• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.510-516
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• 2015

This paper describes an approach to detect interesting objects using satellite images. This paper focuses on the interesting objects that have common special patterns but do not have identical shapes and sizes. The previous technologies are still insufficient for automatic finding of the interesting objects based on operation of special pattern analysis. In order to overcome the circumstances, this paper proposes a methodology to obtain the special patterns of interesting objects considering their common features and their related characteristics. This paper applies MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) for the region detection and corner detector in order to extract the features of the interesting object. This paper conducts a case study and obtains the experimental results of the case study, which is efficient in reducing processing time and efforts comparing to the previous manual searching.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.220-228
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• 2022

Image always carry useful information, detecting a text from scene images is imperative. The proposed work's purpose is to recognize scene text image, example boarding image kept on highways. Scene text detection on highways boarding's plays a vital role in road safety measures. At initial stage applying preprocessing techniques to the image is to sharpen and improve the features exist in the image. Likely, morphological operator were applied on images to remove the close gaps exists between objects. Here we proposed a two phase algorithm for extracting and recognizing text from scene images. In phase I text from scenery image is extracted by applying various image preprocessing techniques like blurring, erosion, tophat followed by applying thresholding, morphological gradient and by fixing kernel sizes, then canny edge detector is applied to detect the text contained in the scene images. In phase II text from scenery image recognized using MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Region) and OCR; Proposed work aimed to detect the text contained in the scenery images from popular dataset repositories SVT, ICDAR 2003, MSRA-TD 500; these images were captured at various illumination and angles. Proposed algorithm produces higher accuracy in minimal execution time compared with state-of-the-art methodologies.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.123-129
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• 2015

This paper proposes an efficient method to detect direction indicators on road surfaces to support drivers in driving safely using the Simulink model. In the proposed method, the ROIs are detected using the detection method of maximally stable extremal regions (MSER), and the road indicator regions are detected using the speeded up robust features (SURF) matching method for the corresponding point matching of the detected ROIs and the road indicator templates. Experiments on various road satiations show that the processing time of about 0.32 sec per frame was required, and a detection rate of 91% was achieved.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.11-21
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• 2014

Multi-scale image segmentation is important in many applications such as image stylization and medical diagnosis. This paper proposes a novel segmentation algorithm based on MSER(maximally stable extremal region) which captures multi-scale structure and is stable and efficient. The algorithm collects MSERs and then partitions the image plane by redrawing MSERs in specific order. To denoise and smooth the region boundaries, hierarchical morphological operations are developed. To illustrate effectiveness of the algorithm's multi-scale structure, effects of various types of LOD control are shown for image stylization. The proposed technique achieves this without time-consuming multi-level Gaussian smoothing. The comparisons of segmentation quality and timing efficiency with mean shift-based Edison system are presented.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.446-454
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• 2009

Among various region detector and shape feature extraction method, MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Region) and SIFT and its variant methods are popularly used in computer vision application. However, since SIFT is sensitive to the illumination change and MSER is sensitive to the scale change, it is not easy to apply the image similarity retrieval. In this paper, we present a Scale and Rotation Invariant Region Feature(SRIRF) descriptor using scale pyramid, MSER and affine normalization. The proposed SRIRF method is robust to scale, rotation, illumination change of image since it uses the affine normalization and the scale pyramid. We have tested the SRIRF method on various images. Experimental results demonstrate that the retrieval performance of the SRIRF method is about 20%, 38%, 11%, 24% better than those of traditional SIFT, PCA-SIFT, CE-SIFT and SURF, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.1941-1947
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• 2014

Document image binarization is largely used as previous stage of document recognition. And the result of document recognition is much affected from the result of document image binarization. There were many studies to binarize document images. The results of previous studies for document image binarization is varied according to the state of document images. In this paper, we propose a technique for document image binarization using MSER that is applied to extract objects from an image. At first, raw MSER objects are extracted from a document image. Because the raw MSER objects cannot be used for document image binarization, the extracted raw MSER objects are modified. Then the final MSER objects are used for document image binarization with the contrast image that is extracted from the document image. Experimental results show that the proposed technique is useful for document image binarization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.194-196
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 안드로이드 환경에서 글자 인식을 위한 전처리 과정으로 입력 영상에서 글자 영역만을 추출하는 기법을 제안한다. 대부분의 글자 인식 어플리케이션에서 글자를 인식하는 방법은 RoI(Region of Interest)에 인식하려는 글자를 위치시켜 놓고 사용자가 촬영함으로써 진행된다. 하지만 촬영된 영상 그대로를 인식에 사용하기 때문에 잡음 및 글자가 아닌 영역들을 글자로 인식하는 문제 등으로 인하여 인식률이 현저히 떨어진다. 제안하는 기법에서는 MSER(Maximally Stable Extremal Regions) 기법을 통해 각각의 글자를 추출한 후, 글자의 특성을 이용하여 글자 영역만을 추출한다. 기법의 성능 평가는 무료 OCR(Optical Character Recognition) 엔진인 Tesseract-OCR을 통해 글자 인식률을 비교하였으며, 제안하는 기법을 적용한 글자 인식 시스템이 적용하지 않은 시스템보다 글자의 인식률이 향상되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.181-182
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 어파인(affine) 변환에 불변하는 지역 검출기에 대하여 다양한 기술자의 성능을 비교하였다. 지난 수 년간 다양한 특징 기술자들이 연구되어 왔고, 이러한 특징 기술자들은 각각의 목적에 따라 상이한 특성을 갖고 있기 때문에 동일한 조건에서 다양한 기술자들의 성능을 비교하는 연구가 필요하다. 그러나 어파인 변환에 불변하는 지역 검출기에 대해 최적의 특징 기술자를 찾는 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 지역적인 패치 기반의 특징 기술자뿐만 아니라 바이너리 기술자와 최근에 제안된 기술자들의 성능을 비교하였다. 제안하는 실험에서는 MSER (maximally stable extremal regions) 검출기를 이용하여 어파인 변환에 불변하는 지역을 검출하였고, 영상 확대 및 축소, 회전, 시점 변환 및 변형 가능한 물체에 대하여 각각 기술자의 성능을 비교하였다.