• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2005

Assessing health condition of crop in the field is one of core operation in precision fanning. A sensing system was proposed to remotely detect the crop health condition in terms of SP AD readings directly related to chlorophyll contents of crop using a multispectral camera equipped on ground-based platform. Since the image taken by a camera was sensitive to changes in ambient light intensity, it was needed to convert gray scale image data into reflectance, an index to indicate the reflection characteristics of target crop. A reference reflectance panel consisting of four pieces of sub-panels with different reflectance was developed for a dynamic calibration, by which a calibration equation was updated for every crop image captured by the camera. The system performance was evaluated in a field by investigating the relationship between com canopy reflectance and SP AD values. The validation tests revealed that the com canopy reflectance induced from Green band in the multispectral camera had the most significant correlation with SPAD values $(r^2=0.75)$ and NIR band could be used to filter out unwanted non-crop features such as soil background and empty space in a crop canopy. This research confirmed that it was technically feasible to develop a ground-based remote sensing system for assessing crop health condition.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.983-988
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• 2011

This paper presents a robust method for ground plane detection in vision-based applications based on a monocular sequence of images with a non-stationary camera. The proposed method, which is based on the reliable estimation of the homography between two frames taken from the sequence, aims at designing a practical system to detect road surface from traffic scenes. The homography is computed using a feature matching approach, which often gives rise to inaccurate matches or undesirable matches from out of the ground plane. Hence, the proposed homography estimation minimizes the effects from erroneous feature matching by the evaluation of the difference between the predicted and the observed matrices. The method is successfully demonstrated for the detection of road surface performed on experiments to fill an information void area taken place from geometric transformation applied to captured images by an in-vehicle camera system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.848-855
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• 2008

In this paper, we describe correspondence among multiple images taken by multiple cameras. The correspondence among multiple views is an interesting problem which often appears in the application like visual surveillance or gesture recognition system. We use the principal axis and the ground plane homography to estimate foot of human. The principal axis belongs to the subtracted silhouette-based region of human using subtraction of the predetermined multiple background models with current image which includes moving person. For the calculation of the ground plane homography, we use landmarks on the ground plane in 3D space. Thus the ground plane homography means the relation of two common points in different views. In the normal human being, the foot of human has an exactly same position in the 3D space and we represent it to the intersection in this paper. The intersection occurs when the principal axis in an image crosses to the transformed ground plane from other image. However the positions of the intersection are different depend on camera views. Therefore we construct the correspondence that means the relationship between the intersection in current image and the transformed intersection from other image by homography. Those correspondences should confirm within a short distance measuring in the top viewed plane. Thus, we track a person by these corresponding points on the ground plane. Experimental result shows the accuracy of the proposed algorithm has almost 90% of detecting person for tracking based on correspondence of intersections.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권10호
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• pp.1229-1235
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• 2020

A line parallel to the ground is frequently shown in our daily life, which enables us to guess its direction. Especially, such a guess tends to become clear when a vanishing line of the ground is shown together. In this paper, a vision based pallet measurement method is suggested, which uses a technique for estimating three-dimensional direction of a line parallel to the ground. The technique computes actually a vector heading to intersection of a given imaged line parallel to the ground and the ground vanishing line determined previously on calibrating a measurement camera. Through an experiment of measuring a real commercial pallet with various orientation and distance, we found that the technique could measure the orientation of the pallet correctly and accurately. The technique worked well even though an edge line available on the front plane of a pallet was almost parallel to the ground vanishing line.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.518-523
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• 2002

Nowadays the Rational Function Model (RFM), an abstract sensor model, is substituting physical sensor models for highly complicated imaging geometry. But RFM is algorithm to be required many Ground Control Points (GCP). In case of RFM of the third order, At least forty GCP are required far RFM generation. The purpose of this study is to research more efficient algorithm on GCP and accurate algorithm similar to RFM. The Polynomial Camera Model is relatively accurate and requires a little GCP in comparisons of RFM. This paper introduces how to generate Polynomial Camera Model and fundamental algorithms for construction of 3-D topographic data using the Polynomial Camera Model information in the Kompsat stereo pair and describes how to generate the 3-D ground coordinates by manual matching. Finally we tried to extract height information for the whole image area with the stereo matching technique based on the correlation.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.641-644
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• 2008

