• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.266-272
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• 2012

Speaker segmentation is a process of automatically detecting the speaker boundary points in the audio data. Speaker segmentation methods are divided into two categories depending on whether they use a prior knowledge or not: One is the model-based segmentation and the other is the metric-based segmentation. In this paper, we introduce the eigenvoice-based speaker weight distance method and compare it with the representative metric-based methods. Also, we employ and compare the Euclidean and cosine similarity functions to calculate the distance between speaker weight vectors. And we verify that the speaker weight distance method is computationally very efficient compared with the method directly using the distance between the speaker adapted models constructed by the eigenvoice technique.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.13A no.5 s.102
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• pp.465-472
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• 2006

Recently, many suggestions have been made in image segmentation methods for extracting human organs or disease affected area from huge amounts of medical image datasets. However, images from some areas, such as brain, which have multiple structures with ambiruous structural borders, have limitations in their structural segmentation. To address this problem, clustering technique which classifies voxels into finite number of clusters is often employed. This, however, has its drawback, the influence from noise, which is caused from voxel by voxel operations. Therefore, applying image enhancing method to minimize the influence from noise and to make clearer image borders would allow more robust structural segmentation. This research proposes an efficient structural segmentation method by filtering based clustering to extract detail structures such as white matter, gray matter and cerebrospinal fluid from brain MR. First, coherence enhancing diffusion filtering is adopted to make clearer borders between structures and to reduce the noises in them. To the enhanced images from this process, fuzzy c-means clustering method was applied, conducting structural segmentation by assigning corresponding cluster index to the structure containing each voxel. The suggested structural segmentation method, in comparison with existing ones with clustering using Gaussian or general anisotropic diffusion filtering, showed enhanced accuracy which was determined by how much it agreed with the manual segmentation results. Moreover, by suggesting fine segmentation method on the border area with reproducible results and minimized manual task, it provides efficient diagnostic support for morphological abnormalities in brain.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.146-155
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• 1997

The new video coding standard Iv1PEG-4 is enabling content-based functionalities. It requires a prior decomposition of sequences into video object planes (VOP's) so that each VOP represents moving objets. This paper addresses an image segmentation method for separating moving objects from still background (non-moving area) in video sequences using a statistical hypothesis test. In the proposed method. three consecutive image frames are exploited and a hypothesis testing is performed by comparing two means from two consecutive difference images. which results in a T-test. This hypothesis test yields a change detection mask that indicates moving areas (foreground) and non-moving areas (background), Moreover. an effective method for extracting

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.273-281
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation method of the endo- and epicardial boundary by using ray-casting profile based on intensity distribution and gradient information in CT images. First, endo-cardial boundary points are detected by using adaptive thresholding and seeded region growing. To include papillary muscles inside the boundary, the endo-cardial boundary points are refined by using ray-casting based profile. Second, epi-cardial boundary points which have both a myocardial intensity value and a maximum gradient are detected by using ray-casting based adaptive gradient profile. Finally, to preserve an elliptical or circular shape, the endo- and epi-cardial boundary points are refined by using elliptical interpolation and B-spline curve fitting. Then, curvature-based contour fitting is performed to overcome problems associated with heterogeneity of the myocardium intensity and lack of clear delineation between myocardium and adjacent anatomic structures. To evaluate our method, we performed visual inspection, accuracy and processing time. For accuracy evaluation, average distance difference and overalpping region ratio between automatic segmentation and manual segmentation are calculated. Experimental results show that the average distnace difference was $0.56{\pm}0.24mm$. The overlapping region ratio was $82{\pm}4.2%$ on average. In all experimental datasets, the whole process of our method was finished within 1 second.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.35
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• pp.125-149
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• 2013

In this study changes in biorhythm are observed by measuring heart rate variabilities in order to verify, compare, and evaluate stresses in guard duties of guards and CCTV monitoring works of staffs serviced in practical guard sites. Guard duties and CCTV monitoring works similar to a practical situation are implemented for nine students in the department of security at K University over 150 minutes. In the results of observing heart rate variabilities and autonomic function tests for six times with an interval of 30 minutes, the heart rate variability (HRV) in CCTV monitoring works represents lower levels than that of guard duties. Also, in a stable condition the guard duties for 30 and 60 minutes exhibit lower levels than that of 90, 120, and 150 minutes. Regarding SDNN, CCTV monitoring works show higher levels that guard duties and the guard duties for 30 and 60 minutes represent lower levels than that of 150 minutes. In autonomic function tests, there are no differences in TP between groups according to guard duties and CCTV monitoring works. Also, the guard duties for 150 minutes represent more differences in TP compared to that of 30 minutes. The interaction between the duty type and the duty duration is presented. In the case of LF, guard duties for 150 minutes show large differences in duty duration compared to that of 60 minutes. In the case of HF, the CCTV monitoring work group shows higher levels than the guard duty group in which the guard duties for 120 and 150 minutes represent higher levels than that of 30 minutes. The interaction between the duty type and the duty duration is presented. In the case of the LF/HF ratio, the guard duty group exhibits higher levels than the CCTV monitoring group. Also, there is an interaction between the duty type and the duty duration including the difference in durations. The CCTV monitoring works represent lower heart function activities than the guard duties according to increases in parasympathetic nervous activities. It shows that the long-term CCTV monitoring duty repeated everyday shows a high possibility of increasing the exposures of VDT syndrome and nervous breakdown.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.181-184
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• 2005

