• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.234-240
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• 2016

We propose a novel framework for markerless camera-based games. By using a visual camera, our method may yield robust human body segmentation with high performance comparable to the segmentation using depth cameras. The edges of human bodies are detected by subtracting gradient backgrounds, and human body regions are segmented by the operations based on mathematical morphology. Collisions between detected regions and virtual objects are determined by finding the colliding time using intra-frame positions of virtual objects. Experimental results show that the proposed method may produce robust segmentation of human bodies, thereby and the collision responses are more accurate than previous methods. Therefore, the proposed framework can be widely used in camera-based games requiring high performance.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.179-184
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• 2004

본 논문은 하이브리드 방법을 사용하여 영상내의 체형 외곽 선과 격자 패턴을 추출하여 3차원 체형 데이터를 획득하기 위한 새로운 영상분할 알고리즘을 제안한다. 체형 외곽 선을 추출하기 위한 영상분할 방법으로 최대 값 인식 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 이 방법은 에지에서의 접선 방향 값은 작지만 법선 방향 값은 큰 성질을 이용하여 일정 영역내의 픽셀들간의 변화 값 중 최대 값을 인식하는 알고리즘이다. 그리고 체형 외곽내의 격자 패턴은 격자 패턴 검출 알고리즘을 사용하여 추출하였다. 추출된 체형 외곽 선과 격자 패턴을 결합한 후 휴리스틱 방법인 연속 길이 테스트에 치한 격자 패턴의 연결 및 잡음제거를 하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 영상분할 방법은 기존의 기울기나 라플라시안 연산방법보다 매우 효과적인 결과를 가져 왔다.

• Advances in robotics research
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2018

With the increasing demand for the development of human pose estimation, such as human-computer interaction and human activity recognition, there have been numerous approaches to detect the 2D poses of people in images more efficiently. Despite many years of human pose estimation research, the estimation of human poses with images remains difficult to produce satisfactory results. In this study, we propose a robust 2D human body pose estimation method using an RGB camera sensor. Our pose estimation method is efficient and cost-effective since the use of RGB camera sensor is economically beneficial compared to more commonly used high-priced sensors. For the estimation of upper-body joint positions, semantic segmentation with a fully convolutional network was exploited. From acquired RGB images, joint heatmaps accurately estimate the coordinates of the location of each joint. The network architecture was designed to learn and detect the locations of joints via the sequential prediction processing method. Our proposed method was tested and validated for efficient estimation of the human upper-body pose. The obtained results reveal the potential of a simple RGB camera sensor for human pose estimation applications.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권11호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 보행자 상반신 검출기의 성능을 향상하기 위한 세그먼테이션에 기반한 특징 추출 방법을 제안한다. 상반신의 부분별 색상 분포를 활용한 멀티 파트 컬러 세그먼테이션을 사용하여 국소 특징이 갖는 한계로 인해 발생하는 오검출의 감소에 효과적인 "전역적" 윤곽 특징을 추출한다. 컬러 공간과 히스토그램 분해도에 따른 성능을 분석하였으며, 자체 구축한 보행자 상반신 영상을 사용한 실험을 통해서 제안한 방법으로 추출한 특징이 국소 특징 기반 검출기의 오검출 감소에 효과적임을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.4395-4412
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• 2020

The multisource image fusion has become an active topic in the last few years owing to its higher segmentation rate. To enhance the accuracy of multimodal pig-body feature segmentation, a multisource image fusion method was employed. Nevertheless, the conventional multisource image fusion methods can not extract superior contrast and abundant details of fused image. To superior segment shape feature and detect temperature feature, a new multisource image fusion method was presented and entitled as NSST-GF-IPCNN. Firstly, the multisource images were resolved into a range of multiscale and multidirectional subbands by Nonsubsampled Shearlet Transform (NSST). Then, to superior describe fine-scale texture and edge information, even-symmetrical Gabor filter and Improved Pulse Coupled Neural Network (IPCNN) were used to fuse low and high-frequency subbands, respectively. Next, the fused coefficients were reconstructed into a fusion image using inverse NSST. Finally, the shape feature was extracted using automatic threshold algorithm and optimized using morphological operation. Nevertheless, the highest temperature of pig-body was gained in view of segmentation results. Experiments revealed that the presented fusion algorithm was able to realize 2.102-4.066% higher average accuracy rate than the traditional algorithms and also enhanced efficiency.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.945-961
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• 2019

