• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.49-56
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• 2023

This study proposed a damage location estimation method for automated image-based port infrastructure inspection. Memory efficiency was improved by calculating the homography matrix using feature detection technology and outlier removal technology, without going through the 3D modeling process and storing only damage information. To develop an algorithm specialized for port infrastructure, the algorithm was optimized through ground-truth coordinate pairs created using images of port infrastructure. The location errors obtained by applying this to the sample and concrete wall were (X: 6.5cm, Y: 1.3cm) and (X: 12.7cm, Y: 6.4cm), respectively. In addition, by applying the algorithm to the concrete wall and displaying it in the form of an exterior damage map, the possibility of field application was demonstrated.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.6_1
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• pp.1309-1320
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• 2023

The technological development and popularization of mobile devices have developed so that users can check their location anywhere and use the Internet. However, in the case of indoors, the Internet can be used smoothly, but the global positioning system (GPS) function is difficult to use. There is an increasing need to provide real-time location information in shaded areas where GPS is not received, such as department stores, museums, conference halls, schools, and tunnels, which are indoor public places. Accordingly, research on the recent indoor positioning technology based on light detection and ranging (LiDAR) equipment is increasing to build a landmark database. Focusing on the accessibility of building a landmark database, this study attempted to develop a technique for estimating the user's location by using a single image taken of a landmark based on a mobile device and the landmark database information constructed in advance. First, a landmark database was constructed. In order to estimate the user's location only with the mobile image photographing the landmark, it is essential to detect the landmark from the mobile image, and to acquire the ground coordinates of the points with fixed characteristics from the detected landmark. In the second step, by applying the bag of words (BoW) image search technology, the landmark photographed by the mobile image among the landmark database was searched up to a similar 4th place. In the third step, one of the four candidate landmarks searched through the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) feature point extraction technique and Homography random sample consensus(RANSAC) was selected, and at this time, filtering was performed once more based on the number of matching points through threshold setting. In the fourth step, the landmark image was projected onto the mobile image through the Homography matrix between the corresponding landmark and the mobile image to detect the area of the landmark and the corner. Finally, the user's location was estimated through the location estimation technique. As a result of analyzing the performance of the technology, the landmark search performance was measured to be about 86%. As a result of comparing the location estimation result with the user's actual ground coordinate, it was confirmed that it had a horizontal location accuracy of about 0.56 m, and it was confirmed that the user's location could be estimated with a mobile image by constructing a landmark database without separate expensive equipment.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.415-420
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• 2004

We present a new algorithm for the calibration of a camera and the recovery of 3D scene structure up to a scale from image sequences using known angles between lines in the scene. Traditional method for calibration using scene constraints requires various scene constraints due to the stratified approach. Proposed method requires only one type of scene constraint of known angle and also it directly recovers metric structure up to an unknown scale from projective structure. Specifically, we recover the matrix that is the homography between the projective structure and the Euclidean structure using angles. Since this matrix is a unique one in the given set of image sequences, we can easily deal with the problem of varying intrinsic parameters of the camera. Experimental results on the synthetic and real images demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.33-40
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a method for estimating the pose of the camera using a rectangle feature utilized for the visual SLAM. A warped rectangle feature as a quadrilateral in the image by the perspective transformation is reconstructed by the Coupled Line Camera algorithm. In order to fully reconstruct a rectangle in the real world coordinate, the distance between the features and the camera is needed. The distance in the real world coordinate can be measured by using a stereo camera. Using properties of the line camera, the physical size of the rectangle feature can be induced from the distance. The correspondence between the quadrilateral in the image and the rectangle in the real world coordinate can restore the relative pose between the camera and the feature through obtaining the homography. In order to evaluate the performance, we analyzed the result of proposed method with its reference pose in Gazebo robot simulator.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.188-190
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• 2019

Long-term global motion compensation (LT-GMC) was designed to compensate camera motion effectively. The LT-GMC warps a reference picture according to an estimated affine/homography model and stores it in its decoded picture buffer for long-term reference. Most previous works on LT-GMC have focused on improving quality of the warped picture, however, there has been only little consideration on the overhead of its motion coding. In this paper, we address this problem and propose a method, namely Scaling Predictor, to reduce the motion coding overhead for LT-GMC. Our experiment has shown BD-Rate reduction of 1.40% over conventional LT-GMC scheme by applying the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.29-32
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• 2016

