• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.82-89
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 독립문자 식별기 및 인식기를 바탕으로 한 결정값 발생기를 도입하여 무제 약 필기체 숫자 열을 효과적으로 인식하는 방안을 제안하였다. 필기체 숫자 열의 인식을 위해 사전 분할 모듈, 최종 분할 모듈 그리고 인식 모듈 등의 세 개의 모듈을 설계 구현하였다. 사전 분할 모듈에서는 결정값 발생기를 이용하여 독립 숫자, 접촉 숫자 그리고 끊어진 숫자 등을 구분하였다. 최종 분할 모듈에서도 결정값 발생기의 결과를 이용하여 접촉 숫자들을 분할하는 과정을 수행하고 인식 모듈에서 각각 분할된 숫자들을 인식하였다. 분할 기반 방식과 무 분할 방식을 혼용하여 필기체 숫자열을 인식함으로서 기존의 오 인식률을 최소화시키도록 하였다. 제안된 방식을 이용하여 NIST SD19 필기체 숫자 열 데이터베이스의 인식을 한 결과 기존의 연구결과에 비해 높은 96.7%의 인식률을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.1189-1204
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• 2020

Population aging and longevity have compelled major worldwide consumer markets to focus on senior citizens who exhibit a desire to nurture their appearance and obtain related products such as cosmetics. This trend signals an increasing need for in-depth research on elderly consumers in the color cosmetics market. This study identified the characteristics of seniors in the pre-elderly stage ("new seniors") based on their lifestyle and market segments. It employed online surveys with participants consisting of pre-elderly Korean women born between 1955 and 1963 who reside in the greater Seoul and Gyeonggi area. The study used SPSS 23.0 for factor analysis, reliability verification, cluster analysis, ANOVA, Duncan's test, and cross-analysis. The results show that new seniors could be classified into four groups based on lifestyle: Prime Seniors, Potential Seniors, Rational Seniors, and Slump Seniors. Each group has distinct characteristics. The findings suggest that the senior market requires further segmentation and is no longer a single uniform market. This study also confirms that the lifestyles of the elderly is an instrumental variable for their segmentation.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.277-285
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• 2016

Moving object detection system has been an emerging research field in various advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and surveillance system. In this paper, we propose two optical flow based moving object detection methods at dynamic scenes. Both proposed methods consist of three successive steps; pre-processing, foreground segmentation, and post-processing steps. Two proposed methods have the same pre-processing and post-processing steps, but different foreground segmentation step. Pre-processing calculates mainly optical flow map of which each pixel has the amplitude of motion vector. Dense optical flows are estimated by using Farneback technique, and the amplitude of the motion normalized into the range from 0 to 255 is assigned to each pixel of optical flow map. In the foreground segmentation step, moving object and background are classified by using the optical flow map. Here, we proposed two algorithms. One is Gaussian mixture model (GMM) based background subtraction, which is applied on optical map. Another is adaptive thresholding based foreground segmentation, which classifies each pixel into object and background by updating threshold value column by column. Through the simulations, we show that both optical flow based methods can achieve good enough object detection performances in dynamic scenes.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제28B권9호
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• pp.719-726
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• 1991

The symplified segmentation method was proposed for hardware implementation based on the human visual system. The segmentation method using fuzzy logic and just noticeable difference(JND) is composed of pre-filtering, initial segmentation and post processing. Experimental coding results show that reconstructed image using the proposed method is good on visual percerption even at a high compression ratio of 30:1.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.2400-2419
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• 2014

Pre-segmented pixels can reduce the difficulty of segmentation and promote the segmentation performance. This paper proposes a novel segmentation method based on merging texture superpixels by computing inner similarity. Firstly, we design a set of Gabor filters to compute the amplitude responses of original image and compute the texture map by a salience model. Secondly, we employ the simple clustering to extract superpixles by affinity of color, coordinates and texture map. Then, we design a normalized histograms descriptor for superpixels integrated color and texture information of inner pixels. To obtain the final segmentation result, all adjacent superpixels are merged by the homogeneity comparison of normalized color-texture features until the stop criteria is satisfied. The experiments are conducted on natural scene images and synthesis texture images demonstrate that the proposed segmentation algorithm can achieve ideal segmentation on complex texture regions.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.50-60
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 콤팩트한 동영상 표현과 객체기반의 generic한 동영상압축을 위한 파라미터릭 움직임 모델의 파라미터 추정과 세그맨테이션 기법에 관해서 기술한다. 동영상의 optical flow와 같은 국소적 움직임 정보와 파라미터 움직임 모델의 특징을 이용해서 영상의 콤팩트한 구조적 표현을 추출하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 2 스템의 과정 즉, 초기영역을 추출하는 과정과, 파라미터릭 움직임 파라미터의 추정과 세그맨테이션을 동시에 수행하는 과정으로 구성된 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 혼합 모델이 ML 추정에 의거한 확률적 클러스터링에 의해 움직임 물체의 움직임과 형상을 반영한 초기영역을 추출하고, 파라미터릭 움직임 모델을 사용해서 각각의 초기 영역마다 움직임 파라미터를 추정하고 세그맨테이션을 수행한다. 또한, CIF 표준 동영상을 사용한 모의 실험을 통해 본 제안 알고리즘의 유효성을 평가한다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.661-664
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• 1998

