• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2015

To accurately extract absolute distance information from a self-mixing interferometry (SMI) signal, in this paper we propose an approach based on a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm instead of frequency estimation for absolute distance. The algorithm is utilized to search for the global minimum of the fitness function that is established from the self-mixing signal to find out the actual distance. A resolution superior to $25{\mu}m$ in the range from 3 to 20 cm is obtained by experimental measurement, and the results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approach in comparison with interpolated FFT. The influence of different external feedback strength parameters and different inertia weights in the algorithm is discussed as well.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.280-285
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• 2011

Recently, with the development of service robots and the concept of ubiquitous, the position estimation of mobile objects has received great interest. Some of the localization schemes are introduced, which provide the relative location of the moving objects subjected to accumulated errors. To implement a real time localization system, a new absolute position estimation method for a mobile robot in indoor environment is proposed. Design and implementation of the localization system comes from the usage of active beacon systems (based upon RFID technology). The active beacon system is composed of an RFID receiver and an ultra-sonic transmitter. The RFID receiver gets the synchronization signal from the mobile robot and the ultra-sonic transmitter sends out the traveling signal to be used for measuring the distance. Position of a mobile robot in a three dimensional space can be calculated basically from the distance information from three beacons and the absolute position information of the beacons themselves. In some case, the mobile robot can acquire the ultrasonic signals from only one or two beacons, due to the obstacles located along the moving path. In this paper, a position estimation scheme using fewer than three sensors is developed. Also, the extended Kalman filter algorithm is applied for the improvement of position estimation accuracy of the mobile robot.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2003년도 봄 학술발표논문집 Vol.30 No.1 (A)
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• pp.533-535
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• 2003

The Euclidean distance is sensitive to the absolute offsets of time sequences, so it is not a suitable similarity measure in terms of shape. In this paper. we propose an indexing scheme for efficient matching and retrieval of time sequences based on the minimum distance. The minimum distance can give a better estimation of similarity in shape between two time sequences. Our indexing scheme can match time sequences of similar shapes irrespective of their vortical positions and guarantees no false dismissals

• 무역학회지
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.337-354
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• 2021

Several previous studies have not been able to derive consistent research results on the impact of the level of corruption in local countries on foreign direct investment. Therefore, in order to suggest that this study should consider the relative level of corruption rather than the level of absolute corruption, 1) first, examine the moderating effect of the absolute level of corruption on the determinants of foreign direct investment, and 2) examine the moderating effect of the relative corruption on the determinants of foreign direct investment. This study collected 9-year data from 2012 to 2020 based on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) published by Transparency International. A total of 549 observations (country-year) from 82 countries were sampled and a generalized estimation equation (GEE) analysis was performed. As a result of empirical analysis, it was found that the moderating effect of absolute corruption did not appear, whereas the moderating effect of relative corruption reversed the negative (-) relationship between cultural distance and foreign direct investment into a positive (+) relationship. Based on these empirical results, this study suggest that Korean companies need to consider the relative level of corruption with Korea instead of the absolute level of corruption of the investee when conducting foreign direct investment.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 모바일 디바이스에 기본적으로 제공되는 모노 카메라와 모노 마이크의 멀티 모달 입력을 통하여 사용자와 모바일 디바이스간의 거리를 추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 영상을 이용한 거리 추정은 모노 카메라로 입력되는 영상에서 피부색 영역을 추출하고, 노이즈를 제거한 후에 얼굴 영역 및 눈 영역을 검출하여 사용자의 거리를 추정한다. 음성을 이용한 거리 추정은 모노 마이크로 입력되는 음성으로부터 가장 큰 피크(Peak)를 선정하고, ROI(Region of Interest)를 지정한 후에 FFT(Fast Fourier Transform)을 수행하여 주파수 축에서의 크기(Magnitude)를 계산한다. 계산된 크기 값과 거리별 크기 값의 모델을 비교하여 거리 별 우도(Likelihood)를 계산하고, 정렬한 후 가중치를 주어 더함으로써 사용자의 거리를 추정한다. 실험결과 영상 및 음성을 멀티 모달 입력으로 이용하여 거리를 추정한 결과 단일 모달로 거리를 추정한 결과 보다 향상된 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.91-99
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• 2024

Collision avoidance system is important to improve the robustness and functional safety of autonomous vehicles. This paper proposes an object-level distance estimation method to develop a collision avoidance system, and it is applied to golfcarts utilized in country club environments. To improve the detection accuracy, we continually trained an object detection model based on pseudo labels generated by a pre-trained detector. Moreover, we propose object-aware depth estimation (OADE) method which trains a depth model focusing on object regions. In the OADE algorithm, we generated dense depth information for object regions by utilizing detection results and sparse LiDAR points, and it is referred to as object-aware LiDAR projection (OALP). By using the OALP maps, a depth estimation model was trained by backpropagating more gradients of the loss on object regions. Experiments were conducted on our custom dataset, which was collected for the travel distance of 22 km on 54 holes in three country clubs under various weather conditions. The precision and recall rate were respectively improved from 70.5% and 49.1% to 95.3% and 92.1% after the continual learning with pseudo labels. Moreover, the OADE algorithm reduces the absolute relative error from 4.76% to 4.27% for estimating distances to obstacles.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.996-1001
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• 2005

