• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.194-198
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• 2000

본 논문은 특별한 마커를 사용하지 않고 연속되는 영상들에서 사람의 2차원 움직임 정보를 추출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 사람의 움직임 정보 추출을 위해 색상, 움직임, 윤곽선, 그리고 사용자의 개인적인 특성을 반영하는 신체적인 특성 정보를 이용한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 사람의 움직임 정보를 이용한 가상 캐릭터의 제어와 같은 마커를 사용하지 않는 다양한 HCI 응용분야에 사용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.485-488
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• 2002

본 논문은 의학 연구 및 교육, 환자 치료를 위해 보다 정확한 정보를 제공하고자 의료 영상 중에 가장 많이 사용하는 의료 영상인 뇌 MR 영상의 횡단면만을 가지고 3차원으로 가시화한다. 3차원으로 재구성하는데 있어서 원 영상의 모형을 자연스러운 표현을 위해서는 층 영상과 층 영상간의 보간 영상이 필요하므로 이를 생성하는 방법에 대해서 제안한다. 그리고 3차원 재구성에 필요한 정보를 추출하기 위해 각 영상에서 머리와 뇌 영역의 윤곽선 정보를 추출하고 가시화의 시간을 줄이기 위해 윤곽선 정보에서 특징점을 추출하여 이를 기반으로 하여 3차원으로 재구성 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.19-27
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• 2010

This paper proposes a method for enhancing detection performance and reducing computational cost when detecting a human face by applying B-spline active contour to the frame difference of consecutive images. Firstly, the method estimates amount of user's motion using kurtosis. If the kurtosis is smaller than a pre-defined threshold, it is considered that the amount of user's motion is insufficient and thus the contour fitting is not applied. Otherwise, the contour fitting is applied by exploiting the fact that the amount of motion is sufficient. Secondly, for the contour fitting, difference edges are detected by combining the distance transformation of the binarized frame difference and the edges of current frame. Lastly, the face is located by assigning the contour fitting process to the detected difference edges. Kurtosis-based motion amount estimation can reduce a computational cost and stabilize the results of the contour fitting. In addition, distance transformation-based difference edge detection can enhance the problems of contour lag and discontinuous difference edges. Experimental results confirm that the proposed method can reduce the face localization error caused by the contour lag and discontinuity of edges, and decrease the computational cost by omitting approximately 39% of the contour fitting.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.101-109
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• 2012

In many diagnostic and treatment procedures for prostate disease accurate detection of prostate boundaries in transrectal ultrasound(TRUS) images is required. This is a challenging and difficult task due to weak prostate boundaries, speckle noise and the short range of gray levels. In this paper a method for automatic prostate segmentation inTRUS images using support vectors and snake-like contour is presented. This method involves preprocessing, extracting Gabor feature, training, and prostate segmentation. Gabor filter bank for extracting the texture features has been implemented. A support vector machine(SVM) for training step has been used to get each feature of prostate and nonprostate. The boundary of prostate is extracted by the snake-like contour algorithm. The results showed that this new algorithm extracted the prostate boundary with less than 9.3% relative to boundary provided manually by experts.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2012.05b
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• pp.527-530
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• 2012

본 논문은 윤곽선이 두드러지는 Saliency Map모델을 생성하고 객체 후보 영상을 획득하여 객체를 추출할 수 있는 기법에 관한 연구이다. 제안하는 기법은 객체의 윤곽선 정보가 두드러지는 Saliency Map을 생성하기 위해 에지(Edge), 초점(Focus), 엔트로피(Entropy)를 특징 정보로써 사용하고, 획득한 Saliency Map의 임계화 과정 및 라벨링 과정을 통해 배경 영역을 제거한 객체 후보 영상을 획득한다. 이후 Mean Shift Segmentation 알고리즘을 적용한 영상의 세그먼트별 객체 후보 영상의 픽셀 평균값을 적용한 영상을 다시 라벨링 과정을 이용하여 객체를 추출한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.1054-1056
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• 2015

폐 결절과 폐 종양은 전 세계 사망의 주요 원인인 폐암의 초기 증상일 수 있기 때문에 임상적으로 중요하다. 그래서 많은 학자들은 이를 검출하기 위해 컴퓨터를 통한 이미지 분석을 시도하였고, 그러기 위한 첫걸음으로 폐 윤곽선을 추출했다. 본 논문에서는 파티클 필터를 이용한 폐 윤곽선을 추출함으로써, 폐 외벽에 붙어있는 폐 결절 및 폐 종양도 분리할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.12B
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• pp.2359-2368
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• 1999

In this paper we propose a 2D FLIR image-based 3D target recognition system which performs group-to-ground vehicle recognition using the target contour and its degree of reliability extracted from FLIR image. First we extract target from background in FLIR image. Then we define contour points of the extracted target which have high edge gradient magnitude and brightness value as reliable contour point and make reliable contour by grouping all reliable contour points. After that we extract corresponding reliable contours from model contour image and perform comparison between scene and model features which are calculated by DST(discrete sine transform) of reliable contours. Experiment shows that the proposed algorithm work well and even in case of imperfect target extraction it showed better performance then conventional 2D contour-based matching algorithms.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.206-211
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• 2008

Trainee can enhance his perception of and interaction with the real world by displayed virtual objects in simulation using image processing technology. Therefore, it is essential for realistic simulation to determine the occlusion areas of the virtual object produces after registering real image and virtual object exactly. In this paper, we proposed the new method to solve occlusions which happens during virtual target moves according to the simulated route on real image using improved object contour extraction by neighboring edge search and picking algorithm. After we acquire the detailed contour of complex objects by proposed contour extraction algorithm, we extract the three dimensional information of the position happening occlusion by using MER for performance improvement. In the experiment, we compared proposed method with existed method and preyed the effectiveness in the environment which a partial occlusions happens.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.158-166
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed a contour shape description method which use the CFR(contour fluctuation ratio) feature. The CFR is the ratio of the line length to the curve length of a contour segment. The line length means the distance of two end points on a contour segment, and the curve length means the sum of distance of all adjacent two points on a contour segment. We should acquire rotation and scale invariant contour segments because each CFR is computed from contour segments. By using the interleaved contour segment of which length is proportion to the entire contour length and which is generated from all the points on contour, we could acquire rotation and scale invariant contour segments. The CFR can describes the local or global feature of contour shape according to the unit length of contour segment. Therefore we describe the shape of objects with the feature vector which represents the distribution of CFRs, and calculate the similarity by comparing the feature vector of corresponding unit length segments. We implemented the proposed method and experimented with rotated and scaled 165 fish images of fifteen types. The experimental result shows that the proposed method is not only invariant to rotation and scale but also superior to NCCH and TRP method in the clustering power.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.507-509
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 지방종 초음파 영상에서 지방종을 자동적으로 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 초음파 영상에 Monotone Cubic Spline 보간법을 이용하여 ROI영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에 Fuzzy Stretching 기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조한 후, ART2 알고리즘과 8방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 잡음을 제거한 후에 지방종의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 지방종의 후보 영역 중에서 형태학적으로 타원 형태를 띠거나 가장 큰 후보 영역의 정보를 이용하여 Labeling 기법을 적용하여 최종적으로 지방종 영역을 추출한다. 제안된 방법을 지방종 초음파 영상에 실험한 결과, 지방종 영역이 비교적 정확히 추출되는 것을 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.