• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.161-165
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• 2007

The process of selecting a small number of representative colors from an image of higher color resolution is called color image quantization. In a color quantization process, it is vet important to determine what colors should be preserve and the others not. In our study, by the idea of an image can be divided into interesting area and uninteresting area, we propose a color quantization method that preserves more colors in the interesting area of an image. We evaluated correctness of extracting interesting area and compared the quality of our method with the others.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.482-489
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• 2006

How to process event message traffic efficiently is important to collaboration among multiple distributed users, and it is a key research issue in the virtual environment fields. AOI model is one of solutions for this problem; which reduces message traffic by restricting event propagation region into an area in which a user is interested. However, in previous systems, it is difficult to adapt to dynamic environment where changes in the number and movement of participants are frequent. This paper proposes a new event management model, called extended AOI model, which is helpful to improve flexibility and efficiency of traditional models, and is able to extend its functions by introducing multi-layered regions. The proposed model can be applied to DVE and MMORPG as an event filtering model.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.1B
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• pp.148-155
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• 2000

In image coding applications such as web browsing and image database searching, it is very useful to quickly view a small portion of the image with higher quality. Region of interest (ROI) coding technique provides the capability to reconstruct the ROI in advance of decompressing the rest of the image, with a smaller number of transmitted bits compared to the case where the entire image is treated with the same priority. In this paper, a progressive ROI coding method using the enbedded coder is presented, and an efficient transmission method for the ROI information. Experimental results show that the proposed progressive ROI coding technique can be effectively used for image coding applications such as web browsing and image database searching system.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.804-814
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose an effective method to detect the regions of interests in the Videostrobokymography System. Videostrobokymography system is a medical image processing system for extracting automatically the diagnosis parameters from the irregular vibratory movements of the vocal fold. We detect the regions of interests through three steps. In the first step, we remove the noise in the input image and we find the minimum energy value in each frame. In the second step, we computed the edge by everage value for the one line. In the third step, the regions of interests can be extracted by using the Merge Algorithm which uses the variance of luminance as the feature points. We experimented this method for the vocal fold images of nineteen patients. In consequence, the regions of interests are detected in most vocal fold images. The method proposed in this study is efficient enough to extract the region of interests in the vocal fold images with the frame rate of 40 frames/second and the resolution of 200${\times}$280 pixels.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.679-686
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• 2014

Recently, users can get countless images and videos by network. So, the compression technology of image and video is researched more and more. However, the situation which is the interested range of the image is occurred. For instance, since the region of face is more important than background, the image compression technology bases on the region of interest (ROI) is necessary, in the ATM environment. In this research, given the human visual system, which are not sensitive to illumination variations at very dark and light regions of image, we calculate the standard deviation of block and use this value to define the ROI. In encoding process, the relatively high quality can be obtained at the ROI and the relatively low quality can be obtained at the non ROI. In proposed scheme, the feature which is the encoding process according to subjectively image quality can be demonstrated. Finally, this proposed scheme is applied to JPEG standard. The experimental results demonstrate that proposed scheme can achieve better image quality at the high compression ratio.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2011

JPEG2000 offers the technique which compresses the interested regions with higher quality than the background. It is called by an ROI(Region-of-Interest) coding method. In this paper, we use images including the human faces, which are processed uppermost and compressed with high quality. The proposed method consists of 2 steps. The first step extracts some faces and the second one is ROI coding. To extract the faces, the method cuts or scale-downs some regions with $20{\times}20$ window pixels for all the pixels of the image, and after preprocessing, recognizes the faces using neural networks. Each extracted region is identified by ROI mask and then ROI-coded using Maxshift method. After then, the image is compressed and saved using EBCOT. The existing methods searched the ROI by edge distributions. On the contrary, the proposed method uses human intellect. And the experiment shows that the method is sufficiently useful with images having several human faces.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.526-530
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• 2006

논문은 CT영상에서 영역 확장 기법을 이용하여 인간의 장기 중 뇌와 간을 자동으로 추출할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 이는 뇌와 간이 CT영상에서 비교적 넓은 영역을 차지하고 있다는 사실에 기인하였으며, CT영상에서 특정 장기 영역을 추출하기 위해서 크게 초기 탐색 영역 결정 단계와 최종 장기 영역 단계로 나누어진다. 초기 탐색 영역은 CT영상 내에서 추출하고자 하는 장기 영역과 관계없는 부분을 제거하고 특정 장기 영역만을 남겨 관심 장기 영역의 검출률을 높이는 작업이다. 본 논문에서는 CT영상에서 비교적 높은 Gray Level을 가지고 있는 뼈영역인 두개골과 척추의 위치를 기반으로 하여 초기 탐색 영역을 결정하는 방법을 사용하였다. 특정 장기 영역의 추출은 ATID(Automatic Threshold Intensity Decision)를 이용한 이진화 단계, 모폴로지의 Opening 기법을 이용한 잡음제거 단계, Region Growing 기법을 이용한 특정 영역 추출 단계를 이용하는 과정을 거친다. 본 논문에서는 Region Growing 기법을 거친 다음 각각의 그룹 중에서 크기가 가장 큰 부분을 최종 특정 장기 영역으로 결정하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘은 국립전남대학교 부속병원에서 수집된 각각 뇌영상 100장과 간영상 100장을 사용하여 실험하였고, 제안된 알고리즘을 통해 관심 장기 영역을 추출했을 경우 약 91%이상의 높은 추출률을 보였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.388-398
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• 2004

This paper focuses on the reduction method of message traffic occurred when multiple participants collaborate in the distributed virtual environment. It is referred to as filtering method of update message to minimize data traffic exchanged in the virtual environment, and it is the essential process to improve the scalability of the virtual environment. Spatial partitioning method, a popular filtering technique, divides the whole environment into smaller sub-parts in order to make it small the regions to be maintained consistently. However, it is less flexible and adaptable because the information of area of interest must be configured before simulation. In this paper, the concept of dynamic area of interest is proposed, which is highly adaptable by applying dynamic environmental elements to AOI management. It uses multiple layering and multiple consistency algorithms for dynamic management, and makes it possible to consume system resource efficiently. For performance evaluation, experiments are performed with virtual avatars, measuring message traffic. Finally, the proposed model could be applied to the AOI management systems which accommodate massive users like MMORPG, or virtual communities.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.116-125
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• 2014

Road conditions can provide important information for driving safety in driving assistance systems. The input images usually include unnecessary information and they need to be analyzed only in a region of interest (ROI) to reduce the amount of computation. In this paper, a vision-based road ROI determination algorithm is proposed to detect the road region using the positional information of a vanishing point and line segments. The line segments are detected using Canny's edge detection and Hough transform. The vanishing point is traced by a Kalman filter to reduce the false detection due to noises. The road ROI can be determined automatically and adaptively in every frame after initialization. The proposed method is implemented using C++ and the OpenCV library, and the road ROIs are obtained from various video images of black boxes. The results show that the proposed algorithm is robust.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.588-596
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• 2008

For the patients' privacy, secure access control of medical images is essentially necessary. In this paper, two types of Region of Interest (ROI)-based selective encryption schemes are proposed, which concentrate on the security of crucial parts in medical images. The first scheme randomly inverts the most significant bits of ROI coefficients in several high frequency subbands in the transform domain, which only incurs little loss on compression efficiency. The second scheme employs a symmetric key encryption to encrypt selectively the ROI data in the final code-stream, which provides sufficient confidentiality. Both of two schemes are backward compatible so as to ensure a standard bitstream compliant decoder so the encrypted images can be reconstructed without any crash.