• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 1985

A computer vision system for robot is developed which can recognize a variety of two dimensional complex objects in gray level noisy scenes. the system is also capable of determining the position and orientation of the objects for robotlc manipulation. The hardware of the vision system is developed and a new edge tracking technique is also proposed. The linked edges are approximated to sample line drawing by split and merge algorithm. The system extracts many features from line drawing and constructs relational structure by the concave and convex hull of objects. In matching process, the input obhects are compared with the objects database which is formed by learning ability. Thelearning process is so simple that the system is very flexible. Several examples arc shown to demonstrate the usefulness of this system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.183-188
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• 2004

In the course of Internet proliferation. many network-related technologies are examined for possible growth and evolution. The use of Internet-based technologies in private networks has further fuelled the demand for network-based applications. The most Promising among the new paradigms is use of mobile agents. It also however, suffers from a major drawback, namely the potential for malicious attacks, abuse of resources pilfering of information, and other security issues. These issues are significantly hampering the acceptance of the mobile-agent paradigm. This paper proposed the design of strong and safe mobile agent gateway that split and merge the agent code with security policy database. This mechanism will promote the security in mobile agent systems and mobile agent itself.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.1823-1832
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• 1997

In this ppaer, fault coverage analysis of a conformance test case for communication protocols, specified as a deterministic finite state machine(DFSM) is presented. The fault coverage analysis of a test case is defined by measuring the extent of the faults detected using a generated test case. The method that evaluates fault coverage analysis for a test case, has been researched by arithmetic analysis and simulation. In this paper, we designed and implemented a simulator for fault coverage analysis of a communication protocol teat case. With this result for Inres protocol, output fault and state merge and split fault have a high fault coverage of 100%. This simulator can be widely used with new fault coverage analysis tools by applying it to various protocols.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.6 s.109
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• pp.757-766
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• 2006

Mobile Ad-hoc Network(MANET) is an autonomous network consisted of mobile hosts. A considerable number of studies have been conducted on the MANET with studies of ubiquitous computing. Several studies have been made on the clustering schemes which manage network hierarchically to Improve flat architecture of MANET. But the conventional schemes have the lack of multi-hop clustering and load balancing. This paper proposes a clustering scheme to support multi-hop clustering and to consider load balancing between cluster heads. We define the split of clusters and states of cluster, and propose join, merge, divide, and election of cluster head schemes for load balancing of between cluster heads

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.228-242
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• 2005

The projected clustering seeks to find clusters in different subspaces within a high dimensional dataset. We propose an algorithm to discover near optimal projected clusters without user specified parameters such as the number of output clusters and the average cardinality of subspaces of projected clusters. The objective function of the algorithm computes projected energy, quality, and the number of outliers in each process of clustering. In order to minimize the projected energy and to maximize the quality in clustering, we start to find best subspace of each cluster on the density of input points by comparing standard deviations of the full dimension. The weighting factor for each dimension of the subspace is used to get id of probable error in measuring projected distances. Our extensive experiments show that our algorithm discovers projected clusters accurately and it is scalable to large volume of data sets.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.1130-1139
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• 1998

This paper presents an integrated solution for the content-based news video indexing and the retrieval. Currently, it is impossible to automatically index a general video, but we can index a specific structural video such as news videos. Our proposed model extracts automatically the key frames by using the structured knowledge of news and consists of the news item segmentation, caption recognition and search browser modules. We present above three modules in the following: the news event segmentation module recognizes an anchor-person shot based on face recognition, and then its news event are divided by the anchor-person's frame information. The caption recognition module detects the caption-frames with the caption characteristics, extracts their character region by the using split-merge method, and then recognizes characters with OCR software. Finally, the search browser module could make a various of searching mechanism possible.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.193-210
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• 2004

In this paper, we develop a real time lip-synch system that activates 2-D avatar's lip motion in synch with an incoming speech utterance. To realize the 'real time' operation of the system, we contain the processing time by invoking merge and split procedures performing coarse-to-fine phoneme classification. At each stage of phoneme classification, we apply the support vector machine (SVM) to reduce the computational load while retraining the desired accuracy. The coarse-to-fine phoneme classification is accomplished via two stages of feature extraction: first, each speech frame is acoustically analyzed for 3 classes of lip opening using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) as a feature; secondly, each frame is further refined in classification for detailed lip shape using formant information. We implemented the system with 2-D lip animation that shows the effectiveness of the proposed two-stage procedure in accomplishing a real-time lip-synch task. It was observed that the method of using phoneme merging and SVM achieved about twice faster speed in recognition than the method employing the Hidden Markov Model (HMM). A typical latency time per a single frame observed for our method was in the order of 18.22 milliseconds while an HMM method applied under identical conditions resulted about 30.67 milliseconds.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.511-513
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• 2000

PaP Smear 테스트는 자궁 경부암 진단에 가장 효율적인 방법으로 알려져 있다. 그러나 이 방법은 높은 위 음성률(false negative error, 15~50%)을 나타내고 있다. 이런 큰 오류율은 주로 다량의 세포 검사에 기인하여, 자동화 시스템의 개발이 절실히 요구되고 있다. 본 논문은 자궁 경부암의 특징인 군집을 이루는 암세포를 인식할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다. 시스템은 두 부분으로 나누어진다. 첫 단계에서는 저 배율(100배)에서 간단한 영상처리와 최소 근접 트리(Minimum Spanning Tree)를 통해 군집을 이루는 세포를 찾는다. 두 번째 단계서는 고 배율(400배)로 확대하여 군집 세포들로부터 여러 가지 특징을 추출한 후 KNN(k-Neighbor) 방법을 통해 인식하는 단계이다. 50개의 영상 (640X 480, RGB True Color 25 개의 100배 영상 , 25개의 400배 영상)이 실험에 사용되었다. 한 영상을 처리하는데 약 3초 (2.984초) 소요되었으며, 이는 region growing(20초)나 split and merge(58초) 방법 보다 덜 소요되었다. 100배 영상에서 정상과 비정상의 두 그룹으로 나누었을 경우에는 96%의 높은 인식율을 나타내었으나 비정상을 다시 5개의 그룹으로 나누었을 때는 45%로 나타내었다. 이는 영역 추출(segmentation) 단계에서 오류와 트레이닝 데이터의 비정확성에 기인한다. 400배 영상에서는 각각 92%와 30%로 나타내었다. 이는 영역추출 단계에서 사용한 Watershed 방법의 오류로 기인한 것으로 본다.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.105-115
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• 2011

In Vision-based Intelligent Transportation System(ITS) the segmentation of road region is a very basic functionality. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose a region segmentation method using adaptive pattern extraction technique to segment road regions and sky regions from original images. The proposed method consists of three steps; firstly we perform the initial segmentation using Mean Shift algorithm, the second step is the candidate region selection based on a static-pattern matching technique and the third is the region growing step based on a dynamic-pattern matching technique. The proposed method is able to get more reliable results than the classic region segmentation methods which are based on existing split and merge strategy. The reason for the better results is because we use adaptive patterns extracted from neighboring regions of the current segmented regions to measure the region homogeneity. To evaluate advantages of the proposed method, we compared our method with the classical pattern matching method using static-patterns. In the experiments, the proposed method was proved that the better performance of 8.12% was achieved when we used adaptive patterns instead of static-patterns. We expect that the proposed method can segment road and sky areas in the various road condition in stable, and take an important role in the vision-based ITS applications.