• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.60-79
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• 2022

The U-Net architecture-based segmentation models attained remarkable performance in numerous medical image segmentation missions like skin lesion segmentation. Nevertheless, the resolution gradually decreases and the loss of spatial information increases with deeper network. The fusion of adjacent layers is not enough to make up for the lost spatial information, thus resulting in errors of segmentation boundary so as to decline the accuracy of segmentation. To tackle the issue, we propose a new deep learning-based segmentation model. In the decoding stage, the feature channels of each decoding unit are concatenated with all the feature channels of the upper coding unit. Which is done in order to ensure the segmentation effect by integrating spatial and semantic information, and promotes the robustness and generalization of our model by combining the atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) module and channel attention module (CAM). Extensive experiments on ISIC2016 and ISIC2017 common datasets proved that our model implements well and outperforms compared segmentation models for skin lesion segmentation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.1034-1046
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• 2022

The learning-based multiview stereo (MVS) methods for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction generally use 3D volumes for depth inference. The quality of the reconstructed depth maps and the corresponding point clouds is directly influenced by the spatial resolution of the 3D volume. Consequently, these methods produce point clouds with sparse local regions because of the lack of the memory required to encode a high volume of information. Here, we apply the atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) module in MVS methods to obtain dense feature maps with multiscale, long-range, contextual information using high receptive fields. For a given 3D volume with the same spatial resolution as that in the MVS methods, the dense feature maps from the ASPP module encoded with superior information can produce dense point clouds without a high memory footprint. Furthermore, we propose a 3D loss for training the MVS networks, which improves the predicted depth values by 24.44%. The ASPP module provides state-of-the-art qualitative results by constructing relatively dense point clouds, which improves the DTU MVS dataset benchmarks by 2.25% compared with those achieved in the previous MVS methods.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.447-454
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• 2018

본 논문은 컨볼루션 신경망으로 이루어진 학습 모델을 통해 스테레오 영상의 깊이영상 생성 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 좌, 우 시차 영상을 입력으로 받아 각 시차영상의 주요 특징을 추출하는 특징 추출부와 추출된 특징을 이용하여 시차 정보를 학습하는 깊이 학습부로 구성된다. 우선 특징 추출부는 2D CNN 계층들로 이루어진 익셉션 모듈(xception module) 및 ASPP 모듈(atrous spatial pyramid pooling) module을 통해 각각의 시차영상에 대한 특징맵을 추출한다. 그 후 각 시차에 대한 특징 맵을 시차에 따라 3차원 형태로 쌓아 3D CNN을 통해 깊이 추정 가중치를 학습하는 깊이 학습부를 거친 후 깊이 영상을 추정한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 객체 영역에 대해 기존의 다른 학습 알고리즘들 보다 정확한 깊이를 추정하였다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.529-536
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• 2022

지난 2년 동안 중증급성호흡기증후군 코로나바이러스-2(SARS-CoV-2)는 점점 더 많은 사람들에게 영향을 미치고 있다. 본 논문에서는 COVID-19 폐 CT 이미지를 분할하고 분류하기 위해서 서브코딩블록(SCB), 확장공간파라미드풀링(ASSP)와 어텐션게이트(AG)로 구성된 혼합 모드 특징 추출 방식의 새로운 U-Net 컨볼루션 신경망을 제안한다. 그리고 제안된 모델과 비교하기 위하여 FCN, U-Net, U-Net-SCB 모델을 설계한다. 제안된 U-Net-MMFE 는 COVID-19 CT 스캔 디지털 이미지 데이터에 대하여 atrous rate가 12이고, Adam 최적화 알고리즘을 사용할 때 다른 분할 모델에 비하여 94.79%의 우수한 주사위 분할 점수를 얻었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.861-880
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• 2023

Semantic segmentation of road scene is the key technology of autonomous driving, and the improvement of convolutional neural network architecture promotes the improvement of model segmentation performance. The existing convolutional neural network has the simplification of learning knowledge and the complexity of the model. To address this issue, we proposed a road scene semantic segmentation algorithm based on multi-task collaborative learning. Firstly, a depthwise separable convolution atrous spatial pyramid pooling is proposed to reduce model complexity. Secondly, a collaborative learning framework is proposed involved with saliency detection, and the joint loss function is defined using homoscedastic uncertainty to meet the new learning model. Experiments are conducted on the road and nature scenes datasets. The proposed method achieves 70.94% and 64.90% mIoU on Cityscapes and PASCAL VOC 2012 datasets, respectively. Qualitatively, Compared to methods with excellent performance, the method proposed in this paper has significant advantages in the segmentation of fine targets and boundaries.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2022

As the risk of lung cancer has increased, early-stage detection and treatment of cancers have received a lot of attention. Among various medical imaging approaches, computer tomography (CT) has been widely utilized to examine the size and growth rate of lung nodules. However, the process of manual examination is a time-consuming task, and it causes physical and mental fatigue for medical professionals. Recently, many computer-aided diagnostic methods have been proposed to reduce the workload of medical professionals. In recent studies, encoder-decoder architectures have shown reliable performances in medical image segmentation, and it is adopted to predict lesion candidates. However, localizing nodules in lung CT images is a challenging problem due to the extremely small sizes and unstructured shapes of nodules. To solve these problems, we utilize atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) to minimize the loss of information for a general U-Net baseline model to extract rich representations from various receptive fields. Moreover, we propose mixed-up attention mechanism of reverse, boundary and convolutional block attention module (CBAM) to improve the accuracy of segmentation small scale of various shapes. The performance of the proposed model is compared with several previous attention mechanisms on the LIDC-IDRI dataset, and experimental results demonstrate that reverse, boundary, and CBAM (RB-CBAM) are effective in the segmentation of small nodules.