• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.24-32
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• 2010

In this study, we have proposed a pre-processing algorithm newly developed for improving the tracking efficiency of the optical flow method. The developed pre-processing algorithm consists of a median filter, binarization, morphology, canny edge, contour detecting and an approximation method. In order to evaluate whether the optical flow tracking capacity increases, this study applied the pre-processing algorithm to the Lucas-Kanade(LK) optical flow algorithm, and comparatively analyzed its images and tracking results with those of optical flow without the pre-processing algorithm and with the existing pre-processing algorithm(composed of median filter and histogram equalization). As a result, it was observed that the tracking performance derived from the LK optical flow algorithm with the pre-processing algorithm, shows better tracking accuracy, compared to the one without the pre-processing algorithm and the one with the existing pre-processing algorithm. It seems to have resulted by successful segmentation for characteristic areas and subdivision into inner and outer contour lines.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.259-266
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• 2013

An automated cell tracking system is used to automatically analyze and track the changes in cell behavior in time-lapse cell images acquired using a microscope with a cell culture. Clustering is the partial overlapping of neighboring cells in the process of cell change. Separating clusters into individual cells is very important for cell tracking. In this study, we proposed an algorithm for separating clusters by using ellipse fitting based on a direct least square method. We extracted the contours of clusters, divided them into line segments, and then produced their fitted ellipses using a direct least square method for each line segment. All of the fitted ellipses could be used to separate their corresponding clusters. In experiments, our algorithm separated clusters with average precisions of 91% for two overlapping cells, 84% for three overlapping cells, and about 73% for four overlapping cells.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.325-328
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• 2019

자율주행 자동차는 운전자가 개입하지 않고 차량에 부착된 다양한 센서를 통해 얻은 데이터를 기반으로 차량을 스스로 제어하며 설정한 목적지까지 주행한다. 본 논문에서는 단일 카메라와 영상을 사용한 차선 검출하고 추적하는 방법을 제안한다. 영상의 하단 부분만 분리하여 차선을 검출하기 위하여 외곽선 검출 과정을 거친 후 허프 변환을 통해 양 차선의 중심을 구한다. 이 값을 바탕으로 PID 제어로 차량의 차선을 유지한다. 모형 차량과 모형 트랙에서 차선 인식 후 차선을 추적하여 주행하는 동작을 시험하였다. PID 제어를 위헌 적정 각 항의 값을 구하였다. 시험 결과 차선 검출 알고리즘은 성공적으로 동작함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.619-628
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• 2009

LiDAR has capability of rapid data acquisition and provides useful information for reconstructing surface of the Earth. However, Extracting information from LiDAR data is not easy task because LiDAR data consist of irregularly distributed point clouds of 3D coordinates and lack of semantic and visual information. This thesis proposed methods for automatic extraction of buildings and 3D detail modeling using airborne LiDAR data. As for preprocessing, noise and unnecessary data were removed by iterative surface fitting and then classification of ground and non-ground data was performed by analyzing histogram. Footprints of the buildings were extracted by tracing points on the building boundaries. The refined footprints were obtained by regularization based on the building hypothesis. The accuracy of building footprints were evaluated by comparing with 1:1,000 digital vector maps. The horizontal RMSE was 0.56m for test areas. Finally, a method of 3D modeling of roof superstructure was developed. Statistical and geometric information of the LiDAR data on building roof were analyzed to segment data and to determine roof shape. The superstructures on the roof were modeled by 3D analytical functions that were derived by least square method. The accuracy of the 3D modeling was estimated using simulation data. The RMSEs were 0.91m, 1.43m, 1.85m and 1.97m for flat, sloped, arch and dome shapes, respectively. The methods developed in study show that the automation of 3D building modeling process was effectively performed.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.605-607
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• 2009

본 논문은 감시 시스템의 객체 추적 시, 정확한 객체 추출을 위해 블록 기반으로 객체를 추적하는 방법을 제안한다. 객체 움직임 추적은 주어진 환경에 따라 변수가 많고, 변수를 대처하는 알고리즘을 많이 추가 할 경우 실시간 추적에 어려움이 발생한다. 특히 배경이 조명이나 바람 등의 환경적 요인에 의해 변화되는 문제는 객체를 추적하는데 가장 큰 문제점이다. 특히 사람이나 멧돼지의 경우 움직임에 의한 객체 구성 요소의 흔들림에 의해 고정 블록의 연산에 의해 움직임 객체를 추적할 때 정확한 객체의 윤곽선을 검출하기 힘들다. 따라서 연속되는 프레임에서 전체 화면의 차영상을 이용하여 움직임 관심 영역을 설정하고, 관심 영역에 해당하는 블록들을 분석하였다. 이를 기반으로 움직임 객체의 최외곽 사각형의 객체 영역을 추출하여 기존 고정 블록 방법에 의한 객체 추적보다 좀 더 정확하게 객체를 추출하고 추적할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.77-89
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• 2009

