• ETRI Journal
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2002

MPEG-7 Visual Standard specifies a set of descriptors that can be used to measure similarity in images or video. Among them, the Edge Histogram Descriptor describes edge distribution with a histogram based on local edge distribution in an image. Since the Edge Histogram Descriptor recommended for the MPEG-7 standard represents only local edge distribution in the image, the matching performance for image retrieval may not be satisfactory. This paper proposes the use of global and semi-local edge histograms generated directly from the local histogram bins to increase the matching performance. Then, the global, semi-global, and local histograms of images are combined to measure the image similarity and are compared with the MPEG-7 descriptor of the local-only histogram. Since we exploit the absolute location of the edge in the image as well as its global composition, the proposed matching method can retrieve semantically similar images. Experiments on MPEG-7 test images show that the proposed method yields better retrieval performance by an amount of 0.04 in ANMRR, which shows a significant difference in visual inspection.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.323-330
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• 2019

Radiometric normalization with multi-temporal satellite images is essential for time series analysis and change detection. Generally, relative radiometric normalization, which is an image-based method, is performed, and histogram matching is a representative method for normalizing the non-linear properties. However, since it utilizes global statistical information only, local information is not considered at all. Thus, this paper proposes a histogram matching method considering local information. The proposed method divides histograms based on density, mean, and standard deviation of image intensities, and performs histogram matching locally on the sub-histogram. The matched histogram is then further partitioned and this process is performed again, iteratively, controlled with the wasserstein distance. Finally, the proposed method is compared to global histogram matching. The experimental results show that the proposed method is visually and quantitatively superior to the conventional method, which indicates the applicability of the proposed method to the radiometric normalization of multi-temporal images with non-linear properties.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.856-862
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• 1987

An local adaptive image segmentatin algorithm for local feature detection and effective clustering of unimodal histogram shape are proposed. Local adaptive difference image and its histogram are obtained from the input image. The parameters are derived from the histogram and used for the segmentation based on relaxatin process. The results showed effective region segmentation and good noise cleaning for the ocular fundus fluorescein angiogram which has low contrast and unimodal histogram.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권11호
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• pp.155-164
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• 2014

지역 히스토그램 평활화 방법은 입력 영상의 국부적은 밝기 특성을 부각시키기 위한 가장 널리 사용되는 방법들 중 하나이다. 그러나 지역 히스토그램 평활화 기반의 방법들은 몇 가지의 문제점들을 발생시킨다. 먼저, 국부적인 특성들을 과도하게 부각시켜 의도하지 않는 결함들을 발생시킨다. 두 번째, 국부 특성들의 향상이 전역 콘트라스트 향상을 증대시키지는 않는다는 점이다. 이러한 문제들을 해결하기 위해, 우리는 광원 정보를 이용한 지역 히스토그램 평활화 방법을 제안한다. 먼저, 광원 정보를 추정하기 위하여 제안하는 방법은 입력 영상의 다운 샘플링과 업 샘플링 과정을 통하여 획득된 블러 영상과 원 영상을 융합한다. 그 후, 지역 히스토그램 평활화 방법에서 추정한 변환 함수를 광원 정보를 이용하여 적응적으로 조절한다. 그 결과 기존 방법에서 발생할 수 있는 결함을 억제시키면서, 전역 콘트라스트와 국부 콘트라스트를 동시에 향상시킬 수 있다. 실험 결과들은 제안하는 방법이 기존 방법에 비해 수치적인 면과 시각적인 면에서 뛰어난 결과를 보임을 확인할 수 있다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.18-23
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• 2013

In this paper we propose an image enhancement technique based on histogram specification method over local overlapping regions referred as Local Histogram Specification. First, both reference and original images are splitted into local regions that each overlaps half of its adjacent regions and general histogram specification method is used between corresponding local regions of reference and original image. However it produces noticeable boundary effects. Linear weighted image blending method is used to reduce this effect in order to make seamless image and we also proposed new technique dealing with over-enhanced contrast areas. We satisfied with our experimental results that showed better enhancement accuracy and less noise amplifications compared to other well-known image enhancement methods. We conclude that the proposed method is well suited for motion detection systems as a responsible part to overcome sudden illumination changes.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.189-194
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• 2017

