram of the quantized DC coefficients. Then, AC coefficients in the Filter-Bank are separated into three main groups indicating horizontal, vertical, and diagonal edge directions, respectively, according to their spatial-frequency properties. Each directional group creates its histogram after employing Otsu binarization technique. Finally, we project each histogram on the horizontal and vertical axes, and generate a feature vector for each group. The computed DC and AC feature vectors bins are concatenated, and it is used in the similarity checking procedure. We experimented using 1,000 databases, and as a result, this approach outperformed the old retrieval method which used color information.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.865-871
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a method of extracting prostate region using morphological characteristics of ultra-sonic image of prostate. In the first step of the proposed method, the edge area of the prostate image is extracted. The histogram of ultra-sonic image is used to extract base objects to detect the upper edge of prostate region by altering the contrast of the image, then, the lower edges of the extracted base objects are connected by using monotone cubic spline interpolation to extract the upper edge. Step 2, Otsu's binarization is applied to the region under the extracted upper edge of the prostate ultra-sonic image to extract the lower edge of prostate. In the last step, the upper and the lower edges are connected to extract prostate region and by comparing the extracted region of prostate with the one measured manually, the result showed that the morphological characteristics of prostate in ultrasonic image can be utilized to extract the prostate region.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2009

Color polarity classification is a process to determine whether the color of text is bright or dark and it is prerequisite task for text extraction. In this paper we propose a color polarity method to extract text region. Based on the observation for the text and background regions, the proposed method uses the ratios of sizes and standard deviations of bright and dark regions. At first, we employ Otsu's method for binarization for gray scale input region. The two largest segments among the bright and the dark regions are selected and the ratio of their sizes is defined as the first measure for color polarity classification. Again, we select the segments that have the smallest standard deviation of the distance from the center among two groups of regions and evaluate the ratio of their standard deviation as the second measure. We use these two ratio features to determine the text color polarity. The proposed method robustly classify color polarity of the text. which has shown by experimental result for the various font and size.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.358-365
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an object recognition method using image information to improve the efficiency of visual servoingfor industrial manipulators in industry. This is an image-processing method for real-time responses to an abnormal situation or to external environment change in a work object by utilizing camera-image information of an industrial manipulator. The object recognition method proposed in this paper uses the Otsu method, a thresholding technique based on separation of the V channel containing color information and the S channel, in which it is easy to separate the background from the HSV channel in order to improve the recognition rate of the existing Harris Corner algorithm. Through this study, when the work object is not placed in the correct position due to external factors or from being twisted,the position is calculated and provided to the industrial manipulator.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.164-169
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• 2009

This paper proposes a road detection method using BP(Back-Propagation) neural network based on texture information of the each candidate road region segmented for satellite images. To segment the candidate road regions, the histogram-based binarization method proposed by N.Otsu is firstly performed and the neighboring regions surrounding road regions are then removed. And after extracting the principal color using the histogram of the segmented foreground, the candidate road regions are classified into the regions within ${\pm}25$ of the principal color. Finally, the road regions are segmented using BP neural network based on texture information of the candidate regions. The texture information in this paper is calculated using co-occurrence matrix and is used as an input data of the BP neural network. The proposed method is based on the fact that the road has the constant intensity and shape. The experiment demonstrated the validity of the proposed method and showed 90% detection accuracy for the various images.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.705-711
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• 2011

This paper proposes an effective algorithm of license plate recognition for industrial applications. By applying Canny edge detection on a vehicle image, it is possible to find a connected rectangular, which is a strong candidate for license plate. The color information of license plate separates plates into white and green. Then, OTSU binary image processing and foreground neighbor pixel propagation algorithm CLNF will be applied to each license plates to reduce noise except numbers and letters. Finally, through labeling, numbers and letters will be extracted from the license plate. Letter and number regions, separated from the plate, pass through mesh method and thinning process for extracting feature vectors by X-Y projection method. The extracted feature vectors are compared with the pre-learned weighting values by backpropagation neural network to execute final recognition process. The experiment results show that the proposed license plate recognition algorithm works effectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 한국정보처리학회 2000년도 제13회 춘계학술대회 및 임시총회 학술발표 논문집
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• pp.1077-1083
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• 2000

