• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.1 s.33
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• pp.93-100
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• 2005

This study is to desist and implement an efficient microbial medical image retrieval system based on knowledge and content of them which can make use of more accurate decision on colony as doll as efficient education for new techicians. For this. re first address overall inference to set up flexible search path using rule-base in order U redure time required original microbial identification by searching the fastest path of microbial identification phase based on heuristics knowledge. Next, we propose a color ffature gfraction mtU, which is able to extract color feature vectors of visual contents from a inn microbial image based on especially bacteria image using HSV color model. In addition, for better retrieval performance based on large microbial databases, we present an integrated indexing technique that combines with B+-tree for indexing simple attributes, inverted file structure for text medical keywords list, and scan-based filtering method for high dimensional color feature vectors. Finally. the implemented system shows the possibility to manage and retrieve the complex microbial images using knowledge and visual contents itself effectively. We expect to decrease rapidly Loaming time for elementary technicians by tell organizing knowledge of clinical fields through proposed system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.200-203
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• 2016

최근 자율주행자동차에 대한 관심이 증가함에 따라 교통 상황을 인식하는 방법에 대한 연구도 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 특히 교통신호등의 인식은 치명적인 결과를 야기하는 교통사고와 밀접하게 연관된다는 점에서 중요성이 더욱 부각되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 컴퓨터 비전 시스템을 기반으로 한 교통신호등 인식 방법을 제안한다. 차선, 표지판 등과는 다르게 교통신호등은 빛을 발하는 특징이 있으며 그 모양과 형태 또한 규격화 되어 있다. 이러한 특징 중 색상과 형태 특징을 이용하여 두 단계의 추출과정을 거쳐 교통신호등을 인식한다. 먼저 HSV 색 공간에서 적색, 녹색, 주황색의 빛을 발하는 영역을 찾아낸 뒤, 신호의 원형 특징을 이용해 가로, 세로 사이즈와 크기로 신호의 후보를 추출한다. 다음, 신호등의 검은 박스 영역을 찾기 위해 추출한 신호 후보군의 주변부가 검정색인지를 확인한다. 최종적으로 신호등의 박스 부분을 검출하여 신호를 발하는 위치를 기반으로 신호를 인식한다. 실험결과 많은 계산량을 요구하는 기계학습을 사용하지 않고도 실시간 처리와 높은 인식률로 교통 신호를 인식할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.182-187
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 이미지 상에 나타난 색상 정보를 추출하기 위한 새로운 커널 메소드(Kernel method)인 Grid kernel을 제안한다. 제안한 Grid kernel은 Convolution kernel의 하나로 이미지 상에 나타나는 자질을 주변 픽셀에서 나타나는 자질로 정의 하고 이를 재귀적으로 적용함으로써 두 이미지를 비교한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 커널을 차량 색상 인식 문제에 적용하여 차량 색상 인식 모델을 제안한다. 이미지 생성시 나타나는 주변 요인으로 인해 차량의 색상을 추출하는 것은 어려운 문제이다. 이미지가 야외에서 촬영되기 때문에 시간, 날씨 등의 주변 요인은 같은 차량이라 하더라도 다른 색상을 보이게 할 수 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 Grid kernel이 적용된 차량 색상 인식 모델은 이미지를 HSV (Hue-Saturation-Value) 색상 공간으로 사상하여 명도를 배제하였다. 제안한 커널과 색상 인식 모델을 검증하기 위해 5가지 색상을 가진 차량 이미지를 이용하여 실험을 하였으며, 실험 결과 92.4%의 정확율과 92.0%의 재현율을 보였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.117-128
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• 2011

In this paper, we present a novel approach for contents-based medication image retrieval from a medication image database using the shape classification and color information of the medication. One major problem in developing a contents-based drug image retrieval system is there are too many similar images in shape and color and it makes difficult to identify any specific medication by a single feature of the drug image. To resolve such difficulty in identifying images, we propose a hybrid approach to retrieve a medication image based on shape and color features of the medication. In the first phase of the proposed method we classify the medications by shape of the images. In the second phase, we identify them by color matching between a query image and preclassified images in the first phase. For the shape classification, the shape signature, which is unique shape descriptor of the medication, is extracted from the boundary of the medication. Once images are classified by the shape signature, Hue and Saturation(HS) color model is used to retrieve a most similarly matched medication image from the classified database images with the query image. The proposed system is designed and developed especially for specific population- seniors to browse medication images by using visual information of the medication in a feasible fashion. The experiment shows the proposed automatic image retrieval system is reliable and convenient to identify the medication images.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1414-1419
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• 2015

