• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.2299-2311
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• 2013

As portable multimedia devices become more popular and smaller, the use of portable projectors is also rapidly increasing. However, when portable projectors are used in mobile environments in which a dedicated planar screen is not available, the problem of geometric distortion of the projected image often arises. In this paper, we present a geometric image compensation method for portable projectors to compensate for geometric distortions of images projected on various types of planar or nonplanar projection surfaces. The proposed method is based on extraction of the two-dimensional (2D) geometric information of a projection area, setting of the compensation area, and prewarping using 2D homography. The experimental results show that the proposed method allows effective compensation for waved and arbitrarily shaped projection areas, as well as tilted and bent surfaces that are often found in the mobile environment. Furthermore, the proposed method is more computationally efficient than conventional image compensation methods that use 3D geometric information.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.504-513
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• 2013

This study evaluates the difference of visual effect according to pant style and geometric pattern. The researcher made 28 stimuli-combination of four pant Stiles (classic, baggy, skinny, and bell-bottom) and seven geometric pattern (large vertical stripe, small vertical stripe, large horizontal stripe, small horizontal stripe, large check, small check, and hound's tooth check). The test involved 96 female college students. The stimuli were made with the i-Designer computer program. The panels tested the computer screen images of all manikins wearing pants. A 7-point scale was used to evaluate each image. For the data analysis, ANOVA and Duncan-test were applied along with an SPSS program. The results of this study are as follows. Three factors (lower-body compensation, abdomen highlight, and length compensation) influenced the visual effect pant styles and geometric patterns. The skinny style and large vertical stripe evaluated positively in elongated height and leg length and a slimmer overall body. It was shown that the vertical stripe pattern was evaluated as more positive than the horizontal stripe pattern in the visual effect; particularly, the results showed distinct aspects in the classic pants style. The mutual influence of the visual effect (according to pants style and geometric pattern) were indicated as two factors of lower-body compensation and length compensation. A more positive visual effects resulted in a higher mutual influence on pant style and geometric pattern.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 어안렌즈의 교정(calibration)과 기하학적 왜곡을 보정하기 위해서 광학 시뮬레이터에 적합한 나선형 패턴을 제안하고, 이를 이용하여 별도의 수학적 모델링이 필요 없는 교정 알고리듬을 제안한다. 나선형 패턴을 광학 시뮬레이터의 입력 영상으로 이용하여 어안렌즈로 왜곡 시킨 영상에서 기하학적으로 이동된 점들의 정합을 통하여 교정을 수행한다. 이러한 과정에서 나선형 패턴 영상에서 중심으로부터 멀어지는 점들이 어안렌즈의 기하학적 왜곡을 거쳐 이동되는 정보를 왜곡되기 전의 위치와 정합하기 때문에 정확한 교정이 가능한 동시에, 별도의 모델링이 필요 없기 때문에 효율적인 처리가 가능하다. 제안된 기술은 어안렌즈를 이용한 패턴인식 시스템에서 손실 없는 디지털 영상 확대를 통하여 정확한 정보를 추출하는 데에 이용할 수 있다. 또한 넓은 시야각을 필요로 하는 다양한 영상처리 분야에 적용하여 어안렌즈의 교정과 왜곡 보정을 가능하게 한다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 평면 스크린을 사용할 수 없는 휴대형 프로젝터의 사용 환경에서 평면이 아닌 임의의 영사면(혹은 벽면)의 기하학적 형태에 의해 발생되는 영상의 기하학적 왜곡을 효과적으로 보정할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 먼저 격자패턴을 임의의 영사면에 영사한 후 영사면의 형태에 따라 왜곡된 격자패턴과 원본 격자패턴 간의 기하학적 관계를 나타내는 직선의 방정식을 도출한다. 다음으로 영사면의 기하학적 형태에 따라 적절하게 적용될 수 있는 원본 격자패턴의 크기를 결정하여 도출된 직선의 방정식으로부터 왜곡된 영상을 대칭적으로 보정할 수 있는 보정패턴을 생성한다. 최종적으로 프로젝터로부터 영사될 실제 영상을 격자패턴과 동일하게 분할하여 보정패턴에 맞게 미리 워핑(warping)함으로써 영사된 영상의 기하학적 왜곡을 보정한다. 제안한 방법의 성능 평가를 위하여 평면 스크린을 사용할 수 없는 영사 환경에서 자주 접할 수 있는 영사면 형태들인 기울어진 평면, 꺾인 평면 및 곡면을 대상으로 영사 영상 보정에 대한 실험을 진행하였다. 실험결과로부터 일반적으로 발생하는 몇 가지 영사면의 형태들에 인한 기하학적 왜곡들이 적절히 보정되어 제안한 방법이 영사 영상의 기하학적 왜곡을 매우 효과적으로 보정할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.202-207
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• 2002

EOC (Electro-Optical Camera) of KOMPSAT-1 (Korea Multi-Purpose SATellite) has been producing land imageries of the world since January 2000. After image data are acquired by EOC, they are transmitted from satellite to ground via X-band RF signal. Then, EOC image data are generated and pass through radiometric and geometric corrections to generate standard products of EOC images. After radiometric correction on EOC image data, Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) compensation is applicable on EOC images with user's request for better image quality. MTF compensation is concerned with filtering EOC images to minimize the effect of degradations. For Image Receiving and Processing System (IRPE) at KOMPSAT Ground Station (KGS), Wiener filter is used in MTF compensation for EOC images. If the Pointing Spread Function (PSF) of EOC system is known, signal-to-noise power spectra ratio is the only factor in the determination of Wiener filter. In this paper, MTF compensation in IRPE at KGS is introduced and MTF compensated EOC 1R images are generated using Wiener filters with various signal-to-noise power spectra ratios. MTF compensated EOC 1R images are correlated with EOC 1R images for observing linearities between them. As a result, the effect of signal-to-noise power spectra ratio is shown on MTF compensated EOC 1R images.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.43-52
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• 2003

