• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.231-239
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a vanishing point detection method using multiple initial vanishing points. Vanishing points are important geometric information that is used for reconstructing 3D structures. Three vanishing points are detected for indoor scenes. In the previous work, it could be inaccurate to detect only one initial vanishing point, because initial vanishing point getting most highest sum of voting could be deferent from the best initial vanishing point. Therefore the method which sets multiple initial vanishing point and detects a best vanishing point from them gives us preparation for the prior case. Also in this paper, we propose a adjusting vanishing point method by postprocessing of detected vanishing points. We could detect more accurate vanishing point by using postprocessing. Experimental results show that the accuracy of the vanishing point detection is about 1~2% higher than that of the existing method through the proposed method and the performance is improved accordingly.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.39-46
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• 2017

In this paper, we proposes method of vanishing point detection using orthogonality of vanishing point, under the "Manhattan World" assumption that the structure of the city is mostly grid and vanishing point are orthogonal to each other. The feature that the vanishing point are orthogonal to each other can be useful for inferring the missing point that are not detected among the three vanishing point, and prevent the vanishing point detected close to the other vanishing point. In this paper, we detect Vertical vanishing point through statistical approach and detect Horizontal and Front vanishing point through structural approach. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the detection accuracy of the vanishing point compared with the existing method.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.477-483
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose vanishing-point position-improvement algorithms by using multiple images and a homography matrix. Vanishing points can be detected from a single image, but the positions of detected vanishing points can be improved if we adjust their positions by using information from multiple images. More accurate indoor space information detection is possible through vanishing points with improved positional accuracy. To adjust a position, we take three images and detect the information, detect the homography matrix between the walls of the images, and convert the vanishing point positions using the detected homography. Finally, we find an optimal position among the converted vanishing points and improve the vanishing point position. The experimental results compared an existing algorithm and the proposed algorithm. With the proposed algorithm, we confirmed that the error angle to the vanishing point position was reduced by about 1.62%, and more accurate vanishing point detection was possible. In addition, we can confirm that the layout detected by using improved vanishing points through the proposed algorithm is more accurate than the result from the existing algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.121-123
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 2D-to-3D 변환을 위한 기하구조 기반 깊이 추정에 적합한 소실점 검출 기법을 제안한다. 3D 공간에서 평행한 직선들은 2D 공간으로의 투시영상에서 시점에서 멀어질수록 간격이 좁아지고, 결국에는 한 점으로 수렴하게 된다. 수렴된 점을 소실점(vanishing point)이라 하고, 소실점을 거쳐 지나는 직선들을 소실선(vanishing lines)이라고 한다. 일반적으로, 인간은 소실선과 소실점을 추정한 2D 영상에서 소실점이 관찰자 시점으로부터 제일 먼 지점이라는 인식을 이용하여 깊이 정보를 인지할 수 있다. 전경영역과 배경영역 간의 경계에서는 수직성분을 가진 선들이 생성되어 올바른 소실점을 검출하는데 방해가 될 수 있다. 그렇기 때문에 본 논문에서는 수직성분을 가진 선들을 제거하여 소실점을 탐색하는 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.367-370
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• 2013

단일 영상에서 3차원 정보를 획득하기 위해 가장 많이 사용되는 단서로는 소실점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 소실점을 추정하기 위해서 허프변환을 사용하여, 단일 영상의 소실점 탐색 시 유효 직선간의 기울기 값 비교 및 근접도를 구하여 교점 생성에 필요 없는 정보를 제거함으로서 소실점 추정 정확도를 높인 보다 정확한 소실점 탐색 기법을 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.539-543
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• 2006

사람은 실내나 인공구조물을 가진 실외 환경에서 깊이를 지각하는데 소실점이라는 강력한 깊이 지각 단서를 활용한다. 소실점은 관찰자로부터 가장 먼 거리의 지점에 대응된다. 인간은 단안영상이 가지는 기하학적 성분을 이용해서 소실점을 추정하고, 소실점의 위치와 관찰자의 시점을 기준으로 상대적 깊이지각을 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 하나의 소실점을 가진 2차원 단안영상에서 유효한 소실점을 추정하고, 입력영상에 대한 소실점의 위치 관계를 이용한 상대적 깊이지도의 생성 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.745-747
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• 2004

소실점은 실 공간의 평행한 직선들이 영상에서 만나는 점으로서 카메라 파라미터 추정. 영상을 사용한 3차원 구조복원 등에서 널리 사용되는 영상 상에 존재하는 3차원 기하에 대한 암묵적인 특징 정보이다. 본 논문에서는 영상으로부터 안정적으로 소실점을 검출하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제시한다. 먼저 단위구 상에서 셀 기반의 소실 공간을 EM 알고리즘의 초기 소실점으로 사용함한 신뢰성 있는 소실점 추출 방법을 제안한다. 또한 단일 영상에서 제거되지 않는 이상치에 대해 다중 영상에서 H응 직선이 가자는 사영불변치인 planar collineation과 harmonic range를 이용하여 보다 정확한 소실점을 구하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘을 다양한 영상을 통해 실험한 결과 안정적이고 신뢰할만한 소실점 검출이 가능하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.96-101
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• 2011

Vanishing point can be defined as a point generated by converged perspective lines, which are parallel in the real world. In this paper, we propose a real-time vanishing point detection algorithm using this fundamental feature of vanishing point. The existing methods 1) require high computational cost or 2) are restricted to specific image contents. The proposed method detects the vanishing point in images based on the block-wise HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradient) descriptor. First, we compute the HOG descriptor in a block-wise manner, then estimate the location of the vanishing point using the proposed dynamic programing. Experiments are performed on diverse images to confirm the efficiency of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.834-841
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• 2020

Among the autonomous driving systems based on visual sensors, the control method using a vanishing point is the most general method for autonomous driving. However, if the lane is lost or does not exist, it is very difficult to detect this and estimate the vanishing point. In this paper, we predict the vanishing point of the road and the vanishing point lines on the left and right sides using CNN for the camera image and design the steering controller for autonomous driving from the predicted results. As a result of the simulation, it was confirmed that the proposed method well tracked the center of the road regardless of the presence or absence of a solid lane, and was superior to the control method using a general method using the vanishing point.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

This paper proposes a method to detect vanishing points of an indoor scene using line segment classification. Two-stage vanishing points detection is carried out to detect vanishing point in indoor scene efficiently. In the first stage, the method examines whether the image composition is a one-point perspective projection or a two-point one. If it is a two-point perspective projection, a horizontal line through the detected vanishing point is found for line segment classification. In the second stage, the method detects two vanishing points exactly using line segment classification. The method is evaluated by synthetic images and an image DB. In the synthetic image which some noise is added in, vanishing point detection error is under 16 pixels until the percent of the noise to the image becomes 60%. Vanishing points detection ratio by A.Quattoni and A.Torralba's image DB is over 87%.