• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.253-264
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• 2016

Based on the variation of strain along the cross section, any region in a structural member can be classified into two regions namely, Bernoulli's region (B-region) and Disturbed region (D-region). Since the variation of strain along the cross section for a B-region is linear, well-developed theories are available for their analysis and design. On the other hand, the design of D-region is carried out based on thumb rules and past experience due to the presence of nonlinear strain distribution. Strut-and-Tie method is a novel approach that can be used for the analysis and design of both B-region as well as D-region with equal importance. The strut efficiency factor (${\beta}_s$) is needed for the design and analysis of concrete members using Strut and Tie method. In this paper, equations for finding ${\beta}_s$ for bottle shaped struts in concrete deep beams (a D-region) with and without steel fibres are developed. The effects of transverse reinforcement on ${\beta}_s$ are also considered. Numerical studies using commercially available finite element software along with limited amount of experimental studies were used to find ${\beta}_s$.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권10C호
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• pp.990-999
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 효과적인 영상 검색을 위한 방법으로서 JSEG 영상 분할 기법을 통한 영역 기반의 영상 인덱싱 및 검색 기법을 제안한다. JSEG은 영상을 색상 분류에 따라 양자화하고 이에 영역 윈도우를 적용시켜 J-image를 만든 다음, 세부 분할된 영역의 성장과 병합을 통하여 영상을 효과적으로 분할하는 방법이다. 제안하는 영상 검색 시스템은 JSEG에 의해 분할된 영상을 사용자에게 질의 영상으로 주고, 사용자로 하여금 분할 영상에서 관심 영역군(群)을 선택하게 한다. 그리고 나서, 사용자 질의에 의해 선택된 영역의 MBR을 구하고 이 영역의 중심을 기준으로 다중 윈도우 마스크를 생성하여 적용시킴으로써 특정 관심 영역을 중심으로 한 영상의 전역적인 특징을 추출한다. 최종적으로 추출된 특징의 성능 비교를 위한 기술자로는 누적 히스토그램을 이용하였다. 제안된 방법은 특정 영역에서의 특징과 전역 특징을 동시에 추출하여 검색에 이용함으로써 보다 빠르고 정확하게 사용자가 원하는 영상을 제공할 수 있다. 실험 결과는 영상 색인 및 검색에 있어서 제안된 방법이 영상 기반의 검색 기법과 비교하여 더 효과적임을 보여준다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.365-372
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• 1996

The researches to acquire diagnostic parameters from ultrasonic images are advanced with the progress of the digital image processing technique. Especially, the detection of endocardial boundary is very important in ultrasonic images, because endocardial boundary is used as a clinical parameter to estimate both the cardiac area and the variation of cardiac volume. Various methods to detect cardiac boundary are proposed, but these are insufficient to detect boundary. In this paper, an algorithm that detects the endocardial boundary, expanding the cavity region from the center using statistical information, is proposed The value of mean and sty:nd, wd deviation in cavity region is lower than those in muscle re- gion. Therefore, if we define the multiplication of mean and standard deviation as homogeneous coefficient, it can lead to conclusion that the pixels with small variation of these coefficleno are cavity region, and extraction of endocardial boundary from cavity region is possible. The proposed method detected endocardial boundary more effectively than edge based or threshold based method and is robuster to noise than radial searching method that has high dependency for center position.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.105-115
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• 2011

비젼기반 지능형교통정보시스템(ITS, Intelligent Transportation System) 환경에서 도로영역의 분할이 가장 기초적인 역할을 한다. 따라서 본 논문은 입력영상에서 도로 영역과 하늘 영역을 분할하기 위해 적응적 패턴 추출을 통한 영역분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 첫째, Mean Shift 알고리즘을 이용한 초기분할 단계, 둘째, 정적 패턴매칭 방법에 기반한 후보영역선별 단계, 셋째, 동적 패턴매칭 방법에 기반한 영역확장 단계로 구성된다. 제안된 방법은 적응적 패턴을 현 분할영역의 주변 영역으로부터 추출하여 영역병합에 사용함으로서 보다 신뢰성 높은 영역병합결과를 얻을 수 있다. 제안된 방법의 장점을 평가하기 위해 정적인(static) 패턴만을 사용해서 영역을 병합하는 방법과 비교하였다. 제안된 방법의 실험결과에서는 적응적인 패턴 추출방법을 사용하였을 때가 정적인 패턴 추출에 의한 영역병합 방법보다 8.12%의 성능이 향상됨을 보였다. 제안된 방법은 수시로 변화하는 도로환경에서 안정적으로 도로나 하늘영역을 추출할 수 있으며, 비전기반 지능형교통정보시스템의 핵심적인 역할을 할 것으로 기대한다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권6호
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• pp.332-338
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• 2013

