• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.99-109
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• 2011

This paper concerns a robust real-time voice activity detection (VAD) approach which is easy to understand and implement. The proposed approach employs several short-term speech/nonspeech discriminating features in a voting paradigm to achieve a reliable performance in different environments. This paper mainly focuses on the performance improvement of a recently proposed approach which uses spectral peak valley difference (SPVD) as a feature for silence detection. The main issue of this paper is to apply a set of features with SPVD to improve the VAD robustness. The proposed approach uses a weighted voting scheme in order to take the discriminative power of the employed feature set into account. The experiments show that the proposed approach is more robust than the baseline approach from different points of view, including channel distortion and threshold selection. The proposed approach is also compared with some other VAD techniques for better confirmation of its achievements. Using the proposed weighted voting approach, the average VAD performance is increased to 89.29% for 5 different noise types and 8 SNR levels. The resulting performance is 13.79% higher than the approach based only on SPVD and even 2.25% higher than the not-weighted voting scheme.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.8
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• pp.869-877
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose an automated segmentation method of femoral cartilage in knee MR images using multi-atlas-based locally-weighted voting. The proposed method involves two steps. First, to utilize the shape information to show that the femoral cartilage is attached to a femur, the femur is segmented via volume and object-based locally-weighted voting and narrow-band region growing. Second, the object-based affine transformation of the femur is applied to the registration of femoral cartilage, and the femoral cartilage is segmented via multi-atlas shape-based locally-weighted voting. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we compared the segmentation results of majority voting method, intensity-based locally-weighted voting method, and the proposed method with manual segmentation results defined by expert. In our experimental results, the newly proposed method avoids a leakage into the neighboring regions having similar intensity of femoral cartilage, and shows improved segmentation accuracy.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.1175-1186
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• 2017

Human emotion recognition is one of the promising applications in the era of artificial super intelligence. Thus far, facial expression traits are considered to be the most widely used information cues for realizing automated emotion recognition. This paper proposes a novel facial expression recognition (FER) method that works well for recognizing emotion from image sequences. To this end, we develop the so-called weighted soft voting classification (WSVC) algorithm. In the proposed WSVC, a number of classifiers are first constructed using different and multiple feature representations. In next, multiple classifiers are used for generating the recognition result (namely, soft voting) of each face image within a face sequence, yielding multiple soft voting outputs. Finally, these soft voting outputs are combined through using a weighted combination to decide the emotion class (e.g., anger) of a given face sequence. The weights for combination are effectively determined by measuring the quality of each face image, namely "peak expression intensity" and "frontal-pose degree". To test the proposed WSVC, CK+ FER database was used to perform extensive and comparative experimentations. The feasibility of our WSVC algorithm has been successfully demonstrated by comparing recently developed FER algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.16-17
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• 2011

온라인을 통한 이미지 공유는 사용자들이 활발하게 이용하고 있는 분야 중 하나이다. 사용자의 활발한 참여로 거대해진 이미지 데이터 베이스 내에서 효율적으로 이미지 검색을 수행하기 위해서는 이미지를 정확하기 표현하고 있는 태그의 존재가 매우 중요하다. 하지만, 최근 이미지에 등록 태그 중에서 상당 부분이 이미지와는 직접 관련이 없는 노이즈 태그라는 조사결과는 노이즈 태그로 인해서 이미지 검색의 정확성이 저하될 수 있다는 가능성을 암시한다. 그래서 노이즈 태그를 효과적으로 구분하기 위해서는 태그의 종류에 적합한 태그 정제 기술을 도입할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 이를 위해서 이미지의 시각적 유사도에 기반한 Visually weighted neighbor voting 방법을 제안했다. 이를 통해서 이미지와 태그 사이의 관련성을 효과적으로 측정할 수 있었다. 그리고 기존 기술보다 안정적으로 노이즈 태그를 구분할 수 있음을 실험을 통해서 증명하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.258-267
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• 2013

