• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.172-180
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• 2005

Image resampling according to epipolar geometry is an important prerequisite for a variety of photogrammetric tasks. Established procedures for resampling frame images according to epipolar geometry are not suitable for scenes captured by line cameras. In this paper, the mathematical model describing epipolar lines in scenes captured by line cameras moving with constant velocity and attitude is established and analyzed. The choice of this trajectory is motivated by the fact that many line cameras can be assumed to follow such a flight path during the short duration of a scene capture (especially when considering space-borne imaging platforms). Experimental results from synthetic along-track and across-track stereo-scenes are presented. For these scenes, the deviations of the resulting epipolar lines from straightness, as the camera's angular field of view decreases, are quantified and presented.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.652-655
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• 2004

The geometry of satellite image captured by linear pushbroom scanner is different from that of frame camera image. Since the exterior orientation parameters for satellite image will vary scan line by scan line, the epipolar geometry of satellite image differs from that of frame camera image. As we know, 2D affine orientation for the epipolar image of linear pushbroom scanners system are well-established by using the collinearity equation (Testsu Ono, 1999). Also, another epipolar geometry of linear pushbroom scanner system is recently established by Habib(2002). He reported that the epipolar geometry of linear push broom satellite image is realized by parallel projection based on 2D affine models. Here, in this paper, we compared the Ono's method with Habib's method. In addition, we proposed a method that generates epipolar resampled images. For the experiment, IKONOS stereo images were used in generating epipolar images.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.116-123
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• 1990

3D computer vision에서 일치성 문제를 해결하기 위한 많은 논문이 epipolar line이 수평하다는 가정을 사용한다. 그러나 실제로 그러한 상황을 만들기에는 어려운 점이 있다. 본 논문은 epipolar line이 수평하지 않은 상태에서 적용할 수 있으며 line matching에 근거를 둔 binocular-stereo matching 알고리듬을 제안한다. 본 논문의 방법은 주어진 line segment 의 끝점에서의 epipolar line 들과 그점에서 maximum disparity에 의해서 결정되어지는 line searching window를 사용한다. 정합시에는 line segment들의 방향과 edge의 세기, cross-correlation들을 사용하였으며. 실험에 의해서 일치성 문제를 해결하기 위한 유용한 방법임을 알 수 있었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.87-97
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• 2012

This study presents an automatic matching method for generating a dense, accurate, and discontinuity-preserved digital surface model (DSM) using multiple images acquired by an aerial digital frame camera. The proposed method consists of two main procedures: area-based multi-image matching (AMIM) and stereo-pair epipolar line matching (SELM). AMIM evaluates the sum of the normalized cross correlation of corresponding image points from multiple images to determine the optimal height of an object point. A novel method is introduced for determining the search height range and incremental height, which are necessary for the vertical line locus used in the AMIM. This procedure also includes the means to select the best reference and target images for each strip so that multi-image matching can resolve the common problem over occlusion areas. The SELM extracts densely positioned distinct points along epipolar lines from the multiple images and generates a discontinuity-preserved DSM using geometric and radiometric constraints. The matched points derived by the AMIM are used as anchor points between overlapped images to find conjugate distinct points using epipolar geometry. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated for several different test areas, including urban areas.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1987년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집(II)
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• pp.1441-1444
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• 1987

Extraction of dept.h information from stereo image uses the matching process between them and this requires a lot of computational time. In this paper, a matching using the feature points on the epipolar line is presented to save the computations. Feature points are obtained in both image and correlated each other. With the coordinates of the matched feature points and camera geometry, the position and depth informations are identified.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제35S권12호
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• pp.84-92
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 왼쪽 카메라와 오른쪽 카메라에서 획득된 두 영상에서 변이를 찾는 새로운 비용함수를 제안하였다. Cox 등[10]은 극상선상에서 화소의 밝기값으로 비용함수를 계산한 후, 동적 프로그래밍법을 사용하여 스테레오 정합문제를 해결하였다. 본 논문에서는 밝기값 외에 새로운 두 비용함수를 제안하였다. 하나는 화소의 기울기 정보를 밝기값과 방향성의 가중치를 결정하는 기준으로 사용하는 것이다. 기울기가 큰 화소는 주로 화소의 밝기값에 의해 정합이 이루어지고, 기울기가 작은 화소는 방향성을 이용한 정합이 이루어지도록 비용함수를 조절하였다. 다음으로 현재의 극상선상에서 변이를 구하기 위해 이전 극상선에서의 정합이 이루어진 두 화소 $p-k$와 $p-l$가 현 비교되는 화소와 같은 경계선상에 위치하면, $p-i$와 $p-j$가 정합이 이루어질 가능성을 크게 비용함수를 조절하였다. 제안된 방법을 여러 영상에 적용한 결과 이전의 방법보다 더 정확한 정합이 이루어짐을 확인하였다.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.81-88
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• 2007