We propose a method for target detection in Infrared images. In order to effectively detect a target region from an image with noises and clutters, spatial information of the target is first considered by analyzing pixel distributions of projections in horizontal and vertical directions. These distributions are represented as Gaussian distributions, and Gaussian Mixture Model is created from these distributions in order to find thresholding points of the target region. Through analyzing the calculated Gaussian Mixture Model, the target region is detected by eliminating various backgrounds such as noises and clutters. This is performed by using a novel thresholding method which can effectively detect the target region. As experimental results, the proposed method has achieved better performance than existing methods.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.169-176
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• 2018

In this study, we propose a new Fire Flame Region Extraction using Block Homogeneity Segmentation method of the Fire Image with irregular texture and various colors. It is generally assumed that fire flame extraction plays a very important role. The Color Image with fire flame is divided into blocks and edge strength for each block is computed by using modified color histogram intersection method that has been developed to differentiate object boundaries from irregular texture boundaries effectively. The block homogeneity is designed to have the higher value in the center of region with the homeogenous colors or texture while to have lower value near region boundaries. The image represented by the block homogeneity is gray scale image and watershed transformation technique is used to generate closed boundary for each region. As the watershed transform generally results in over-segmentation, region merging based on common boundary strength is followed. The proposed method can be applied quickly and effectively to the initial response of fire.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.843-846
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• 2000

An optical flow-based motion estimation algorithm is proposed for video coding. The algorithm uses block-matching motion estimation with an adaptive search region. The search region is computed from motion fields that are estimated based on the optical flow. The algorithm is based on the fact that true block-motion vectors have similar characteristics to optical flow vectors. Thereafter, the search region is computed using these optical flow vectors that include spatial relationships. In conventional block matching, the search region is fixed. In contrast, in the new method, the appropriate size and location of the search region are both decided by the proposed algorithm. The results obtained using test images show that the proposed algorithm can produce a significant improvement compared with previous block-matching algorithms.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.327-332
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• 2002

The main problems of computational complexity in object tracking are definition of objects, segmentations and identifications in non-structured environments with erratic movements and collisions of objects. The object's information as a region that corresponds to objects without discriminating among objects are considered. This paper describes the algorithm that, automatically and efficiently, recognizes and keeps tracks of interest-regions selected by users in video or camera image sequences. The block-based feature matching method is used for the region tracking. This matching process considers only dominant feature points such as corners and curved-edges without requiring a pre-defined model of objects. Experimental results show that the proposed method provides above 96% precision for correct region matching and real-time process even when the objects undergo scaling and 3-dimen-sional movements In successive image sequences.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권12호
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• pp.1591-1602
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• 1995

A hybrid approach which includes edge- and region-based methods is considered. The modified non-linear Laplacian(MNL) filter is used for feature extraction. The matching algorithm has three steps which are edge, signed region, and residual region matching. At first, the edge points are matched using the sign and direction of edges. Then, the disparity is propagated from edge to inside region. A variable window is used to consider the local method which give accurate matched points and area-based method which can obtain full-resolution disparity map. In addition, a new relaxation algorithm for considering matching possibility derived from normalized error and regional continuity constraint is proposed to reduce the mismatched points. By the result of simulation for various images, this algorithm is insensitive to noise and gives full- resolution disparity map.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.5197-5218
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• 2019

Large-scale retrieval algorithm is problem for visual analyses applications, along its research track. In this paper, we propose a high-efficiency region division-based image retrieve approaches, which fuse low-level local color histogram feature and texture feature. A novel image region division is proposed to roughly mimic the location distribution of image color and deal with the color histogram failing to describe spatial information. Furthermore, for optimizing our region division retrieval method, an image descriptor combining local color histogram and Gabor texture features with reduced feature dimensions are developed. Moreover, we propose an extended Canberra distance method for images similarity measure to increase the fault-tolerant ability of the whole large-scale image retrieval. Extensive experimental results on several benchmark image retrieval databases validate the superiority of the proposed approaches over many recently proposed color-histogram-based and texture-feature-based algorithms.