• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.1116-1126
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• 2016

Image segmentation is widely used in the pre-processing stage of image analysis and, therefore, the accuracy of image segmentation is important for performance of an image-based analysis system. An efficient image segmentation method is proposed, including a filtering process for super-pixels, improved saliency map information, and a merge process. The proposed algorithm removes areas that are not equal or of small size based on comparison of the area of smoothed superpixels in order to maintain generation of a similar size super pixel area. In addition, application of a bilateral filter to an existing saliency map that represents human visual attention allows improvement of separation between objects and background. Finally, a segmented result is obtained based on the suggested merging process without any prior knowledge or information. Performance of the proposed algorithm is verified experimentally.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.914-922
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• 1987

An image coding technique based on a segmentation, which utilizes a simplified description of regions composing an image, is investigated in this paper. The proposed coding technique consists of 3 stages: segmentation, contour coding. In this paper, emphasis was given to texture coding in order to improve a quality of an image. Split-and-merge method was employed for a segmentation. In the texture coding, a linear predictive coding(LPC), along with approximation technique based on a two-dimensional polynomial function was used to encode texture components. Depending on a size of region and a mean square error between an original and a reconstructed image, appropriate texture coding techniques were determined. A computer simulation on natural images indicates that an acceptable image quality at a compression ratio as high as 15-25 could be obtained. In comparison with a discrete cosine transform coding technique, which is the most typical coding technique in the first-generation coding, the proposed scheme leads to a better quality at compression ratio higher than 15-20.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.835-838
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• 2000

Popular methods for extracting a text region in video images are in general based on analysis of a whole image such as merge and split method, and comparison of two frames. Thus, they take long computing time due to the use of a whole image. Therefore, this paper suggests the faster method of extracting a text region without processing a whole image. The proposed method uses line sampling methods, FFT and neural networks in order to extract texts in real time. In general, text areas are found in the higher frequency domain, thus, can be characterized using FFT The candidate text areas can be thus found by applying the higher frequency characteristics to neural network. Therefore, the final text area is extracted by verifying the candidate areas. Experimental results show a perfect candidate extraction rate and about 92% text extraction rate. The strength of the proposed algorithm is its simplicity, real-time processing by not processing the entire image, and fast skipping of the images that do not contain a text.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2008년도 International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.126-129
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed a method extracting an object from background of the satellite image. The image segmentation techniques have been widely studied for the technology to segment image and to synthesis segment object with other images. Proposed algorithm is to perform the edge detection of a selected object using genetic algorithm. We segment region of object based on detection edge using watershed algorithm. We separated background and object in indefinite region using gradual region merge from segment object. And, we make GUI for the application of the proposed algorithm to various tests. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, several analysis on the satellite images are performed.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.317-322
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• 2018

We use edge detection technique for the input image to extract the entire edges of the object in the image and then select only the edges that construct the outline of the object. By examining the positional relation between these pixels composing the outline, a simplified version of the outline of the object in the input image is generated by removing unnecessary pixels while maintaining the condition of connection of the outline. For each pixel constituting the outline, its direction is calculated by examining the positional relation with the next pixel. Then, we group the consecutive pixels with same direction into one and then change them to a line segment instead of a point. Among those line segments composing the outline of the object, a line segment whose length is smaller than a predefined minimum length of acceptable line segment is removed by merging it into one of the adjacent line segments. As a result, an outline composed of line segments of over a certain length is obtained through this process.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2005

본 논문은 적응적 양자화 컬러 수와 적응적 병합 임계값을 이용하여 순차적으로 영역을 병합하여 영역의 경계를 보존하며 영상을 분할하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 먼저 PSNR을 이용하여 영상에 따라 다른 양자화 컬러 수로 영상을 벡터 양자화 한다. 그리고 양자화 영상을 이용하여 초기 영역을 설정한 후 CIE Lab와 RGB 컬러 공간에서 순차적으로 유사한 영역을 병합하여 영상의 주요 영역들로 분할한다. 병합의 각 단계에서는 유사성의 척도로 인접 영역의 컬러 거리를 사용하며 병합 임계값은 분할된 영역과 원영상의 컬러 거리의 평균과 평균 변화량을 이용하여 적응적으로 구하였다. 또한 RGB 컬러 공간에서의 병합 영상이 주요 영역 단위로 병합되지 않은 경우 후처리로서 CIE Lab 영역에서 다시 한번 병합을 수행한다. 이때 초기 영역 영상과 RGB 컬러 공간에서의 병합 영상의 영역간의 컬러 거리를 이용하여 병합 유무를 결정한다. 실험 결과는 제안방법에 의한 결과 영상이 주요 객체를 중심으로 분할되며 객체의 경계가 잘 보존됨을 보여준다. 또한 객관적인 척도에서도 기존의 방법에 비해 좋은 결과를 보여준다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.487-490
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• 2011

