• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제34S권3호
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• pp.97-107
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• 1997

Image segmentation is teh important step in image infromation extraction for computer vison sytems. Fuzzy clustering methods have been used extensively in color image segmentation. Most analytic fuzzy clustering approaches are derived from the fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm. The FCM algorithm uses th eprobabilistic constraint that the memberships of a data point across classes sum to 1. However, the memberships resulting from the FCM do not always correspond to the intuitive concept of degree of belongingor compatibility. moreover, the FCM algorithm has considerable trouble above under noisy environments in the feature space. Recently, the possibilistic C-mean (PCM) for solving growing for color image segmentation. In the PCM, the membersip values may be interpreted as degrees of possibility of the data points belonging to the classes. So, the problems in the FCM can be solved by the PCM. The clustering results by just PCM are not smoothly bounded, and they often have holes. So, the region growing was used as a postprocessing. In our experiments, we illustrated that the proposed method is reasonable than the FCM in noisy enviironments.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2006년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2006 PORSEC Volume II
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• pp.736-739
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• 2006

While hyperspectral data are very rich in information, their processing poses several challenges such as computational requirements, noise removal and relevant information extraction. In this paper, the application of advanced scale-space filtering to selected hyperspectral bands was investigated. In particular, a pre-processing tool, consisting of anisotropic diffusion and morphological leveling filtering, has been developed, aiming to an edge-preserving smoothing and simplification of hyperspectral data, procedures which are of fundamental importance during feature extraction and object detection. Two scale space parameters define the extent of image smoothing (anisotropic diffusion iterations) and image simplification (scale of morphological levelings). Experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the developed scale space filtering for the enhancement and smoothing of hyperspectral remote sensing data and their advantage against watershed over-segmentation problems and edge detection.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.121-128
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• 1995

Information about retinal blood vessels can be used in grading disease severity or as part of the process of automated diagnosis of diseases with ocular menifestations. In this paper, we address the problem of detecting retinal blood vessels and optic disk (papilla) in eye-fundus images. We introduce an algorithm for feature extraction based on Fuzzy Clustering algorithm (fuzzy c-means). A method of finding the optic disk (papilla) is proposed in the eye-fundus images. Additionally, the inrormations such as position and area of the optic disk are extracted. The results are compared to those obtained from other methods. The automatic detection of retinal blood vessels and optic disk in the eye-rundus images could help physicians in diagnosing ocular diseases.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2015

Recent developments in robotics and intelligent vehicle area, bring interests of people in an autonomous driving ability and advanced driving assistance system. Especially fully automatic parking ability is one of the key issues of intelligent vehicles, and accurate parked vehicles detection is essential for this issue. In previous researches, many types of sensors are used for detecting vehicles, 2D LiDAR is popular since it offers accurate range information without preprocessing. The L shape feature is most popular 2D feature for vehicle detection, however it has an ambiguity on different objects such as building, bushes and this occurs misdetection problem. Therefore we propose the accurate vehicle detection method by using a 3D complete vehicle model in 3D point clouds acquired from front inclined 2D LiDAR. The proposed method is decomposed into two steps: vehicle candidate extraction, vehicle detection. By combination of L shape feature and point clouds segmentation, we extract the objects which are highly related to vehicles and apply 3D model to detect vehicles accurately. The method guarantees high detection performance and gives plentiful information for autonomous parking. To evaluate the method, we use various parking situation in complex urban scene data. Experimental results shows the qualitative and quantitative performance efficiently.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2021

딥러닝의 발전으로 인하여 의미론적 분할 방법은 다양한 분야에서 연구되고 있다. 의료 영상 분석과 같이 정확성을 요구하는 분야에서 분할 정확도가 떨어지는 문제가 있다. 본 논문은 의미론적 분할 시 특징 손실을 최소화하기 위해 딥러닝 기반 분할 방법인 PSPNet을 개선하였다. 기존 딥러닝 기반의 분할 방법은 특징 추출 및 압축 과정에서 해상도가 낮아져 객체에 대한 특징 손실이 발생한다. 이러한 손실로 윤곽선이나 객체 내부 정보에 손실이 발생하여 객체 분류 시 정확도가 낮아지는 문제가 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 의미론적 분할 모델인 PSPNet을 개선하였다. 기존 PSPNet에 제안하는 multi scale attention을 추가하여 객체의 특징 손실을 방지하였다. 기존 PPM 모듈에 attention 방법을 적용하여 특징 정제 과정을 수행하였다. 불필요한 특징 정보를 억제함으로써 윤곽선 및 질감 정보가 개선되었다. 제안하는 방법은 Cityscapes 데이터 셋으로 학습하였으며, 정량적 평가를 위해 분할 지표인 MIoU를 사용하였다. 실험을 통해 기존 PSPNet 대비 분할 정확도가 약 1.5% 향상되었다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.11-20
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 피부색 정보를 이용한 얼굴 후보 검출 방법과 얼굴의 구조적 특징을 이용한 얼굴 확인 방법으로 구성된 얼굴 검출 시스템을 제안한다. 먼저 제안하는 얼굴 후보 검출 방법은 피부색 영역과 피부색의 주변 영역에 대한 이미지 분할과 병합 알고리듬을 이용한다. 이미지 분할과 병합 알고리듬의 적용은 복잡한 이미지에 존재하는 다양한 얼굴들을 후보로 검출할 수 있다. 그리고 제안하는 얼굴 확인 방법은 얼굴을 지역적인 특징에 따라 분류 가능한 부분 얼굴 분류기를 사용하여 얼굴의 구조적 특징을 판단하고, 얼굴과 비-얼굴을 구별한다. 부분 얼굴 분류기는 학습 과정에서 얼굴 이미지만을 사용하고, 비-얼굴 이미지는 고려하지 않기 때문에 적은 수의 훈련 이미지를 사용한다. 실험 결과 제안한 얼굴 후보 검출 방법은 기존의 방법보다 평균 9.55% 많은 얼굴을 후보로 검출하였다. 그리고 얼굴/비-얼굴 분류 실험에서 비-얼굴에 대한 분류율이 99%일 때 기존의 분류기보다 평균 4.97% 높은 얼굴 분류율을 달성 하였다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2020

