• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1096-1100
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation of the meniscus based on active shape model using interpolated shape information in MR images. First, the statistical shape model of meniscus is constructed to reflect the shape variation in the training set. Second, the generation technique of interpolated shape information by using the weight according to shape similarity is proposed to robustly segment the meniscus with large variation. Finally, the automatic meniscus segmentation is performed through the active shape model fitting. For the evaluation of our method, we performed the visual inspection, accuracy measure and processing time. For accuracy evaluation, the average distance difference between automatic segmentation and semi-automatic segmentation are calculated and visualized by color-coded mapping. Experimental results show that the average distance difference was $0.54{\pm}0.16mm$ in medial meniscus and $0.73{\pm}0.39mm$ in lateral meniscus. The total processing time was 4.87 seconds on average.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.579-582
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• 2003

본 논문은 열화된 영상에서 문자 패턴의 자동 분할을 위해 농담정규화상관(NGC)법과 다중 템플릿을 이용하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 NGC를 사용하는 검사 알고리즘은 환경조건의 영향으로 검사 영상의 획득이 불완전하다면 정합의 부독율(rejection rate)이 높아진다. 다중 템플릿의 상관관계를 이용하는 제안된 방법은 가시화가 졸지 않은 경우에도 문자부와 배경부를 효과적으로 분할하며, 이러한 방법을 실제 자동화 공정에서 획득된 영상을 이용하여 제안된 알고리즘을 적용하는 것을 목표로 한다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.542-551
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• 2000

In this paper, a novel technique is presented for automatic brain region segmentation in single channel MR image data sets for 3D visualization and analysis. The method detects brain contours in 2D and 3D processing of four steps. The first and the second make a head mask and an initial brain mask by automatic thresholding using a curve fitting technique. The stage 3 reconstructs 3D volume of the initial brain mask by cubic interpolation and generates an intermediate brain mask using morphological operation and labeling of connected components. In the final step, the brain mask is refined by automatic thresholding using curve fitting. This algorithm is useful for fully automatic brain region segmentation of T1-weighted, T2-weighted, PD-weighted, SPGR MRI data sets without considering slice direction and covering a whole volume of a brain. In the experiments, the algorithm was applied to 20 sets of MR images and showed over 0.97 in comparison with manual drawing in similarity index.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.5
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• pp.363-374
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose the method for extracting Homogeneity Threshold($H_T$) and for segmenting homogeneous regions by USRG(Unseeded Region Growing) with $H_T$. The $H_T$ is a criterion to distinguish homogeneity in neighbor pixels and is computed automatically from the original image by proposed method. Theoretical background for proposed method is based on the Otsu's single level threshold method. The method is used to divide a small local part of original image int o two classes and the sum($\sigma_c$) of standard deviations for the classes to satisfy special conditions for distinguishing as different regions from each other is used to compute $H_T$. To find validity for proposed method, we compare the original image with the image that is regenerated with only the segmented homogeneous regions and show up the fact that the difference between two images is not exist visually and also present the steps to regenerate the image in order the size of segmented homogeneous regions and in order the intensity that includes pixels. Also, we show up the validity of proposed method with various results that is segmented using the homogeneity thresholds($H^*_T$) that is added a coefficient ${\alpha}$ for adjusting scope of $H_T$. We expect that the proposed method can be applied in various fields such as visualization and animation of natural image, anatomy and biology and so on.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.400-403
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 디지털 카메라의 자동초점 속도를 향상시키는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 방식은 위상차 검출 방식에서 사용되는 추가적인 자동초점 모듈을 장착하지 않으면서도 빠르게 초점이 맞는 위치의 거리와 방향을 계산할 수 있는데, 이는 이중 분할 조리개를 이용하여 위상차가 발생하도록 하고, 컬러 필터를 이용하여 분리함으로써 소프트웨어 영상 처리만으로 위상차를 측정하여 정확한 초점 위치를 찾을 수 있기 때문이다. 이중 분할 조리개에 의해서 발생한 컬러 영상 채널 간의 상이한 정도를 측정하기 위하여 초점이 맞는 정도를 수치화 할 수 있는 유사도 측정 기준을 제시하는데, 이 기준으로 측정된 유사도를 비교함으로써 불일치 정도를 추출하며 정확한 초점을 잡기 위한 거리와 방향을 계산한다. 실험에서는 상용 디지털 카메라를 개조한 프로토 타입에서 취득한 영상을 사용하여 제안한 방식의 유효성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.422-424
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 질감 특징과 신경회로망을 이용한 유방암조직영상의 분할 방법을 제안한다. 신경회로망의 입력 노드에 사용될 질감 특징을 얻기 위해 10개의 영상에 대해 각 영역(양성세포핵, 음성세포핵, 배경)에서 10개씩의 화소를 선택하고, 그 화소를 중심으로 하는 5$\times$5 영역 30개를 획득, 총 300개의 영역에 대해 R, G, B 각각의 밴드에서 18개의 질감특징을 추출한다. 54개의 입력노드, 28개의 은닉노드, 3개의 출력노드의 구조를 가진 신경회로망을 구성하고, 역전파 학습 알고리즘을 사용하여 신경회로망을 최대오차율이 10-3보다 작을 때까지 학습시킨다. 학습에 의해 획득되어진 분류기를 이용하여 유방암 조직 세포영상을 양성세포핵, 음성세포핵, 배경부분으로 자동 분할한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.421-430
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• 2010

