• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.603-611
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• 2016

Generally, the doctors manually delineated the prostate boundary seeing the image by their eyes, but the manual method not only needed quite much time but also had different boundaries depending on doctors. To reduce the effort like them the automatic delineating methods are needed, but detecting the boundary is hard to do since there are lots of uncertain textures or speckle noises. There have been studied in SVM, SIFT, Gabor texture filter, snake-like contour, and average-shape model methods. Besides, there were lots of studies about 2 and 3 dimension images and CT and MRI. But no studies have been developed superior to human experts and they need additional studies. For this, this paper proposes a method that delineates the boundary predicting its texture features and its average distribution on the prostate image. As result, we got the similar boundary as the method of human experts.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.425-435
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• 2014

The research for extracting man-made features such as building and road from the aerial photograph or satellite imagery has been performed actively. As lately the resolution of digital aerial photographs was improved, unwanted features(noise) would be often detected. An edge detection algorithm is developed to make up for such a noise problem, make boundaries of wanted objects clear and extract only needed features. The algorithm developed in this research performs separating RGB channels, differencing between channels, transforming in to binary images, excluding noises and restoring shapes, and edge extraction in order. The images to be used for edge detection are prepared through bundle adjustment, DTM extraction, orthorectification and mosaicking. The roof edges of small building on preprocessed digital aerial orthophotos were extracted using the algorithm developed in this study. The validity of the algorithms was proved by comparing edge results of small building extracted in this study with those of conventional methods.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.123-129
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• 2006

High-resolution aerial color image offers great possibilities for geometric and semantic information for spatial data generation. However, shadow casts by buildings and trees in high-density urban areas obscure much of the information in the image giving rise to potentially inaccurate classification and inexact feature extraction. Though many researches have been implemented for solving shadow casts, few studies have been carried out about the extraction of features hindered by shadows from aerial color images in urban areas. This paper presents a asphalt road boundary extraction technique that combines information from aerial color image and LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) data. The following steps have been performed to remove shadow effects and to extract road boundary from the image. First, the shadow regions of the aerial color image are precisely located using LEAR DSM (Digital Surface Model) and solar positions. Second, shadow regions assumed as road are corrected by shadow path reconstruction algorithms. After that, asphalt road boundary extraction is implemented by segmentation and edge detection. Finally, asphalt road boundary lines are extracted as vector data by vectorization technique. The experimental results showed that this approach was effective and great potential advantages.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.92-93
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• 2016

정확한 변위정보를 추정하기 위해 다양한 비용 값 계산함수 또는 비용 값 합산 방법들이 개발되었다. 본 논문에서는 비용 값 계산을 위해 좌, 우영상의 기울기와 SAD(Sum of Absolute Differences)를 이용하며 비용 값 합산을 위해 가이드 영상 필터링을 사용한다. 가이드 영상 필터링은 가이드 영상의 종류에 따라 필터링결과가 크게 변하게 되는데, 스테레오 정합에 사용된 원본 입력 영상을 가이드 영상으로 사용할 경우 정확한 화소 값을 가지고 있기 때문에 경계영역을 보존하며 필터링 수행이 가능하다. 하지만 가이드 필터링은 가이드 영상으로부터 미리 지정해준 이웃한 화소와의 거리와 색상차이의 분산 값만을 고려하여 필터링을 수행하기 때문에 설정 변수 값에 매우 의존적인 특성을 갖는다. 가이드 필터링 과정에서 변수에 대한 의존성을 낮추고 경계영역의 정확도를 높이기 위해 우선 평활화 필터를 이용하여 경계영역을 추출한다. 원본 입력영상을 사용하여 경계영역을 추출할 경우 객체 내부의 많은 텍스처 영역의 정보까지 추출되지만, 평활화 필터를 이용할 경우 정확한 경계 영역의 정보만을 추출 할 수 있다. 추출된 경계영역에 대해서만 높은 가중치를 사용한 뒤 기존의 가이드 영상 필터링과 혼합하여 최종 비용 값을 합산한다. 제안한 방법을 사용하여 경계영역의 정확도가 향상된 최종 변위 지도를 획득할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.865-871
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• 2022

In this paper, we propose a method of extracting prostate region using morphological characteristics of ultra-sonic image of prostate. In the first step of the proposed method, the edge area of the prostate image is extracted. The histogram of ultra-sonic image is used to extract base objects to detect the upper edge of prostate region by altering the contrast of the image, then, the lower edges of the extracted base objects are connected by using monotone cubic spline interpolation to extract the upper edge. Step 2, Otsu's binarization is applied to the region under the extracted upper edge of the prostate ultra-sonic image to extract the lower edge of prostate. In the last step, the upper and the lower edges are connected to extract prostate region and by comparing the extracted region of prostate with the one measured manually, the result showed that the morphological characteristics of prostate in ultrasonic image can be utilized to extract the prostate region.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.387-392
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• 2005

