• Journal of Digital Policy
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

In this paper, I proposes a method for performing single image super resolution by separating texture-spatial domains and then classifying features based on detailed information. In CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) based super resolution, the complex procedures and generation of redundant feature information in feature estimation process for enhancing details can lead to quality degradation in super resolution. The proposed method reduced procedural complexity and minimizes generation of redundant feature information by splitting input image into two channels: texture and spatial. In texture channel, a feature refinement process with step-wise skip connections is applied for detail restoration, while in spatial channel, a method is introduced to preserve the structural features of the image. Experimental results using proposed method demonstrate improved performance in terms of PSNR and SSIM evaluations compared to existing super resolution methods, confirmed the enhancement in quality.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.735-738
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• 2001

위성영상은 그 특성상 다중대역과 방대한 양의 영상 데이터로 이루어져 있으며, 방대한 양의 데이터에서 필요한 영상정보를 검색하기 위해서는 위성영상 검색에 적용 가능한 다중대역의 화소벡터, 질감 및 이들의 공간분포를 효과적으로 얻어낼 수 있는 속성을 추출하여 활용하는 것이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 위성영상 검색에 유용하게 사용할 수 있는 속성으로 다중대역의 화소벡터 값과 질감 정보를 동시에 추출하면서 UV(Color Coherent Vector)의 개념을 적용하여 이들의 공간분포에 관한 정보를 포함한 새로운 속성을 정의하였고, SPOT 위성영상을 이용하여 국부적인 질의 영상의 속성벡터와 광범위한 지역의 위성영상에서 부분영상들의 속성벡터와의 유사성 비교를 통하여 원하는 부분영상을 검색하는 방법으로 그 성능을 평가하였다. 제안된 검색방식은 칼라와 질감 그리고 이들의 공간적인 분포 등을 개별적으로 추출하여 조합하는 과정이 필요 없으며, 특히 위성영상이나 특정 도메인에 종속되지 않기 때문에 다양한 내용기반 영상정보 검색에 효과적으로 이용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.34-43
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• 2010

Texture information plays an important role in object recognition and classification. To perform an accurate classification, the texture feature used in the classification must be highly discriminative. This paper presents a novel texture descriptor for texture-based image retrieval and its application in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system for Emphysema classification. The texture descriptor is based on the combination of local surrounding neighborhood difference and centralized neighborhood difference and is named as Combined Neighborhood Difference (CND). The local differences of surrounding neighborhood difference and centralized neighborhood difference between pixels are compared and converted into binary codewords. Then binomial factor is assigned to the codewords in order to convert them into high discriminative unique values. The distribution of these unique values is computed and used as the texture feature vectors. The texture classification accuracies using Outex and Brodatz dataset show that CND achieves an average of 92.5%, whereas LBP, LND and Gabor filter achieve 89.3%, 90.7% and 83.6%, respectively. The implementations of CND in the computer-aided diagnosis of Emphysema is also presented in this paper.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.83-92
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• 2011

The aim of this study is to evaluate whether 3D nuclear chromatin texture features are significant in recognizing the progression of cervical cancer. In particular, we assessed that our method could detect subtle differences in the chromatin pattern of seemingly normal cells on specimens with malignancy. We extracted nuclear texture features based on 3D GLCM(Gray Level Co occurrence Matrix) and 3D Wavelet transform from 100 cell volume data for each group (Normal, LSIL and HSIL). To evaluate the feasibility of 3D chromatin texture analysis, we compared the correct classification rate for each of the classifiers using them. In addition to this, we compared the correct classification rates for the classifiers using the proposed 3D nuclear texture features and the 2D nuclear texture features which were extracted in the same way. The results showed that the classifier using the 3D nuclear texture features provided better results. This means our method could improve the accuracy and reproducibility of quantification of cervical cell.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.852-854
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• 2000

