• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.03a
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• pp.70-75
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• 2007

2008년 12월에 우리나라 최초의 통신해양기상위성(Communications， Oceanography and Meteorology Satellite, COMS)이 발사될 예정이다. 통신해양기상위성의 영상데이터의 기하보정을 위하여 다음과 같은 연구를 수행하였다. 기상위성은 정지궤도상에 위치하여 전지구적인 영상을 얻는다. 영상의 전지구적인 해안선은 구름 등으로 가려져서 명확한 정보를 제공할 수 없게 된다. 구름 등으로 방해되지 않는 명확한 해안선 정보를 얻기 위하여 구름 추출을 한다. 실시간으로 기상정보를 얻는 기상위성의 특성상 정합에 전체 영상을 사용하면 수행시간이 다소 소요된다. 정합시 전체 영상에서 정합을 위한 후보점 추출을 위하여 GSHHS(Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shoreline)의 해안선 데이터베이스를 사용하여 211 개 의 랜드마크 칩들을 구축하였다. 이때 구축된 랜드마크 칩은 실험에 사용한 GOES-9의 위치 동경 155도를 반영하여 구축하였다. 전체 영상에서 구축된 랜드마크 칩들의 위치를 중심으로 구름추출을 수행한다. 전체 211 개의 후보점 중 구름이 제거된 나머지 후보점에 대하여 정합을 수행한다. 랜드마크 칩과 위성영상 간의 정합 중 참정합과 오정합이 존재하는데 자동으로 오정합을 검출하기 위하여 강인추정기법 (RANSAC, Random Sample Consensus)을 사용한다. 이때 자동으로 판별되어 오정합이 제거된 정합결과로 최종적인 기하보정을 수행한다. 기하보정을 위한 센서모델은 GOES-9 위성의 센서특정을 고려하여 개발되었다. 정합 및 RANSAC결과로 얻어진 기준점으로 정밀 센서모델을 수립하여 기하보정을 실시하였다. 이때 일련의 수행과정을 통신해양기상위성의 실시간 처리요구사항에 맞도록 속도를 최적화하여 진행되도록 개발하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.135-138
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• 2001

증강현실 시스템을 구축하는데 있어 실시간 가상객체 위치 추적은 실세계와 가상객체를 정확하고 깊이감 있게 정합하고, 실세계 움직임에 따른 가상객체 위치변화 추적에 중요하다. 따라서 실시간 카메라 입력영상으로부터 가상객체의 위치를 추적하는데 있어 정확성과 함께 빠른 수행시간이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 HMD(Head Mounted Display)장비에 장착된 두 개의 카메라로부터 관찰자의 시점 이동에 따른 가상객체 정합위치 정보를 입력받아 그 위치를 정확하게 인식하고 빠르게 추적하기 위하여 인위적인 랜드마크 형태를 정의하였으며, 실시간 입력영상으로부터 랜드마크 중심점 위치를 실시간으로 추적하기 위해 일정시간 간격마다 입력받은 첫 영상으로부터 얻은 랜드마크 영역 정보를 이용하여 중심점의 위치를 추적함으로써 수행시간을 줄이고자 하였다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.505-516
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• 2005

The Communications, Oceanography and Meteorology Satellite(COMS) will be launched in 2008. Ground processing for COMS includes the process of automatic image navigation. Image navigation requires landmark detection by matching COMS images against landmark chips. For automatic image navigation, a matching must be performed automatically However, if matching results contain errors, the accuracy of Image navigation deteriorates. To overcome this problem, we propose use of a robust estimation technique called Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) to automatically detect erroneous matching. We tested GOES-9 satellite images with 30 landmark chips that were extracted from the world shoreline database. After matching, mismatch results were detected automatically by RANSAC. All mismatches were detected correctly by RANSAC with a threshold value of 2.5 pixels.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.230-235
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• 2005