선형 CCD 센서에 의해 획득되는 위성영상의 기하는 프레임 카메라 영상의 기하와는 차이점을 가지고 있다. 이는 각 스캔 선마다 영상의 외부표정요소가 다르기 때문에 발생한다. 따라서 기존의 프레임 영상에 사용되었던 에피폴라 기하와는 다른 기하가 필요하게 된다. 이와 같은 관점에서, 본 연구에서는 대표적인 선형 CCD 센서를 사용하여 촬영된 IKONOS 위성영상을 이용하여 에피폴라 영상을 제작하기 위한 영상 재배열 방법에 대한 연구를 수행하였으며, 영상의 투영조건을 중심투영이 아닌 평행투영으로 간주하여 구성된 2D 부등각 센서모델을 적용하였다. 이센서 모델에 의해 구성된 에피폴라 선식으로부터 유도된 정규 매개변수와 부등각 변환을 적용하여 에피폴라 재배열영상을 제작하였다. 결과로써, 2D 부등각 센서모델의 정확도가 검증되었으며, 제작된 에피폴라 영상을 사용하여 추출된 3차원 위치정확도는 IKONOS의 RFM 위치정확도와 유사하게 도출되었다.

• 한국BIM학회 논문집
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.46-54
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• 2015

Vision-based tracking has been proposed as a means to efficiently track a large number of construction resources operating in a congested site. In order to obtain 3D coordinates of an object, it is necessary to employ stereo-vision theories. Detecting and tracking of multiple objects require an entity matching process that finds corresponding pairs of detected entities across the two camera views. This paper proposes an efficient way of entity matching for tracking of construction workers. The proposed method basically uses epipolar geometry which represents the relationship between the two fixed cameras. Each pixel coordinate in a camera view is projected onto the other camera view as an epipolar line. The proposed method finds the matching pair of a worker entity by comparing the proximity of the all detected entities in the other view to the epipolar line. Experimental results demonstrate its suitability for automated entity matching for 3D vision-based tracking of construction workers.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2018

Electric transmission towers are facilities to transport electrical power from a plant to an electrical substation. The towers are connected using power lines that are installed with a proper sag by loosening the cable to lower the tension and to secure the sufficient clearance from the ground or nearby objects. The power line sag may extend over the tolerance due to the weather such as strong winds, temperature changes, and a heavy snowfall. Therefore the periodical mapping of the power lines is required but the poor accessibility to the power lines limit the work because most power lines are placed at the mountain area. In addition, the manual mapping of the power lines is also time-consuming either using the terrestrial surveying or the aerial surveying. Therefore we utilized multiple overlapping images acquired from a low-cost drone to automatically reconstruct the power lines in the object space. Two overlapping images are selected for epipolar image resampling, followed by the line extraction for the resampled images and the redundant images. The extracted lines from the epipolar images are matched together and reconstructed for the power lines primitive that are noisy because of the multiple line matches. They are filtered using the extracted line information from the redundant images for final power lines points. The experiment result showed that the proposed method successfully generated parabolic curves of power lines by interpolating the power lines points though the line extraction and reconstruction were not complete in some part due to the lack of the image contrast.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.26-34
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• 2005

In this paper, a new rectification scheme to transform the uncalibrated stereo image pair into the calibrated one is suggested and its performance is analyzed by applying this scheme to the reconstruction of the intermediate views for multi-view stereoscopic display. In the proposed method, feature points are extracted from the stereo image pair by detecting the comers and similarities between each pixel of the stereo image pair. These detected feature points, are then used to extract moving vectors between the stereo image pair and the epipolar line. Finally, the input stereo image pair is rectified by matching the extracted epipolar line between the stereo image pair in the horizontal direction. Based on some experiments done on the synthesis of the intermediate views by using the calibrated stereo image pairs through the proposed rectification algorithm and the uncalibrated ones for three kinds of stereo image pairs; 'Man', 'Face' and 'Car', it is found that PSNRs of the intermediate views reconstructed from the calibrated images improved by about 2.5${\sim}$3.26 dB than those of the uncalibrated ones.