• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.3274-3292
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• 2013

Unsupervised methods for image segmentation are recently drawing attention because most images do not have labels or tags. A topic model is such an unsupervised probabilistic method that captures latent aspects of data, where each latent aspect, or a topic, is associated with one homogeneous region. The results of topic models, however, usually have noises, which decreases the overall segmentation performance. In this paper, to improve the performance of image segmentation using topic models, we propose two topic masks applicable to topic assignments of homogeneous regions obtained from topic models. The topic masks capture the noises among the assigned topic assignments or topic labels, and remove the noises by replacements, just like image masks for pixels. However, as the nature of topic assignments is different from image pixels, the topic masks have properties that are different from the existing image masks for pixels. There are two contributions of this paper. First, the topic masks can be used to reduce the noises of topic assignments obtained from topic models for image segmentation tasks. Second, we test the effectiveness of the topic masks by applying them to segmented images obtained from the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model and the Spatial Latent Dirichlet Allocation model upon the MSRC image dataset. The empirical results show that one of the masks successfully reduces the topic noises.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제5권11호
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• pp.585-592
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• 2016

글이나 대화를 일정한 주제의 단위로 나누는 것을 주제 분리라고 한다. 지금까지 주제 분리는 주로 완결된 하나의 문서에서 최적화된 분리를 찾는 방향으로 진행되어 왔다. 하지만 몇몇 응용은 글이나 대화가 진행 중에 주제 분리를 할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 합성곱 신경망을 이용한 교사 학습 모델을 통해 문장의 진행 중에 주제 분리를 수행하는 모델에 대해 제안한다. 그리고 제안한 모델의 성능 검증을 위해 On-line 상황을 가정한 실험과 기존의 C99모델을 결합한 실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과 각각 17.8과 11.95의 Pk 점수를 얻었고, 이를 통해 본 논문의 모델을 통한 On-line 상황에서의 주제 분리 활용의 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.77-93
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• 2015

As the range of the customer choice becomes more diverse, the average life span of companies' products and services is becoming shorter. Most companies are striving to maximize the revenue by understanding the customer's needs and providing customized products and services. However, companies had to bear a significant burden, in terms of the time and cost involved in the process of determining each individual customer's needs. Therefore, an alternative method is employed that involves grouping the customers into different categories based on certain criteria and establishing a marketing strategy tailored for each group. In this way, customer segmentation and customer clustering are performed using demographic information and behavioral information. Demographic information included sex, age, income level, and etc., while behavioral information was usually identified indirectly through customers' purchase history and search history. However, there is a limitation regarding companies' customer behavioral information, because the information is usually obtained through the limited data provided by a customer on a company's website. This is because the pattern indicated when a customer accesses a particular site might not be representative of the general tendency of that customer. Therefore, in this study, rather than the pattern indicated through a particular site, a customer's interest is identified using that customer's access record pertaining to external news. Hence, by utilizing this method, we proposed a methodology to perform customer segmentation. In addition, by extracting the main issues through a topic analysis covering approximately 3,000 Internet news articles, the actual experiment applying customer segmentation is performed and the applicability of the proposed methodology is analyzed.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제12B권6호
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• pp.697-702
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• 2005

주제 중심 웹 문서 수집기는 검색엔진에서 최신의 웹 문서 색인을 유지하는 대안방안으로 부상하고 있다. 그러나 주제 중심 웹 문서 수집기는 비 관심문서에서 연결된 관심문서들을 수집할 수 없는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제점은 문서의 구조적 특징을 고려하지 않아서 발생한다. 특히 문서분석 방법인 문서의 발생 횟수 및 역문헌 발생빈도는 이러한 문제를 야기하는 주요 원인이 된다 주제 중심 웹 문서 수집기의 성능을 향상하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 국소 정보기반의 문서 분할법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 문서를 하이퍼링크 주변의 문맥을 고려한 특징 정보들을 사용하여 여러 소각의 문서로 나눈다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 주제 중심 웹 문서 수집기는 나누어진 문서들을 이용하여 하이퍼링크가 관심문서를 가리키는 것인지를 판단하여 문서를 수집할 것인지를 판단한다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.153-155
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• 2003