특징점 기반 건물인식 시스템에서는 강건한 특징점을 추출하는 것이 인식률 향상에 바로 직결되는 중요한 요소이다. 영상에서 특징점들이 너무 많이 추출되는 경우 인식이나 학습단계에서의 알고리즘 수행 시간을 증가시키는 원인이 된다. 또환 중요하지 않은 특징점(배경이나 가려짐 영역, 기타 객체에서 추출된 특징점)이나 조명 변화에 민감한 영역에서 임의로(arbitrarily) 추출된 특징점은 인식률을 저하시키는 문제를 발생시킨다. 특히 도시환경에서 촬영된 영상의 특징점을 추출할 때 이러한 문제 현상들이 빈번하게 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하고자 multi-view 영상에서 건물의 homography를 기반으로 정확히 정합된 특징점인 inlier만을 선택하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. Inlier로 분류된 특징점들은 건물 인식 시스템을 구성하기 위해 사용되고 조명 변화에 민감한 영역에서 임의로 추출된 특징점들은 영역 기반 특징을 추출하여 건물 인식 시스템의 인식률을 높인다. 또한 이를 이용하여 인식하고자 하는 건물과의 상관관계가 적은 잉여 영상들을 DB에서 제거하는 방법도 제안한다. 실험을 통하여 제안하는 기법의 우수성을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.111-114
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• 2017

본 논문은 동영상 스티칭의 속도 정확도를 향상시키기 위해 호모그래피 행렬 생성과 센서 데이터 활용을 통한 동영상 스티칭 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 임의의 호모그래피 행렬을 선형으로 생성하여 이미지를 스티칭 하는 방법을 설명하고, 이 과정에서 스티칭 정확도가 낮아지는 단점을 센서 데이터 활용을 통해 보완하는 방법을 소개한다. 1만 쌍의 모든 프레임에서 호모그래피 행렬을 생성 시키는 방법과 본 논문에 제안한 임의의 호모그래피 생성 방법을 비교하였을 때 평균 2.6초 걸리는 스티칭 시간을 약 1.5초 단축시켜 빠른 스티칭을 가능하게 하였다. 또한 선형 호모그래피 행렬만을 사용한 스티칭 한 결과보다 선형 호모그래피 행렬과 센서데이터를 함께 사용하였을 때의 정확도가 28.2% 개선되었음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.296-297
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• 2008

광섬유를 이용한 광스위치 연결작업에 있어서 페룰(Ferrule)면의 가공정도는 광커넥터 작업의 성패를 자우하는 매우 중요한 요소이다. 종래의 방법에서는 페룰면을 육안 검사나 현미경을 통한 확대 검사등의 방법을 사용하였고 자동화 검사의 경우도 절대적인 평탄도나 진원도를 나타내는 절대적인 값을 제시하고 있지 못한 단점이 있다. 이를 보완하기 위하여 카메라 입력단에 사각형의 기하 구조를 설치하고 이를 기준으로 영상을 전면에서 본 영상으로 변환하여 페룰면의 가공정도를 나타내주는 변수를 추출하는 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 또한 실제 구현을 통하여 알고리즘의 강인성을 증명하였다.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.16-23
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• 2015

This paper presents a method of improving the pose recognition accuracy of objects by using Kinect sensor. First, by using the SURF algorithm, which is one of the most widely used local features point algorithms, we modify inner parameters of the algorithm for efficient object recognition. The proposed method is adjusting the distance between the box filter, modifying Hessian matrix, and eliminating improper key points. In the second, the object orientation is estimated based on the homography. Finally the novel approach of Auto-scaling method is proposed to improve accuracy of object pose estimation. The proposed algorithm is experimentally tested with objects in the plane and its effectiveness is validated.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.51-60
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• 2007

This paper describes a visual tracking control law of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) for monitoring of structures and maintenance of bridges. It presents a control law based on computer vision for quasi-stationary flights above a planar target. The first part of the UAV's mission is the navigation from an initial position to a final position to define a desired trajectory in an unknown 3D environment. The proposed method uses the homography matrix computed from the visual information and derives, using backstepping techniques, an adaptive nonlinear tracking control law allowing the effective tracking and depth estimation. The depth represents the desired distance separating the camera from the target.