• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.107-113
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• 2014

In this study, we design and implement an eye-gaze estimation system based on the extraction of eye contour and pupil region. In order to effectively extract the contour of the eye and region of pupil, the face candidate regions were extracted first. For the detection of face, YCbCr value range for normal Asian face color was defined by the pre-study of the Asian face images. The biggest skin color region was defined as a face candidate region and the eye regions were extracted by applying the contour and color feature analysis method to the upper 50% region of the face candidate region. The detected eye region was divided into three segments and the pupil pixels in each pupil segment were counted. The eye-gaze was determined into one of three directions, that is, left, center, and right, by the number of pupil pixels in three segments. In the experiments using 5,616 images of 20 test subjects, the eye-gaze was estimated with about 91 percent accuracy.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.19B no.4
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• pp.221-224
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• 2012

The most famous algorithm of splitting and connecting Snake for extracting the boundary of multiple objects is the nearest method using the distance between snake points. It often can't split and connect Snake due to object topology. In this paper, its problem was discussed experimentally. The new algorithm using vector between Snake segment is proposed in order to split and connect Snake with complicated topology of objects. It is shown by experiment of two test images with 3 and 5 objects that the proposed one works better than the nearest one.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.79-87
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• 2005

This paper presents an active contour model for extracting accurate facial regions in complex environments. In the model, a contour is represented by a zero level set of level function φ, and evolved via level set partial differential equations. Then, unlike general active contours, skin color information that is represented by 2D Gaussian model is used for evolving and slopping a curve, which allows the proposed method to be robust to noise and varying pose. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed method it was tested with several natural scenes, and the results were compared with those of geodesic active contours. Experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.683-695
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• 1996

In this paper, we implemented the content-based image retrieval system that indexes and retrieves the images by acquiring contour information of images and by extracting lines from the object. For this purpose, we proposed the advanced line extraction algorithm called FSLHT(Flexible SLHT) which covers drawback of SLHT(Straight Line Hough Transform)andapplied aDP(Dynamic Programming)algorithm to getadesirable similarity ofimages by lines. We estimated the contour features as a key value of sampled region to compensate for the problem that image contours are heavily depend on the noise. When performing the Hough transform we calculated the directionality based on the perceptual organization and transformed according to this direction to overcome the problem of time consuming and discontinuity.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.891-894
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 NTGST (noise·tolerant generalized symmetry transform)와 snake를 이용하여 복잡배경으로부터 여러 물체의 윤곽선을 동시에 검출하는 방법을 제안하였다. 먼저 NTCST의 대칭도 맵(symmetry map)을 이용하여 복잡한 배경에 혼재하는 여러 물체들의 위치를 찾은 다음, 이들 각 물체에 snake의 초기 윤곽들을 자동 설정해 줌으로써 기존 snake 알고리즘의 초기 윤곽 설정의 어려움과 다중 물체 윤곽선 검출의 어려움을 동시에 해결하였다. 이때 NTGST의 대칭도 맵으로부터 설정된 snake의 초기 윤곽은 실제 물체의 윤곽선 가까이에 위치할 뿐만 아니라 물체의 형태를 잘 반영하므로 요철이 있는 물체의 윤곽선도 기존의 방법보다 적은 반복횟수로 정확하게 검출 할 수 있다. 다양한 합성 영상과 실영상에 적용한 결과 복잡배경으로부터도 다중 물체의 윤곽선을 효과적으로 추출함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.520-522
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• 1998

활성 윤곽선 모델(Active Contour Model : Snake)을 이용한 윤곽선 추출 방법에서는 물체를 검출하기 위해 잠재적 표면(potential surface) 위에서 지역 최소치를 향하여 다양한 힘을 가함으로써 물체의 윤곽선으로 활성 윤곽선 모델을 움직이게 한다. 활성 윤곽선 모델에서 영상의 관심있는 물체를 검출하기 위해서는 영상의 잠재적 표면 위에서 활성 윤곽선 모델이 지역 최소치를 향하여 활동적으로 움직이도록 다양한 힘을 효과적으로 제어해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 활성 윤곽선 모델이 적합한 지역 최소치를 향하여 적절하게 수렴하도록 활성 윤곽선 모델이 움직이는 잠재적 표면을 변형할 수 있는 영상 필터를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.313-317
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• 2003

This paper suggested the initial edge map through the pre-processing of vague image before apply the GVF snake algorithm. The reason obtain for detail object outline and time efficiency GVF snake algorithm feasible extracted concave edge but mistake interested object edge for the around others. So it need to trim about the object around edges. The method is using Pixel morphological reconstruction, edge extraction mask and threshoding. The result, defend fallen local minimum edge energy and reduce iteration.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.485-487
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 애견의 안구 영상을 분석하여 백내장을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 애견의 영상에서 안구 영역을 선택한 후, 양선형 보간법을 적용하여 선택된 안구 영역을 확대한 후, 퍼지 스트레칭 기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조한다. 강조된 영상에서 이진화 기법과 침식, 팽창기법을 적용하여 잡음 영역을 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 안구 영역에 8 방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 적용하여 백내장을 추출한다. 추출된 백내장 부분을 애견의 평균적인 백내장의 크기와 비교 분석하여 백내장 가능성을 도출한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.101-109
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• 2014

It is an essential element for the establishment of image processing related systems to find the exact contour from the image of an arbitrary object. In particular, if a vision system is established to inspect the products in the automated production process, it is very important to detect the contours for standardized shapes such lines and curves. In this paper, we propose a prototype adaptive dynamic contour model, p-Snake with improved contour extraction algorithms by adding the prototype energy. The proposed method is to find the initial contour by applying the existing Snake algorithm after Sobel operation is performed for prototype analysis. Next, the final contour of the object is detected by analyzing prototypes such as lines and circles, defining prototype energy and using it as an additional energy item in the existing Snake function on the basis of information on initial contour. We performed experiments on 340 images obtained by using an environment that duplicated the background of an industrial site. It was found that even if objects are not clearly distinguished from the background due to noise and lighting or the edges being insufficiently visible in the images, the contour can be extracted. In addition, in the case of similarity which is the measure representing how much it matches the prototype, the prototype similarity of contour extracted from the proposed p-ACM is superior to that of ACM by 9.85%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.56-62
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• 2000

In this paper, an automatic extraction of the blood flow contour from cardiac MRI is proposed. By using the GVF snake which has wider capture range than the conventional snake, and by automatically generating the initial points along the outside of the contour of the zero GVF field in the edge image of the cardiac MRI, the blood flow contour can be automatically extracted, even when the contours have boundary concavities due to the papillary muscles, without any manual initialization of the experts. Experiments are conducted on the various real cardiac MRIs including noise and papillary muscles, and the proposed method is proved to be efficient in automatic extraction of the blood contours even if they have the boundary concavities.