• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.1-5
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• 2001

A new approach for determining global threshold value for image binarization is proposed in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, bit-plane information which involve the shapes of original image is used for dividing image into two parts object and background, and then compared each average values. Optimal threshold value are selected in center of two averages. Proposed method is relatively simple but robust and achieved good results in continuous tone images and document image.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.2 s.308
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• pp.40-47
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• 2006

This paper proposes a multitoning method using threshold modulation of MJBNM(Modified Jointly Blue Noise Mask) for banding artifacts reduction. As banding artifacts in multitoning appear as uniform dot distributions around the intermediate output levels, such multitone output results in discontinuity and visually unpleasing patterns in smooth transition regions. Therefore, to reduce these banding artifacts, the proposed method rearranges the dot distribution by introducing pixels in the neighborhood of output levels that occurs banding artifacts. First of all principal cause of banding artifacts are analyzed using mathematical description. Based on this analytical result, a threshold modulation technique of MJBNM which takes account of chrominance error and correlation between channels is applied. The original threshold range of MJBNM is first scaled linearly sot that the minimum and maximum of the scaled range include two pixel more than adjacent two output levels that cover an input value. In an input value is inside the vicinity of any intermediate output levels produce banding artifacts, the output is set to one of neighboring output levels based on the pointwise comparison result according to threshold modulation parameter that determines the dot density and distribution. In this case, adjacent pixels are introduced at the position where the scaled threshold values are located between two output levels and the minimum and maximum threshold values. Otherwise, a conventional multitoning method is applied. As a result, the proposed method effectively decreased the appearance of banding artifacts around the intermediate output levels. To evaluate the quality of the multitone result, HVS-WRMSE according to gray level for gray ramp image and S-CIELAB color difference for color ramp image are compared with other methods.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.347-352
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• 2011

Entropy used for measuring the richness in details of the image and absolute mean brightness error(AMBE) providing a change in the image global appearance are two quantitative measures generally used for measuring quality of images. In this paper, we propose an entropy and AMBE-based thresholding method to binalize a given image. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by thresholding experiments on nine test images and comparison with other conventional thresholding methods, that is, Otsu method and entropy-based method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.167-170
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• 2007

동일한 집단에 속하는 개체를 다른 집단에 속하는 개체로부터 구별할 수 있는 염기의 특징을 해당 집단의 시그너쳐라고 한다. 학습 데이터는 두 집단에 속하는 염기서열들이고, 염기서열에 대한 시그너쳐는 개체를 다른 집단과 구별할 수 있는 위치의 염기들로 구성된 서열이다. 제안한 방법에서는 각 집단에 대해서 위치별로 염기의 발생빈도를 계산하고, 가장 발생빈도가 높은 염기를 결정한 다음, 다른 집단의 대응 위치에서 해당 염기의 빈도를 계산하여, 빈도차이가 지정한 분류임계값 이상이면, 해당 위치의 염기를 시그너쳐를 구성하는 특징으로 간주한다. 시그너쳐를 대한 임의의 염기서열에 대한 부합정도는 시그너쳐에 속하는 염기의 학습집단에서의 상대빈도값을 가중치로 하여 계산한다. 임의의 염기서열이 특정 집단에 속하는지 판단하기 위해서는 해당 집단의 시그너쳐에 대한 부합정도를 계산하게 되는데, 부합정도가 얼마이상이 되어야 해당 집단에 속하는 것으로 간주할지 기준이 되는 임계값을 엄밀도 임계값이라고 한다. 엄밀도 임계값은 학습 데이터 집합에 대해서 주어진 시그너쳐에 대한 엄밀도 임계값이 민감도와 특이도를 최대로 하는 것을 선택한다. 제안한 방법을 구현한 바이오인포매틱스 도구를 개발하여, 한국형 HIV-1 바이러스 시그너쳐 추출에 적용하여 분류특성이 우수한 시그너쳐를 추출할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.18-25
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• 2011