A method for detecting a skin region on the image is generally used to detect the color information. However, If saturation lowered, skin detection is difficult because hue information of the pixels is lost. So in this paper, we propose a method of correcting color of lower saturation of skin region images by the lighting. Color correction process of this method is saturation image acquisition and low-saturation region classification, segmentation, and the saturation of the split in the low saturation region extraction and color values, the color correction sequence. This method extracts the low saturation regions in the image and extract the color and saturation in the region and the surrounding region to produce a color similar to the original color. Therefore, the method of extracting the low saturation region should be correctly preceding. Because more accurate segmentation in the process of obtaining a low saturation regions, we use a multi-threshold method proposed Otsu in Hue values of the HSV color space, and create a binary image. Our experimental results for 170 portrait images show a possibility that the proposed method could be used efficiently preprocessing of skin color detection method, because the detection result of proposed method is 5.8% higher than not used it.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.861-877
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• 2016

This paper first discusses the disadvantages of the existing CamShift Algorithm for real time face tracking, and then proposes a new Camshift Algorithm that performs better than the existing algorithm. The existing CamShift Algorithm shows unstable tracking when tracing similar colors in the background of objects. This drawback of the existing CamShift is resolved by using Kinect’s pixel-by-pixel depth information and the Skin Detection algorithm to extract candidate skin regions based on HSV color space. Additionally, even when the tracking object is not found, or when occlusion occurs, the feature point-based matching algorithm makes it robust to occlusion. By applying the improved CamShift algorithm to face tracking, the proposed real-time face tracking algorithm can be applied to various fields. The results from the experiment prove that the proposed algorithm is superior in tracking performance to that of existing TLD tracking algorithm, and offers faster processing speed. Also, while the proposed algorithm has a slower processing speed than CamShift, it overcomes all the existing shortfalls of the existing CamShift.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.9C
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• pp.930-938
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• 2005

We propose a content-based image retrieval(CBIR) method based on an efncient combination of a color feature and multiresolution texture features. As a color feature, a HSV autocorrelograrn is chosen which is blown to measure spatial correlation of colors well. As texture features, BDIP and BVLC moments are chosen which is hewn to measure local intensity variations well and measure local texture smoothness well, respectively. The texture features are obtained in a wavelet pyramid of the luminance component of a color image. The extracted features are combined for efficient similarity computation by the normalization depending on their dimensions and standard deviation vectors. Experimental results show that the proposed method yielded average $8\%\;and\;11\%$ better performance in precision vs. recall than the method using BDIPBVLC moments and the method using color autocorrelograrn, respectively and yielded at least $10\%$ better performance than the methods using wavelet moments, CSD, color histogram. Specially, the proposed method shows an excellent performance over the other methods in image DBs contained images of various resolutions.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.44-50
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• 2006

This study has proposed a method of content-based image retrieval using object region in order to overcome disadvantages of existing color histogram methods. The existing color histogram methods have a weak point of reducing accuracy, because these have both a quantization error and an absence of spatial information. In order to overcome this problem, we convert a color information to a HSV space, quantize hue factor being pure color information, and calculate histogram. And then we use hue for retrieval feature that is robust in brightness, movement, and rotation. To solve the problem of the absence of spatial information, we select object region in terms of color feature and region correlation. And we use both the edge and the DC in the selected region for retrieving. As a result of experiment with 1,000 natural color images, the proposed method shows better precision and recall than the existing methods.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.1397-1403
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• 2018

Today, modern people perceive skin care as part of their physical health care, and acne is a common skin disease problem that is found on the face. In this paper, an effective acne detection algorithm using CIE $L^*a^*b^*$ color space has been proposed. It is red when the pixel value of the component image $a^*$ is a positive number, so it is suitable for detecting acne in skin image. First, the skin image based on the RGB color space is subjected to light compensation through color balancing, and converted into a CIE $L^*a^*b^*$ color space. The extracted component image $a^*$ was normalized, and then the skin and acne area were estimated with the threshold values. Experimental results show that the proposed method detects acne more effectively than the conventional method based on brightness information, and the proposed method is robust against the reflected light source.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.402-411
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• 2000

It is an important step in video indexing and retrieval to detect shot boundaries on video data. Some approaches are proposed to detect shot changes by computing color histogram differences or the variances of DCT coefficients. However, these approaches do not consider the content or meaningful features in the image data which are useful in high level video processing. In particular, it is desirable to detect these features from compressed video data because this requires less processing overhead. In this paper, we propose a new method to detect shot boundaries from MPEG data using region flow and color information. First, we reconstruct DC images and compute region flow information and color histogram differences from HSV quantized images. Then, we compute the points at which region flow has discontinuities or color histogram differences are high. Finally, we decide those points as shot boundaries according to our proposed algorithm.