• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.585-599
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• 2016

Steel cables serve as the key structural components in long-span bridges, and the force state of the steel cable is deemed to be one of the most important determinant factors representing the safety condition of bridge structures. The disadvantages of traditional cable force measurement methods have been envisaged and development of an effective alternative is still desired. In the last decade, the vision-based sensing technology has been rapidly developed and broadly applied in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM). With the aid of vision-based multi-point structural displacement measurement method, monitoring of the tensile force of the steel cable can be realized. In this paper, a novel cable force monitoring system integrated with a multi-point pattern matching algorithm is developed. The feasibility and accuracy of the developed vision-based force monitoring system has been validated by conducting the uniaxial tensile tests of steel bars, steel wire ropes, and parallel strand cables on a universal testing machine (UTM) as well as a series of moving loading experiments on a scale arch bridge model. The comparative study of the experimental outcomes indicates that the results obtained by the vision-based system are consistent with those measured by the traditional method for cable force measurement.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2006년도 제5회 박판성형 SYMPOSIUM
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• pp.34-39
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• 2006

An automated surface-strain measurement system, named ASIAS, was developed by using the image processing and stereo vision techniques in the previous studies by the corresponding author and his coworkers. This system has been upgraded mainly to improve the accuracy through image enhancement, sub-pixel measurement, surface smoothing, etc., since the first version was released. The present study has still more improved the convenience of users as well as the accuracy of measurement by processing high resolution images 8 mega pixels or more which can be easily obtained from a portable digital steal camera. It is proved that high resolution image processing greatly decreases the measurement error and gives strain data without considerable deterioration of accuracy even when the deformed grids to be measured and the master grids for camera calibration are captured together in the same image, making the whole process of strain measurement much simpler.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2023

In the machine vision inspection equipment, diameter measurement is important process in inspection of cylindrical object. However, machine vision inspection equipment requires complex algorithm processing such as camera distortion correction and perspective distortion correction, and the increase in processing time and cost required for precise diameter measurement. In this paper, we proposed the algorithm for diameter measurement of cylindrical object using the laser displacement sensor. In order to fit circle for given four input outer points, grid search algorithms using root-mean-square error and mean-absolute error are applied and compared. To solve the limitations of the grid search algorithm, we finally apply the singular-value-decomposition based circle fitting algorithm. In order to compare the performance of the algorithms, we generated the pseudo data of the outer points of the cylindrical object and applied each algorithm. As a result of the experiment, the grid search using root-mean-square error confirmed stable measurement results, but it was confirmed that real-time processing was difficult as the execution time was 10.8059 second. The execution time of mean-absolute error algorithm was greatly improved as 0.3639 second, but there was no weight according to the distance, so the result of algorithm is abnormal. On the other hand, the singular-value-decomposition method was not affected by the grid and could not only obtain precise detection results, but also confirmed a very good execution time of 0.6 millisecond.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.154-161
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• 2004

An experimental method for measuring side-necking deformation near a crack-tip is described. It is based on Stereoscopic Digital Speckle Photography and Digital Image Correlation, and it is simple and robust to mechanical vibration inherent to a hydraulic material test system. The validity and accuracy are evaluated through a calibration fur rigid body translation. A case study has been performed for a CT specimen made of a ductile steel and the three dimensional profiles of the side-necked region are presented as the load increases. Also, the details of the procedure and the surface treatment are discussed.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제32권12호
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• pp.1039-1047
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• 2015

Contact type sensors (e.g., displacement sensor and strain gauge) were typically used to evaluate the safety and mechanical properties in machines and construction. However, those contact type sensors have been constrained because of measurement problems such as surface roughness, temperature, humidity, and shape. The Digital Image Correlation (DIC) measurement system is a vision measurement system. This measurement system uses the taken image using a CCD camera and calculates the image correlation between the reference image and the deformed image under external force to measure the displacement and strain rates. In this paper, we discuss methods to improve the measurement precision of the digital image correlation measurement system. A tensile test was conducted to compare the precision improvement effects, by using the universal test machine and the DIC measurement system, with the use of subpixel algorithms, i.e., the Coarse Fine Search (CFS) algorithm and the Peak Finding (PF) algorithm.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.159-165
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• 2012

The accurate focusing position should be determined for accurate measurements In VMS. Camera lens focusing is an important problem in computer vision and video measuring systems (VMS) that use CCD cameras and high precision XYZ stages. Camera focusing is a very important step in high precision measurement systems that use computer vision technique. The auto focusing process consists of two steps, the focus value measurement step and the exact focusing position determination step. It is suitable for eliminating high frequency noises with lower processing time and without blurring. An automatic focusing technique is applied to measure a crater with a one-dimensional search algorithm for finding the best focus. Throughout this paper, the suggested algorithm for the Auto focusing was combined with the learning. As a result, it is expected that such a combination would be expanded into the system of recognizing voices in a noisy environment.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제32권1A호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2012

