• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.1737-1744
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• 2004

In the compression methods widely used today, the image compression by VQ is the most popular and shows a good data compression ratio. Almost all the methods by VQ use the LBG algorithm that reads the entire image several times and moves code vectors into optimal position in each step. This complexity of algorithm requires considerable amount of time to execute. To overcome this time consuming constraint, we propose an enhanced self-organizing neural network for color images. VQ is an image coding technique that shows high data compression ratio. In this study, we improved the competitive learning method by employing three methods for the generation of codebook. The results demonstrated that compression ratio by the proposed method was improved to a greater degree compared to the SOM in neural networks.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.77-85
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• 2014

Usually, the skin pigmentation detection and diagnosis are made by clinicians. In this process it is subjective and non-quantitative. We develop an approach to detect and measure the different pigmentation lesions base on computer vision technology. In the paper we study several usually used skin-detecting color space like HSV, YCbCr and normalized RGB. We compare their performance with illumination influence for detecting the pigmentation lesions better. Base on a relatively stable color space, we propose an approach which is RGB channels vector difference characteristic for the detection. After the object region detection, we also use the difference to measure the difference between the lesion and the surrounding normal skin. From the experiment results, our approach can effectively detect the pigmentation lesion, and perform robustness with different illumination.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1960-1963
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• 2003

For applications such as video surveillance and human computer interface, we propose an efficiently integrated method to detect and track faces. Various visual cues are combined to the algorithm: motion, skin color, global appearance and facial pattern detection. The ICA (Independent Component Analysis)-SVM (Support Vector Machine based pattern detection is performed on the candidate region extracted by motion, color and global appearance information. Simultaneous execution of detection and short-term tracking also increases the rate and accuracy of detection. Experimental results show that our detection rate is 91％ with very few false alarms running at about 4 frames per second for 640 by 480 pixel images on a Pentium IV 1㎓.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1997 no.11
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• pp.197-200
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• 1997

In this paper, we present a 3D reconstruction method of color volume data or a computerized human atlas. Binary volume rendering which takes the advantages of shear-warp factorization and new normal vector calculation method visualizes 3D organs in real time. Various manipulations such as rotation, multiple object rendering, removal, and transparency effect improve the usefulness and comprehensiveness of the computerized atlas.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.82-86
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• 2009

원격탐사 근적외선(NIR)과 Red 밴드의 반사도로부터 계산되는 정규식생지수(NDVI)는 구름에 오염된 곳에서는 실제보다 낮은 값으로 계산된다. 식생지수에서 구름오염 문제를 극복하는 기존의 대표적인 방법에는 보름 정도 장기간 식생지수 값 중에서 최대인 값을 취하는 MVC(Maximum Value Composite) 방법이 있다. 하지만 MVC 방법으로는 식생지수의 단기간 변동을 파악할 수 없으며, 장기간 계속 구름으로 오염된 곳은 잘못된 식생지수 값으로 계산되는 문제점이 있다. 가시광 RGB 자료로부터 snapshot 영상자료의 구름을 마스크(mask)하는 새로운 방법인 CIM(Color Index Manipulation) 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 이 알고리즘을 사용하면 snapshot 영상자료에서 구름에 오염된 곳은 제외하고 오염되지 않은 곳에 대한 식생지수를 계산할 수 있다. RGB 자료에 대한 정규색상지수 NCI (Normalized Color Index) 3개 성분을 $120^{\circ}$ 간격으로 벌어진 3개 축상의 좌표로 나타낸 후 이들 3개 값의 벡터합(vector sum) 정보를 이용하여 구름을 식별하는 CIM 방법으로 위성영상에서 두꺼운 구름과 않은 구름을 구분하여 식별할 수 있다. 이 구름식별 기법을 MODIS snapshot 위성영상 자료에 적용하여 한반도의 일별(daily) 식생지수 자료를 계산하였다. 그리고 수년간의 일별 식생지수 자료로부터 한반도 식생지수의 계절적 변동을 조사하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.891-894
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• 2004

This paper proposes an improved image segmentation algorithm by the watershed algorithm based on the local adaptive threshold on local minima search and the fixing threshold on label allocation. The previous watershed algorithm generates the problem of over-segmentation. The over-segmentation makes the boundary in the inaccuracy region by occurring around the object. In order to solve those problems we quantize the input color image by the vector quantization, remove noise and find the gradient image. We sorted local minima applying the local adaptive threshold on local minima search of the input color image. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm controls over-segmentation and makes the fine boundary around segmented region applying the fixing threshold based on sorted local minima on label allocation.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.159-168
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• 2019

Accurate forest fires detection algorithms remain a challenging issue, because, some of the objects have the same features with fire, which may result in high false alarms rate. This paper presents a new video-based, image processing forest fires detection method, which consists of four stages. First, a background-subtraction algorithm is applied to detect moving regions. Secondly, candidate fire regions are determined using CIE $L{\ast}a{\ast}b{\ast}$ color space. Thirdly, special wavelet analysis is used to differentiate between actual fire and fire-like objects, because candidate regions may contain moving fire-like objects. Finally, support vector machine is used to classify the region of interest to either real fire or non-fire. The final experimental results verify that the proposed method effectively identifies the forest fires.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.410-412
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• 1999

히스토그램 장면 전환 검출(histogram scene change detection) 기법은 입력 영상 내에 카메라 동작(camera operation)이 발생한 부분을 컷(cut)으로 나누는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 프레임 사이의 움직임 벡터를 측정하여 카메라 동작이 일어났는지를 판단하고, 이를 이용하여 잘못된 컷의 인식을 막는다. 카메라 동작이 발생하는 샷의 경제는 컷이 될 수 없으므로, 이외의 샷에 대해 컬러 히스토그램 교집합(color histogram intersection)을 구해서 장면 전환 여부를 판단한다. 제안된 기법은 기존의 히스토그램 장면 전환 검출 기법보다 프리시젼(Precision) 면에서 성능 향상을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.77-80
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• 2001

In general, the informations of the inner image that user interested in are limited to a special domain. In this paper, as using Wavelet Transform for dividing image into high frequency and low frequency, We can separate foreground including many data. After calculating object boundary of separated part, We extract special features using Color Coherence Vector. According to results of this experiment, the method of comparing data extracting foreground features is more effective than comparing data extracting features of entire image when we extract the image user interested in.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.116-121
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 데이터의존성과 벡터왜곡척도를 이용하여 개선된 칼라영상을 복호화하였다. 프랙탈 칼라영상의 복원방법은 Zhang과 Po의 벡터왜곡척도를 이용한 R, G, B 칼라 성분간의 상관관계를 고려하여 부호화한 압축파일을 사용하여 수렴될 복원영상을 독립적인 반복변환에 의해 수렴되는 영역과 데이터의존성을 갖는 영역으로 분류하여 데이터의존성 부분이 차지하는 만큼 복호화 과정에서 불필요한 계산량이 제거되었고, R 영역에서 검색한 데이터 의존영역을 G, B 영역에 그대로 사용하여 고속복호화가 가능하였다.