• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.188-199
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• 2013

This paper presents a novel algorithm for nighttime detection of the lane markers painted on a road at night. First of all, the proposed algorithm uses neighborhood average filtering, 8-directional Sobel operator and thresholding segmentation based on OTSU's to handle raw lane images taken from a digital CCD camera. Secondly, combining intensity map and gradient map, we analyze the distribution features of pixels on boundaries of lanes in the nighttime and construct 4 feature sets for these points, which are helpful to supply with sufficient data related to lane boundaries to detect lane markers much more robustly. Then, the searching method in multiple directions- horizontal, vertical and diagonal directions, is conducted to eliminate the noise points on lane boundaries. Adapted Hough transformation is utilized to obtain the feature parameters related to the lane edge. The proposed algorithm can not only significantly improve detection performance for the lane marker, but it requires less computational power. Finally, the algorithm is proved to be reliable and robust in lane detection in a nighttime scenario.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.908-911
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• 2004

In this paper, we describe a robust image processing algorithm to recognize the road lane in real-time. For the real-time processing, a detection area is decided by a lane segment of a previous frame and edges are detected on the basis of the lane width. For the robust driving, the global threshold with the Otsu algorithm is used to get a binary image in a frame. Therefore, reliable edges are obtained from the algorithms suggested in this paper in a short time. Lastly, the lane segment is found by hough transform. We made a RC(Radio Control) car equipped with a vision system and verified these algorithms using the RC Car.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.283-284
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a novel segmentation and classification method using texture features for the document image. First, we extract the local entropy and then segment the document image to separate the background and the foreground using the Otsu's method. Finally, we classify the segmented regions into each component using PCA(principle component analysis) algorithm based on the texture features that are extracted from the co-occurrence matrix for the entropy image. The entropy-based segmentation is robust to not only noise and the change of light, but also skew and rotation. Texture features are not restricted from any form of the document image and have a superior discrimination for each component. In addition, PCA algorithm used for the classifier can classify the components more robustly than neural network.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2015

공간정보 제작의 다원화로 인하여 다양한 수치지도들이 여러 공공기관 및 기업에서 제작됨에 따라 데이터의 상호 운용성이 점점 중요해지고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 계층적 매칭 기법을 활용한 이종 수치지도의 건물 데이터 자동 정합기법을 제안하였다. 먼저 수치지도를 가구계 기반으로 분할한 후 ICP 알고리즘을 활용한 건물 기하보정을 1차적으로 수행하였다. 대응 가능한 건물쌍의 중첩면적 유사도를 평가하여 대응 건물을 결정하고 Otsu 이진 임계화를 수행하여 매칭 비매칭에 대한 임계값을 자동으로 설정하였다. 1차 매칭이 완료된 후 임계값과 비슷한 유사도를 가지는 건물들을 오매칭 후보군으로 추출하여 개별 건물에 대한 ICP 알고리즘 기반의 기하보정을 다시 수행하고 형태학적 인자인 회전각 함수분석을 추가 적용하여 정합여부를 재판단하였다. 실험평가를 위해 제안된 알고리즘을 대표적인 공공분야 수치지도인 도로명주소지도와 수치지형도 2.0의 건물 데이터에 적용하고 활용성을 평가하였다. 정확도 평가결과 매칭 건물 및 비매칭 건물에 대한 F 측정치가 각각 2%와 17% 향상되었으며 이를 통해 본 연구에서 제안한 알고리즘이 이종 수치지도 건물 정합에 효과적으로 적용될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.321-325
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• 2004

Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a common retinal neovascular disorder of premature infants. It can be characterized by inappropriate and disorganized vessel. This paper present a method for blood vessel detection on infant retinal images. The algorithm is designed to detect the retinal vessels. The proposed method applies a Lapalacian of Gaussian as a step-edge detector based on the second-order directional derivative to identify locations of the edge of vessels with zero crossings. The procedure allows parameters computation in a fixed number of operations independent of kernel size. This method is composed of four steps : grayscale conversion, edge detection based on LOG, noise removal by adaptive Wiener filter & median filter, and Otsu's global thresholding. The algorithm has been tested on twenty infant retinal images. In cooperation with the Digital Imaging Research Centre, Kingston University, London and Department of Opthalmology, Imperial College London who supplied all the images used in this project. The algorithm has done well to detect small thin vessels, which are of interest in clinical practice.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.246-253
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• 2016

