• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.60-65
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• 2014

This paper describes an efficient framework for the extraction of a brain tumor from magnetic resonance (MR) images. Before the segmentation process, a median filter is used to filter the image. Then, the morphological gradient is computed and added to the filtered image for intensity enhancement. After the enhancement process, the thresholding value is calculated using the mean and the standard deviation of the image. This thresholding value is used to binarize the image followed by the morphological operations. Moreover, the combination of these morphological operations allows to compute the local thresholding image supported by a flood-fill algorithm and a pixel replacement process to extract the tumor from the brain. Thus, this framework provides a new source of evidence in the field of segmentation that the specialist can aggregate with the segmentation results in order to soften his/her own decision.

• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.191-197
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• 2016

Since 3D measurement technologies have been widely used in manufacturing industries edge detection in a depth image plays an important role in computer vision applications. In this paper, we have proposed an edge detection process in a depth image based on the image based smoothing and morphological operations. In this method we have used the principle of Median filtering, which has a renowned feature for edge preservation properties. The edge detection was done based on Canny Edge detection principle and was improvised with morphological operations, which are represented as combinations of erosion and dilation. Later, we compared our results with some existing methods and exhibited that this method produced better results. However, this method works in multiframe applications with effective framerates. Thus this technique will aid to detect edges robustly from depth images and contribute to promote applications in depth images such as object detection, object segmentation, etc.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2015년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.516-517
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• 2015

The automatic traffic sign detection and recognition has been one of the highly researched and an important component of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). They are designed especially to warn the drivers of imminent dangers such as sharp curves, under construction zone, etc. This paper presents a traffic sign recognition (TSR) system using morphological operations and multiple descriptors. The TSR system is realized in three stages: segmentation, shape classification and recognition stage. The system is designed to attain maximum accuracy at the segmentation stage with the inclusion of morphological operations and boost the computation time at the shape classification stage using MB-LBP descriptor. The proposed system is tested on the German traffic sign recognition benchmark (GTSRB) and on Korean traffic sign dataset.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제30B권9호
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• pp.76-83
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• 1993

A morphological filtering algorithm using directional information is presented. Directional filtering technique is effective in reducing noises and preserving edges. The proposed directional filtering is composed of two stage filtering processes. The opening and closing operations in the lst stage are performed for the pixels is aligned to the vertical, horizontal, and two diagonal directions, respectively. The opening operation supresses the positive impulse noises, while the closing operation the negative ones. Then, each directional result and their average value are filtered by the opening or closing operations in the 2nd stage. The averaging operation diminishes the effects of Gaussian noises in the homogeneous regions. Thus, the morphological operation in the 1 st stageremoves the impulse noises and in 2nd stage reduces. Gaussian ones. The experimental results show that the proposed filtering is superior to the existing nonlinear filtering in the aspects of the subjective quality. Also, the morphological filtering method reduces the computational loads.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.151-155
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• 1996

