• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.10-21
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• 2009

In order to enhance the contrast in the regions where the pixels have similar intensities, this paper presents a new histogram equalization scheme. Conventional global equalization schemes over-equalizes those regions so that too bright or dark pixels are resulted and local equalization schemes produce unexpected discontinuities at the boundaries of the blocks. The proposed algorithm segments the original histogram into sub-histograms with reference to brightness level and equalizes each sub-histogram with the limited extents of equalization considering its mean and variance. The final image is determined as the weighted sum of the equalized images obtained by using the sub-histogram equalizations. By limiting the maximum and minimum ranges of equalization operations on individual sub-histograms, the over-equalization effect is eliminated. Also the result image does not miss feature information in low density histogram region since the remaining these area is applied separating equalization. This paper includes how to determine the segmentation points in the histogram. The proposed algorithm has been tested with more than 100 images having various contrast in the images and the results are compared to the conventional approaches to show its superiority.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.49-55
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• 2015

According to the statistics of traffic accidents over recent 5 years, traffic accidents during the night times happened more than the day times. There are various causes to occur traffic accidents and the one of the major causes is inappropriate or missing street lights that make driver's sight confused and causes the traffic accidents. In this paper, with smartphones, we designed and implemented a lane luminance measurement application which stores the information of driver's location, driving, and lane luminance into database in real time to figure out the inappropriate street light facilities and the area that does not have any street lights. This application is implemented under Native C/C++ environment using android NDK and it improves the operation speed than code written in Java or other languages. To measure the luminance of road, the input image with RGB color space is converted to image with YCbCr color space and Y value returns the luminance of road. The application detects the road lane and calculates the road lane luminance into the database sever. Also this application receives the road video image using smart phone's camera and improves the computational cost by allocating the ROI(Region of interest) of input images. The ROI of image is converted to Grayscale image and then applied the canny edge detector to extract the outline of lanes. After that, we applied hough line transform method to achieve the candidated lane group. The both sides of lane is selected by lane detection algorithm that utilizes the gradient of candidated lanes. When the both lanes of road are detected, we set up a triangle area with a height 20 pixels down from intersection of lanes and the luminance of road is estimated from this triangle area. Y value is calculated from the extracted each R, G, B value of pixels in the triangle. The average Y value of pixels is ranged between from 0 to 100 value to inform a luminance of road and each pixel values are represented with color between black and green. We store car location using smartphone's GPS sensor into the database server after analyzing the road lane video image with luminance of road about 60 meters ahead by wireless communication every 10 minutes. We expect that those collected road luminance information can warn drivers about safe driving or effectively improve the renovation plans of road luminance management.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.373-375
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 연속된 프레임에서 특징점을 추출하고 특징점의 유사도를 Hough 공간에 누적하여 정확한 이동을 찾아내는 기법을 제시한다. 특징점은 예지의 시작점, 끝점, 분기점과 굴곡점을 사용한다. 정합을 위하여 특징점 주위의 평균 밝기, 굴곡점의 굴곡각을 이용하며, 물체 주위에 물체보다 특징이 강한 배경에 민감하지 않게 동작하기 위하여 Hough 공간상의 극대값들에 대하여, 분할 영역의 평균과 표준 편차를 비교함으로써 정확한 이동 경로를 산출한다. 제안하는 알고리즘을 실제 영상에 적응한 경우 배경의 특징이 매우 강한 경우 Hough 공간의 최대값을 찾는 기법이 해결할 수 없는 부분도 정확히 추적하는 결과를 보인다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.273-281
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation method of the endo- and epicardial boundary by using ray-casting profile based on intensity distribution and gradient information in CT images. First, endo-cardial boundary points are detected by using adaptive thresholding and seeded region growing. To include papillary muscles inside the boundary, the endo-cardial boundary points are refined by using ray-casting based profile. Second, epi-cardial boundary points which have both a myocardial intensity value and a maximum gradient are detected by using ray-casting based adaptive gradient profile. Finally, to preserve an elliptical or circular shape, the endo- and epi-cardial boundary points are refined by using elliptical interpolation and B-spline curve fitting. Then, curvature-based contour fitting is performed to overcome problems associated with heterogeneity of the myocardium intensity and lack of clear delineation between myocardium and adjacent anatomic structures. To evaluate our method, we performed visual inspection, accuracy and processing time. For accuracy evaluation, average distance difference and overalpping region ratio between automatic segmentation and manual segmentation are calculated. Experimental results show that the average distnace difference was $0.56{\pm}0.24mm$. The overlapping region ratio was $82{\pm}4.2%$ on average. In all experimental datasets, the whole process of our method was finished within 1 second.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.1428-1434
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• 2018

