• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.565-571
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• 2012

During depth data acquisition and transmission, the quality of depth maps is usually degraded by physical noise and coding error. In this paper, a new joint bilateral filter based on the common distance transform is presented to enhance the low-quality depth map. The proposed method determines the amount of exploitable color data according to distance transform values of depth and color pixels. Consequently, the proposed filter minimizes noise in the depth map while suppressing visual artifacts of joint bilateral filtering. Experimental results show that our method outperforms other conventional methods in terms of noise reduction and visual artifact suppression.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.933-944
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a new method to convert a low-resolution depth map into its high-resolution one called distance transform-based bilateral upsampling. Since the proposed method controls the spatial domain weighting function based on distance transform values of the depth map, it increases the input depth map resolution while preserving edge sharpness. The proposed method is composed of three main steps: distance transform, spatial weighting control, and image interpolation. Experimental results show that our method outperforms the conventional bilateral upsampling in terms of the quality of output depth maps.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.112-113
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• 2012

최근 카메라와 디스플레이의 발전에 따라 고해상도 영상이 요구되고 있다. 하지만 깊이를 획득하는 깊이센서 장치는 색상 영상에 미치지 못하는 저해상도 깊이맵을 주로 제공한다. 이에 따라 저해상도의 깊이맵을 고해상도 깊이맵으로 상향변환이 필요하다. 하지만 대부분의 보간법들은 edge에서 blur가 발생하는 경우가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 distance transform(DT)를 이용하여 edge의 선명도를 향상시킨 고해상도 깊이맵 생성 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.96-97
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• 2016

스테레오 정합은 컴퓨터 비전 분야에서 활발하게 연구되고 있는 연구 주제로 서로 다른 위치에서 획득된 두 영상을 정합하여 거리 정보를 얻는 방법이다. 이 방법은 초음파나 레이저를 광원으로 거리를 측정하는 것보다 실제 응용 환경의 제약을 적게 받아 다양한 분야에서 응용되고 있다. 하지만, 텍스쳐가 반복되거나 텍스쳐가 없는 영역 혹은 객체의 경계 부근에서 정확한 깊이 정보를 획득하지 못한다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문은 일반적 총 변이와 가이드 깊이맵을 사용하여 정합 비용을 정제 방법을 사용하여 정확한 깊이 정보 획득 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안한 방법이 기존의 색상 영상의 텍스쳐 복사 문제를 해결하였으며, 기존의 방법에 비해 bad pixel rates 측면에서 월등한 성능을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.939-948
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• 2004

In this paper. we Propose a robust and fast image registration technique for motion correction in brain CT-CT angiography obtained from same patient to be taken at different time. First, the feature points of two images are respectively extracted by 3D edge detection technique, and they are converted to locally weighted 3D distance map in reference image. Second, we search the optimal location whore the cross-correlation of two edges is maximized while floating image is transformed rigidly to reference image. This optimal location is determined when the maximum value of cross-correlation does't change any more and iterates over constant number. Finally, two images are registered at optimal location by transforming floating image. In the experiment, we evaluate an accuracy and robustness using artificial image and give a visual inspection using clinical brain CT-CT angiography dataset. Our proposed method shows that two images can be registered at optimal location without converging at local maximum location robustly and rapidly by using locally weighted 3D distance map, even though we use a few number of feature points in those images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.811-814
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• 2007

맵 합병 알고리즘은 최근에 활발히 연구되고 있는 위치 추정 알고리즘의 한 유형이다. 본 논문에서는 두 개의 인접한 지역 맵을 합병하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 기존의 기법에 비해서 보다 많은 거리 정보를 활용함으로써 보다 정확한 맵 합병을 가능하게 한다. 우리가 제안한 합병 기법에 기초한 앵커프리 위치 추정 알고리즘을 제시하고 모의실험을 통하여 기존의 기법에 비하여 성능의 향상을 달성함을 입증하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.5
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• pp.391-400
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• 2004

Within multimodal medical image registration techniques, which correlate different images and Provide integrated information, surface registration methods generally minimize the surface distance between two modalities. However, the features of two modalities acquired from one subject are similar. So, it can improve the accuracy of registration result to match two images based on optimization of both surface distance and shape feature. This research proposes a registration method which optimizes surface distance and surface curvature of two brain modalities. The registration process has two steps. First, surface information is extracted from the reference images and the test images. Next, the optimization process is performed. In the former step, the surface boundaries of regions of interest are extracted from the two modalities. And for the boundary of reference volume image, distance map and curvature map are generated. In the optimization step, a transformation minimizing both surface distance and surface curvature difference is determined by a cost function referring to the distance map and curvature map. The applying of the result transformation makes test volume be registered to reference volume. The suggested cost function makes possible a more robust and accurate registration result than that of the cost function using the surface distance only. Also, this research provides an efficient means for image analysis through volume visualization of the registration result.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1311-1316
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• 2021

In this paper, we present a bifocal stereo camera system combining two cameras with different focal length cameras to generate stereoscopic image and their corresponding depth map. In order to obtain the depth data using the bifocal stereo camera system, we perform camera calibration to extract internal and external camera parameters for each camera. We calculate a common image plane and perform a image rectification for generating the depth map using camera parameters of bifocal stereo camera. Finally we use a SGM(Semi-global matching) algorithm to generate the depth map in this paper. The proposed bifocal stereo camera system can performs not only their own functions but also generates distance information about vehicles, pedestrians, and obstacles in the current driving environment. This made it possible to design safer autonomous vehicles.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.97-99
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• 2006

우리는 관절체 캐릭터에 대해 시간에 따른 인식의 정도를 측정하는 모션 특징점 맵을 제안한다. 모션 특징점 맵은 이미지 특징점 맵에서 사용된 가우시안 거리 방법을 응용하여 계산할 수 있다. 관절 계층 구조에서의 모션과 시각적 인지간의 관계를 고려하여, 우리는 관절 동선 모션 특징점 맵과 관절 구동 모션 특징점 맵의 두 가지 모션 특징점 맵을 정의하였다. 정의한 두 가지 모션 특징점 맵을 사용하여 한 프레임에서의 모션 특징점 맵 또한 계산할 수 있다. 계산된 모션 특징점 맵은 모션의 시놉시스 생성, 정운동학 연산량의 축소, 자동적 카메라 동선 생성 등 여러 가지 응용 분야에 적용할 수 있다. 실험을 통하여 우리는 모션에 대한 인식 기반적인 접근을 통해 모션의 질적인 향상은 물론 계산적인 퍼포먼스의 향상에도 많은 기여를 할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.41-49
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• 2005

In this Paper, we Propose an automatic lung registration technique using local distance propagation for correcting the difference between two temporal images by a patient's movement in abdomen CT image obtained from the same patient to be taken at different time. The proposed method is composed of three steps. First, lung boundaries of two temporal volumes are extracted, and optimal bounding volumes including a lung are initially registered. Second, 3D distance map is generated from lung boundaries in the initially taken volume data by local distance propagation. Third, two images are registered where the distance between two surfaces is minimized by selective distance measure. In the experiment, we evaluate a speed and robustness using three patients' data by comparing chamfer-matching registration. Our proposed method shows that two volumes can be registered at optimal location rapidly. and robustly using selective distance measure on locally propagated 3D distance map.