• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.100-104
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• 2008

Generally, it is difficult to find constant patterns on identifiers in a container image, since the identifiers are not normalized in color, size, and position, etc. and their shapes are damaged by external environmental factors. This paper distinguishes identifier areas from background noises and removes noises by using an ART2-based quantization method and general morphological information on the identifiers such as color, size, ratio of height to width, and a distance from other identifiers. Individual identifier is extracted by applying the 8-directional contour tracking method to each identifier area. This paper proposes a refined ART2-based RBF network and applies it to the recognition of identifiers. Through experiments with 300 container images, the proposed algorithm showed more improved accuracy of recognizing container identifiers than the others proposed previously, in spite of using shorter training time.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.243-248
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a new method to extract palm lines and read it with simple techniques from one photo. We use morphological information and 8-directional contour tracking algorithm. From the digitalized image, we transform original RGB information to YCbCr color model which is less sensitive to the brightness information. The palm region is extracted by simple threshold as Y:65~255, Cb:25~255, Cr:130~255 of skin color. Noise removal process is then followed with morphological information of the palm such that the palm area has more than quarter of the pixels and the rate of width vs height is more than 2:1 and 8-directional contour tracking algorithm. Then, the stretching algorithm and Sobel mask are applied to extract edges. Another morphological information that the meaningful edges(palm lines) have between 10 and 20 pixels is used to exclude noise edges and boundary lines of the hand from block binarized image. Main palm lines are extracted then by labeling method. This algorithm is quite effective even reading the palm from a photographed by a mobile phone, which suggests that this method could be used in various applications.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1296-1300
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• 2015

Ganglion cysts are commonly observed cystic tumor in association with the joints and tendons of the appendicular skeleton. In this paper we propose a method to extract ganglion cysts from ultrasound images with intelligent image processing. The method consists of fuzzy stretching preprocessing to enhance the contrast between related organs and 8-directional contour tracking to model the boundaries of the cysts and labelling procedure to compute the size of cysts. In experiment, we verified that the proposed method extracts ganglion cysts accurately from ultrasound images.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1992-1998
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• 2007

It is important to obtain conn cytodiagnosis to classify background, cytoplasm, and nucleus from the diagnostic image. This study mose an algorithm that detects and classifies carcinoma cells of the uterine cervix in Pap smear using features of cervical cancer. It applies Median filter and Gaussian filter to get noise-removed nucleus area and also applies Kapur method in binarization of the resultant image. We apply 8-directional contour tracking algorithm and stretching technique to identify and revise clustered cells that often hinder to obtain correct analysis. The resulted nucleus area has distinguishable features such as cell size, integration rate, and directional coefficient from normal cells so that we can detect and classify carcinoma cells successfully. The experiment results show that the performance of the algorithm is competitive with human expert.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.2429-2434
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a method to extract and analyze palm line with fuzzy method. In order to extract the palm part, we transform the original RGB color space to YCbCr color space and extract sin colors ranging Y:65-255, Cb:25-255, Cr:130-255 and use it as a threshold. Possible noise is removed by 8-directional contour tracking algorithm and morphological characteristic of the palm. Then the edge is extracted from that noise-free image by stretching method and sobel mask Then the fuzzy binarization algorithm is applied to remove any minute noise so that we have only the palm lines and the boundary of the hand. Since the palm line reading is done with major lines, we use the morphological characteristics of the analyzable palm lines and fuzzy inference rules. Experiment verifies that the proposed method is better in visibility and thus more analyzable in palm reading than the old method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.474-479
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• 2003

In this paper, we proposed the novel method for the recognition of English calling cards by using the projection method and the enhanced RBF (Radial Basis Function) network. The recognition of calling cards consists of the extraction phase of character areas and the recognition phase of extracted characters. In the extraction phase, first of all, noises are removed from the images of calling cards, and the feature areas including character strings are separated from the calling card images by using the horizontal smearing method and the 8-directional contour tracking method. And using the image projection method, the feature areas are split into the areas of individual characters. We also proposed the enhanced RBF network that organizes the middle layer effectively by using the enhanced ART1 neural network adjusting the vigilance threshold dynamically according to the homogeneity between patterns. In the recognition phase, the proposed neural network is applied to recognize individual characters. Our experiment result showed that the proposed recognition algorithm has higher success rate of recognition and faster learning time than the existing neural network based recognition.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.19-22
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• 2010

A finger language helping hearing impaired people in communication A sign language helping hearing impaired people in communication is not popular to ordinary healthy people. In this paper, we propose a method for real-time sign language recognition from a vision system using color information and fuzzy clustering system. We use YCbCr color model and canny mask to decide the position of hands and the boundary lines. After extracting regions of two hands by applying 8-directional contour tracking algorithm and morphological information, the system uses FCM in classifying sign language signals. In experiment, the proposed method is proven to be sufficiently efficient.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.211-213
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 형태학적 처리 방법과 8 방향 윤곽선 추적을 이용하여 손금을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. YCbCr컬러 공간에서 Y:65~255, Cb:25~255, Cr:130~255에 해당되는 피부색 임계치를 이용하여 손 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손 영역에서 내부 픽셀의 3:1 이상, 전체 영상의 2:1이상인 손의 형태학적 정보와 8 방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 이용하여 잡음을 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 손 영상에서 스트레칭 기법과 소벨 마스크를 이용하여 에지를 추출한다. 추출된 에지 영상에서 블록 이진화 기법을 이용하여 이진화한 후에 가로와 세로가 각각 10픽셀 이상이고 20픽셀 이하인 손금의 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 잡음 및 손의 윤곽선을 제외한 손금을 추출한다. 추출된 손금에서 Labeling 기법을 이용하여 개별 손금의 중요선을 추출한다. 핸드폰 카메라에서 획득한 손바닥 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 손금 추출에 효율적인 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.498-500
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 검사 시간과 비용이 적게 드는 초음파 영상에서 결절종을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 초음파의 영상에서 퍼지 Stretching기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 증가시킨 후, 8방향 윤곽선 추적 방법을 적용하여 결절종 후보 영역을 추출한다. 결절종이 형태학적으로 타원 형태를 가지는 정보를 이용하여 추출된 결절종 후보 영역에 침식과 팽창 기법을 적용하여 최종적으로 결절종 영역을 추출한다. 제안된 방법을 결절종 초음파 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 결절종 영상에서 결절종 영역이 비교적 정확히 추출되었고 전문의가 결절종의 수술 여부를 분석할 수 있는 정보를 제공할 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.5
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• pp.539-548
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose that fast tracking algorithm for moving object is separated from background, using partial boundary line information. After detecting boundary line from input image, we track moving object by using the algorithm which takes boundary line information as feature of moving object. we extract moving vector on the imput image which has environmental variation, using high-performance BMA, and we extract moving object on the basis of moving vector. Next, we extract boundary line on the moving object as an initial feature-vector generating step for the moving object. Among those boundary lines, we consider a part of the boundary line in every direction as feature vector. And then, as a step for the moving object, we extract moving vector from feature vector generated under the information of the boundary line of the moving object on the previous frame, and we perform tracking moving object from the current frame. As a result, we show that the proposed algorithm using feature vector generated by each directional boundary line is simple tracking operation cost compared with the previous active contour tracking algorithm that changes processing time by boundary line size of moving object. The simulation for proposed algorithm shows that BMA operation is reduced about 39% in real image and tracking error is less than 2 pixel when the size of feature vector is [$10{\times}5$] using the information of each direction boundary line. Also the proposed algorithm just needs 200 times of search operation bout processing cost is varies by the size of boundary line on the previous algorithm.