• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2259-2262
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• 2003

This paper describes visual tracking procedure of the underwater mobile robot for nuclear reactor vessel inspection, which is required to find the foreign objects such as loose parts. The yellowish underwater robot body tend to present a big contrast to boron solute cold water of nuclear reactor vessel, tinged with indigo by Cerenkov effect. In this paper, we have found and tracked the positions of underwater mobile robot using the two color informations, yellow and indigo. The center coordinates extraction procedures is as follows. The first step is to segment the underwater robot body to cold water with indigo background. From the RGB color components of the entire monitoring image taken with the color CCD camera, we have selected the red color component. In the selected red image, we extracted the positions of the underwater mobile robot using the following process sequences: binarization labelling, and centroid extraction techniques. In the experiment carried out at the Youngkwang unit 5 nuclear reactor vessel, we have tracked the center positions of the underwater robot submerged near the cold leg and the hot leg way, which is fathomed to 10m deep in depth.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.8-13
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• 2017

In this paper, the measurement of the inner diameter dimension of the circular hole by using a machine vision system was studied. This paper was focused on the theory and key technologies of machine vision inspection technology for the improvement of measurement accuracy and speed of the micro circular holes. A new method was proposed and was verified through the experiments on Gray conversion, binarization, edge extraction and Hough transform in machine vision system processes. Firstly, the Hough transform was proposed in order to improve the speed increase and implementation ease, it demonstrated the superiority of Hough transform and improvement through a comparative experiment. Secondly, we propose a calibration method of the system in order to obtain exactly the inner diameter of the circular hole. Finally, we demonstrate the reliability of the entire system as a MATLAB-based implementation of the GUI program, measuring the inner diameter of the circular hole through the circular holes of different dimensions measuring experiment.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.400-404
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• 2006

We suggest a method to detect rear car license plate of one more cars by using blobs. First, we try to search all of the blobs from an input image based on the difference between objects and background. Second, we obtain rectangles enclosed the blobs, and rectangle clusters by considering the properties, for example, the number, size, distance, position. Third, the cluster is verified by the Support Vector Machine. Even if we only use the adaptive binarization as the preprocessing, the detection ratio is very high.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.217-227
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• 2017

Crosswalk detection is an important part of the Pedestrian Protection System in autonomous vehicles. Different methods of crosswalk detection have been introduced so far using crosswalk edge features, the distance between crosswalk blocks, laser scanning, Hough Transformation, and Fourier Transformation. However, most of these methods failed to detect crosswalks accurately, when they are damaged, faded away or partly occluded. Furthermore, these methods face difficulties when applying on real road environment where there are lot of vehicles. In this paper, we solve this problem by first using a region based binarization technique and x-axis histogram to detect the candidate crosswalk areas. Then, we apply Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classification method to decide whether the candidate areas contain a crosswalk or not. Experiment results prove that our method can detect crosswalks in different environment conditions with higher recognition rate even they are faded away or partly occluded.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.659-666
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• 2018

The classification of the tablets recovered according to prescription changes is usually carried out manually by a number of pharmacists at the hospitals. Relatively high-wage pharmacists carry out the reclassification of the tablets, which results in a large loss of time and labor, and if the tablets are incorrectly classified, this can lead to medical accidents. In order to overcome these problems, a new automatic tablet classifying machine has been introduced. In the conventional automatic tablet classifying machine, tablets having various shapes, sizes, and colors are transferred to a classifying machine through the line feeder. Problems such as breakaway of the tablets from the line feeder, pilling of the tablets in the line feeder, and appearance contamination of the tablets occur. In this paper, we propose a system that automatically classifies the shape, size, and color of tablets through individual supply method by vacuum adsorption and image processing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.271-273
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 비파괴 검사를 통하여 얻은 세라믹 영상에 퍼지 기법과 ART2 기법을 적용하여 결함을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 세라믹 소재로 얻어진 영상에서 결함의 구간을 설정하기 위해 퍼지 스트레칭 기법을 적용하여 명암도를 대비시킨다. 명암 대비가 강조된 영상에서 퍼지 이진화 기법을 적용한 후, 상/하 경계선에 가장 많이 분포된 곳을 Max, Min으로 설정하고, Max+20, Min-20을 결함 구간으로 설정한다. 설정한 결함 구간 내의 비파괴 세라믹 영상에서 ART2 알고리즘 기법을 적용하여 세라믹 영상의 결함을 검출한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법을 비파괴 세라믹 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 세라믹 결함 검출 방법보다 비파괴 세라믹 영상에서 다양한 형태의 결함이 검출되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.655-658
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• 2003

The crack of concrete structure plays an important role in the durability and safety of structure. Therefore, the features such as width, length, and direction of that must be measured periodically. The conventional method of measurement of cracks is manually sketched, however. it takes a fairly long time and lacks quantitative objectivity. This study proposes the algorithm to extract and analyze cracks automatically. The proposed algorithm is composed of two sub-algorithms. The extraction algorithm includes elimination of effect due to light, binarization. and noise reduction. The analysis algorithm includes thinning process, labeling, and calculation of crack width, length, and direction. The test to demonstrate the algorithm is fulfilled using the images of cracks on real concrete surface.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.368-375
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• 2010

Unlike document images, license plate images are mostly captured under uneven lighting conditions. In particular, a shadowed region has sharp intensity variation and sometimes that region has very high intensity by reflected light. This paper presents a new technique for thresholding license plate images. This approach consists of three parts. In the first part, it performs a rough thresholding and classifies the type of license plate to adjust some parameters optimally. Next, it identifies a shadow type and binarizes license plate images by adjusting the window size and location according to the shadow type. And finally, post-processing based on the cluster analysis is performed. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperformed five well-known methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.1014-1023
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a method for estimating the human height by using downward depth images. We detect a point with the lowest depth value in an object as top of the head and estimate the height by calculating the depth difference with the floor. Since the depth of the floor varies depending on the angle of the camera, the correction formula is applied. In addition, the binarization threshold is variably applied so that height can be estimated even when several people are adjacent. Simulation results show that the proposed method has better performance than the conventional methods. The proposed method is expected to be widely used in body measurement, intelligent surveillance, and marketing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.265-268
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• 2005

기존에 널리 사용되어 지고 있는 영상 이진화 기법은 영상에서의 그레이 레벨의 빈도수 히스토그램에 기반하여 임계값[2-7, 9-11]을 결정하여 왔다. 그리고 최근 히스토그램에 기반한 영상 이진화 기법의 단점을 보완하기 위해서 그레이 레벨 분포에 기반한 임계값 결정법[1]이 제시되었다. 본 논문에서는 그레이 레벨의 공간적 분포를 이용한 임계값 결정법을 제안함으로서 최근 제안된 그레이 레벨 분포에 기반한 임계값 결정법의 단점을 보완하고자 한다. 기존의 여러 가지 예제 영상을 통하여 제안된 임계71 결정법의 타당성을 보인다.