Morphological segmentation based on edge detection-II for automatic concrete crack measurement

Tung-Ching Su,Ming-Der Yang 사단법인 한국계산역학회 2018 Computers and Concrete, An International Journal Vol.21 No.6

Crack is the most common typical feature of concrete deterioration, so routine monitoring and health assessment become essential for identifying failures and to set up an appropriate rehabilitation strategy in order to extend the service life of concrete structures. At present, image segmentation algorithms have been applied to crack analysis based on inspection images of concrete structures. The results of crack segmentation offering crack information, including length, width, and area is helpful to assist inspectors in surface inspection of concrete structures. This study proposed an algorithm of image segmentation enhancement, named morphological segmentation based on edge detection-II (MSED-II), to concrete crack segmentation. Several concrete pavement and building surfaces were imaged as the study materials. In addition, morphological operations followed by cross-curvature evaluation (CCE), an image segmentation technique of linear patterns, were also tested to evaluate their performance in concrete crack segmentation. The result indicates that MSED-II compared to CCE can lead to better quality of concrete crack segmentation. The least area, length, and width measurement errors of the concrete cracks are 5.68%, 0.23%, and 0.00%, respectively, that proves MSED-II effective for automatic measurement of concrete cracks.

새로운 결합척도를 이용한 동영상 분할

최재각,이시웅,남재열 대한전자공학회 2003 電子工學會論文誌-SP (Signal processing) Vol.40 No.1

본 논문에서는 분할기반 영상 부호화를 위한 새로운 영상 분할 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 움직임과 밝기 정보에 기반한 새로운 유사성 척도를 사용한다. 그리고 하나의 분할 단계 내에 밝기와 움직임 정보가 함께 결합된다. 영상 분할은 분수령 알고리즘에 기반한 영역 확장법을 통해 이루처지며, 연속된 프레임에 대한 분할은 분할결과가 시간축으로 일관성을 유지하도록 추적방법을 통해 이루어진다. 모의실험결과, 제안된 방법이 통계적 척도만을 사용한 방법과는 달리, 물체의 경계를 결정하는데 효과적임을 보였다. A new video segmentation algorithm for segmentation-based video coding is proposed. The method uses a new criterion based on similarities in both motion and brightness. Brightness and motion information are incorporated in a single segmentation procedure. The actual segmentation is accomplished using a region-growing technique based on the watershed algorithm. In addition, a tracking technique is used in subsequent frames to achieve a coherent segmentation through time. Simulation results show that the proposed method is effective in determining object boundaries not easily found using the statistic criterion alone.

수리형태학을 이용한 영상 분할

조선길,강현철,Cho Sun-gil,Kang Hyunchul 한국통신학회 2005 韓國通信學會論文誌 Vol.30 No.11c

최근 수리형태학적 접근 방법을 이용하여 영상을 분할하고자 하는 연구가 계속되고 있다. 그 중에서도 분수경계 알고리듬은 기존의 에지 기반의 영상 분할 방법과 영역기반의 영상분할 방법의 장점을 모두 가지고 있는 효과적인 영상 분할 기법 중에 하나이다. 분수경계 알고리듬의 기본적인 개념은 지형학적 해석에 기반을 두고 있으며 항상 영역의 외곽에 폐곡선을 형성한다. 그러나 잡영에 매우 민감하게 반응하여 수많은 영역으로 분할되는 과분할 현상을 초래한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 중요하지 많은 국부 최소점과 국부 최대점을 모두 제거함으로써 과분할 현상을 줄이는 제한적 워터폴 알고리듬을 제안한다. 실험결과 제안한 제한적 워터폴 방법이 다른 과분할 억제 방법보다 평균분할 영역수와 외곽선 소실 측면에서 효과적으로 영상을 분할할 수 있었다. Recently, there have been much efforts in the image segmentation using morphological approach. Among them, the watershed algorithm is one of powerful tools which can take advantages of both of the conventional edge-based segmentation and region-based segmentation. The concept of watershed is based on topographic analogy. But, its high sensitivity to noise yields a very large number of resulting segmented regions which leads to oversegmentation. So we suggest the restricted waterfall algorithm which reduce the oversegmentation by eliminate not only local minima but also local maxima. As a result, the restricted waterfall algorithm has a good segmented image than the other methods, and has a better binary image than the histogram thresholding method.

