• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.592-601
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• 2013

Object segmentation is a challenging task in image processing and computer vision. In this paper, we present a visual attention based segmentation method to segment small sized interesting objects in natural images. Different from the traditional methods, we first search the region of interest by using our novel saliency-based method, which is mainly based on band-pass filtering, to obtain the appropriate frequency. Secondly, we applied the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to locate the object region. By incorporating the visual attention analysis into object segmentation, our proposed approach is able to narrow the search region for object segmentation, so that the accuracy is increased and the computational complexity is reduced. The experimental results indicate that our proposed approach is efficient for object segmentation in natural images, especially for small objects. Our proposed method significantly outperforms traditional GMM based segmentation.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.1972-1975
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• 2003

Video segmentation is an essential part in region-based video coding and any other fields of the video processing. Among lots of methods proposed so far, the watershed method in which the region growing is performed for the gradient image can produce well-partitioned regions globally without any influence on local noise and extracts accurate boundaries. But, it generates a great number of small regions, which we call over segmentation problem. Therefore we proposes image segmentation improvement by selective application structuring element of mathematical morphology.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.417-426
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• 2023

To improve the effect of image restoration and solve the image detail loss, an image dehazing enhancement algorithm based on mean guided filtering is proposed. The superpixel calculation method is used to pre-segment the original foggy image to obtain different sub-regions. The Ncut algorithm is used to segment the original image, and it outputs the segmented image until there is no more region merging in the image. By means of the mean-guided filtering method, the minimum value is selected as the value of the current pixel point in the local small block of the dark image, and the dark primary color image is obtained, and its transmittance is calculated to obtain the image edge detection result. According to the prior law of dark channel, a classic image dehazing enhancement model is established, and the model is combined with a median filter with low computational complexity to denoise the image in real time and maintain the jump of the mutation area to achieve image dehazing enhancement. The experimental results show that the image dehazing and enhancement effect of the proposed algorithm has obvious advantages, can retain a large amount of image detail information, and the values of information entropy, peak signal-to-noise ratio, and structural similarity are high. The research innovatively combines a variety of methods to achieve image dehazing and improve the quality effect. Through segmentation, filtering, denoising and other operations, the image quality is effectively improved, which provides an important reference for the improvement of image processing technology.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.110-114
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• 2015

This paper reports a novel object-detection technique in video sequences. The proposed algorithm consists of detection of objects in illuminated and occluded videos by using object features and a neural network technique. It consists of two functional modules: region-based object feature extraction and continuous detection of objects in video sequences with region features. This scheme is proposed as an enhancement of the Lowe's scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) object detection method. This technique solved the high computation time problem of feature generation in the SIFT method. The improvement is achieved by region-based feature classification in the objects to be detected; optimal neural network-based feature reduction is presented in order to reduce the object region feature dataset with winner pixel estimation between the video frames of the video sequence. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves better overall performance than other object detection techniques, and region-based feature detection is faster in comparison to other recent techniques.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2011

본 논문은 자체 생성된 기준 히스토그램 템플릿을 이용하여 잠망경으로부터 획득되는 영상에 존재하는 관심 물체영역을 배경영역으로부터 분할하는 기법을 제안한다. 먼저, 수평선을 추출하고, 추출된 수평선을 기준으로 하여 하늘과 바다 영역으로 분할한다. 분할된 각각의 영역에서 배경 영역을 대표할 수 있는 영역의 블록들을 지정하여 기준 히스토그램 템플릿으로 설정한다. 여기서 전체 영상을 동일한 크기의 블록들로 나누어, 이미 설정된 기준 히스토그램 템플릿과의 멀티 정합을 통해 물체 영역과 배경 영역으로 분할한다. 본 연구에서 제안한 물체 영역 분할 알고리즘은 배경이 하늘과 바다인 환경에서 물체가 존재하는 다양한 영상에 대해 적용되었고, 사전에 주어진 학습영상이 없는 상태에서도 영상 분할이 원활하게 수행됨을 확인하였다. 또한 입력 영상에서 수평선의 기울기와 수평선에 대한 물체의 위치에 상관없이 물체 영역을 적절히 분할함을 확인하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.229-236
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• 2017

