• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.229-236
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• 2006

Purpose: This study was conducted to search for the type of technical error in DEXA(dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) and the effect of error to measurement of BMD. Materials and Methods: The changes of BMD($g/cm^2$, T-score) by patients information(Age, Weight, Height, Manopause age) input error and Confirming ROI error were investigated. Using spine phantom, we canned 10 times by age(5, 10), weight(10, 20 kg), height(5, 10 cm), manopause age(5, 10) increase & decrease respectively. Scanning region(L-spine, femur, Forearm) of 10 patients was calculated by changing ROI respectively. Analysis of difference for mean(precision 1%) were carried out. Results: The error of patient information(Age, Weight, Height, Manopause age) was not changed differently. In confirming ROI, the BMD and T-score of L-spine involving T-12 was decreased to $0.063\;g/cm^2$, 0.3 and involving L-5 increased to $0.077\;g/cm^2$, 0.5. In narrowing 1 cm of vertical line of ROI, the BMD and T-score decreased to $0.006\;g/cm^2$, 0.1 and in 2 cm, $0.021\;g/cm^2$, 0.15, each. In hip ROI, Upper and left shift(0.5 cm) of line was not influenced BMD and T-score. In 0.5 cm lower shift(lesser trochanter below), the BMD and T-score increased $0.031\;g/cm^2$, 0.3 and in 1 cm $0.094\;g/cm^2$, 0.65, each. In forearm ROI, the BMD and T-score decreased $0.042\;g/cm^2$, 0.9 involving 1 cm lower wrist. And expanding 1 cm of vertical line, the BMD and T-score decreased $0.008\;g/cm^2$, 0.1 and in 2 cm, $0.021\;g/cm^2$, 0.3, each. The L-spine, hip, forearm ROI error was changed differently. Conclusion: There are so many kinds of technical error in BMD processing. Errors according to age, weight, height, manopause age did not influent to $BMD(g/cm^2)$ and T-score. There are mean differences BMD and T-score in confirming ROI. For the precision exam, in L-spine processing, L1-4 have to confirmed without shift of ROI vertical line. In hip processing, the ROI have to included greater trochanter, femur head and lesser trochanter. In forearm processing, the ROI have to included wrist, radius and ulnar.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.76-82
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• 2012

As the portable camcorder becomes popular, various video stabilization algorithms for de-shaking of camera motion have been developed. In the past, most video stabilization algorithms were based on 2-dimensional camera motion, but recent algorithms show much better performance by considering 3-dimensional camera motion. Among the previous video stabilization algorithms, 3D video stabilization algorithm using content-preserving warps is known as the state-of-the art owing to its superior performance. But, the major demerit of the algorithm is its high computational complexity. So, we present a computationally light full-frame warping algorithm based on ROI (region-of-interest) while providing comparable visual quality to the state-of-the art in terms of ROI. First, a proper ROI with a target depth is chosen for each frame, and full-frame warping based on the selected ROI is applied.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.75-86
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• 2004

This paper proposes a method to speed up the document image binarization using a water flow model. The proposed method extracts the region of interest (ROI) around characters from a document image and restricts pouring water onto a 3-dimensional terrain surface of an image only within the ROI. The amount of water to be filed into a local valley is determined automatically depending on its depth and slope. The proposed method accumulates weighted water not only on the locally lowest position but also on its neighbors. Therefore, a valley is filed enough with only one try of pouring water onto the terrain surface of the ROI. Finally, the depth of each pond is adaptively thresholded for robust character segmentation, because the depth of a pond formed at a valley varies widely according to the gray-level difference between characters and backgrounds. In our experiments on real document images, the Proposed method has attained good binarization performance as well as remarkably reduced processing time compared with that of the existing method based on a water flow model.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.49-57
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• 2011

Extraction of regions of interest (ROIs) is the first and important step for the applications in computer vision and affects the rest of the application process. However, ROI extraction can be easily affected by the environment such as illumination, camera, etc. Many applications adopt problem-specific knowledge and/or post-processing to correct the error occurred in ROI extraction. In this paper, proposed is a robust framework that could overcome the environmental change and is independent from the rest of the process. The proposed framework uses a differential image and a color distribution to extract ROIs. The color distribution can be learned on-line, which make the framework to be robust to environmental change. Even more, the components of the framework are independent each other, which makes the framework flexible and extensible. The usefulness of the proposed framework is demonstrated with the application of hand region extraction in an image sequence.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.6
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• pp.421-428
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• 2010

It takes a long time for the users to view a whole image from the image server under the low-bandwidth internet environments or in case of a big sized image. In this case, as there needs a technique that preferentially transfers a part of image, JPEG2000 offers a ROI(Region-of-Interest) coding. In ROI coding, the users see the thumbnail of image from the server and specifies some regions that they want to see first. And then if an information about the regions are informed to the server, the server preferentially transfers the regions of the image. The existing methods requested a huge time to compute the mask information, but this thesis approximately computes the regions and reduces the creating time of the ROI masks. If each code block is a mixed block which ROI and background are mixed, the proper boundary points should be acquired. Searching the edges of the block, getting the two points on the edge, to get the boundary point inside the code block, the method searches a mid point between the two edge points. The proposed method doesn't have a big difference compared to the existing methods in quality, but the processing time is more speedy than the ones.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.1103-1106
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• 2002

