• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.100-106
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• 2004

In this paper, we present a novel, rapid approach for the detection of brain tumors and deformity boundaries in medical images using a genetic algorithm with wavelet based preprocessing. The contour detection problem is formulated as an optimization process that seeks the contour of the object in a manner of minimizing an energy function based on an active contour model. The brain tumor segmentation contour, however, cannot be detected in case that a higher gradient intensity exists other than the interested brain tumor and deformities. Our method for discerning brain tumors and deformities from unwanted adjacent tissues is proposed. The proposed method can be used in medical image analysis because the exact contour of the brain tumor and deformities is followed by precise diagnosis of the deformities.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.1149-1156
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• 2015

This paper proposes the hand contour detector which is robust to noises. Existing methods reduce noises by applying morphology to extracted edges, detect finger tips by using the center of hands, or exploit the intersection of curves from hand area candidates based on J-value segmentation(JSEG). However, these approaches are so vulnerable to noises that are prone to detect non-hand parts. We propose the noise tolerant hand contour detection method in which non-skin area noises are removed by applying skin area detection, contour detection, and a threshold value. By using the implemented system, we observed that the system was successfully able to detect hand contours.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.5507-5528
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• 2016

In computer vision, salient object is important to extract the useful information of foreground. With active contour analysis acting as the core in this paper, we propose a bottom-up saliency detection algorithm combining with the Bayesian model and the global color distribution. Under the supports of active contour model, a more accurate foreground can be obtained as a foundation for the Bayesian model and the global color distribution. Furthermore, we establish a contour-based selection mechanism to optimize the global-color distribution, which is an effective revising approach for the Bayesian model as well. To obtain an excellent object contour, we firstly intensify the object region in the source gray-scale image by a seed-based method. The final saliency map can be detected after weighting the color distribution to the Bayesian saliency map, after both of the two components are available. The contribution of this paper is that, comparing the Harris-based convex hull algorithm, the active contour can extract a more accurate and non-convex foreground. Moreover, the global color distribution can solve the saliency-scattered drawback of Bayesian model, by the mutual complementation. According to the detected results, the final saliency maps generated with considering the global color distribution and active contour are much-improved.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 1992

An algorithm has been proposed for the automatic detection of optimal epiand endocardial left ventricular borders from 2-D short axis echocardiogram which is degraded by noise and echo drop out. For the implementation of the algorithm, we modified Ballard's Generalized Hough Transform which can be applicable only for deterministic object border, and newly proposed Fuzzy Hough Transform method. The algorithm presented here allows detection of object whose exact shapes are unknown. The algorithm only requires an approximate model of target object based on anatomical data. To detect the approximate epicardial contour of left ventricle, Fuzzy Hough Transform was applied to the echocardiogram. The optimal epicardial contour was founded by using graph searching method which contains cost function analysis process. Using this optimal epicardial contour and average thickness imformation of left ventricular wall, the approximate endocardial line was founded, and graph searching method was also used to detect optimal endocardial contour.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.37-55
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• 2023

In this paper we propose a new algorithm for detecting and counting flowers in a complex background based on digital images. The algorithm mainly includes the following parts: edge contour extraction of flowers, edge contour determination of overlapped flowers and flower counting. We use a contour detection technique in Computer Vision (CV) to extract the edge contours of flowers and propose an improved algorithm with a concave point detection technique to find accurate segmentation for overlapped flowers. In this process, we first use the polygon approximation to smooth edge contours and then adopt the second-order central moments to fit ellipse contours to determine whether edge contours overlap. To obtain accurate segmentation points, we calculate the curvature of each pixel point on the edge contours with an improved Curvature Scale Space (CSS) corner detector. Finally, we successively give three adaptive judgment criteria to detect and count flowers accurately and automatically. Both experimental results and the proposed evaluation indicators reveal that the proposed algorithm is more efficient for flower counting.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.336-344
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 개선된 동적 윤곽선 모델을 이용하여 높은 시간 해상도를 가진 EBT 폐 영상에서 폐실질 영역을 검출하였다. 기존의 동적 윤곽선 모델에서 물체의 경계선을 얻기 위한 방법은 에너지 최소화 형태로서 내부에너지와 외부에너지를 조절함으로써 검출되어 질 수 있다. 그러나 이 방법에서는 초기화 지정 문제나 내부 에너지의 탄성과 구부러짐의 특성 때문에 요면 영역에 대하여 빈약한 수렴성 등의 문제점들을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 요면 문제들을 해결하면서 폐실질 영역으로 수렴시키기 위해 윤곽선 상에 있는 제어 점들을 이웃 점들과 함께 각각 수직 이등분선 상의 한점에 이동시킴으로써 내부 에너지를 조절하고, 입력받은 영상의 에너지를 나타내는 외부에너지와 함께 에너지를 최소화시킴으로써 원하는 폐실질 영역에 윤곽선이 수렴할 수 있도록 하였다. 요면 영역에 대한 수렴은 이런 내부에너지에 의해 효과적으로 구현 될 수 있었고, 하나의 초기 윤곽선에서 다중 물체들도 검출될 수 있어서 의료 영상에서의 폐실질 영역 검출에 효과적으로 적용될 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.363-368
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• 2016

