• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.219-222
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 잘못된 인쇄로 인한 문서상의 잡영이 생기거나 문자 훼손이 있는 문서영상을 복원 하고자 한다. 제안하는 방법은 문서영상을 스캐너로 읽어들여 잡영을 제거 한 뒤 훼손된 숫자 영상에 대해서 프로젝션을 이용하여 숫자 열을 낱낱의 숫자로 분할한다. 각각의 숫자에 대해서 크기가 일정하도록 정규화를 시킨 다음, Backpropagation을 이용하여 훼손된 숫자를 학습하였다. 학습시킨 다음 원 영상과 훼손된 영상을 각 픽셀단위로 비교하여 4-방향 마스크를 이용하여 원래의 숫자 영상으로 복원하도록 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.38-47
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• 2013

An image coding based on MRC model, a kind of multi-layer image model, first segments a screen image into foreground, mask, and background layers, and then compresses each layer using a codec that is suitable to the layer. The mask layer defines the position of foreground regions such as textual and graphical contents. The colour signal of the foreground (background) region is saved in the foreground (background) layer. The mask layer which contains the segmentation result of foreground and background regions is of importance since its accuracy directly affects the overall coding performance of the codec. This paper proposes a new layer segmentation algorithm for the MRC based image coding. The proposed method extracts text pixels from the background using morphological top hat filtering. The application of white or black top hat transformation to local blocks is controlled by the information of relative brightness of text compared to the background. In the proposed method, the boundary information of text that is extracted from the edge map of the block is used for the robust decision on the relative brightness of text. Simulation results show that the proposed method is superior to the conventional methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.128-139
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• 2005

Moving object boundary is very important for moving object segmentation. But the moving object boundary shows broken boundary We invent a novel space-oriented boundary linking algorithm to link the broken boundary The boundary linking algorithm forms a quadrant around the terminating pixel in the broken boundary and searches forward other terminating pixel to link within a radius. The boundary linking algorithm guarantees shortest distance linking. We also register the background from image sequence. We construct two object masks, one from the result of boundary linking and the other from the registered background, and use these two complementary object masks together for moving object segmentation. We also suppress the moving cast shadow using Roberts gradient operator. The major advantages of the proposed algorithms are more accurate moving object segmentation and the segmentation of the object which has holes in its region using these two object masks. We experiment the algorithms using the standard MPEG-4 test sequences and real video sequence. The proposed algorithms are very efficient and can process QCIF image more than 48 fps and CIF image more than 19 fps using a 2.0GHz Pentium-4 computer.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.319-322
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 지문영상으로부터 제안한 알고리즘을 이용하여 특이점(Core, Delta)을 추출한 후 특이점의 개수와 종류에 따라서 5가지 부류(arch, tented arch, left loop, right loop, whorl)로 지문영상을 분류하였다. 지문영상을 8*8블록과 16*16블록으로 분할한 후 3*3 Sobel 마스크를 씌워서 대표 방향을 구하였다. 또한 블록으로 분할한 영상으로부터 분산을 구하여 전경과 배경을 분리(segmentation)시켜 수행속도를 향상시켰다. 전처리 과정으로는 일정한 블록마다 임계값을 다르게 적용시키는 블록 이진화 기법을 사용하였으며 특이점을 추출하기 위해서 서로 크기가 다른 2개의 블록으로 영상을 분할하였다. 우선 8*8블록으로 영역을 분할한 후 방향 성분을 구하고 특이점들을 추출하였다. 이 경우 잡영 때문에 특이점이 너무 많이 추출되는 문제점이 있으므로 이러한 해결책으로 16*16블록으로 영역을 분할하여 방향 성분을 구하고 특이점을 추출하였다. 이렇게 다른 두 영역에서 동시에 나타나는 특이점을 후보 특이점으로 잡아서 그 후보 특이점 주변으로 Poincare 지수를 적용하여 확실한 특이점을 선택한 후 5가지의 지문 형태로 분류하였다. 실험결과 대부분의 지문영상에 대하여 강건한 분류 특성을 보이고 있음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06c
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• pp.458-462
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• 2010

