• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.297-300
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• 1999

중요한 정보 암호화하여 복수 회원에게 분산시킨 후 회원의 합의에 의하여 해독이 가능하게 하는 thresholding scheme은 visual cryptography에 의하여 시각적인 표현이 가능하게 되었다. 그러나 visual cryptography는 표현의 한계로 응용범위가 극히 제한되었다. 이 논문에서는 visual cryptography의 응용범위를 수학에서 광학으로 확장하기 위하여 binary computer generated hologram을 encryption하는 방법을 제시하고 security 특성을 분석한다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.1169-1174
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• 2001

본 연구는 영상처리과정에서 중요한 이진영상의 전역임계값 결정을 위한 새로운 임계화 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 원 영상의 전체적인 윤곽을 가장 많이 포함하는 최상위 비트평면을 사용하여 영상을 중복되지 않는 두 영역으로 구분한 뒤, 두 영역의 평균 밝기 값의 차이로 임계값을 자동으로 결정하는 전역 임계화 방법이다. 실험결과 제안한 방법은 인위적인 초기값 설정을 필요로 하지 않으며, 처리과정이 간단하며 문서영상과 휘도영상의 영상 윤곽을 양호하게 보존하는 이진영상을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.438-441
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• 2004

Image binarization using a global threshold value [3] performs at high speed, but usually results in undesired binary images when the source images are of poor quality. In such cases, adaptive local thresholding algorithms [1][2][3] are used to obtain better results, and the algorithm proposed by A.E.Savekis which chooses local threshold using fore­ground and background clustering [1] is one of the best thresholding algorithms. However, this algorithm runs slowly due to its re-computing threshold value of each central pixel in a local window MxM. In this paper, we present a dynamic programming approach for the step of calculating local threshold value that reduces many redundant computations and improves the execution speed significantly. Experiments show that our proposal improvement runs more ten times faster than the original algorithm.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.94-102
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• 2007

잠음감소에 있어서 웨이브렛 임계처리 알고리즘은 미니맥스 관점에서 거의 최적의 성능을 보이는 것으로 알려져 있다. 그러나 웨이브렛 임계처리 알고리즘은 웨이브렛 함수의 복잡성으로 인해 FPGA와 같은 하드웨어 상에 구현이 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 이진트리 구조 필터뱅크에서 전체 신호전력에 대한 각 부밴드 신호 전력비에 기반한 새로운 잡음감소 기법을 제안한다. 그리고 이 기법을 FPGA 상에 구현한다. 간단한 구현을 위해 필터뱅크는 하다마드 변환 계수로 설계된다. 시뮬레이션과 하드웨어 실험결과 제안방법이 간단하지만 웨이브렛에 기반한 소프트 임계처리 잡음감소 알고리즘과 성능이 유사함을 보인다.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.224-230
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• 2002

In this paper, a counting algorithm hybridized with an adaptive automatic thresholding method based on Otsu's method and the algorithm that elongates markers obtained by the well-known watershed algorithm is proposed to enhance the exactness of the microcell counting in microscopic images. The proposed counting algorithm can be stated as follows. The transformed full image captured by CCD camera set up at microscope is divided into cropped images of m$\times$n blocks with an appropriate size. The thresholding value of the cropped image is obtained by Otsu's method and the image is transformed into binary image. The microbial cell images below prespecified pixels are regarded as noise and are removed in tile binary image. The smoothing procedure is done by the area opening and the morphological filter. Watershed algorithm and the elongating marker algorithm are applied. By repeating the above stated procedure for m$\times$n blocks, the m$\times$n segmented images are obtained. A superposed image with the size of 640$\times$480 pixels as same as original image is obtained from the m$\times$n segmented block images. By labeling the superposed image, the counting result on the image of microbial cells is achieved. To prove the effectiveness of the proposed mettled in counting the microbial cell on the image, we used Acinetobacter sp., a kind of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, and compared the proposed method with the global Otsu's method the traditional watershed algorithm based on global thresholding value and human visual method. The result counted by the proposed method shows more approximated result to the human visual counting method than the result counted by any other method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1995년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automation Control Conference, 10th (KACC); Seoul, Korea; 23-25 Oct. 1995
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• pp.311-314
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• 1995

