• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.9-15
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• 2006

The recent development in robot field shows that service robot which interacts with human and provides specific service to human has been researched continually. Especially, robot for human welfare becomes the center of public concern. At present time, guide robot is priority field of general welfare robot and helps the blind keep safe path when he walks outdoor. In this paper, guide robot provides not only collision avoidance but also the best walking direction and velocity to blind people while recognizing environment information from various kinds of sensors. In addition, it is able to provide the most safe path planing on behalf of blind people.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.26-34
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• 1999

This study shows an alternative method for the determination of object's position, based on a computer vision method. This approach develops the vision system model to define the reciprocal relationship between the 3-D real space and 2-D image plane. The developed model involves the bilinear six-view parameters, which is estimated using the relationship between the camera space location and real coordinates of known position. Based on estimated parameters in independent cameras, the position of unknown object is accomplished using a sequential estimation scheme that permits data of unknown points in each of the 2-D image plane of cameras. This vision control methods the robust and reliable, which overcomes the difficulties of the conventional research such as precise calibration of the vision sensor, exact kinematic modeling of the robot, and correct knowledge of the relative positions and orientation of the robot and CCD camera. Finally, the developed vision control method is tested experimentally by performing determination of object position in the space using computer vision system. These results show the presented method is precise and compatible.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.15-21
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• 2012

Depth information is necessary for various three dimensional contents generation. Depth acquisition techniques can be categorized broadly into two approaches: active, passive depth sensors depending on how to obtain depth information. In this paper, we take a look at several ways of depth acquirement. We present not only depth acquisition methods using discussed ways, but also hybrid methods which combine both approaches to compensate for drawbacks of each approach. Furthermore, we introduce several matching cost functions and post-processing techniques to enhance the temporal consistency and reduce flickering artifacts and discomforts of users caused by inaccurate depth estimation in 3D video.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.384-391
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• 2008

For use in the guide system for the people who are visually impaired, an obstacle searching device using synchronous ultrasonic wave emission was proposed and developed. Generally, the conventional obstacle detection methods use the ultrasonic distance measuring device with successive scan method. However, the scan method causes a theoretical error and it couldn't estimate accurate obstacle distances. The proposed synchronous firing method use the plural number of ultrasonic sensors which emit ultrasonic wave simultaneously and estimate the distance to the closest obstacle relatively accurately. We analytically analyzed the errors of the conventional and proposed methods and compared the quantitative differences of the errors. The differences verified by obstacle search experiments. Using the proposed ultrasonic wave synchronous firing method, 3 dimensional obstacle location estimating device was designed and implemented. The results of the 3 dimensional obstacle detecting experiments showed the proposed method had good performances and it would be sufficiently use in the guide system for the people who are visually impaired.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.45-52
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• 2014

This paper proposes an efficient photo retrieval system that automatically indexes for searching of relevant images, using a combination of geo-coded information, direction/location of image capture device and content-based visual features. A photo image is labeled with its GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates and direction of the camera view at the moment of capture, and the label leads to generate a geo-spatial index with three core elements of latitude, longitude and viewing direction. Then, content-based visual features are extracted and combined with the geo-spatial information, for indexing and retrieving the photo images. For user's querying process, the proposed method adopts two steps as a progressive approach, filtering the relevant subset prior to use a content-based ranking function. To evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, we assess the simulation performance in terms of average precision and F-score, using a natural photo collection. Comparing the proposed approach to retrieve using only visual features, an improvement of 20.8% was observed. The experimental results show that the proposed method exhibited a significant enhancement of around 7.2% in retrieval effectiveness, compared to previous work. These results reveal that a combination of context and content analysis is markedly more efficient and meaningful that using only visual feature for image search.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.923-924
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose the sensor fusing method for the obstacle avoidance of guiding robot for the visually impaired In our system, we acquire obstacles distances information using ultrasonic sensors, and its width is acquired by image sensor. We also compute avoidance angle using are distance and width information gained by sensor. After the robot avoid the obstacle by computed angle, the robot returns to its original path using odometry. The robot consists of the SA1110-based controller, sensory part using sonar array and image sensor, and motion part using differential drive for climbing stairs. This system use the embedded linux for OS, and also is developed by the QT/Embedded for GUI.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.666-668
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• 2016

Salt and pepper noise generally occurs due to errors in the transmission channel or sensors and it lowers the resolution of the image and causes visual errors. To remove this salt and pepper noise, SMF(standard median filter), which represents simple algorithm and excellent noise removal performance, is widely used. However preservation characteristics in the pitch areas of the image is rather lacking. Therefore to effectively restore images damaged by salt and pepper noise, the study suggested a multiple filter that applies filters differently according to size by applying noise density threshold value of local mask on noise signal, while preserving non-noise signal.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.87-93
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• 2003

The purpose of this research is to develop a virtual reality system which enables to actually experience the virtual reality through the visual sense of human. TSS was applied in tracing the movement of moving picture in this research. By applying TSS, it was possible to calculate multiple motion vectors from moving picture, and then camera's motion parameters were obtained by utilizing the relationship between the motion vectors. For the purpose of experiencing the virtual reality by synchronizing the camera's accelerated velocity and the simulator's movements, the relationship between the value of camera's accelerated velocity and the simulator's movements was analyzed and its result was applied to the neutral network training. It has been proved that the proposed virtual reality immersion system in this dissertation can dynamically control the movements of moving picture and can also operate the simulator quite similarly to the real movements of moving picture.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.903-910
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• 2018

The necessary rehabilitation training for patients with disability currently does not match the actual amount of training conducted, which requires interest in rehabilitation treatment, continued investment and infrastructure for rehabilitation contents, while the most common forms of rehabilitation treatment comprises of art, music, and play treatments. In this paper, we provide a game-style rehabilitation program including audio and visual elements through motion detection process on the patient and design a digital game rehabilitation program that allows different level of management for various categories of disabled people.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.202-204
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• 2006

에이전트는 각 분야에서 다양하게 정의되고 해석되어진다. 자율 에이전트는 인간의 의해 지배되어지는 캐릭터처럼 컴퓨터에 의해 제어된다. 또한 에이전트는 다양한 행동을 할 수 있고 다른 캐릭터들과 사회관계를 만들 수도 있다. 가상 환경에서 자율 에이전트는 센서를 통해서 외부 환경에 대한 정보를 지각하여 획득한 정보를 이용하여 추론 등의 방법을 통해 자율적으로 새로운 정보와 행동들을 생성한다. 그러나 이전의 연구에서는 동작 생성기에 의해 만들어진 움직임들의 통할만 이루어지는 에이전트였다. 또한 에이전트는 에이전트와 객체간의 거리에 따라 지각되어지는 정보는 같고, 거리에 따라 객체의 크기를 지각하여 구별 할 수 없다. 크기가 다른 객체들에 대해서 자율 에이전트는 같은 거리에서 지각하여 정보를 획득한다는 문제점 있다. 자율 에이전트는 크기가 큰 객체일 때는 먼 거리에서도, 지각 할 수 있다. 하지만 크기가 작은 객체들은 가까운 거리에서 지각 할 수 있다. 즉 크기가 다양한 객체를 자율 에이전트가 지각 할 수 있는 거리는 다르기 때문이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 자율 에이전트의 구조와 레벨을 이용한 방법을 제안한다.