• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.1180-1188
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• 2015

In this paper, a parallel cell contour line extraction algorithm using CUDA, which has no inner contour lines, is proposed. The contour of a cell is very important in a cell image analysis. It could be obtained by a conventional serial contour tracing algorithm or parallel morphology operation. However, the cell image has various damages in acquisition or dyeing process. They could be turn into several inner contours, which make a cell image analysis difficult. The proposed algorithm introduces a min-max coordinates table into each CUDA thread block, and removes the inner contour in parallel. It is 4.1 to 7.6 times faster than a conventional serial contour tracing algorithm.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.143-149
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• 2002

In this paper, we present an algorithm for synthesizing intermediate views from a stereoscopic pair of images. Syntheses of intermediate images allows one to realize a more comfortable the 3D display system. The proposed method is based on block matching, which is not ordinarily used. The contour information is used for a block decision. In order to find an equivalent (or corresponding) block, there are two steps: "matching of contour-to-original image" and "matching of contour-to-contour image" methods. "Matching of contour-to-contour image" uses both left and right contour images. This block matching method allows us to find the corresponding block in spite of different block sizes. Experimental results illustrate the performance of the proposed technique and we obtained a high quality image of more than 31 dB PSNR.image of more than 31 dB PSNR.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.915-918
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• 1998

Region based coding consistsof image segmentation contour and texture coding. Contour coding techniques can be classified into contour or shape-oriented approaches. In this paper, geodesic skeleton based on shape-oriented approach is used for contour coding. Efficient application of geodesic skeleton for contour coding based on the characteristics of regions in segmented image will be discussed.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.740-747
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• 2017

A fast cell contour extraction method using CUDA parallel processing technique is presented. The cell contour extraction is one of important processes to analyze cell information in pathology. However, conventional sequential contour extraction methods are slow for a huge high-resolution medical image, so they are not adequate to use in the field. We developed a parallel morphology operation algorithm to extract cell contour more quickly. The algorithm can create an inner contour and fail to extract the contour from the concave part of the cell. We solved these problems by subdividing the contour extraction process into four steps: morphology operation, labeling, positioning and contour extraction. Experimental results show that the proposed method is four times faster than the conventional one.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.100-106
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• 2004

In this paper, we present a novel, rapid approach for the detection of brain tumors and deformity boundaries in medical images using a genetic algorithm with wavelet based preprocessing. The contour detection problem is formulated as an optimization process that seeks the contour of the object in a manner of minimizing an energy function based on an active contour model. The brain tumor segmentation contour, however, cannot be detected in case that a higher gradient intensity exists other than the interested brain tumor and deformities. Our method for discerning brain tumors and deformities from unwanted adjacent tissues is proposed. The proposed method can be used in medical image analysis because the exact contour of the brain tumor and deformities is followed by precise diagnosis of the deformities.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2000

본 논문은 고정된 카메라에서 얻어진 연속 영상으로부터 능동 윤곽선 모델을 이용하여 이동 물체의 윤곽선을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 주위 환경 변화에 강인한 처리를 위해 적응 배경 모델을 사용하였다. 물체 분할 모델은 얻어진 배경 영상과 현재 영상의 차영상으로부터 국부 영상의 임계값 이상의 화소를 찾아 연결한 영역을 분할하며, 형태학적 필터에 의하여 이동 물체의 경계 부분에서 발생하는 잡음을 제거하였다 분할된 이동 물체 윤곽선은 능동 윤곽선 모델을 이용하여 보다 정확한 이동 물체의 경계를 추출한다. 제안한 방법을 사용하여 도로 영상에서 실험한 결과를 보였다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.7-16
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 지도 정보를 자동으로 분석하여 등고선과 숫자, 기호를 추출해 내는 알고리즘에 대해 연구하였다. 이를 위해 우선 지도를 이진 영상으로 변환한 후 세선화 작업을 거친다. 세선화된 영상으로부터 등고 성분들을 분리시킨 후, 비등고 성분에 대한 특징분석 후 숫자와 기호를 자동으로 분리한다. 마지막으로 복원 알고리즘을 이용하여 손실 부분을 복원한다. 여러 종류의 등고선 지도영상을 대상으로 모의실험을 수행하여 제안한 알고리즘의 성능을 검증하였다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.780-791
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• 1996

A hybrid image processing system which automatically distinguished lean tissues in the image of a complex beef cut surface and generated the lean tissue contour has been developed. Because of the in homegeneous distribution and fuzzy pattern of fat and lean tissue on the beef cut, conventional image segmentation and contour generation algorithm suffer from a heavy computing requirement, algorithm complexity and poor robustness. The proposed system utilizes an artificial neural network enhance the robustness of processing. The system is composed of pre-network , network and post-network processing stages. At the pre-network stage, gray level images of beef cuts were segmented and resized to be adequate to the network input. Features such as fat and bone were enhanced and the enhanced input image was converted tot he grid pattern image, whose grid was formed as 4 X4 pixel size. at the network stage, the normalized gray value of each grid image was taken as the network input. Th pre-trained network generated the grid image output of the isolated lean tissue. A training scheme of the network and the separating performance were presented and analyzed. The developed hybrid system showed the feasibility of the human like robust object segmentation and contour generation for the complex , fuzzy and irregular image.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.81-94
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• 1998

영상에서 관심있는 물체의 윤곽선을 추출하기 위해서 Kass등은 Snakes라고 불리우는 능동적 윤곽선 모델(active contour model)을 제안하였다. Snakes 모델은 내부 에너지,영상 에너지, 외부 에너지라는 에너지 함수를 사용하여 물체의 윤곽선을 정의하는 모델로 이 에너지 함수를 최소화함으로써 물체의 윤곽선을 찾을 수 있다 이 모델은 속도가 느리며초기화에 민감하다. 이 문제를 개선하기 위해 Gunn은 두 개의 초기화를 이용하여 정확한 윤곽선을 추출하고 초기화에 덜 민감하도록 하였다. 이 방법은 기존의 다른 방법에 비해 정확한 윤곽선을 추출할 수 있었으나, 속도면 에서는 상당히 효율적이지 못하고 잡음에 민감하였다. 본 논문에서는 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 snakes을 이루는 각 윤곽점에 8$\times$8크기의 윈도우를 적용하여 윈도우내의 화소에 대해서만 에너지 최소화 알고리즘을 적용하였다.본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 원 영상과 컵 영상의 윤곽선 추출에 적용하였다. 제안한 방법을사용하여 얼굴을 추적하므로써 가상현실등에 응용되고 물체의 움직임 추적에도 응용될 수 있다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.1462-1467
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• 2013

A pseudo 480-Hz drive method has been proposed to reduce the dynamic false contour noise that occurs on flat panel displays with displaying grayscale image in the digital mode, such as plasma display panels. The proposed method makes the image movements nearly continuous by rearranging the 8-bit image data displayed for 1 TV field into 8 subfields. The position of the image data rearranged in subfields has been optimized on the basis of the speed of the moving image by computer simulations for the dynamic false contour noise. It is verified that a significant reduction in the dynamic false contour noise is achieved with the proposed method as compared to the conventional noise reduction technologies. Moreover, to reduce the noise in digital mode displays, the proposed technology requires only 8 subfields. Therefore, there is no reduction in the brightness of the image.