• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제34S권11호
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• pp.102-113
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• 1997

In this paepr, a new image segmentation method reducing efficiently contour information causing bottleneck problem at segmentatio-based very low bit rate codingis proposed, while preserving objective and subjective quality. It consists of 4-level hierarchical image segmentation based on mathematical morphology and 1-leve region merging structure using contast of two adjacent regions. For two adjacent region pairs at the fourth level included in each region of the thid level, contrast is calculated. Among the pairs of two adjacent regions with less value than threshold, two adjacent regions having the minimum contrast are merged first. After region merging, texture of the merged region is updated. The procedure is performed recursively for all the adjacent region pairs at the fourth level included in each region of the third level. Compared with the previous method, the objective and subjective image qualities are similar. But it reduces 46.65% texture information on the average by decreasing total region number to be tansmitted. Specially, it shows reduction of the 23.95% contour information of the average. Thus, it can improve efficiently the bottleneck problem at segementation-based very low bit rate coding.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1293-1300
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• 2018

For the disadvantages of multi-scale geometric analysis methods such as loss of definition and complex selection of rules in image fusion, an improved multi-focus image fusion method is proposed. First, the initial fused image is quickly obtained based on the lifting stationary wavelet transform, and a simple normalized cut is performed on the initial fused image to obtain different segmented regions. Then, the original image is subjected to NSCT transformation and the absolute value of the high frequency component coefficient in each segmented region is calculated. At last, the region with the largest absolute value is selected as the postfusion region, and the fused multi-focus image is obtained by traversing each segment region. Numerical experiments show that the proposed algorithm can not only simplify the selection of fusion rules, but also overcome loss of definition and has validity.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.868-874
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• 2007

This paper proposes an efficient partial matching system and representation by using a region-based method for 2D image, and we applied to an extraction of the ROI(Region of Interest) according to its matching score. The matching templates consist of the global pattern and the local one. The global pattern can make it by using region-based relation between center region and its rest regions in an object. And, the local pattern can be obtained appling to the same method as global, except relation between objects. As the templates can be normalized, we use this templates for extraction of ROI with invariant to size and position. And, our system operates only one try to match, due to normalizing of region size. To use our system for searching and examining if it's the ROI by evaluating the matching function, at first, we are searching to find candidate regions with the global template. Then, we try to find the ROI among the candidates, and it works this time by using the local template. We experimented to the binary and the color image respectively, they showed that the proposed system can be used efficiently for representing of the template and the useful applications, such as partially retrievals of 2D image.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제18B권5호
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• pp.265-270
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 이진화기반 영역분할을 이용한 3D입체영상의 밝기 보정방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 입력된 좌우 3D입체영상 중 우 영상을 이진화를 통한 영역분할을 하고 크기가 작은 영역들은 제거한다. 다음 우 영상의 각 영역들에 대해 대응되는 좌 영상내의 영역을 상관계수(correlation coefficient)를 이용한 정합을 통해 추출한다. 영역단위의 매칭을 할 때 영역들 간의 겹침을 방지하기 위하여 모폴로지 필터로 영역경계에 인접한 일정부분을 제거한다. 그리고 좌우 영상의 영역 간 히스토그램 명세화를 수행함으로써 우 영상의 밝기 보정을 한다. 실험에서 좌 영상으로부터 블록단위 움직임보상으로 우 영상을 생성했을 때 제안한 방법이 블록평균 정합오차가 가장 작은 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제34S권3호
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• pp.84-96
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• 1997

In this paper an efficient morphologica algorithm for reducing gaussian and impulse noise in gray-scale image is presented. Based on the edge information the input image is partitioned into a flat region and an edge region, then different algorithms are selectively applied to each region. in case of impulse noise, MGR (morphologica grayscale reconstruction) algorithm with directional SE (structuring element) is applied to the flat region. For theedge region opening-closing (closing-opening) is used instead of dialation (erosion), so that the remaining noise around large objects can be removed. In case of gaussian noise, 5*5 OCCO(opening closing closing opening) and 3*3 DMF(directional morphological filter ) are used for the flat region and the edgeregion, respectively. In order to remove discontinuity at the edge boundary, the algorithm uses 3*3 OCCO around the edge region to reconstruct the final image. Experimetnal results have shown that the proposed algorithm achieves a high performance in terms of noise removal, detail preservation, and NMSE.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.521-532
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• 2015

