• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.161-166
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• 2011

We present a fast algorithm for Korean text extraction and segmentation from subway signboards using smart phone sensors in order to minimize computational time and memory usage. The algorithm can be used as preprocessing steps for optical character recognition (OCR): binarization, text location, and segmentation. An image of a signboard captured by smart phone camera while holding smart phone by an arbitrary angle is rotated by the detected angle, as if the image was taken by holding a smart phone horizontally. Binarization is only performed once on the subset of connected components instead of the whole image area, resulting in a large reduction in computational time. Text location is guided by user's marker-line placed over the region of interest in binarized image via smart phone touch screen. Then, text segmentation utilizes the data of connected components received in the binarization step, and cuts the string into individual images for designated characters. The resulting data could be used as OCR input, hence solving the most difficult part of OCR on text area included in natural scene images. The experimental results showed that the binarization algorithm of our method is 3.5 and 3.7 times faster than Niblack and Sauvola adaptive-thresholding algorithms, respectively. In addition, our method achieved better quality than other methods.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2012년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.887-890
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• 2012

Image recognition is one of the most important research directions of pattern recognition. Image based road automatic identification technology is widely used in current society, the intelligence has become the trend of the times. This paper studied the image segmentation algorithm theory and its application in road signs recognition system. With the help of image processing technique, respectively, on road signs automatic recognition algorithm of three main parts, namely, image segmentation, character segmentation, image and character recognition, made a systematic study and algorithm. The experimental results show that: the image segmentation algorithm to establish road signs recognition model, can make effective use of smart phone system and application.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.44-49
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• 2015

Text line segmentation is a preprocessing step in OCR, which can significantly influence the accuracy of document analysis applications. This paper proposes a novel methodology for the text line segmentation of handwritten documents. First, the average width of the connected components is used to form a 1-D Gaussian kernel and a smoothing operation is then applied to the input binary image. The adaptive binarization of the smoothed image forms the final text lines. In this work, the segmentation method involves two stages: firstly, the large connected components are labelled as a unique text line using text line area mapping. Secondly, the final refinement of the segmentation is performed using the Euclidean distance between the text line and small connected components. The group of uniquely labelled text candidates achieves promising segmentation results. The proposed approach works well on Korean and English language handwritten documents captured using a camera.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.59-71
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• 2012

Since mobile phones are used as common communication devices, their applications are increasingly important to human's life. Using smart-phones camera to collect daily life environment's information is one of targets for many applications such as text recognition, object recognition or context awareness. Studies have been conducted to provide important information through the recognition of texts, which are artificially or naturally included in images and movies acquired from mobile phones. In this study, a character segmentation method that improves character-recognition accuracy in images obtained from mobile phone cameras is proposed. The proposed method first classifies texts in a given image to printed letters and handwritten letters since segmentation approaches for them are different. For printed letters, rough segmentation process is conducted, then the segmented regions are integrated, deleted, and re-segmented. Segmentation for the handwritten letters is performed after skews are corrected and the characters are classified by integrating them. The experimental result shows our method achieves a successful performance for both printed and handwritten letters as 95.9% and 84.7%, respectively.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2020

본 논문은 레이더와 카메라를 이용한 스마트 조명 시스템에서 실종자 탐지를 위한 색상 검출 방안을 제안한다. 최근 레이더와 카메라가 내장된 스마트 조명 시스템이 에너지 절약과 동시에 효율적인 실종자 검색에 도움이 된다고 보고 된 바 있다. 스마트 조명 시스템에서 레이다 센서는 조명 주변에 움직임을 감지한다. 조명 주변에서 움직임이 감지되면, 조명이 작동하고 카메라는 녹화기능을 수행한다. 여기서, 스마트 조명에 녹화된 영상은 실종자를 탐색하는 데 활용한다. 특히, 녹화된 영상에서 실종된 사람이 입고 있는 옷의 색상은 실종자를 찾는 데 중요한 단서 중의 하나이다. 이러한단서인 옷의 색상을 식별하기 위한 방법으로 색상 검출을 활용한다. 또한, 색상 검출 과정에서 배경의 영향을 줄이기 위해서 대상체를 고려한 ROI(Region of interest)를 적용한다. 실험 결과에 따르면, ROI를 적용한 경우 색상 검출의 정확도는 97% 이상을 보였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.335-349
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• 2023

