• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 한국방송공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.170-171
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 다시점 영상 부호화 시 효율적인 부호화를 위해 이웃한 시점 영상의 부호화 정보를 이용하는데 있어 영상 간의 최대 시차 정보를 이용하여 부호화 하는 방법을 제안한다. 다시점 비디오 부호화 방법은 일반적인 단일 시점 영상의 부호화와 같이 화면 내 참조, 화면 간 참조를 수행할 뿐만 아니라, 이웃한 시점의 영상을 참조하여 부호화 하는 시점 간 참조를 수행한다. 현재 표준화가 진행중인 HEVC 기반의 다시점 부호화 방법에서는, 시점 간 참조 시 이미 부호화가 완료된 이웃한 블록으로부터 시차 벡터 (Disparity vector)를 유도하여 부호화 하는 방법도 사용된다. 이 때 이웃한 블록들로부터 얻어낼 수 있는 시차 벡터가 여러 개일 때, 최대의 절대값을 갖는 시차 벡터를 선택함으로써 부호화 효율을 높일 수 있다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• 제15B권6호
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• pp.517-526
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• 2008

Stereo vision is a fundamental method for measuring 3D structures by observing them from two cameras placed on different positions. In order to reconstruct 3D structures, it is necessary to create a disparity map from a pair of stereo images. To create a disparity map we compute the matching cost for each point correspondence and compute the disparity that minimizes the sum of the whole matching costs. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate a dense disparity map using region segmentation. We segment each scanline using region homogeneity properties. Using the segmented regions, we prohibit false matches in the stereo matching process. Disparities for pixels that failed in matching are filled by interpolating neighborhood disparities. We applied the proposed method to various stereo images of real environments. Experimental results showed that the proposed method is stable and potentially viable in practical applications.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2002

In this paper, we describe a novel method to generate an intermediate scene using BDM (Bidirectional Disparity Morphing) from the parallel stereopair. Because an image is composed of several layers and each layer has a similar disparity, it is available to use the block based disparity estimation. In order to prevent the false correspondence, however, we closely investigate the corresponding block as we adaptively vary the block size according to the estimation error. Therefore, we can detect the occlusion because of larger estimation error of the occluded region. We define three occluding patterns, which ate derived from the peculiar property of the disparity map, in order to smooth the computed disparity map. The filtered disparity map using these patterns presents that the false disparities ate well corrected and the boundary between foreground and background becomes sharper. As a result, we can improve the quality of the intermediate scenes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2021년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.275-278
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• 2021

영상 스티칭은 다수의 영상을 넓은 시야각을 갖는 하나의 영상으로 합성하여 사용자들에게 몰입감과 현장감을 제공하는 기술이다. 그러나 영상에 시차(Parallax)가 존재하는 경우 스티칭된 영상에서 왜곡이 발생할 수 있는데 이는 사용자의 몰입을 방해할 수 있다. 따라서 스티칭 영상의 다양한 활용을 위해서는 시차로 인한 왜곡을 최소화하여 자연스러운 스티칭 영상을 만드는 것이 중요하다. 기존 호모그래피 추정 방법으로 발생할 수 있는 고스트 현상을 최소화하기 위해서 seam 기반 스티칭 방법이 사용되었지만, 단순히 작은 특징값을 따라 생성된 seam은 사물 영역 정보가 반영되지 않아 seam이 특징이 있는 부분을 지나가면서 시차 왜곡이 발생할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 딥러닝 기반의 MegaDepth를 활용한 depth 예측 정보를 에너지 함수 기반의 seam 생성 행렬의 가중치로 사용하여 seam이 사물을 피해 생성되면서 시차가 작은 영역으로 유도되도록 하는 seam optimization 기법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.425-433
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a super-resolution reconstruction algorithm for plenoptic images based on the reliability of disparity. The subperture image generated by the Flanoptic camera image is used for disparity estimation and reconstruction of super-resolution image based on TV_L1 algorithm. In particular, the proposed image reconstruction method is effective in the boundary region where disparity may be relatively inaccurate. The determination of reliability of disparity vector is based on the upper, lower, left and right positional relationship of the sub-aperture image. In our method, the unreliable vectors are excluded in reconstruction. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated by comparing to a bicubic interpolation method, a conventional disparity based method and dictionary based method. The experimental results show that the proposed method provides the best performance in terms of PSNR(Peak Signal to noise ratio), SSIM(Structural Similarity).

