• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.111-115
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• 2001

컨테이너 영상의 문자를 인식하는데 있어 정규화 되어 있지 않은 컨테이너 영상의 문자영역을 추출한다는 것은 어렵다. 색깔. 위치, 글자 크기 등이 정해져 있지 않기 때문에 일정한 규칙으로 찾기는 힘들다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 특성을 고려하여 형태학적인 특성이 아니라 명암도를 조사하여 문자가 분포할 가능성이 있는 후보 영역을 찾고 Canny 에지 추출 기법과 에지 추적 기법으로서 문자가 있는 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 컨테이너의 문자 영역에서 히스토그램 방법을 이용하여 개별 문자를 추출하고 ART 알고리즘을 이용하여 인식한다. 실험 결과에서는 여러 영상에 대해 인식율이 우수한 것을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.358-363
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• 2009

Text region detection from the natural scene images used in a variety of applications, many research are needed in this field. Recent research methods is to detect the text region using various algorithm which it is combination of edge based and connected component based. Therefore, this paper proposes an text region detection using edge and regional minima/maxima transformation algorithm from natural scene images, and then detect the connected components of edge and regional minima/maxima, labeling edge and regional minima/maxima connected components. Analysis the labeled regions and then detect a text candidate regions, each of detected text candidates combined and create a single text candidate image, Final text region validated by comparing the similarity and adjacency of individual characters, and then as the final text regions are detected. As the results of experiments, proposed algorithm improved the correctness of text regions detection using combined edge and regional minima/maxima connected components detection methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.194-203
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• 1998

In this paper, a new DCT-VQ method is proposed which can solve the problems of VQ such as the degradation of edge and enormous calculations. VQ is carried in DCT domain but spatial domain in order to protect the degradation of edge. DCT makes high correlated image data decorrelated and the energy concentrated on a few coefficients. In DCT domain, the DC coefficient is quantized with 8 bits uniform scalar quantizer and the AC coefficients are divided to three regions and coded with vector qiantizer for considering edge components. For the decrease of the calculation and memory, the vectors for three region have small dimension of $1{\times}7$ and use the same codebook. Thus, the proposed method can fully express the edge components by considering AC coefficients in DCT domain and decrease the calculation and memory be reducing the dimension of vectors.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.862-867
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• 2006

To restore image degraded by blur and additive noise in the optical and electrical system, a regularized iterative restoration is used. A regularization operator is usually applied to all over the image without considering the local characteristics of image in conventional method. As a result, ringing artifacts appear in edge regions and the noise is amplified in flat regions. To solve these problems we propose an adaptive regularization iterative restoration considering the characteristic of edge and flat regions using directional regularization operator. Experimental results show that the proposed method suppresses the noise amplification in flat regions, and restores the edge more sharply in edge regions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.592-594
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• 2002

