• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.13-23
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• 2009

다시점 영상 처리 기술은 다시점 디스플레이 장치와 압축된 데이터 복원 장치를 통해 장치 사용자의 시각에 3차원의 입체 영상을 제공하는데 목적이 있다. 본 논문은 4시점의 병렬 카메라를 통해 실시간으로 입력되는 스테레오 이미지들에 대해서 효율적인 영상 합성을 통해 3차원 입체 영상을 브라우징할 수 있는 램 디스크 기반의 다시점 영상 합성 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 입력 영상들을 이진화 영상으로 변환한 후, Sobel 및 Prewitt 에지 발견 알고리즘을 적용시키고 이를 토대로 4개 영상들의 시차를 구한다. 아울러 기존의 알고리즘에서 모호하게 언급되었던 동기화 문제를 해결하기 위해 하드웨어 트리거와 소프트웨어 트리거를 위한 시간 간격을 적용한다. 제안하는 기법을 분산 환경에서도 적용할 수 있도록 영상의 스냅샷에 대한 유일한 식별자를 이용한다. 성능 분석 결과, 전체 영상(왼쪽, 오른쪽) 및 시차정보를 모두 전송하여 고정밀의 3차원 입체 영상을 출력하는 데 소요되는 전체 시간은 각 이진 배열 당 약 0.67초로 실시간으로 적용하는 데 적합하다고 볼 수 있다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 문자 영역의 패턴을 분석하여 배경 영역을 제거하는 방법을 제안하였다. 명암이 일정한 영역을 구분하는 MSER(Maximally Stable External Regions)방법의 문자 검출에서는 배경 영역이 포함되어 검출되었다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 자연 이미지에서 MSER 방법을 사용하여 명암 값이 차이가 나는 영역과 차이가 나지 않는 영역 즉 문자 영역과 배경 영역을 구해 변화율을 계산하여 배경을 제거하였다. 그러나 배경이 제거된 이미지에서 일부 제거되지 않는 배경 영역이 생겨 LBP(Local Binary Patterns)방법을 사용하여 이미지에서 균일한 값을 갖는 영역을 문자 영역이라고 판단하고 문자를 검출하였다. 실험 데이터는 배경이 단순한 이미지, 문자가 정면으로 구성된 이미지, 문자가 기울어진 이미지 등의 다양한 자연 이미지를 실험하였다. 제안하는 방법을 기존의 MSER, MSER+LBP 방법의 문자 검출 방법과 비교하였을 때 약 1.73%로 높은 검출률을 보였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.1008-1018
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a method that constructs a saliency map in which important regions are accurately specified and the colors of the regions are less influenced by the similar surrounding colors. Our method utilizes LBP(Local Binary Pattern) histogram information to compare and analyze texture information of surrounding regions in order to reduce the effect of color information. We extract the saliency of stereoscopic images by integrating a 2D saliency map with depth information of stereoscopic images. We then measure the distance between two different sizes of the LBP histograms that are generated from pixels. The distance we measure is texture difference between the surrounding regions. We then assign a saliency value according to the distance in LBP histogram. To evaluate our experimental results, we measure the F-measure compared to ground-truth by thresholding a saliency map at 0.8. The average F-Measure is 0.65 and our experimental results show improved performance in comparison with existing other saliency map extraction methods.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a method of applying a lifting-based wavelet domain e-median filter (LBWDEMF) for image restoration. LBWDEMF helps in reducing the number of computations. An e-median filter is a type of modified median filter that processes each pixel of the output of a standard median filter in a binary manner, keeping the output of the median filter unchanged or replacing it with the original pixel value. Binary decision-making is controlled by comparing the absolute difference of the median filter output and the original image to a preset threshold. In addition, the advantage of LBWDEMF is that probabilities of encountering root images are spread over sub-band images, and therefore the e-median filter is unlikely to encounter root images at an early stage of iterations and generates a better result as iteration increases. The proposed method transforms an image into the wavelet domain using lifting-based wavelet filters, then applies an e-median filter in the wavelet domain, transforms the result into the spatial domain, and finally goes through one spatial domain e-median filter to produce the final restored image. Moreover, in order to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method we compare the result obtained using the proposed method to those using a spatial domain median filter (SDMF), spatial domain e-median filter (SDEMF), and wavelet thresholding method. Experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to SDMF, SDEMF, and wavelet thresholding in terms of image restoration.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2012

