• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.2 s.34
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

In this Paper, we propose a new block matching a1gorithm that extracts motion vectors from consecutive range data. The proposed method defines a matching metric that integrates intensity, hue, and range. Our algorithm begins matching with a small matching template. If the matching degree is not good enough, we slightly expand the size of a matching template and then repeat the matching process until our matching criterion is satisfied or the predetermined maximum size has been reached. As the iteration proceeds, we adaptively adjust weights of the matching metric by considering the importance of each feature. In the experiments, we show that our block matching approach can work as a promising solution by comparing the proposed method with previously known method in terms of performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.338-343
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• 2004

In Block Matching Algorithm (BMA), a search pattern has a very important affect on the search time and the output quality. In this paper, we propose the HDS( Half Diamond Search) pattern based on the cross center-biased distribution property of a motion vector. At lust, the 4 points in the above, below, left, and right around the search center is calculated to decide the point of the MBD (Minimum Block Distortion). And an above point of the MBD is checked to calculate the SAD. If the SAD is less than the previous MBD, this process is repeated. Otherwise, the left and right points of MBD are calculated to decide the points that have the MBD between two points. These processes are repeated to the predicted direction for motion estimation. Experiments show that the speedup improvement of the proposed algorithm can be up to 23% while maintaining similar image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.262-265
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 그래픽 하드웨어와 그래픽 프로그램 기술을 이용하여 고속으로 스테레오 영상의 시차를 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 우선, 컬러 스테레오 영상에 대하여 mean-shift 기법을 이용하여 컬러를 이용한 영역분할을 수행한다. 분할된 컬러 영역 단위로 가중치를 계산함으로써, 화소단위로 가중치를 계산하는 기존의 방식에 비하여 속도를 높일 수 있다. 블록정합함수를 계산하는 과정에서는 슬라이딩 윈도우 방식을 채택하여, 새로 블록안으로 들어오는 화소열과 빠져나가는 화소열의 정합함수값을 가감하여 화소마다 반복적으로 합산되는 정합함수의 계산량을 크게 줄인다. Middlebury 스테레오 영상을 이용하여 실험 및 평가를 수행한 결과, VGA 급 스테레오 영상을 기준으로 10 프레임 이상을 처리하면서도 기존의 적응적인 가중치를 갖는 블록정합 방식의 성능과 유사한 결과를 확인하였다. 이러한 고속화 방법을 통하여, 기존의 적응적인 가중치를 이용한 블록정합 방식에 비하여 훨씬 고속으로 스테레오 정합을 수행할 수 있으며, 실시간 시차추정이 필요한 시스템에 적용하는 것이 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.580-582
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• 2003

특징점 기반 지문 인식 방법은 지문 영상의 전처리 과정을 포함한 특징점 추출 과정과 추출된 특징점들의 유사도를 판단하는 정합 과정으로 구성된다. 특징점들의 정합과정을 수행하는 여러 가지 방법들 중 Hausdorff 거리 기반 정합 방법은 이동과 회전이 적은 지문의 특징점들에 대해 빠르게 계산할 수 있는 장점을 갖는다. 그러나, 이 방법은 이동과 회전이 많은 지문 영상의 경우 연산이 많아지는 단점을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 정합을 실행하기 전 지문의 중심점과 지역적인 블럭들의 방향성을 기준으로 정렬을 수행하여 비교되는 지문 특징점간의 회전 오차와 이동 오차를 줄임으로써, 기존의 정합 방법의 불필요한 연산량을 줄일 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법을 검증하기 위해 Hausdorff 거리 기반 정합 방법을 구현하고 그것에 대한 결과와 선정렬을 사용한 후의 정합 결과를 실험, 비교하였다. 이때의 평균 Hausdorff 거리는 Genuine의 경우 0.095가 줄어들었고, Improster의 경우 0.655가 늘어나는 성능 향상을 나타냈다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.6_1
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• pp.893-903
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• 2018

