• 천문학회보
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.41.1-41.1
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• 2010

It has been suggested that merging plays an important role in the formation and the evolution of early-type galaxies. Optical-NIR color gradients of early-type galaxies in high density environments are found to be less steep than those in low density environment, hinting frequent merger activities in early-type galaxies in high density environment. In order to confirm if the flat color gradient is the result of dry merger, we decided to look deeply to find merging features and get their relation with color gradient. We selected samples which show extreme values of optical-NIR color gradients based on the data of previous study, and observed them at Maidanak observatory 1.5m telescope with long exposure. After masking out overlaid sources, our analysis reveals that these galaxies do not have extreme color gradient values. High degree sky flat technique was used during observation to aid discovery of faint, extended features. However, flatness of detector (SNUCAM) was good enough, so we could not see any marked improvement in image quality compared to those using normal sky flats. Additionally we noticed a feature that looks like merging tidal tail in the CFHT archival image, but this does not show up on the image we obtained. This demonstrates that flatness and correct sky estimation is very important when we look for faint merging features. In future we plan to enlarge the number of the sample.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.176-180
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• 2011

Even though algorithms for watermark embedding and extraction step are important issue for digital watermarking, watermark selection and post-processing can give us an opportunity to improve our algorithms and achieve higher performance. For this reason, we summarized the possibilities of improvements for digital watermarking by referring to the watermark merging techniques rather than embedding and extraction algorithms in this paper. We chose Cox's function as main embedding and extraction algorithm, and multiple barcode watermarks as a watermark. Each bit of the multiple copies of barcode watermark was embedded into a gray-scale image with Cox's embedding function. After extracting the numbers of watermark, we applied the watermark merging techniques; including the simple merging, N-step iterated merging, recover merging and combination of iterated-recover merging. Main consequence of our paper was the fact of finding out how multiple barcode watermarks and merging techniques can give us opportunities to improve the performance of algorithm.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제36S권1호
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• pp.70-80
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 인간 시각 체계에 기반하여 주관적 화질의 열화없이 전송 정보량을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있고, 또한 전송 정보량을 조절할 수 있는 영역기반 초적속 부호화에 적합한 새로운 계층적 영상 분할 알고리즘을 제한한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 각 단계에서 수리 형태학에 기반한 영상 분할과 인간 시각 체계를 고려한 영역 볍합 고조로 이루어져 있다. 영상분할은 3단계의 계층적 구조로 이루어져 있으며, 영역 병합은 각 단계에서 인간 시각 체계에 기반하여 인간 시각이 구분할 수 없는 두 인접 영역의 쌍들을 추출한 후 영역 병합을 수행한다. 이때 인간 시각 체계에 기반하여 병합할 영역을 추출하고 제안한 병합을 우선 순위 함수에 의한 병합 우선 순위에 따른 영역 볍합ㅇ르 차례로 수행하여 영역의 수를 효과적으로 줄임으로써 영역기반 초저속 부호화시 과다한 윤곽선 정보로 인한 병목현상을 개선할 수 있다. 그리고 각 단계에서의 영역 병합시 정보량 조절 요소 값에 따라 전송 정보량을 조절할 수 있어 기존의 방법보다 유연한 분할 구조를 나타낸다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법은 기존의 방법보다 PSNR 및 주관적 화질은 유사하나, 전송할 윤곽선 정보는 상당히 줄일 수 있어 영역기반 초적속 부호화를 위한 효율적 영상 분할 알고리즘임을 알 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2003

본 논문은 영역을 병합할 때 두 영역의 색상 차를 영역 병합의 제한 조건으로 사용하는 칼라영상 분할 기법을 제안하였다. 이는 먼저 영역의 경제전 정보를 잘 보존하기 위해서 RGB 공간상에서 수리형태학 필터와 변형된 워터쉐드 알고리즘을 이용하여 켤라 영상을 과분할한다. 그리고 영역간의 색상 차를 영역 병합의 제한 조건으로 사용하는 영역 병합 과정을 반복 수행하여 칼라 영상의 분할 결과를 얻는다. 이는 인간 시각 시스템이 색상, 채도, 명도의 형태로 색을 구분하는 것을 기반으로 한다. 명도가 낮지 않는 경우에 색차 보다 색상 차가 중요한 요소로 작용하기 때문에 이를 영역 병합의 제한 조건으로 사용한다. 실험 결과에서 제안된 칼라영상 분할 기법은 다양한 칼라영상에 대하여 미리 설정된 재수의 영역으로 효율적인 분할 결과를 보임을 확인하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2002년도 학술대회지
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• pp.823-826
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• 2002

Experiments were conducted to show the characteristics of the flow on unventilated parallel plane jets. Measurements of mean velocity components and turbulent intensities were carried out with a particle image velocimetry. The measurements range of these experiments was Reynolds number of 5300 based on the nozzle width and the cases of nozzle-to-nozzle distance were 4, 6, 8, and 10 times the width of the nozzle. Results show that a recirculation zone with a sub-atmospheric static pressure was bounded by the inner shear layers of the individual jets and the nozzles plate. The positions, where maximum value of mean turbulent intensities and mean turbulent kinetic energy show, were at the same position with the merging point. The spread of jets in the merging region increases more rapidly than that of jets in the converging and the combined region. As nozzle-to-nozzle distances were increased, it was shown that merging and combined lengths were shorter.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2014

