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Sports Video Position Retrival System Using Frame Merging (프레임 병합을 이용한 스포츠 동영상 위치 검색 시스템)

  • 이지현;임정훈;이양원
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.619-623
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    • 2002
  • We can speak caption as information that can not except caption on sports video. The sports highlight were composed that we recognize captioning. This paper is the necessary work to the middle-step to analysis the caption through the retrieval and discrimination from the position of caption. This paper improve at first and simplify the image through the excellent threshold value algorithm in the preprocessing and then use method that can analysis caption through the multiplex frame merging algorithm. Its speed performing shows up higher and simplier than the region growing process.

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The preprocessing effect using K-means clustering and merging algorithms in cardiac left ventricle segmentation

  • Cho, Ik-Hwan;Do, Ki-Bum;Oh, Jung-Su;Song, In-Chan;Chang, Kee-Hyun;Jeong, Dong-Seok
    • Proceedings of the KSMRM Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.126-126
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    • 2002
  • Purpose: For quantitative analysis of the cardiac diseases, it is necessary to segment the left-ventricle(LV) in MR cardiac images. Snake or active contour model has been used to segment LV boundary. In using these models, however, the contour of the LV may not converge to the desirable one because the contour may fall into local minimum value due to image artifact in inner region of the LV Therefore, in this paper, we propose the new preprocessing method using K-means clustering and merging algorithms that can improve the performance of the active contour model.

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Parallel Dense Merging Network with Dilated Convolutions for Semantic Segmentation of Sports Movement Scene

  • Huang, Dongya;Zhang, Li
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.3493-3506
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    • 2022
  • In the field of scene segmentation, the precise segmentation of object boundaries in sports movement scene images is a great challenge. The geometric information and spatial information of the image are very important, but in many models, they are usually easy to be lost, which has a big influence on the performance of the model. To alleviate this problem, a parallel dense dilated convolution merging Network (termed PDDCM-Net) was proposed. The proposed PDDCMNet consists of a feature extractor, parallel dilated convolutions, and dense dilated convolutions merged with different dilation rates. We utilize different combinations of dilated convolutions that expand the receptive field of the model with fewer parameters than other advanced methods. Importantly, PDDCM-Net fuses both low-level and high-level information, in effect alleviating the problem of accurately segmenting the edge of the object and positioning the object position accurately. Experimental results validate that the proposed PDDCM-Net achieves a great improvement compared to several representative models on the COCO-Stuff data set.

Accurate Estimation of Settlement Profile Behind Excavation Using Conditional Merging Technique (조건부 합성 기법을 이용한 굴착 배면 침하량 분포의 정밀 산정)

  • Kim, Taesik;Jung, Young-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2016
  • Ground deformation around construction site in urban area where typically adjacent structures are located needs to be strictly controlled. Accordingly, it is very important to precisely monitor the ground deformation. Settlement beacon is typically employed to measure the ground deformation, but meanwhile the rapid development in electronic technology enables 3D image scanner to become available for measuring the ground deformation profile in usual construction sites. With respect to the profile measurement, the 3D scanner has an advantage, whereas its accuracy is somewhat limited because it does not measure the displacement directly. In this paper, we developed a conditional merging technique to combine the ground displacement measured from settlement beacon and the profile measured by the 3D scanner. Synthetic ground deformation profile was generated to validate the proposed technique. It is found that the ground deformation measurement error can be reduced significantly via the conditional merging technique.

A new Clustering Algorithm for the Scanned Infrared Image of the Rosette Seeker (로젯 탐색기의 적외선 주사 영상을 위한 새로운 클러스터링 알고리즘)

  • Jahng, Surng-Gabb;Hong, Hyun-Ki;Doo, Kyung-Su;Oh, Jeong-Su;Choi, Jong-Soo;Seo, Dong-Sun
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2000
  • The rosette-scan seeker, mounted on the infrared guided missile, is a device that tracks the target It can acquire the 2D image of the target by scanning a space about target in rosette pattern with a single detector Since the detected image is changed according to the position of the object in the field of view and the number of the object is not fixed, the unsupervised methods are employed in clustering it The conventional ISODATA method clusters the objects by using the distance between the seed points and pixels So, the clustering result varies in accordance with the shape of the object or the values of the merging and splitting parameters In this paper, we propose an Array Linkage Clustering Algorithm (ALCA) as a new clustering algorithm improving the conventional method The ALCA has no need for the initial seed points and the merging and splitting parameters since it clusters the object using the connectivity of the array number of the memory stored the pixel Therefore, the ALCA can cluster the object regardless of its shape With the clustering results using the conventional method and the proposed one, we confirm that our method is better than the conventional one in terms of the clustering performance We simulate the rosette scanning infrared seeker (RSIS) using the proposed ALCA as an infrared counter countermeasure The simulation results show that the RSIS using our method is better than the conventional one in terms of the tracking performance.