This paper derives the two-dimensional probability distribution and density functions of morphological dilation and erosion of a one-dimensional memoryless source and reports numerical results for a uniform source, thus providing methodology for joint distributions for other morphological operations. The joint density functions expressed in closed forms contain the Dirac delta functions due to the joint discontinuity within the dilation and erosion. They also exhibit symmetry between these two morphological density functions of dilated and/or eroded sources, in the computation of other higher moments thereof, and in multidimensional quantization.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.175-180
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 몰포러지 연산만을 적용하여 특징을 추출하고, 물체를 인식하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 특징추출에서 사용한 몰포러지 연산은 에로전과 다이레이션, 에로전과 다이레이션을 연계한 오프닝과 크로우징, 몰포러지 연산을 이용한 에지 및 스케리톤 검출 연산 등이다. 특징을 기반으로 물체를 인식하는 과정에서는 차원을 축소하기 위해서 풀링 연산을 사용하였다. 다양한 형태소 중에서 $3{\times}3$ Rhombus, $3{\times}3$ Square, $5{\times}5$ Circle 형태소를 임의로 선정하여 몰포러지 연산을 수행하였다. 무작위 인터넷 영상을 대상으로 행한 실험을 통해 물체인식 분야에서 유용한 알고리즘으로 적용될 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 몰포러지 연산을 기본으로 하는 몰포러지 신경망(MNN: Morphological Neural Network) 기반 딥러닝 시스템을 제안하였다. 딥러닝에 사용되는 레이어는 몰포러지 레이어, 풀링 레이어, ReLU 레이어, Fully connected 레이어 등이다. 몰포러지 레이어에서 사용되는 연산은 에로전, 다이레이션, 에지검출 등이다. 본 논문에서 새롭게 제안한 MNN은 기존의 CNN(Convolutional Neural Network)을 이용한 딥러닝 시스템과는 달리 히든 레이어의 수와 각 레이어에 적용되는 커널 수가 제한적이다. 레이어 단위 처리시간이 감소하고, VLSI 칩 설계가 용이하다는 장점이 있으므로 모바일 임베디드 시스템에 딥러닝을 다양하게 적용할 수 있다. MNN에서는 제한된 수의 커널로 에지와 형상검출 등의 연산을 수행하기 때문이다. 데이터베이스 영상을 대상으로 행한 실험을 통해 MNN의 성능 및 딥러닝 시스템으로의 활용 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1861-1871
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 농담구조소(濃淡構造素)(GSE, grayscale structuring element)를 갖는 형태학 필터의 실시간 처리를 위한 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 GSE로부터 유도된 basis matrix와 입력 샘플들로 구성된 input matrix를 이용하여 각 형태학 연산들을 소역행렬연산(local matrix operation)으로 새롭게 정의하고 있는데, 이를 이용하여 opening이나 closing과 같은 복합 형태학 연산들을 실시간으로 처리할 수 있음을 보였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 복원 형태학 연산들을 erosion과 dilation의 직렬조합(cascade combination)으로 처리하던 기존의 방법에 비해 적은 메모리를 필요로 하면서도, 출력을 얻기까지의 지연(遲延)(delay)이 훨씬 적다는 장점을 갖는다. 또한 본 논문에서는 형태학 필터를 VLSI로 구현하기 위한 효율적 방안을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 p-bit으로 표현되는 신호에 대한 형태학 연산을 p개의 이진(binary) 형태학 연산자들의 조합으로 구현하였는데, 각 이진 연산자들은 MSB(most significant bit)부터 순차적으로 (bit-serial approach) 해당 레벨의 bit들을 처리하여 출력을 부를 구조로 이루어져 있다. 본 논문에서는 형태학 필터의 VLSI 구현에 있어서 제안된 방법이 기존의 Threshold Decomposition 방법 등에 비해 보다 효율적이라는 것을 보였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제18권3E호
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• pp.37-43
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• 1999

In this paper, we present a new technique for the optimal local decomposition of convex structuring elements on a hexagonal grid, which are used as templates for morphological image processing. Each basis structuring element in a local decomposition is a local convex structuring element, which can be contained in hexagonal window centered at the origin. Generally, local decomposition of a structuring element results in great savings in the processing time for computing morphological operations. First, we define a convex structuring element on a hexagonal grid and formulate the necessary and sufficient conditions to decompose a convex structuring element into the set of basis convex structuring elements. Further, a cost function was defined to represent the amount of computation or execution time required for performing dilations on different computing environments and by different implementation methods. Then the decomposition condition and the cost function are applied to find the optimal local decomposition of convex structuring elements, which guarantees the minimal amount of computation for morphological operation. Simulation shows that optimal local decomposition results in great reduction in the amount of computation for morphological operations. Our technique is general and flexible since different cost functions could be used to achieve optimal local decomposition for different computing environments and implementation methods.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권6호
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• pp.899-908
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• 1995

In this paper, the probabilistic relations of dual morphological operations, such as dilation and erosion, closing and opening, and close- open and open-close, and the statistical properties for a continuous stationary lst order Gauss-Markov source are analyzed. The result is that the dual filters have symmetrical means and skews, and equal variances. Also, the statistics of morphological filters are very similar with those of input source, as correlation coefficient increases.