EOC (Electro-Optical Camera) of KOMPSAT-1 (Korea Multi-Purpose SATellite) has been producing land imageries of the world since January 2000. After image data are acquired by EOC, they are transmitted from satellite to ground via X-band RF signal. Then, EOC image data are retrieved and pass through radiometric and geometric corrections to generate standard products of EOC images. After radiometric correction on EOC image data, Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) compensation is applicable on EOC images with user's request for better image quality. MTF compensation is concerned with filtering EOC images to minimize the effect of degradations. For Image Receiving and Processing System (IRPE) at KOMPSAT Ground Station (KGS), Wiener filter is used for MTF compensation of EOC images. If the Pointing Spread Function (PSF) of EOC system is known, signal-to-noise (SNR) power spectra ratio is the only variable which determines the shape of Wiener filter In this paper, MTF compensation in IRPE at KGS is briefly addressed, and MTF compensated EOC images are generated using Wiener filters with various SNR power spectra ratios. MTF compensated EOC images are compared with original EOC 1R images to observe correlations between them. As a result, the effect of SNR power spectra ratio on MTF compensated EOC images is shown.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.65-78
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• 1992

When using a computer vision system for a measurement, the geometrically distorted input image usually restricts the site and size of the measuring window. A geometrically distorted image caused by the image sensing and processing hardware degrades the accuracy of the visual measurement and prohibits the arbitrary selection of the measuring scope. Therefore, an image calibration is inevitable to improve the measuring accuracy. A calibration process is usually done via four steps such as measurement, modeling, parameter estimation, and compensation. In this paper, the efficient error calibration technique of a geometrically distorted input image was developed using a neural network. After calibrating a unit pixel, the distorted image was compensated by training CMLAN(Cerebellar Model Linear Associator Network) without modeling the behavior of any system element. The input/output training pairs for the network was obtained by processing the image of the devised sampled pattern. The generalization property of the network successfully compensates the distortion errors of the untrained arbitrary pixel points on the image space. The error convergence of the trained network with respect to the network control parameters were also presented. The compensated image through the network was then post processed using a simple DDA(Digital Differential Analyzer) to avoid the pixel disconnectivity. The compensation effect was verified using known sized geometric primitives. A way to extract directly a real scaled geometric quantity of the object from the 8-directional chain coding was also devised and coded. Since the developed calibration algorithm does not require any knowledge of modeling system elements and estimating parameters, it can be applied simply to any image processing system. Furthermore, it efficiently enhances the measurement accuracy and allows the arbitrary sizing and locating of the measuring window. The applied and developed algorithms were coded as a menu driven way using MS-C language Ver. 6.0, PC VISION PLUS library functions, and VGA graphic functions.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1418-1425
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• 2014

In ultrasonic medical imaging, spatial compounding of images is a technique where ultrasonic beam is steered to examine patient tissues in multiple angles. In the conventional ultrasonic diagnostic imaging, the steering of the ultrasonic beam is achieved electronically using the phased array transducer elements. In this paper, a spatial compounding approach is presented where the ultrasonic probe element is rotated mechanically and the beam steering is achieved mechanically. In the spatial compounding, target position is computed using the value of the rotation axis and the transducer array angular position. However, in the process of the rotation mechanism construction and the control system there arises the inevitable uncertainties in these values. These geometric parameter errors result in the target position error, and the consequence is a blurry compounded image. In order to reduce these target position errors, we present a spatial compounding scheme where error correcting transformation matrices are computed and applied to the raw images before spatial compounding to reduce the blurriness in the compounded image. The proposed scheme is illustrated using phantom and live scan images of human knee, and it is shown that the blurriness is effectively reduced.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.67-75
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 라돈 변환(Radon transform)을 변형한 R-변환(R-transform)을 이용하여 객체의 크기 변환과 회전에 불변하는 보행 인식 방법을 제안한다. R-변환은 라돈 변환의 결과를 제곱한 후 투영선에 대해 적분한 것으로서, 평행이동에 불변하고 크기 변환은 변환계수의 진폭과 비례하고, 회전의 경우는 변환계수가 평행으로 이동하는 성질을 갖기 때문에 임의의 위치에서 교정되지 않은 카메라를 이용해서 객체 정보를 추출하는 데 효과적이다. 추출된 정보는 상관도(Correlation)를 이용하여 신원을 파악한다. 제안된 방법은 기하학적 변환에 강인하기 때문에 보행인식 단계에서 기하학적인 정렬 과정이 필요 없고, 객체와 카메라의 거리에 무관하게 인식이 가능하며, 카메라의 비정상적인 회전이 발생한 경우에도 강인한 인식이 가능하다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.213-224
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 보정 영상을 프로젝터가 표현할 수 있는 범위로 콘트라스트(contrast)를 조절하여 주는 요소(scaling factor)를 적용하여 색 보정영상을 획득하는 방법을 제안한다. 이 조절 요소는 입력영상과 사용된 표면의 평균 밝기를 이용하여 계산하였다. 또한 사용된 프로젝터 및 카메라의 특성화 과정에서 오는 오차와 부정확성을 해결하기 위하여 프로젝터와 카메라 양단간의 관계를 적용한다. 실험 결과에서 제안한 색 보정 방법이 임의의 표면으로 입력된 다양한 영상에 대하여 밝기를 유지하면서 클리핑 결함은 감소되어 화질이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.