The necessity of automatic precise georeferencing is increasing with the increase applications of high-resolution satellite imagery. One of the methods for collecting ground control points (GCPs) for precise georeferencing is to use chip images obtained by extracting a subset of an image map such as an ortho-aerial image, and can be automated using an image matching technique. In this case, the importance of the image matching success rate is increased due to the limitation of the number of the chip images for the known reference points such as the unified control point. This study aims to propose a method to improve the success rate of image matching between KOMPSAT-3A images and GCP chip images from aerial ortho-images. We performed the image matching with 7 cases of band pair using KOMPSAT-3A panchromatic (PAN), multispectral (MS), pansharpened (PS) imagery and GCP chip images, then compared matching success rates. As a result, about 10-30% of success rate is increased to about 40-50% when using PS imagery by using PAN and MS imagery. Therefore, using PS imagery for image matching of KOMPSAT-3A images and aerial ortho-images would be helpful to improve the matching success rate.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.333-340
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• 2008

For the indoor spatial modeling by terrestrial LiDAR and the analyzing its positional accuracy result, two terrestrial LiDARs which have different specification each other were used at test site. This paper shows disparity of accuracy between (1) the structural coordinate transformation by point cloud unit using control points and (2) the relative registration among all point cloud units then structural coordinate transformation in bulk, under condition of limited number of control points. As results, the latter had smaller size and distribution of errors than the former although different specifications and acquistion methods are used.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.787-795
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• 2014

This paper presents an image registration using Triangulation-based Local Transformation (TLT) applied to the remaining matched points after elimination of the matched points with gross error. The corners extracted using geometric mean-based corner detector are matched using Pearson's correlation coefficient and then accepted as initial matched points only when they satisfy the Left-Right Consistency (LRC) check. We finally accept the remaining matched points whose RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC)-based global transformation (RGT) errors are smaller than a predefined outlier threshold. After Delaunay triangulated irregular networks (TINs) are created using the final matched points on reference and sensed images, respectively, affine transformation is applied to every corresponding triangle and then all the inner pixels of the triangles on the sensed image are transformed to the reference image coordinate. The proposed algorithm was tested using KOMPSAT-2 images and the results showed higher image registration accuracy than the RANSAC-based global transformation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.1C
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• pp.56-63
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• 2003

In this paper, a wavelet-based stereo matching algorithm to obtain an accurate disparity map in wavelet transformed domain by using a shift ability property, a modified wavelet transform, the similarities for their sub-bands, and a hierarchical structure is proposed. New approaches for stereo matching by lots of feature information are to utilize translation-variant results of the sub-bands in the wavelet transformed domain because they cannot literally expect translation invariance in a system based on convolution and sub-sampling. After the similarity matching for each sub-band, we can easily find optimal matched-points because the sub-bands appearance of the shifted signals is definitely different from that of the original signal with no shift.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1102-1107
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• 2004

Fingerprint Recognition System is made up of Off-line treatment and On-line treatment; the one is registering all the information of there trieving features which are retrieved in the digitalized fingerprint getting out of the analog fingerprint through the fingerprint acquisition device and the other is the treatment making the decision whether the users are approved to be accessed to the system or not with matching them with the fingerprint features which are retrieved and database from the input fingerprint when the users are approaching the system to use. In matching between On-line and Off-line treatment, the most important thing is which features we are going to use as the standard. Therefore, we have been using “Delta” and “Core” as this standard until now, but there might have been some deficits not to exist in every person when we set them up as the standards. In order to handle the users who do not have those features, we are still using the matching method which enables us to make up of the spanning tree or the triangulation with the relations of the spanned feature. However, there are some overheads of the time on these methods and it is not sure whether they make the correct matching or not. Therefore, I would like to represent the more correct matching algorism in this paper which has not only better matching rate but also lower mismatching rate compared to the present matching algorism by selecting the line segment connecting two minutiae on the same ridge and furrow structures as the reference point.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.1B
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• pp.128-140
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a fast block matching algorithm using the mean absolute error (MAE) of neighbor search point and search region reduction. The proposed algorithm is composed of two stages. At the first stage,the search region is divided into nonoverlapped 3$\times$3 areas and MAE of the center point of each area iscalculated. The minimum MAE value of all the calculated MAE's is determined as reference MAE. At thesecond stage, because the possibility that final motion vector exist near the position of reference MAE is veryhigh, we use smaller search region than first stage, And, using the MAE of center point of each area, the lowerbound of rest search point of each area is calculated and block matching process is performed only at the searchpoints that the lower bound is smaller than reference MAE. By doing so, we can significantly reduce thecomputational complexity while keep the increasement of motion estimation error small.