Image segmentation technique is becoming increasingly important in the field of remote sensing image analysis in areas such as object oriented image classification to extract object regions of interest within images. This paper presents a new method for image segmentation in High Resolution Remote Sensing Image based on Improved Seeded Region Growing (ISRG) and Region merging. Firstly, multi-spectral edge detection was done using an entropy operator in pan-sharpened QuickBird imagery. Then, the initial seeds were automatically selected from the obtained multi-spectral edge map. After automatic selection of significant seeds, an initial segmentation was achieved by applying ISRG to consider spectral and edge information. Finally the region merging process, integrating region texture and spectral information, was carried out to get the final segmentation result. The accuracy assesment was done using the unsupervised objective evaluation method for evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method has good potential for application in the segmentation of high resolution satellite images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.381-384
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• 2010

심장질환을 예방하기 위하여 정기적인 검진을 통한 심장 운동기능 분석과 관찰이 중요하며, 심장 기능의 분석은 좌심실의 수동윤곽분할을 통하여 혈류량과 심박구출률 계산을 통해 이루어진다. 본 논문에서는 심장단축 자기공명영상에서 좌심실을 자동분할하기 위한 연구에 대하여 설명한다. 관측자의 간섭을 최소화하고 심장기능 분석을 자동화하기 위한 자동 초기점을 추출한 후에, 그래프 탐색을 통하여 복잡한 심장 구조와 다양한 촬영환경에 적용할 수 있는 좌심실 분할 알고리즘을 제안한다. 실험 결과에 따르면 자동 초기점 추출 알고리즘의 성능은 86.8%로 나타났고, 진행 중인 그래프 탐색 알고리즘도 유용한 결과를 나타내고 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.10
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• pp.825-835
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• 2009

The advance in medical technology has decreased death rates from diseases such as tubercle, pneumonia, malnutrition, and hepatitis. However, death rates from cardiac diseases are still increasing. To prevent cardiac diseases and quantify cardiac function, magnetic resonance imaging not harmful to the body is used for calculating blood volumes and ejection fraction(EF) on routine clinics. In this paper, automatic left ventricle(LV) segmentation is presented to segment LV and calculate blood volume and EF, which can replace labor intensive and time consuming manual contouring. Radial threshold determination is designed to segment LV and blood volume and EF are calculated. Especially, basal slices which were difficult to segment in previous researches are segmented automatically almost without user intervention. On short axis cardiac MRI of 36 subjects, the presented algorithm is compared with manual contouring and General Electronic MASS software. The results show that the presented algorithm performs in similar to the manual contouring and outperforms the MASS software in accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.235-237
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• 2022

Video content is divided into long-form video content and short-form video content according to the length. Long form video content is created with a length of 15 minutes or longer, and all frames of the captured video are included without editing. Short-form video content can be edited to a shorter length from 1 minute to 15 minutes, and only some frames from the frames of the captured video. Due to the recent growth of the single-person broadcasting market, the demand for short-form video content to increase viewers is increasing. Therefore, there is a need for research on content editing technology for editing and generating short-form video content. This study studies the technology to create short-form videos of main scenes by capturing images, voices, and motions. Short-form videos of key scenes use a pre-trained highlight extraction model through machine learning. An automatic video editing system and method for automatically generating a highlight video is a core technology of short-form video content. Machine learning-based automatic video editing method and system research will contribute to competitive content activities by reducing the effort and cost and time invested by single creators for video editing