Visual tracking technique is one of the essential things which are very important in the major fields of modern society. While contour tracking is especially necessary technique in the aspect of its fast performance with target's external contour information, it sometimes fails to track target motion because it is affected by the surrounding edges around target and weak egdes on the target boundary. To overcome these weak points, in this research it is suggested that PDMs can be obtained by generating the virtual 6-DOF motions of the mobile robot with a CCD camera and the image tracking system which is robust to the local minima around the target can be configured by constructing Active Shape Model in modular base. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, the experiment is performed on the image stream obtained by a real mobile robot and the better performance is confirmed by comparing the experimental results with the ones of other major tracking techniques.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2104-2107
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose the method Model based Non-Rigid Moving Object Tracking. Motion based method becomes difficult to predict precisely when motion gets larger, so that we can solve such difficultly with regarding the moving object as a model. In the model based method, it should be concerned about setting initial model and updating its model in each frame. We used SNAKE in a way to set the initial model, and also proposed a modified SNAKE to handle the previous SNAKE problems. Moreover, with the elliptical setting, we made the initializing process automatically which is highly subject to change in measuring the performance of SNAKE. We used the Hausdorff distance to identify models in each frame. Through our experiments, our Proposed algorithm does effective work in Non-Rigid Moving Object Tracking.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.27-31
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• 2010

Spatial resolution is determined by the performance of x-ray optics used in the x-ray imaging system. A zone plate was designed for obtaining a high spatial resolution image at x-ray energy of 8.5keV. A spatial resolution of 80 nm was estimated by the ray tracing when an x-ray tube of tungsten targe was used instead of synchrotron radiation. The designed zone plate of outermost zone width of 40nm was successfully fabricated by the electron-beam lithography.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.114-124
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• 1997

In object based coding, binary shape ccx:ling plays an important role by ccx:ling the outer shape of object. Here we propose a new shape ccx:ling tool, which enccx:les the outline of shape from a baseline. Different from 2-D (Vertex) shape ccx:ling algorithms. the proposed method encodeds the data that are extracted in a I-D fashion. The enccx:led data consist of the starting position, distance lists, and turning point lists. In the lossless ccx:ling mode, every contour pixel is input for ccx:ling, whereas variable sampling has been employed to enccx:le fewer contour pixels while preserving reasonable distortion. For interframe ccx:ling, a fast motion compensation was achieved by use of distance and turning point lists. Subjective viewing tests proved that the proposed method outperforms the current shape ccx:ling standard, CAE, in MPEG-4. In objective results for compression efficiency, the proposed method was significantly better in intraframe coding than CAE, whereas CAE was better in interframe ccx:ling.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.419-423
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• 2008

사람의 손동작은 오랫동안 하나의 언어역할을 하는 통신 수단으로 사용되어 왔다. 이러한 손동작 중에서 가장 체계를 갖춘 수화는 청각장애인이 일반인과 일상 대화를 할 수 있도록 도와주는 주요한 통신 수단이다. 하지만 건청인들의 대부분이 습득하고 있지 않아 청각장애인들과 의사소통이 거의 불가능 한 것이 현실이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 건청인과 청각장애인들 간의 의사소통을 원활하게 하기 위해 색상 정보와 퍼지 클러스터링 알고리즘을 이용한 실시간 수화 인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 화상 카메라를 통해 얻어진 실시간 영상에서 YCbCr 컬러 공간에서 색차 정보에 해당하는 Cb, Cr 정보를 각각 추출한 후, 이진화한 영상과 원본 영상에서 마스크를 통한 에지를 추출한 이진화 영상에 대해 논리연산을 통해 두 손의 위치와 외곽을 추출한다. 추출된 각 정보를 조합하여 8 방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 객체의 위치를 추적한다. 그리고 추적한 객체의 영역에 대해 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 잡음을 제거한 후, 최종적으로 두 손의 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 손의 영역은 퍼지 클러스터링 기법 중의 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하여 수화의 특징들을 분류하고 인식한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 화상카메라를 통해 얻어진 실시간 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 두 손 영역의 추출에 효과적이고 수화 인식에 있어서 가능성을 확인하였다.