This paper presents an efficient object-based color image-retrieval algorithm that is suitable for the classification and retrieval of images from small to mid-scale datasets, such as images in PCs, tablets, phones, and cameras. The proposed method first finds salient regions by using regional feature vectors, and also finds several dominant colors in each region. Then, each salient region is partitioned into small sub-blocks, which are assigned 1 or 0 with respect to the number of pixels corresponding to a dominant color in the sub-block. This gives a binary map for the dominant color, and this process is repeated for the predefined number of dominant colors. Finally, we have several binary maps, each of which corresponds to a dominant color in a salient region. Hence, the binary maps represent the spatial distribution of the dominant colors in the salient region, and the union (OR operation) of the maps can describe the approximate shapes of salient objects. Also proposed in this paper is a matching method that uses these binary maps and which needs very few computations, because most operations are binary. Experiments on widely used color image databases show that the proposed method performs better than state-of-the-art and previous color-based methods.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.114-127
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• 2017

This paper proposes a color image coding algorithm based on shape-adaptive all phase biorthogonal transform (SA-APBT). This algorithm is implemented through four procedures: color space conversion, image segmentation, shape coding, and texture coding. Region-of-interest (ROI) and background area are obtained by image segmentation. Shape coding uses chain code. The texture coding of the ROI is prior to the background area. SA-APBT and uniform quantization are adopted in texture coding. Compared with the color image coding algorithm based on shape-adaptive discrete cosine transform (SA-DCT) at the same bit rates, experimental results on test color images reveal that the objective quality and subjective effects of the reconstructed images using the proposed algorithm are better, especially at low bit rates. Moreover, the complexity of the proposed algorithm is reduced because of uniform quantization.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제12B권5호
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• pp.587-594
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• 2005

본 논문은 전이 영역에서 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘을 이용한 multi-level thresholding 방법을 제안한다. 대부분의 임계치 기반 영상 분할은 영상의 히스토 그램 분포를 기반으로 임계치를 결정한다. 그러므로 많은 처리시간과 기억공간을 요구할 뿐만 아니라 복잡하고 무분별한 히스토 그램 분포를 가지는 실영상에서의 임계치 결정에는 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 영상의 대표적인 성분들로 구성된 전이 영역을 추출한 후 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘에 의해 최적의 임계치를 결정한다. 전이 영역을 추출하기 위해 이용되는 지역적 엔트로피는 잡음에 강건하며 영상에 내재된 정보를 잘 표현한다는 특성을 가진다. 그리고 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘은 복잡하고 무분별한 분포의 실영상에 대해서도 정확히 임계치를 설정할 수 있으며 multi-level thresholding으로 쉽게 확장이 가능하다. 다양한 실영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법보다 향상된 성능을 가짐을 보였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제9B권4호
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• pp.471-480
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 블록화된 영상의 관심영역 가중치 비교 알고리즘과 형상특징 가중치 비교 알고리즘을 결합하여 지폐를 실시간으로 분류하는 시스템을 하드웨어로 구현하였다. 구현된 시스템은 영상획득부, 전처리 및 영상처리부로 구성되어 있다. 영상획득부는 CIS(contact image sensor)에 의해 영상이 얻어지고, A/D 변환기와 PLD에서 전처리를 한다. 영상처리부는 전처리된 영상을 제안된 알고리즘에 의해 DSP에서 수행한다. 제안한 방법은 시뮬레이션을 통해 질의영상과 비교영상간의 식별율을 높일 수 있고 오염되거나 회전, 이동된 지폐에서도 향상된 성능을 가진다. 그리고 제안 방법은 영상의 블록화 효과에 따른 계산량의 감소와 병렬처리를 할 수 있는 시스템으로 구성할 수 있어서 검색율을 높이거나 검색시간을 줄일 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.4567-4587
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• 2017

With the growth of the Internet and the extensive applications of image editing software, it has become easier to manipulate digital images without leaving obvious traces. Copy-move is one of the most common techniques for image forgery. Image blind forensics is an effective technique for detecting tampered images. This paper proposes an improved copy-move forgery detection method based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT). The quantized DCT coefficients, which are feature representations of image blocks, are truncated using a truncation factor to reduce the feature dimensions. A method for judging whether two image blocks are similar is proposed to improve the accuracy of similarity judgments. The main transfer vectors whose frequencies exceed a threshold are found to locate the copied and pasted regions in forged images. Several experiments are conducted to test the practicability of the proposed algorithm using images from copy-move databases and to evaluate its robustness against post-processing methods such as additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), Gaussian blurring, and JPEG compression. The results of experiments show that the proposed scheme effectively detects both copied region and pasted region of forged images and that it is robust to the post-processing methods mentioned above.