• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.506-512
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• 2003

The edge detection has been so far under a lot of studies on its methods, as a very important part of image recognition. Never the less the correct detection of the edge has been yet a difficult problem because of the various scopes of detection according to the applied field. One of those problems to be solved is the edge detection in images with noise. This paper presents an efficient method which removes noise and detect edge in the same framework based on fuzzy logic. The method consists of two steps. First, an efficient filtering is applied to eliminate the noise from original image. The filtering is performed by utilizing fuzzy MIN-MAX operator in three directions such as vertical, horizontal and diagonal angle of 3${\times}$3 mask. Second, edges are detected by using extended fuzzy Shanon Function.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.19-23
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• 2013

TIn this paper, we propose a novel fuzzy stretching method that adopts a triangle type fuzzy membership function to control the highest and lowest brightness limit dynamically. As an essential procedure to enhance the brightness contrast, stretching is an important procedure in color image processing. While popular Ends-in Search stretching method should be provided fixed minimum and maximum brightness threshold from experience, our proposed method determines them dynamically by fuzzy membership functions. The minimum and maximum limit is determined by computing the lowest and highest pixel value according to the membership degree of our designed triangle type membership function. The experiment shows that the proposed method result in far less skewed histogram than those of Ends-in Search stretching thus successfully verifies its effectiveness.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.9B
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• pp.1731-1741
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• 1999

Color images are often corrupted by the noise due to noisy sensors or channel transmission errors. Some filters such as vector media and vector $\alpha$-trimmed mean filter have bee used for color noise removal. In this paper, We propose the fuzzy cluster filters based on the possibilistic c-means clustering, because the possibilistic c-means clustering can get robust memberships in noisy environments. Also, we propose weighted vector $\alpha$-trimmed mean filter to improve the conventional vector $\alpha$-trimmed mean filter. In this filter, the central data are more weighted than the outlying data. In this paper, we implemented the color noise generator to evaluate the performance of the proposed filters in the color noise environments. The NCD measure and visual measure by human observer are used for evaluation the performance of the proposed filters. In the experiment, proposed fuzzy cluster filters in the sense of NCD measure gave the best performance over conventional filters in the mixed noise. Simulation results showed that proposed weighted vector $\alpha$-trimmed mean filters better than the conventional vector $\alpha$-trimmed mean filter in any kinds of noise.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.1428-1434
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• 2018

Canine cataract is developed with aging and can cause the blindness or surgical treatment if not treated timely. In this paper, we propose a method for extracting cataract suspicious areas automatically with FCM(Fuzzy C_Means) algorithm to overcome the weakness of previously attempted ART2 based method. The proposed method applies the fuzzy stretching technique and the Max-Min based average binarization technique to the dog eye images photographed by simple devices such as mobile phones. After applying the FCM algorithm in quantization, we apply the brightness average binarization method in the quantized region. The two binarization images - Max-Min basis and brightness average binarization - are ANDed, and small noises are removed to extract the final cataract suspicious areas. In the experiment with 45 dog eye images with canine cataract, the proposed method shows better performance in correct extraction rate than the ART2 based method.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.357-365
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• 2022

Refrigerant mischarging is one of the most frequently occurring failure modes in air conditioners, and both undercharging and overcharging degrade cooling performance. Therefore, it is important to accurately determine the amount of charged refrigerant. In this study, a support vector machine (SVM) model was developed to multi-classify the refrigerant mischarge through steady-state identification via fuzzy clustering techniques. For steady-state identification, a fuzzy clustering algorithm was applied to the air conditioner operation data using the difference between moving averages. The identification results using the proposed method were compared with those using existing steady-state determination techniques studied through the inversed Fisher's discriminant ratio (IFDR). Subsequently, the main features were selected using minimum redundancy maximum relevance (mRMR) considering the correlation among candidate features, and an SVM multi-classification model was devised using the derived features. The proposed method achieves satisfactory accuracy and robustness from test data collected in the new domain.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.94-96
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 기존의 백내장 추출 방법을 개선하기 위해 FCM(Fuzzy C_Means) 알고리즘을 적용하여 백내장을 추출하고 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 애견 안구 영상에서 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에서 Fuzzy Stretching 기법을 적용하여 픽셀의 상한 값과 하한 값을 조정한다. 퍼지 스트레칭 기법이 적용된 ROI 영역에 Max-Min 기반 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역을 이진화한다. 그리고 퍼지 스트레칭 기법이 적용된 ROI 영역에 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하여 양자화한 후에 양자화된 ROI 영역에서 밝기 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화한다. 따라서 Max-Min 기반 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화된 ROI 영역과 밝기 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하여 이진화된 ROI 영역을 AND 연산을 적용하여 백내장의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 백내장의 후보 영역에서 침식, 팽창 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역의 픽셀 크기를 확대 또는 축소하고 타원 형태를 가진 객체 중에서 ROI의 전체 영역의 크기가 1/5보다 적은 객체를 잡음으로 간주하여 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 백내장의 후보 영역에서 크기가 3/5이상인 영역을 백내장 영역으로 추출한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 분석하기 위하여 기존의 백내장 추출 방법과 제안된 백내장 추출 방법을 15개의 백내장 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 백내장 추출 방법보다 백내장 추출률이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.366-373
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a variable weighted average (VWA) learning method in order to improve the performance of the fuzzy ART neural network that has been developed by Grossberg. In a conventional method, the Fast Commit Slow Recode (FCSR), when an input pattern falls in a category, the representative pattern of the category is updated at a fixed learning rate regardless of the degree of similarity of the input pattern. To resolve this issue, a variable learning method proposes reflecting the distance between the input pattern and the representative pattern to reduce the FCSR's category proliferation issue and improve the pattern recognition rate. However, these methods still suffer from the category proliferation issue and limited pattern recognition rate due to inevitable excessive learning created by use of fuzzy AND. The proposed method applies a weighted average learning scheme that reflects the distance between the input pattern and the representative pattern when updating the representative pattern of a category suppressing excessive learning for a representative pattern. Our simulation results show that the newly proposed variable weighted average learning method (VWA) mitigates the category proliferation problem of a fuzzy ART neural network by suppressing excessive learning of a representative pattern in a noisy environment and significantly improves the pattern recognition rates.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.623-630
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• 2001

The conventional control techniques based a mathematical model are not well suited for dealing with ill-defined and uncertain system like a linear quadratic control. Recently, fuzzy control has been successfully applied to a wide variety of practical problems such as robot, water purification, automatic train operation system etc. In this paper, a design technique of robust Fuzzy-LQ controller for each subsystem is designed. Secondly , all the subsystem controllers are combined by fuzzy weighted averaging method. Finally the effectiveness of the proposed controller is verified through a series of computer simulations for an inverted pole system.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.759-766
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• 2003

The amount of container freight continuously has been increased. and the low efficiency of container crane causes jamming frequently in transportation and cargo handling at port. The conventional control techniques based on a mathematical model are not well suited for dealing with ill-defined and uncertain systems. Recently. Fuzzy control has been successfully applied to a wide variety of practical problems as robots. automatic train operation system. etc. In this paper. a fuzzy controller for container crane is proposed to accomplish a design of improved control system for minimizing the swing motion at destination. In this scheme a mathematical model for the system is obtained in state space form. Finally. to exhibit the tracking performance and robustness of the proposed controller. computer simulations were carried out with various references, parameter variations and disturbances.