• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.1131-1134
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 블록 다중 텍스쳐 영상으로부터 바코드 영역을 추출하기 위한 한 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 택배 등의 물류 처리에서 사용되는 바코드는 직선 형태의 바로 구성되며, 물체의 윗면에 붙여진 바코드의 방향에 따라 바의 방향은 수직, 수평, 대각선의 방향으로 나타난다. 따라서, 제안된 방법에서는 다양한 텍스쳐의 특징 벡터를 사용하여 바코드의 특징을 검출한다. 또한 처리 시간의 단축을 위하여 영상을 일정한 블록으로 분할한 후에 국부 특징 마스크를 사용하여 텍스쳐 특징 벡터를 산출하고, 우편물 영상에서 각각의 특징에 따른 분류를 통해 바코드 영역을 결정한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2015

In recent years, ear has emerged as a new biometric trait, because it has advantage of higher user acceptance than fingerprint and can be captured at remote distance in an indoor or outdoor environment. This paper proposes an individual identification method using ear region based on SIFT(shift invariant feature transform). Unlike most of the previous studies using rectangle shape for extracting a region of interest(ROI), this study sets an ROI as a flexible expanded region including ear. It also presents an effective extraction and matching method for SIFT keypoints. Experiments for evaluating the performance of the proposed method were performed on IITD public database. It showed correct identification rate of 98.89%, and it showed 98.44% with a deformed dataset of 20% occlusion. These results show that the proposed method is effective in ear recognition and robust to occlusion.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.737-747
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• 2012

Recently, in order to support automatic meter reading for conventional metering devices, an image processing-based approach of recognizing the number meter data in the captured meter images has attracted many researchers' interests. Numerical character segmentation is a very critical process for successful recognition. In this paper, we propose an efficient numeric character segmentation method which can segment numeric characters well for any metering device types under diverse illumination environments. The proposed method consists of two consecutive stages; detection of number area containing all numbers as a tight ROI(Region of Interest) and segmentation of numerical characters in the ROI. Detection of tight ROI is achieved in two steps: extraction of rough ROI by utilizing horizontal line segments after illumination enhancement preprocessing, and making the rough ROI more tight through clipping utilizing vertical and horizontal projection about binarized ROI. Numerical character segmentation in the detected ROI is stably achieved in two processes of 'vertical segmentation of each number region' and 'number segmentation in the each vertical segmented number region'. Through the experiments about a homegrown meter image database containing various meter type images of low contrast, low intensity, shadow, and saturation, it is shown that the proposed numeric character segmentation method performs effectively well for any metering device types under diverse illumination environments.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.321-328
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• 2017

We have implemented a technique to correct the brightness, saturation, and contrast of an image according to the degree of light, and further compensate the backlight. Backlight compensation can be done automatically or manually. For manual backlight compensation, we have to select the region of interest (ROI). ROI can be selected by connecting the outline of the desired object. We make users select the region delicately with the new magnetic lasso tool. The previous lasso tool has a disadvantage that the start point and the end point must be connected. However, the proposed lasso tool has the advantage of selecting the region of interest without connecting the start point and the end point. We can automatically obtain various results of backlight compensation by adjusting the number of k-means clusters for texture extraction and the threshold value for binarization.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.3
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• pp.289-296
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• 2004

