• 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.

• 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 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.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.642-651
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• 2015

A vanishing point is a point where parallel lines converge, and they become evident when a camera's lenses are used to project 3D space onto a 2D image plane. Vanishing point detection is the use of the information contained within an image to detect the vanishing point, and can be utilized to infer the relative distance between certain points in the image or for understanding the geometry of a 3D scene. Since parallel lines generally exist for the artificial structures within images, line-detection-based vanishing point-detection techniques aim to find the point where the parallel lines of artificial structures converge. To detect parallel lines in an image, we detect edge pixels through edge detection and then find the lines by using the Hough transform. However, the various textures and noise in an image can hamper the line-detection process so that not all of the lines converging toward the vanishing point are obvious. To overcome this difficulty, it is necessary to assign a different weight to each line according to the degree of possibility that the line passes through the vanishing point. While previous research studies assigned equal weight or adopted a simple weighting calculation, in this paper, we are proposing a new method of assigning weights to lines after noticing that the lines that pass through vanishing points typically belong to artificial structures. Experimental results show that our proposed method reduces the vanishing point-estimation error rate by 65% when compared to existing methods.

• 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.

• 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%.

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.147-154
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• 2004

In this paper, Inverted Coordinates Image Space (ICIS) is proposed as a solution for the problem of the unbounded accumulator space in the automatic detection of the finite/infinite vanishing points in image space. Since the ICIS is based on the direct transformation from the image space, it does not lose any geometrical information from the original image and it does not require camera calibration as opposed to the Gaussian sphere based methods. Moreover, the proposed method can accurately detect both the finite and infinite vanishing points under a small fixed memory amount as opposed to the conventional image space based methods. Experiments are conducted on various real images in architectural environments to show the advantages of the proposed approach over conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1891-1894
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 분할 영상 좌보계 (split image coordinate: SIC)를 제안하여 3차원 영상의 주요 특징 중의 하나인 유, 무한 소실점을 그 위치의 무한성이나 카메라의 보정과 관계없이 정확하게 자동 추출하였다. 제안한 방법에서는 가우시안 구 (Gaussian sphere) 기반의 기존 방법들과는 달리 영상 공간을 누적 공간으로 활용함으로써 카메라 보정이나 영상의 사전정보가 없어도 원 영상의 정보 손실 없이 소실점을 추출할 수 있고, 영상을 무한대까지 확장한 후 분할하여 재정의 함으로써 유, 무한 소실점을 모두 추출할 수 있도록 하였다. 정확한 소실점의 검출을 위하여 직선 검출 과정에서는 방향성 마스크 (mask)를 사용하였으며, 직선들의 군집화 (clustering) 과정에서는 기울기 히스토그램 방법과 수평/수직 군집화 방법을 적응적으로 적용하였다. 제안한 방법을 합성 영상 및 건축물 (man-made environment) 영상에 적용시켜 유, 무한 소실점들을 효과적이고 정확하게 찾을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.53-62
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• 2013

This paper proposes a method of automatically predicting the vanishing point for the purpose of detecting the road region from natural images. The proposed method stably detects the vanishing point in the road environment by analyzing the dominant orientation of the image and predicting the vanishing point to be at the position where the feature components of the image are concentrated. For this purpose, in the first stage, the image is partitioned into sub-blocks, an edge sample is selected randomly from within the sub-block, and RANSAC is applied for line fitting in order to analyze the dominant orientation of each sub-block. Once the dominant orientation has been detected for all blocks, we proceed to the second stage and randomly select line samples and apply RANSAC to perform the fitting of the intersection point, then measure the cost of the intersection model arising from each line and we predict the vanishing point to be located at the average point, based on the intersection point model with the highest cost. Lastly, quantitative and qualitative analyses are performed to verify the performance in various situations and prove the efficiency of the proposed algorithm for detecting the vanishing point.