• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.215-225
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• 2004

A multistage hierarchical clustering technique, which is an unsupervised technique, was suggested in this paper for classifying large remotely-sensed imagery. The multistage algorithm consists of two stages. The 'local' segmentor of the first stage performs region-growing segmentation by employing the hierarchical clustering procedure of CN-chain with the restriction that pixels in a cluster must be spatially contiguous. The 'global' segmentor of the second stage, which has not spatial constraints for merging, clusters the segments resulting from the previous stage, using the conventional agglomerative approach. Using simulation data, the proposed method was compared with another hierarchical clustering technique based on 'mutual closest neighbor.' The experimental results show that the new approach proposed in this study considerably increases in computational efficiency for larger images with a low number of bands. The technique was then applied to classify the land-cover types using the remotely-sensed data acquired from the Korean peninsula.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.111-114
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• 2004

Object-based segmentation is the first essential step for image processing applications. Recently, SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) segmentation techniques have been developed, however not enough to preserve the significant information contained in the small regions of the images. The proposed method is to partition an SAR image into homogeneous regions by using a fuzzy hit-or-miss operator with an inherent spatial transformation, which endows to preserve the small regions. In our algorithm, an iterative segmentation technique is formulated as a consequential process. Then, each time in iterating, hypothesis testing is used to evaluate the quality of the segmented regions with a homogeneity index. The segmentation algorithm is unsupervised and employed few parameters, most of which can be calculated from the input data. This comparative study indicates that the new iterative segmentation algorithm provides acceptable results as seen in the tested examples of satellite images.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1426-1436
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• 2014

In this article, we present a new grey scale image segmentation method based on Fuzzy logic and bitplane techniques which combines the bits of different bitplanes of a pixel inorder to increase the segmentation quality and to get a more reliable and accurate segmentation result. The proposed segmentation approach is conceptually different and explores a new strategy. Infact, our technique consists in combining many realizations of the image together inorder to increase the information quality and to get an optimal segmented image. For segmentation, we proceed in two steps. In the first step, we begin by identifying the bitplanes that represent the lungs clearly. For this purpose, the intensity value of a pixel is separated into bitplanes. In the second step, segmentation values are assigned for each bitplane based on membership table. The segmented values of foreground are combined and the segmentation values of background are combined. The algorithm is demonstrated through the medical computed tomography (CT) images. The segmentation accuracy of the proposed method is compared with two existing techniques. Satisfactory segmentation results have been obtained showing the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.83-89
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• 2005

This study utilized a spatial region growing segmentation and a classification using fuzzy membership vectors to detect the changes in the images observed at different dates. Consider two co-registered images of the same scene, and one image is supposed to have the class map of the scene at the observation time. The method performs the unsupervised segmentation and the fuzzy classification for the other image, and then detects the changes in the scene by examining the changes in the fuzzy membership vectors of the segmented regions in the classification procedure. The algorithm was evaluated with simulated images and then applied to a real scene of the Korean Peninsula using the KOMPSAT-l EOC images. In the expertments, the proposed method showed a great performance for detecting changes in land-cover.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권6호
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• pp.1183-1189
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• 2011

In this study, we propose the unsupervised image segmentation algorithm to estimate dental plaque accumulations on digital imaging with methylene blue disclosed plaque. With this aim, RGB color plane is mapped into HSI coordinates and the circular histogram of Hue is reconstructed by applying Otsu's threshold level. The histogram distribution on Saturation features is also analyzed by maximizing the variance between a plaque candidate and non-plaque one. The dental plaque regions are resolved by applying the composite decision logics based on the threshold level of Hue and Saturation.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2016년도 제54차 하계학술대회논문집 24권2호
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• pp.51-54
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• 2016

In computer vision especially in image processing, it has become popular to apply deep convolutional networks for supervised learning. Convolutional networks have shown a state of the art results in classification, object recognition, detection as well as semantic segmentation. However, supervised learning has two major disadvantages. One is it requires huge amount of labeled data to get high accuracy, the second one is to train so much data takes quite a bit long time. On the other hand, unsupervised learning can handle these problems more cheaper way. In this paper we show efficient way to learn features for classification in an unsupervised way. The network trained layer-wise, used backpropagation and our network learns features from unlabeled data. Our approach shows better results on Caltech-256 and STL-10 dataset.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.421-430
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• 2010

