• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.217-231
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• 2016

This paper presents a new approach for underwater image analysis using the bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) technique and the phase congruency information. The BEMD algorithm, fully unsupervised, it is mainly applied to texture extraction and image filtering, which are widely recognized as a difficult and challenging machine vision problem. The phase information is the very stability feature of image. Recent developments in analysis methods on the phase congruency information have received large attention by the image researchers. In this paper, the proposed method is called the EP model that inherits the advantages of the first two algorithms, so this model is suitable for processing underwater image. Moreover, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is presented in this paper to solve the problem that the threshold is greatly affected by personal experience when underwater image edge detection is performed using the EP model. The EP images are computed using combinations of the Canny detector parameters, and the binaryzation image results are generated accordingly. The ideal EP edge feature extractive maps are estimated using correspondence threshold which is optimized by ROC analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is able to avoid the operation error caused by manual setting of the detection threshold, and to adaptively set the image feature detection threshold. The proposed method has been proved to be accuracy and effectiveness by the underwater image processing examples.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.877-885
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• 2004

본 논문은 여러 가지 장면 검출 방식들 중 강인한 특징 변수들의 선별과 신경망을 이용하여 향상된 장면 전환점 검출 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 장면 전환점 검출 방식에서는 인접한 프레임 간에 단일 특징과 고정된 임계값을 주로 사용하였다. 하지만, 비디오 시퀀스 내의 장면 전환점에서는 인접한 프레임 간의 내용(content)인 컬러, 모양, 배경 혹은 질감 등이 동시에 변화한다. 따라서 단일 특징보다는 상호 보완 관계를 갖는 강인한 특징을 이용하여 장면 전환점을 효율적으로 검출한다. 본 논문에서 강인한 특징 변수들을 선택하기 위해, 데이터 마이닝 기법 중 대표적인 CART(classification and regression tree)를 이용하고, 다차원 변수에 따른 임계값을 선정하기 위해 역전파 신경망(backpropagation neural net)을 이용한다. 제안한 방식과 대표적인 특징 추출인 PCA(principal component analysis)기법을 비교하여 특징 변수의 추출 성능을 평가한다. 실험 결과에 따라 제안된 방식이 PCA 기법과 비교하여 우수한 성능이 나타남을 확인한다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제26권7호
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• pp.683-690
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• 2005

공간 해상도 1m 이하의 고해상도 원격 탐사 영상의 민간 활용이 활발해 짐에 따라, 이를 위한 전문 분야 별 영상 분석 방법의 개발 요구가 증가하고 있다. 다양한 영상분석 기법 중에, 주변 화소들간의 공간 분포 관계에 의해 특성이 결정되는 텍스처 영상의 분석은 이러한 목적을 위한 유용한 영상 분석 방법 중 하나이다. 이 연구에서는 원시 영상으로부터 GLCM 알고리즘에 의해 생성된 텍스처 영상에 대해서 방향 인자, 마스킹 커널의 크기, 변수의 종류에 따른 결과를 비교, 분석한 뒤 각각의 결과 영상의 지형공간 특성 분석의 적용성에 대하여 알아보았다. 또한 원시 영상과 텍스처 영상에서 특성 정보를 포함하는 템플레이트를 설정하고 이를 기준으로 반복적인 패턴을 자동으로 검색하는 템플레이트 정합 프로그램을 구현하여 이를 원시 영상과 텍스처 영상에 적용하였고, 처리 결과에 기초하여 향후 적용 가능성을 검토하였다. 이 연구의 결과는 일정한 패턴으로 나타나는 지구과학적인 지형 특성이나 고해상도 위성영상 정보를 이용한 인공 지형지물의 파악 및 분석에 효과적으로 적용될 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.1372-1381
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• 2017

In this paper, a texture feature extraction method using local energy and local correlation of Gabor transformed images is proposed and applied to an image retrieval system. The Gabor wavelet is known to be similar to the response of the human visual system. The outputs of the Gabor transformation are robust to variants of object size and illumination. Due to such advantages, it has been actively studied in various fields such as image retrieval, classification, analysis, etc. In this paper, in order to fully exploit the superior aspects of Gabor wavelet, local energy and local correlation features are extracted from Gabor transformed images and then applied to an image retrieval system. Some experiments are conducted to compare the performance of the proposed method with those of the conventional Gabor method and the popular rotation-invariant uniform local binary pattern (RULBP) method in terms of precision vs recall. The Mahalanobis distance is used to measure the similarity between a query image and a database (DB) image. Experimental results for Corel DB and VisTex DB show that the proposed method is superior to the conventional Gabor method. The proposed method also yields precision and recall 6.58% and 3.66% higher on average in Corel DB, respectively, and 4.87% and 3.37% higher on average in VisTex DB, respectively, than the popular RULBP method.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.745-746
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• 2008