Bridges constantly undergo deterioration and damage, the most common ones being concrete damage and exposed rebar. Periodic inspection of bridges to identify damages can aid in their quick remediation. Likewise, identifying components can provide context for damage assessment and help gauge a bridge's state of interaction with its surroundings. Current inspection techniques rely on manual site visits, which can be time-consuming and costly. More recently, robotic inspection assisted by autonomous data analytics based on Computer Vision (CV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been viewed as a suitable alternative to manual inspection because of its efficiency and accuracy. To aid research in this avenue, this study performs a comparative assessment of different architectures, loss functions, and ensembling strategies for the autonomous segmentation of bridge components and damages. The experiments lead to several interesting discoveries. Nested Reg-UNet architecture is found to outperform five other state-of-the-art architectures in both damage and component segmentation tasks. The architecture is built by combining a Nested UNet style dense configuration with a pretrained RegNet encoder. In terms of the mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) metric, the Nested Reg-UNet architecture provides an improvement of 2.86% on the damage segmentation task and 1.66% on the component segmentation task compared to the state-of-the-art UNet architecture. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that incorporating the Lovasz-Softmax loss function to counter class imbalance can boost performance by 3.44% in the component segmentation task over the most employed alternative, weighted Cross Entropy (wCE). Finally, weighted softmax ensembling is found to be quite effective when used synchronously with the Nested Reg-UNet architecture by providing mIoU improvement of 0.74% in the component segmentation task and 1.14% in the damage segmentation task over a single-architecture baseline. Overall, the best mIoU of 92.50% for the component segmentation task and 84.19% for the damage segmentation task validate the feasibility of these techniques for autonomous bridge component and damage segmentation using RGB images.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2020

최근 이미지 분할(Image Segmentation)에 관련되어 스마트 공장 산업과 의료 분야 등에 접목하려는 연구가 다수 진행되고 있다. 특히 딥러닝 알고리즘을 사용한 이미지 분할 시스템들은 대용량의 데이터를 높은 정확도로 학습할 만큼 발전되었다. 자율주행 분야에서도 이미지 분할을 이용하기 위해선 대용량의 데이터들에 대한 충분한 학습량이 필요하며, 실시간으로 운전자의 데이터를 처리하는 스트리밍 환경은 고속도로, 어린이보호구역 등으로 안전운행에 대한 정확도가 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 다양한 도로환경에 적용할 수 있는 기존 FCN(Fully Convoulutional Network) 알고리즘을 강화한 DFCN 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, DFCN 알고리즘의 성능이 FCN 알고리즘과 비교하여 손실 값 측면에서 1.3% 개선하였음을 증명하였으며, 기존 U-Net 알고리즘에 DFCN 알고리즘을 적용하여 이미지 내의 주파수의 정보를 유지하여 더 좋은 결과치를 도출함으로써 결과적으로 자율주행 환경에서 DFCN 알고리즘이 FCN 알고리즘보다 성능이 향상되었다는 것을 증명하였다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제64권1호
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• pp.15-26
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• 2022

3D open-field farm model developed from UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) data could make crop monitoring easier, also could be an important dataset for various fields like remote sensing or precision agriculture. It is essential to separate crops from the non-crop area because labeling in a manual way is extremely laborious and not appropriate for continuous monitoring. We, therefore, made a 3D open-field farm model based on UAV images and developed a crop segmentation model using a supervised machine learning algorithm. We compared performances from various models using different data features like color or geographic coordinates, and two supervised learning algorithms which are SVM (Support Vector Machine) and KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors). The best approach was trained with 2-dimensional data, ExGR (Excess of Green minus Excess of Red) and z coordinate value, using KNN algorithm, whose accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score was 97.85, 96.51, 88.54, 92.35% respectively. Also, we compared our model performance with similar previous work. Our approach showed slightly better accuracy, and it detected the actual crop better than the previous approach, while it also classified actual non-crop points (e.g. weeds) as crops.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an automatic left ventricle segmentation method in computed tomography angiography (CTA) using separating energy function. First, we smooth the images by applying anisotropic diffusion filter to remove noise. Secondly, the volume of interest (VOI) is detected by using k-means clustering. Thirdly, we divide the left and right heart with split energy function. Finally, we extract only left ventricle from left and right heart with optimizing cost function including orientation term.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2024

본 논문은 기존 방법보다 우수한 성능을 달성하는 피부 병변 분할을 위한 새로운 M자 모양 인코더-디코더 아키텍처를 제안한다. 제안된 아키텍처는 왼쪽과 오른쪽 다리를 활용하여 다중 스케일 특징 추출을 가능하게 하고, 스킵 연결 내에서 어텐션 메커니즘을 통합하여 피부 병변 분할 성능을 더욱 향상시킨다. 입력 영상은 네 가지 다른 패치로 분할되어 입력되며 인코더-디코더 프레임워크 내에서 피부 병변 분할 성능의 향상된 처리를 가능하게 한다. 제안하는 방법에서 어텐션 메커니즘을 통해 입력 영상의 특징에 더 많은 초점을 맞추어 더욱 정교한 영상 분할 결과를 도출하는 것이다. 실험 결과는 제안된 방법의 효과를 강조하며, 기존 방법과 비교하여 우수한 정확도, 정밀도 및 Jaccard 지수를 보여준다.