• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.395-401
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• 2020

In this paper, a motion-based ROI extraction algorithm from a high resolution fisheye image is proposed for multi-view monitoring systems. Lately fisheye cameras are widely used because of the wide angle-of-view and they basically provide a lens correction functionality as well as various viewing modes. However, since the distortion-free angle of conventional algorithms is quite narrow due to the severe distortion ratio, there are lots of unintentional dead areas and they require much computation time in finding undistorted coordinates. Thus, the proposed algorithm adopts an image decimation and a motion detection methods, that can extract the undistorted ROI image with a standard angle-of-view for the fast and intelligent surveillance system. In addition, a mesh-type ROI is presented to reduce the lens correction time, so that this independent ROI scheme can parallelize and maximize the processor's utilization.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.12
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• pp.1618-1624
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• 2020

Intestinal obstruction diagnosis method based on X-ray can affect objective diagnosis because it includes subjective factors of the examiner. Therefore, in this paper, a detection method of Intestinal Obstruction from X-Ray image using Hough transform and PCM is proposed. The proposed method uses Hough transform to detect straight lines from the extracted ROI of the intestinal obstruction X-Ray image and bowel obstruction is extracted by using air fluid level's morphological characteristic detected by the straight lines. Then, ROI is quantized by applying PCM clustering algorithm to the extracted ROI. From the quantized ROI, cluster group that includes bowel obstruction's characteristic is selected and small bowel regions are extracted by using object search from the selected cluster group. The proposed method of using PCM is applied to 30 X-Ray images of intestinal obstruction patients and setting the initial cluster number of PCM to 4 showed excellent performance in detection and the TPR was 81.47%.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.238-246
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• 2013

In this paper, a robot vision technique is presented to detect obstacles, particularly approaching humans, in the images acquired by a mobile robot that autonomously navigates in a narrow building corridor. A single low-cost color camera is attached to the robot, and a trapezoidal area is set as a region of interest (ROI) in front of the robot in the camera image. The lower parts of a human such as feet and legs are first detected in the ROI from their appearances in real time as the distance between the robot and the human becomes smaller. Then, the human detection is confirmed by detecting his/her face within a small search region specified above the part detected in the trapezoidal ROI. To increase the credibility of detection, a final decision about human detection is made when a face is detected in two consecutive image frames. We tested the proposed method using images of various people in corridor scenes, and could get promising results. This method can be used for a vision-guided mobile robot to make a detour for avoiding collision with a human during its indoor navigation.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.77-85
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• 2015

Table detection is a challenging problem and plays an important role in document layout analysis. In this paper, we propose an effective method to identify the table region from document images. First, the regions of interest (ROIs) are recognized as the table candidates. In each ROI, we locate text components and extract text blocks. After that, we check all text blocks to determine if they are arranged horizontally or vertically and compare the height of each text block with the average height. If the text blocks satisfy a series of rules, the ROI is regarded as a table. Experiments on the ICDAR 2013 dataset show that the results obtained are very encouraging. This proves the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed method.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.581-585
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a pedestrian detection by applying the HOG feature using ROI. Conventional HOG method has high accuracy, but shows the disadvantage of slow processing speed. By applying the ROI to the conventional method reduce computations for unnecessary area. Therefore proposed method improves the processing speed. In order to set the ROI area, we propose a structure that combined odd frames and even frames. Odd frame is in charge of operation for the entire area. And even frame does the operation for the ROI area. Implementation results of proposed method maintaining the same accuracy as the conventional method show a 20% improved performance of 8.3 frames per second.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.77-78
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• 2008

With advent of 3G mobile communication services, video telephony becomes one of the major services. However, due to a narrow channel bandwidth, the current video telephony services have not yet reached a satisfied level. In this paper, we propose an ROI (Region-Of-Interest) based improvement of visual quality for video telephony services with the H.264|MPEG-4 Part 10 (AVC: Advanced Video Coding) codec. To this end, we propose a face detection and tracking method to define ROI for the AVC codec based video telephony. Experiment results show that our proposed ROI based method allowed for improved visual quality in both objective and subjective perspectives.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.511-513
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 세라믹 영상에서 사람의 눈으로 판단하기 어려운 결함 영역을 검출하기 위해 배경을 제거한 후에 지역 기반 오츠 이진화와 양방향 소벨 마스크를 적용하여 세라믹 영상의 윤곽선을 검출한다. 윤곽선이 검출된 영상을 수평으로 4등분하고, 각각의 영역에서 밝기 값이 변화는 지점을 탐색한다. 탐색된 좌표 중에서 최대 명암도 값을 이용하여 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 결함 영역 검출의 효율성을 높이기 위한 전 단계로 배경을 제거하기 위해 ROI 영역과 최소값 필터가 적용된 ROI 영역 간의 명암도의 차이를 이용하여 배경을 제거한다. 명암도의 차이를 통해 배경이 제거된 ROI 영역에서 개선된 명암 대비 스트레칭 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역의 명암 대비를 강조한다. 명암이 강조된 ROI 영역에서 10mm, 11mm, 16mm, 22mm 영상의 결함 영역을 검출하기 위해 히스토그램 이진화 기법을 적용하여 결함의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 결함 후보 영역이 검출된 ROI 영역에서 미세 잡음을 제거하기 위해 중간값 필터와 침식과 팽창을 적용한 후에 최종적인 결함 영역을 검출한다. 제안된 방법을 8mm, 10mm, 11mm, 16mm, 22mm 세라믹 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 검출 방법이 기존의 검출 방법보다 모든 mm 세라믹 영상에서 효과적으로 결함 영역이 검출되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.129-135
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• 2016

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for image-based maritime obstacle detection using global sparsity potentials (GSPs), in which "global" refers to the entire sea area. The horizon line is detected first to segment the sea area as the region of interest (ROI). Considering the geometric relationship between the camera and the sea surface, variable-size image windows are adopted to sample patches in the ROI. Then, each patch is represented by its texture feature, and its average distance to all the other patches is taken as the value of its GSP. Thereafter, patches with a smaller GSP are clustered as the sea surface, and patches with a higher GSP are taken as the obstacle candidates. Finally, the candidates far from the mean feature of the sea surface are selected and aggregated as the obstacles. Experimental results verify that the proposed approach is highly accurate as compared to other methods, such as the traditional feature space reclustering method and a state-of-the-art saliency detection method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07d
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• pp.2482-2484
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• 2000

In this paper, we have developed an automated computer aided diagnostic (CAD) scheme by using artificial neural networks(ANN) on guantitative analysis of chest photofluorography. The first ANN performs the detection of suspicious regions in a low resolution image. This was trained specifically on the problem of detecting abnormal regions digitized chest photofluorography. The second space matching method was used to distinguish between normal and abnormal regions of interest(ROI). If the ratio of the number of abnormal ROI to the total number of all ROI in a chest image was greater than a specified threshold level, the image was classified as abnormal.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1437-1444
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• 2020

With the development of computer vision systems, many advances have been made in the fields of surveillance, biometrics, medical imaging, and autonomous driving. In the field of autonomous driving, in particular, the object detection technique using deep learning are widely used, and the paved road detection is a particularly crucial problem. Unlike the ROI detection algorithm used in general object detection, the structure of paved road in the image is heterogeneous, so the ROI-based object recognition architecture is not available. In this paper, we propose a deep neural network architecture for atypical paved road detection using Semantic segmentation network. In addition, we introduce the multi-scale semantic segmentation network, which is a network architecture specialized to the paved road detection. We demonstrate that the performance is significantly improved by the proposed method.