General watermarking techniques tend not to consider intrinsic characteristics of image, so that watermarks are embeded to entire images. In this paper, we present a watermarking algorithm based on wavelet domain, and the watermark is embedded into large coefficients in region of interest(ROI) being based on principle of multi-threshold watermark coding(MTWC) for robust watermark insertion. We try to accomplish both image duality and robustness using human visual system(HVS). The watermarks are embedded in middle frequency bands because the distortion degree of watermarked images appears to be less than lower frequency bands, and the embedded watermarks in the middle bands showed high extraction ratios after some distortion. The watermarks are consisted of pseudo random sequences and detected using Cox's similarity mesurement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.71-73
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 4 방향 윤곽선 추적 기법과 히스토그램 분석 기법을 기반으로 한 개선된 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하여 색조 도플러 초음파 영상에서 상완 동맥의 혈류를 추출하고 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 상완 동맥의 혈류를 정확히 추출하기 위해 전처리 과정으로 색조 도플러 초음파 영상 이외의 환자 정보가 있는 영역을 제거한 후, ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에서 영상의 최대 명암도를 임계치로 설정한 이진화 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역을 이진화한다. 이진화된 ROI 영역에서 4 방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 적용하여 상완 동맥이 존재하는 사다리꼴 형태의 영역을 추출한다. 색 정보를 분석한 히스토그램을 이용하여 특징점의 개수를 계산하고 계산된 특징점의 개수를 FCM 알고리즘의 초기 클러스터의 개수로 설정한 후, 추출된 사다리꼴 형태의 영역에 적용하여 양자화 한다. 양자화된 영역 중에서 빨간색으로 분류된 영역을 고혈압 영역으로 추출한다. 제안된 추출 방법을 20개의 색조 도플러 초음파 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 20개의 색조 도플러 초음파 영상에서 18개의 색조 도플러 초음파 영상이 정확히 추출되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.687-696
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• 2014

This paper presents a semantic object extraction method using user's stroke input, color, and depth information. It is supposed that a semantically meaningful object is surrounded with a few strokes from a user, and has similar depths all over the object. In the proposed method, deciding the region of interest (ROI) is based on the stroke input, and the semantically meaningful object is extracted by using color and depth information. Specifically, the proposed method consists of two steps. The first step is over-segmentation inside the ROI using color and depth information. The second step is semantically meaningful object extraction where over-segmented regions are classified into the object region and the background region according to the depth of each region. In the over-segmentation step, we propose a new marker extraction method where there are two propositions, i.e. an adaptive thresholding scheme to maximize the number of the segmented regions and an adaptive weighting scheme for color and depth components in computation of the morphological gradients that is required in the marker extraction. In the semantically meaningful object extraction, we classify over-segmented regions into the object region and the background region in order of the boundary regions to the inner regions, the average depth of each region being compared to the average depth of all regions classified into the object region. In experimental results, we demonstrate that the proposed method yields reasonable object extraction results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.629-630
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• 2018

Containers are fitted with various placards on the surface to indicate the risk of cargo. Since the surface of a container is often not flat and there are many types of placards, finding the placard area can increase the speed of recognition. In this paper, proposed is an area extraction method that can find the placard area deformed by the container surface.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.2121-2128
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• 2015

In this paper presents a method of extracting reliable and regions of interest (ROI) in barcode for the purpose of factory automation. backgrounds are separated based on directional components and the characteristics of detected patterns. post-processing is performed on candidate images with analysis of problems caused by blur, rotation and areas of high similarity. In addition, the resizing factor is used to achieve faster calculations through image resizing. The input images contained multiple product or barcode for application to diverse automation environments; a high extraction success rate is accomplished despite the maximum shooting distance of 80 cm. Simulations involving images with various shooting distances gave an ROI detection rate of 100% and a post-processing success rate of 99.3%.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.2418-2425
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• 2021

Monazite is a phosphate mineral that contains thorium (Th) and rare earth elements. The Th concentration in monazite can be as high as 500 ppm, and it has the potential to be used as fuel in the nuclear power system. Therefore, this study aimed to conduct the techno-economic analysis (TEA) of Th extraction in the form of thorium oxide (ThO₂) from monazite. Th can be extracted from monazite through an alkaline fusion method. The TEA of ThO₂ production studied parameters, including raw materials, equipment costs, total plant direct and indirect costs, and direct fixed capital cost. These parameters were calculated for the production of 0.5, 1, and 10 ton ThO₂ per batch. The TEA study revealed that the highest production cost was ascribed to installed equipment. Furthermore, the highest return on investment (ROI) of 21.92% was achieved for extraction of 1 ton/batch of ThO₂, with a payback time of 4.56 years. With further increase in ThO₂ production to 10 ton/batch, the ROI was decreased to 5.37%. This is mainly due to a significant increase in the total capital investment with increasing ThO₂ production scale. The minimum unit production cost was achieved for 1 ton ThO₂/batch equal to 335.79 $/Kg ThO₂.