• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.21-51
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• 2017

Recently there have been an increasing number of companies suffering a negative brand image in the major media. Thompson et al. (2006) defined this as "$Doppelg{\ddot{a}}nger$ Brand Image." The images mentioned above have been created and propagated on Internet communities, which are one of the major paths of online spreading. This study will empirically analyze the effect of each $Doppelg{\ddot{a}}nger$ brand image on the customer's brand attitude, using a text-mining method focusing on "A company"'s case. This study will also cover the change in customer brand attitudes related to the company's correspondence in a situation in which the $Doppelg{\ddot{a}}nger$ brand image exists. In addition, the study will determine the presence of a priming effect after the spread of the $Doppelg{\ddot{a}}nger$ brand image. To that end, we collected 974 comments from 94,889 posts and A's official blogs related to A from B community, the largest automobile community site in Korea. Through this investigation, we obtained the following results. First, there was a significant difference in the ratio of negative sentiment of internet community before and after $Doppelg{\ddot{a}}nger$ brand image. Second, with regard to the topic modeling, the ratio of articles including negative topics increased and the other article ratio decreased over time. Finally, we found that there is a priming effect about negative brand image of "A company."

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제9B권4호
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• pp.501-508
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 영상 내에 존재하는 객체영역의 컬러비와 모멘트를 이용한 영상검색을 제안한다. 객체는 영상의 중심에 위치한다는 가설 하에 미리 정의한 중심영역의 우세컬러를 기반으로 수평-수직 투영을 이용하여 객체영역과 배경영역을 분할함으로써 최적의 공간정보를 획득한다. 또한 영상 내 객체의 회전 및 크기에 불변한 특성을 가지기 위해 컬러비와 모멘트를 특징정보로 이용하며 유사성 측정은 컬러 히스토그램의 구간별 연관성을 고려하기 위해 변형된 히스토그램 인터섹션을 이용한다. 실험결과 제안한 방법이 기존의 영역분할에 의한 방법보다 효율적인 결과를 보였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.535-544
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• 2019

This study demonstrated the ability of a Landsat-8 OLI multispectral data to identify and delineate hydrothermal alteration zones around auriferous prospects within the crystalline basement, North-western Nigeria. Remote sensing techniques have been widely used in lithological, structural discrimination and alteration rock delineation, and in general geological studies. Several artisanal mining activities for gold deposit occur in the surrounding areas within the basement complex and the search for new possible mineralized zones have heightened in recent times. Systematic Landsat-8 OLI data processing methods such as colour composite, band ratio and minimum noise fraction were used in this study. Colour composite of band 4, 3 and 2 was displayed in Red-Green-Blue colour image to distinguish lithologies. Band ratio ${\frac{4}{2}}$ image displayed in red was used to highlight ferric-ion bearing minerals(hematite, goethite, jarosite) associated with hydrothermal alteration, band ratio ${\frac{5}{6}}$ image displayed in green was used to highlight ferrous-ion bearing minerals such as olivine, amphibole and pyroxenes, while ratio ${\frac{6}{7}}$ image displayed in blue was used to highlight clay minerals, micas, talc-carbonates, etc. Band rationing helped to reduce the topographic illumination effect within images. The result of this study showed the distribution of the lithological units and the hydrothermal alteration zone which can be further prospected for mineral reserves.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2016

In this paper, we analyse the characteristics of the edge image and propose a new entropy coding optimized to the compression of the edge image. The pixel values of the edge image have the Gaussian distribution around '0', and most of the pixel values are '0'. By using this analysis, the Zero Block technique is utilized in spatial domain. And the Intra Prediction Mode of the edge image is similar to the mode of the surrounding blocks or likely to be the Planar Mode or the Horizontal Mode. In this paper, we make use of the MPM technique that produces the Intra Prediction Mode with high probability modes. By utilizing the above properties, we design a new entropy coding method that is suitable for edge image and perform the compression. In case the existing compression techniques are applied to edge image, compression ratio is low and the algorithm is complicated as more than necessity and the running time is very long, because those techniques are based on the natural images. However, the compression ratio and the running time of the proposed technique is high and very short, respectively, because the proposed algorithm is optimized to the compression of the edge image. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm provides better visual and PSNR performance up to 11 times than the JPEG.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2197-2204
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• 2015

In recent years, medical image diagnosis has growing significant momentous in the medicinal field. Brain and lung image of patient are distorted with salt and pepper noise is caused by moving the head and chest during scanning process of patients. Reconstruction of these images is a most significant field of diagnostic evaluation and is produced clearly through techniques such as linear or non-linear filtering. However, restored images are produced with smaller amount of noise reduction in the presence of huge magnitude of salt and pepper noises. To eliminate the high density of salt and pepper noises from the reproduction of images, a new efficient fuzzy based median filtering algorithm with a moderate elapsed time is proposed in this paper. Reproduction image results show enhanced performance for the proposed algorithm over other available noise reduction filtering techniques in terms of peak signal -to -noise ratio (PSNR), mean square error (MSE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), image enhancement factor (IMF) and structural similarity (SSIM) value when tested on different medical images like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computer tomography (CT) scan brain image and CT scan lung image. The introduced algorithm is switching filter that recognize the noise pixels and then corrects them by using median filter with fuzzy two-sided π- membership function for extracting the local information.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 다중 스케일 영상 공간에서 특징점 검출을 위해 수행되는 반복적인 과정을 제거하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 원 영상으로부터 특징점을 검출하고, 클러스터 필터를 이용하여 유효한 특징점을 선별하고, 특징점 클러스터를 생성한다. 그리고 특징점 클러스터의 방향 각도를 이용하여 참조 객체를 선별하고, 분산 거리 비율을 이용하여 원 영상의 스케일을 예측한다. 예측한 스케일에 따라 참조 영상의 스케일을 변환하고, 변환된 참조 영상에 대해 특징점 검출을 적용한다. 실험 결과 제안한 방법은 다중 스케일 영상을 사용하는 SIFT 방법 및 Scaled ORB 방법에 비해 특징점 검출 시간이 각각 75% 및 71% 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.

