• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.380-393
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• 2015

This study presents how we can evaluate stereo camera systems for the structural deformation monitoring. A stereo camera system, consisting of a set of stereo cameras and reflective markers attached on the structure, is introduced for the measurement and the stereo pattern recognition (SPR) method is utilized for the full-field structural deformation estimation. Performance of this measurement system depends on many parameters including types and specifications of the cameras, locations and orientations of them, and sizes and positions of markers; it is difficult to experimentally identify the effects of each parameter on the measurement performance. In this study, a simulation framework for evaluating performance of the stereo camera systems with various parameters has been developed. The maximum normalized root-mean-square (RMS) error is defined as a representative index of stereo camera system performance. A plate structure is chosen for an introductory example. Its several modal harmonic vibrations are generated and estimated in the simulation framework. Two cases of simulations are conducted to see the effects of camera locations and the resolutions of the cameras. An experimental validation is carried out for a few selected cases from the simulations. Using the simultaneous laser displacement sensor (LDS) measurements as the reference, the measurement errors are obtained and compared with the simulations.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.41-45
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• 2004

We have developed and tested a new method for nondestructive estimation of chlorophyll- and nitrogen-contents in rye leaf. It was found that the relation-ships among nitrogen, chlorophyll content and fresh weight were significantly positive correlated. Nitrogen and chlorophyll content were positively correlated whereas correlation coefficients among R, G, R-B and G-B on the basis of photo-numerical values were negative. We have found that R/(R-B) obtained from data of digital camera is the best criterion to estimate the chlorophyll content of leaves. The regression curves of the relation between R/(R-B) and chlorophyll content were also calculated from the data collected on cloudy days. The coefficients of determination ($\textrm{r}^2$) were ranged from 0.33 to 0.99. In this study, the accuracy in estimating chlorophyll content from the color data of digital camera image could be improved by correcting with R, G, and B values. It is suggested that, for practical purposes, the image values estimated with sufficient accuracy using a portable digital camera can be applied for determining chlorophyll content and nitrogen status in plant leaves.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.915-922
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• 2014

We propose an adaptive zoom motion estimation method where a picture is divided into two areas based on the distance information with a depth camera : the one is object area and the other is background area. In the proposed method, the zoom motion is only applied to the object area except the background area. Further, the block size of motion estimation for the object area is set to smaller than that of background area. This adaptive zoom motion estimation method can be reduced at the complexity of motion estimation and can be improved at the motion estimation performance by reducing the block size of the object area in comparison with the conventional zoom motion estimation method. Based on the simulation results, the proposed method is compared with the conventional methods in terms of motion estimation accuracy and computational complexity.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.226-233
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• 2015

Pose estimation is an important operation for many vision tasks. This paper presents a method of estimating the camera pose, using a known landmark for the purpose of autonomous vertical takeoff and landing(VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) landing. The proposed method uses a distinctive methodology to solve the pose estimation problem. We propose to combine extrinsic parameters from known and unknown 3-D(three-dimensional) feature points, and inertial estimation of camera 6-DOF(Degree Of Freedom) into one linear inhomogeneous equation. This allows us to use singular value decomposition(SVD) to neatly solve the given optimization problem. We present experimental results that demonstrate the ability of the proposed method to estimate camera 6DOF with the ease of implementation.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.993-1001
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• 2011

Unmanned ground vehicle for facility protection mostly uses model of territory for autonomous navigation. However, modeling of territory using several sensors is highly time consuming and sometimes inefficient for road application. Therefore, an estimation of drivable path based on features of road is required for high speed autonomous navigation on road. In this paper, an estimation method of drivable path using camera and 2D laser rangefinder is proposed. First, a vanishing point is estimated based on image data from CCD camera. Second, a road width is estimated based on range data from 2D laser rangefinder. Finally, the drivable path is estimated by fusing the vanishing point and the road width. The proposed method is tested on both well-structured road and unpaved road like cross-country situation.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.150-155
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• 2002

