• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.17-31
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• 2002

멀티미디어 표준안으로 제안된 MPEG-4는 객체기반 부호화 방식으로서, 객체를 효율적으로 분할하는 것은 MPEG-4에 있어 중요한 관건이다. 지금까지 이 분야에 대한 연구는 주로 rigid object를 대상으로 하였으나, 본 논문에서는 non-rigid object, 특히 구름이나 연기와 같은 non-rigid object를 대상으로 하여 효율적인 영역 분할 방식을 연구하였다. Non-rigid object는 모양이나 크기가 일정치 않으며 시간에 따라 형태도 변형되므로 정확히 분할해내는 것은 쉽지 않다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이를 효율적으로 극복하기 위해 정지 영상에서는 watershed 알고리즘을 사용하여 non-rigid object를 분할해 주었다. 그리고 동영상에서는 intra-frame segmentation과 inter-frame segmentation을 통해 연속되는 프레임 내 관심 있는 객체의 경계선을 자동으로 추출해 주었다. 이 때 영상 내 경계 정보와 영역 정보 각각에 가중치를 두어 원하는 객체를 보다 정확히 추출해 주었다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.126-130
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• 2021

The ball grid array is one of the packaging methods that used in high density printed circuit board. Solder void defects caused by voids in the solder ball during the BGA process do not directly affect the reliability of the product, but it may accelerate the aging of the device on the PCB layer or interface surface depending on its size or location. Void inspection is important because it is related in yields with products. The most important process in the optical inspection of solder void is the segmentation process of solder and void. However, there are several segmentation algorithms for the vision inspection, it is impossible to inspect all of images ideally. When X-Ray images with poor contrast and high level of noise become difficult to perform image processing for vision inspection in terms of software programming. This paper suggests the solution to deal with the suggested problem by means of using Mask R-CNN instead of digital image processing algorithm. Mask R-CNN model can be trained with images pre-processed to increase contrast or alleviate noises. With this process, it provides more efficient system about complex object segmentation than conventional system.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2009

A process of identifying moving objects from data is typical task in many computer vision applications. In this paper, we propose a motion segmentation method that generally consists from background subtraction and foreground pixel segmentation. The Approximated Median Filter (AMF) was chosen to perform background modelling. To demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed approach, we tested it gray-scale video data as well as RGB color space.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.107-109
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• 2004

High-resolution remotely sensed data such as SPOT-5 imagery are employed to study the effectiveness of the watershed segmentation algorithm. Existing problems in this approach are identified and appropriate solutions are proposed. As a case study, the panchromatic SPOT-5 image of part of Beijing urban areas has been segmented by using the MATLAB software. In segmentation, the structuring element has been firstly created, then the gaps between objects have been exaggerated and the objects of interest are converted. After that, the intensity valleys have been detected and the watershed segmentation have been conducted. Through this process, the objects in an image are divided into separate objects. Finally, the effectiveness of the watershed segmentation approach for high-resolution imagery has been summarized. The approach to solve the problems such as over-segmentation has been proposed.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.11-28
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• 2016

In this paper, we proposed a dictionary extension and a ternary decomposition technique to improve the effectiveness of Khmer word segmentation. Most word segmentation approaches depend on a dictionary. However, the dictionary being used is not fully reliable and cannot cover all the words of the Khmer language. This causes an issue of unknown words or out-of-vocabulary words. Our approach is to extend the original dictionary to be more reliable with new words. In addition, we use ternary decomposition for the segmentation process. In this research, we also introduced the invisible space of the Khmer Unicode (char\u200B) in order to segment our training corpus. With our segmentation algorithm, based on ternary decomposition and invisible space, we can extract new words from our training text and then input the new words into the dictionary. We used an extended wordlist and a segmentation algorithm regardless of the invisible space to test an unannotated text. Our results remarkably outperformed other approaches. We have achieved 88.8%, 91.8% and 90.6% rates of precision, recall and F-measurement.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.64-75
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• 2003