Laser scanning has become a viable technique for the collection of a large amount of accurate 3D point data densely distributed on the scanned object surface. The inherent 3D nature of the sub-randomly distributed point cloud provides abundant spatial information. To explore valuable spatial information from laser scanned data becomes an active research topic, for instance extracting digital elevation model, building models, and vegetation volumes. The sub-randomly distributed point cloud should be segmented and classified before the extraction of spatial information. This paper investigates some exist segmentation methods, and then proposes an octree-based split-and-merge segmentation method to divide lidar data into clusters belonging to 3D planes. Therefore, the classification of lidar data can be performed based on the derived attributes of extracted 3D planes. The test results of both ground and airborne lidar data show the potential of applying this method to extract spatial features from lidar data.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2011년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.429-430
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• 2011

Roughness set theory is a popular topic to use in color-image segmentation. A new popular color image segmentation algorithm is proposed by scientists with the point using traditional histogram and Histon construct roughness set histogram. But, there is still a problem about that is the correlativity of color vector in roughness set histogram, which take an inactive effect in the process of color-image segmentation. Therefore, this paper represents further research based on this and proposed an improved method proved through lot of experiments. The experimental result reduces the correlativity of color vector in roughness set histogram and calculation time remarkably.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.4426-4442
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• 2020

Since scene segmentation is becoming a hot topic in the field of autonomous driving and medical image analysis, researchers are actively trying new methods to improve segmentation accuracy. At present, the main issues in image semantic segmentation are intra-class inconsistency and inter-class indistinction. From our analysis, the lack of global information as well as macroscopic discrimination on the object are the two main reasons. In this paper, we propose a Densely connected residual Attention network (DA-Res2Net) which consists of a dense residual network and channel attention guidance module to deal with these problems and improve the accuracy of image segmentation. Specifically, in order to make the extracted features equipped with stronger multi-scale characteristics, a densely connected residual network is proposed as a feature extractor. Furthermore, to improve the representativeness of each channel feature, we design a Channel-Attention-Guide module to make the model focusing on the high-level semantic features and low-level location features simultaneously. Experimental results show that the method achieves significant performance on various datasets. Compared to other state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method reaches the mean IOU accuracy of 83.2% on PASCAL VOC 2012 and 79.7% on Cityscapes dataset, respectively.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.111-122
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• 2021

Building footprint extraction is an active topic in the domain of remote sensing, since buildings are a fundamental unit of urban areas. Deep convolutional neural networks successfully perform footprint extraction from optical satellite images. However, semantic segmentation produces coarse results in the output, such as blurred and rounded boundaries, which are caused by the use of convolutional layers with large receptive fields and pooling layers. The objective of this study is to generate visually enhanced building objects by directly extracting the vertices of individual buildings by combining instance segmentation and keypoint detection. The target keypoints in building extraction are defined as points of interest based on the local image gradient direction, that is, the vertices of a building polygon. The proposed framework follows a two-stage, top-down approach that is divided into object detection and keypoint estimation. Keypoints between instances are distinguished by merging the rough segmentation masks and the local features of regions of interest. A building polygon is created by grouping the predicted keypoints through a simple geometric method. Our model achieved an F1-score of 0.650 with an mIoU of 62.6 for building footprint extraction using the OpenCitesAI dataset. The results demonstrated that the proposed framework using keypoint estimation exhibited better segmentation performance when compared with Mask R-CNN in terms of both qualitative and quantitative results.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.8-13
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• 2013

Nowadays, the saliency region detection has become a popular research topic because of its uses for many applications like object recognition and object segmentation. Some of recent methods apply color distinctiveness based on an analysis of statistics of color image derivatives in order to boosting color saliency can produce the good saliency maps. However, if the salient regions comprise more than half the pixels of the image or the background is complex, it may cause bad results. In this paper, we introduce the method to handle these problems by using maximum symmetric surround. The results show that our method outperforms the previous algorithms. We also show the segmentation results by using Otsu's method.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제21권4_spc호
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• pp.415-429
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• 2014

With the advent of smart devices, users are able to connect to each other through the Internet without the constraints of time and space. Because the Internet has become increasingly important to users in their everyday lives, reliance on it has grown. As a result, the number of web sites constantly increases and the competition between these sites becomes more intense. Even those sites that operate successfully struggle to establish new strategies for customer retention and customer development in order to survive. Many companies use various customer information in order to establish marketing strategies based on customer group segmentation A method commonly used to determine the customer groups of individual sites is to infer customer characteristics based on the customers' demographic information. However, such information cannot sufficiently represent the real characteristics of customers. For example, users who have similar demographic characteristics could nonetheless have different interests and, therefore, different buying needs. Hence, in this study, customers' interests are first identified through an analysis of their Internet news inquiry records. This information is then integrated in order to identify each web category. The study then analyzes the possibilities for the practical use of the proposed methodology through its application to actual Internet news inquiry records and web site browsing histories.