This paper proposes a gradation image processing method for the development of a Road Sign Recognition Platform (RReP), which aims to facilitate the rapid and accurate management and surveying of approximately 160,000 road signs installed along the highways, national roadways, and local roads in the cities, districts (gun), and provinces (do) of Korea. RReP is based on GPS(Global Positioning System), IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit), INS(Inertial Navigation System), DMI(Distance Measurement Instrument), and lasers, and uses an imagery information collection/classification module to allow the automatic recognition of signs, the collection of shapes, pole locations, and sign-type data, and the creation of road sign registers, by extracting basic data related to the shape and sign content, and automated database design. Image division and merging, which were applied in this study, produce superior results compared with local binarization method in terms of speed. At the results, larger texts area were found in images, the accuracy of text recognition was improved when images had been gradated. Multi-threshold values of natural scene images are used to improve the extraction rate of texts and figures based on pattern recognition.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.2400-2419
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• 2014

Pre-segmented pixels can reduce the difficulty of segmentation and promote the segmentation performance. This paper proposes a novel segmentation method based on merging texture superpixels by computing inner similarity. Firstly, we design a set of Gabor filters to compute the amplitude responses of original image and compute the texture map by a salience model. Secondly, we employ the simple clustering to extract superpixles by affinity of color, coordinates and texture map. Then, we design a normalized histograms descriptor for superpixels integrated color and texture information of inner pixels. To obtain the final segmentation result, all adjacent superpixels are merged by the homogeneity comparison of normalized color-texture features until the stop criteria is satisfied. The experiments are conducted on natural scene images and synthesis texture images demonstrate that the proposed segmentation algorithm can achieve ideal segmentation on complex texture regions.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.302-310
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• 2003

Experiments were conducted to show the characteristics of the flow on unventilated parallel plane jets. Measurements of mean velocity components and turbulent intensities were carried out with a particle image velocimetry to investigate the flow field generated by the air issued from two identical plane parallel nozzles and mixed with the ambient air. The measurements range of these experiments were Reynolds number of 5300 based on the nozzle width and the cases of nozzle-to-nozzle distance were four times. six times and eight times the width of the nozzle. Results show that a recirculation zone with a sub-atmospheric static pressure was bounded by the inner shear layers of the individual jets and the nozzles plate. The positions. where maximum value of mean turbulent intensities and mean turbulent kinetic energy show, were at the same position with the merging point. The spread of jets in the merging region increases more rapidly than that of Jets in the converging and the combined region. As nozzle-to-nozzle distances were increased. it was shown that merging and combined lengths were shorter.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.91-95
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• 2011

In this paper, we present an improved multi-scale gradient algorithm. The proposed algorithm works the effectively handling of both step and blurred edges. In the proposed algorithm, the image sharpening operator is sharpening the edges and contours of the objects. This operation gives an opportunity to get noise reduced image and step edged image. After that, multi-scale gradient operator works on noise reduced image in order to get a gradient image. The gradient image is segmented by watershed transform. The approach of region merging is used after watershed transform. The region merging is carried out according to the region area and region homogeneity. The region number of the proposed algorithm is 36% shorter than that of the existing algorithm because the proposed algorithm produces a few irrelevant regions. Moreover, the computational time of the proposed algorithm is relatively fast in comparison with the existing one.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제17B권3호
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• pp.239-248
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• 2010

혈액 세포 영상에서 백혈구는 환자의 건강상태를 파악하는데 중요한 정보를 제공하며, 이를 통해 다양한 질병을 조기에 예측할 수 있다. 따라서 질병의 조기 예측을 위해 혈액세포에서 백혈구의 분리는 매우 중요한 단계이다. 본 논문에서는 중요도 맵과 단계적 영역 병합을 이용하여 혈액 세포 영상에서 백혈구를 자동으로 분할하는 기법을 제안한다. 백혈구 세포 영역은 염색물질에 의해 주변에 비해 두드러진 색상, 질감 정보를 가짐으로 이를 기반으로 중요도 맵(Saliency Map)을 만든다. 이를 통해 세포 영상에서 두드러진 영역을 찾아 sub-image를 분리하고, 각 sub-image에서 mean-shift 알고리즘을 적용하여 영역 클러스터링을 수행한다. Mean-shift 적용 후 얻은 클러스터들에 대해 단계적 영역 병합 알고리즘을 적용하고, 최종적으로 백혈구 핵으로 판단되는 단일 클러스터를 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 혈액 세포 영상을 사용하여 테스트한 결과 71%의 핵 검출 정확도를 보였으며, 기존의 다른 알고리즘보다 뛰어난 성능을 나타내었다.