• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권1호
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• pp.121-126
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• 2017

Tracking system is essential for Image Guided Surgery(IGS). Optical Tracking System(OTS) is widely used to IGS for its high accuracy and easy usage. However, OTS doesn't work when occlusion of marker occurs. In this paper sensor data fusion with OTS and Inertial Navigation System(INS) is proposed to solve this problem. The proposed system improves the accuracy of tracking system by eliminating gaussian error of the sensor and supplements the disadvantages of OTS and IMU through sensor fusion based on Kalman filter. Also, sensor calibration method that improves the accuracy is introduced. The performed experiment verifies the effectualness of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.60-67
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• 2000

In this study, we constructed a preview-sensing visual sensor system for weld seam tracking in GMA welding. The visual sensor consists of a CCD camera, a diode laser system with a cylindrical lens and a band-pass-filter to overcome the degrading of image due to spatters and/or arc light. To obtain weld joint position and edge points accurately from the captured image, we compared Hough transform method with central difference method. As a result, we present Hough transform method can more accurately extract the points and it can be applied to real time weld seam tracking. Image processing is carried out to extract straight lines that express laser stripe. After extracting the lines, weld joint position and edge points is determined by intersecting points of the lines. Although a spatter trace is in the image, it is possible to recognize the position of weld joint. Weld seam tracking was precisely implemented with adopting Hough transform method, and it is possible to track the weld seam in the case of offset angle is in the region of $\pm15^{\circ}$.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.947-948
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• 2008

Recently, many efforts have been made for research and application of object tracking system. However, introduced object tracking algorithms have limitations to adopt a realtime object tracking system with multi camera. In this paper, we present a novel background generation and target object recognition algorithm for realtime object tracking system with multi camera and implemented it.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.923-936
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• 2014

Images can be contaminated with different types of noise, for different reasons. The neighborhood averaging and smoothing by image averaging are the classical image processing techniques for noise removal. The classical spatial filtering refers to the aggregate of pixels composing an image and operating directly on these pixels. To reduce or remove effectively noise in image sequences, it usually needs to use noise reduction filter based on space or time domain such as method of spatial or temporal filter. However, the method of spatial filter can generally cause that signals of objects as the target are also blurred. In this paper, we propose temporal filter using the piece-wise quadratic function model and enhancement algorithm of image quality for the performance improvement of target detection and tracking by heterogeneous noise reduction. Image tracking simulation that utilizes real IIR(Imaging Infra-Red) images is employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed image processing algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.982-990
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• 2010

In a target tracking system using image information from a CCD (Charged Couple Device) or an IIR (Imaging Infra-red) sensor, occluded targets can result in track losses. If the target is occlued by background objects such as buildings or trees, probability of track existence will be reduced sharply and track will be terminated due to track maintenance algorithms. This paper proposes data association algorithm based on target existence for the robust tracking performance. we suggest the HPDA (Highest Probability Data Association) algorithm based on target existence and the tracking performance is compared with the established method based on target perceivability. Image tracking simulation that utilizes virtual 3D images and real IR images is employed to evaluate the robustness of the proposed tracking algorithm.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.502-508
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• 2012