In this study, we propose a method which is based on "Image segmentation by histogram thresholding using hierarchical cluster analysis"/HCA/ and "A nonparametric approach for histogram segmentation"/NHS/. HCA method uses that all histogram bins are one cluster then it reduces cluster numbers by using distance metric. Because this method has too many clusters, it is more computation. In order to eliminate disadvantages of "HCA" method, we used "NHS" method. NHS method finds all local minima of histogram. To reduce cluster number, we use NHS method which is fast. In our approach, we combine those two methods to eliminate disadvantages of Arifin method. The proposed method is not only less computational than "HCA" method because combined method has few clusters but also it uses local minima of histogram which is computed by "NHS".

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 학술대회지
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• pp.867-871
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• 2004

In this paper, a new analytic approach for shape preserving contrast enhancement is presented. Contrast enhancement is achieved by means of segmental histogram stretching modification which preserves the given image shape, not distorting the original shape. After global stretching, the image is partitioned into several level-sets according to threshold condition. The image information of each level-set is represented as typical value based on grouped differential values. The basic property is modified into common local schemes, thereby introducing the enhanced effect through extreme discrimination between subsets. The scheme is based on stretching the histogram of subsets in which the intensity gray levels between connected pixels are approximately same In spite of histogram widening, stretched by local image information, it neither creates nor destroys the original image, thereby preserving image shape and enhancing the contrast. By designing local histogram stretching operations, we can preserve the original shape of level-sets of the image, and also enhance the global intensity. Thus it can hold the main properties of both global and local image schemes, which leads to versatile applications in the field of digital epigraphy.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2008년도 학술대회 1부
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• pp.623-628
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 비전 기반 게임 인터페이스를 위한 배경영역으로부터 전경영역을 추출하기 위해 빠르고 강건한 새로운 방법을 소개한다. Background Subtraction 방법은 추적하고자 하는 이미지의 특징을 추출하기 전에 필수적으로 거쳐야 하는 전처리 과정이다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 이미지를 지역 셀로 나누어 가우시안 커널이 적용된 Local Histogram을 계산하고 히스토그램의 Bhattacharyya 거리를 계산하여 전경확률을 결정한다. 이처럼 지역적 히스토그램에 기반한 방법은 급격한 조명변화나 잡음 또는 작은 배경오브젝트의 움직임에 부분적으로 강간함을 보인다. 히스토그램을 계산하는데에서 Multi-Scaled Integral Histogram을 사용하여 잡음을 억제하면서 계산의 속도를 높였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.748-760
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• 2012

영상에서 밝기 분포가 특정한 범위에 밀집되어 있는 경우 영상에 포함된 특징을 구분하기가 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 전역 히스토그램 평활화와 지역 히스토그램 평활화를 적용한다. 전역 히스토그램 평활화를 적용하는 경우 밝기 분포의 밀집 정도를 고려하지 않고 전체 히스토그램 정보를 사용하기 때문에 지나치게 밝아지거나 어두워질 수 있으며 부분적인 명암값을 개선시키는 것이 어렵다. 지역 히스토그램 평활화를 적용하는 경우 영상의 전체 밝기 분포를 고려하지 않고 지역적인 영상의 밝기 정보만을 사용하기 때문에 블록 간의 명암값의 차가 커져서 블록화 현상이 발생한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 영상의 히스토그램의 영역에 가우시안 혼합 모델을 적용하여 모델링을 한 후, EM 알고리즘을 반복적으로 적용하여 각 영역의 범위를 결정한다. 그리고 분할된 영역별로 히스토그램 평활화를 적용하여 유사한 밝기값을 갖는 영역이 과도하게 평활화 되는 것을 방지하며 명암대비를 향상시킨다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.1418-1429
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• 2014

In this paper we suggest a new two-wheelers detection algorithm using local cell features. The first, we propose new feature vector matrix extraction algorithm using the correlation two cells based on local cell histogram and shifting from the result of histogram of oriented gradients(HOG). The second, we applied new weighting values which are calculated by the modified histogram intersection showing the similarity of two cells. This paper applied the Adaboost algorithm to make a strong classification from weak classification. In this experiment, we can get the result that the detection rate of the proposed method is higher than that of the traditional method.