Rectangular shape detection plays an important role in many image recognition systems. However, it requires continued research for its improved performance. In this study, we propose a strong rectangular shape detection algorithm, which combines the canny edge and line detection algorithms based on the perpendicularity and parallelism of a rectangle. First, we use the canny edge detection algorithm in order to obtain an image edge map. We then find the edge of the contour by using the connected component and find each edge contour from the edge map by using a DP (douglas-peucker) algorithm, and convert the contour into a polyline segment by using a DP algorithm. Each of the segments is compared with each other to calculate parallelism, whether or not the segment intersects the perpendicularity intersecting corner necessary to detect the rectangular shape. Using the perpendicularity and the parallelism, the four best line segments are selected and whether a determined the rectangular shape about the combination. According to the result of the experiment, the proposed rectangular shape detection algorithm strongly showed the size, location, direction, and color of the various objects. In addition, the proposed algorithm is applied to the license plate detecting and it wants to show the strength of the results.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.300-309
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• 2018

Detection of vanishing point is a challenging task in the situations where there are several structures with straight lines. Commonly used approaches for determining vanishing points involves finding the straight lines using edge detection and Hough transform methods. This approach often fails to perform effectively when there are a lot of straight lines found. The lines not meeting at a vanishing point are considered to be noises. In such situation, finding right candidate lines for detecting vanishing points is not a simple task. This paper proposes to use reference objects for vanishing point detection. By analyzing a reference object, it identifies the contour of the object, and derives a polygon from the contour information. Then the edges of the detected polygon are used to find the vanishing points. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach can detect vanishing points with comparable accuracy to the existing edge detection based method. Our approach can also be applied effectively even to complex situations, where too many lines generated by the existing methods make it difficult to select right lines for the vanishing points.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.79-90
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 2 차원 심초음파도의 경계선 유사 영역에 대해 베이즈 추정기를 사용하여 경계선 검출을 위한 자동문턱 결정방법을 제안하고자 한다. 경계선 유사영역은 전처리과 정에서 흐려진 영상을 명확히 하는데 사용할 열비등방성 확산 방법의 전도계수로부터 얻어진다, 이러한 경계선 유사 영역에 대해 최적 문턱치를 선택하기 위해 베이즈 추정기가 사용되었다. 이 문턱치를 사용하여 영상을 이진화함으로서 심초음파도의 경계선을 자동 적으로 검출하게 된다. 마지막으로 본래의 심초음파도에 위에서 얻어진 경계선을 덧씌움으로써 경계선이 강조된 심초음파도를 얻을 수 있게 된다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.206-216
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• 2013

We investigate the role of contact location information on the perception of local features during contour following in a virtual environment. An absolute identification experiment is conducted under force-alone and force-plus-contact-location conditions to investigate the effect of the contact location information. The results show that the participants identify the local features significantly better in terms of higher information transfer for the force-plus-contact-location condition, while no significant difference was found for measures of the efficacy of contour following between the two conditions. Further data analyses indicate that the improved identification of local features with contact location information is due to the improved identification of small surface features.