• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.794-798
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• 2009

We introduce an implementation of plug-ins on PLUTO. These plug-ins discriminate inflammatory nodules from other types of nodules in chest X-ray CT images. The PLUTO is a common platform for computer-aided diagnosis systems on Microsoft Windows series and it is easy to add new functions as plug-ins. We coded two plug-ins. One of the them calculates features based on medical knowledge. The other plug-in calculates parameters to classify the type of nodules, and it also classifies nodules into inflammatory nodules and others using SVM. These plug-ins are coded using MIST library which is produced at Nagoya University, Japan. In our previous study, the MIST library was parallelized, so that we can utilize a number of CPUs to calculate features and SVM learning/classifying depending on the amount of computation. Using these plug-ins, it became easy to extract features to discriminate inflammatory nodules from other types of nodules and to change parameters for feature extraction and SVM learning/classifying with GUI interface. The accuracy of the classifying result is 100% with 78 solid nodules which contains 43 inflammatory nodules and 35 other type of nodules.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.429-431
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 의료 영상 중에서 성대 운동의 불규칙적인 움직임을 판단하여 자동으로 진단 파라미터를 구하는 비디오스트로보키모그래피(Videostrobokymography) 시스템에서 관심 영역을 추출하는 방법을 소개하고자 한다. CCD카메라에 의해 촬영된 영상은 비디오 테이프에 저장된 후 이미지 캡쳐 보드에서 그레이 이미지(gray-level)로 변환되어 저장된다. 입력된 영상은 움직이는 영상을 촬영한 것이므로 관심 영역의 위치가 각 프레임마다 다르다. 또한 실제로 입력된 성대영상들이 점진적인 농도 변화를 보이기 때문에 에지에 의해 영역을 추출하는 일반적인 영역 추출방법은 사용하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 두 번의 단계를 통하여 관심 영역을 추출하고 있다. 첫 번째는 입력된 영상에서 노이즈를 제거한 후 각 프레임에서 영상의 최소 에너지를 구한다. 두 번째로 농도 변화 값을 특징 값으로 이용하는 분할-합병 알고리즘(Split-merge Algorithm)을 적용하여 관심 영역을 추출하였다. 제안한 알고리즘을 19명의 성대 영상에 적용하여 분석한 결과 성대의 관심 영역을 추출할 수 있었다. 그리고, 영상의 에너지 값을 이용하는 스네이크 알고리즘(Snake Algorithm)에 적용하여 비교해본 결과 본 연구에서 제안하는 스네이크 알고리즘보다 좋은 성능을 보임을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 관심 영역 추출 방법은 동적인 변화를 보이는 영상에서 관심 영역을 추출할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 계산 량이 적어 200x280크기의 이미지를 초당 약 40프레임에 대한 관심 영역을 추출할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.315-322
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• 2006

Ant Colony System(ACS) is easily applicable to the traveling salesman problem(TSP) and it has demonstrated good performance on TSP. Recently, ACS has been emerged as the useful tool for the pattern recognition, feature extraction, and edge detection. The edge detection is wifely utilized in the area of document analysis, character recognition, and face recognition. However, the conventional operator-based edge detection approaches require additional postprocessing steps for the application. In the present study, in order to overcome this shortcoming, we have proposed the new ACS-based edge detection algorithm. The experimental results indicate that this proposed algorithm has the excellent performance in terms of robustness and flexibility.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.231-241
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• 2004

This study aims to detect the change of marine aquaculture farm within the boundary of Hallyeo Marine National Park. Comparison has been made on the Landsat images taken in 1984 and 2002 respectively by using feature extraction methods and other image analysis techniques. During the 18 year period between 1984 and 2002, total area of the aquaculture farms has been decreased in 63 percent. The reason for the change seems to be that aquaculture farms became concentrated only around the Geoje Islands due to the growth of the labor- and capital-intensive cage aquaculture for the expensive fish species instead of traditional oyster farming. Authors suggest the monitoring using remotely-sensed data as the best tool for the management of marine aquaculture farms on the basis of accuracy of analysis and relatively cheap cost. Management strategies of salmon farms in Tasmania, Australia has been analyzed to find the field techniques necessary for the management of aquaculture.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.127-137
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose the method of extracting edge information from MPEG video sequences for the detection of scene changes. In a the proposed method, five significant AC coefficients of each MPEG block are utilized to obtain edge images from the MPEG video. AC edge images obtained by the proposed scheme not only produce better object boundary information than conventional methods using only DC coefficients, but also can reduce the boundary effects produced by DC-based. Since the AC edge image contains the content information of each frame, it can be effectively utilized for the detection of scene change as well as the content-based video query. Experimental results show that the proposed method can be effectively utilized for the detection of scene changes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.3090-3102
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• 2015