Infrared (IR) imaging has been researched for various applications such as surveillance. IR radiation has the capability to detect thermal characteristics of objects under low-light conditions. However, automatic segmentation for finding the object of interest would be challenging since the IR detector often provides the low spatial and contrast resolution image without color and texture information. Another hindrance is that the image can be degraded by noise and clutters. This paper proposes multi-level segmentation for extracting regions of interest (ROIs) and objects of interest (OOIs) in the IR scene. Each level of the multi-level segmentation is composed of a k-means clustering algorithm, an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and a decision process. The k-means clustering initializes the parameters of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), and the EM algorithm estimates those parameters iteratively. During the multi-level segmentation, the area extracted at one level becomes the input to the next level segmentation. Thus, the segmentation is consecutively performed narrowing the area to be processed. The foreground objects are individually extracted from the final ROI windows. In the experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated using several IR images, in which human subjects are captured at a long distance. The average probability of error is shown to be lower than that obtained from other conventional methods such as Gonzalez, Otsu, k-means, and EM methods.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제10권12호
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• pp.1559-1565
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• 2007

The many target-detection methods that use forward-looking infrared (FUR) images can deal with large targets measuring $70{\times}40$ pixels, utilizing their shape features. However, detection small targets is difficult because they are more obscure and there are many target-like objects. Therefore, few studies have examined how to detect small targets consisting of fewer than $30{\times}10$ pixels. This paper presents a small target detection method using clutter rejection with stochastic hypothesis testing for FLIR imagery. The proposed algorithm consists of two stages; detection and clutter rejection. In the detection stage, the mean of the input FLIR image is first removed and then the image is segmented using Otsu's method. A closing operation is also applied during the detection stage in order to merge any single targets detected separately. Then, the residual of the clutters is eliminated using statistical hypothesis testing based on the t-test. Several FLIR images are used to prove the performance of the proposed algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm accurately detects small targets (Jess than $30{\times}10$ pixels) with a low false alarm rate compared to the center-surround difference method using the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2017

In the paper, we propose a new reliable technique for measuring food intake based on image automatically without user intervention. First, food and bowl image before and after meal is obtained by user. The food and the bowl are divided into each region by the K-means clustering, Otsu algorithm, Morphology, etc. And the volume of food is measured by a proportional expression based on the information of the container such as it's entrance diameter, depth, and bottom diameter. Finally, our method calculates the volume of the consumed food by the difference between before and after meal. The proposed technique has higher accuracy than existing method for measuring food intake automatically. The experiment result shows that the average error rate is up to 7% for three types of containers. Computer simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm is a convenient and accurate method of measuring the food intake.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.71-80
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• 2011

임계값 결정은 변화유무만을 판단하는 무감독변화탐지에 있어 매우 중요한 과정으로 인식되고 있다. 본 논문은 향후 수요 증가가 기대되는 원격탐사 데이터 중 하나인 초분광영상을 이용한 새로운 무감독변화탐지 기법을 제안하고 있다. 다중시기의 화소간 유사도 측정을 통해 도출된 결과값을 일정 간격으로 평균하여 그래프를 생성하고, 최대거리 기법을 적용하여 변화유무 정보를 추출하기 위한 임계값을 결정하였다. 참조자료를 취득할 수 있는 두 가지 의사영상을 통해 기대최대화 기법, 교점방법, Otsu 기법과 결과를 비교하여 성능을 평가하였으며, 이를 토대로 다중시기의 Hyperion 영상에 각 기법을 적용하여 변화탐지 결과를 확인하였다. 제안기법은 기존의 임계값 결정 기법과 비슷하거나 높은 정확도를 보였으며, 간단하게 적용할 수 있는 장점이 있어 향후 초분광영상을 이용한 무감독변화탐지에 효과적으로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2017

최근 자동차 산업은 IT 기술을 접목하여 운전자에게 편의를 제공하기 위한 운전자 보조 시스템에 관한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 차선 이탈 방지 및 자율 주행에 적용 가능한 도로상태 변화에 강인한 차선 검출 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 Otsu 임계값 결정 방법과 가우시안 필터와 에지를 통한 후보 영역 검출 방법을 이용한다. 또한, 허프 변환을 통한 차선의 기울기와 폭 정보를 이용하여 차선을 검출한다. 실선뿐만 아니라 점선 차선 검출을 위해 기존에 검출된 차선 정보를 이용하여 다음 프레임에서 차선이 위치할 경로를 계산해 가상의 차선을 그려주는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 실선과 점선상황에서 차선 검출이 모두 가능했고 오픈소스 하드웨어인 라즈베리 파이 2에 적용할 경우 실시간 처리가 가능함을 확인했다.