This paper presents a method for measuring tool wear parameters based on two dimensional image information. The tool wear images were obtained from an ITV camera with magnifying and lighting devices, and were analyzed using image processing techniques such as thresholding, noise filtering and boundary tracing. Thresholding was used to transform the captured gray scale image into a binary image for rapid sequential image processing. The threshold level was determined using a novel technique in which the brightness histograms of two concentric windows containing the tool wear image were compared. The use of noise filtering and boundary tracing to reduce the measuring errors was explored. Performance tests of the measurement precision and processing speed revealed that the direct method was highly effective in intermittent tool wear monitoring.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.341-349
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• 2008

본 논문은 위성영상을 이용한 변화정보를 취득하는데 있어 중요한 과정인 임계값 결정에 관한 새로운 기법을 제안하고 있다. 화소간 유사도 측정을 통해 도출된 결과 값을 일정 간격으로 누적 계산하고, 급격하게 변하는 지점을 임계값으로 결정하였다. 의사영상을 통해 기대최대화 기법, 교점방법과 성능을 비교하였으며, 두 시기의 ALI 영상과 Hyperion 영상에 실제 적용하여 변화탐지 결과를 확인하였다. 제안된 기법은 기존의 기법과 비슷한 수준의 변화탐지 결과 정확도를 확보할 수 있었으며, 기대최대화 기법에 비해 간단하게 적용할 수 있고, 교점방법과 달리 최빈 값을 둘 이상 가지는 히스토그램에도 적용할 수 있는 장점이 있어 향후 변화유무 정보 취득에 효과적으로 사용할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.842-851
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• 1996

Median filter(MF) has often been applied to color or gray images as a noise fiilter in image processing . Application of MF to binary images was tried in this study. For binary images, MF not only can remove noise but can also work as an indicator showing the dominant color in a region which is called window . Fro example, MF can be used to categorize clusters and to detect interested parts of an object. In other words, MF can also be used to remove unnecessary parts. The function of MF can be intensified by introducing a thresholding value, which is determined by the size of the interested part of an object. This improved MF for binary images is called the modified median filter(MMF), and its applicability to grade produce will be discussed in this paper.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.950-956
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• 2014

In this paper, the real-time detection method of a DDP (Driving Direction Point) is proposed for an unmanned vehicle to safely follow the center of the road. Since the DDP is defined as a center point between two lanes, the lane is first detected using a web camera. For robust detection of the lane, the binary thresholding and the labeling methods are applied to the color camera image as image preprocessing. From the preprocessed image, the lane is detected, taking the intrinsic characteristics of the lane such as width into consideration. If both lanes are detected, the DDP can be directly obtained from the preprocessed image. However, if one lane is detected, the DDP is obtained from the inverse perspective image to guarantee reliability. To verify the proposed method, several experiments to detect the DDPs are carried out using a 4 wheeled vehicle ERP-42 with a web camera.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a method of applying a lifting-based wavelet domain e-median filter (LBWDEMF) for image restoration. LBWDEMF helps in reducing the number of computations. An e-median filter is a type of modified median filter that processes each pixel of the output of a standard median filter in a binary manner, keeping the output of the median filter unchanged or replacing it with the original pixel value. Binary decision-making is controlled by comparing the absolute difference of the median filter output and the original image to a preset threshold. In addition, the advantage of LBWDEMF is that probabilities of encountering root images are spread over sub-band images, and therefore the e-median filter is unlikely to encounter root images at an early stage of iterations and generates a better result as iteration increases. The proposed method transforms an image into the wavelet domain using lifting-based wavelet filters, then applies an e-median filter in the wavelet domain, transforms the result into the spatial domain, and finally goes through one spatial domain e-median filter to produce the final restored image. Moreover, in order to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method we compare the result obtained using the proposed method to those using a spatial domain median filter (SDMF), spatial domain e-median filter (SDEMF), and wavelet thresholding method. Experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to SDMF, SDEMF, and wavelet thresholding in terms of image restoration.