• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제12B권5호
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• pp.587-594
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• 2005

본 논문은 전이 영역에서 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘을 이용한 multi-level thresholding 방법을 제안한다. 대부분의 임계치 기반 영상 분할은 영상의 히스토 그램 분포를 기반으로 임계치를 결정한다. 그러므로 많은 처리시간과 기억공간을 요구할 뿐만 아니라 복잡하고 무분별한 히스토 그램 분포를 가지는 실영상에서의 임계치 결정에는 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 영상의 대표적인 성분들로 구성된 전이 영역을 추출한 후 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘에 의해 최적의 임계치를 결정한다. 전이 영역을 추출하기 위해 이용되는 지역적 엔트로피는 잡음에 강건하며 영상에 내재된 정보를 잘 표현한다는 특성을 가진다. 그리고 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘은 복잡하고 무분별한 분포의 실영상에 대해서도 정확히 임계치를 설정할 수 있으며 multi-level thresholding으로 쉽게 확장이 가능하다. 다양한 실영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법보다 향상된 성능을 가짐을 보였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.2453-2458
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 2차원 바코드 영상을 위한 적응적 이진화 방법을 제안한다. 적응형 이진화 방법은 조명의 영향을 최소화하여 이진화를 수행하는 기술이다. 적응적 이진화 방법은 주로 문서 영상에 맞게 발전되어 왔다. 기존 방법들은 적응적 이진화에서 사용되는 박스에 대한 크기 설정 문제를 가지고 있다. 이 문제로 기존 방법들은 이차원 바코드 영상 인식에 적용하기에 부적절하다. 문제점을 극복하기 위해 먼저 박스크기와 기존 방법들의 문제점을 분석하고, 이를 기반으로 적분영상을 사용한 새로운 적응형 이진화 방법을 소개한다. 제안한 방법의 성능 입증을 위해 기존의 방법과 속도, 성능 비교 실험을 수행하였고 실험 결과는 기존 방법보다 우수함을 입증하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.1649-1657
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• 2008

In this paper, to overcome the failure of binarization for the characters suffered from low contrast and non-uniform illumination in license plate character recognition system, we improved the binarization method by combining local thresholding with global thresholding and edge detection. Firstly, apply the local thresholding method to locate the characters in the license plate image and then get the threshold value for the character based on edge detector. This method solves the problem of local low contrast and non-uniform illumination. Finally, back-propagation Neural Network is selected as a powerful tool to perform the recognition process. The results of the experiments i1lustrate that the proposed binarization method works well and the selected classifier saves the processing time. Besides, the character recognition system performed better recognition accuracy 95.7%, and the recognition speed is controlled within 0.3 seconds.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.736-744
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• 2007

We propose a fast macroblock (MB) mode prediction and decision algorithm based on temporal correlation for P-slices in the H.264/AVC video standard. There are eight block types for temporal decorrelation, including SKIP mode based on rate-distortion (RD) optimization. This scheme gives rise to exhaustive computations (search) in the coding procedure. To overcome this problem, a thresholding method for fast inter mode decision using a MB tracking scheme to find the most correlated block and RD cost of the correlated block is suggested for early stop of the inter mode determination. We propose a two-step inter mode candidate selection method using statistical analysis. In the first step, a mode is selected based on the mode information of the co-located MB from the previous frame. Then, an adaptive thresholding scheme is applied using the RD cost of the most correlated MB. Secondly, additional candidate modes are considered to determine the best mode of the initial candidate modes that does not satisfy the designed thresholding rule. Comparative analysis shows that a speed-up factor of up to 70.59% is obtained when compared with the full mode search method with a negligible bit increment and a minimal loss of image quality.

