• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.29-38
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation method of meniscus in knee MR images by automatic meniscus localization, multi-atlas-based locally-weighted voting, and patch-based edge feature classification. First, after segmenting the bone and knee articular cartilage, the volume of interest of the meniscus is automatically localized. Second, the meniscus is segmented by multi-atlas-based locally-weighted voting taking into account the weights of shape and intensity distribution in the volume of interest of the meniscus. Finally, to remove leakage to the collateral ligaments with similar intensity, meniscus is refined using patch-based edge feature classification considering shape and distance weights. Dice similarity coefficient between proposed method and manual segmentation were 80.13% of medial meniscus and 80.81 % for lateral meniscus, and showed better results of 7.25% for medial meniscus and 1.31% for lateral meniscus compared to the multi-atlas-based locally-weighted voting.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1096-1100
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation of the meniscus based on active shape model using interpolated shape information in MR images. First, the statistical shape model of meniscus is constructed to reflect the shape variation in the training set. Second, the generation technique of interpolated shape information by using the weight according to shape similarity is proposed to robustly segment the meniscus with large variation. Finally, the automatic meniscus segmentation is performed through the active shape model fitting. For the evaluation of our method, we performed the visual inspection, accuracy measure and processing time. For accuracy evaluation, the average distance difference between automatic segmentation and semi-automatic segmentation are calculated and visualized by color-coded mapping. Experimental results show that the average distance difference was $0.54{\pm}0.16mm$ in medial meniscus and $0.73{\pm}0.39mm$ in lateral meniscus. The total processing time was 4.87 seconds on average.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10c
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• pp.340-342
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• 2000

웹 캐쉬는 자주 쓰이는 웹 문서를 복제함으로써 네트웍 혼잡, 서버 부하, 문서 도착 시간을 줄이는데 목적을 둔다. 웹 캐쉬에서 중요한 이슈 중에 하나인 제한된 저장 공간을 어떻게 사용할 것인가에 대한 연구로서 분할 캐쉬 접근 방법이 있다. 분할 캐쉬는 캐쉬 저장 공간을 여러 개의 분할된 영역으로 나눔으로써, 이질적인 웹 상의 객체를 동종의 데이터 집합으로 나누어서 각각의 분할 영역에서 다루도록 할 수 있게 한다. 실험적 연구 결과는 분할 캐쉬가 기존의 캐쉬 저장 공간을 관리하는 교체 알고리즘보다 우수한 성능을 보여준다는 것을 증명하고 있다. 그러나 기존의 분할 캐쉬에서는 각각의 분할 영역에서 동일한 교체 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 본 연구는 각각의 분할 영역에 다양한 교체 알고리즘을 적용하는 실험을 하고, 이 실험결과에 기반 하여 웹 상에서의 분할 캐쉬를 위한 최적 교체 알고리즘을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.421-430
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• 2010

Image segmentation technique is becoming increasingly important in the field of remote sensing image analysis in areas such as object oriented image classification to extract object regions of interest within images. This paper presents a new method for image segmentation in High Resolution Remote Sensing Image based on Improved Seeded Region Growing (ISRG) and Region merging. Firstly, multi-spectral edge detection was done using an entropy operator in pan-sharpened QuickBird imagery. Then, the initial seeds were automatically selected from the obtained multi-spectral edge map. After automatic selection of significant seeds, an initial segmentation was achieved by applying ISRG to consider spectral and edge information. Finally the region merging process, integrating region texture and spectral information, was carried out to get the final segmentation result. The accuracy assesment was done using the unsupervised objective evaluation method for evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method has good potential for application in the segmentation of high resolution satellite images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.382-384
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 저해상도 한글 영상을 자소 단위로 분리하는 방법을 제안한다. 비디오 자막이나 저해상도 스캔 영상의 경우 자소간 획이 접촉되거나 잡영이 많이 포함되어 기존의 자소 분할 방법으로는 한계가 있다. 한자 문자열을 문자 단위로 분할하는데 사용된 비선형 분할 경로 알고리즘을 한글 낱자 영상에 적용하여 자소 단위로 분할한다. 기존의 분할 경로 알고리즘을 한글 자소 분할에 효과적으로 적용하기 위해서 우세점 탐지 알고리즘을 이용하여 자소간 접촉점을 찾고 이를 바탕으로 생성된 분할 경로에 따라 여러 개의 자소 후보 영상이 생성된다. 자소 영상을 자소 인식기로 인식한 결과 높은 인식률을 보이는 것을 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.627-636
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• 2010