Face recognition refers to the process of identifying individuals based on their facial features. It has recently become one of the most popular research areas in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition because it spans numerous consumer applications, such as access control, surveillance, security, credit-card verification, and criminal identification. However, illumination variation on face generally cause performance degradation of face recognition systems under practical environments. Thus, this paper proposes an novel face recognition system using a fusion approach based on local binary pattern and two-dimensional principal component analysis. To minimize illumination effects, the face image undergoes the local binary pattern operation, and the resultant image are divided into two sub-images. Then, two-dimensional principal component analysis algorithm is separately applied to each sub-images. The individual scores obtained from two sub-images are integrated using a weighted-summation rule, and the fused-score is utilized to classify the unknown user. The performance evaluation of the proposed system was performed using the Yale B database and CMU-PIE database, and the proposed method shows the better recognition results in comparison with existing face recognition techniques.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권6C호
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• pp.610-618
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 질러 공간과 블록영역 정보에 기반한 새로운 화상검색 방법을 제시한다. 각 화상에 대한 컬러 공간 정보는 컬러 이진세트에 의해 구해지고 블록영역 정보는 영역 세그멘테이션에 의해서 구해진다. 화상 검색 과정에서, 질의 화상과 데이터베이스 화상들의 컬러 및 화상 이진세트들을 비교하여 검색될 후보 화상의 집합을 결정한다. 특히, 유사도 측정 시 컬러 공간 분포와 객체의 블록영역 특징에 가중치를 고려한 검색이 가능하도록 하였다. 제안된 방법을 구현하고 6,000개의 화상들로 이루어진 화상 데이터베이스에 대해 적용함으로써 컬러 공간 및 블록영역특징을 이용한 화상 검색이 매우 효과적임을 보였다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.30-41
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• 2010

In this study we propose a new texture feature extraction method based on an estimation of the brightness and structural uniformity of CT images representing the important characteristics for emphysema recognition. The Center-Symmetric Local Binary Pattern (CS-LBP) is first used to combine gray level in order to describe the brightness uniformity characteristics of the CT image. Then the gradient orientation difference is proposed to generate another CS-LBP code combining with gray level to represent the structural uniformity characteristics of the CT image. The usage of the gray level, CS-LBP and gradient orientation differences enables the proposed method to extract rich and distinctive information from the CT images in multiple directions. Experimental results showed that the performance of the proposed method is more stable with respect to sensitivity and specificity when compared with the SGLDM, GLRLM and GLDM. The proposed method outperformed these three conventional methods (SGLDM, GLRLM, and GLDM) 7.85[%], 22.87[%], and 16.67[%] respectively, according to the diagnosis of average accuracy, demonstrated by the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.40-48
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• 2021

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system plays a vital role to retrieve the relevant images as per the user perception from the huge database is a challenging task. Images are represented is to employ a combination of low-level features as per their visual content to form a feature vector. To reduce the search time of a large database while retrieving images, a novel image retrieval technique based on feature dimensionality reduction is being proposed with the exploit of metaheuristic optimization techniques based on Genetic Algorithm (GA), Extended Binary Cuckoo Search (EBCS) and Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA). Each image in the database is indexed using a feature vector comprising of fuzzified based color histogram descriptor for color and Median binary pattern were derived in the color space from HSI for texture feature variants respectively. Finally, results are being compared in terms of Precision, Recall, F-measure, Accuracy, and error rate with benchmark classification algorithms (Linear discriminant analysis, CatBoost, Extra Trees, Random Forest, Naive Bayes, light gradient boosting, Extreme gradient boosting, k-NN, and Ridge) to validate the efficiency of the proposed approach. Finally, a ranking of the techniques using TOPSIS has been considered choosing the best feature selection technique based on different model parameters.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.221-235
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• 2022

Manual inspection of steel box girders on long span bridges is time-consuming and labor-intensive. The quality of inspection relies on the subjective judgements of the inspectors. This study proposes an automated approach to detect and segment cracks in high-resolution images. An end-to-end cascaded framework is proposed to first detect the existence of cracks using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) and then segment the crack using a modified U-Net encoder-decoder architecture. A Naïve Bayes data fusion scheme is proposed to reduce the false positives and false negatives effectively. To generate the binary crack mask, first, the original images are divided into 448 × 448 overlapping image patches where these image patches are classified as cracks versus non-cracks using a deep CNN. Next, a modified U-Net is trained from scratch using only the crack patches for segmentation. A customized loss function that consists of binary cross entropy loss and the Dice loss is introduced to enhance the segmentation performance. Additionally, a Naïve Bayes fusion strategy is employed to integrate the crack score maps from different overlapping crack patches and to decide whether a pixel is crack or not. Comprehensive experiments have demonstrated that the proposed approach achieves an 81.71% mean intersection over union (mIoU) score across 5 different training/test splits, which is 7.29% higher than the baseline reference implemented with the original U-Net.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권5C호
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• pp.514-520
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 디인터레이싱 방법 중에서 에지 기반 공간 필터의 성능 개선을 위한 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 디인터레이싱의 성능을 좌우하는 에지의 정확한 검출을 위하여 이진화된 영상에서 자연스러운 라인을 형성하도록 보간한 후에 이를 근간으로 보간될 영상의 정확한 에지를 검출하였다. 이러한 방법으로 검출된 정확한 에지를 기반으로 적응적인 보간 알고리즘을 적용하여 에지영역에서의 화질 열화를 최소화하였다. 이를 검증하기 위해 다양한 영상에 대해 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 하였고, 그 결과를 기존의 디인터레이싱 알고리즘과 비교하여 에지 영역에서의 성능 향상을 확인하였다.