• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.86-94
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• 2009

This paper deals with the creation of a new, low-cost point/position tracking system that can measure deformations in engineering structures with simple commercially widespread cameras. Though point tracking systems do exist today, such as Stereo Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Projection Moir$\acute{e}$ Interferometry (PMI) systems, they are far too costly to use to analyze small, simple structures because complex optical components such as large flashes, high-resolution cameras and data acquisition systems with several computers are required. We developed a point tracking system using commercial cameras. This system used IR LEDs and commercial IR CCD cameras to minimize the interference posed by other extraneous light sources. The main algorithm used for this system is an optical point tracking algorithm, which is composed of the point extraction algorithm and the point matching algorithm for 3-D motion estimation. a series of verification tests were performed. Then, the developed point tracking system was applied to measure deformations of an acrylic plate under a mechanical load. The measured deformations of the acrylic plate matched well with the numerical analysis results. The results indicate that the developed point tracking system is reliable enough to measure continuous deformed shapes of various engineering structures.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.74-81
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• 2005

A 3-D localization method of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has been developed, which can solve the limitations oj the conventional localization, such as LBL or SBL that reduces the flexibility and availability of the AUV. The system is composed of a mother ship (small unmanned marine prober) on the surface of the water and an unmanned underwater vehicle in the water. The mother ship is equipped with a digital compass and a GPS for position information, and an extended Kalman filter is used for position estimation. For the localization of the AUV, we used only non-inertial sensors, such as a digital compass, a pressure sensor, a clinometer, and ultrasonic sensors. From the orientation and velocity information, a priori position of the AUV is estimated by applying the dead reckoning method. Based on the extended Kalman filter algorithm, a posteriori position of the AUV is, then, updated by using the distance between the AUV and a mother ship on the surface of the water, together with the depth information from the pressure sensor.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.123-131
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• 2009

LCD(Liquid Crystal Display)의 발전은 이전에 사용하던 CRT를 대체하고 있다. 하지만 LCD와 같은 홀드 타입(Hold type)형 디스플레이의 구조적 특성으로 인해 동영상 재생 시 움직임 블러나 움직임 저더 등의 많은 문제점이 발생했다. 이를 해결하기 위해 화면 사이사이에 새로운 화면을 생성하여 화질을 개선하기 위한 화면 보간 기법을 사용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 우세 움직임 벡터와 블럭간 분산값의 차이를 이용한 화면 보간 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 먼저 생성되는 프레임 전후의 프레임에 대하여 블록매칭을 이용한 단방향 움직임 추정을 통한 블록 움직임 예측을 하게 된다. 그리고 블록 움직임 예측에서 찾지 못한 부분을 비교 블록간 분산값을 통해 픽셀 평균값과 영향이 큰 모션 벡터를 선택하여 적용시키는 픽셀 움직임 예측으로 새로운 프레임을 생성한다. 제안하는 알고리즘을 이용하여 여러 실험영상의 프레임 보간 결과를 비교하였으며, 기존 알고리즘인 양방향 화면 보간 방법에 비하여 약 3dB 정도의 PSNR 증가를 얻을 수 있었고 단방향 화면 보간 방법에 비해 계산량을 줄일 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.62-67
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• 2005

Object recognition in the field of robotics generally has depended on a computer vision system. Recently, RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) technology has been suggested to support recognition and has been rapidly and widely applied. This paper introduces the more advanced RFID-based recognition. A novel tag named 3D tag, which facilitates the understanding of the object, was designed. The previous RFID-based system only detects the existence of the object, and therefore, the system should find the object and had to carry out a complex process such as pattern match to identify the object. 3D tag, however, not only detects the existence of the object as well as other tags, but also estimates the orientation and position of the object. These characteristics of 3D tag allows the robot to considerably reduce its dependence on other sensors required for object recognition the object. In this paper, we analyze the 3D tag's detection characteristic and the position and orientation estimation algorithm of the 3D tag-based RFID system.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2000

A practical method is proposed to improve hit probability of the digital gun fire control system, when the measured rate of the tracking sensor becomes biased under some operational situation. For ground moving target it is shown that the well-known Kalman filter which uses position measurement only can be optimally used to eliminate the rate bias error. On the other hand, for 3D moving aircraft we present a new algorithm which incorporate FIR-type filter, which uses position and rate measurement at the same time, and the fixed-lag smoother using position measurement only, and show that it has the optimal performance in terms of both estimation accuracy and response time.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2012

