• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.01a
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• pp.39-40
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• 2017

소나 영상 시뮬레이션은 실시간 처리를 위해 병렬처리를 사용하여 연산성능을 증대시키고 있다. 하지만 모듈 간 병렬처리, 영상처리 알고리즘, 방대한 데이터 처리와 같은 시뮬레이션에 적용되는 작업은 성능향상을 위한 최적의 연산장치와 병렬처리 기법이 달라 실시간 처리를 위한 최적화가 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 소나 영상 시뮬레이션의 개발을 위해 연산장치 및 병렬처리 기법에 따른 기술을 분류하고 실제 적용된 사례들을 소개한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.91-98
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• 2016

Detection and classification of underwater objects in sonar imagery are challenging problems. This paper proposes a system that detects and identifies underwater objects at the sea floor level using a sonar image and image processing techniques. The identification process of underwater objects consists of two steps; detection of candidate regions and identification of underwater objects. The candidate regions of underwater objects are extracted by image registration through the detection of common feature points between the reference background image and the current scanning image. And then, underwater objects are identified as the closest pattern within the database using eigenvectors and eigenvalues as features. The proposed system is expected to be used in efficient securement of Q route in vessel navigation.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.382-390
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• 2021

Synthetic aperture sonars as well as side scan sonars or multibeam echo sounders have been commercialized and are widely used for seafloor imaging. In Korea related research such as the development of a towed synthetic aperture sonar system is underway. In order to obtain high-resolution synthetic aperture sonar images, it is necessary to accurately estimate the platform motion on which it is installed, and a precise underwater navigation system is required. In this paper we are going to provide reference data for determining the required navigation accuracy and precision of navigation sensors by quantitatively analyzing how much distortion of the sonar images occurs according to motion characteristics of the platform equipped with the synthetic aperture sonar. Five types of motions are considered and normalized root mean square error is defined for quantitative analysis. Simulation for error analysis with parameter variation of motion characteristics results in that yaw and sway motion causes the largest image distortion whereas the effect of pitch and heave motion is not significant.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.182-189
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• 2014

This paper proposed a framework of recognition and tracking for underwater objects using sonar images as an alternative of underwater optical camera which has the limitation of usage due to turbidity. In Part 1, a design and recognition method for 2D artificial landmark was proposed considering the practical performance of current imaging sonars. In particular, its materials are selected in order to maximize detectability based on characteristics of imaging sonar and ultrasonic waves. It has a simple and omni-directional shape which allows an easy modeling of object, and it includes region based features as identifications. Also, we proposed a real-time recognition algorithm including edge detector, Hough circle transforms, and shape matrix based recognition algorithm. The proposed methods are verified by basin tests using DIDSON.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.118-128
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• 2018

In this paper, we have studied how to search an underwater object by learning the image generated by the side scan sonar in the convolution neural network. In the method of human side analysis of the side scan image or the image, the convolution neural network algorithm can enhance the efficiency of the analysis. The image data of the side scan sonar used in the experiment is the public data of NSWC (Naval Surface Warfare Center) and consists of four kinds of synthetic underwater objects. The convolutional neural network algorithm is based on Faster R-CNN (Region based Convolutional Neural Networks) learning based on region of interest and the details of the neural network are self-organized to fit the data we have. The results of the study were compared with a precision-recall curve, and we investigated the applicability of underwater object detection in convolution neural networks by examining the effect of change of region of interest assigned to sonar image data on detection performance.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.12-20
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• 2018

Efforts have been made to reconstruct low-resolution underwater images to high-resolution ones by using the image SR (Super-Resolution) method, all to improve efficiency when acquiring side-scan sonar images. As side-scan sonar images are similar with the optical images with respect to exploiting 2-dimensional signals, conventional image restoration methods for optical images can be considered as a solution. One of the most typical super-resolution methods for optical image is a sparse coding and there are studies for verifying applicability of sparse coding method for underwater images by analyzing sparsity of underwater images. Sparse coding is a method that obtains recovered signal from input signal by linear combination of dictionary and sparse coefficients. However, it requires huge computational load to accurately estimate sparse coefficients. In this study, a sparse coding based underwater image super-resolution method is applied while a selective reconstruction method for object region is suggested to reduce the processing time. For this method, this paper proposes an edge detection and object and non object region classification method for underwater images and combine it with sparse coding based image super-resolution method. Effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by reducing the processing time for image reconstruction over 32 % while preserving same level of PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) compared with conventional method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.73-81
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• 2018

