• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.670-678
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• 2014

This paper presents a method to extract objects in radiographic images where all the allowable combinations of segmented regions are compared to a target object using Fourier descriptor. In the object extraction for usual images, a main problem is occlusion. In radiographic images, there is an advantage that the shape of an object is not occluded by other objects. It is because radiographic images represent the amount of radiation penetrated through objects. Considering the property of no occlusion in radiographic images, the shape based descriptors can be very effective to find objects. After all, the proposed object extraction method consists of three steps of segmenting regions, finding all the combinations of the segmented regions, and matching the combinations to the shape of the target object. In finding the combinations, we reduce a lot of computations to remove unnecessary combinations before matching. In matching, we employ Fourier descriptor so that the proposed method is rotation and shift invariant. Additionally, shape normalization is adopted to be scale invariant. By experiments, we verify that the proposed method works well in extracting objects.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.281-289
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• 2002

Few studies have been systematically pursued on a multimedia data mining in despite of the over-whelming amounts of multimedia data by the development of computer capacity, storage technology and Internet. Based on the preliminary image processing and content-based image retrieval technology, this paper presents the methods for discovering association rules from recurrent items with spatial relationships in huge data repositories. Furthermore, multimedia mining algorithm is proposed to find implicit association rules among objects of which content-based descriptors such as color, texture, shape and etc. are recurrent and of which descriptors have spatial relationships. The algorithm with recurrent items in images shows high efficiency to find set of frequent items as compared to the Apriori algorithm. The multimedia association-rules algorithm is specially effective when the collection of images is homogeneous and it can be applied to many multimedia-related application fields.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.921-926
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• 2014

Face detection refers to the process extracting facial regions in an input image, which can improve speed and accuracy of recognition or authorization system, and has diverse applicability. Since conventional works have tried to detect faces based on the whole shape of faces, its detection performance can be degraded by occlusion made with accessories or parts of body. In this paper we propose a method combining local feature descriptors and probability modeling in order to detect partially occluded face effectively. In training stage, we represent an image as a set of local feature descriptors and estimate a statistical model for normal faces. When the test image is given, we find a region that is most similar to face using our face model constructed in training stage. According to experimental results with benchmark data set, we confirmed the effect of proposed method on detecting partially occluded face.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.7
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• pp.692-702
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• 2017

Face detection using the LBP based feature descriptor has issues in that it can not represent spatial information between facial shape and facial components such as eyes, nose and mouth. To address these issues, in previous research, a facial image was divided into a number of square sub-regions. However, since the sub-regions are divided into different numbers and sizes, the division criteria of the sub-region suitable for the database used in the experiment is ambiguous, the dimension of the LBP histogram increases in proportion to the number of sub-regions and as the number of sub-regions increases, the sensitivity to facial orientation rotation increases significantly. In this paper, we present a novel facial region segmentation method that can solve in-plane rotation issues associated with LBP based feature descriptors and the number of dimensions of feature descriptors. As a result, the proposed method showed detection accuracy of 99.0278% from a single facial image rotated in orientation.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2002

Few studies have been systematically pursued on a multimedia data mining in despite of the overwhelming amounts of multimedia data by the development of computer capacity, storage technology and Internet. Based on the preliminary image processing and content-based image retrieval technology, this paper presents the methods for discovering association rules from recurrent items with spatial relationships in huge data repositories. Furthermore, multimedia mining algorithm is proposed to find implicit association rules among objects of which content-based descriptors such as color, texture, shape and etc. are recurrent and of which descriptors have spatial relationships. The algorithm with recurrent items in images shows high efficiency to find set of frequent items as compared to the Apriori algorithm. The multimedia association-rules algorithm is specially effective when the collection of images is homogeneous and it can be applied to many multimedia-related application fields.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.554-556
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• 1999

모양 정보를 이용하는 내용기반 영상 검색 시스템에서 검색 정확도는 시스템에서 사용되는 모양 기술자에 매우 의존한다. 정확한 검색을 위해서 기술자는 이동, 회전, 스케일에 불변해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 모멘트 불변량과 푸리에 기술자를 복합적으로 사용하는 유사도 기법을 제시한다. 이 방법은 하나의 불변량 기술자를 사용하는 것보다 더 우수한 결과를 나타내었다. 푸리에 기술자와 네 개의 모멘트 불변량(Hu의 모멘트 불변량, Taubin의 모멘트 불변량, Flusser의 모멘트 불변량, Zernike 모멘트 불변량)을 구현하여 성능을 측정하였다. 영상분할된 이진 영상 데이터베이스로부터 각 기술자의 검색 정확도를 계산하였다. 실험 결과 경계선에 기초하는 푸리에 기술자와 영역에 기초하는 모멘트 불변량을 동시에 사용하는 방법이 영상 검색에 있어서 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.641-644
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• 2001