Recently, with the development of service robots and with the new concept of ubiquitous world, the position estimation of mobile objects has been raised to an important problem. As pre-liminary research results, some of the localization schemes are introduced, which provide the relative location of the moving objects subjected to accumulated errors. To implement a real time localization system, a new absolute position estimation method for a mobile robot in indoor environment is proposed in this paper. Design and implementation of the localization system comes from the usage of active beacon systems (based upon RFID technology). The active beacon system is composed of an RFID receiver and an ultra-sonic transmitter: 1. The RFID receiver gets the synchronization signal from the mobile robot and 2. The ultra-sonic transmitter sends out the traveling signal to be used for measuring the distance. Position of a mobile robot in a three dimensional space can be calculated basically from the distance information from. Three beacons and the absolute position information of the beacons themselves. In some case, the mobile robot can get the ultrasonic signals from only one or two beacons, because of the obstacles located along the moving path. Therefore, in this paper, as one of our dedicated contribution, the position estimation scheme with less than three sensors has been developed. Also, the extended Kalman filter algorithm is applied for the improvement of position estimation accuracy of the mobile robot.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2007

Recently, with the development of service robots and with the new concept of ubiquitous world, the position estimation of mobile objects has been raised to an important problem. As pre-liminary research results, some of the localization schemes are introduced, which provide the absolute location of the moving objects subjected to large errors. To implement a precise and convenient localization system, a new absolute position estimation method for a mobile robot in indoor environment is proposed in this paper. Design and implementation of the localization system comes from the usage of active beacon systems (based upon RFID technology). The active beacon system is composed of an RFID receiver and an ultra-sonic transmitter: 1. The RFID receiver gets the synchronization signal from the mobile robot and 2. The ultra-sonic transmitter sends out the traveling signal to be used for measuring the distance. Position of a mobile robot in a three dimensional space can be calculated basically from the distance information from three beacons and the absolute position information of the beacons themselves. Since it is not easy to install the beacons at a specific position precisely, there exists a large localization error and the installation time takes long. To overcome these problems, and provide a precise and convenient localization system, a new auto calibration algorithm is developed in this paper. Also the extended Kalman filter has been adopted for improving the localization accuracy during the mobile robot navigation. The localization accuracy improvement through the proposed auto calibration algorithm and the extended Kalman filter has been demonstrated by the real experiments.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.108-115
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 에러에 강인한 동영상 압축을 위해서 효과적인 에러 은닉을 제공하는 새로운 움직임 예측기법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 전송 에러에 의해 손실된 프레임을 효율적으로 복원하기 위해서는 영상 내에서 객체의 실제 움직임을 정확하게 아는 것이 중요하다. 하지만 현재 블록과 움직임 보상된 블록에 있는 화소의 차의 절대값의 합 (sum of absolute different, SAD)을 기준으로 이용하는 기존의 움직임 예측 (motion estimation, ME)기법이 객체의 실제 움직임을 항상 정확하게 반영하는 것은 아니다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서, 본 논문에서 현재 블록과 움직임 보상된 블록의 움직임 벡터들의 차이의 절대값 (absolute different of motion vectors, ADMV)을 새로운 부가적인 기준으로 소개한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 ME 기법은 SAD와 ADMV의 가중 합을 최소화시킴으로써 실제 움직임과 거리가 먼 움직임 벡터들을 효과적으로 제거할 수 있다. 또한, 제안하는 ADMV을 이용하면 영상의 전송 과정에서 손실된 프레임의 정보를 전혀 사용하지 않고도 손실된 움직임 정보를 효과적으로 복원할 수 있으므로 복호기에서의 에러 은닉 성능을 크게 향상시킬 수 있다. 실험을 통하여 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법이 기존의 ME기법과 유사한 압축 효율을 갖으면서 기존의 에러 내성 기법보다 성능이 더 우수하다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.171-176
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• 2019

드론은 원거리 동영상을 효율적으로 획득할 수 있어서 활용성이 높다. 드론 운용에서 속도의 크기인 속력은 설정할 수 있지만 이동하는 방위의 정확한 값은 설정이 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 드론에서 획득한 동영상을 이용하여 일정한 속도로 이동하는 드론의 속도를 추정한다. 기준 프레임과 표적 프레임의 Sum of Absolute Difference(SAD)를 최소로 하는 표적 프레임의 변위를 구한다. 드론의 실제 속도(Ground Truth)는 각 프레임에서 일정한 동일 지점(Matching Point)의 위치를 이용하여 계산한다. 실험에서 150m 상공에서 일정한 속력으로 이동하는 드론으로 동영상을 획득하였다. 추정한 x와 y방향의 속도와 속력의 평균 제곱근 오차(RMSE)를 구하여 제안한 방법의 신뢰성을 보였다.