• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1995년도 학술대회
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• pp.143-148
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• 1995

In this paper, we describe a fast 3D video segmentation method using mathematical morphology. The proposed 3D video segmentation algorithm is composed of intra-frame segmentation step and inter-frame segmentation step. In the intra-frame segmentation step, the first frame is segmented using the fast hierarchical segmentation method. Then, in the inter-frame segmentation step, the next frames are segmented using markers that are extracted from the difference of previous segmentation result and simplified present image. Experimental results show that the proposed method has more fast structure and is suitable for video segmentation.

• 음성과학
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2005

An important aspect of video indexing is the ability to segment video into meaningful segments, i.e., content-based video segmentation. Since the audio signal in the sound track is synchronized with image sequences in the video program, a speech signal in the sound track can be used to segment video into meaningful segments. In this paper, we propose a new approach to content-based video segmentation. This approach uses closed caption to construct a recognition network for speech recognition. Accurate time information for video segmentation is then obtained from the speech recognition process. For the video segmentation experiment for TV news programs, we made 56 video summaries successfully from 57 TV news stories. It demonstrates that the proposed scheme is very promising for content-based video segmentation.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.619-622
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• 1999

This paper describes a new semi-automatic segmentation algorithm based on color information. Semi-automatic segmentation mainly consists of intra-frame segmentation and inter-frame segmentation. While intra-frame segmentation extracts video objects of interest from boundary information provided by the user and intensity information of the image, inter-frame segmentation partitions the image into the video objects and background by tracking the motion of video objects. For inter-frame segmentation, color information (Y, Cb and Cr) of the current frame can be used efficiently in order to find the exact boundary of the video objects. In this paper we propose a new region growing algorithm which can maximize the ability of region differentiation, while preserving features of each color component.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.17-19
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• 2007

This paper describe an interactive video object segmentation tool which can be used to generate MPEG-4 video object planes for multimedia broadcasting and enables content based functionalities. In order to apply these functionalities, each frame of video sequence should be represented in terms of video objects. Semiautomatic segmentation can be thought of as a user-assisted segmentation technique. A user can initially mark objects of interest around the real object boundaries. Then the user-guided and selected objects are continuously separated from the unselected areas though time evolution in the image sequences. We proposed method shows very promising result and this encourages the development of object based video editing system.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1999년도 KOBA 방송기술 워크샵 KOBA Broadcasting Technology Workshop
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• pp.165.1-170
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• 1999

Object segmentation fro natural video scenes has recently become one of very active research to pics due to the object-based video coding standard MPEG-4. Object detection and isolation is also useful for object-based indexing and search of video content, which is a goal of the emerging new standard, MPEG-7. In this paper, an automatic segmentation method of moving objects in image sequence is presented which is applicable to multimedia content authoring for MPEG-4, and two different segmentation approaches suitable for surveillance applications are addressed in raw data domain and compressed bitstream domains. We also propose an object-based video description scheme based on object segmentation for video indexing purposes.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.51-62
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 분할기반 영상 부호화를 위한 새로운 영상 분할 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 움직임과 밝기 정보에 기반한 새로운 유사성 척도를 사용한다. 그리고 하나의 분할 단계 내에 밝기와 움직임 정보가 함께 결합된다. 영상 분할은 분수령 알고리즘에 기반한 영역 확장법을 통해 이루처지며, 연속된 프레임에 대한 분할은 분할결과가 시간축으로 일관성을 유지하도록 추적방법을 통해 이루어진다. 모의실험결과, 제안된 방법이 통계적 척도만을 사용한 방법과는 달리, 물체의 경계를 결정하는데 효과적임을 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.3204-3220
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• 2021

We perform the task of video object segmentation by incorporating a conditional random field (CRF) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Most methods employ a CRF to refine a coarse output from fully convolutional networks. Others treat the inference process of the CRF as a recurrent neural network and then combine CNNs and the CRF into an end-to-end model for video object segmentation. In contrast to these methods, we propose a novel higher-order CRF model to solve the problem of video object segmentation. Specifically, we use CNNs to establish a higher-order dependence among pixels, and this dependence can provide critical global information for a segmentation model to enhance the global consistency of segmentation. In general, the optimization of the higher-order energy is extremely difficult. To make the problem tractable, we decompose the higher-order energy into two parts by utilizing auxiliary variables and then solve it by using an iterative process. We conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses on multiple datasets, and the proposed method achieves competitive results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.1434-1449
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• 2019

Video object segmentation is a significant task in computer vision, but its performance is not very satisfactory. A method of video object segmentation using weakly temporal information is presented in this paper. Motivated by the phenomenon in reality that the motion of the object is a continuous and smooth process and the appearance of the object does not change much between adjacent frames in the video sequences, we use a feed-forward architecture with motion estimation to predict the mask of the current frame. We extend an additional mask channel for the previous frame segmentation result. The mask of the previous frame is treated as the input of the expanded channel after processing, and then we extract the temporal feature of the object and fuse it with other feature maps to generate the final mask. In addition, we introduce multi-mask guidance to improve the stability of the model. Moreover, we enhance segmentation performance by further training with the masks already obtained. Experiments show that our method achieves competitive results on DAVIS-2016 on single object segmentation compared to some state-of-the-art algorithms.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.529-541
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 객체기반 비디오 부호화 또는 멀티미디어 편집을 위한 반지동 비디오 객체 분할방식을 제안한다. 반자동 객체분할은 사용자 지원에 의한 분할 방식으로, 비디오 시퀀스의 초기 프레임에서 사용자가 관심객체의 경계를 표시하고 이후의 영상 프레임의 객체를 배경으로부터 연속적으로 분리해 낸다. 제안된 방식은 부분적으로 사용자 조력에 의한 프레임내 분할과 완전 자동에 의한 프레임간 분할 처리과정으로 구성되는데, 영상 전체에 대해 연산을 수행하는 기존 방식과는 달리 객체 경계가 존재하는 영상영역 부분에서만 연산을 수행한다. 프레임내 분할은 사용자가 관심객체의 경계를 지정하고, 이 경계 주위 화소들의 유사성을 이용한 후처리에 의해 정확한 초기 객체를 구한다. 프레임간 분할에서는 이전 프레임에서 추출한 객체의 경계 정보에 근거하여 시간적 유사성을 구한 후 경계와 영역 추적에 의해 연속적으로 동영상 객체를 추출한다. 실험결과로부터 제안된 방식은 비디오 편집, 객체기반 비디오 압축 및 인덱싱 등의 멀미디어 응용에 사용 가능할 정도로 안정되고 정확한 객체추출을 수행함을 확인하였다. 이 결과를 바탕으로 다수의 편리한 기능을 포함한 비디오 편집시스템을 개발하였다.

• 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.