Tongue diagnosis is one of the most important diagnostic methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Tongue image segmentation aims to extract the image object (i.e., tongue body), which plays a key role in the process of manufacturing an automated tongue diagnosis system. It is still challenging, because there exists the personal diversity in tongue appearances such as size, shape, and color. This paper proposes an innovative segmentation method that uses image thresholding, gray projection and active contour model (ACM). Specifically, an initial object region is first extracted by performing image thresholding in HSI (i.e., Hue Saturation Intensity) color space, and subsequent morphological operations. Then, a gray projection technique is used to determine the upper bound of the tongue body root for refining the initial object region. Finally, the contour of the refined object region is smoothed by ACM. Experimental results on a dataset composed of 100 color tongue images showed that the proposed method obtained more accurate segmentation results than other available state-of-the-art methods.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2014

This paper proposes a new color segmentation method of vehicle license plates in the RGB color space. Firstly, the proposed method shifts the histogram of an input image rightwards and then stretches the image of the histogram slide. Secondly, the method separates each of the three RGB color components and performs the adaptive threshold processing with the three components, respectively. Finally, it combines the three components under the condition of making up a segment color and removes noises with the morphological processing. The proposed method is implemented using C language in an embedded Linux system for a high-speed real-time image processing. Experiments were conducted by using real vehicle images. The results show that the proposed algorithm is successful for most vehicle images. However, the method fails in some vehicles when the body and the license plate have the same color.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.283-290
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• 1999

Mr(Magnetic Resonance ) 영상은 인체 기관의 상태에 관한 많은 정보를 가지고 있어 이것을 분석하여 가시화하면 의료 진단에 유용하게 이용될 수 있다. MR 영상의 가시화는 영상의 획득, 전처리, 조직 분류, 보간, 렌더링의 단계로 이루어진다. 이 단계 중 Mr 영상의 불완전성 때문에 현재 조직 분류 및 보간이 문제로 되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 머리 MR 영상을 대상으로 조직 분류 및 보간에 대한 기법을 제안하고 제안된 기법을 바탕으로 뇌를 3차원 가시화한다. 조직 분류 기법에서는 뇌조직 성분 구성 등 임상 실험에 의해 밝혀진 뇌에 대한 구조적인 지식을 단계적으로 이용한다. 보간 기법은 오목 윤곽선에 사용할 수 있게 동적 탄성 보간기법을 개선하였다. 제안한 구조적인 분류 기법 및 보간 기법을 다른 기법과 비교 평가한다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제29권9_10호
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• pp.1359-1368
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• 2005

When we develop the tight-fit 2D pattern from the 3D scan data, segmentation of the 3D scan data into several parts is necessary to make a curved surface into a flat plane. In this study, Garland's method of triangle simplification was adopted to reduce the number of data point without distorting the original shape. The Runge-Kutta method was applied to make triangular patch from the 3D surface in a 2D plane. We also explored the detailed arrangement method of small 2D patches to make a tight-fit pattern for a male body. As results, minimum triangle numbers in the simplification process and efficient arrangement methods of many pieces were suggested for the optimal 2D pattern development. Among four arrangement methods, a block method is faster and easier when dealing with the triangle patches of male's upper body. Anchoring neighboring vertices of blocks to make 2D pattern was observed to be a reasonable arrangement method to get even distribution of stress in a 2D plane.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 두개악안면 CBCT 영상에서 형상제약 정보를 사용한 하악골 자동 분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 다음의 두 단계로 구생된다. 첫째, MDCT 영상을 사용하여 생성된 통계형상모델을 통해 전역적 형상정보 기반의 하악골 분할을 수행한다. 둘째, 하악골의 지역적 형태 정보 및 밝기값 특징을 고려하여 하악골 분할 개선을 수행한다. 제안 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 전문가에 의한 수동 분할 결과를 기준으로 제안방법을 정성적, 정량적으로 평가하였다. 실험결과 큰 곡률로 이루어진 좁은 영역을 포함한 하악골 체부 영역과 위치 변이가 큰 관절구 영역에서 제안방법의 다이스계수(DSC: Dice Similarity Coefficient)는 각각 95.64%, 90.97%를 보였다.