• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.1_2
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• pp.137-146
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• 2006

Traditional live video streaming systems support the limited field of view (FOV) of image to the remote users. A server system based on the pan/tilt camera provides a user with wide view by changing the view direction of the camera mechanically. But, when many clients try to access to the server, this system can not offer their own view to every user simultaneously, and moreover it has the delay by camera motion. In order to offer wide views to several users, we propose new streaming system using the panorama image that has wide view. Our system is a kind of implementation of software pan/tilt camera. The server acquires panorama video and sends a part of the video to clients. Then, each client can control their own view. We need the effective way to reduce the average transmission data size and server burden to the compression because generally the full size of panorama video is too big to be served by the real-time streaming. To solve this problem, we propose an strip-based video compression and adaptive transmission of the compressed multiple strip videos. Experimental results show that our system can be adapted quickly to the change of view and the number of clients. Furthermore, proposed method effectively reduce the transmission data.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.13-18
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• 2013

Panorama picturing is an elongated photographing technique that connects images with rotating and moving multiple images horizontally that are partly overlapped. However, for hand-operated photographs, it is difficult to adjust overlapped parts because of tilted angles. There has been a study comparing adjacent pictures using labeling technique but it was time-consuming and had angle dissonant cases in nature. In this paper, we propose a less time-consuming paranoiac scene reconstruction method. Our method is also based on labeling-and-comparing technique but uses only 1/3 of it. Then, if there exists angle dissonance, it tries to find characteristic points by SURF algorithm and adjusts them with homography. The efficacy of this method is experimentally verified by experiments using various images

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.11-20
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• 2011

근래 다양한 형태의 멀티미디어 콘텐츠가 광범위하게 소비됨에 따라 단방향의 평면적 콘텐츠가 제공하는 시점의 한계에서 벗어나 사용자에게 보다 다양한 시점의 영상을 제공함으로써 사용자가 원하는 시점을 선택할 수 있는 실감형 콘텐츠에 대한 욕구가 증가하고 있다. 이러한 실감형 콘텐츠 중 하나인 파노라마 영상은 다수의 카메라를 통해 획득된 영상들을 하나의 영상으로 이어 붙여 넓은 시야의 영상을 제공함으로써 증대된 현장감과 몰입감을 제공하며 사용자 시점의 자유도를 증가시킬 수 있다. 사용자에게 파노라마 서비스를 제공할 때 마우스, 리모콘과 같은 정형적인 인터페이스가 아니라 사용자의 선호도에 따라 손쉽게 파노라마 공간을 제어할 수 있는 사용자 친화적인 인터페이스 기술이 함께 제공된다면 사용자가 느낄 수 있는 현실감과 몰입감은 배가될 것이다. 따라서 본 고에서는 현존하는 파노라마 기술 및 사용자 인터페이스 기술의 동향에 대해 알아보고, 상기 기술들의 결합을 통해 보다 사실적인 미디어 소비 환경을 제공하기 위한 사용자 친화적인 고품질의 휴먼융합형 파노라마 서비스에 대해 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.55-63
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• 2008

This paper presents a panorama background generation and object tracking technique using a Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera. The proposed method estimates local motion vectors rapidly using phase correlation matching at the prespecified multiple local regions, and it makes minimized estimation error by vector quantization. We obtain the required image patches, by estimating the overlapped region using local motion vectors, we can then project the images to cylinder and realign the images to make the panoramic image. The object tracking is performed by extracting object's motion and by separating foreground from input image using background subtraction. The proposed PTZ-based object tracking method can efficiently generated a stable panorama background, which covers up to 360 degree FOV The proposed algorithm is designed for real-time implementation and it can be applied to many commercial applications such as object shape detection and face recognition in various surveillance video systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.312-314
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 하나의 카메라로 일정 영역에서 랜덤하게 촬영되어 얻어진 영상으로 파노라마 영상을 제작하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험 영상으로는 디지털카메라로 일정 영역을 랜덤하게 촬영한 여러 장의 영상을 사용한다. 여러 장의 영상에서 제어점이 될 특징 점들을 검출한 후, 유클리드의 좌표로 바꿔준다. 이 좌표들을 통해 각각의 제어 점에 가장 인접해 있는 좌표 4개를 추출한다. 이 인접 좌표들이 서로 다른 각각의 영상에서 매칭 되는 확률을 계산하여, 가장 높은 매칭 확률을 갖는 영상과 매칭 되는 pose값을 이용하여 각각의 영상을 회전 및 이동하여 매칭시킴으로써 촬영된 영상들의 파노라마 영상을 구현한다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.44-53
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• 2015