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.123-129
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• 2004

This paper concerns auto vergence control of a parallel stereoscopic camera through geometrical analysis. In the construction of a parallel stereoscopic camera, we experimentally demonstrated linear relationship between the key object distance and the amount of vergence control. And we proposed a vergence control system for the stereoscopic camera using binocular disparity information. For the real-time calculation of disparity information, the Hybrid Cepstral filter algorithm, with input data acquired from the vertical projection data and from the down sampling data from the source images, was proposed for precision and high speed processing. With the disparity information algorithm and the vergence control of the parallel stereoscopic camera system, the stereoscopic images become more like those of the human eye.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.91-94
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• 2004

The vergence controls of the parallel stereoscopic camera need only the disparity information of left and right images in horizontal direction. This paper proposed past and precise disparity value for stereoscopicimage pair in horizontal direction and the algorithm which can abstract disparity information through the HCF(Hybrid Cepstral Filter) for sign information. The proposed disparity information- extracting algorithm can obtain accurate disparity value of horizontal direction and signinformation by using both the one dimension cepstral filter which uses vertical projection data of left and right Image and the two dimension cepstral filter which uses down sampled image.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• 제17B권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2010

Stereo matching techniques are categorized in two major schemes, local and global matching techniques. In global matching schemes, several investigations are introduced, where cost accumulation is performed in multiple matching lines. In this paper, we introduce a new multi-line stereo matching techniques which expands a conventional single-line matching scheme to multiple one. Matching cost is based on simple normalized cross correlation. We expand the scan-line optimization technique to a multi-line scan-line optimization technique. The proposed technique first generates a reliability image, which is iteratively updated based on the previous reliability measure. After some number of iterations, the reliability image is completed by a hole-filling algorithm. The hole-filling algorithm introduces a disparity score table which records the disparity score of the current pixel. The disparity of an empty pixel is determined by comparing the scores of the neighboring pixels. The proposed technique is tested using the Middlebury and CMU stereo images. The error analysis shows that the proposed matching technique yields better performance than using conventional global matching algorithm.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.17-28
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• 2003

In order to provide natural images with a specified depth through three-dimensional display system, the stereo images should be similar to those projected from real environment as much as possible. Even when two persons see an identical scene, the binocular Parallax between two images of an object varies as a function of one's inter-pupilary distance (IPD). In this study, we investigated whether individual differences, such as IPD and accommodative vergence, would affect the perception of three dimensional scene provided by stereo-images. Results showed that a person's IPD is correlated with the limit of screen and binocular parallax for single vision, and affects the perceived depth of an object on fixation. More specifically, with longer IPD the limit of screen and binocular parallax for single vision is decreased, and the perceived depth is reduced. These results suggest that the screen and binocular parallax of an object should be calibrated with regard to users IPD to provide natural stereo-images with a specified depth and to Prevent double vision.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 한국방송공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.311-314
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• 2010

최근 3D 영상에 대한 대중화가 급속히 진행되고 있음에도 불구하고 한 번 만들어진 영상/비디오를 재사용하거나 조작하여 다양한 형태의 콘텐츠를 만들지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 깊이영상과 양안(스테레오) 영상 또는 깊이영상과 단안 영상이 주어졌다고 가정하고 깊이영상을 조작하여 양안 시차(parallax)를 변화시키는 방법을 제안한다. 시차변화의 대상은 부분영상이며, 특정 개체를 추출하여 깊이정보를 수정하고, 이를 바탕으로 스테레오 영상을 재구성한다. 본 논문에서는 정지영상만을 대상으로 하며, 동일한 방법을 동영상에 적용하면 동영상 또한 시차를 변화시킨 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 실험은 Middlebury의 테스트 영상들을 대상으로 제안한 방법을 적용하여 자연스러운 스테레오 영상을 얻을 수 있음을 보인다.