본 논문은 X-선 혈관조영영상에서 기울기 정보 및 최대 빈도수를 이용한 카테터 자동 분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 세 단계로 이루어진다. 첫째, 분할하고자 하는 카테터 관심영역을 설정하고, 영상의 대조대비를 높이기 위한 밝기값 스트레칭을 수행한다. 둘째, 카테터 후보 경계점을 추출하기 위하여 카테터 방향을 고려한 경계 강조 마스크를 영상에 적용한다. 셋째, 카테터 후보 경계점에서 기울기가 크고 최대 빈도수 직경을 갖는 카테터 경계점을 추출하고 이들을 선형 보간하여 최종 카테터 경계를 분할한다. 제안 방법의 평가를 위하여 육안 평가 및 전문가가 수동 분할한 결과와 본 제안방법을 적용하여 얻은 중복 영역 비율과 평균 거리 차이를 측정한 정확성 평가를 수행하였고, 수행시간을 측정하였다. 실험결과 중복 영역 비율은 93.9%${\pm}$2.7%, 평균 거리 차이는 0.116-픽셀, 수행시간은 평균 0.011초로 측정되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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• v.36T no.3
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• pp.26-31
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a facial characteristic detection algorithm based on knowledge and object segmentation method for image communication. In this algorithm, under the condition of the same lumination and distance from the fixed video camera to human face, we capture input images of 256 $\times$ 256 of gray scale 256 level and then remove the noise using the Gaussian filter. Two images are captured with a video camera, One contains the human face; the other contains only background region without including a face. And then we get a differential image between two images. After removing noise of the differential image by eroding End dilating, divide background image into a facial image. We separate eyes, ears, a nose and a mouth after searching the edge component in the facial image. From simulation results, we have verified the efficiency of the Proposed algorithm.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.8-17
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• 2008

A new algorithm for automatic extraction of interesting objects is proposed in this paper. The proposed algorithm can be summarized in two steps. First, segmentation of color image that split interesting objects and backgrounds is performed. According to the research stating, 'Humans perceive things by contracting color into three to four essential colors,' a color image is segmented into three regions utilizing k-mean algorithm, followed by annexing the regions when the similarities of them exceeds the critical value based on the calculation of degrees in the histogram similarity, Second, identifying the interesting objects out of the segmented image, partitioned by the image composition theory, is performed. To have a good picture, it is important to adjust positions of interesting objects according to picture composition. Extracting objects is a retro-deduction process using a weighted mask designed upon the triangular composition of picture. To prove the quality of the proposed method, experiments are performed over four hundreds images as well as comparison with recently proposed KMCC and GBIS methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.30-34
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• 1984

본 논문에서는 인코히어런트광 매트릭스-벡터곱셈기를 이용하여 입력 데이터를 광학적으로 DFT 할 수 있는 방법을 연구하였다. DFT의 웨이팅함수를 매트릭스로 나타내어 본 논문에서 제시한 2 개의 성분 분할 방법을 이용하여 마스크상에 부호화하고 광매트릭스-벡터곱셈기내에 고정시켜서 입력 데이터와 광학적으로 곱하도록 하였다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.6 no.1 s.10
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• pp.54-64
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose the algorithm for segmenting the moving speaker and tracking its movement in the video conference image. For real time processing, we simplify the algorithm which is processed in the order of the segmenting and the tracking step. In the segmenting step, the speaker object is segmented from the image by using both the motion information obtained from the difference method and the illuminance information of image. The reference mask image is created from segmented speaker object. In the tracking step, the moving speaker is tracked by using simple block matching algorithm of which computation time is reduced by discarding the blocks which are classified into the unuseful blocks. In the simulation, we can get the good result of segmenting and tracking the moving speaker by applying the proposed algorithm to several test images.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.45-52
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• 2000

In this study, we propose the image segmentation algorithm for facial region segmentation. The proposed algorithm separates the mean image of low frequency band from the differential image of high frequency band in order to make a boundary using HWT, and then we reduce the isolation pixels, projection pixels, and overlapped boundary pixels from the low frequency band. Also the boundaries are detected and simplified by the proposed boundary detection algorithm, which are cleared on the thinning process of 1 pixel unit. After extracting facial image boundary by using the proposed algorithm, we make the mask and segment facial image through matching original image. In the result of facial region segmentation experiment by using the proposed algorithm, the successive facial segmentation have 95.88% segmentation value.