• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.119-133
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• 1998

To implement full automation in pipe welding, it si most important to develop special sensors and their related systems which act like human operator when detecting irregular groove conditions. In this study, an automatic pipe Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) system was proposed to full control pipe welding procedure with intelligent sensor systems. A five-axes manipulator was proposed for welding torch to automatically access to exact welding position when pipe size and welding angle were given. Pool status and torch position were measured by using a weld-pool image monitoring and processing technique in root-pass welding for weld seam tracking and weld pool control. To overcome the intensive arc light, pool image was captured at the instance of short circuit of welding power loop. Captured image was processed to determine weld pool shape. For weld seam tracking, the relative distance of a torch position from the pool center was calculated in the extracted pool shape to move torch just onto the groove center. To control penetration of root pas, gap was calculated in the extracted pool image, and then weld conditions were controlled for obtaining appropriate penetration. welding speed was determined with a fuzzy logic, and welding current and voltage were determined from a data base to correspond to the gap. For automatic fill-pass welding, the function of human operator of real time weld seam control can be substituted by a sensor system. In this study, an arc sensor system was proposed based on a fuzzy control logic. Using the proposed automatic system, root-pass welding of pipe which had gap variation was assured to be appropriately controlled in welding conditions and in torch position by showing sound welding result and good seam tracking capability. Fill-pass welding by the proposed system also showed very successful result by tracking along the offset welding line without any control of human operator.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2012

In this paper, an estimation of person height and 3D location of a moving person by using the pan/tilt-embedded stereo tracking system is suggested and implemented. In the proposed system, face coordinates of a target person is detected from the sequential input stereo image pairs by using the YCbCr color model and phase-type correlation methods and then, using this data as well as the geometric information of the stereo tracking system, distance to the target from the stereo camera and 3-dimensional location information of a target person are extracted. Basing on these extracted data the pan/tilt system embedded in the stereo camera is controlled to adaptively track a moving person and as a result, moving trajectory of a target person can be obtained. From some experiments using 780 frames of the sequential stereo image pairs, it is analyzed that standard deviation of the position displacement of the target in the horizontal and vertical directions after tracking is kept to be very low value of 1.5, 0.42 for 780 frames on average, and error ratio between the measured and computed 3D coordinate values of the target is also kept to be very low value of 0.5% on average. These good experimental results suggest a possibility of implementation of a new stereo target tracking system having a high degree of accuracy and a very fast response time with this proposed algorithm.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권8호
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• pp.1436-1440
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed that stereo camera system using fuzzy control for moving object tracking. We extract some features of the moving object from overall image. This informations send to the PC and the PC calculate the coordinate of the object in the image frame. To make the object set in the middle of the image, the step motor should be controlled accurately and rapidly with the location information received by the PC. Then we design a fuzzy logic system for controlling stereo camera system. To verify the better performance of the proposed algorithm, we exemplified by experimental results.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.86-94
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• 2007

In this paper, a dual stage servo mechanism has been developed for image tracking system to improve control performances such as small rise time, small overshoot, small settling time, small stabilization error etc. A secondary stage, a platform, actuated by a pair of electro-magnets is mounted on a conventional elevation gimbal. In this mechanism, the gimbal provides large range but slow motion and the platform provides small range but fast positioning. A sliding mode control is applied to the platform positioning to attain robust performances and stability in the presence of the disturbance related to dynamic coupling of the gimbal and the platform. Results from experiments illustrate that the suggested dual stage mechanism controlled by the sliding mode control is effective in improving responses and attenuating the disturbance response related with dynamic coupling.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.865-873
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• 2016

In recent years, Tracking-Learning-Detection(TLD) system has been widely used as a detection and tracking algorithm for vision sensors. While conventional algorithms are vulnerable to occlusion, and changes in illumination and appearances, TLD system is capable of robust tracking by conducting tracking, detection, and learning in real time. However, the detection and tracking algorithms of TLD system utilize rotation-variant features, and the margin of tracking error becomes greater when an object makes a full out-of-plane rotation. Thus, we propose a rotation-invariant TLD system(RI-TLD). we propose a simplified average orientation histogram and rotation matrix for a rotation inference algorithm. Experimental results with various tracking tests demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of the proposed system.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1997