Heliostat, as a concentrator to reflect the incident solar energy to the receiver, is the most important system in the tower-type solar thermal power plant since it determines the efficiency and ultimately the overall performance of solar thermal power plant. Thus, a good sun tracking ability as well as a good optical property of it are required. Heliostat sun tracking system uses usually an open loop control system. Thus the sun tracking error caused by heliostat's geometrical error, optical error and computational error cannot be compensated. Recently use of sun tracking error model to compensate the sun tracking error has been proposed, where the error model is obtained from the measured ones. This work is a development of heliostat sun tracking error measurement and compensation method using BCS (Beam Characterization System). We first developed an image processing system to measure the sun tracking error optically. Then the measured error is modeled in linear polynomial form and neural network form trained by the extended Kalman filter respectively. Finally error models are used to compensate the sun tracking error. We also developed the necessary image processing algorithms so that the heliostat optical properties such as maximum heat flux intensity, heat flux distribution and total reflected heat energy could be analyzed. Experimentally obtained data shows that the heliostat sun tracking accuracy could be dramatically improved using either linear polynomial type error model or neural network type error model. Neural network type error model is somewhat better in improving the sun tracking performance. Nevertheless, since the difference between two error models in compensation of sun tracking error is small, a linear error model is preferred in actual implementation due to its simplicity.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.522-534
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 자동물체 추적 시스템의 효율성을 높이기 위해 스테레오 영상을 이용한 물체 추적 시스템을 제안하였다. 기존의 물체 추적 시스템에서 사용한 방법들은 최적의 특성을 지니고 있지만, 많은 계산량을 요구하는 단점이 있다. 또한 단안에 의한 영상의 경우 물체의 다양한 변화에 대한 예측과 추적이 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 양안에 의해 얻어진 스테레오 영상에 변이(translation)와 회전(rotation)에서의 예측이 어려운 단점을 보완한 블록 정합 알고리즘을 적용함으로써 실시간 물체의 변화의 추적 능력을 지니면서도 그 계산량을 줄일 수 있는 추적 방법을 제시하였다. 실험을 통하여 회전(25개)과 전이(28개), 그리고 회전과 전이의 혼합(50개)된 영상에서 각각 88%, 89%, 88%의 인식률을 얻었으며, 평균 88.3%의 인식률을 얻음으로써 본 연구의 유용성을 입증하였다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.18-26
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• 2011

This paper presents a method, Exposure Controlled Temporal Filtering (ECF), applied to visual motion tracking, that can cancel the temporal aliasing of periodic vibrations of cameras and fluctuations in illumination through the control of exposure time. We first present a theoretical analysis of the exposure induced image time integration process and how it samples sensor impingent light that is periodically fluctuating. Based on this analysis we develop a simple method to cancel high frequency vibrations that are temporally aliased onto sampled image sequences and thus to subsequent motion tracking measurements. Simulations and experiments using the 'Center of Gravity' and Normalized Cross-Correlation motion tracking methods were performed on a microscopic motion tracking system to validate the analytical predictions.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.850-853
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 초광각 카메라를 활용한 전방위 영상 및 객체 추적 결과 영상 표출을 통한 영상 분석 시스템을 제안한다. 구형 전방위 영상 생성을 위해 광각 영상 두 개에서 equirectangular 파노라마 영상으로의 projection 과정을 거쳤고, 구면 좌표계 변환식을 사용하여 구형 영상으로 표출하였다. 객체 추적은 원하는 객체를 초기에 선택하는 방식으로 수행되었으며, equirectangular 영상 내 왜곡으로 인한 객체 형태 변화에도 강인한 객체 추적이 이루어질 수 있도록 KCF(Kernelized Correlation Filter) 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 초기 다이얼로그에서는 파일 및 모드를 선택하고, 이후 새 다이얼로그에서 구형 영상 매핑 수행 결과 영상이 표출되도록 하였으며, 객체 추적 모드를 선택한 경우 새로운 창에서 원하는 영역을 드래그하여 ROI를 설정한 뒤, 이를 매 프레임마다 추적할 수 있도록 하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.349-354
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• 2005

컴퓨터 비전에 관한 연구는 인간의 시각 능력을 대신할 시스템을 구축하고자 하는 것으로 특히 이동 객체추적 시스템은 최근 중요한 연구 분야로 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 움직임 추정에 기반 한 단일 이동객체를 추적할 수 있는 시스템을 제안하였다. 추적 시스템은 차영상 기법을 이용하여 객체의 움직임을 추정하곤 카메라의 Pan/Tilt를 제어함으로서 이동 객체를 추적할 수 있도록 하였다. 구현된 시스템은 영상획득 및 전처리 단계, 움직임 추정 단계, 객체 추적 단계로 구성하였다. 실시간 추적 실험을 실시한 결과 이동 객체의 움직임을 추정할 수 있었고, 추적 과정에서도 객체를 일어버리지 앉고 정상적으로 추적할 수 있었다.