• 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.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2009

Scene classification and concept-based procedures have been the great interest for image categorization applications for large database. Knowing the category to which scene belongs, we can filter out uninterested images when we try to search a specific scene category such as beach, mountain, forest and field from database. In this paper, we propose an adaptive segmentation method for real-world natural scene classification based on a semantic modeling. Semantic modeling stands for the classification of sub-regions into semantic concepts such as grass, water and sky. Our adaptive segmentation method utilizes the edge detection to split an image into sub-regions. Frequency of occurrences of these semantic concepts represents the information of the image and classifies it to the scene categories. K-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm is also applied as a classifier. The empirical results demonstrate that the proposed adaptive segmentation method outperforms the Vogel and Schiele's method in terms of accuracy.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.223-229
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• 2018

This paper proposes a robust technique of image segmentation, which can be obtained if the topological persistence of each connected component is used as the feature vector for the graph-based image segmentation. The topological persistence of the components, which are obtained from the super-level set of the image, is computed from the morse function which is associated with the gray-level or color value of each pixel of the image. The procedure for the components to be born and be merged with the other components is presented in terms of zero-dimensional homology group. Extensive experiments are conducted with a variety of images to show the more correct image segmentation can be obtained by merging the components of small persistence into the adjacent components of large persistence.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.198-199
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• 2016

컴퓨터 비젼 분야에서 이미지 세그멘테이션은 객체 분리, 객체 추적, 의학 영상처리 등 다양한 분야에서 사용된다. 이전의 이미지 세그멘테이션은 사람의 개입이 없이 정확한 객체를 분리하지 못한다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문은 인접한 슈퍼픽셀을 트리를 활용하여 개층적으로 슈퍼픽셀을 통합하는 새로운 세그멘테이션 방법을 소개한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 수행하기 위해 기존의 슈퍼 픽셀 알고리즘을 사용하여, 각 슈퍼픽셀의 센터를 노드로 설정하고 들로네 삼각화를 수행한다. 각각의 인접한 노드는 순차적으로 유사도 측정하여 슈퍼픽셀을 통합한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안한 방법이 과분할 세그멘테이션을 제거하였으며 영상의 중요한 정보를 잘 보존하는 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.233-237
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• 2013

Image recognition is an important research area of pattern recognition. This paper studies that the image segmentation algorithm theory and its application in road signs recognition system. In this paper We studied a systematic study for road signs and we have made the recognition algorithm. This paper is divided in image segmentation part and image recognition part for the road signs recognition. The experimental results show that the road signs recognition model can make effective use in smart phone system, and the model can be used in many other fields.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.13-20
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• 2024

This paper introduces a method for generating model images that can identify specific cylindrical medicine containers in videos and investigates data collection techniques. Previous research had separated object detection from specific object recognition, making it challenging to apply automated image stitching. A significant issue was that the coordinate-based object detection method included extraneous information from outside the object area during the image stitching process. To overcome these challenges, this study applies the newly released YOLOv8 (You Only Look Once) segmentation technique to vertically rotating pill bottles video and employs the ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF) feature matching algorithm to automate model image generation. The research findings demonstrate that applying segmentation techniques improves recognition accuracy when identifying specific pill bottles. The model images created with the feature matching algorithm could accurately identify the specific pill bottles.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.677-684
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• 2016

With the increase of multimedia information such as image, researches on extracting high-level semantic information from low-level visual information has been realized, and in order to automatically generate this kind of information. Various technologies have been developed. Generally, image retrieval is widely preceded by comparing colors and shapes among images. In some cases, images with similar color, shape and even meaning are hard to retrieve. In this article, in order to retrieve the object in an image, technical value of middle level is converted into meaning value of middle level. Furthermore, to enhance accuracy of segmentation, K-means algorithm is engaged to compute k values for various images. Thus, object retrieval can be achieved by segmented low-level feature and relationship of meaning is derived from ontology. The method mentioned in this paper is supposed to be an effective approach to retrieve images as required by users.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.85-92
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• 2023