멀티미디어 검색을 위한 MPEG-7 표준화 작업이 완료되어감에 따라, 멀티미디어 특징 기술자를 활용한 다양한 응용들이 나타나고 있다. 본 논문에서는 미키 마우스, 포켓 몬스터 또는 호돌이와 같은 지적 재산 정보인 동시에 고부가가치 대상인 캐릭터 이미지를 대상으로 하여, 캐릭터 이미지 특징을 분석하고, MPEG-7 에서 정의된 컬러 기술들간의 검색 효율을 비교하여, 캐릭터 이미지에 가장 적합한 기술자를 제안한다. 캐릭터 이미지는 자연 이미지와는 달리, 질감(Texture)이나 모양 (Shape)정보에 비해, 주로 컬러 정보에 의존하며,존재하는 컬러의 수가 3-6 개 범위 내에 주로 존재하고, 컬러의 분포가 고르며, 질감 성분이 많지 않은 특징을 갖고 있다. MPEG-7 에 정의된 Dominant Color, Scalable Color, Color Layout 및 Color Structure 4 종류의 기술자를 캐릭터 이미지 특징에 맞는 기술자를 유형별로 분류된 3,834개의 이미지 셋에 적용하여, 검색 성능 평가 지수인 ANMRR(Average Normalized Modified Retrieval Rank) 를 측정하여 가장 효율적인 기술자를 정의한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.505-508
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 MPEG-7 비주얼 디스크립터를 기반으로 Digital Image의 효과적인 검색이 가능한 시스템의 개발하였다. MPEG-7에 포함되어 있는 비주얼 디스크립터 툴은 컬러, 텍스처, shape, motion, localization, 얼굴 인식 등을 포함한다. 이들 MPEG-7에서 제공하는 비주얼 디스크립터를 그대로 이용하여 Digital Image의 검색 시스템을 구현하기에는 시스템이 불필요하게 커질 수 있으며 Digital Image의 검색 성능이 그다지 높지 않다는 문제점이 발생한다. 구체적으로는 모든 디스크립터를 이용하여 데이터베이스에 존재하는 모든 Digital Imag에 대한 검색을 수행하기에는 많은 처리시간이 요구된다는 것과 어떠한 디스크립터를 이용해야 정확한 검색이 이루어질지 알 수 없기 때문이다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는, MPEG-7 비주얼 디스크립터의 특성을 저작권위원회에서 제공받은 데이터베이스를 이용하여 분석하고 이들 디스크립터의 효과적인 결합 기술을 개발하였다. 기존의 디스크립터 결합 방식은 각각의 디스크립터에 동일한 가중치를 부여하고 검색을 수행하는 방식이었으나 본 논문에서는 정보이론을 기반으로 디스크립터의 가중치를 자동으로 부여하는 방식으로 검색 시스템을 구성하였다. 개발된 시스템은 기존의 동일한 가중치를 부여한 시스템에 비해서 데이터베이스에 대한 각 디스크립터의 특성을 반영하여 가중치를 결정하도록 구성하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1991.10a
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• pp.996-1001
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• 1991

We consider the object recognition of industrial tools which have one degree of freedom. In the case of pliers, the shape varies as the jaw angle varies. Thus, a feature vector made from the boundary image also varies along with the jaw angle. But a pattern recognizer should have the ability of classifying objects without any regards to the angle variation. For a pattern recognizer we have utilized a backpropagation neural net. Feature vectors were made from Fourier descriptors of boundary images by truncating the high frequency components, and they were used as inputs to the neural net for training and recognition. In our experiments, backpropagation neural net outperforms the minimum distance rule which is widely used in the pattern recognition. The performance comparison also made under noisy environments.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.561-571
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• 2017

Prospecting of local grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) germplasm revealed that Tunisia possesses a rich patrimony which presents diversified organoleptic characteristics. However, viral diseases seriously affect all local grapevine cultivars which risk a complete extinction. Sanitation programs need to be established to preserve and exploit, as a gene pool, the Tunisian vineyards areas. The presence of the Grapevine leafroll associated virus-3 (GLRaV-3), Grapevine stem pitting associated virus (GRSPaV) and Grapevine virus A (GVA), were confirmed in a Tunisian grapevine cultivar using serological and molecular analyses. The association between GRSPaV and GVA viruses induces more rugose wood symptoms and damages. For this reason the cleansing of the infected cultivar is highly advisable. Direct and recurrent somatic embryos of cv. 'Hencha' were successfully induced from filament, when cultured on $Ch{\acute{e}}e$and Pool (1987). based-medium, enriched with $2mg1^{-1}$ of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and $2.5mg1^{-1}$ of Thidiazuron, after 36 weeks of culture. After six months of acclimatization, RT-PCR carried on 50 somaplants confirmed the absence of GVA, GRSPaV as well as GLRaV-3 viruses in all somaplants. Ampelographic analysis, based on eight OIV descriptors, was carried out on two years acclimated somaplants, compared to the mother plant. Results demonstrated that the shape and contours of 46 somaclones leaves are identical to mother plant leaves and four phenotypically off-type plants were observed. The healthy state of 100% 'Hencha' somaclones and the high percentage of phenotypically true-to-type plants demonstrate that somatic embryogenesis is a promising technique to adopt for grapevine viruses elimination.