In the last few years rapid improvements in hardware technology have made it possible to process, store and retrieve huge amounts of data ina multimedia format. As a result, Content-Based Image Retrieval(CBIR) has been receiving widespred interest during the last decade. This paper propose the content-based retrieval system as a method for performing image retrieval throught the effective feature analysis of the object of significant meaning by using texture descriptor.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제27권3E호
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• pp.77-83
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• 2008

In the process of the sonar image textures produced, the orientation and scale factors are very significant. However, most of the related methods ignore the directional information and scale invariance or just pay attention to one of them. To overcome this problem, we apply Gabor wavelet to extract the features of sonar images, which combine the advantages of both the Gabor filter and traditional wavelet function. The mother wavelet is designed with constrained parameters and the optimal parameters will be selected at each orientation, with the help of bandwidth parameters based on the Fisher criterion. The Gabor wavelet can have the properties of both multi-scale and multi-orientation. Based on our experiment, this method is more appropriate than traditional wavelet or single Gabor filter as it provides the better discrimination of the textures and improves the recognition rate effectively. Meanwhile, comparing with other fusion methods, it can reduce the complexity and improve the calculation efficiency.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2009

Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is becoming a popular tool for various machine vision applications such as face recognition, classification and background subtraction. In this paper, we propose a new extension of LBP, called the Diagonal LBP (DLBP), to handle the image-based gender classification problem arise in interactive display systems. Instead of comparing neighbor pixels with the center pixel, DLBP generates codes by comparing a neighbor pixel with the diagonal pixel (the neighbor pixel in the opposite side). It can reduce by half the code length of LBP and consequently, can improve the computation complexity. The Support Vector Machine is utilized as the gender classifier, and the texture profile based on DLBP is adopted as the feature vector. Experimental results revealed that our approach based on the diagonal LPB is very efficient and can be utilized in various real-time pattern classification applications.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제31B권9호
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• pp.101-111
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• 1994

The human face can provide a great deal of information in regard to his/her race, age, sex, personality, feeling, psychology, mental state, health condition and ect. If we pay a close attention to the aging process, we are able to find out that there are recognizable phenomena such as eyelid drooping, cheek drooping, forehead furrowing, hair falling-out, the hair becomes gray and etc. This paper proposes that the method to estimate the age by analyzing these feature components for the facial image. Ang we also introduce the method of facial image synthesis in accordance with the cange of age. The feature components according to the change of age can be obtainec by dividing the facial image into the 3-dimensional shape of a face and the texture of a face and then analyzing the principle component respectively using 3-dimensional model. We assume the age of the facial image by comparing the extracted feature component to the facial image and synthesize the resulted image by adding or subtracting the feature component to/from the facial image. As a resurt of this simulation, we have obtained the age changed ficial image of high quality.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.362-369
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• 2014

본 연구는 골다공증 환자의 Digital 요추 측부 영상을 이용하여 질감특징의 통계적 분석으로 컴퓨터 보조진단 시스템 구현과 질병의 조기진단 및 치료를 위한 실험적인 모형 연구로 신뢰성 있는 보조적 진단 정보를 제공함으로써 골다공증에 대한 정확한 진단 방향을 제시하고자 하였다. 이를 위해서 정상인의 Digital 방사선 요추 측부 영상과 골다공증 환자의 Digital 방사선 요추 측부 영상을 실험 영상으로 하여 설정된 ROI에 대한 통계적 질감특징 값을 6가지 parameter로 나타냈다. 골다공증에 대한 질감특징분석 값 중 Average Gray Level에서 95%로 최고 높은 인식률을 나타내었고, Uniformity에서 80%로 가장 낮은 인식률을 나타내었다. 또한 Average Contrast에서 82.5%, Smoothness에서 90%, Skewness에서 87.5%, Entropy에서 87.5%를 나타내어 6가지 Parameter에서 모두 80%이상의 높은 인식률을 나타내 알고리즘의 안정성을 입증하였다. 따라서 본 연구 결과를 토대로 의료영상의 컴퓨터자동진단 시스템으로 발전된 프로그램을 coding 한다면 의료영상의 병소부위 자동검출, 질병 진단을 위한 예비 진단자료, 질병의 확진을 위한 자료제공, 제한된 장비로도 진단 가능, 의료영상의 판독시간 단축에 유용하게 사용될 수 있으리라 사료된다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.445-458
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• 2012

Image feature extraction is one of the basic works for biometric analysis. This paper presents the novel concept of application of ridgelets for iris recognition systems. Ridgelet transforms are the combination of Radon transforms and Wavelet transforms. They are suitable for extracting the abundantly present textural data that is in an iris. The technique proposed here uses the ridgelets to form an iris signature and to represent the iris. This paper contributes towards creating an improved iris recognition system. There is a reduction in the feature vector size, which is 1X4 in size. The False Acceptance Rate (FAR) and False Rejection Rate (FRR) were also reduced and the accuracy increased. The proposed method also avoids the iris normalization process that is traditionally used in iris recognition systems. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method achieves an accuracy of 99.82%, 0.1309% FAR, and 0.0434% FRR.