Body Segmentation using Gradient Background and Intra-Frame Collision Responses for Markerless Camera-Based Games

Jun-Geon Kim,Daeho Lee 대한전기학회 2016 Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology Vol.11 No.1

We propose a novel framework for markerless camera-based games. By using a visual camera, our method may yield robust human body segmentation with high performance comparable to the segmentation using depth cameras. The edges of human bodies are detected by subtracting gradient backgrounds, and human body regions are segmented by the operations based on mathematical morphology. Collisions between detected regions and virtual objects are determined by finding the colliding time using intra-frame positions of virtual objects. Experimental results show that the proposed method may produce robust segmentation of human bodies, thereby and the collision responses are more accurate than previous methods. Therefore, the proposed framework can be widely used in camera-based games requiring high performance.

Medical Image Segmentation Based on Morphology Algorithm and FCM Algorithm

Shigang Wang,Zhinan Rong,Xueshan Gao 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Vol.9 No.10

Fuzzy c-means algorithm is an unsupervised clustering algorithm, its clustering process can reduce the human intervention, and it is suitable for processing medical images of uncertainty and ambiguity. When simply using FCM algorithm in brain image segmentation will leads to the condition of low accuracy. On the basis of FCM algorithm, this paper proposes a new method which combines FCM algorithm and morphology algorithm. The result of simulation shows that this method can accurately and efficiently segment the brain image. The new algorithm is an effective method for image segmentation.

크기 및 대조 기반의 Connected Operator를 이용한 효과적인 수리형태학적 영상분할

김태현,문영식,Kim, Tae-Hyeon,Moon, Young-Shik 대한전자공학회 2005 電子工學會論文誌-SP (Signal processing) Vol.42 No.6

본 논문에서는 영역 기반 부호화를 위해 수리형태학 연산자를 이용한 영역 분할 알고리즘을 제안한다. 수리형태학을 이용한 영상 분할은 단순화, 마커 추출, 영역 결정의 세 단계로 구성된다. 단순화 단계는 분할을 용이하게 하기 위하여 영상의 복잡한 부분들을 제거하는 단계이고, 마커 추출단계는 단순화 과정을 거친 영상으로부터 각 영역의 초기 기준 영역을 찾는 과정이다. 영역 결정단계는 추출된 마커로부터 각 영역의 경계를 결정하는 단계이다. 단순화를 위해 기존 평탄면 필터를 효과적으로 개선한 크기와 대조를 고려한 효과적인 Connected Operator를 사용한다. 마커 추출 과정에서 원영상으로 복원된 영역은 제외시키고 나머지 부분에서 크기와 대조가 일정값 이상인 영역을 마커로 결정한다. 생성된 모든 마커와 Hierarchical Watershed algorithm을 이용하여 초기 영상 분할을 하고 영역 병합과정에서는 영역 수에 대한 화질의 저하를 최소로 하는 영역 병합 알고리즘을 제안한다. 동시에, 시각적 특성을 고려하여 일정 대조 이상인 영역 쌍은 병합에서 제외시킨다. 실험 결과에서 제안된 마커 추출 방법이 화질을 많이 저하시키지 않는 범위 내에서 적은 수의 마커를 추출하며, 영역 병합과정을 통해 많은 불필요한 영역들을 병합할 수 있음을 보인다. In this paper, we propose an efficient segmentation algerian using morphological grayscale reconstruction for region-based coding. Each segmentation stage consists of simplification, marker extraction and decision. The simplification removes unnecessary components to make an easier segmentation. The marker extraction finds the flat zones which are the seed points from the simplified image. The decision is to locate the contours of regions detected by the marker extraction. For the simplification, we use a new connected operator based on the size and contrast. In the marker extraction stage, the regions reconstructed to original values we excluded from the candidate marker. For the other regions, the regions which are larger than structuring elements or have higher contrast than a threshold value are selected as markers. For the initial segmentation, the conventional hierarchical watershed algorithm and the extracted markers are used. Finally in the region merging stage, we propose an efficient region merging algorithm which preserves a high quality in terms of the number of regions. At the same time, the pairs which have higher contrast than a threshold are excluded from the region merging stage. Experimental results show that the proposed marker extraction method produces a small number of markers, while maintaining high quality and that the proposed region merging algorithm achieves a good performance in terms of the image quality and the number of regions.