Horizontally-moving method (HMM) stereoscopic camera has a liner relationship between ver-gence and focus control. We introduced the automatic control method for a stereoscopic camera system that uses the relationship between vergence and focus of an HMM stereoscopic camera. the Automatic control method uses disparity compensation of the acquired image pair from the stereoscopic camera. For faster extraction of disparity information, the proposed binocular dispar-ity estimation method by the one-dimensional cepstral filter algorithm would be investigated. The suggested system in this study substantially reduced the controlling time and error-ratio so as to make it possible to achieve natural and clear images.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권10호
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• pp.1305-1313
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• 1995

In this paper, we propose a robust estimation of camera parameters from image sequence for high quality video composition. We first establish correspondence of feature points between consecutive image fields. After the establishment, we formulate a nonlinear least-square data fitting problem. When the image sequence contains moving objects, and/or when the correspondence establishment is not successful for some feature points, we get bad observations, outliers. They should be properly eliminated for a good estimation. Thus, we propose an iterative algorithm for rejecting the outliers and fitting the camera parameters alternatively. We show the validity of the proposed method using computer generated data sets and real image sequeces.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권10호
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• pp.142-149
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• 2013

일반적으로 영상의 색은 RGB 카메라 시스템의 red, green, blue 채널들을 사용하여 재현된다. 하지만 세 채널들의 정보만으로 실제 장면의 분광 반사율을 추정하는데 한계가 있다. 이 때문에 RGB 카메라 시스템은 색을 정확하게 재현하지 못한다. 이 한계를 극복하고 정확한 색을 재현하기 위해 다채널 카메라 시스템을 사용하여 분광 반사율을 추정하는 연구들이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 최근 분광 유사도를 사용하여 카메라 응답에 따라 기존 모집단에서 유사 모집단을 적응적으로 구성하는 분광 반사율 추정법이 소개되었다. 하지만 이 방법에는 평균 거리와 최대 거리 기반의 분광 유사도가 적용되었기 때문에 유사 모집단의 정확도가 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 유사 모집단의 정확도를 향상시키기 위해 상관 계수 기반의 분광 유사도가 적용된 분광 반사율 추정법을 제안하였다. 먼저 기존 모집단과 위너(Wiener) 추정법을 통해 획득된 분광 반사율 간의 상관 계수를 계산한다. 다음으로 상관 계수에 따라 기존 모집단에서 유사 모집단을 구성한다. 마지막으로 유사 모집단이 적용된 위너 추정법을 수행하여 분광 반사율을 추정한다. 제안된 방법과 이전의 방법들의 성능을 평가하기 위해 실험 결과를 비교하였다. 그 결과, 제안한 방법이 제일 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.109-111
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• 2021

최근 라이트 필드 카메라를 통한 컴퓨터 비전 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 라이트 필드 카메라에서는 공간정보를 가지고 있기 때문에, depth map estimation, super resolution, 3D object detection 과 같은 분야에서 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 라이트필드 카메라를 통해 취득되는 7×7 배열의 이미지를 통해 blur 영상에서 객체를 검출하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 카메라에서 취약한 blur 영상을 라이트 필드 카메라를 통하여 검출한다. 제안하는 방법은 SSD 알고리즘을 사용하여 실제 라이트 필드 카메라에서 취득한 blur 영상을 사용하여 성능평가를 수행한다

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.83-88
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• 2011

Abstract. Image segmentation is always a challenging task in computer vision as well as in pattern recognition. Nowadays, this method has great importance in the field of stereo vision. The disparity information extracting from the binocular image pairs has essential relevance in the fields like Stereoscopic (3D) Imaging Systems, Virtual Reality and 3D Graphics. The term 'disparity' represents the horizontal shift between left camera image and right camera image. Till now, many methods are proposed to visualize or estimate the disparity. In this paper, we present a new technique to visualize the horizontal disparity between two stereo images based on image segmentation method. The process of comparing left camera image with right camera image is popularly known as 'Stereo-Matching'. This method is used in the field of stereo vision for many years and it has large contribution in generating depth and disparity maps. Correlation based stereo-matching are used most of the times to visualize the disparity. Although, for few stereo image pairs it is easy to estimate the horizontal disparity but in case of some other stereo images it becomes quite difficult to distinguish the disparity. Therefore, in order to visualize the horizontal disparity between any stereo image pairs in more robust way, a novel stereo-matching algorithm is proposed which is named as "Quadtree Segmentation of Pixels Disparity Estimation (QSPDE)".