• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.473-481
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose an image segmentation method preserving object's boundaries by using the number of quantized colors and merging regions using adaptive threshold values. First of all, the proposed method quantizes an original image by a vector quantization and the number of quantized colors is determined differently using PSNR each image. We obtain initial regions from the quantized image, merge initial regions in CIE Lab color space and RGB color space step by step and segment the image into semantic regions. In each merging step, we use color distance between adjacent regions as similarity-measure. Threshold values for region-merging are determined adaptively according to the global mean of the color difference between the original image and its split-regions and the mean of those variations. Also, if the segmented image of RGB color space doesn't split into semantic objects, we merge the image again in the CIE Lab color space as post-processing. Whether the post-processing is done is determined by using the color distance between initial regions of the image and the segmented image of RGB color space. Experiment results show that the proposed method splits an original image into main objects and boundaries of the segmented image are preserved. Also, the proposed method provides better results for objective measure than the conventional method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.16-25
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• 2009

In this paper we propose the block based image segmentation method using the cyclic properties of hue components in HSI color model. In proposed method we use center point instead of hue mean values as the hue representatives for regions in image segmentation considering hue cyclic properties and we also use directed distance for the hue difference among regions. Furthermore we devise the simple and effective method to get critical values through control parameter to reduce the complexity in the calculation of those in the conventional method. From the experimental results we found that the segmented regions in the proposed method is more natural than those in the conventional method especially in texture and red tone regions. In the simulation results the proposed method is better than the conventional methods in the in the evaluation of the human segmentation dataset presented Berkely Segmentation Database.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.185-187
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• 2007

본 논문은 점진적으로 변형되는 다수의 가상 헤어스타일을 반자동적으로 생성할 수 있는 2D 가상 헤어스타일의 컬러 영상 분할 및 반자동 필드 모핑에 관한 것이다. 제안된 방법에서는 2D 실사 영상에서 컬러 영상 분할을 통해 추출한 헤어스타일을 임의의 인물 영상의 두상에 정렬시킨 상태에서 원래의 헤어스타일에서 추출한 헤어스타일로 변해가는 반자동 필드 모핑을 수행함으로써 여러 유형의 헤어스타일을 반자동적으로 생성할 수 있다. 제안된 방법은 사전에 준비된 그래픽 객체 외에도 실사 영상에서 직접 추출한 헤어스타일을 사용할 수 있고, 추출한 헤어스타일 외에도 다양한 유형의 헤어스타일을 자동으로 생성할 수 있는 이점이 있다. 또한, 반자동 필드 모핑에 기반한 편리한 사용자 인터페이스를 제공할 수 있기 때문에 작업자의 피로도를 경감시킴과 동시에 작업 시간을 단축할 수 있고 비숙련자도 간단한 사용자 입력을 통해 자연스러운 가상 헤어스타일을 생성할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.9B no.4
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• pp.501-508
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a content-based image retrieval using the color ratio and moment of object region. We acquire an optimal spatial information by the region splitting that utilizes horizontal-vertical projection and dominant color. It is based on hypothesis that an object locates in the center of image. We use color ratio and moment as feature informations. Those are extracted from the splitted regions and have the invariant property for various transformation, and besides, similarity measure utilizes a modified histogram intersection to acquire correlation information between bins in a color histogram. In experimental results, the proposed method shows more flexible and efficient performance than existing methods based on region splitting.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.451-454
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 그룹화 블록스네이크와 영상분할을 이용하여 다차선을 검출하고 컬러 정보를 기반으로 차량 후면에 위치하는 미등과 브레이크등을 인식, 저속 주행환경에서의 다차선 및 전방차량을 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘에서는 기울기 값과 명암도 값으로 기초 블록을 얻은 뒤, 차선의 가능성이 큰 블록을 탐색하여 영상분할을 시행한다. 영상 분할에서 잡음 블록들을 제거하여 차선일 가능성이 가장 높은 블록들만을 검출하고, 그룹화 블록스네이크를 이용하여 차선을 검출하도록 하였다. 또한 전방 차량인식을 위해 미등과 브레이크등의 컬러 특징을 이용하여 후보 영역을 분할한 후, 미등과 브레이크등의 패턴의 기하학적 특징과 위치적 특징을 이용하여 한 쌍의 미등 혹은 브레이크등을 탐지하도록 하였다. 탐지된 양쪽 등의 위치정보를 이용하여 전방차량의 위치를 측정 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.142-145
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• 2008

This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm for color image segmentation using self-organizing map(SOM) and grassfire algorithm. We reduce a computation time by decreasing the number of input neuron and input data which is used for learning at SOM. First converting input image to CIE $L^*u^*v^*$ color space and run the learning stage with the SOM-input neuron size is three and output neuron structure is 4by4 or 5by5. After learning, compute output value correspondent with input pixel and merge adjacent pixels which have same output value into segment using grassfire algorithm. The experimental results with various images show that proposed method lead to a good segmentation results than others.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.5
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• pp.407-412
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• 2008

Color segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in image processing especially in case of handling the images with cluttered background. Great amount of color segmentation methods have been developed and applied to real problems. In this paper, we suggest a new methodology. Our approach is focused on background extraction, as a complimentary operation to standard foreground object segmentation, using self-organizing feature selective property of unsupervised self-learning paradigm based on the competitive algorithm. The results of our studies show that background segmentation can be achievable in efficient manner.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.319-326
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose color image segmentation by region merging method preserving the boundary of an object. The proposed method selects initial region by using quantized image's index map after vector quantizing an original image. After then, we merge regions by applying boundary restricted factor in order to consider the boundary of an object in HSI color space. Also we merge the regions in RGB color space for non-processed regions in HSI color space. And we reduce processing time by decreasing iterative process in region merging algorithm. Experimental results have demonstrated the superiority in region's segmentation results and processing time for various images.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.3_4
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• pp.308-315
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• 2003

This paper proposes an approach integrating multiple segmentation methods in a systematic way, which can improve overall accuracy without deteriorating accuracy of highly confident segments of boundaries generated by constituent methods. A segmentation method produces boundary segments, which are then evaluated with an evaluation function considering pros/cons of the current and next methods to apply. Boundary segments with low confidence are replaced by a next method while the other segments are kept. These steps are repeated until all segmentation methods are applied. The proposed approach is implemented for the segmentation of muscles in the Visible Human color images. A Balloon method, a minimum cost path finding method, and a Seeded Region Growing method are integrated. The final segmentation results showed improvements in both overall evaluation and segment-based evaluation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.11-14
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• 2001

본 논문은 컬러를 이용한 영상 검색 방법에 관한 것으로 영상 데이터의 효율적인 관리를 위해 먼저 전처리 단계로 웨이블릿 변환을 수행한 후 가장 낮은 저주파 부밴드 영상을 획득한다. 그리고, 변환 후 획득된 영상을 클러스터로 구분한 후, 고유치 및 고유 벡터를 이용하여 특징을 추출하여 색인 정보로 이용하였다. 클러스터링은 영상 화소의 컬러공간 상의 3차원 거리를 클러스터링의 기준으로 삼아 순차 영역 분할(Sequential Clustering) 방법을 적용하였다.