최근에는 LiDAR 시스템의 등장으로 기존의 항공사진측량에 비하여 효율적이고, 경제적으로 도시지역의 수치표고자료를 효과적으로 구축할 수 있게 되었으나, 도시지역에서는 다양한 형태의 객체들이 모두 포함된 DSM(Digital Surface Model) 형식의 자료를 취득하게 된다. 따라서, 홍수범람예측에 있어서의 인공지물의 영향 해석 등을 위하여 건물이 제거된 지형에 관한 상세한 정보를 제공하기 위해서는 DSM으로부터 DEM(Digital Elevation Model)을 추출하기 위한 전처리 과정이 필요하다. 본 연구는 LiOAR 시스템으로부터 취득된 도시지역에 대한 DSM으로부터 건물 등이 제거된 DEM을 추출하기 위한 연구로서 영상처리기법의 경계검출 알고리즘을 적용하여 건물 등의 지물들에 대한 경계를 추출하였으며, 선행연구에서 건물로 추출된 지역에 대하여 보간법을 적용함으로써 발생하는 원시 DSM 자료의 변형에 따른 대안으로써, 추출된 경계에 대여 평균값 필터링, 중간 값 필터링, 최소 값 필터링을 각각 적용함으로써 원시 DSM 자료의 변형을 최소화하여 건물 등의 지물들을 제거하였으며, LiDAR DSM으로부터 DEM을 제작하는 과정을 간략화, 자동화하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.28-34
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• 2007

A histogram-based road border line extractor is proposed for an efficient road extraction from the high-resolution satellite imagery. The road border lines are extracted from an edge strength map based on the directional histogram difference between the road and the non-road region. The straight and the curved roads are extracted hierarchically from the edge strength map of the original image and the segmented road cluster images, and the road network is constructed based on the connectivity. Unlike the conventional approaches based on the spectral similarity, the proposed road extraction method is more robust to noise because it extracts roads based on the histogram, and is able to extract both the location and the width of roads. In addition, the proposed method can extract roads with various spectral characteristics by identifying the road clusters automatically. Experimental results on IKONOS multi-spectral satellite imagery with high spatial resolution show that the proposed method can extract the straight and the curved roads as well as the accurate road border lines.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.1463-1473
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a modified watershed algorithm to extract more correct edge and reduce processing time. Two new algorithms are proposed in this paper. The first one is applying two conventional watershed expansion methods known as rainfall and immersion simulation jointly. We analyze the advantage and problem of each simulation and then propose a new expansion method that keeps the advantage and removes the problem in order to extract more correct edge and reduce processing time. The second is a new priority decision algorithm to obtain more correct edge of a region. Some zero-crossing points of gradient are expected to be edge of a region but the conventional method has a limitation that it cannot extract those points as edge. Therefore we propose a new priority decision algorithm for watershed in order to get more correct edge. We compare the proposed method with the conventional method through experiments and prove that the proposed method can extract more correct edge of region.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.305-312
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• 2012

This paper aims at improving the accuracy and computational efficiency in reconstructing building boundaries from airborne Lidar points. We proposed an adaptive convex hull algorithm, which is a modified version of local convex hull algorithm in three ways. The candidate points for boundary are first selected to improve efficiency depending on their local density. Second, a searching-space is adjusted adaptively, based on raw data structure, to extract boundary points more robustly. Third, distance between two points and their IDs are utilized in detecting the seed points of inner boundary to distinguish between inner yards and inner holes due to errors or occlusions. The practicability of the approach were evaluated on two urban areas where various buildings exist. The proposed method showed less shape-dissimilarity(8.5%) and proved to be two times more efficient than the other method.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.49-58
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• 2012

Buildings become complex and diverse with time. It is difficult to extract individual buildings using only an optical image, because they have similar spectral characteristics to objects such as vegetation and roads. In this study, we propose a method to extract building area and boundary through integrating airborne Light Detection and Ranging(LiDAR) data and aerial images. Firstly, a binary edge map was generated using Edison edge detector after applying Adaptive dynamic range linear stretching radiometric enhancement algorithm to the aerial image. Secondly, building objects on airborne LiDAR data were extracted from normalized Digital Surface Model and aerial image. Then, a temporary building areas were extracted by overlaying the binary edge map and building objects extracted from LiDAR data. Finally, some building boundaries were additionally refined considering positional accuracy between LiDAR data and aerial image. The proposed method was applied to two experimental sites for validation. Through error matrix, F-measure, Jaccard coefficient, Yule coefficient, and Overall accuracy were calculated, and the values had a higher accuracy than 0.85.