• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제30B권9호
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• pp.64-75
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• 1993

This paper proposes a recovering technique of the elevation map by stereo modeling of the aerial image sequence which is transformed based on the aircraft situation. The area-based stereo matching method is simulated and the various parameters are experimentally chosen. In a depth extraction step, the depth is determined by solving the vector equation. The equation is suitable for stereo modeling of aerial images which do not satisfy the epipolar constraint. Also, the performance of the conventional feature-based matching scheme is compared. Finally, techniques analyzing the accuracy of the recovered elevation map (REM) are described. The analysis includes the error estimation for both height and contour lines, where the accuracy is based on the measurements of deviations from the estimates obtained manually. The experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed technique.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.625-635
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• 2014

Multiple strips are required for large area mapping using ALS (Airborne Laser Scanner) system. LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data collected from the ALS system has discrepancies between strips due to systematic errors of on-board laser scanner and GPS/INS, inaccurate processing of the system calibration as well as boresight misalignments. Such discrepancies deteriorate the overall geometric quality of the end products such as DEM (Digital Elevation Model), building models, and digital maps. Therefore, strip adjustment for minimizing discrepancies between overlapping strips is one of the most essential tasks to create seamless point cloud data. This study implemented area-based matching (ABM) to determine conjugate features for computing 3D transformation parameters. ABM is a well-known method and easily implemented for this purpose. It is obvious that the exact same LiDAR points do not exist in the overlapping strips. Therefore, the term "conjugate point" means that the location of occurring maximum similarity within the overlapping strips. Coordinates of the conjugate locations were determined with sub-pixel accuracy. The major drawbacks of the ABM are sensitive to scale change and rotation. However, there is almost no scale change and the rotation angles are quite small between adjacent strips to apply AMB. Experimental results from this study using both simulated and real datasets demonstrate validity of the proposed scheme.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.979-984
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• 2003

인체에 사용되는 삽입형 안테나가 새롭게 제안되었다. 이 안테나의 동작 주파수는 2.45 GHz이며, coaxial cable과 리엑턴스 성분으로 구성되어 있다. 이 리엑턴스 성분은 안테나 끝에 존재하며 거의 완전한 정합과 가열되는 영역을 넓히는데 기여한다. 완전한 안테나 정합을 위하여 전송선로 이론에 기초한 정합방법을 제시하였고 그 정합 방법을 이용하여 이 안테나가 근육에 삽입되었을 때 완전한 정합이 이루어지도록 안테나를 제작, 실험하였다. 측정된 반사계수는 -28.377 dB로써, 지금까지 문헌에 보고된 가장 좋은 결과이다. 그렇기 때문에, 하나의 안테나로도 간, 뇌, 심장과 같이 인체 깊숙이 존재하는 종양이나, 암 세포를 제거하는데 사용될 수 있음을 보여주고 있다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1997년도 Proceedings International Workshop on New Video Media Technology
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• pp.131-136
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• 1997

We present a method to estimate a dense and sharp depth map using multiple cameras for the application to flexible video production. A key issue for obtaining sharp depth map is how to overcome the harmful influence of occlusion. Thus, we first propose to selectively use the depth information from multiple cameras. With a simple sort and discard technique, we resolve the occlusion problem considerably at a slight sacrifice of noise tolerance. However, boundary overreach of more textured area to less textured area at object boundaries still remains to be solved. We observed that the amount of boundary overreach is less than half the size of the matching window and, unlike usual stereo matching, the boundary overreach with the proposed occlusion-overcoming method shows very abrupt transition. Based on these observations, we propose a hierarchical estimation scheme that attempts to reduce boundary overreach such that edges of the depth map coincide with object boundaries on the one hand, and to reduce noisy estimates due to insufficient size of matching window on the other hand. We show the hierarchical method can produce a sharp depth map for a variety of images.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2008년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.49-54
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• 2008

This study is to investigate an optimal size and position of PV system for apartment complex enough the electrical load matching analysis. The 4 types of arrangements of apartment buildings are considered as follows; ㅡtype, alternative ㅡtype, ㄱtype and ㅁtype. We assume that the studied site is composed of 9 buildings. Firstly, solar access evaluation of roof and facade in apartment buildings was performing with the hourly simulations of total received insolation on each surface considering the hading effect of buildings. Electrical load profile of typical Korean apartments was investigated for the lad matching analysis. To calculate an annual total PV output, we used MERIT program which is a sourly based load matching tool developed by ESRU. TRY weather data of Daejeon are applied for this analysis. Result shows that approximately 11% of total electric load of the site can be supplied by the PV system in the case of full installation of PV system at the whole south-face roof area of 9 buildings in this stuided apartment complex. Depending of a various installation option of roof and facade area, the possible ratio of PV supply in total electrical load varies from 9% to 42%. Among the 4 arrangement types, the ㅡ type revealed the best option for the maximum output of PV system.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2729-2731
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• 2001