Image segmentation technique is becoming increasingly important in the field of remote sensing image analysis in areas such as object oriented image classification to extract object regions of interest within images. This paper presents a new method for image segmentation to consider spectral and spatial information of high resolution satellite image. Firstly, the initial seeds were automatically selected using local variation of multi-spectral edge information. After automatic selection of significant seeds, a segmentation was achieved by applying MSRG which determines the priority of region growing using information drawn from similarity between the extracted each seed and its neighboring points. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, the results obtained using the proposed method were compared with the results obtained using conventional region growing and watershed method. The quantitative comparison was done using the unsupervised objective evaluation method and the object-based classification result. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method has good potential for application in the object-based analysis of high resolution satellite images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.410-414
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• 2003

본 논문은 비디오 시퀀스에 카메라 패닝 보상과 2차원 시공간 엔트로피 임계법을 적용하여 추출한 객체포함영역을 대상으로 영상 분할을 수행하는 이동 객체 분할 기법에 관한 것이다. 우선, 웨이블렛 변환에 의해 구성한 피라미드 계층 구조상에서 카메라 패닝 벡터를 추정하여 전역 움직임을 보상한다. 이후, 전역 움직임이 보상된 기준영상을 대상으로 각 프레임간에서 2차원 시공간 엔트로피 임계법을 적용하여 이동 객체가 포함될 가능성이 있는 영역을 블록 단위로 추출한다. 다음으로, 2차원 시공간 엔트로피 입계법에 의해 분류된 영역을 토대로 각 블록을 움직임블록, 준 움직임 블록, 비 움직임 블록 중 어느 하나로 분류한 검색 테이블을 작성한다. 이어서, 검색 테이블을 참조하여 초기 탐색 계층 및 탐색 영역을 적응적으로 선정함으로써 피라미드 계층 구조상에서 효율적인 고속 움직임 추정을 수행하여 이동 객체에 해당하는 객체포함영역만을 추출한다. 최종적으로, 이렇게 추출된 객체포함영역에서 임계 기울기 영상을 정의한 후, 이를 기준 삼아 객체포함영역에 화소 단위의 형태학 기반 영상 분할 알고리즘을 적용함으로써 비디오 시퀀스에 포함된 이동 객체를 분할한다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 고찰할 때, 제안된 방법은 이동 객체에 대한 상대적으로 우수한 분할 특성을 제공할 수 있고, 특히 저대조 경계면의 분할 특성을 제고시키고 있음을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.143-149
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• 2024

Segmentation of material phases through image analysis is essential for analyzing the microstructure of materials. Micro-CT images exhibit variations in grayscale values depending on the phases constituting the material. Phase segmentation is generally achieved by comparing the grayscale values in the images. In the case of waste concrete used as a recycled aggregate, it is challenging to distinguish between hydrated cement paste and natural aggregates, as these components exhibit similar grayscale values in micro-CT images. In this study, we propose a method for automatically separating the aggregates in concrete, in micro-CT images. Utilizing the Unet-VGG16 deep-learning network, we introduce a technique for segmenting the 2D aggregate images and stacking them to obtain 3D aggregate images. Image filtering is employed to separate aggregate particles from the selected 3D aggregate images. The performance of aggregate segmentation is validated through accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score assessments.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.21-29
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• 2019

This paper proposes a novel framework for image fusion of satellite imagery to enhance spatial resolution of the image via structure-texture decomposition. The resolution of the satellite imagery depends on the sensors, for example, panchromatic images have high spatial resolution but only a single gray band whereas multi-spectral images have low spatial resolution but multiple bands. To enhance the spatial resolution of low-resolution images, such as multi-spectral or infrared images, the proposed framework combines the structures from the low-resolution image and the textures from the high-resolution image. To improve the spatial quality of structural edges, the structure image from the low-resolution image is guided filtered with the structure image from the high-resolution image as the guidance image. The combination step is performed by pixel-wise addition of the filtered structure image and the texture image. Quantitative and qualitative evaluation demonstrate the proposed method preserves spectral and spatial fidelity of input images.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.7
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• pp.1894-1905
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• 1996

Delauuany triangulation which is the dual of Dirichlet tessellation is not affine invariant. In other words, the triangulation is dependent upon the choice of the coordinate axes used to represent the vertices. In the same reason, Delahanty tetrahedrization does not have an affine iveariant transformation property. In this paper, we present a new type of tetrahedrization of spacial points sets which is unaffected by translations, scalings, shearings and rotations. An affine invariant tetrahedrization is discussed as a means of affine invariant 2 -D triangulation extended to three-dimensional tetrahedrization. A new associate norm between two points in 3-D space is defined. The visualization of the structure of tetrahedrization can discriminate between Delaunay tetrahedrization and affine invariant tetrahedrization.