• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.427-434
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• 2019

In the present study, we assessed the parallel computing performance of Agisoft Metashape for orthomosaic generation, which can implement aerial triangulation, generate a three-dimensional point cloud, and make an orthomosaic based on SfM (Structure from Motion) technology. Due to the nature of SfM, most of the time is spent on Align photos, which runs as a relative orientation, and Build dense cloud, which generates a three-dimensional point cloud. Metashape can parallelize the two processes by using multi-cores of CPU (Central Processing Unit) and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). An orthomosaic was created from large UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images by six conditions combined by three parallel methods (CPU only, GPU only, and CPU + GPU) and two operating systems (Windows and Linux). To assess the consistency of the results of the conditions, RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) of aerial triangulation was measured using ground control points which were automatically detected on the images without human intervention. The results of orthomosaic generation from 521 UAV images of 42.2 million pixels showed that the combination of CPU and GPU showed the best performance using the present system, and Linux showed better performance than Windows in all conditions. However, the RMSE values of aerial triangulation revealed a slight difference within an error range among the combinations. Therefore, Metashape seems to leave things to be desired so that the consistency is obtained regardless of parallel methods and operating systems.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.103-114
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• 2013

In this study, we established the ortho mosaic imagery on the Korean Peninsula using KOMPSAT-2 images and conducted an accuracy assessment. Rational Polynomial Coefficient(RPC) modeling results were mostly less than 2 pixels except for mountainous regions which was difficult to select a Ground Control Point(GCP). Digital Elevation Model(DEM) which was made using the digital topographic map on the scale of 1:5,000 was used for generating an ortho image. In the case of inaccessible area, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission(SRTM) DEM was used. Meanwhile, the ortho mosaic image of the Korean Peninsula was produced by each ortho image aggregation and color adjustment. An accuracy analysis for the mosaic image was conducted about a 1m color fusion image. In order to verify a geolocation accuracy, 813 check points which were acquired by field survey in South Korea were used. We found that the maximum error was not to exceed 5m(Root Mean Square Error : RMSE). On the other hand, in the case of inaccessible area, the extracted check points from a reference image were used for accuracy analysis. Approximately 69% of the image has a positional accuracy of less than 3m(RMSE). We found that the seam-line accuracy among neighboring image was very high through visual inspection. However, there were a discrepancy with 1 to 2 pixels at some mountainous regions.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.45-53
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to present a model for analyzing construction errors of reinforced concrete pile foundations using drones. First, a drone is used to obtain an aerial image of the construction site, and an orthomosaic image is generated based on those images. Then, the circular pile foundation is automatically recognized from the orthomosaic image by using the Hough transform circle detection method. Finally, the distance is calculated based on the the center point of the reinforced concrete pile foundation in the overlapped data. As a case study, the proposed concrete concrete pile foundation construction quality control model was applied to the real construction site in Incheon to evaluate the proposed model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.679-681
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• 2005

본 논문은 정사각형 모양의 사진 타일을 이용하여 장식적인 요소를 표현한 새로운 종류의 모자이크를 소개한다. 이 방법은 입력 영상에서 정사각형의 타일 영역을 정하여 그 영역과 시각적으로 가장 유사한 사진을 데이터베이스에서 찾아내어 매칭시켜 준다. 타일 영역들의 위치는 무게중심의 보로노이 다이어그램을 사용하여 서로의 간격을 균일하게 결정해주고, 그것의 방향은 입력 영상의 에지들을 따라 평행하게 나열되도록 조절해준다. 그리고 타일 영역 사이의 공간은 빈 공간으로 하여 고전적인 모자이크 작품의 장식적인 요소를 표현해 주었다. 다양한 타일 영역에 적합한 사진들을 얻기 위해서는 사진 데이터베이스의 규모가 클수록 좋으므로 많은 양의 사진을 가지고 있어야만 입력 영상과 최대한 유사하게 표현할 수 있다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.6_3
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• pp.1693-1705
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• 2023

Rural areas, which account for about 90% of the country's land area, are increasing in importance and value as a space that performs various public functions. However, facilities that adversely affect residents' lives, such as livestock facilities, factories, and solar panels, are being built indiscriminately near residential areas, damaging the rural environment and landscape and lowering the quality of residents' lives. In order to prevent disorderly development in rural areas and manage rural space in a planned manner, detection and monitoring of hazardous facilities in rural areas is necessary. Data can be acquired through satellite imagery, which can be acquired periodically and provide information on the entire region. Effective detection is possible by utilizing image-based deep learning techniques using convolutional neural networks. Therefore, U-Net model, which shows high performance in semantic segmentation, was used to classify potentially hazardous facilities in rural areas. In this study, KOMPSAT ortho-mosaic optical imagery provided by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in 2020 with a spatial resolution of 0.7 meters was used, and AI training data for livestock facilities, factories, and solar panels were produced by hand for training and inference. After training with U-Net, pixel accuracy of 0.9739 and mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 0.7025 were achieved. The results of this study can be used for monitoring hazardous facilities in rural areas and are expected to be used as basis for rural planning.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.425-435
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• 2014

