• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.211-217
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• 2012

Conventional GrabCut algorithm is semi-automatic algorithm that user must be set rectangle window surrounds the object. This paper studied automatic object detection to solve these problem by detecting salient region based on Human Visual System. Saliency map is computed using Lab color space which is based on color opposing theory of 'red-green' and 'blue-yellow'. Then Saliency Points are computed from the boundaries of Low-Frequency region that are extracted from Saliency Map. Finally, Rectangle windows are obtained from coordinate value of Saliency Points and these windows are used in GrabCut algorithm to extract objects. Through various experiments, the proposed algorithm computing rectangle windows of salient region and extracting objects has been proved.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.260-267
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• 2011

This paper proposes a method for segmenting objects from the background in IR(Infrared) images based on GrabCut algorithm. The GrabCut algorithm needs the window encompassing the interesting known object. This procedure is processed by user. However, to apply it for object recognition problems in image sequences. the location of window should be determined automatically. For this, we adopted the Otsu' algorithm for segmenting the interesting but unknown objects in an image coarsely. After applying the Otsu' algorithm, the window is located automatically by blob analysis. The GrabCut algorithm needs the probability distributions of both the candidate object region and the background region surrounding closely the object for estimating the Gaussian mixture models(GMMs) of the object and the background. The probability distribution of the background is computed from the background window, which has the same number of pixels within the candidate object region. Experiments for various IR images show that the proposed method is proper to segment out the interesting object in IR image sequences. To evaluate performance of proposed segmentation method, we compare other segmentation methods.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a method to build an accurate initial trimap for the GrabCut algorithm without the need for human interaction. First, we identify a rough candidate for the label region of a bottle by applying a saliency map to find a salient area from the image. Then, the Hough Transformation method is used to detect the left and right borders of the label region, and the k-means algorithm is used to localize the upper and lower borders of the label of the bottle. These four borders are used to build an initial trimap for the GrabCut method. Finally, GrabCut segments accurate regions for the label. The experimental results for 130 wine bottle images demonstrated that the saliency map extracted a rough label region with an accuracy of 97.69% while also removing the complex background. The Hough transform and projection method accurately drew the outline of the label from the saliency area, and then the outline was used to build an initial trimap for GrabCut. Finally, the GrabCut algorithm successfully segmented the bottle label with an average accuracy of 92.31%. Therefore, we believe that our method is suitable for product label recognition systems that automatically segment product labels. Although our method achieved encouraging results, it has some limitations in that unreliable results are produced under conditions with varying illumination and reflections. Therefore, we are in the process of developing preprocessing algorithms to improve the proposed method to take into account variations in illumination and reflections.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.6-10
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• 2013

Foreground estimation in object segmentation has been an important issue for last few decades. In this paper we propose a GrabCut based automatic foreground estimation method using block clustering. GrabCut is one of popular algorithms for image segmentation in 2D image. However GrabCut is semi-automatic algorithm. So it requires the user input a rough boundary for foreground and background. Typically, the user draws a rectangle around the object of interest manually. The goal of proposed method is to generate an initial rectangle automatically. In order to create initial rectangle, we use Gabor filter and Saliency map and then we use 4 features (amount of area, variance, amount of class with boundary area, amount of class with saliency map) to categorize foreground and background. From the experimental results, our proposed algorithm can achieve satisfactory accuracy in object segmentation without any prior information by the user.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.131-133
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• 2016

본 논문은 연속적인 비디오 시퀀스에서 움직이는 객체의 영역을 효율적으로 분할하기 위하여 커널 기반 객체 추적과 Grab-Cut 알고리즘을 결합한 비디오 영역 분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법에서는 추적 목표 객체의 초기 위치를 사각영역으로 선택하면, 사각의 외부 영역을 배경색상으로 인지하고, 배경 색상을 고려한 목표 객체의 주요 색상을 분석한다. 이를 기반으로 커널기반 객체 추적 기법을 적용하여 빠르게 객체의 영역을 추출한다. 추적한 각 객체의 영역에서 중앙 객체 영역과 배경 영역의 색 정보를 초기값으로 하여 Grab-Cut 알고리즘을 수행하고 사각형 형태가 아닌 객체의 실루엣 최적화된 영역으로 분할한다. 제안 방법을 스포츠 방송, 광고, 영화 등의 특수 효과로 활용되고 있는 stromotion 영상 생성에 적용하기 위하여 프레임별 추출된 객체의 영상을 새로운 프레임 영상에 합성하는 작업을 수행하여, 초당 10 프레임의 처리 속도에서 원하는 스트로모션 효과 영상을 생성하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.129-132
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 기존의 배경 분리 알고리즘 결과에 GrabCut 알고리즘을 도입하여 보다 정확한 배경 분리를 수행하고자 한다. 기존의 알고리즘은 동영상의 프레임 간 정보만을 이용하여 배경 확률 모델을 만들고 배경과 전경을 분리한다. 제안하는 알고리즘에서는 먼저 프레임 간의 정보를 이용하여 간단하게 배경과 전경을 분리하는 기존의 배경 분리 알고리즘을 적용한다. 분리된 결과의 정확도를 향상시키기 위해 프레임 내의 정보를 이용하는 GrabCut 알고리즘을 적용한다. 즉, 본 연구에서는 동영상의 프레임 간 정보와 프레임 내 정보를 모두 이용하여 배경과 전경을 분리하고자 한다. 실험결과에서 Change Detection Workshop dataset 에 포함된 몇 가지 영상에 대해 실험 한 후 결과 영상 비교 및 F-measure 를 통해 개선된 결과를 확인할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.639-640
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• 2013

In this study, a new method that finds an area where interesting objects are placed to generate DIBR-based intermediate images with higher quality. This method complements the existing object segmentation algorithm called Grabcut by finding the bounding box automatically, whereas the existing algorithm requires a user to select the region specifically. Then, the histogram of the depth map information is then used to separate the background and the frontal objects after applying the GrabCut algorithm. By using the new method, it is found that it produces better result than the existing algorithm. This paper describes the new method and future research.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2015

In this paper, we proposed image enhancement method using sharpening filter for improving the accuracy of object detection using the existing Grabcut algorithm. GrabCut algorithm is the excellent performance extracting an object within a rectangular window range, but it has the drawback of the inferior performance in image with no clear distinction between background and objects. So, in this paper, reinforcing the brightness and clarity through histogram equalization, and tightening the border of the object using the sharpening filter look better than that extracted result of existing GrabCut algorithm in a similar image of the object and the background. Based on improved Grabcut algorithm, it is possible to obtain an improved result in the image processing convergence technique of character recognition, real-time object tracking and so on.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.116-118
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 기존의 동영상을 그랩컷(GrabCut) 알고리즘과 유니티3D를 이용하여 상호작용이 가능한 동영상을 제작하는 기법을 제안한다. 그랩컷 알고리즘을 이용하여 동영상에서 재생 프레임 단위로 원하는 객체 영역을 추출하고 흑백의 이미지로 이진화한다. 이진화된 결과물과 원본 동영상을 유니티3D에서 동시에 재생하면서 선택 영역의 이진화 픽셀 정보를 기반으로 사용자의 입력을 감지하는 동영상의 제작이 가능함을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.536-537
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• 2018

A goal of this paper is doing fine grained recognition of breed of animal from pet images. Research about fine grained recognition from images is continuously developing, but it is not for animal object recognition because they have polymorphism. This paper proposes method of higher animal object recognition using Grab-cut algorithm for object segmentation and Fisher Vector for image encoding.