기존의 비디오 분할 방법은 밝기의 변화가 큰 영상이나 움직임이 큰 영상에 대해서는 정확한 분할이 이루어지지 않았다. 본 논문은 움직임 정보를 이용하여 움직임이 큰 영상에서 좀 더 정확하게 비디오를 분할할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 블록 정합 알고리즘을 이용하여 얻어진 움직임 벡터로부터 움직임 유사도를 찾는 방법을 제안한다. 또 연속된 프레임에서 픽셀의 차이 값을 계산할 때 motion blur 로 생기는 오차를 각 블록의 움직임 크기로 보상하여 좀 더 정확한 픽셀의 차이 값을 계산하는 방법을 제안한다. 이렇게 얻어진 두 가지 정보를 이용하여 discontinuity value 를 계산한다. 움직임이 많은 액션 영화 3 편에 대해 실험한 결과 제안한 방법이 기존의 움직임 유사도와 픽셀 차이 값을 구하여 샷 경계 검출을 하는 방법보다 좀 더 정확한 샷 경계 검출을 하고 있다는 것을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.45-48
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 한국어 음성 합성기 데이터베이스 구축을 위하여 HMM을 이용하여 자동으로 음소경계를 추출하고, 음성 파라미터를 이용하여 그 결과를 보정하는 반자동 음성분할 시스템을 구현하였다. 개발된 시스템은 16KHz로 샘플링된 음성을 대상으로 삼았고, 레이블링 단위인 음소는 39개를 선정하였고, 음운현상을 고려한 확장 모노폰도 선정하였다. 그리고 언어학적 입력방식으로는 음소표기와 철자표기를 사용하였으며, 패턴 매칭 방법으로는 HMM을 이용하였다. 유성음/무성음/묵음 구간 분류에는 ZCR, Log Energy, 주파수 대역별 에너지 분포 등의 파라미터를 사용하였다. 개발된 시스템의 훈련된 음성은 정치, 경제, 사회, 문화, 날씨 등의 코퍼스를 사용하였으며, 성능평가를 위해 훈련에 사용되지 않은 문장 데이터베이스에 대해서 자동 음성 분할 실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과, 수작업에 의해서 분할된 음소경계 위치와의 오차가 10ms 이내가 $87\%$, 30ms 이내가 $91\%$가 포함되었다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.441-448
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a method that segments the image, extracts its slope and compensate it in the image that text and background are mixed. The proposed method uses morphology based preprocessing and extracts the edges using canny operator. And after segmenting the image which the edges are extracted, it excludes the areas which the edges are included, only uses the area which the edges are included and creates the projection histograms according to their various direction slopes. Using them, it takes a slope having the greatest edge concentrativeness of each area and compensates the slope of the scene. On extracting the slope of the mixed scene of the text and background, the method can get better results as 0.7% than the existing methods as it excludes the useless areas that the edges do not exist.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.404-411
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• 2007

new domain/boundary decomposition method is suggested to perform efficient finite element analyses of contact problems. A penalty method is used for connecting an interface or contact interfaces with neighboring subdomains that satisfy continuity conditions. As a result, the derived effective stiffness matrices are always positive definite, and computational efficiency can be improved to a considerable degree. Moreover, any complex-shaped domain can be divided into independently modeled subdomains without considering the conformity of meshes along the interface. Using a computer code based on the present method, these advantageous features are confirmed through a set of numerical examples.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.169-177
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a new shot boundary detection method which is optimized for news video story parsing. This new news shot boundary detection method was designed to satisfy all the following requirements: 1) minimizing the incorrect data in data set for anchor shot detection by improving the recall ratio 2) detecting abrupt cuts and gradual transitions with one single algorithm so as to divide news video into shots with one scan of data set; 3) classifying shots into static or dynamic, therefore, reducing the search space for the subsequent stage of anchor shot detection. The proposed method, based on singular value decomposition with incremental clustering and mercer kernel, has additional desirable features. Applying singular value decomposition, the noise or trivial variations in the video sequence are removed. Therefore, the separability is improved. Mercer kernel improves the possibility of detection of shots which is not separable in input space by mapping data to high dimensional feature space. The experimental results illustrated the superiority of the proposed method with respect to recall criteria and search space reduction for anchor shot detection.