In this paper, an estimation of person height and 3D location of a moving person by using the pan/tilt-embedded stereo tracking system is suggested and implemented. In the proposed system, face coordinates of a target person is detected from the sequential input stereo image pairs by using the YCbCr color model and phase-type correlation methods and then, using this data as well as the geometric information of the stereo tracking system, distance to the target from the stereo camera and 3-dimensional location information of a target person are extracted. Basing on these extracted data the pan/tilt system embedded in the stereo camera is controlled to adaptively track a moving person and as a result, moving trajectory of a target person can be obtained. From some experiments using 780 frames of the sequential stereo image pairs, it is analyzed that standard deviation of the position displacement of the target in the horizontal and vertical directions after tracking is kept to be very low value of 1.5, 0.42 for 780 frames on average, and error ratio between the measured and computed 3D coordinate values of the target is also kept to be very low value of 0.5% on average. These good experimental results suggest a possibility of implementation of a new stereo target tracking system having a high degree of accuracy and a very fast response time with this proposed algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.211-211
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• 2000

The multiple targets tracking problem has been one of main issues in the radar applications area in the last decade. Besides the standard Kalman filtering, various methods including the variable dimension filter, input estimation filter, interacting multiple model (IMM) filter, federated variable dimension filter with input estimation, probable data association (PDA) filter etc. have been proposed to address the tracking and sensor fusion issues. In this paper, two existing tracking algorithms, i.e. the IMMPDA filter and the variable dimension filter with input estimation (VDIE), are combined for the purpose of improving the tracking performance of maneuvering targets in clutter. To evaluate the tracking performance of the proposed algorithm, three typical maneuvering patterns i.e. Waver, Pop-Up, and High-Diver motions, are defined and are applied to the modified IMMPDA filter considered as well as the standard IMM filter. The smaller RMS tracking errors, in position and velocity, of the modified IMMPDA filter than the standard IMM filter are demonstrated through computer simulations.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.318-324
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• 2017

본 항공기에 스테레오 카메라를 장착하여 영상 기반의 비행 객체 탐지 및 탐지된 객체의 3차원 위치를 추정하는 방법을 제시하였다. 구름 사이에 존재할 수 있는 원거리의 작은 객체를 탐지하기 위한 방법으로 PCT 기반의 Saliency Map을 생성하여 이용하였으며, 이렇게 탐지된 객체는 좌우 스테레오 영상에서 매칭을 수행하여 스테레오 시차(Disparity)를 추출하였다. 정확한 Disparity를 추출하기 위하여 비용집적(Cost Aggregation) 영역을 탐지 객체에 맞추어 가변되도록 가변 영역으로 사용하였으며, 본 논문에서는 Saliency Map에서 객체의 존재 영역으로 검출된 결과를 사용하였다. 좀 더 정밀한 Disparity를 추출하기 위하여 Sub-pixel interpolation 기법을 사용하여 Sub-pixel 레벨의 실수형 Disparity를 추출하였다. 또한 이에 카메라 파라미터를 적용하여 실제 탐지된 비행 객체의 3차원 공간 좌표를 생성하여 객체의 공간위치를 추정하는 방법을 제시하였다. 이는 향후 자율비행체의 영상기반 객체 탐지 및 충돌방지 시스템에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.101-105
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• 2002

In this paper we describe techniques for the automated creation of geometric correct 3-D models of the building using two 2-D laser scanners. One of the laser scanners is used for position estimation using a scan matching algorithm, while the other is used to build 3-D models of the facade of the buildings. Those models can be used for virtual reality, tele-presence, digital cinematography and urban planning applications. Results are shown for building models in our campus using real data acquired from two sensors.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.3048-3050
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• 1999

This paper suggests a position estimating algorithm using mono vision system with projective geometry method. Generally, 3-D information can not be easily extracted from mono vision system which is taken by a camera at a specific point. But this defect is overcome by adopting model-based image analysis and selecting lines and points on the ground as natural landmarks. And this paper suggests a method that estimates position from many natural landmarks by distance error weight function.