• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.1907-1917
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• 2010

It is much needed research for ocean scientists to implement a digitizing system that effectively extracts and digitializes sea level records accumulated from the past. The main difficulty of such a system is huge anount of data to be processed. In this paper, we implement a digitizing system to handle such mass-data of sea level records. This system consists of a pre-process step, a digitizing step and a post-process step. In pre-process step, the system adjusts skewnesses of scanned images and normalizes the size of images automatically. Then, it extracts a graph area from images and thins the graph area in digitizing step. Finally, in the post-process step, the system tests the reliability. It is cost-effective and labour-reducing software for scientists not wasting their time to such boring manual digitizing jobs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.2555-2562
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose the method that extracts sea level measurements graph from the sea level measurements recording paper image with a little interaction. At first, a pixel that is included in the graph area is selected. Then, background pixels are automatically determined using the distance between a selected pixel and other pixels on LAB color space. In each vertical line, a pixel that is the nearest to the selected pixel on LAB color space is extracted and the graph area is determined using that pixels. Experimental results show that the sea level measurements graph can be extracted with a few interaction from the various sea level measurements recording paper images.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.175-182
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• 2013

The digitalization of sea level measurement recording which is recorded as analog type is useful for many related oceanology. In this paper, we propose a method which separates the graph area from a sea level measurement recording image. At first, a pixel that is regarded as the pixel which is included in the graph area is selected. Then, many background pixels are separated using the color of the selected pixel. In each vertical line, a pixel is determined as the pixel within the graph area and the graph area is separated from the image using that pixels. Experimental results show that the proposed method in this paper overcome drawbacks of the previous research and can separate the graph area which similar to the graph area of the original image.