• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.86-93
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a novel defect detection method using component tree representations of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images. The component tree contains rich information about the topological structure of images such as the stiffness of intensity changes, area, and volume of the lobes. This information can be used effectively in detecting suspicious defect areas. A quasi-linear algorithm is available for constructing the component tree and computing these attributes. In this paper, we modify the original component tree algorithm to be suitable for our defect detection application. First, we exclude pixels that are near the ground level during the initial stage of component tree construction. Next, we detect significant lobes based on multiple attributes and edge information. Our experiments performed with actual SEM wafer images show promising results. For a $1000{\times}1000$ image, the proposed algorithm performed the whole process in 1.36 seconds.

• 대한세포병리학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.15-22
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• 1994

Cancer of the cervix is the most common malignancy in women in developing countries and the second most common cancer in women throughout the world with approximately 500,000 new cases each year. Prevention of this large number of premature deaths among women is, therefore, a goal worthy of urgent and serious consideration. Due to its high diagnostic disagreement among pathologists and large quantity of specimens, it is necessary to develop an automatic screening system measuring morphologic and densitometric features of the samples. Many research works have been published but most of them used Feulgen stained specimens which are not a usual staining method used in clinics. In this thesis, an automatic cancerous nucleus detection method essential to a screening system with papanicolaou stained specimens called Pap-smear is proposed which employs image processing techniques. It uses edge information to segment objects and morphologic as well as densitometric information to distinguish cancerous nuclei from dirts or normal nuclei. It has produced useful results in our study.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38C권12호
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• pp.1114-1125
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• 2013

License Plate Detection (LPD) is a key component in automatic license plate recognition system. Despite the success of License Plate Recognition (LPR) methods in the past decades, the problem is quite a challenge due to the diversity of plate formats and multiform outdoor illumination conditions during image acquisition. This paper aims at automatical detection of car license plates via image processing techniques. In this paper, we proposed a real-time and robust method for license plate detection using Heuristic Energy Map(HEM). In the vehicle image, the region of license plate contains many components or edges. We obtain the edge energy values of an image by using the box filter and search for the license plate region with high energy values. Using this energy value information or Heuristic Energy Map(HEM), we can easily detect the license plate region from vehicle image with a very high possibilities. The proposed method consists two main steps: Region of Interest (ROI) Detection and License Plate Detection. This method has better performance in speed and accuracy than the most of existing methods used for license plate detection. The proposed method can detect a license plate within 130 milliseconds and its detection rate is 99.2% on a 3.10-GHz Intel Core i3-2100(with 4.00 GB of RAM) personal computer.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.3376-3382
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• 2014

전자내시경을 이용하여 양극처리된 알루미늄 실린더튜브 내면의 결함을 자동으로 검사하는 시스템을 개발하였다. 이 시스템은 크게 자동 결함검사 소프트웨어, 전자내시경 및 이송장치 등으로 구성되어 있다. 실험을 통하여 자동 결함검사의 최적검출 조건을 도출하여 실린더튜브 내면의 결함 검사에 적용한 결과 주요 결함 요소인 스크래치, 산화물, 라인, 웰드라인의 인식률을 99%로서 만족하였다. 자동 결함검사 시스템을 생산현장에 적용하면 기존의 육안 검사 시 작업자가 가지는 육체적인 피로도 줄여 작업효율을 증가시키며, 결함검출 자료를 바탕으로 제품의 품질을 향상시킬 수 있다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.63-65
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• 2005

In this study, the automatic face tracking algorithm is proposed by using the color and edge information of a color image. To reduce the effects of variations in the illumination conditions, an acquired CCD color image is first transformed into YCbCr color coordinates, and subsequently the morphological image processing operations, and the elliptical geometric measures are applied to extract the refined facial area.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1996년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.485-489
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• 1996

In this paper, an automatic gear inspection system has been developed using the computer aided vision system. Image processing and data analysis algorithms for gear inspection have been investigated and were shown to perform quickly with high accuracy. As a result, dimensions of a gear can be measured upto few micrometer size in real time. In addition, the system can be applied to a practical manufacturing process even under noisy conditions.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2008

