• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.16-25
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• 2020

Vegetation segmentation in a field color image is a process of distinguishing vegetation objects of interests like crops and weeds from a background of soil and/or other residues. The performance of the process is crucial in automatic precision agriculture which includes weed control and crop status monitoring. To facilitate the segmentation, color indices have predominantly been used to transform the color image into its gray-scale image. A thresholding technique like the Otsu method is then applied to distinguish vegetation parts from the background. An obvious demerit of the thresholding based segmentation will be that classification of each pixel into vegetation or background is carried out solely by using the color feature of the pixel itself without taking into account color features of its neighboring pixels. This paper presents a new pixel-based segmentation method which employs a multi-layer perceptron neural network to classify the gray-scale image into vegetation and nonvegetation pixels. The input data of the neural network for each pixel are 2-dimensional gray-level values surrounding the pixel. To generate a gray-scale image from a raw RGB color image, a well-known color index called Excess Green minus Excess Red Index was used. Experimental results using 80 field images of 4 vegetation species demonstrate the superiority of the neural network to existing threshold-based segmentation methods in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and harmonic mean.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.39-42
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a background segmentation method in low resolution color image. A segmentation algorithm is based on color and edge information. In edge image, adaptive and local thresholds are applied to suppress paint boundaries. Through our experiments, the proposed algorithm efficiently segments background from objects.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.11-24
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• 2008

효율적인 저차원의 인덱싱을 제공하기 위해 이미지를 유사한 성질을 갖는 영역으로 나누고, 나누어진 영역에 대해 유사성을 비교하는 영역 기반 이미지 검색이 제안되었다. 그러나 영역 기반 이미지 검색은 이미지를 유사한 영역으로 나누기 위한 이미지 세그멘테이션 기술이 추가적으로 필요하다. 일반적인 칼라 자연 이미지의 경우 다양한 칼라와 질감 성분을 갖는 영역으로 나누는 것은 많은 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 자동적인 칼라 이미지 세그멘테이션 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 세그멘테이션 방법은 양자화를 통해 칼라수를 줄이고 양자화 된 이미지를 Fisher의 클래스 선형 판별식을 이용하여 이미지의 전체적인 에지를 보여주는 그레이 레벨 이미지를 생성한다. 이렇게 얻은 그레이 레벨 에지 이미지를 지역적 임계치 비교를 통해 이진 에지 이미지로 변환하고 이진 에지의 끊어진 부분을 찾아내어 인접 에지에 연결하여 영역을 생성한다. 마지막으로 나누어진 영역간의 유사성을 비교하고 유사한 영역을 병합하여 최종 세그멘테이션 결과 이미지를 생성한다. 본 논문에서는 세그멘테이션 알고리즘을 이용한 영역 기반 이미지 검색 시스템을 구현하였으며, 다양한 실험에 의하면 제안한 세그멘테이션 방법이 다양한 이미지에 대하여 양질의 세그멘테이션 결과를 보이는 것으로 나타났다.

• KIEE International Transaction on Systems and Control
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• 제12D권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2002

In this study, we propose the new color-based image retrieval technique using the representative colors of images and their ratios to a total image size obtained through color segmentation in HSV color space. Color information of an image is described by reconstructing the color histogram of an image through Gaussian modelling to its representative colors and ratios. And the similarity between two images is measured by histogram intersection. The proposed method is compared with the existing methods by performing retrieval experiments for various 1280 trademark image database.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.232-237
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• 2013

This paper presents image database retrieval based on maximum color occurrenceusing Hue, Saturation and Value (HSV) color space. Our system is based on color segmentation. We dividedthe image into n number of areas based on different selected ranges of hue and value, then each area is partitioned into m number of segments based on the number of pixels it contains, after this we calculated the maximumcolor occurrence in each segment and used its HSV value. This is used as a feature vector.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 2006년도 춘계공동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1677-1683
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• 2006

Color image segmentation is useful for fast retrieval in large image database. For that purpose, new image segmentation technique based on the probability of pixel distribution in the image is proposed. Color image is first divided into R, G, and B channel images. Then, pixel distribution from each of channel image is extracted to select to which it is similar among the well known probabilistic distribution function-Weibull, Exponential, Beta, Gamma, Normal, and Uniform. We use sum of least square error to measure of the quality how well an image is fitted to distribution. That P.d.f has minimum score in relation to sum of square error is chosen. Next, each image is quantized into 4 gray levels by applying thresholds to the c.d.f of the selected distribution of each channel. Finally, three quantized images are combined into one color image to obtain final segmentation result. To show the validity of the proposed method, experiments on some images are performed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.455-461
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• 2002

Object-based image retrieval method is addressed. A new image segmentation algorithm and image comparing method between segmented objects are proposed. For image segmentation, color and texture features are extracted from each pixel in the image. These features we used as inputs into VQ (Vector Quantization) clustering method, which yields homogeneous objects in terns of color and texture. In this procedure, colors are quantized into a few dominant colors for simple representation and efficient retrieval. In retrieval case, two comparing schemes are proposed. Comparing between one query object and multi objects of a database image and comparing between multi query objects and multi objects of a database image are proposed. For fast retrieval, dominant object colors are key-indexed into database.

• 한국멀티미디어학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국멀티미디어학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회논문집
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• pp.40-42
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• 2012

Colorization is a method using computer to add color to a black and white image automatically. The input is a grayscale image and some representative pixels (RPs). The RPs contain the color information for the image, and it indicates each region's color information. Colorization-based coding is a novel way for lossy image compression, it decodes a color image to get grayscale image and extracts RPs from the image. Because RPs decides the region's color and we also want small data size for image compression, form this viewpoint the paper proposes a way to get better and fewer RPs based on watershed segmentation. According to the segmentation result we also improve the original chrominance blending colorization method to save decode time and get better reconstruct image.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.2400-2419
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• 2014

Pre-segmented pixels can reduce the difficulty of segmentation and promote the segmentation performance. This paper proposes a novel segmentation method based on merging texture superpixels by computing inner similarity. Firstly, we design a set of Gabor filters to compute the amplitude responses of original image and compute the texture map by a salience model. Secondly, we employ the simple clustering to extract superpixles by affinity of color, coordinates and texture map. Then, we design a normalized histograms descriptor for superpixels integrated color and texture information of inner pixels. To obtain the final segmentation result, all adjacent superpixels are merged by the homogeneity comparison of normalized color-texture features until the stop criteria is satisfied. The experiments are conducted on natural scene images and synthesis texture images demonstrate that the proposed segmentation algorithm can achieve ideal segmentation on complex texture regions.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2003

본 논문은 영역을 병합할 때 두 영역의 색상 차를 영역 병합의 제한 조건으로 사용하는 칼라영상 분할 기법을 제안하였다. 이는 먼저 영역의 경제전 정보를 잘 보존하기 위해서 RGB 공간상에서 수리형태학 필터와 변형된 워터쉐드 알고리즘을 이용하여 켤라 영상을 과분할한다. 그리고 영역간의 색상 차를 영역 병합의 제한 조건으로 사용하는 영역 병합 과정을 반복 수행하여 칼라 영상의 분할 결과를 얻는다. 이는 인간 시각 시스템이 색상, 채도, 명도의 형태로 색을 구분하는 것을 기반으로 한다. 명도가 낮지 않는 경우에 색차 보다 색상 차가 중요한 요소로 작용하기 때문에 이를 영역 병합의 제한 조건으로 사용한다. 실험 결과에서 제안된 칼라영상 분할 기법은 다양한 칼라영상에 대하여 미리 설정된 재수의 영역으로 효율적인 분할 결과를 보임을 확인하였다.