본 논문은 운송 컨테이너 식별자의 자동화 처리를 위한 문자 인식의 단계중 최종 문자 인식 전단계 까지의 처리 과정을 컨테이너의 특성에 맞게 제안하였으며, 이러한 전처리 과정은 문자 인식 시스템의 성능에 중요한 영향을 미친다. 제안한 방법은 먼저 입력된 컨테이너 컬러 영상을 명암 영상으로 바꾸고 전체 영상중 인식에 필요한 식별자 영역만을 경계선 검출과 형태학적 연산을 이용하여 추출한다. 이어서 다양한 배경색과 문자색을 판단하여 일반 문서와 같이 일관성있게 통일한 후, DCT를 이용한 명암도별 이진영역으로 분할한 후에 Otsu방법과 새로운 이진화방법을 자동으로 선택하여 효율적인 이진화가 이루어지도록 하였다. 이렇게 얻어진 이진 영상은 문자인식 단계로 넘어갈 수 있도록 개별 문자로 분할한다. 이 방법은 컨테이너 영상의 불균등한 배경색과 잡음으로 인하여 문자인식에 오류가 생기는 단점을 보완하였으며 컨테이너 특성을 최대한 반영함으로써 효과적인 전처리 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한, 제안한 방법의 응용은 컨테이너 이외의 다른 상황에서도 매우 효과적으로 사용될 수 있으리라 본다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 한국정보처리학회 2015년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.870-872
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 웨이퍼의 자동광학검사를 위한 결점 검출 비전 시스템을 개발하였다. 성공적 결점 검출을 위해 몇 가지 이진화 방법을 비교하였고, bimodal과 unimodal 분포에 모두 좋은 결과를 나타낸 개선된 Otsu 방법을 선택하였다. 빠르고 정확한 임계값 계산을 위해 ROI 추출기능을 개발하였으며 최종적으로 웨이퍼의 검출 패턴은 정의된 기준에 따라 영상 분류되었고 성능평가를 위해 14개 이상의 웨이퍼 영상으로 테스트하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• 제17B권5호
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• pp.363-374
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose the method for extracting Homogeneity Threshold($H_T$) and for segmenting homogeneous regions by USRG(Unseeded Region Growing) with $H_T$. The $H_T$ is a criterion to distinguish homogeneity in neighbor pixels and is computed automatically from the original image by proposed method. Theoretical background for proposed method is based on the Otsu's single level threshold method. The method is used to divide a small local part of original image int o two classes and the sum($\sigma_c$) of standard deviations for the classes to satisfy special conditions for distinguishing as different regions from each other is used to compute $H_T$. To find validity for proposed method, we compare the original image with the image that is regenerated with only the segmented homogeneous regions and show up the fact that the difference between two images is not exist visually and also present the steps to regenerate the image in order the size of segmented homogeneous regions and in order the intensity that includes pixels. Also, we show up the validity of proposed method with various results that is segmented using the homogeneity thresholds($H^*_T$) that is added a coefficient ${\alpha}$ for adjusting scope of $H_T$. We expect that the proposed method can be applied in various fields such as visualization and animation of natural image, anatomy and biology and so on.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• 제9B권2호
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• pp.245-254
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• 2002

IC package marking inspection system using machine vision locates and identifies the target elements from input image, and decides the quality of marking by comparing the extracted target elements with the standard patterns. This paper proposes an adaptive multi-level thresholding (AMLT) method which is suitable for a series of operations such as locating the target IC package, extracting the characters, and detecting the Pinl dimple. It also proposes a dynamic matching unit selection (DMUS) method which is robust to noises as well as effective to catch out the local marking errors. The main idea of the AMLT method is to restrict the inputs of Otsu's thresholding algorithm within a specified area and a partial range of gray values. Doing so, it can adapt to the specific domain. The DMUS method dynamically selects the matching unit according to the result of character extraction and layout analysis. Therefore, in spite of the various erroneous situation occurred in the process of character extraction and layout analysis, it can select minimal matching unit in any environment. In an experiment with 280 IC package images of eight types, the correct extracting rate of IC package and Pinl dimple was 100% and the correct decision rate of marking quality was 98.8%. This result shows that the proposed methods are effective to IC package marking inspection.