• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.304-310
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• 2009

In this paper, target extraction method in FLIR(forward-looking infrared) images based on fuzzy thresholding which used bi-modality and adjacency to determine membership value is proposed. The bi-modality represents how a pixel is classified into a part of target using distribution of pixel values in a local region, and The adjacency is a measure to represent how each pixel is far from the target region. First, membership value is calculated using above two measures, and then fuzzy thresholding is performed to extract the target. To evaluate performance of proposed target extraction method, we compare other segmentation methods using various FLIR tank image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is a good segmentation performance.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.549-557
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• 2013

This paper proposes a method using the multiple threshold regions in the image preprocessing procedure for container identifier recognition system. The multiple threshold regions are set by considering the container image characteristics and used as the candidates for the final one, The image is transformed to black and white images using these threshold regions, then labeling, panelling and panels merging are executed for each candidate, respectively. Finally the best threshold region is selected through this procedure and the character region can be extracted. Applying the similar method the noises are removed and the characters of identifier are segmented from the extracted region. In the experiments with 162 different images the success rates for extracting of the character region and segmenting the characters are 99.04% and 98.09%, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.7-12
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• 2003

This paper propose the 1-pass spatially adaptive wavelet thresholding for image denosing. The method of wavelet thresholding for denosing, has been concentrated on finding the best uniform threshold or best basis. However, not much has been done to make this method adaptive to spatially changing statistics which is typical of a large class of images. This spatially adaptive thresholding is extended to the overcomplete wavelet expansion, which yields better results than the orthogonal transform. Experiments show that this proposed method does indeed remove noise significantly, especially for large noise power. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms level dependent thresholding techniques and is comparable to spatial Wiener filtering method, 2-pass spatially adaptive wavelet thresholding method in matlab.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1269-1274
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• 2014

In computer vision research, binarization procedure is one of the most frequently used tools to discriminate target objects from background in grey level binary image. Fuzzy binarization is a reliable technique in environment with high uncertainty such as medical image analysis by setting the threshold as the average of minimum and maximum brightness with triangle type fuzzy membership function. However, this technique is also known as contrast sensitive method thus its discrimination power is not so great when the image has low contrast difference between objects and backgrounds and suffer from information loss as a result. Thus, in this paper, we propose a fuzzy binarization using ART2 algorithm to handle such low contrast image analysis. Proposed ART2 algorithm is applied to determine the medium point of membership function in the fuzzy binarization paradigm. The proposed methods shows low information loss rate in our experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.227-230
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• 2002

An important preprocessing for fingerprint recognition is the binarization operation, which takes as an input gray-scale image and returns a binary image as the output. The difficult in performing binarization is to find an appropriate threshold value. This paper presents a new adaptive binarization method, which determines the threshold value according to the brightness of local ridges and valleys. We experimentally show that the presented method results in better performance than a traditional method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.9
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• pp.736-743
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• 2013

In IRST(infrared search and track) system, the small target detection is very difficult because the IR(infrared) image have various clutter and sensor noise. The noise and clutter similar to the target intensity value produce many false alarms. In this paper. We propose the adaptive detection method which obtains optimal target detection using the image intensity information and the prior information of target. In order to enhance the target, we apply the human visual system. we determine the adaptive threshold value using image intensity and distance measure in target enhancement image. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method can efficiently extract target region in various IR images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1555-1558
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 프레임 블록화와 Otsu 임계값 설정 방법을 이용한 샷 전환 탐지 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 연속된 두 프레임을 일정 크기의 영역으로 분할하여 두 프레임 간 대응되는 영역의 히스토그램 차이를 이용해 샷 전환을 탐지한다. 또한 각 영상마다 Otsu 임계값 설정 방법을 이용하여 자동으로 임계값을 설정한다. 제안 방법의 실험은 영화, 드라마, 애니메이션 등 다양한 영상에 대해 테스트되었으며, 기 연구된 샷 전환 탐지 알고리즘과 비교 시 우수한 탐지율을 보였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.1
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• pp.119-128
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• 2002

This paper proposes an efficient recognition method of car license plate from the car images by using both the dynamical thresholding and the neural network with enhanced learning algorithm. The car license plate is extracted by the dynamical thresholding based on the structural features and the density rates. Each characters and numbers from the p]ate is also extracted by the contour tracking algorithm. The enhanced neural network is proposed for recognizing them, which has the algorithm of combining the modified ART1 and the supervised learning method. The proposed method has applied to the real-world car images. The simulation results show that the proposed method has better the extraction rates than the methods with information of the gray brightness and the RGB, respectively. And the proposed method has better recognition performance than the conventional backpropagation neural network.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.1877-1884
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• 2006

Image binarization is an important preprocessing to identify objects of interest by dividing pixels into background and objects. Usually binarization methods are classified into global and local thresholding approaches. In this paper, we propose an efficient and adaptive binarization method for the character segmentation by combining both advantages of the global and the local thresholding methods. Experimental results with the korean character images present that the proposed method binarizes character image faster and better than other local binarization methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

본 논문은 저해상도와 많은 노이즈를 갖는 일반 CCTV의 입력 영상에서 실시간으로 움직이는 물체를 검출하고 그 물체의 움직임을 추적하는 방법을 제안 한다. 본 논문은 CCTV영상으로부터의 입력 영상을 순차를 갖는 명암도 영상으로 실시간 변환 하여 진행 한다. 움직이는 물체의 추출은 첫째, 획득한 영상의 그레이 영상을 포스터라이징을 이용하여 명암 분포를 축소하고 차영상을 통해 윤곽을 추출한다. 둘째, 본 논문이 제안하는 영역 단위 이진화를 통해 이진화와 잡음의 제거를 동시에 수행한다. 셋째, 손실된 정보의 보정을 위해 이진 영상의 팽창을 수행한다. 넷째, 이진 영상의 가로/세로 명암 밀도 분포를 통해 움직이는 물체 영역을 검출한다. 검출된 물체의 추적은 현 재 프레임의 물체 영역과 이전 프레임의 물체 영역의 중심을 계산한 후, 두 중심의 거리 차를 계산한다. 계산된 거리가 임계값보다 작을 경우 같은 물체로 인식하고 계속 추적하며, 임계값 이상의 값일 경우 새로운 물체로 인식한다. 추적된 이동물체의 중심점이 화면의 중앙 부분에 있지 않을 경우, 이동물체의 중심으로 카메라의 방향을 조정한다. 실험결과, 제안한 방법으로 저해상도와 많은 노이즈를 갖는 일반 CCTV 의 입력 영상에서도 실시간으로 움직이는 물체를 검출하고, 그 물체의 움직임을 추적 할 수 있었다.