• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.721-726
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• 2004

The image binarization is applied frequently as one part of the preprocessing phase for a variety of image processing techniques such as character recognition and image analysis, etc. The performance of binarization algorithms is determined by the selection of threshold value for binarization, and most of the previous binarization algorithms analyze the intensity distribution of the original images by using the histogram and determine the threshold value using the mean value of Intensity or the intensity value corresponding to the valley of the histogram. The previous algorithms could not get the proper threshold value in the case that doesn't show the bimodal characteristic in the intensity histogram or for the case that tries to separate the feature area from the original image. So, this paper proposed the novel algorithm for image binarization, which, first, segments the intensity range of grayscale images to several intervals and calculates mean value of intensity for each interval, and next, repeats the interval integration until getting the final threshold value. The interval integration of two neighborhood intervals calculates the ratio of the distances between mean value and adjacent boundary value of two intervals and determine as the threshold value of the new integrated interval the intensity value that divides the distance between mean values of two intervals according to the ratio. The experiment for performance evaluation of the proposed binarization algorithm showed that the proposed algorithm generates the more effective threshold value than the previous algorithms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.714-725
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• 1997

This paper proposes an image compression method using the wavelet transform and bit-plane coding of wavelet coefficients. The hierarchical application of wavelet transform to an image produces one low resoluation(the subband with lowest frequency) image and several high frequency subbands. In the proposed method, the low resolution image is compressed by a lossless method at 8 bits per each coefficient. However, the high frequency subbands are decomposed into 8 bit planes. With an adptive block coding method, the decomposed bit planes are effectively compressed using localized edge information in each bit plane. In addition, the propsoed method can control bit rates by selectively eliminating lessimportant subbands of low significant bit planes. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme has better performance in the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and compression rate than conventional image coding methods using the wavelet transform and vector quantization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.79-81
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• 2018

혈관내 초음파(Intravascular Ultrasound, IVUS)는 혈관 내벽의 단면을 보여주는 검사 방법으로 관상 동맥 내의 내강, 죽상 경화반, 그리고 혈관벽의 변화에 관한 직접적이고 구체적인 정보를 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 IVUS 영상에서 내막과 외막을 추출하고 각 막의 지름을 자동적으로 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 IVUS 영상에 Histogram Equalization 기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조한 후에 퍼지 이진화 기법과 평균 이진화 기법을 각각 적용하여 내막과 외막을 추출하기 위해 이진화한다. 이진화된 내막과 외막의 각 영역 중에서 혈관내 초음파 영상 중심에서 가장 큰 영역의 정보를 이용하여 라벨링 기법을 적용하여 내막과 외막 영역을 추출하고 각 막의 지름을 계산한다. 제안된 방법을 IVUS 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 내막과 외막의 지름이 비교적 정확히 추출되는 것을 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.1657-1660
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• 2000

이 논문에서는 지문 인식을 위한 전처리 과정 중 개선된 이진 지문 영상을 얻기 위한 방법을 제안하였다. 흐릿하거나 블러링 된 256 그레이 레벨 원 지문 영상에 대하여 이진화 수행 시 명확한 융선과 골의 구조를 얻기 위해 고주파 강화 필터링을 적용하였다. 필터링 된 영상에 대하여 일정 블록으로 분할 한 후 각 블록에서 계산된 평균값을 임계값으로 하여 이진화를 수행하였고, 필터링을 적용하지 않았을 때 보다 융선과 골의 구조가 분명하고 융선 흐름이 유연한 이진 지문 영상을 획득할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.540-546
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• 2019

This study suggests a binarization method that minimizes information loss for night illumination images. The object of the night illumination image is an image which is not focused due to the influence of illumination and is not identifiable. Also, the image has a brightness area in only a part of the brightness histogram. So the existing simple binarization method is hard to get good results. The proposed binarization method uses image segmentation method and image merging method. In the stepwise divided blocks, we divide into two regions using the triangular type of fuzzy logic. The value 0 of the membership degree is binarized at the present step, and the value of the membership degree 1 is binarized after the next step. Experimental results show that night illumination images with minimal loss of information can be obtained in a dark area brightness range.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.797-803
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• 2007

Adaptive binarization is very important for the camera-based document recognition. This paper proposes a binarization method which can effectively adapt to the variation of image Qualify. Firstly, it analyzes the effect of binarization parameters to the result and proposes a method to measure the image quality. Then, it statistically analyzes the relationship between the image quality and the binarization parameter. Finally, it proposes a binarization method that automatically adapts to the quality of the input image, using the analysis result. The experiment results show that there is a meaningful relationship between the image quality and the binarization parameter, and therefore, the proposed method can effectively adapt to the variation of image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.213-216
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 객체 위주의 컬러 영상 검색을 위하여 영상의 saliency map을 이용해 객체 중심의 영상을 생성하고, 객체와 그 주변 영역에서의 대표 색상이 가지는 통계적 특성과 공간적 분포 정보를 이용하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저, 영상의 saliency map을 이진화하여 영상을 객체/배경으로 분할하고 객체를 중심으로 객체/배경의 비율이 일정한 일정 크기의 영상을 생성한다. 생성된 영상에서 대표 색상을 추출하고, 각 색상이 영상에서 어떻게 분포하는가를 나타내는 이진 공간분포 지도를 형성한다. 그 후 영상 간의 대표 색상마다 이진 공간분포의 차이를 비교함으로써, 색상의 통계적 특성과 공간적 분포가 동시에 반영된 특징으로 영상을 검색한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 saliency map을 이용한 대표 색상 기반의 영상 검색 기법은 기존의 대표 색상 기반의 영상 검색보다 우수한 성능을 보여준다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2924-2932
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• 2015

Image binarization is a process to divide the image into objects and backgrounds, widely applied to the fields of image analysis and its recognition. In the existing method of binarization, there is some uncertainty when there is insufficient brightness gap between objects and backgrounds in setting threshold. The method of fuzzy binarization has improved the features of objects efficiently. However, since this method sets ${\alpha}$-cut value statically, there remain some problems that important features of objects can be lost during binarization. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a binarization method which does not set ${\alpha}$-cut value statically. The proposed method uses fuzzy membership functions calculated by thresholds of mean, iterative, and Otsu binarization. Experiment results show the proposed method binaries various images with less loss than the existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.116-118
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 기존의 동영상을 그랩컷(GrabCut) 알고리즘과 유니티3D를 이용하여 상호작용이 가능한 동영상을 제작하는 기법을 제안한다. 그랩컷 알고리즘을 이용하여 동영상에서 재생 프레임 단위로 원하는 객체 영역을 추출하고 흑백의 이미지로 이진화한다. 이진화된 결과물과 원본 동영상을 유니티3D에서 동시에 재생하면서 선택 영역의 이진화 픽셀 정보를 기반으로 사용자의 입력을 감지하는 동영상의 제작이 가능함을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.139-143
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• 2013

The basic idea of conventional thresholding is that an image consists of objects and their background where the gray levels of the objects are different from those of the background. In this paper, we extend it to one where an image consists of not only objects and the background but also their edges. Based on this extension, we propose an edge detection-based thresholding method. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by experimental results tested on six well-known test images and compared with conventional methods.