본 논문은 효과적인 열화영상의 복원을 위해 쿼드트리 구조를 갖는 다중-스케일 블록 지역적 이진 패턴 기반의 영역검출기를 제시하고, 이를 통한 구간적 잡음 제거 기법을 제안한다. 구간적 잡음 제거 기법은 영상 내 전체 화소를 일정한 블록 단위의 영역으로 나누어 화소의 변화량에 따라 검출을 수행하는 다중-스케일 블록 영역 검출기를 쿼드트리 형태로 제시하고 검출된 영역 특성에 맞게 영상분석을 진행한다. 처리되는 영역들은 강한 변화량을 갖는 영역, 약한 변화량을 갖는 영역, 평탄한 영역의 세 가지로 분류되며 차례로 주성분분석, 양방향 필터, 구조-텍스쳐 영상 분해의 기법들이 잡음제거를 위해 적용된다. 객관적 실험결과를 통하여 기존 알고리즘들 보다 제안하는 구간적 잡음 제거 기법이 최대 신호-대-잡음비 측면에서 이득을 가지며, 주관적 화질 비교를 통해 세부정보들이 최대한 보존되어 있음과 동시에 평탄한 영역에 대해서도 왜곡이 거의 없는 향상된 복원영상이 얻어지는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.862-864
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• 2003

Thresholding is a popular image segmentation method that converts a gray-level image into a binary image. The selection of optimum threshold has remained a challenge over decades. Many image segmentation techniques are developed using information about image in other space rather than the image space itself. Most of the technique based on histogram analysis information-theoretic approaches. In this paper, the criterion function for finding optimal threshold is developed using an intensity-based classuncertainty (a histogram-based property of an image) and region-homogeneity (an image morphology-based property). The theory of the optimum thresholding method is based on postulates that objects manifest themselves with fuzzy boundaries in any digital image acquired by an imaging device. The performance of the proposed method is illustrated on experimental data obtained by W-band millimeter-wave radiometer image under different noise level.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.74-82
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• 2008

The objective of this paper is to remove noises of image based on the heuristic noises filter and to extract a tumor region by using morphology techniques in breast ultrasound image. Similar objective studies have been conducted based on ultrasound image of high resolution. As a result, efficiency of noise removal is not fine enough for low resolution image. Moreover, when ultrasound image has multiple tumors, the extraction of ROI (Region Of Interest) is not accomplished or processed by a manual selection. In this paper, our method is done 4 kinds of process for noises removal and the extraction of ROI for solving problems of restrictive automated segmentation. First process is that pixel value is acquired as matrix type. Second process is a image preprocessing phase that is aimed to maximize a contrast of image and prevent a leak of personal information. In next process, the heuristic noise filter that is based on opinion of medical specialist is applied to remove noises. The last process is to extract a tumor region by using morphology techniques. As a result, the noise is effectively eliminated in all images and a extraction of tumor regions is possible though one ultrasound image has several tumors.

• 자연과학논문집
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• 제4권
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• pp.191-220
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• 1991

Human Visual System(HVS)의 특성과 image의 textural regions의 roughness을 이용하여 image segmentation을 행하여 high compression에서도 고화질을 나타내는 새로운 image coder를 이 논문에서 논한다. 제안된 image coder는 constant segments를 가진 segmentation-based image coding technique의 문제들을 다음과 같은 방법론을 제안함으로써 해결하였다. Image를 HVS으로 보았을 때 degree of roughness에 관하여 textually homogeneous regions으로 segmentation하였다. Fractal dimension을 roughness of textural regions을 측정하기 위하여 사용하였다. Segmentation은 fractal dimension을 thresholding하여 textural regions이 three texture classes로 분류하였다(perceived constant intensity, smooth texture, and rough texture). High compression을 가지는 고질화의 image coder는 각각의 segment boundary와 각각의 texture class에 효율적인 coding technique를 적용 함으로 얻었다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2008년도 International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.72-75
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• 2008

Image segmentation techniques becoming increasingly important in the field of remote sensing image analysis in areas such as object oriented image classification. This paper presents a new method for image segmentation in High Resolution Remote Sensing Image based on Seeded Region Growing (SRG) and Edge Information. Firstly, multi-spectral edge detection was done using an entropy operator in pan-sharpened QuickBird imagery. Then, the initial seeds were automatically selected from the obtained edge map. After automatic selection of significant seeds, an initial segmentation was achieved by applying SRG. Finally the region merging process, using region adjacency graph (RAG), was carried out to get the final segmentation result. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method has good potential for application in the segmentation of high resolution satellite images.