As a precedence research for the COMS(Communication, Oceanic, and Meteorological Satellite), this paper proposes the SMTC(Soble Masked Tracking Guideline) algorighm for a fast landmark matching. The experimental results show that proposed algorithm should recude a lot of calculative time.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.758-765
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• 2001

This paper proposes a method to automatically extract stable visual landmarks from sensory data. Given a 2D occupancy map, a mobile robot first extracts vertical line features which are distinct and on vertical planar surfaces, because they are expected to be observed reliably from various viewpoints. Since the feature information such as position and length includes uncertainty due to errors of vision and motion, the robot then reduces the uncertainty by matching the planar surface containing the features to the map. As a result, the robot obtains modeled stable visual landmarks from extracted features. This extraction process is performed on-line to adapt to an actual changes of lighting and scene depending on the robot’s view. Experimental results in various real scenes show the validity of the proposed method.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.6_1
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• pp.1309-1320
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• 2023

The technological development and popularization of mobile devices have developed so that users can check their location anywhere and use the Internet. However, in the case of indoors, the Internet can be used smoothly, but the global positioning system (GPS) function is difficult to use. There is an increasing need to provide real-time location information in shaded areas where GPS is not received, such as department stores, museums, conference halls, schools, and tunnels, which are indoor public places. Accordingly, research on the recent indoor positioning technology based on light detection and ranging (LiDAR) equipment is increasing to build a landmark database. Focusing on the accessibility of building a landmark database, this study attempted to develop a technique for estimating the user's location by using a single image taken of a landmark based on a mobile device and the landmark database information constructed in advance. First, a landmark database was constructed. In order to estimate the user's location only with the mobile image photographing the landmark, it is essential to detect the landmark from the mobile image, and to acquire the ground coordinates of the points with fixed characteristics from the detected landmark. In the second step, by applying the bag of words (BoW) image search technology, the landmark photographed by the mobile image among the landmark database was searched up to a similar 4th place. In the third step, one of the four candidate landmarks searched through the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) feature point extraction technique and Homography random sample consensus(RANSAC) was selected, and at this time, filtering was performed once more based on the number of matching points through threshold setting. In the fourth step, the landmark image was projected onto the mobile image through the Homography matrix between the corresponding landmark and the mobile image to detect the area of the landmark and the corner. Finally, the user's location was estimated through the location estimation technique. As a result of analyzing the performance of the technology, the landmark search performance was measured to be about 86%. As a result of comparing the location estimation result with the user's actual ground coordinate, it was confirmed that it had a horizontal location accuracy of about 0.56 m, and it was confirmed that the user's location could be estimated with a mobile image by constructing a landmark database without separate expensive equipment.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.177-184
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• 2001

The goal of radiation treatment is to deliver a prescribed radiation dose to the target volume accurately while minimizing dose to normal tissues. Due to inaccurate placement of field and shielding block and patient's movement, there could be displacement errors between the planed and treatment regions. In order to verify the location of radiation treatment, we in this study developed the registration algorithm of the x-ray simulator images and portal images and quantified the inaccuracy in terms of shift, scale and rotation. The algorithm for registration of pairs of radiation fields consists of the alignment of pairs of radiation images by points matching and field displacement analysis by field boundary matching. In the first step, paired surface landmarks are matched to calculate the transformation parameters (scale, rotation and shift) using the corresponding line pairs which are created by connecting two landmarks of each image. In the next step, portal field boundary is extracted and then the two field boundaries are matched by the $\rho$-$\theta$ technique. Applying the phantom portal images, detection errors were calculated to be less than 2mm in translation, 1$^{\circ}$ in rotation and 1% in scale. In conclusion, we quantitatively analyzed the displacement error of x-ray simulator images and portal images. The present results could contribute to the study of the radiation treatment verification.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.3 s.35
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• pp.173-182
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a landmark recognition method which is irrelevant to the camera viewpoint on the navigation for localization. Features in previous research is variable to camera viewpoint, therefore due to the wealth of information, extraction of visual landmarks for positioning is not an easy task. The proposed method in this paper, has the three following stages; first, extraction of features, second, learning and recognition, third, matching. In the feature extraction stage, we set the interest areas of the image. where we extract the corner points. And then, we extract features more accurate and resistant to noise through statistical analysis of a small eigenvalue. In learning and recognition stage, we form robust feature models by testing whether the feature model consisted of five corner points is an invariant feature irrelevant to viewpoint. In the matching stage, we reduce time complexity and find correspondence accurately by matching method using similarity evaluation function and Graham search method. In the experiments, we compare and analyse the proposed method with existing methods by using various indoor images to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed methods.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.297-309
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• 2007

