• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.10-14
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• 2011

In this paper, we present an efficient hardware architecture of unrolling image mapper of catadioptric omnidirectional imaging systems. The catadioptric omnidirectional imaging systems generate images of 360 degrees of view and need to be transformed into panorama images in rectangular coordinate. In most application, it has to perform the panorama unrolling in real-time and at low-cost, especially for high-resolution images. The proposed hardware architecture adopts a software/hardware cooperative structure and employs several optimization schemes using look-up-table(LUT) of coordinate conversion. To avoid the on-line division operation caused by the coordinate transformation algorithm, the proposed architecture has the LUT which has pre-computed division factors. And then, the amount of memory used by the LUT is reduced to 1/4 by using symmetrical characteristic compared with the conventional architecture. Experimental results show that the proposed hardware architecture achieves an effective real-time performance and lower implementation cost, and it can be applied to other kinds of catadioptric omnidirectional imaging systems.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.479-486
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• 2012

In this paper, a ranging system is proposed that is able to measure 360 degree omnidirectional distances to environment objects. The ranging system is based on the structured light imaging system with catadioptric omnidirectional mirror. In order to make the ranging system robust against environmental illumination, efficient structured light image processing algorithms are developed; sequential integration of difference images with modulated structured light and radial search based on Bresenham line drawing algorithm. A dedicated FPGA image processor is developed to speed up the overall image processing. Also the distance equation is derived in the omnidirectional imaging system with a hyperbolic mirror. It is expected that the omnidirectional ranging system is useful for mapping and localization of mobile robot. Experiments are carried out to verify the performance of the proposed ranging system.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.88-97
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• 2015

전방위 광학계는 360도의 방위각과 지평선 위와 아래의 수직화각에 대한 상을 동시에 결상이 가능한 광학계이다. 본 논문에서는 제작을 쉽게 하면서 크기가 작아지도록 하기 위해서 가운데에 구멍이 뚫려있는 옵스큐레이션(obscuration)을 갖는 구면거울 1장과 평면거울 1장으로 이루어진 거울계 및 이 거울계에서 반사하여 구면거울의 옵스큐레이션을 통과한 시야각 범위 안의 광을 결상하는 구면렌즈 3개와 하나의 구면 이중렌즈로 구성된 결상렌즈계를 사용하는 가시광용 반사굴절식 전방위 광학계를 설계하고 제작하여 전방위 영상을 실제로 결상하였다. 그리고 자동차 앞, 뒷번호판의 영상을 보고 이 전방위 광학계의 통과 공간주파수를 측정하고, ISO 12233 차트의 영상으로부터 전방위 광학계의 수직화각을 측정하여 광학계의 성능을 평가하였다. 이 결과 전방위 광학계의 수직화각은 $+53^{\circ}{\sim}-17^{\circ}$이며, 방위각은 $360^{\circ}$이고, 3 m 거리에서 자동차 앞번호판의 숫자를 구별할 수 있었는데, 이는 135 lp/mm의 통과 공간주파수에 해당한다.