In this paper, we studied on the real-time environment map building for the mobile robot navigation using the stereo camera system. Distance measurement are necessary to build the environment map. We used a area-based stereo matching for the distance measurement with the stereo camera system. To reduce the computation time, we used DSP processor on the vision board, took a suitable area size for stereo matching, and used hierarchical search method. Using the fast acquired distance values, the environment map was built.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2016

Image stitching is a process of combining two or more images with overlapping area to create a panorama of input images, which is considered as an active research area in computer vision, especially in the field of augmented reality with 360 degree images. Image stitching techniques can be categorized into two general approaches: direct and feature based techniques. Direct techniques compare all the pixel intensities of the images with each other, while feature based approaches aim to determine a relationship between the images through distinct features extracted from the images. This paper proposes a novel image stitching method based on feature pixels with approximated clustering filter. When the features are extracted from input images, we calculate a meaning of the minutiae, and apply an effective feature extraction algorithm to improve the processing time. With the evaluation of the results, the proposed method is corresponding accurate and effective, compared to the previous approaches.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.407-414
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• 2008

본 논문은 항공사진과 위성영상의 서로 다른 해상도를 지닌 이종센서 영상들에 대한 효율적인 특이점 자동 매칭 기법에 대한 알고리즘에 관한 연구이다. 본 연구의 자동 매칭 알고리즘은 매칭 정확도 및 속도를 향상시키기 위해 다양한 영상 처리 방법을 적용하였다. 특이점을 추출하기 위하여 전처리 과정, 필터링, 세선화, 특이점 추출 방법을 사용하였으며, 특이점에 대한 키서술자(Key-descriptor)를 비교하여 매칭의 정확도를 향상시켰다. 특히 본 연구에서 제안된 이종센서간의 정확도 높은 자동 영상 매칭을 위해 센서마다 지닌 기하학적 및 방사학적인 영상의 특징을 활용하였다. 아울러 매칭 속도를 높이기 위해 센서 모델을 이용하여 탐색 영역을 최소화 하고 매칭이 잘못된 특이점을 제거할 수 있는 방법을 제시하고 있다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.1411-1422
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• 2003

The detection of free spaces between obstacles in a scene is a prerequisite for navigation of a mobile robot. Especially for stereo vision-based navigation, the problem of correspondence between two images is well known to be of crucial importance. This paper describes multi-range approach of area-based stereo matching for grid mapping and visual navigation in uncertain environment. Camera calibration parameters are optimized by evolutionary algorithm for successful stereo matching. To obtain reliable disparity information from both images, stereo images are to be decomposed into three pairs of images with different resolution based on measurement of disparities. The advantage of multi-range approach is that we can get more reliable disparity in each defined range because disparities from high resolution image are used for farther object a while disparities from low resolution images are used for close objects. The reliable disparity map is combined through post-processing for rejecting incorrect disparity information from each disparity map. The real distance from a disparity image is converted into an occupancy grid representation of a mobile robot. We have investigated the possibility of multi-range approach for the detection of obstacles and visual mapping through various experiments.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 카메라 회전에 의한 배경의 왜곡이 존재하는 환경에서 조명변화와 대상물체의 흔들림에도 강건한 에지 세그먼트 정합을 통한 이동물체 자동 검출방법을 제안한다. 이동물체 검출을 위한 기존의 연구는 카메라가 고정되어 있는 환경을 대상으로 한 연구가 주를 이루지만 응용분야의 확대로 카메라를 회전함으로써 하나의 카메라로 보다 넓은 영역을 커버할 수 있는 시스템에 대한 요구가 커지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 왜곡이 적은 에지세그먼트 기반 배경 파노라마 영상 생성 방안, 왜곡이 포함된 파노라마 영상에서 신속하게 현재 영상의 배경에지영상을 추출할 수 있는 에지특징 기반 GHT를 이용한 배경영상생성 방안, 시점의 차이와 왜곡을 극복하고 신뢰성 있게 이동 에지 세그먼트를 추출할 수 있는 에지 정합방안을 제안한다. 실험결과 제안한 방법은 조명 변화와 카메라의 흔들림에도 정확한 이동물체 검출이 가능함이 입증되었다.