The research for extracting man-made features such as building and road from the aerial photograph or satellite imagery has been performed actively. As lately the resolution of digital aerial photographs was improved, unwanted features(noise) would be often detected. An edge detection algorithm is developed to make up for such a noise problem, make boundaries of wanted objects clear and extract only needed features. The algorithm developed in this research performs separating RGB channels, differencing between channels, transforming in to binary images, excluding noises and restoring shapes, and edge extraction in order. The images to be used for edge detection are prepared through bundle adjustment, DTM extraction, orthorectification and mosaicking. The roof edges of small building on preprocessed digital aerial orthophotos were extracted using the algorithm developed in this study. The validity of the algorithms was proved by comparing edge results of small building extracted in this study with those of conventional methods.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.64-73
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• 2010

This research collected some multi-image information of Nakdong River Estuary Eulsukdo area in last 30 years, which are used as the basis information in running the qualitative analysis of the topography relief's deformation. First, to obtain the data, this research carried out a field survey and GCP measurement, then classified and collected the image information by analog and digital image. The acquired images which have passed a high-precise scan process and geometric correction is manufactured by Ortho Mosaic image, then divided them into 9 sections time period classification before we run a qualitative analysis. In late of 1980's there are many changes of environmental topography deformation of the Eulsukdo area which caused by large scale building constructions, appeared to be known through this research. And then in late of 1990's, we organized the wild cultivated lands, started the wetland restoration of the artificial ecology, in 2000's we are able to know the existence of topograph relief change which caused by big scale of bridge construction. Hereafter, in this quick process of the environmental and topographical change of this area caused by the 4 major rivers restoration project, the analysis results of this experiment are expected to be something applicable as important basic data.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.174-183
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• 2014

The Value-Added Processing System(VAPS) was developed for post-processing the KOMPSAT imagery. Recently software version and hardware specification of VAPS were changed for improving the VAPS performance. The purpose of this study is to describe about the improvement of existing VAPS(ver.1.0) and systematically evaluate the performance of the improved VAPS(ver.2.0). To this end, test-bed areas in South and North Korea were selected and then image processing tests were conducted using KOMPSAT-2 and KOMPSAT-3 imagery in both areas. In conclusion, VAPS(ver.2.0) had an ability to generate the high level products like ortho images and mosaic images. Image processing time using the Graphic Processing Unit(GPU) on ver.2.0 was enhanced up to 10 times than ver.1.0.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.8 no.2 s.16
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• pp.89-99
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• 2000

The Quality and Accuracy of digital image is important factor for decision of accuracy in digital photogrammetry because all the inside works in digital photogrammetry are based on digital image. But it is still difficult to ensure quality assurance and appication of data because there is no distinct criterion about quality and accuracy of digital image when the works in digital photogrammetry is accomplished. This study presents optimal resolution of aerial photo through error analysis of image coordinate using auto inner orientation in digital photograrnrnetry workstation. In second step, we are valified to optimum resolution of aerial photo image with orientation analysis. Finally, we are established to validity optimal resolution of aerial photo image with production of ortho image and mosaic image using optimal resolution aerial photo image.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.36 no.5_3
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• pp.1027-1036
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• 2020

In this study, a cloud-based processing method using Agisoft Metashape, a commercial software, and Amazon web service, a cloud computing service, is introduced and evaluated to quickly generate high-precision 3D realistic data from large volume UAV images acquired in disaster sites. Compared with on-premises method using a local computer and cloud services provided by Agisoft and Pix4D, the processes of aerial triangulation, 3D point cloud and DSM generation, mesh and texture generation, ortho-mosaic image production recorded similar time duration. The cloud method required uploading and downloading time for large volume data, but it showed a clear advantage that in situ processing was practically possible. In both the on-premises and cloud methods, there is a difference in processing time depending on the performance of the CPU and GPU, but notso much asin a performance benchmark. However, it wasfound that a laptop computer equipped with a low-performance GPU takes too much time to apply to in situ processing.