The image analysis is an important and predominant task for classifying the different parts of the image. The analysis of complex image analysis like histopathological define a crucial factor in oncology due to its ability to help pathologists for interpretation of images and therefore various feature extraction techniques have been evolved from time to time for such analysis. Although deep reinforcement learning is a new and emerging technique but very less effort has been made to compare the deep learning and deep reinforcement learning for image analysis. The paper highlights how both techniques differ in feature extraction from complex images and discusses the potential pros and cons. The use of Convolution Neural Network (CNN) in image segmentation, detection and diagnosis of tumour, feature extraction is important but there are several challenges that need to be overcome before Deep Learning can be applied to digital pathology. The one being is the availability of sufficient training examples for medical image datasets, feature extraction from whole area of the image, ground truth localized annotations, adversarial effects of input representations and extremely large size of the digital pathological slides (in gigabytes).Even though formulating Histopathological Image Analysis (HIA) as Multi Instance Learning (MIL) problem is a remarkable step where histopathological image is divided into high resolution patches to make predictions for the patch and then combining them for overall slide predictions but it suffers from loss of contextual and spatial information. In such cases the deep reinforcement learning techniques can be used to learn feature from the limited data without losing contextual and spatial information.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.1171-1181
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose improved methods which are image conversion and extraction method of watershed seed using morphological characteristic of teeth on complement image. Conventional tooth segmentation methods are occurred low detection ratio at molar region and over, overlap segmentation owing to specular reflection and morphological feature of molars. Therefore, in order to solve the problems of the conventional methods, we propose the image conversion method and improved extraction method of watershed seed. First, the image conversion method is performed using RGB, HSI space of tooth image for to extract boundary and seed of watershed efficiently. Second, watershed seed is reconstructed using morphological characteristic of teeth. Last, individual tooth segmentation is performed using proposed seed of watershed by watershed algorithm. Therefore, as a result of comparison with marker controlled watershed algorithm and the proposed method, we confirmed higher detection ratio and accuracy than marker controlled watershed algorithm.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제19B권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2012

최근 멀티미디어 정보가 급증함에 따라 콘텐츠 관리에 대한 요구도 함께 증가되고 있다. 이에 오디오 분할 및 분류는 멀티미디어 콘텐츠를 효과적으로 관리할 수 있는 대안이 될 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 동영상에서 취득한 오디오 신호를 분할하고, 분할된 오디오 신호를 음악, 음성, 배경 음악이 포함된 음성, 잡음이 포함된 음성, 묵음(silence)으로 분류하는 정확도가 높은 오디오 분할 및 분류 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 오디오 분할을 위해 서포트 벡터 머신(support vector machine, SVM)을 이용하였다. 오디오 신호의 분류를 위해서는 분할된 오디오 신호의 특징을 추출하고 이를 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘(fuzzy c-means, FCM)의 입력으로 사용하여 각 계층으로 오디오 신호를 분류하였다. 제안하는 알고리즘의 평가는 분할과 분류에 대해 각각 그 성능을 평가하였으며, 분할 성능 평가는 정확도율(precesion rate)과 오차율(recall rate)을 이용하였으며, 분류 성능 평가는 정확성(classification accuracy)을 사용하였다. 또한 오디오 분할의 경우는 이진 분류기와 퍼지 클러스터링을 이용한 기존의 알고리즘과 그 성능을 비교하였다. 모의 실험 결과, 제안한 알고리즘의 분류 성능이 기존 알고리즘 보다 정확도율과 오차율 면에서 모두 우수하였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.227-236
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• 1997

Manual grading and sorting of red-ginsengs are inherently unreliable due to its subjective nature. A computerized technique based on optical and geometrical characteristics was studied for the objective quality evalution. Spectral reflectance of three categories of red-ginsengs - "Chunsam", "Chisam", "Yangsam" - were measured and analyzed. Variation of reflectance among parts of a single ginseng was more significant than variation among the quality categories of ginsengs. A PC-based image processing algorithm was developed to extract geometrical features such as length and thickness of body, length and number of roots, position of head and branch point, etc. The algorithm consisted of image segmentation, calculation of Euclidean distance, skeletonization and feature extraction. Performance of the algorithm was evaluated using sample ginseng images and found to be mostly sussessful.