• 한국정보컨버전스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보컨버전스학회 2008년도 International conference on information convergence
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• pp.113-116
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• 2008

In this paper we suggest two novel methods for an implementation of the spot detection phase in the 2-DE gel image analysis program. The one is the adaptive thresholding method for eliminating noises and the other is the asymmetric diffusion model for spot matching. Remained noises after the preprocessing phase cause the over-segmentation problem by the next segmentation phase. To identify and exclude the over-segmented background regions, il we use a fixed thresholding method that is choosing an intensity value for the threshold, the spots that are invisible by one's human eyes but mean very small amount proteins which have important role in the biological samples could be eliminated. Accordingly we suggest the adaptive thresholding method which comes from an idea that is got on statistical analysis for the prominences of the peaks. There are the Gaussian model and the diffusion model for the spot shape model. The diffusion model is the closer to the real spot shapes than the Gaussian model, but spots have very various and irregular shapes and especially asymmetric formation in x-coordinate and y-coordinate. The reason for irregularity of spot shape is that spots could not be diffused perfectly across gel medium because of the characteristics of 2-DE process. Accordingly we suggest the asymmetric diffusion model for modeling spot shapes. In this paper we present a brief explanation ol the two methods and experimental results.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제37권8호
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• pp.767-773
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 잡음제거 기법 중 하나인 임계화 기법을 이용하여 관성센서 신호의 잡음을 제거하면서도 운동에 의한 신호변화는 상대적으로 왜곡이 적은 필터링기법을 제안하였다. 이는 기존 연구들이 웨이블릿의 장점을 충분히 활용하지 못하고 저역통과 필터와 같은 형태로 사용되기 때문에 급격히 변화하는 항체에 대하여는 부적합한 점을 개선하기 위한 것이다. 제안된 방법의 성능 확인을 위하여 INS-GPS 결합항법 시스템에 적용하였다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

2차원 전기영동 영상 분석 프로그램의 반점 검출 단계에서 해결해야할 문제점 중에 하나는 잡영 제거의 문제이다. 전처리과정에서 처리되지 않고 남은 잡영은 영역분할 결과 과분할되는 문제를 낳는다. 과분할된 배경 영역을 구분하고 제외시키기 위해서 일정한 밝기 이상의 영역을 제거하는 고정 문턱값을 사용하여 영역을 제거하면, 육안으로는 보이지 않으나 중요한 기능을 하는 미량의 단백질을 나타내는 반점들이 제외될 수도 있다. 제안 기법은 영역분할 후에 영역들의 첨도의 평균 곡선을 지수함수에 회귀분석하여 매개변수를 구한 다음, 오차의 확률분포에 따라서 매개변수들로 문턱값을 구하여 적용한다. 오차의 확률분포에 따르면 문턱값 적용의 신뢰도는 99.85%이며, 제안기법을 실험 영상으로 실험한 결과로써 적응적 문턱값 결정 기법이 정확함을 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.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.776-786
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• 2016

The fairly recent standard of equipping mobile devices with advanced imaging sensors has opened the possibility of conveniently diagnosing skin conditions, anywhere, anytime. For this application, we attempted to estimate skin conditions from a skin image taken by a mobile handheld camera. To estimate the skin conditions, we specifically identified three skin features (pigmentation, pores, and roughness) that can be measured quantitatively from a skin image. The experimental data indicate that the existing thresholding methods are inappropriate for extracting the pigmentation and pore skin features. Thus, we propose a new line-fitting based thresholding method for skin feature detection. We thoroughly evaluated our proposed skin condition estimation method using our skin image database. The experimental results show that our proposed thresholding method can better determine the threshold leading to the most visually plausible detection, when compared to existing methods. We also confirmed that skin conditions can be feasibly estimated using a common mobile handheld camera (for example, a smartphone).

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1997년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.533-536
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• 1997

In this paper, we visualized 3-dimensional volume of heart using volume method by thresholding in EBT slices data. Volume rendering is the method that acquire the color by casting a pixel ray to volume data. The gray level of heart region is so high that we decide heart region by thresholding method. When a pixel ray is cast to volume data, the region that is higher than threshold value becomes heart region. We effectively rendered the heart volume and showed the 3-dimensional heart volume.