• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.123-130
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose an extracting method of moving object contour using active contour model from image sequences acquired by fixed camera. We use an adaptive background model for robust processing in surrounding conditions. Object segmentation model detects pixels thresholded from local difference image between background and current image and extracts connected regions. Noises in boundary area of moving object we eliminated by morphological filter. The contour of segmented object is corrected by using active contour model for extracting accurate boundary of moving object. We apply the proposed method to highway image sequences and show the results of simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.1891-1896
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose an improved Active Shape Model for extracting lip contour. Lip deformation is modeled by a statistically deformable model based Active Shape Model. Because each point is moved independently using local profile information in Active Shape Model, many error may happen. To use a global information, we define an energy function similar to an energy function in Active Contour Model, and points are moved to positions at which the total energy is minimized. The experiments have been performed for many lip images of Tulip 1 database, and show that our method extracts lip shape than a traditional ASM more exactly.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.153-163
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• 2004

This paper presents a video tracking method for a deformable moving object using an active contour model in the image sequences. It is quite important to decide the local convergence directions of the contour points for correctly extracting the boundary of the moving object with deformable shape. For this purpose, an energy function for the active contour model is newly proposed by adding a directional energy term using a frame difference map to tile Greedy algorithm. In addition, an updating rule of tile frame difference map is developed to encourage the stable convergence of the contour points. Experimental results on a set of synthetic and real image sequences showed that the proposed method can fully track the deformable object while extracting the boundary of the object elaborately in every frame.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.141-146
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• 2016

In this paper, we apply limited area mask operation and active contour model to accurately detect tongue area outline in tongue diagnosis system. To accurately analyze the properties of the tongue, first, the tongue area to be detected. Therefore an effective segmentation method for detecting the edge of tongue is very important. It experimented with tongue image DB consists of 20~30 students 30 people. Experiments on real tongue image show the good performance of this method. Experimental results show that the proposed method extracts object boundaries more accurately than existing methods without mask operation.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.3654-3659
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• 2012

Active contour model or snake is widely used for segmentation method in the area of the image processing and computer vision. The main problem in the active contour model is that results are very dependent to the closet points of the numbers and the location in initial step. Especially, in case of balloon-like active contour model, the small region which consist of intial closet points are expanded until the edge is reached. It is a serious problem because the considered region are huge with limited points. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose the method that the number of closet points could be change based on the distance between points.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.282-285
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• 2002

의료영상에서 윤곽선의 추출은 관심영역 대한 객관적인 수치 즉 면적, 부피, 장단축의 길이 등을 분석하고 3차원 재구성을 위해 선행되어야 하는 중요한 과정이다. 현재 윤곽선 추출에 대한 않은 방법들이 개발 중에 있으나 이 방법들은 한계를 지니고 있어 더 높은 수준의 처리가 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 active contour model(snake)을 이용하여 MR뇌 영상에서 종양을 추출하였다. Snake의 에너지 최적화 문제를 dynamic programming을 사용하여 개선하였으며 canny edge detection을 이용하여 잡음에 덜 민감하도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.81-94
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• 1998

In order to extract the contour of interesting object in the image, Kass suggested the Active Contour Model called "Snakes". Snakes is a model which defines the contour of image energy. It also can find the contour of object by minimizing these energy functions. The speed of this model is slow and this model is sensitive of initialization. In order to improve these problems, Gunn extracted the accurate contour by using two initialization. and operated to less sensitive of initialization. This method could extract more accurate contour than the existing method, but it had no effect in the speed and it was sensitive of noise. This paper applied to the Energy Minimization Algorithm about only the pixel within the window applying the window of 8$\times$8 size at each contour point consisting Snakes in order to solve these problems. The method offered in this paper is applied to extract the contour of original image and cup image added to gaussian noise. By tracking the face using this offered method, it is applied to virtual reality and motion tracking. tracking.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.103-105
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 스네이크 알고리즘에서 복잡한 배경으로 인해 어긋난 윤곽선을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 스네이크 알고리즘은 능동 윤곽선 모델(active contour model)중 하나로, 사전 정의한 영역에서 시작하여 점진적으로 강한 변화가 감지되는 방향으로 윤곽선을 수정하는 방법이다. 그러나 이러한 방법은 강한 기울기 성분이 나타나는 배경에 취약하고, 대상의 불필요한 영역이 포함되거나, 필요한 영역이 포함되지 않는 문제가 발생한다. 제안하는 방법은 이미지에 원근 변환을 기반으로 한 스네이크 알고리즘을 반복적으로 적용하여 대상의 윤곽선을 온전히 추출한다. 이는 실험 데이터에서 평균 IoU가 약 11.5% 이상 증가한 것을 통해 올바른 윤곽선을 찾는데 효과적인 방법임을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.57-67
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• 1998

In order to extract the contour of interesting object in the image, Kass suggested the Active Contour Model called "Snakes" The speed of this model is slow and this model is sensitive of initialization. In order to improve these problems, Gunn extracted the accurate contour by using two initializations, and operated to less sensitive of initialization. This method could extract more accurate contour than the existing method, but it had no effect in the speed and it was sensitive of noise. This paper applied to the Energy Minimization Algorithm about only the pixel within the window applying the window of $8{\times}8$ size at each contour point consisting Snakes in order to solve these problems. In order to less sensitive of noise which exists within image, it suggests a method that moves the window to vertical direction for the gradient of each contour point.our point.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.829-840
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a new lung segmentation method for chest x-ray images which can take both global and local properties into account. Firstly, the initial lung segmentation is computed by applying the active shape model (ASM) which keeps the shape of deformable model from the pre-learned model and searches the image boundaries. At the second segmentation stage, we also applied the localizing region-based active contour model (LRACM) for correcting various regional errors in the initial segmentation. Finally, to measure the similarities, we calculated the Dice coefficient of the segmented area using each semiautomatic method with the result of the manually segmented area by a radiologist. The comparison experiments were performed using 5 lung x-ray images. In our experiment, the Dice coefficient with manually segmented area was $95.33%{\pm}0.93%$ for the proposed method. Effective segmentation methods will be essential for the development of computer-aided diagnosis systems for a more accurate early diagnosis and prognosis regarding lung cancer in chest x-ray images.