This paper presents an approach to Back-propagation and Radial Basis Function neural network method with various training set for automatic vehicle detection from aerial images. The initial extraction of candidate object is based on Mean-shift algorithm with symmetric property of a vehicle structure. By fusing the density and the symmetry, the method can remove the ambiguous objects and reduce the cost of processing in the next stage. To extract features from the detected object, we describe the object as a log-polar shape histogram using edge strengths of object and represent the orientation and distance from its center. The spatial histogram is used for calculating the momentum of object and compensating the direction of object. BPNN and RBFNN are applied to verify the object as a vehicle using a variety of non-car training sets. The proposed algorithm shows the results which are according to the training data. By comparing the training sets, advantages and disadvantages of them have been discussed.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권12호
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• pp.1678-1684
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• 2018

Dental caries is one of the most popular oral disease. The aim of automatic dental cavity detection system is helping dentist to make accurate diagnosis. It is very important to separate cavity from the teeth in the detection system. In this paper, We compared two active contour algorithms, Snake and DRLSE(Distance Regularized Level Set Evolution). To improve performance, image is selected ROI(region of interest), then applied bilateral filter, Canny edge. In order to evaluate the algorithms, we applied to 7 tooth phantoms from incisor to molar. Each teeth contains two cavities of different shape. As a result, Snake is faster than DRLSE, but Snake has limitation to compute topology of objects. DRLSE is slower but those of performance is better.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권11호
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• pp.2051-2057
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• 2007

In Oriental medicine, the status of a tongue is the important indicator to diagnose one's health like physiological and clinicopathological changes of inner parts of the body. The method of tongue diagnosis is not only convenient but also non-invasive and widely used in Oriental medicine. However, tongue diagnosis is affected by examination circumstances a lot like a light source, patient's posture and doctor's condition. To develop an automatic tongue diagnosis system for an objective and standardized diagnosis, segmenting a tongue is inevitable but difficult since the colors of a tongue, lips and skin in a mouth are similar. The proposed method includes preprocessing, graph-based over-segmentation, detecting positions with a local minimum over shading, detecting edge with color difference and estimating edge geometry from the probable structure of a tongue, where preprocessing performs down-sampling to reduce computation time, histogram equalization and edge enhancement. A tongue was segmented from a face image with a tongue from a digital tongue diagnosis system by the proposed method. According to three oriental medical doctors' evaluation, it produced the segmented region to include effective information and exclude a non-tongue region. It can be used to make an objective and standardized diagnosis.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2010

주로 열상(FLIR: Forward-Looking Imfra-Red)을 이용하여 표적을 탐지하는 자동표적탐지(ATD: Automatic Target Detection)장비는 전처리단계, 잠재적 표적탐지 및 클러터 제거 등 3단계를 적용하여 표적을 탐지한다. 열상영상의 전처리단계 및 잠재적 표적탐지단계를 통해 열상영상의 모든 표적후보를 구한다. 이때, 표적후보군에는 표적 및 클러터가 공존하게 되는데, 클러터 제거 단계에서 표적후보군에 포함된 클러터를 제거하여 표적을 분류함으로서 오경보(False Alarm)를 줄이는 기능을 한다. 본 논문은 표적탐지단계 중 클러터 제거방법에 대한 연구내용에 대해 기술하였으며, 연구의 특징은 표적후보군에 포함된 클러터를 제거하기 위하여 표적후보영상의 주성분분석법(PCA: Principal Component Analysis)을 이용한 형태적 특징 및 외곽선 영상(Edge Image)의 통계적 특징을 이용한 표적제거기법을 제시하였다. 주성분분석법 특징값은 미리 선정한 대표표적에 대해 차원축소 고유벡터를 구한 후 표적후보군 영상을 고유벡터에 투영한 유클리드 거리를 이용하였으며, 통계적 특징은 표적후보군의 외곽선영상에 대해 분산 및 표준편차를 이용한 통계적 특징을 적용하였다. 주성분 특징과 통계적 특징을 이용하여 표적과 클러터를 구분하기 위해 선형판별법(LDA: Linear Discriminant Analysis)을 적용하였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능확인을 위해 수행한 시뮬레이션 결과 제안된 알고리즘이 주성분분석법 특징 또는 통계적 특징 등 단일특징을 적용하였을 때 보다 좋은 결과를 도출하였다.