Since the region segmentation at high resolution contains most of viable semantic object contours in an image, the bottom-up approach for image segmentation is appropriate for the application such as MPEG-4 which needs to preserve semantic object contours. However, the conventioal region merging methods, that follow the region segmentation, have poor performance in keeping low-contrast semantic object contours. In this paper, we propose an image segmentation algorithm based on classified region merging. The algorithm pre-segments an image with a large number of small regions, and also classifies it into several classes having similar gradient characteristics. Then regions only in the same class are merged according to the boundary weakness or statisticsal similarity. The simulation result shows that the proposed image segmentation preserves semantic object contours very well even with a small number of regions.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.780-791
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• 1996

A hybrid image processing system which automatically distinguished lean tissues in the image of a complex beef cut surface and generated the lean tissue contour has been developed. Because of the in homegeneous distribution and fuzzy pattern of fat and lean tissue on the beef cut, conventional image segmentation and contour generation algorithm suffer from a heavy computing requirement, algorithm complexity and poor robustness. The proposed system utilizes an artificial neural network enhance the robustness of processing. The system is composed of pre-network , network and post-network processing stages. At the pre-network stage, gray level images of beef cuts were segmented and resized to be adequate to the network input. Features such as fat and bone were enhanced and the enhanced input image was converted tot he grid pattern image, whose grid was formed as 4 X4 pixel size. at the network stage, the normalized gray value of each grid image was taken as the network input. Th pre-trained network generated the grid image output of the isolated lean tissue. A training scheme of the network and the separating performance were presented and analyzed. The developed hybrid system showed the feasibility of the human like robust object segmentation and contour generation for the complex , fuzzy and irregular image.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.3166-3179
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• 2013

A pre-processing system for adaptive noise removal is proposed based on the principle of identifying and filtering object regions and background regions. Human perception of images depends on bright, well-focused object regions; these regions can be treated with the best filters, while simpler filters can be applied to other regions to reduce overall computational complexity. In the proposed method, bright region segmentation is performed, followed by segmentation of object and background regions. Noise in dark, background, and object regions is then removed by the median, fast bilateral, and bilateral filters, respectively. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm is much faster than and performs nearly as well as the bilateral filter (which is considered a powerful noise removal algorithm); it reduces computation time by 19.4 % while reducing PSNR by only 1.57 % relative to bilateral filtering. Thus, the proposed algorithm remarkably reduces computation while maintaining accuracy.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.4866-4888
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• 2020

One major and time-consuming task in fish production is obtaining an accurate estimate of the number of fish produced. In most Nigerian farms, fish counting is performed manually. Digital image processing (DIP) is an inexpensive solution, but its accuracy is affected by noise, overlapping fish, and interfering objects. This study developed a catfish recognition and counting algorithm that introduces detection before counting and consists of six steps: image acquisition, pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction, recognition, and counting. Images were acquired and pre-processed. The segmentation was performed by applying three methods: image binarization using Otsu thresholding, morphological operations using fill hole, dilation, and opening operations, and boundary segmentation using edge detection. The boundary features were extracted using a chain code algorithm and Fourier descriptors (CH-FD), which were used to train an artificial neural network (ANN) to perform the recognition. The new counting approach, based on the geometry of the fish, was applied to determine the number of fish and was found to be suitable for counting fish of any size and handling overlap. The accuracies of the segmentation algorithm, boundary pixel and Fourier descriptors (BD-FD), and the proposed CH-FD method were 90.34%, 96.6%, and 100% respectively. The proposed counting algorithm demonstrated 100% accuracy.