New incremental learning algorithm using extended data expression, based on probabilistic compounding, is presented in this paper. Incremental learning algorithm generates an ensemble of weak classifiers and compounds these classifiers to a strong classifier, using a weighted majority voting, to improve classification performance. We introduce new probabilistic weighted majority voting founded on extended data expression. In this case class distribution of the output is used to compound classifiers. UChoo, a decision tree classifier for extended data expression, is used as a base classifier, as it allows obtaining extended output expression that defines class distribution of the output. Extended data expression and UChoo classifier are powerful techniques in classification and rule refinement problem. In this paper extended data expression is applied to obtain probabilistic results with probabilistic majority voting. To show performance advantages, new algorithm is compared with Learn++, an incremental ensemble-based algorithm.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.1960-1969
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose an automatic hierarchical organ segmentation method on abdominal CT images. First, similar atlases are selected using bone-based similarity registration and similarity of liver, kidney, and pancreas area. Second, each abdominal organ is roughly segmented using image-based similarity registration and intensity-based locally weighted voting. Finally, the segmented abdominal organ is refined using mask-based affine registration and intensity-based locally weighted voting. Especially, gallbladder and pancreas are hierarchically refined using location information of neighbor organs such as liver, left kidney and spleen. Our method was tested on a dataset of 12 portal-venous phase CT data. The average DSC of total organs was $90.47{\pm}1.70%$. Our method can be used for patient-specific abdominal organ segmentation for rehearsal of laparoscopic surgery.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.7
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• pp.315-320
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• 2017

In this paper, I design a new scheme that is immune to malicious attack based on the weighted voting game. By using stochastic learning, the proposed scheme can revoke the certification of malicious node. Through the revocation process, the proposed scheme can effectively adapt the dynamic Mobile Ad hoc network situation. Simulation results clearly indicate that the developed scheme has better performance than other existing schemes under widely diverse network environments.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.29-38
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation method of meniscus in knee MR images by automatic meniscus localization, multi-atlas-based locally-weighted voting, and patch-based edge feature classification. First, after segmenting the bone and knee articular cartilage, the volume of interest of the meniscus is automatically localized. Second, the meniscus is segmented by multi-atlas-based locally-weighted voting taking into account the weights of shape and intensity distribution in the volume of interest of the meniscus. Finally, to remove leakage to the collateral ligaments with similar intensity, meniscus is refined using patch-based edge feature classification considering shape and distance weights. Dice similarity coefficient between proposed method and manual segmentation were 80.13% of medial meniscus and 80.81 % for lateral meniscus, and showed better results of 7.25% for medial meniscus and 1.31% for lateral meniscus compared to the multi-atlas-based locally-weighted voting.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.131-134
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 각 지역의 수중 음향 센서로부터 중앙의 정보 융합 센터로 전송되어진 동일한 또는 상이한 표적의 Identity 정보들을 종합해 최종적으로 표적의 Identity를 결정하는 Decision Fusion 기법을 다룬다. 기존의 연구는 표적의 속성 정보로부터 정보 융합을 통해 표적의 Identity를 선택하는 기법을 주로 다루고 있다. 그러나 본 논문에서는 기존의 연구보다 한 단계 나아가 선택된 표적의 Identity들로부터 운용자가 가장 합리적인 결정을 내릴 수 있도록 하는 표적의 Identity 결정을 위한 Decision Fusion 기법을 제안한다. 이러한 수중 음향 표적 식별 시스템에서의 Identity Decision Fusion 기법으로 Voting 기법, 센서 정보의 신뢰도를 고려한 Weighted Voting 기법, 그리고 다 기준 의사 결정 기법인 Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) 기법을 제안하고 그 성능을 평가한다

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.427-432
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose three approaches to modeling Android malware. The first method involves human security experts for meticulously selecting feature sets. With the second approach, we choose 300 features with the highest importance among the top 99% features in terms of occurrence rate. The third approach is to combine multiple models and identify malware through weighted voting. In addition, we applied a novel method of eliminating permission information which used to be regarded as a critical factor for distinguishing malware. With our carefully generated feature sets and the weighted voting by the ensemble algorithm, we were able to reach the highest malware detection accuracy of 97.8%. We also verified that discarding the permission information lead to the improvement in terms of false positive and false negative rates.