• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.667-675
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• 2009

Image matching is widely applied in image application areas, such as remote sensing and GIS. In general, the initial set of matching points always includes outlier which affect the accuracy of image matching. The purpose of this paper is to develop a robust approach for outlier detection and removal in order to keep accuracy in image matching applications. In this paper we use three automatic outlier detection techniques of backward matching and affine transformation, and RANSAC(RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm. Moreover, we calculate overlapping apply and steps block-based processing for fast and efficient image matching in pre-processing steps. The suggested approach in this paper has been applied to real frame image pairs and the results have been analyzed in terms of the robustness and the efficiency.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.3
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• pp.76-88
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 건물이 포함된 스테레오 영상으로부터 건물을 3차원적으로 복원하기 위한 선소 특징 기반 정합 알고리듬에 대해 다루고 있다. 기존의 선소 특징 기반 정합 알고리듬은 선소 추출 기법의 성능에 많이 의존하고, 좌우 영상에서 추출된 에지 길이와 방향이 서로 차이가 날 경우 오정합이 많이 발생한다. 따라서, 건물의 형태를 올바르게 나타내지 못하는 원인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 해결하기 위하여 선소의 중심 및 양 끝점 외에 선소에 방향까지 고려하는 새로운 탐색 영역 설정 방법을 제안하였다. 또한 선소기반 정합에서 정합이 잘 이뤄지지 않는 수평선 정합 문제를 해결하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 한편 편평한 건물 가정 하에서 미정합된 건물 내부의 변이값을 얻기 위해 건물 추출 결과와 정합된 선소들을 이용한 보간법을 사용하였다. 제안한 알고리듬을 스테레오 항공 영상에 적용한 결과, 기존의 Hussien 등이 제안한 알고리듬에 비해 좋은 성능을 보였다.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.375-382
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• 2005

국토정보의 3차원 모형 생성에 관한 관심이 대두되면서 효율적인 3차원 자로 구축에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히 도심 지역의 건물 고도 모형 생성에 관하여 항공사진, 위성영상 및 LIDAR에 관한 기법 개발이 활발해 지고 있다. 항공사진 및 위성영상만을 이용하여 건물고도 모형을 생성할 경우, 기복변위로 인해 입체 영상의 영상정합 시 오정합이 발생하므로 건물 고도 모형 생성에는 많은 어려움이 있다 이에 단일 자료만을 이용하지 않고 관련 자료원을 함께 사용함으로써 보다 효과적이고 정확한 자료 생성을 위하여 항공사진과 수치지형도를 활용하는 연구가 수행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 수치지형도(1/1,000)와 항공사진(1/5,000)을 이용하여 효과적인 건물 고도 모형 생성 관한 연구를 수행하였으며, 관심점 검출 기법과 영상 정합 시 탐색 범위의 기하학적 제약 수단인 수직선 제적 이론을 병합한 새로운 기법을 개발하였다. 본 연구 성과를 검증하기 위하여 연구 성과와 수치도화 장비를 이용한 건물 고도 모형과의 정확도를 비교 평가하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.915-929
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for pixel-based disparity estimation with reliability in the multi-view image. The proposed method estimates an initial disparity map using edge information of an image, and the initial disparity map is used for reducing the search range to estimate the disparity efficiently. Furthermore, disparity-mismatch on object boundaries and textureless-regions get reduced by adaptive block size. We generated intermediate-view images to evaluate the estimated disparity. Test results show that the proposed algorithm obtained $0.1{\sim}1.2dB$ enhanced PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio) compared to conventional block-based and pixel-based disparity estimation methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.65-73
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a stereo matching method to improve the image quality at the hole and the disparity discontinuity regions. The stereo matching method extracts disparity map finding corresponding points between stereo image pair. However conventional stereo matching methods have a problem about the tradeoff between accuracy and precision with respect to the length of the baseline of the stereo image pair. In addition, there are hole and disparity discontinuity regions which are caused by textureless regions and occlusion regions of the stereo image pair. The proposed method extracts initial disparity map improved at disparity discontinuity and miss-matched regions using modified AD-Census-Gradient method and adaptive weighted cost aggregation. And then we conduct the disparity map refinement to improve at miss-matched regions, while also improving the accuracy of the image. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method produces high-quality disparity maps by successfully improving miss-matching regions and accuracy while maintaining matching performance compared to existing methods which produce disparity maps with high matching performance. And the matching performance is increased about 3.22(%) compared to latest stereo matching methods in case of test images which have high error ratio.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.2A
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• pp.137-145
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• 2002

In the method of 3D modeling, stereo matching method which obtains three dimensional depth information from the two images is taken from the different view points. In general, it is very essential work for the 3D modeling from 2D stereo images to estimate the exact disparity through fading the conjugate pair of pixel from the left and right image. In this paper to solve the problems of the stereo image disparity estimation, we introduce a novel approach method to improve the exactness and efficiency of the disparity. In the first place, we perform a wavelet transformation of the stereo images and set the reference points in the image by the feature-based matching method. This reference points have very high probability over 95 %. In the base of these reference points we can decide the size of the variable block searching windows for estimating dense disparity of area based method and perform the ordering constraint to prevent mismatching. By doing this, we could estimate the disparity in a short time and solve the occlusion caused by applying the fried-sized windows and probable error caused by repeating patterns.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.501-510
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• 2001

Generally, it is essential to estimate exact disparity for the 3D modeling from stereo images. Because existing methods calculate disparities from a whole image, they require too much cimputational time and bring about the mismatching problem. In this article, using the characteristic that the disparity vectors in stereo images are distributed not equally in a whole image but only exist about the background and obhect, we do a wavelet transformation on stereo images and estimate coarse disparity fields from the reduced lowpass field using area-based method at first-step. From these coarse disparity vectors, we generate disparity histogram and then separate object from background area using it. Afterwards, we restore only object area to the original image and estimate dense and accurate disparity by our two-step pixel-based method which does not use pixel brightness but use second gradient. We also extract feature points from the separated object area and estimate depth information by applying disparity vectors and camera parameters. Finally, we generate 3D model using both feature points and their z coordinates. By using our proposed, we can considerably reduce the computation time and estimate the precise disparity through the additional pixel-based method using LOG filter. Furthermore, our proposed foreground/background method can solve the mismatching problem of existing Delaunay triangulation and generate accurate 3D model.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.35 no.6_1
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• pp.945-957
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• 2019

In this study, we propose a coarse to fine image registration method for eliminating geometric error between images over agricultural areas acquired using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). First, images of agricultural area were acquired using UAV, and then orthophotos were generated. In order to reduce the probability of extracting outliers that cause errors during image registration, the region of interest is selected by using the metadata of the generated orthophotos to minimize the search area. The coarse image registration was performed based on the extracted tie-points using the Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) method to eliminate geometric error between orthophotos. Subsequently, the fine image registration was performed using tie-points extracted through the Mutual Information (MI) method, which can extract the tie-points effectively even if there is no outstanding spatial properties or structure in the image. To verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, a comparison analysis using 8 orthophotos was performed with the results of image registration using the SURF method and the MI method individually. As a result, we confirmed that the proposed method can effectively eliminated the geometric errors between the orthophotos.