영상분할은 관심대상이 되는 물체의 영역을 추출하기 위한 객체기반 영상분류의 전처리과정으로서 원격탐사 영상분석에서 그 중요성 날로 커지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 개선된 SRG(Seeded Region Growing) 기법과 영역병합과정을 이용하여 고해상도 영상분할을 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 우선 QuickBird 융합영상에서 추출된 다중분광 에지정보를 이용하여 초기 시드포인트를 자동으로 추출하였다. 추출된 시드포인트에 영상의 기하학적인 정보와 분광정보를 반영할 수 있는 개선된 SRG 기법을 적용하여 초기 영상 분할을 수행하였다. 최종적으로 앞선 초기분할 결과 향상을 위해 분할된 영역의 평균분광정보를 활용하여 영역병합을 수행하여 최종분할결과를 도출하였다. 제안된 기법의 효율성을 평가하기 위해 무감독 영상분할 평가측정치를 이용하여 정확도 평가를 수행하였다. 실험결과 제안한 기법은 고해상도 영상분할에 유용하게 적용될 수 있으리라 판단된다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.329-339
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 무감독 영상분류를 위하여 특성이 다른 센서로 수집된 영상들에 대한 의사결정 수준의 영상 융합기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 기법은 공간 확장 분할에 근거한 무감독 계층군집 영상분류기법을 개개의 센서에서 수집된 영상에 독립적으로 적용한 후 그 결과로 생성되는 분할지역의 퍼지 클래스 벡터(fuzzy class vector)를 이용하여 각 센서의 분류 결과를 융합한다. 퍼지 클래스벡터는 분할지역이 각 클래스에 속할 확률을 표시하는 지시(indicator) 벡터로 간주되며 기대 최대화 (EM: Expected Maximization) 추정 법에 의해 관련 변수의 최대 우도 추정치가 반복적으로 계산되어진다. 본 연구에서는 같은 특성의 센서 혹은 밴드 별로 분할과 분류를 수행한 후 분할지역의 분류결과를 퍼지 클래스 벡터를 이용하여 합성하는 접근법을 사용하고 있으므로 일반적으로 다중센서의 영상의 분류기법에 사용하는 화소수준의 영상융합기법에서처럼 서로 다른 센서로부터 수집된 영상의 화소간의 공간적 일치에 대한 높은 정확도를 요구하지 않는다. 본 연구는 한반도 전라북도 북서지역에서 관측된 다중분광 SPOT 영상자료와 AIRSAR 영상자료에 적용한 결과 제안된 영상 융합기법에 의한 피복 분류는 확장 벡터의 접근법에 의한 영상 융합보다 서로 다른 센서로부터 얻어지는 정보를 더욱 적합하게 융합한다는 것을 보여주고 있다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

Prostate cancer is one of the most diagnosed malignancies found across the world today. American cancer society in recent research predicted that over 174,600 new prostate cancer cases found and nearly 31,620 death cases recorded. Researchers are developing modest and accurate methodologies to detect and diagnose prostate cancer. Recent work has been done in radiology to detect prostate tumors using ultrasound imaging and resonance imaging techniques. Transrectal ultrasound and Magnetic resonance images of the prostate gland help in the detection of cancer in the prostate gland. The proposed paper is based on comparison and analysis between two novel image segmentation approaches. Seed region growing and cluster based image segmentation is used to extract the region from trans-rectal ultrasound prostate and MR prostate images. The region of extraction represents the abnormality area that presents in men's prostate gland. Detection of such abnormalities in the prostate gland helps in the identification and treatment of prostate cancer

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제15B권5호
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• pp.407-412
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• 2008

잡음이 심한 배경을 가진 영상 내부의 영역 분할 처리 과정은 해결하기 매우 어려운 문제로 인식되어 왔다. 그에 따라 이 문제를 해결하기 위한 기초적 방법론에 관한 연구 및 주어진 문제에 따라 실제적 적용을 위한 다양한 노력이 있어왔다. 본 논문에서는 영상 분할을 위한 새로운 접근법을 제시하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 새로운 방법론으로서 기존의 관심 객체 분할의 반대인 배경 영역 분할이라는 새로운 관점을 연구의 중심으로 하였다. 기반 이론으로는 승자 독식 원리의 자기 학습 이론 알고리즘에서 특징 선택을 위한 자기 조직화를 분석하고 이를 문제 해결에 적용하였다. 실제적 영상 데이터를 통한 실험을 통해 배경 영역 분할을 적용한 영상 분할은 효과적으로 수행될 수 있음을 실험 결과로 제시해 보였다.