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Efficient CT Image Segmentation Algorithm Using both Spatial and Temporal Information

  • Lee, Sang-Bock;Lee, Jun-Haeng;Lee, Samyol
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.505-510
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    • 2004
  • This paper suggests a new CT-image segmentation algorithm. This algorithm uses morphological filters and the watershed algorithms. The proposed CT-image segmentation algorithm consists of six parts: preprocessing, image simplification, feature extraction, decision making, region merging, and postprocessing. By combining spatial and temporal information, we can get more accurate segmentation results. The simulation results illustrate not only the segmentation results of the conventional scheme but also the results of the proposed scheme; this comparison illustrates the efficacy of the proposed technique. Furthermore, we compare the various medical images of the structuring elements. Indeed, to illustrate the improvement of coding efficiency in postprocessing, we use differential chain coding for the shape coding of results.

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Automatic Extraction of Component Inspection Regions from Printed Circuit Board by Image Clustering (영상 클러스터링에 의한 인쇄회로기판의 부품검사영역 자동추출)

  • Kim, Jun-Oh;Park, Tae-Hyoung
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.61 no.3
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    • pp.472-478
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    • 2012
  • The inspection machine in PCB (printed circuit board) assembly line checks assembly errors by inspecting the images inside of the component inspection region. The component inspection region consists of region of component package and region of soldering. It is necessary to extract the regions automatically for auto-teaching system of the inspection machine. We propose an image segmentation method to extract the component inspection regions automatically from images of PCB. The acquired image is transformed to HSI color model, and then segmented by several regions by clustering method. We develop a modified K-means algorithm to increase the accuracy of extraction. The heuristics generating the initial clusters and merging the final clusters are newly proposed. The vertical and horizontal projection is also developed to distinguish the region of component package and region of soldering. The experimental results are presented to verify the usefulness of the proposed method.

IKONOS Image Fusion Using a Fast Intensity-Hue-Saturation Fusion Technique (빠른 IHS 기법을 이용한 IKONOS 영상융합)

  • Yun, Kong-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.14 no.1 s.35
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2006
  • Among various image fusion methods, intensity-hue-saturation(IHS) technique is capable of quickly merging the massive volumes of data. For IKONOS imagery, IHS can yield satisfactory 'spatial' enhancement but may introduce 'spectral' distortion, appearing as a change in colors between compositions of resampled and fused multispectral bands. To solve this problem a fast IHS fusion technique with spectral adjustment is presented. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can provide better performance than the conventional IHS method, in both processing speed and image quality.

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Moving image coding with variablesize block based on the segmentation of motion vectors (움직임 벡터의 영역화에 의한 가변 블럭 동영상 부호화)

  • 김진태;최종수
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.469-480
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    • 1997
  • For moving image coding, the variable size of region coding based on local motion is more efficient than fixed size of region coding. It can be applied well to complex motions and is more stable for wide motions because images are segmented according to local motions. In this paper, new image coding method using the segmentation of motion vectors is proposed. First, motion vector field is smoothed by filtering and segmented by smoothed motion vectors. The region growing method is used for decomposition of regions, and merging of regions is decided by motion vector and prediction errors of the region. Edge of regions is excluded because of the correlation of image, and neighbor motion vectors are used evaluation of current block and construction of region. The results of computer simulation show the proposed method is superior than the existing methods in aspect of coding efficiency.

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Fast Outlier Removal for Image Registration based on Modified K-means Clustering

  • Soh, Young-Sung;Qadir, Mudasar;Kim, In-Taek
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2015
  • Outlier detection and removal is a crucial step needed for various image processing applications such as image registration. Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) is known to be the best algorithm so far for the outlier detection and removal. However RANSAC requires a cosiderable computation time. To drastically reduce the computation time while preserving the comparable quality, a outlier detection and removal method based on modified K-means is proposed. The original K-means was conducted first for matching point pairs and then cluster merging and member exclusion step are performed in the modification step. We applied the methods to various images with highly repetitive patterns under several geometric distortions and obtained successful results. We compared the proposed method with RANSAC and showed that the proposed method runs 3~10 times faster than RANSAC.