This paper presents splitting and merging algorithm based on adaptive thresholding. The algorithm first divides the image into blocks, and then compares each block using the calculated thresholding value. The blocks which are same are merged using the certain threshold value and different blocks are split unless it satisfies the threshold value. When the block has been merged, maximum and minimum block sizes are determined then the average block size is determined. After the average block size is determined the average intensity and standard deviation of average block is calculated. The process of thresholding is applied to binarize the image. Finally, the experimental results show that the proposed method distinguishes clearly the background with text in the document image.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2002년도 ICCAS
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• pp.100.5-100
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• 2002

A core technology for implementation of Augmented Reality is to develop a merging algorithm between interesting 3-D objects and real images. In this paper, we present a 3-D object recognition method to decide viewing direction toward the object from camera. This process is the starting point to merge with real image and 3-D objects. Perspective projection between a camera and 3-dimentional objects defines a plane in 3-D space that is from a line in an image and the focal point of the camera. If no errors with perfect 3-D models were introduced in during image feature extraction, then model lines in 3-D space projecting onto this line in the image would exactly lie in this plane. This observa...

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.541-550
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• 1994

True Color 영상은 전송 및 저장에 많은 데이터 량이 필요하지만, 적은 데이터를 가지고 컬러 모니터에 나타낼 때 인간 시각에 별무리없이 나타내고자 한다. 본 논문 에서는 RGB, YIQ/YUV 공간에서 256개의 컬러맵 생성 방법과 서로 다른 컬러맵을 한 화면에 동시에 표시하면 원 컬러 영상과 다르게 나타나므로 컬러맵간을 결합하여 공 통되는 컬러맵 표현 방법을 제시한다. RGB, YIQ/YUV 공간상에서 처리된 결과를 비교하 기 위해 PSNR, 표준편차, Sobel연산자를 이용한 에지보존율로서 측정하였다. 처리시간 은 새로운 컬러맵 생성은 3초, 컬러맵간의 결합은 2초 소요되었다. PSNR 값은 RGB 공 간이 YIQ 공간과 YUV 공간보다 평균적으로 0.15, 0.34［dB］ 정도 높고, 표준편차는 평균적으로 0.15, 0.41정도 낮았다. 그러나 데이타 압축 면에서 YIQ/YUV공간은 색상 부분에서 8비트중 4비트만을 사용하였기 때문에, RGB 공간보다 1/3정도 압축 효율을 나타낸다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.804-814
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 비데오스트로보키모그래피(Videostrobokymography) 시스템에서 영상중의 관심 영역을 추출하는 효율적인 방법을 소개하고자 한다. 비데오스트로보키모그래피는 성대 운동의 불규칙적인 움직임을 판단하여 자동으로 진단 파라미터를 구하는 의료 영상 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 세 가지의 단계를 거쳐서 관심 영역을 추출하고 있다. 첫 번째로 최소 에너지를 이용하여 관심 영역의 중심이 되는 부분을 찾는다. 관심 영역 내에 있는 특징 점을 추출한 후 두 번째 단계로 한 라인(line) 영역에 대해 가로축을 따라서 평균값에 의한 에지를 선택한다. 최종 단계에서는 이 특징 값을 합병 알고리즘(merge algorithm)의 임계값으로 사용하여 관심 영역을 추출한다. 제안하는 알고리즘을 19명의 성대 영상에 적용하여 분석한 결과 성대를 촬영한 95%의 영상에서 관심 영역을 추출할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 관심 영역 추출 방법은 계산 량이 적어 200${\times}$280 크기의 영상을 초당 약 40프레임이상 처리하여 관심 영역을 추출할 수 있어 매우 효율적이다.