Deep learning applications are increasingly being leveraged for disease detection tasks in medical imaging modalities such as X-ray, Computed Tomography (CT), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Most data-centric deep learning challenges necessitate the use of supervised learning methodologies to attain high accuracy and to facilitate performance evaluation through comparison with the ground truth. Supervised learning mandates a substantial amount of image and label sets, however, procuring an adequate volume of medical imaging data for training is a formidable task. Various data augmentation strategies can mitigate the underfitting issue inherent in supervised learning-based models that are trained on limited medical image and label sets. This research investigates the enhancement of a deep learning-based rib fracture segmentation model and the efficacy of data augmentation techniques such as left-right flipping, rotation, and scaling. Augmented dataset with L/R flipping and rotations(30°, 60°) increased model performance, however, dataset with rotation(90°) and ⨯0.5 rescaling decreased model performance. This indicates the usage of appropriate data augmentation methods depending on datasets and tasks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.358-360
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• 2020

본 팀은 웹캠으로 촬영한 영상에서 원하는 물체를 선택하여 텍스처를 선택한 이미지의 스타일로 변환하는 프로젝트를 수행했다. 영상을 세그멘테이션하고 원하는 물체만을 원하는 텍스처로 변환하여 최종 아웃풋을 얻는다. 제안하는 네트워크는 물체를 다양한 스타일로 바꾸는 것이 가능한데, 이 중에서 이미지에 명화의 화풍을 입히는 것을 중점으로 하여 데모를 구현했다. 빠른 속도로 네트워크를 실행하기 위해 기존 연구들에 비디오 처리의 관점을 접목했다. 여러 프레임을 묶어 옵티컬 플로우를 생성하고, 첫 번째 프레임을 인스턴스 세그멘테이션한 후 마스크를 추출했다. 이후 마스크 영역만 뽑아낸 이미지를 새로운 입력으로 하여 스타일 트랜스퍼를 거치고, 이 첫번째 프레임과 나머지 프레임들의 옵티컬 플로우로 나머지 프레임들의 세그멘테이션과 스타일 트랜스퍼를 예측하여 다시 비디오 프레임으로 만들어 주었다. 본 알고리즘은 옵티컬 플로우 설정으로 네트워크의 계산량을 줄이며 속도를 개선했다. 빠른 데이터 처리로 사용자가 원하는 물체의 텍스쳐가 바뀔 수 있게 되었고, 이는 현실 세계가 실제로 바뀐 듯한 느낌을 들게 한다. 또한, 컴퓨터 비전에서 활발하게 연구되었던 분야를 AR로 끌어와 두 분야의 융합 가능성을 열었다. 현재 코로나의 영향으로 집에서 취미생활을 즐기는 인구가 많아졌다. 본 연구를 통해 많은 사람에게 집에서 쉽게 명화의 감성을 즐기고 느낄 수 있는 양질의 콘텐츠를 제공해주려 한다. 또한, 박물관과 미술관 등의 기관에서도 이 기술이 활용될 수 있다. 명화를 느낄 수 있는 다양한 콘텐츠를 이용하여 박물관이나 미술관의 홍보 효과도 기대할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.5-13
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• 1993

본 연구에서는 조직 이미지 프로세싱에서 로칼 조직의 주파수 성분과 방향각을 효과적으로 평가할 수 있는 점근적 2-D FPSS QPS 필터의 커널쌍 구성에 대하여 논의하고 이를 아용한 오리엔테이션 필터의 설계와 응용을 고찰한다. 설계된 필터 특성은 필터 길이가 주어지는 경우 대역폭, 감쇄 정수, 방향각, 그리고 변이 정수에 의존하므로 특성 제어가 용이하다. 4개의 커널쌍으로 구성된 오리엔테이션 필터에 의한 방향각 측정 오차는 최대 2.5°이며 세그멘테이션 결과도 효과적임을 보였다. 그리고 단일 방향각을 갖는 오리엔테이션 필터에 의해 조직 이미지의 특성 성분의 추출이 용이함을 보였다.