얼굴 영역 검출의 수행 방법으로 개선된 얼굴 칼라 히스토그램과 에지 정보를 결합한 검출 시스템을 제안한다. 배경이 복잡한 영상에서 사람의 얼굴 영역과 배경 영역이 얼굴 영역과 비슷한 칼라 분포를 가지는 물체를 포함하는 영상이더라도 강인한 추출이 가능하도록 하였다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 얼굴 검출을 위하여 얼굴의 칼라 분포를 얼굴 칼라의 확률 히스토그램으로 모델링하고 에지 정보와 reconstruction에 의한 형태학적 필터링(morphological filtering)을 적용하여 얼굴 후보 영역을 검출한다. 검출된 후보 영역에서 얼굴 구성 요소간의 위치 관계를 이용하여 눈동자와 흰자위의 명도차 특성으로 눈 영역의 위치를 추정하고 상대적인 위치 관계로 입 영역을 추정하여 얼굴 구성 요소의 정보를 얻어서이 요소 정보가 존재하는 후보 영역들이 최종적으로 얼굴 영역으로 판단되어 검출된다. 제안한 방법을 여러 영상에 이용하여 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a novel method for creating a hand-painted painterly animation, starting from a video input. One of the most important aspects in painterly animation is to maintain the temporal coherence of brush strokes between frames, which plays a vital role to warrant a smooth transition between frames. Our unique utilization of motion areas enables users to produce a smooth movement of brush strokes. The motion areas are the parts where objects move between frames and they are categorized in two main types. A strong motion area is the part where the movement of real edges and hidden edges is determined by the motion vector between frames. The real edge is the outline of an object and the hidden edge is the boundary to represent the direction of a grain of intensity in the areas with gradations. A weak motion area is the remainder after subtracting the strong motion area from the entire motion area. Temporally coherent painterly animation is achieved by re-painting the brush strokes on the canvas using two motion areas, resulting in a natural and hand-painted appearance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.11C
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• pp.1098-1110
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a homomorphic wavelet-based MMSE filter with edge detection to restore images degraded by speckle noise. In the proposed method, a noisy image is first transformed into logarithmic domain. Each pixel in the transformed image is then classified into flat and edge regions by applying DIP operator to the image restored by homomorphic directional MMSE filter. Each pixel in flat region is restored by homomorphic wavelet-based MMSE filter. Each pixel in edge region is restored by the weighted sum of the output of homomorphic wavelet-based MMSE filtering and that of homomorphic directional MMSE filtering. The restored image in spatial domain is finally obtained by applying the exponential function to the restored image in logarithmic domain. Experimental results show that the restored images by the proposed method have ISNR improvement of 3.3-4.0 ㏈ and ${\beta}$, a measurement parameter on edge preservation, improvement of 0.0103-0.0126 and superior subjective image quality over those by conventional methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.11-24
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• 2008

Region-based image retrieval techniques, which divide image into similar regions having similar characteristics and examine similarities among divided regions, were proposed to support an efficient low-dimensional color indexing scheme. However, color image segmentation techniques are required additionally. The problem of segmentation is difficult because of a large variety of color and texture. It is known to be difficult to identify image regions containing the same color-texture pattern in natural scenes. In this paper we propose an automatic color image segmentation algorithm. The colors in each image are first quantized to reduce the number of colors. The gray level of image representing the outline edge of image is constructed in terms of Fisher's multi-class linear discriminant on quantized images. The gray level of image is transformed into a binary edge image. The edge showing the outline of the binary edge image links to the nearest edge if disconnected. Finally, the final segmentation image is obtained by merging similar regions. In this paper we design and implement a region-based image retrieval system using the proposed segmentation. A variety of experiments show that the proposed segmentation scheme provides good segmentation results on a variety of images.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.430-433
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• 2010

최근 모바일 기기로 획득된 영상을 이용한 다양한 분야의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으며, 스마트폰의 보급이 확대되면서 증강현실을 지원하고자 자연영상으로부터 문자정보를 추출 및 인식하여 이미지 검색을 가능하도록 하는 많은 연구도 진행되고 있다. 자연영상에서 한글문자 영역 검출은 한글문자 인식을 위한 전단계로서 다양한 환경에 노출된 문자영역을 정확히 검출하는 것이 인식 성능을 결정함으로 중요한 전처리 단계이다. 본 연구는 한글문자 영역의 에지 및 지역적 연결요소 성분 특징을 이용하여 한글문자 영역을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 에지 및 연결요소 성분의 특징을 검출하고, 그 결과를 레이블화하고 이를 분석함으로서 한글문자 후보 영역을 검출한다. 검출된 후보영역은 검증과정을 수행하여 최종적인 한글문자 영역을 추출한다. 제안한 방법은 다양한 환경에서 얻어진 자연영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 에지 및 연결요소 성분의 두 가지 특징을 결합함으로서 한글 문자영역 검출의 정확도를 향상하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.31-40
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose an edge histogram to efficiently represent the edge distribution in the image for MPEG-7. To this end, we adopt global, semi-global, and local edge histogram bins. Also, we extract the edge information from the image in terms of image blocks rather than pixels, which reduces the extraction complexity and is also applicable to the block-based compression standards such as MPEG-1, and 2. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields better retrieval accuracy and feature extraction speed comparing to other non-homogeneous texture descriptors of MPEG-7 including the wavelet-based descriptor and local edge-based descriptor.