• 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 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.2319-2322
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• 2003

We propose ROI(region of interest) image coding application to still image using PSBS(partial significant bitplane shift)method combined with human face region detecting system. PSBS is an encoding algorithm for ROI image coding in JPEG2000, and takes advantages of both generic scaling based method and maximum shift method defined in JPEG2000. The Powerful advantages of PSBS are able to adjusting image quality in ROI and background flexibly, and support arbitrarily shaped ROI coding without coding the shape. In this letter, we show how to compress an image for human face region using PSBS method combined with human face region detecting system, and propose its application.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2018

본 논문은 단일 이미지에서 초해상도 영상 생성을 위해 저해상도 이미지에서 생성한 패치정보를 기반으로 선형보간하는 방법을 제안하였다. 기존의 초해상도 생성 방법인 전역 공간의 회귀 모델을 사용하면 특정 영역에 대해 참조할 정보가 부족하여 일반적으로 품질이 떨어지는 결과가 나타난다. 이러한 결과를 보완하기 위해 제안하는 방법은 초해상도 이미지 생성 과정에서 영상을 패치 단위로 지역을 분할하여 의미있는 정보를 수집하고, 수집된 정보를 기반으로 초해상도 이미지 생성을 위해 확장시킨 이미지 매트릭스 영역의 구성정보를 분석하여 선형 보간 과정을 거치고 패치정보를 대응시켜 탐색한 최적의 패치 정보를 기준으로 선형 보간하는 방법을 제안하였다. 실험을 위해 원본 이미지를 복원된 영상과 PSNR, SSIM으로 비교 평가하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.2407-2410
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new stereoscopic video conversion methodology that converts two-dimensional (2-D) MPEG-4 video to stereoscopic video. In MPEG-4, each Image is composed of background object and primary object. In the first step of the conversion methodology, the camera motion type is determined for stereo Image generation. In the second step, the object-based stereo image generation is carried out. The background object makes use of a current image and a delayed image for its stereo image generation. On the other hand, the primary object uses a current image and its horizontally-shifted version to avoid the possible vertical parallax that could happen. Furthermore, URFA(Uncovered Region Filling Algorithm) is applied in the uncovered region which might be created after the stereo image generation of a primary object. In our experiment, show MPEG-4 test video and its stereoscopic video based upon out proposed methodology and analyze Its results.

• 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.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 제14회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.283-286
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• 2001

In this paper, we present a robust region segmentation method based on the watershed transformation of a pseudo-distance map (PDM). A usual approach for the segmentation of a gray-scale image with the watershed algorithm is to apply it to a gradient magnitude image or the Euclidean distance map (EDM) of an edge image. However, it is well known that this approach suffers from the oversegmentation of the given image due to noisy gradients or spurious edges caused by a thresholding operation. In this paper we show thor applying the watershed algorithm to the EDM, which is a regularized version of the EDM and is directly computed form the edgestrength function (ESF) of the input image, significantly reduces the oversegmentation, and the final segmentation results obtained by a simple region-merging process are more reliable and less noisy than those of the gradient-or EDM-based methods. We also propose a simple and efficient region-merging criterion considering both boundary strengths and inner intensities of regions to be merged. The robustness of our method is proven by testing it with a variety of synthetic and real images.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제34S권7호
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• pp.78-88
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• 1997

A three dimensional-two spatical dimensions plus time-image segmentation is widely used in a very low bit rate image sequence coding because it can solve the region correspondence problem. Mathematical morphology is a very efficient tool for the segmentation because it deals well with geometric features such as size, shape, contrast and connectivity. But if the motion in the image sequence is large in time axis, the conventional 3D morphological segmentation algorithm have difficulty in solving region correspondence problem. To alleviate this problem, we propose the hierarchical image sequence segmentation algorithm that uses the region motion information. Since the motion of a region in previous level affects that in current level uses the previous motion information to increase region correspondence. Simulation result shows improved performance for sequence frames with large motion.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.163-172
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• 2017

A high performance license plate recognition system (LPRS) is proposed in this work. The proposed LPRS is composed of the following three main stages: (i) plate region determination, (ii) character segmentation, and (iii) character recognition. During the plate region determination stage, the image is enhanced by image processing algorithms to increase system performance. The rectangular license plate region is obtained using edge-based image processing methods on the binarized image. With the help of skew correction, the plate region is prepared for the character segmentation stage. Characters are separated from each other using vertical projections on the plate region. Segmented characters are prepared for the character recognition stage by a thinning process. At the character recognition stage, a three-layer feedforward artificial neural network using a backpropagation learning algorithm is constructed and the characters are determined.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 영상의 에지와 칼라 분포를 부영상(sub-image)의 단위로 기술하기 위해 MPEG-7의 여러 가지 서술자 중 에지히스토그램 서술자(EHD: Edge Histogram Descriptor)와 컬러레이아웃 서술자(CLD: Color Layout Descriptor)를 조합한 영역기반 영상 검색 시스템을 제안한다. 영상 내의 관심영역 (ROI) 선택의 기본 단위는 영상 공간을 $16(4{\times}4)$개의 겹치지 않는 영역으로 분할한 EHD의 부영상 블록이다. 따라서 영상 특징 벡터에 대한 블록-대-블록의 일-대-일 대응 관계를 유지하기 위해 CLD의 기술자는 $8{\times}8$ 역 DCT (IDCT)를 통해 $4{\times}4$의 각 부영상에 대응하는 컬러 특징을 생성한다 제안된 방법이 MPEG-7의 기술자에 대해 관심영역기반 영상 검색에 적용될 수 있음을 실험을 통해 제시하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제23권9A호
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• pp.2333-2344
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• 1998

We present a two step approach for estimating the motionand sturcture parameters from region orrespondences in two frames. Given four or more region corresondences on the same planar surface, the motion and planar orientation parameters are first linearly estimated based on second-order approximation of the displacement field of the image plane. Then, using this linear estimate as an initial guess, a nonlinear estimate is obtained by iteratively minimizing an objective function using the exact experession of the displacement field. The objective function involves the centroids of corresponding regions and relationships among low-order moments. Through simulations, we show that the two-step region-based approach gives robust estimates. The performance of nonlinear region-based estimation is compared with that of linear region-based and point-based methods. Experimental results for two image pairs, on esynthetic and one real, ar epresented to show the practical applicability of our approach.