This paper is concerned with the development and evaluation of the camera calibration method for a real-time head tracking system. Tracking of head movements is important in the design of an eye-controlled human/computer interface and the area of virtual environment. We proposed a video-based head tracking system. A camera was mounted on the subject's head and it took the front view containing eight 3-dimensional reference points(passive retr0-reflecting markers) fixed at the known position(computer monitor). The reference points were captured by image processing board. These points were used to calculate the position (3-dimensional) and orientation of the camera. A suitable camera calibration method for providing accurate extrinsic camera parameters was proposed. The method has three steps. In the first step, the image center was calibrated using the method of varying focal length. In the second step, the focal length and the scale factor were calibrated from the Direct Linear Transformation (DLT) matrix obtained from the known position and orientation of the camera. In the third step, the position and orientation of the camera was calculated from the DLT matrix, using the calibrated intrinsic camera parameters. Experimental results showed that the average error of camera positions (3- dimensional) is about $0.53^{\circ}C$, the angular errors of camera orientations are less than $0.55^{\circ}C$and the data aquisition rate is about 10Hz. The results of this study can be applied to the tracking of head movements related to the eye-controlled human/computer interface and the virtual environment.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.409-418
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• 2003

동영상에서 객체 추적은 몇 년간 컴퓨터 비전 및 여러 실용적 응용 분야에서 관심을 가지는 주제 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 보안 및 감시 시스템 분야에 적용할 수 있는 실시간 객체 추적과 얼굴영역 추출 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 카메라가 고정되어 있고 배경영상의 변화가 거의 없는 환경으로 제한하고, 입력영상과 배경영상의 차를 이용하여 객체의 위치를 탐지하고 움직임을 추적한다. 보다 안정적인 객체 추출을 위해 적응적 배경영상을 생성하고, 객체 위치 탐지 시 그물식 탐색방법을 이용하여 객체의 내부점을 추출한다. 추출된 점들을 이용하여 MBR(Minimum Bounding Rectangle)을 설정하여 객체의 실시간 추적을 가능하도록 하였다. 또한 설정된 MBR 내에서 얼굴영역을 추출함으로써 보안 및 감시 시스템의 효용성을 향상시켰다. 그리고 실험을 통하여 제한된 환경 하에서 실시간으로 빠른 객체의 추적을 보인다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권6호
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• pp.1245-1254
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• 2011

This paper proposes a target tracking algorithm for wheeled mobile robots using in various fields. For the stable tracking, we apply a vision system to a mobile robot which can extract targets through image processing algorithms. Furthermore, this paper presents an algorithm to position the mobile robot at the desired location from the target by estimating its relative position and attitude. We show the problem in the tracking method using the Position-Based Visual Servo(PBVS) control, and propose a tracking method, which can achieve the stable tracking performance by combining the PBVS control with Image-Based Visual Servo(IBVS) control. When the target is located around the outskirt of the camera image, the target can disappear from the field of view. Thus the proposed algorithm combines the control inputs with of the hyperbolic form the switching function to solve this problem. Through both simulations and experiments for the mobile robot we have confirmed that the proposed visual servo control method is able to enhance the stability compared to of the method using only either PBVS or IBVS control method.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.490-498
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 소형 무인항공기에 영상 획득용 카메라를 장착하여 지상의 이동물체를 자동으로 추적하고 지상으로 영상정보를 지속적으로 전송하는 기술 및 관련 이론에 대한 연구를 다루고 있다. 본 연구에 사용된 회전익 무인항공기에는 소형 고성능의 영상획득 장치와 지상표적에 대한 식별 지향 자동추적 알고리즘이 탑재되었고 더욱 안정된 영상추적을 위해 영상 안정화 기법을 추가적으로 적용하였다. 최종적으로 모든 연구내용에 대해 비행시험을 수행하여 그 성능을 검증하였다.

• Spatial Information Research
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.235-244
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• 2006

모바일매핑시스템은 차량에 GPS, IMU, CCD 카메라 등을 장착하여 대상물의 위치 및 영상정보를 획득할 수 있는 효율적인 시스템으로 도로 시설물의 유지 관리, 수치 지도의 갱신 등 여러 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 이러한 모바일매핑시스템은 CCD 카메라 영상과 차량의 위치 및 자세정보를 제공하게 되고 이는 영상안의 객체에 대한 위치정보를 제공하는데 중요한 역할을 한다. 모바일매핑시스템에서의 위치 및 자세정보를 활용하여 본 연구에서는 획득된 정보를 이용하여 특정 이동객체를 대상으로 위치 추적 기술을 적용하여 보았다. 이러한 이동객체 추적 시스템은 모바일매핑시스템에서 획득된 다양한 지리정보 중에서 필요한 특정 객체만을 추출하여 정보에 대한 활용성을 증대 시킬 수 있을 것이다.