딥러닝을 위한 모폴로지를 이용한 수중 영상의 세그먼테이션

이지은,이철원,박석준,신재범,정현기 한국음향학회 2023 韓國音響學會誌 Vol.42 No.4

In the underwater image, it is not clear to distinguish the shape of the target due to underwater noise and low resolution. In addition, as an input of deep learning, underwater images require pre-processing and segmentation must be preceded. Even after pre-processing, the target is not clear, and the performance of detection and identification by deep learning may not be high. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish and clarify the target. In this study, the importance of target shadows is confirmed in underwater images, object detection and target area acquisition by shadows, and data containing only the shape of targets and shadows without underwater background are generated. We present the process of converting the shadow image into a 3-mode image in which the target is white, the shadow is black, and the background is gray. Through this, it is possible to provide an image that is clearly pre-processed and easily discriminated as an input of deep learning. In addition, if the image processing code using Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV)Library was used for processing, the processing speed was also suitable for real-time processing. 수중영상은 수중 잡음과 낮은 해상도로 표적의 형상과 구분이 명확하지 않다. 그리고 딥러닝의 입력으로수중영상은 전처리가 필요하며 Segmentation이 선행되어야 한다. 전처리를 하여도 표적은 명확하지 않으며 딥러닝에의한 탐지, 식별의 성능도 높지 않을 수 있다. 따라서 표적을 구분하며 명확하게 하는 작업이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는수중영상에서 표적 그림자의 중요성을 확인하고 그림자에 의한 물체 탐지 및 표적 영역 획득, 그리고 수중배경이 없는표적과 그림자만의 형상이 담긴 데이터를 생성하며 더 나아가 픽셀값이 일정하지 않은 표적과 그림자 영상을 표적은흰색, 그림자는 흑색, 그리고 배경은 회색의 3-모드의 영상으로 변환하는 과정을 제시한다. 이를 통해 딥러닝의 입력으로 명확히 전처리된 판별이 용이한 영상을 제공할 수 있다. 또한 처리는 Open Source Computer Vision(OpenCV)라이브러리의 영상처리 코드를 사용했으면 처리 속도도 역시 실시간 처리에 적합한 결과를 얻었다.

Body Segmentation using Gradient Background and Intra-Frame Collision Responses for Markerless Camera-Based Games

Kim, Jun-Geon,Lee, Daeho The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers 2016 Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology Vol.11 No.1

We propose a novel framework for markerless camera-based games. By using a visual camera, our method may yield robust human body segmentation with high performance comparable to the segmentation using depth cameras. The edges of human bodies are detected by subtracting gradient backgrounds, and human body regions are segmented by the operations based on mathematical morphology. Collisions between detected regions and virtual objects are determined by finding the colliding time using intra-frame positions of virtual objects. Experimental results show that the proposed method may produce robust segmentation of human bodies, thereby and the collision responses are more accurate than previous methods. Therefore, the proposed framework can be widely used in camera-based games requiring high performance.

결합척도에 의한 영상분할

崔在覺,李光鎬,盧澈均 慶一大學校 1999 論文集 Vol.16 No.6

An image segmentation algorithm for segmentation-based image coding is presented. The method uses a new criterion based on similarities in both motion and brightness. Brightness and motion information are incorporated in a single segmentation procedure. The actual segmentation is accompolished using a region-growing technique based on the watershed algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed method is effective in determining object boundaries not easily found using the statistic criterion alone.

이진 트리 구조를 이용한 움직임 물체의 계층적 영상 분할

박영식 경주대학교 정보전자기술연구소 2002 情報電子技術論叢 Vol.1 No.-

In this paper, a hierarchical moving object segmentation method using a binary tree structure is proposed. Intensity value and displacement vector are used as homogeneous criterion for moving object segmentation. The intensity value is used to reduce residual errors between original image and segmented image in spatial domain. The displacement vector is used to segment regions with different motion in temporal domain. The pixels, whose displacement vector and intensity value are ambiguous, are precisely decided by the modified watershed algorithm using the proposed homogeneous criterion. In the experiment, the region of moving object is precisely segmented.