The quality of side scan sonar images is determined by the frequency of a sonar. A side scan sonar with a low frequency creates low-quality images. One of the factors that lead to low quality is a high-level noise. The noise is occurred by the underwater environment such as equipment noise, signal interference and so on. In addition, in order to compensate for the transmission loss of sonar signals, the received signal is recovered by TVG (Time-Varied Gain), and consequently the side scan sonar images contain non-homogeneous noise which is opposite to optic images whose noise is assumed as homogeneous noise. In this paper, the SSCS (Structural Sparsity based Compressive Sensing) is proposed for removing non-homogeneous noise. The algorithm incorporates both local and non-local models in a structural feature domain so that it guarantees the sparsity and enhances the property of non-local self-similarity. Moreover, the non-local model is corrected in consideration of non-homogeneity of noises. Various experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is superior to existing method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.107-108
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• 2014

부화소 기반 영상 축소기법은 각각의 부화소를 조절함으로써 픽셀 기반 영상 축소기법보다 해상도를 향상시킬 수 있는 방법이다. 그러나 부화소에 의한 해상도의 증가는 종종 색상정보의 왜곡을 발생시킨다. 부화소 랜더링의 주요과제는 선명도를 유지함과 동시에 색조왜곡현상을 억제하는 것이다. 선행연구들은 부화소랜더링을 위해 1 차원 혹은 2 차원 필터를 최적화 하였지만, 지역적인 특성을 고려하지 않았기 때문에 출력영상의 화질이 저하되는 현상이 발생한다. 본 논문은 위와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해 내용적응형 2D FIR 필터를 제작방법을 제안한다. 제안필터는 충분한 수의 저해상도 패치와 고해상도 패치 쌍을 이용하여 임의의 고해상도 패치로부터 고화질의 저해상도 패치를 만들기 위한 최적의 내용적응형 2D FIR 필터를 학습한다. 학습된 필터에 의한 실험결과 제안하는 필터가 종례기법들 보다 색조왜곡현상이 현저히 줄어들고, 출력영상의 선명도를 유지함을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.273-276
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• 2000

3차원 영상은 2차원 영상에 비해 데이터량이 매우 방대하다. 따라서 3차원 데이터를 효율적으로 압축하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 현재까지 대부분의 연구는 데이터량이 체적소(voxel)에 비해 월등히 적은 메쉬(mesh)를 기반으로 하여 이루어져 왔다. 하지만, 메쉬를 이용한 데이터 압축의 경우 체적소에 비해 데이터 자체의 규칙성이 떨어져 체적소를 이용한 압축에 비해 압축 효율이 낮다. 그리고, 체적소 데이터를 이용할 경우, 이를 스켈레톤화 하여 데이터량을 더욱 줄일 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 3차원 체 적소 데이터의 규칙성과 스켈레톤을 이용한 압축 기법을 제안할 것이다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.10
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• pp.116-122
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• 2016

This paper proposes a practical object shape reconstruction method using an underwater imaging sonar. In order to reconstruct the object shape, three methods are utilized. Firstly, the vertical field of view of imaging sonar is modified to narrow angle to reduce an uncertainty of estimated 3D position. The wide vertical field of view makes the incorrect estimation result about the 3D position of the underwater object. Secondly, simple noise filtering and range detection methods are designed to extract a distance from the sonar image. Lastly, a low pass filter is adopted to estimate a probability of voxel occupancy. To demonstrate the proposed methods, object shape reconstruction for three sample objects was performed in a basin and results are explained.