The first Korean geostationary weather satellite, Communications, Oceanography and Meteorology Satellite (COMS) will be launched in 2008. The ground station for COMS needs to perform geometric correction to improve accuracy of satellite image data and to broadcast geometrically corrected images to users within 30 minutes after image acquisition. For such a requirement, we developed automated and fast geometric correction techniques. For this, we generated control points automatically by matching images against coastline data and by applying a robust estimation called RANSAC. We used GSHHS (Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shoreline) shoreline database to construct 211 landmark chips. We detected clouds within the images and applied matching to cloud-free sub images. When matching visible channels, we selected sub images located in day-time. We tested the algorithm with GOES-9 images. Control points were generated by matching channel 1 and channel 2 images of GOES against the 211 landmark chips. The RANSAC correctly removed outliers from being selected as control points. The accuracy of sensor models established using the automated control points were in the range of $1{\sim}2$ pixels. Geometric correction was performed and the performance was visually inspected by projecting coastline onto the geometrically corrected images. The total processing time for matching, RANSAC and geometric correction was around 4 minutes.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.801-809
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• 2019

Existing Gamma Knife Radiosurgery(GKRS) for large lesions is often conducted in stages with volume or dose partitions. Often in case of volume division the target used to be divided into sub-volumes which are irradiated under the determined prescription dose in multi-sessions separated by a day or two, 3~6 months. For the entire course of treatment, treatment informations of the previous stages needs to be reflected to subsequent sessions on the newly mounted stereotactic frame through coordinate transformation between sessions. However, it is practically difficult to implement the previous dose distributions with existing Gamma Knife system except in the same stereotactic space. The treatment area is expanding because it is possible to perform the multistage treatment using the latest Gamma Knife Platform(GKP). The purpose of this study is to introduce the image-coregistration based on the stereotactic spaces and the strategy of multistage GKRS such as the determination of prescription dose at each stage using new GKP. Usually in image-coregistration either surgically-embedded fiducials or internal anatomical landmarks are used to determine the transformation relationship. Author compared the accuracy of coordinate transformation between multi-sessions using four or six anatomical landmarks as an example using internal anatomical landmarks. Transformation matrix between two stereotactic spaces was determined using PseudoInverse or Singular Value Decomposition to minimize the discrepancy between measured and calculated coordinates. To evaluate the transformation accuracy, the difference between measured and transformed coordinates, i.e., ${\Delta}r$, was calculated using 10 landmarks. Four or six points among 10 landmarks were used to determine the coordinate transformation, and the rest were used to evaluate the approaching method. Each of the values of ${\Delta}r$ in two approaching methods ranged from 0.6 mm to 2.4 mm, from 0.17 mm to 0.57 mm. In addition, a method of determining the prescription dose to give the same effect as the treatment of the total lesion once in case of lesion splitting was suggested. The strategy of multistage treatment in the same stereotactic space is to design the treatment for the whole lesion first, and the whole treatment design shots are divided into shots of each stage treatment to construct shots of each stage and determine the appropriate prescription dose at each stage. In conclusion, author confirmed the accuracy of prescribing dose determination as a multistage treatment strategy and found that using as many internal landmarks as possible than using small landmarks to determine coordinate transformation between multi-sessions yielded better results. In the future, the proposed multistage treatment strategy will be a great contributor to the frameless fractionated treatment of several Gamma Knife Centers.