현재, 컨베이어 벨트시스템에 소포를 직재하고, 우편번호를 운영자가 입력하여 구분한다. 구분된 소포 중에서 기록관리 대상의 경우에는 바코드를 판독하여 처리하고 있다. 이에 따라, 본 논문에서는 2m/sec 이내로 이송되는 소포를 라인 CCD(Charged Coupled Device) 카메라에 의해 이미지 획득한 후, 바코드 ROI 추출 방법을 위해 $32{\times}32$ 미세블룩 검사 방법을 적용하였다. ROI 추출 절차는 최대-최소 차이값과 동적 인계값 기준으로 바탕면 제거, 문자열과 바코드 영역을 판단하기 위한 대각선(diagonal) 검사방법 적용, 바코드 영역인지 검증하기 위해 수평으로 5 라인을 검사하고 에지의 수와 폭의 변화량 비교 등의 과정으로 수행하였다. 그리고 바코드 ROI 추출은 레이블링 과정에 의해 바코드 영역의 보정과 그룹크기 비교에 의한 ROI 영역의 구체화와 정보 해석을 위하여 ROI 외곽좌표 8개중에서 가장 간 중심축 라인으로 생성하는 방법 등을 적용하였다. ROI 추출과 중심축 시험결과에 의하면 $50{\sim}180msec$이내에 가능하게 되었다. 그리고, ROI 추출의 정확도는 99.994% 이상을 만족한다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.128-138
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed the algorithm for locating destination address block (DAB) from automatic system to classify packages. For locating DAB, because the size of obtained images is are very large, we select the region of interesting (ROI) to reduce time carrying into algorithm. After selecting the ROI, proposed algorithm is carried out within the ROI. We extract the outline of the handwriting part of the DAB and the rest components within the obtained ROI using thresholding. We carry out labeling to extract each connected component for extracted outline and the rest components. We extract the outline of the handwriting part of the DAB using the geometrical characteristic of the outline of the handwriting part of the DAB among many connected components. The last, we extract the locating DAB using the outline of the handwriting part of the DAB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.01a
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• pp.273-276
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 사용자의 관심영역(Region of interests, ROI)를 기반 스크롤을 통해 데이터를 좀 더 빠르고 효율적으로 검색할 수 있는 사용자-데이터 인터페이스를 제안한다. 사용자가 관심있는 정보나 콘텐츠를 찾는 행동에서 착안한 우리의 접근 방식은 주어진 콘텐츠에서 ROI를 효율적으로 계산하고, GMM(Gaussian mixture model, 가우시안 혼합 모델)에서 착안해 개발한 커널을 기반으로 사용자가 관심 있어 하는 정보의 위치로 부드럽고 빠르게 화면을 이동시켜 정보를 탐색한다. 과정을 설명하기 앞서, 다수의 ROI가 있을 때 스크롤의 현 위치는 항상 두 ROI의 사이에 있다. 그 두 사이의 거리가 가장 짧은 두 ROI에 각각 우리의 커널을 적용하면 현 위치에서 스크롤 가속에 적용 가능한 두 개의 관성이 생긴다. 여기에 선형 보간법(Linear interpolation)을 적용하여 한층 부드러운 하나의 관성으로 만들고, 이것을 스크롤에 적용한다. 결과적으로, 오직 사용자의 입력에 따라 정보가 검색되는 기존의 접근법과는 달리, ROI와 DOI(Degree of interests, 중요도)를 기반으로 향상된 스크롤을 통해 사용자가 관심 있어 하는 정보나 콘텐츠를 보다 쉽게 직관적으로 찾아줄 수 있기 때문에 사용자는 탐색 시간을 절약할 수 있다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.87-99
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• 2002

This paper describes a method for overcoming the motion artifacts inherent in synthetic aperture(SA) imaging. based on the investigation results as to the influence of a target motion on synthetic aperture techniques. This method uses a region-based motion compensation approach in which only the axial motion is estimated and compensated for a given region of interest(ROI) under the assumption that the whole ROI moves uniformly The estimated axial motion is calculated with a crosscorrelation(CC) method at the Point where the focused signal has the maximum energy within the ROI. We also presents a method for estimating the axial motion using the autocorrelation(AC) method that is widely used to estimate average Doppler frequency Both computer simulations and in vivo experiments show that the proposed methods can improve greatly the spatial resolution and SNR of ultrasound imaging by implementing the SA techniques for two-way dynamic focusing without motion artifacts. In addition the AC-barred motion compensation method provides almost the same results as the CC-based one, but with a dramatically reduced computational complexity.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.93-101
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• 2009

This paper suggests a new algorithm automatically searching for Region-of-Interest(ROI) with high speed, using the edge information of high frequency subband transformed with wavelet. The proposed method executes a searching algorithm of 4-direction object boundary by the unit of block using the edge information, and detects ROIs. The whole image is splitted by $64{\times}64$ or $32{\times}32$ sized blocks and the blocks can be ROI block or background block according to taking the edges or not. The 4-directions searche the image from the outside to the center and the algorithm uses a feature that the low-DOF image has some edges as one goes to center. After searching all the edges, the method regards the inner blocks of the edges as ROI, and makes the ROI masks and sends them to server. This is one of the dynamic ROI method. The existing methods have had some problems of complicated filtering and region merge, but this method improved considerably the problems. Also, it was possible to apply to an application requiring real-time processing caused by the process of the unit of block.