Since the technology of current image sensors is limited to the megapixel class, it is necessary to use an image-stitching technique to create a gigapixel image from hundreds or thousands of photos taken by a megapixel image sensor. In this paper, we investigate the entire process of gigapixel camera technology employing a robotic panoramic head plus a stitching technique, and analyze the gigapixel camera technologies of Duke University and BAE Systems from the viewpoint of optical design structure. Hopefully this knowledge will lead to a new optical structure for a gigapixel camera. Meanwhile, we also perceive the need for additional image processing to reduce the noise of photos with a background of fog and mist, taken far from the camera lens.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.41-46
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• 2002

We generally used electric optical sensors in order to detect and identify sea objects efficiently. However due to the limitation of view-angle, the region acquired from the sense is restricted. So it is necessary to generate panoramic image from sea images acquired from pan-tilt camera. Previous mosaicing method is not able to generate panoramic image for sea environment because intensity is similar to all region and time varying. In this paper, we proposed new algorithm for generating high-resolution panoramic image on sea environment. Proposed algorithm use single-view point model, applying mosaicing result in feature environment to in sea environment, we overcame the limitation of previous method. In the result of virtual and real experiment, we showed that proposed algorithm is efficient for generating sea panoramic image.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.235-245
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• 2018

Recently panoramic image overcomes camera limited viewing angle and offers wide viewing angle by stitching plenty of images. In this paper, we propose pre-processing and post-processing algorithm which makes speed and accuracy improvements when making panoramic images. In pre-processing, we can get camera sensor information and use three-dimensional rotation angle to find RoI(Region of Interest) image. Finding RoI images can reduce time when extracting feature point. In post-processing, we propose weighted minimal error boundary cut blending algorithm to improve accuracy. This paper explains our algorithm and shows experimental results comparing with existing algorithms.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.32-37
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• 2014

The panorama is a good alternative to overcome narrow FOV under study in robot vision, stereo camera and panorama image registration and modeling. The panorama can materialize view with angles wider than human view and provide realistic space which make feeling of being on the scene based on realism. If we use all correspondence, it is too difficult to find strong features and correspondences and assume accurate homography matrix in geographic changes in images as load of calculation increases. Accordingly, we used SURF algorithm to estimate overlapping areas with high similarity by comparing and analyzing the input images' histograms and to detect features. And we solved the problem of input order so we can make panorama by input images without order.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.713-723
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• 2017

Since the panoramic image can overcome the limitation of the viewing angle of the camera and have a wide field of view, it has been studied effectively in the fields of computer vision and stereo camera. In order to generate a panoramic image, stitching images taken by a plurality of general cameras instead of using a wide-angle camera, which is distorted, is widely used because it can reduce image distortion. The image stitching technique creates descriptors of feature points extracted from multiple images, compares the similarities of feature points, and links them together into one image. Each feature point has several hundreds of dimensions of information, and data processing time increases as more images are stitched. In particular, when a panorama is generated on the basis of an image photographed by a plurality of unspecified cameras with respect to an object, the extraction processing time of the overlapping feature points for similar images becomes longer. In this paper, we propose a preprocessing process to efficiently process stitching based on an image obtained from a number of unspecified cameras for one object or environment. In this way, the data processing time can be reduced by pre-grouping images based on camera sensor information and reducing the number of images to be stitched at one time. Later, stitching is done hierarchically to create one large panorama. Through the grouping preprocessing proposed in this paper, we confirmed that the stitching time for a large number of images is greatly reduced by experimental results.