Medical image segmentation is the process by which an original image is partitioned into some homogeneous regions like bones, soft tissues, etc. This study demonstrates an automatic medical image segmentation technique based on independent component analysis. Independent component analysis is a generalization of principal component analysis which encodes the higher-order dependencies in the input in addition to the correlations. It extracts statistically independent components from input data. Use of automatic medical image segmentation technique using independent component analysis under the assumption that medical image consists of some statistically independent parts leads to a method that allows for more accurate segmentation of bones from CT data. The result of automatic segmentation using independent component analysis with square test data was evaluated using probability of error(PE) and ultimate measurement accuracy(UMA) value. It was also compared to a general segmentation method using threshold based on sensitivity(True Positive Rate), specificity(False Positive Rate) and mislabelling rate. The evaluation result was done statistical Paired-t test. Most of the results show that the automatic segmentation using independent component analysis has better result than general segmentation using threshold.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.33-35
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• 2016

This paper proposes a method utilizing image compression and transmission method for image segmentation in order to reduce the time required in the process of analyzing the image information that has in the image compression process. Many studies of existing with respect to the image segmentation are being studied as a way to split a lot of a particular part in the image. We divide full image into the N equal parts. And it is compressed using the field coding. This will reduce the time-consuming than using the conventional method.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권6호
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• pp.490-496
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• 2014

무릎 관절 연골은 두께가 얇아 대부분 무릎 질환의 원인이 되고 있다. 그러므로 무릎 자기공명영상에서 관절 연골 분할은 무릎 질환의 정확한 진단을 위한 필수조건이다. 특히 수동이 아닌 전자동 방식으로 무릎 관절 연골을 분할하여야만 효과적인 무릎 질환 진단을 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 뇌 자기공명영상에서 대표적으로 사용되는 레벨 셋 기반의 영상 분할 기법을 분석하여 무릎 자기공명영상에 적용 시 문제점을 파악하고 이를 해결함으로써, 무릎 자기공명영상에 레벨 셋 기반 영상분할 방식을 적용하였다. 이는 본 논문에서 제안하는 분할기법을 사용할 경우 무릎 관절 연골 분할에 대한 모든 과정이 전자동화 되어 기존 반자동화 방식보다 빠른 처리가 가능하며, 3차원 형상화를 통해 보다 정확한 진단에 도움을 줄 수 있다. 또한 우리는 제안하고 있는 분할기법이 기존 대표적인 무릎 관절 분할보다 더 높은 정확도를 갖는 것을 실험을 통해 확인할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.246-253
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• 2016

Infrared (IR) imaging has been researched for various applications such as surveillance. IR radiation has the capability to detect thermal characteristics of objects under low-light conditions. However, automatic segmentation for finding the object of interest would be challenging since the IR detector often provides the low spatial and contrast resolution image without color and texture information. Another hindrance is that the image can be degraded by noise and clutters. This paper proposes multi-level segmentation for extracting regions of interest (ROIs) and objects of interest (OOIs) in the IR scene. Each level of the multi-level segmentation is composed of a k-means clustering algorithm, an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and a decision process. The k-means clustering initializes the parameters of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), and the EM algorithm estimates those parameters iteratively. During the multi-level segmentation, the area extracted at one level becomes the input to the next level segmentation. Thus, the segmentation is consecutively performed narrowing the area to be processed. The foreground objects are individually extracted from the final ROI windows. In the experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated using several IR images, in which human subjects are captured at a long distance. The average probability of error is shown to be lower than that obtained from other conventional methods such as Gonzalez, Otsu, k-means, and EM methods.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.159-166
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• 2021

In order to analyze cell images, accurate segmentation of each cell is indispensable. However, the reality is that accurate cell image segmentation is not easy due to various noises, dense cells, and inconsistent shape of cells. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an algorithm that combines marker-based watershed segmentation and ellipse fitting method for glioblastoma cell segmentation. In the proposed algorithm, in order to solve the over-segmentation problem of the existing watershed method, the marker-based watershed technique is primarily performed through "seeding using local minima". In addition, as a second process, the concave point search using ellipse fitting for final segmentation based on the connection line between the concave points has been performed. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we compared three algorithms with other algorithms along with the calculation of segmentation accuracy, and we applied the algorithm to other cell image data to check the generalization and propose a solution.