Canine cataract is developed with aging and can cause the blindness or surgical treatment if not treated timely. In this paper, we propose a method for extracting cataract suspicious areas automatically with FCM(Fuzzy C_Means) algorithm to overcome the weakness of previously attempted ART2 based method. The proposed method applies the fuzzy stretching technique and the Max-Min based average binarization technique to the dog eye images photographed by simple devices such as mobile phones. After applying the FCM algorithm in quantization, we apply the brightness average binarization method in the quantized region. The two binarization images - Max-Min basis and brightness average binarization - are ANDed, and small noises are removed to extract the final cataract suspicious areas. In the experiment with 45 dog eye images with canine cataract, the proposed method shows better performance in correct extraction rate than the ART2 based method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.1169-1174
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• 2001

A new approach for determining global threshold value of binary image is proposed in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, bit-plane information which involve the shapes of original image is used for dividing image into two parts; object and background. Optimal threshold value are selected based on difference values of average between two regions, which is considered in global binary thresholding. Proposed method is no need to set a initial value, and consequently, it is relatively simple as well as robust. Experimental results showed a good performance in preserving edge not only continuous tone images but also document image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06b
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• pp.345-347
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 4-조각 전립선 병리조직 영상을 기하 보정 및 강체 정합하여 자동 스티칭하는 방법을 제안한다. 4-조각 병리영상에 대하여 총 3번의 스티칭을 수행하는데, 좌, 우 조각영상의 상, 하 영상 간 스티칭을 각각 수행 한 후 좌, 우 조각 영상 간 스티칭을 수행한다. 강체 정합 전 병리 조각의 코너를 이용해 x-축, y-축 방향의 위치보정과 회전보정을 수행하는 기하보정 단계를 거침으로서 지역적 최적해로의 수렴을 방지하며, 강체 정합의 정확성을 높인다. 병리영상은 전체적으로 밝기값이 유사하므로 밝기값이 아닌 외곽선 정보를 이용하여 조각 영상간의 거리를 최소화시켜 강체 정합한다. 실험 결과, 4-조각 전립선 병리조직 영상이 지역적 최적해에 수렴하지 않고, 조각 영상 간 거리를 최소화 하며, 하나로 스티칭 됨을 확인할 수 있었다. 제안 방법의 총 수행 시간은 평균 10.32초로 측정되었다. 본 논문의 제안 방법은 4조각으로 나뉜 전립선 병리조직 영상을 하나로 스티칭 함으로서 해당 조직의 전체 구조 파악 및 조직 내에서의 암의 위치 파악에 사용 될 수 있으며 이를 통한 전립선암의 확진에도 사용 될 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.1-5
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• 2001

A new approach for determining global threshold value for image binarization is proposed in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, bit-plane information which involve the shapes of original image is used for dividing image into two parts object and background, and then compared each average values. Optimal threshold value are selected in center of two averages. Proposed method is relatively simple but robust and achieved good results in continuous tone images and document image.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.19-28
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a method to reduce the difference in image characteristics when multiple camera images are captured for virtual space production. Sixty-four images were used by cross-mounting eight bodies and lenses, respectively. Image analysis compares and analyzes the standard deviation of the histogram and pixel distribution values. As a result of the analysis, it shows different image characteristics depending on the lens or image sensor, though it is a camera of the same model. In this paper, we have adjusted the distribution of the overall brightness value of the image to compensate for this difference. As a result, the average deviation was the maximum of (Indoor: 6.89, outdoor: 24.23), we obtained images with almost no deviation (Indoor: maximum 0.42, outdoor: maximum: 2.73). In the future, we will study and apply more accurate image analysis methods than image brightness distribution.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.14-22
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• 2011

The conventional satellite image fusion methods usually add the same amount of higher frequency components extracted from the panchromatic image to all the multispectral images. However, it is noted that each of multispectral images has different amount of overlap with the panchromatic image in terms of its spectrum, and also has different intensities. Thus giving the same amount of high frequency contents to all the spectral bands does not match with this observation, which causes color distortion in the fused image. In this paper, we propose a new wavelet-domain satellite image fusion algorithm that can compensate for these differences in intensity and spectrum overlap. For the compensation of intensity differences, we first estimate the high resolution multispectral images from P, considering the relative intensity ratios. For the compensation of the amount of spectral overlap, their wavelet coefficients are appended to the conventional wavelet-domain method where the coefficients for the addition is determined by the amount of spectrum overlap. Experiments are conducted for the IKONOS satellite images whose spectrums are well known, and the results show that the proposed algorithm gives higher PSNR and correlation coefficients compared to the conventional methods.