• Biomedical Engineering Letters
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.355-364
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• 2018

When focusing using an ultrasonic transducer array, a main lobe is formed in the focal region of an ultrasound field, but side lobes also arise around the focal region due to the leakage. Since the side lobes cannot be completely eliminated in the focusing process, they are responsible for subsequent ultrasound image quality degradation. To improve ultrasound image quality, a signal processing strategy to reduce side lobes is definitely in demand. To this end, quantitative determination of main and side lobes is necessary. We propose a theoretically and actually error-free method of exactly discriminating and separately computing the main lobe and side lobe parts in ultrasound image by computer simulation. We refer to images constructed using the main and side lobe signals as the main and side lobe images, respectively. Since the main and side lobe images exactly represent their main and side lobe components, respectively, they can be used to evaluate ultrasound image quality. Defining the average brightness of the main and side lobe images, the conventional to side lobe image ratio, and the main to side lobe image ratio as image quality metrics, we can evaluate image characteristics in speckle images. The proposed method is also applied in assessing the performance of side lobe suppression filtering. We show that the proposed method may greatly aid in the evaluation of medical ultrasonic images using computer simulations, albeit lacking the use of actual experimental data.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.117-122
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• 2004

Purpose : To determine the proper image compression method and ratio without image quality degradation in intraoral digital radiographic images, comparing the discrete cosine transform (DCT)-based JPEG with the wavelet-based JPEG 2000 algorithm. Materials and Methods : Thirty extracted sound teeth and thirty extracted teeth with occlusal caries were used for this study. Twenty plaster blocks were made with three teeth each. They were radiographically exposed using CDR sensors (Schick Inc., Long Island, USA). Digital images were compressed to JPEG format, using Adobe Photoshop v.7.0 and JPEG 2000 format using Jasper program with compression ratios of 5 : 1,9 : 1, 14 : 1,28 : 1 each. To evaluate the lesion detectability, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was performed by the three oral and maxillofacial radiologists. To evaluate the image quality, all the compressed images were assessed subjectively using 5 grades, in comparison to the original uncompressed images. Results: Compressed images up to compression ratio of 14 : 1 in JPEG and 28 : 1 in JPEG 2000 showed nearly the same the lesion detectability as the original images. In the subjective assessment of image quality, images up to compression ratio of 9 : 1 in JPEG and 14 : 1 in JPEG 2000 showed minute mean paired differences from the original Images. Conclusion : The results showed that the clinically acceptable compression ratios were up to 9 : 1 for JPEG and 14 : 1 for JPEG 2000. The wavelet-based JPEG 2000 is a better compression method, comparing to DCT-based JPEG for intraoral digital radiographic images.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.575-585
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• 2011

웨이브렛 변환을 이용한 인공위성 영상의 압축을 보다 효과적으로 수행할 수 있는 필터의 조합을 살펴보았다. 압축정도를 표현하는 방법으로 encoding ratio를 이용하였고, 웨이브렛의 선택에 따라 PSNR값과 encoding ratio값이 변하는 양상을 보았다. 웨이브렛의 선택에 따라 PSNR값은 대략 13.2-21.6% 정도의 차이를 보였고 encoding ratio는 16.8-45.5%까지의 차이를 보였다. SAR 영상의 경우 encoding ratio는 16%20% 변동이 있지만, 일반영상의 경우는 웨이브렛의 선택에 따라 40% 이상 변화였다. 영상 압축시 웨이브렛의 선택효과는 인공위성 영상보다 일반영상에서 큰 영향을 미쳤다. PSNR, encoding ratio의 지수에서 인공위성 영상은 웨이브렛 선택에 영향을 덜 받는다. 인공위성 영상의 압축에 대한 웨이브렛 선택효과를 보여주기 위하여 새로운 지수인 ECR을 제안하였다. ECR은 일반영상보다 인공위성영상에서 웨이브렛의 종류에 따른 영향이 더 적게 나타났다. 그러나 인공위성 영상 압축시 3개의 지수에서 웨이브렛의 선택효과는 최소한 10% 이상으로 선택의 중요성은 무시될 수 없을 것이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.105-111
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• 1995

This paper proposes a segmentation algorithm using gray-level discontinuity and surface reflectance ratio of input images obtained under different illumination conditions. Each image is divided by a certain number of subregions based on the thresholds. The thresholds are determined using the histogram of fusion image which is obtained by ANDing the multiple input images. The subregions of images are projected on the eigenspace where their bases are the major eigenvectors of image matrix. Points in the eigenspace are classified into two clusters. Images associated with the bigger cluster are fused by revised ANDing to form a combined edge image. Missing edges are detected using surface reflectance ration and chain code. The proposed algorithm obtains more accurate edge information and allows to more efficiently recognize the environment under various illumination conditions.