최근 컴퓨팅 환경의 발달과 함께 영상처리 기술을 이용하여 의료 영상들을 처리하려는 시도가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 백혈병의 경우, 말초 혈액이나 골수 영상을 통하여 백혈구의 수와 모양, 핵의 유무, 핵의 모양 등을 근거로 진단을 내리게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위해 골수 영상으로부터 백혈구 영역을 검출하여 백혈구의 모양과 질감 정보를 이용하여 특이한 성질을 지닌 백혈구를 검출해 내는 시스템을 제안하고 구현하였다. 백혈구의 영역을 검출하기위해서는 입력영상의 RGB 값을 이용한 임계치 방법을 사용하였고, 모양 특징은 이동, 확대/축소, 회전에 불변인 성질을 지닌 UNL Fourier 변환을 사용하였으며, 질감 특징은 Gabor wavelet 변환을 이용하여 추출하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.412-415
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 영상 검색에 있어서 객체의 특징치를 추출하는데 많은 시간과 비용이 따르므로 수행속도를 향상시키기 위해 영상의 공간적인 정보를 이용한 영상의 압축을 이용하는 내용기반 영상 검색을 제안하고자 한다. 압축 성능이 뛰어나며 영상의 위치 정보와 주파수 정보를 가지는 EZW(Embedded Zerotree Wavelet)알고리즘을 이용하여 영상을 김색하는 방안으로 EZW 변환 후 얻어지는 저 대역 부 밴드에서의 공간적인 특성을 고려한 특징 값을 이용하여 정지영상의 대표 특징들을 형태와 질감으로 빠르게 영상 검색하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10b
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• pp.271-273
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 최근 발달된 컴퓨터 버전의 이미지 처리 기법들을 활용하여 이미지의 기본 속성(primary features)을 정의하고 이미지 검색에서의 효용성을 실험을 통하여 분석한 결과를 제시한다. 기본 속성으로는 색상, 질감, 모자익, 위치정보등을 선정하여 샘플 이미지들에 대한 속성값들을 데이터베이스로 저장하고 시각 질의들을 처리하는 검색 시스템 원형을 구현하여 실험하였다. 정의된 4가지 기본적 속성 중 색상, 질감, 모자익을 이용하는 내용 기반 검색이 기존 시스템과 비교하여 검색 적중률이 향상됨을 보였다. 제안된 이미지의 기본 속성들을 이용하면 실제 이미지 데이터베이스에 대한 질의 처리에 활용할 수 있는 인덱스를 구성할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.10-22
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a texture description method as a standardization of multimedia contents description. Like color, shape, object and camera motion information, texture is one of very important information in the visual part of international standard (MPEG-7) in multimedia contents description. Current MPEG-7 texture descriptor has been designed to fit human visual system. Many psychophysical experiments give evidence that the brain decomposes the spectra into perceptual channels that are bands in spatial frequency. The MPEG-7 texture description method has employed Radon transform that fits with HVS behavior. By taking average energy and energy deviation of HVS channels, the texture descriptor is generated. To test the performance of current texture descriptor, experiments with MPEG-7 Texture data sets of T1 to T7 are performed. Results show that the current MPEG-7 texture descriptor gives better retrieval rate and fast and fast extraction time for texture feature.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.257-264
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• 2005

The number of vehicles are rapidly increased as our society is developed. The vehicle recognition has been studied for a while because many people acknowledged it has critical functions to solve the problems of traffic control or vehicle-related crimes. In this paper a novel method is proposed to recognize vehicle models corresponding makers. Vehicles' models are recognized based on the texture parameters from segmented radiator region above a number plate. A three-layer neural network was built and trained with the texture features for recognition. The proposed method shows $93.7\%$ of recognition rate and $99.7\%$ of specificity for vehicles' model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.331-334
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new design of a video-base fire detection system using texture and color spatial distribution information. The video sequences used are taken in different days with different lighting conditions having different backgrounds. The time complexity of most previous vision-based fire detection techniques are very high due to lengthy programing. To overcome the problems of lengthy codes and time complexity, in this algorithm, at first we normalize the video image frames by size and color information. Then the spatial distribution of the color information is used to extract the candidate regions, later using visual texture of the fire, we detect the fire regions. The experimental results show an real-time fire detection over thousands of image frames, and have higher detection rate when compared to the conventional fire detection techniques.