• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1230-1237
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• 2009

In this paper, we develop a design methodology of Granular-based Radial Basis Function Neural Networks(GRBFNN) by context-based clustering. In contrast with the plethora of existing approaches, here we promote a development strategy in which a topology of the network is predominantly based upon a collection of information granules formed on a basis of available experimental data. The output space is granulated making use of the K-Means clustering while the input space is clustered with the aid of a so-called context-based fuzzy clustering. The number of information granules produced for each context is adjusted so that we satisfy a certain reconstructability criterion that helps us minimize an error between the original data and the ones resulting from their reconstruction involving prototypes of the clusters and the corresponding membership values. In contrast to "standard" Radial Basis Function neural networks, the output neuron of the network exhibits a certain functional nature as its connections are realized as local linear whose location is determined by the values of the context and the prototypes in the input space. The other parameters of these local functions are subject to further parametric optimization. Numeric examples involve some low dimensional synthetic data and selected data coming from the Machine Learning repository.

• 한국산업정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산업정보학회 2003년도 추계공동학술대회
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• pp.239-250
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• 2003

In this research, we propose a hybrid group decision support mechanism (H-GDSM) based on Fuzzy AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and FCM (Fuzzy Cognitive Map). The AHP elicits a corresponding priority vector interpreting the preferred information among the decision makers. Corresponding vector was composed of the pairwise comparison values of a set of objects. Since pairwise comparison values are the judgments obtained from an appropriate semantic scale. However, AHP couldn't represent the causal relationship among information, which were used by decision makers. In contrast to AHP, FCM could represent the causal relationship among variables or information. Therefore, FCMs were successfully developed and used in several ill-structured domains, such as strategic decision-making, policy making, and simulations. Nonetheless, many researchers used subjective and voluntary inputs to simulate the FCM. As a result of subjective inputs, it couldn't avoid the rebukes of businessman. To overcome these limitations, we incorporated the Fuzzy membership functions, AHP and FCM into a H-GDSM. In contrast to current AHP methods and FCMs, the H-GDSM method developed herein could concurrently tackle the pairwise comparison involving causal relationships under a group decision-making environment. The strengths and contributions of our mechanism were 1) handling of qualitative knowledge and causal relationships, 2) extraction of objective input value to simulate the FCM, 3) multi-phase group decision support based on H-GDSM. To validate our proposed mechanism we developed a simple prototype system to support negotiation-based decisions in electronic commerce (EC).

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1852-1859
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• 2016

영상 이진화 알고리즘의 효율성은 이진화를 위한 임계치 결정에 있어서의 불확실성의 합리적인 제거와 이진화로 인한 영상 정보의 손실을 최소화하는 데에 있다. 그러한 모호성의 처리 방법으로서 퍼지 이진화 방법이 많이 사용되는데 보통 사용되는 삼각형 타입의 소속 함수와 이진화 임계치를 결정하는 ${\alpha}$_cut 값의 설정 방법이 그 효율성에 영향을 미친다. 다만 기존의 정적인 퍼지 이진화 방법은 명암 대비가 낮은 영상의 경우 그 효율성이 떨어지는 것이 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서 퍼지 이진화 방법의 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위하여 ${\alpha}$_cut의 동적 결정 방법과 사다리꼴 타입의 소속 함수와 구간 설정 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 스트레칭 기법과 같은 정규화 전처리 과정을 밟지 않기 때문에 영상의 정보 손실이 적다. 또한 ${\alpha}$_cut의 동적 결정으로 인해 다양한 영상을 동일 기법으로 보다 정확하게 처리할 수 있다. 야경 영상, 척추 측만증 및 지방종 영상 등 다양한 물채를 포함하고 명암 대비성이 낮은 편인 영상을 대상으로 한 실험에서 제안된 방법이 기존의 퍼지 이진화 방법보다 효과적임이 확인되었다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2015

The main purpose of image enhancement is to improve certain characteristics of an image to improve its visual quality. This paper proposes a method for image contrast enhancement that can be applied to both medical and natural images. The proposed algorithm is designed to achieve contrast enhancement while also preserving the local image details. To achieve this, the proposed method combines local image contrast preserving dynamic range compression and contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE). Global gain parameters for contrast enhancement are inadequate for preserving local image details. Therefore, in the proposed method, in order to preserve local image details, local contrast enhancement at any pixel position is performed based on the corresponding local gain parameter, which is calculated according to the current pixel neighborhood edge density. Different image quality measures are used for evaluating the performance of the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method provides more information about the image details, which can help facilitate further image analysis.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.124-132
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• 2014