최근 해안, 도서, 산간지방 등의 개발로 장대교량의 수요가 증가되고 재료 및 설계 시공기술의 지속적 발전으로 인하여 현수교나 사장교 등 장지간을 가지는 교량의 건설이 증가하고 있다. 장대교량은 사장재 또는 주 케이블 및 행어로 주형을 지지하는 고차 부정정구조물로 다양한 형태의 설계가 가능하고 구조물의 외관이 뛰어나기 때문에 현재 많은 교량에 적용되고 있다. 케이블지지교량은 시공 중 그리고 공용상태에서 케이블의 장력을 지속적으로 측정함으로써 교량의 건전성을 파악할 수 있다. 케이블의 장력을 추정하는 기법으로 로드셀 및 유압잭 등을 이용하여 케이블의 응력을 직접 측정하는 방법과 케이블의 형상조건과 계측된 동적 특성을 활용하여 장력을 구하는 진동법이 많이 활용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 디지털 영상처리를 이용한 행어케이블의 동특성 추정 방법을 제시하였으며 사용의 편의성과 경제성을 고려하여 원거리에 있는 행어케이블을 측정하기 위한 센서로 휴대용 디지털 캠코더를 사용하였다. 디지털 영상처리를 이용하는 방법은 digital image correlation(DIC) 기법을 사용하였으며 변형이 없는 이미지와 변형이 있는 이미지 사이의 기하학적인 왜곡을 보정하는 이미지 변환함수(ITF)를 사용하여 단위픽셀이하를 계산하였다. 또한 영상계측시스템의 흔들림을 추가적인 센서의 설치 없이 한 영상내의 고정된 물체를 이용하여 보정함으로써 행어케이블의 동적응답 및 모드별 고유진동수의 해상도를 향상시켰다.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.404-412
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• 2000

It is desirable to use the square grid analysis with the aid of the stereo vision and image processing techniques in order to automatically measure the surface-strain distribution over a stamped part. But this method has some inherent problems such as the difficulty in enhancement of bad images, the measurement error due to the digital image resolution and the limit of the area that can be measured at a time. Therefore, it is still hard to measure the strain distribution over the entire surface of a medium-or large-sized stamped part even by using an automated strain measurement system. In this study, several methods which enable to solve these problems considerably without losing accuracy and precision In measurement are suggested. The superposition of images that have different high-lightened or damaged part from each other gives much enhanced image. A new algorithm for constructing of the element connectivity from the line-thinned image helps recognize up to 1,000 elements. And the geometry assembling algorithm including the global error minimization makes it possible to measure a large specimen with reliability and efficiency.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2008

최근 다양한 분야에서(웹 포털, 유료 음원서비스 등) 디지털 음악의 검색이 사용되고 있다. 기존의 디지털 음악의 검색은 음악 데이터에 포함된 자체 메타 정보를 이용하여 이루어진다. 하지만 메타 정보가 다르게 작성되었거나 작성되지 않은 경우 정확한 검색은 어렵다. 요즘 이러한 문제의 보완 방안으로 음악자체를 이용하는 내용기반정보 검색 기법에 대한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 음악의 파형에서 추출된 특징 정보간의 유사도 측정을 통하여 동일음원을 인식하는 방법에 대해 논하고자 한다. 디지털 음악의 특징 정보는 단순화시킨 MFCC (Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient)를 이용하여 음악의 파형으로부터 추출하였다. 디지털 음악간의 유사도는 Vision 및 Speech Recognition 분야에서 사용되던 DTW (Dynamic Time Warping) 기법을 활용하여 측정하였다. 제안된 동일 음원 인식 방법의 검증을 위한 같은 장르에서 무작위 추출된 1000곡에서 시행한 500번의 검색은 모두 성공했다. 검색에 사용된 500개의 디지털 오디오는 60개의 디지털음원을 압축방식과 비트율을 다르게 조합하여 만들었다. 실험의 결과로 DTW을 이용한 유사도 측정법이 동일음원을 인식할 수 있음을 증명하였다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.79-91
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• 2017

In this paper, the abdominal-deformation measurement scheme is conducted on a shape-flexible mannequin using the DIC technique in a stereo-vision system. Firstly, during the integer-pixel displacement search, a novel fractal dimension based on an adaptive-ellipse subset area is developed to track an integer pixel between the reference and deformed images. Secondly, at the subpixel registration, a new mutual-learning adaptive particle swarm optimization (MLADPSO) algorithm is employed to locate the subpixel precisely. Dynamic adjustments of the particle flight velocities that are according to the deformation extent of each interest point are utilized for enhancing the accuracy of the subpixel registration. A test is performed on the abdominal-deformation measurement of the shape-flexible mannequin. The experiment results indicate that under the guarantee of its measurement accuracy without the cause of any loss, the time-consumption of the proposed scheme is significantly more efficient than that of the conventional method, particularly in the case of a large number of interest points.