• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.10C
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• pp.990-999
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose the region-based image retrieval method using JSEG which is a method for unsupervised segmentation of color-texture regions. JSEG is an algorithm that discretizes an image by color classification, makes the J-image by applying a region to window mask, and then segments the image by using a region growing and merging. The segmented image from JSEG is given to a user as the query image, and a user can select a few segmented regions as the query region. After finding the MBR of regions selected by user query and generating the multiple window masks based on the center point of MBR, we extract the feature vectors from selected regions. We use the accumulated histogram as the global descriptor for performance comparison of extracted feature vectors in each method. Our approach fast and accurately supplies the relevant images for the given query, as the feature vectors extracted from specific regions and global regions are simultaneously applied to image retrieval. Experimental evidence suggests that our algorithm outperforms the recent image-based methods for image indexing and retrieval.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.712-714
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 다양한 변화에서 얼굴을 효과적으로 검출할 수 있는 방법론을 제안한다. 우리는 복잡한 배경에서 보다 효과적으로 얼굴 영역을 검출하기 위해 영역 분할 알고리즘인 JSEG를 이용하여 영역을 분할을 하게 된다. 그리고 조명 변화에 따른 간섭이 비교적 작은 YCrCb 칼라 모델을 이용하여 분할된 영역에서 후보 얼굴 영역을 찾는다. 마지막으로 보다 정확한 결과를 위하여 검출된 얼굴 후보 영역에서 눈과 눈썹을 검출하고 눈과 눈썹의 기하학적 정보를 이용해서 최종 얼굴 영역을 결정한다. 영역 분할을 이용함으로써 복잡한 배경과 다양한 조명 변화를 지닌 환경에서 다양한 얼굴 영상들을 실험한 결과 높은 정확도를 보여주었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.810-813
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• 2004

Indexing and Retrieving images from large and varied collections using image content as a key is a challenging and important problem in computer vision application. In this paper, a color Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system using hierarchical Region of Interest (ROI) query and indexing is presented. During indexing process, First, The ROIs on every image in the image database are extracted using a region-based image segmentation technique, The JSEG approach is selected to handle this problem in order to create color-texture regions. Then, Color features in form of histogram and correlogram are then extracted from each segmented regions. Finally, The features are stored in the database as the key to retrieve the relevant images. As in the retrieval system, users are allowed to select ROI directly over the sample or user's submission image and the query process then focuses on the content of the selected ROI in order to find those images containing similar regions from the database. The hierarchical region-of-interest query is performed to retrieve the similar images. Two-level search is exploited in this paper. In the first level, the most important regions, usually the large regions at the center of user's query, are used to retrieve images having similar regions using static search. This ensures that we can retrieve all the images having the most important regions. In the second level, all the remaining regions in user's query are used to search from all the retrieved images obtained from the first level. The experimental results using the indexing technique show good retrieval performance over a variety of image collections, also great reduction in the amount of searching time.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.48-55
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• 2008

In this paper we propose a novel method for image retrieval system using image segmentation and salient points. The proposed method consists of four steps. In the first step, images are segmented into several regions by JSEG algorithm. In the second step, for the segmented regions, dominant colors and the corresponding color histogram are constructed. By using dominant colors and color histogram, we identify candidate regions where objects may exist. In the third step, real object regions are detected from candidate regions by SIFT matching. In the final step, we measure the similarity between the query image and DB image by using the color correlogram technique. Color correlogram is computed in the query image and object region of DB image. By experimental results, it has been shown that the proposed method detects multi-object very well and it provides better retrieval performance compared with object-based retrieval systems.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.160-171
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a face detection method using region segmentation to deal with complex images that have various environmental changes such as mixed background and light changes. To reduce the detection error rate due to background elements of the images, we segment the images with the JSEG method. We choose candidate regions of face based on the ratio of skin pixels from the segmented regions. From the candidate regions we detect face regions by using location and color information of eyes and eyebrows. In the experiment, the proposed method works well with the images that have several faces and different face size as well as mixed background and light changes.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.54-61
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• 2009

This paper proposes a skin segmentation method based on region histograms of the color quantization map. First, we make a quantization map of the image using the JSEG algorithm and detect the skin pixel. For the skin region detection, the similar neighboring regions are set by its similarity of the size and location between the previous frame and the present frame from the each region of the color quantization map. Then we compare the similarity of histogram between the color distributions of each quantized region and the skin color model using the histogram distance. We select the skin region by the threshold value calculated automatically. The skin model is updated by the skin color information from the selected result. The proposed algorithm was compared with previous algorithms on the ECHO database and the continuous images captured under time varying illumination for adaptation test. Our approach shows better performance than previous approaches on skin color segmentation and adaptation to varying illumination.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.102-103
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 임베디드 환경을 위한 객체인식 시스템의 구조 및 실시간 처리를 위한 객체인식기의 하드웨어설계를 제안한다. 제안된 구조는 SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform)를 이용하여 사물의 특징점을 추출하고, 비교하여 객체를 인식한다. SIFT는 영상의 크기 및 회전 등의 변화에 적응이 뛰어난 알고리즘이지만, 복잡한 연산이 반복되어 연산시간이 많은 특성상 임베디드 환경에서 실시간 처리가 어렵다. 따라서 해당 알고리즘을 하프웨어로 설계하여, 임베디드 사물인식 시스템에 적용한다. 사물인식의 빠른 처리와 인식영역의 구분을 위해 JSEG 영상분할 알고리즘을 활용하며, SIFT 특징점 추출 연산과 병렬 실행이 가능하도록 SIFT와 함께 하드웨어 구조로 설계한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.1149-1156
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• 2015

This paper proposes the hand contour detector which is robust to noises. Existing methods reduce noises by applying morphology to extracted edges, detect finger tips by using the center of hands, or exploit the intersection of curves from hand area candidates based on J-value segmentation(JSEG). However, these approaches are so vulnerable to noises that are prone to detect non-hand parts. We propose the noise tolerant hand contour detection method in which non-skin area noises are removed by applying skin area detection, contour detection, and a threshold value. By using the implemented system, we observed that the system was successfully able to detect hand contours.