본 논문은 퍼지 C-평균 분류기와 적응적 블록 분할을 사용한 역광 영역 검출과 공간 적응적 대비 확장을 사용한 역광 영역 개선 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 퍼지 이론에 의해 계산된 최적의 임계값을 기반으로 적응적 가변블록 분할을 사용하여 역광 영상을 어두운 역광 영역과 밝은 배경 영역으로 구분한다. 가변블록에 의한 블록화 현상을 없애기 위해 유도 필터(guided filter)를 사용하여 역광 영역을 객체 영역에 적합하게 세분화한다. 마지막으로 검출된 역광 영역은 공간 적응적으로 대비가 확장되어 조도를 개선한다. 제안된 방법은 최적의 임계값을 사용하여 영상을 분할하기 때문에 입력 영상에 따라 적응적으로 영역을 분할하고 저조도 영역을 개선하며, 사용자의 별도의 설정이 없이 입력 영상에 따라 자동적 역광 영상 개선이 가능하다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안된 방법이 기존 방법보다 역광 영역에 존재하는 피사체의 정보를 효과적으로 개선할 수 있으며, 복잡한 분할 방법을 사용하지 않고 빠르게 역광 영역을 검출할 수 있음을 보인다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1215-1224
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• 2018

Interval-valued neutrosophic hesitant fuzzy set (IVNHFS) is an extension of neutrosophic set (NS) and hesitant fuzzy set (HFS), each element of which has truth membership hesitant function, indeterminacy membership hesitant function and falsity membership hesitant function and the values of these functions lie in several possible closed intervals in the real unit interval [0,1]. In contrast with NS and HFS, IVNHFS can be more flexibly used to deal with uncertain, incomplete, indeterminate, inconsistent and hesitant information. In this study, I propose the novel correlation coefficient of IVNHFSs and my paper discusses its properties. Then, based on the novel correlation coefficient, I develop an approach to deal with multi-attribute decision-making problems within the framework of IVNHFS. In the end, a practical example is used to show that the approach is reasonable and effective in dealing with decision-making problems.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1991년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 22-24 Oct. 1991
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• pp.1186-1191
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• 1991

This paper represents a new edge relaxation algorithm that enhances the noisy boundary informations in images. The proposed algorithm employes relaxation process that reduces or eliminates ambiguities of derivative operator response via contextual informations. The contextual informations are the neighborhood patterns of a central edge which are estimated using fuzzy pattern matching technique. The algorithm is developed on crack edges. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is effective even for noisy images or low contrast images.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.163-177
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• 2024

The fingerprint image quality relies on the clearness of separated ridges by valleys and the uniformity of the separation. The condition of skin still dominate the overall quality of the fingerprint. However, the identification performance of such system is very sensitive to the quality of the captured fingerprint image. Fingerprint image quality analysis and enhancement are useful in improving the performance of fingerprint identification systems. A fuzzy technique is introduced in this paper for both fingerprint image quality analysis and enhancement. First, the quality analysis is performed by extracting four features from a fingerprint image which are the local clarity score (LCS), global clarity score (GCS), ridge_valley thickness ratio (RVTR), and the Global Contrast Factor (GCF). A fuzzy logic technique that uses Mamdani fuzzy rule model is designed. The fuzzy inference system is able to analyse and determinate the fingerprint image type (oily, dry or neutral) based on the extracted feature values and the fuzzy inference rules. The percentages of the test fuzzy inference system for each type is as follow: For dry fingerprint the percentage is 81.33, for oily the percentage is 54.75, and for neutral the percentage is 68.48. Secondly, a fuzzy morphology is applied to enhance the dry and oily fingerprint images. The fuzzy morphology method improves the quality of a fingerprint image, thus improving the performance of the fingerprint identification system significantly. All experimental work which was done for both quality analysis and image enhancement was done using the DB_ITS_2009 database which is a private database collected by the department of electrical engineering, institute of technology Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya, Indonesia. The performance evaluation was done using the Feature Similarity index (FSIM). Where the FSIM is an image quality assessment (IQA) metric, which uses computational models to measure the image quality consistently with subjective evaluations. The new proposed system outperformed the classical system by 900% for the dry fingerprint images and 14% for the oily fingerprint images.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.19-23
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 컬러 영상에 삼각형 타입의 소속 함수를 적용하여 스트레칭의 상한과 하한을 동적으로 설정하여 컬러영상을 퍼지 스트레칭 하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 퍼지 스트레칭 방법은 평균 밝기 값을 기준으로 가장 어두운 픽셀 값과 가장 밝은 픽셀 값의 거리를 계산하여 밝기의 조정률을 결정한 후, 최소 밝기 값과 최대 밝기 값을 구하고 삼각형 타입 소속 함수의 구간에 적용한다. 영상의 픽셀 값들을 소속 함수에 적용하여 소속도를 구하고 가장 낮은 픽셀 값을 스트레칭 하한으로 설정하고 가장 높은 픽셀 값을 스트레칭 상한으로 설정하여 컬러 영상을 스트레칭 한다. 다양한 영상에 적용한 결과, 앤드인 탐색 방법보다 제안된 퍼지 스트레칭 방법이 효율적인 것을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.236-243
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• 2005

This paper presents a new stochastic approach for solving combinatorial optimization problems by using a new selection method, i.e. SA-selection, in genetic algorithm (GA). This approach combines GA with simulated annealing (SA) to improve the performance of GA. GA and SA have complementary strengths and weaknesses. While GA explores the search space by means of population of search points, it suffers from poor convergence properties. SA, by contrast, has good convergence properties, but it cannot explore the search space by means of population. However, SA does employ a completely local selection strategy where the current candidate and the new modification are evaluated and compared. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, the optimization of a fuzzy controller for balancing an inverted pendulum on a cart is considered.