Salient object attracts more and more attention from researchers due to its important role in many fields of multimedia processing like tracking, segmentation, adaptive compression, and content-base image retrieval. Usually, a saliency map is binarized into black and white map, which is considered as the binary mask of the salient object in the image. Still, the threshold is heuristically chosen or parametrically controlled. This paper suggests using the global optimal threshold to perform saliency map thresholding. This work also considers the usage of multi-level optimal thresholds and the local adaptive thresholds in the experiments. These experimental results show that using global optimal threshold method is better than parametric controlled or local adaptive threshold method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.75-80
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• 2008

This paper proposes a method to detect scene change using global decision tree that extract boundary cut that have width of big change that happen by camera brake from difference value of frames. First, calculate frame difference value through regional X2-histogram and normalization, next, calculate distance between difference value using normalization. Shot boundary detection is performed by compare global threshold distance with distance value for two adjacent frames that calculating global threshold distance based on distance between calculated difference value. Global decision tree proposed this paper can detect easily sudden scene change such as motion from object or camera and flashlight.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.663-673
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• 2010

As a tool used for video maintenance, Video segmentation divides videos in hierarchical and structural manner. This technique can be considered as a core technique that can be applied commonly for various applications such as indexing, abstraction or retrieval. Conventional video segmentation used adaptive threshold to split video by calculating difference between consecutive frames and threshold value in window with fixed size. In this case, if the time difference between occurrences of cuts is less than the size of a window or there is much difference in neighbor feature, accurate detection is impossible. In this paper, Improved Adaptive threshold algorithm which enables determination of window size according to video format and reacts sensitively on change in neighbor feature is proposed to solve the problems above. Post-Processing method for decrement in error caused by camera flash and fast movement of large objects is applied. Evaluation result showed that there is 3.7% improvement in performance of detection compared to conventional method. In case of application of this method on modified video, the result showed 95.5% of reproducibility. Therefore, the proposed method is more accurated compared to conventional method and having reproducibility even in case of various modification of videos, it is applicable in various area as a video maintenance tool.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.209-212
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• 2000

본 논문에서 마우스 대신에 음성으로 명령을 입력하여 퍼지 추론을 통해 윈도우 화면상의 커서를 이동시키는 인터페이스를 구현하였다. 입력된 음성이 대체로 짧은 언어이기에 이를 인식하기 위하여 고립단어 인식에 강한 DTW방식을 사용하였다. DTW방식의 단점중인 하나가 음성길이가 비슷한 명령을 입력하였을 때 표준패턴 중 오차 값이 가장 작은 패턴으로 인식하는 것이다. 예를들면 아주 많이 이동해 라는 음성이 입력되었을 때 동일한 음성길이를 가진 아주 많이 오른쪽으로 인식하는 경우가 있다. 이런 오류를 해결하고자 각 패턴의 DTW 오차 값 범위와 표준 패턴의 음성길이를 기준으로 임계값을 퍼지 추론하여 명령으로서 수락 여부를 결정하였다. 판단이 애매한 부분은 사용자에게 질의를 하여 응답에 따라 수락 여부를 결정하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.31-41
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• 2000

This paper proposes a block-based motion detection algorithm for digital video surveillance system which adaptively decides the threshold according to the kinds of images We first compute the features of a block after dividing each Image into small sub-block regions, and analyze performance of the motion detection algorithm based on statistic features by using the proposed threshold-decision method. Motion vectors are used to analyze motion degree and adaptively determine the threshold The simulation results show the performances of motion detection algorithms according to sub-block size, statistic features, noise, and threshold.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.51-58
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• 2005

This paper proposes a robust scene change detection technique that uses the weighted chi-square test and the automated threshold-decision algorithms. The weighted chi-square test can subdivide the difference values of individual color channels by calculating the color intensities according to NTSC standard, and it can detect the scene change by joining the weighted color intensities to the predefined chi-square test which emphasize the comparative color difference values. The automated threshold-decision at algorithm uses the difference values of frame-to-frame that was obtained by the weighted chi-square test. At first, The Average of total difference values is calculated and then, another average value is calculated using the previous average value from the difference values, finally the most appropriate mid-average value is searched and considered the threshold value. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms are effective and outperform the previous approaches.