The accuracy of an augmented reality (AR) application is highly dependent on the resolution of the object's image and the device's computational processing capability. Naturally, a mobile smart device equipped with a high-resolution camera becomes the best platform for portable AR services. AR applications require significant energy consumption and very fast response time, which are big burdens to the smart device. However, there are very few ways to overcome these burdens. Computation offloading via mobile cloud computing has the potential to provide energy savings and enhance the performance of applications executed on smart devices. Therefore, in this paper, adaptive mobile computation offloading of mobile AR applications is considered in order to determine optimal offloading points that satisfy the required quality of experience (QoE) while consuming minimum energy of the smart device. AR feature extraction based on SURF algorithm is partitioned into sub-stages in order to determine the optimal AR cloud computational offloading point based on conditions of the smart device, wireless and wired networks, and AR service cloud servers. Tradeoffs in energy savings and processing time are explored also taking network congestion and server load conditions into account.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.1 s.39
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• pp.283-292
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• 2006

Interest about a latest security connection technology rises, and try to overcome security vulnerability Certification about on-line user methods through fingerprint that is biometries information apply. In this study, designs and implements fingerprint recognition system that is invariant to rotation by fingerprint recognition system for certification about on-line user. Proposed method focused in matching process through pre-process of fingerprint image, feature point extraction. Improved process time and correct recognition rate in fingerprint recognition system that is invariant to rotation presented in existing study. Also, improved noise, distortion problems that happen in preprocess of existing study applying directional Laplacian filter.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.261-264
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• 2002

자동차 전조등에서 나오는 데이터는 다양한 패턴을 가지는 영상자료와 부분적으로 보이는 문자자료이다. 내용기반 영상검색을 통해 자동차 전조등에서 검사자가 판독하는 텍스트와 부분적인 전조등의 영상정보로 차량의 정보를 추출하기 위한 검색 방법을 국립과학수사연구소의 자료를 기반으로 설계하였으며, 영상검색에 사용된 영상특징값의 구성과 영상 검색방법을 연구하였다. 본 논문에서는 영상데이터의 검색을 위해 효과적인 영상특징이 추출 되도록 향상된 방법론을 제시하였다. 특징함수에 대한 유효성 검증을 위해 샘플 영상에서 각 후보 특징함수들에 대한 결과값들을 비교하였으며, 이를 기반으로 유효한 특징함수를 찾아서 검색에 사용되어지도록 구성하였다. 사용되어진 영상의 특징값은 전조등 영상이 가지는 다수의 텍스쳐함수와 가로, 세로 성분값을 사용하였다. 영상 검색을 위해 추출된 영상 특징값을 데이터베이스화하고 용의차량의 전조등 영상을 질의 영상으로 하여 후보 차량에 대한 정보를 검색하도록 하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.913-923
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• 2014

This paper proposes a global mapping algorithm for multiple robots from an omnidirectional-vision simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) approach based on an object extraction method using Lucas-Kanade optical flow motion detection and images obtained through fisheye lenses mounted on robots. The multi-robot mapping algorithm draws a global map by using map data obtained from all of the individual robots. Global mapping takes a long time to process because it exchanges map data from individual robots while searching all areas. An omnidirectional image sensor has many advantages for object detection and mapping because it can measure all information around a robot simultaneously. The process calculations of the correction algorithm are improved over existing methods by correcting only the object's feature points. The proposed algorithm has two steps: first, a local map is created based on an omnidirectional-vision SLAM approach for individual robots. Second, a global map is generated by merging individual maps from multiple robots. The reliability of the proposed mapping algorithm is verified through a comparison of maps based on the proposed algorithm and real maps.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.20-28
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose an effective tracking algorithm with an appearance model based on features extracted from a video frame with posture variation and camera view point adaptation by employing the non-adaptive random projections that preserve the structure of the image feature space of objects. The existing online tracking algorithms update models with features from recent video frames and the numerous issues remain to be addressed despite on the improvement in tracking. The data-dependent adaptive appearance models often encounter the drift problems because the online algorithms does not get the required amount of data for online learning. So, we propose an effective tracking algorithm with an appearance model based on features extracted from a video frame.