본 저자가 제안한 카메라 외부표정에서 광속조정법에 기반한 카메라 자세계산 방법을 보완하기위해 (전재춘과 Shankar, 2007, 2008), 본 논문은 카메라 자세를 벡터내적으로 결정하는 방법을 소개한다. 카메라 위치를 기준으로 각 지상기준점의 방향벡터와 카메라 광축 단위벡터간의 사잇각을 통하여 이 단위벡터를 계산하는 것이다. 카메라 위치는 벡터내적에 의해 계산된다. 카메라의 수평/수직 단위벡터는 Yakimovsky 와 Cunningham(1978)의 카메라 모델(CAHV)을 이용 하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.1944-1947
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a dynamic-based compression system by creating mosaic background and transmitting the change information. A dynamic mosaic of the background is progressively integrated in a single image using the camera motion information. For the camera motion estimation, we calculate affine motion parameters for each frame sequentially with respect to its previous frame. The camera motion is robustly estimated on the background by discriminating between background and foreground regions. The modified block-based motion estimation is used to separate the back-ground region.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.993-1001
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• 2011

Unmanned ground vehicle for facility protection mostly uses model of territory for autonomous navigation. However, modeling of territory using several sensors is highly time consuming and sometimes inefficient for road application. Therefore, an estimation of drivable path based on features of road is required for high speed autonomous navigation on road. In this paper, an estimation method of drivable path using camera and 2D laser rangefinder is proposed. First, a vanishing point is estimated based on image data from CCD camera. Second, a road width is estimated based on range data from 2D laser rangefinder. Finally, the drivable path is estimated by fusing the vanishing point and the road width. The proposed method is tested on both well-structured road and unpaved road like cross-country situation.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.665-675
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 소나무재선충병이 확산되어 있는 거제도를 대상으로 소나무재선충병 감염목 특성분석을 위하여 지상용 초분광 카메라를 활용하여 2012년과 2013년에 걸쳐 대상 임목을 촬영하였다. 영상 촬영은 소나무재선충병이 확산되는 시기인 6~9월 기간에 개체목 단위와 임분 단위로 구분하여, 개체목은 인위적으로 소나무재선충병을 주입한 공시목을 대상으로 실시하고, 임분은 소나무재선충병이 자연적으로 발생한 임분을 대상으로 실시하였다. 수백개의 파장대역 정보를 담고 있는 지상용 초분광 영상을 이용하여 소나무재선충병 감염단계에서부터 고사단계에 이르기까지 파장대역 변화와 특성분석을 진행하였다. 그 결과, 전체 파장대역 중 적색영역(550~700 nm)의 변화가 두드러지게 나타났으며 특히, 688 nm 전후의 파장대역에서 고사목과 정상목간의 가장 많은 변화폭이 관측되었다. 향후 초분광 항공사진을 활용한 소나무재선충병 감염목 탐지 활용가능성 판단을 위하여 개체목 단위 촬영영상보다 대면적의 임분단위 촬영영상을 활용한 분석이 진행되었다. 가장 큰 변화를 나타낸 688 nm 구간의 식생지수 활용을 위하여 Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(NDVI), Red Edge Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(reNDVI), Photochemical Reflectance Index(PRI), Anthocyanin Reflectance Index 2(ARI2) 식생지수에 대한 비교 분석을 실시하였다. 감염목 탐지에 효율성이 높다고 판단되는 지수는 NDVI와 reNDVI으로 나타났으며 688 nm를 NDVI와 reNDVI식 적색영역에 적용한 결과 688 nm를 포함하여 적용한 지수값에서 감염진행에 따른 가장 큰 변화폭을 나타내어 감염목 탐지에 가장 효율적인 것으로 판단되었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2012

In this paper, the pose estimation method for the satellite GTB (Ground Test Bed) using vision/MEMS IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) integrated system is presented. The GTB for verifying a satellite system on the ground is similar to the mobile robot having thrusters and a reaction wheel as actuators and floating on the floor by compressed air. The EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) is also used for fusion of MEMS IMU and vision system that consists of a single camera and infrared LEDs that is ceiling landmarks. The fusion filter generally utilizes the position of feature points from the image as measurement. However, this method can cause position error due to the bias of MEMS IMU when the camera image is not obtained if the bias is not properly estimated through the filter. Therefore, it is proposed that the fusion method which uses the position of feature points and the velocity of the camera determined from optical flow of feature points. It is verified by experiments that the performance of the proposed method is robust to the bias of IMU compared to the method that uses only the position of feature points.