• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.227-233
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• 2016

This paper presents an underwater structure 3D reconstruction method using a 2D multibeam imaging sonar. Compared with other underwater environmental recognition sensors, the 2D multibeam imaging sonar offers high resolution images in water with a high turbidity level by showing the reflection intensity data in real-time. With such advantages, almost all underwater applications, including ROVs, have applied this 2D multibeam imaging sonar. However, the elevation data are missing in sonar images, which causes difficulties with correctly understanding the underwater topography. To solve this problem, this paper concentrates on the physical relationship between the sonar image and the scene topography to find the elevation information. First, the modeling of the sonar reflection intensity data is studied using the distances and angles of the sonar beams and underwater objects. Second, the elevation data are determined based on parameters like the reflection intensity and shadow length. Then, the elevation information is applied to the 3D underwater reconstruction. This paper evaluates the presented real-time 3D reconstruction method using real underwater environments. Experimental results are shown to appraise the performance of the method. Additionally, with the utilization of ROVs, the contour and texture image mapping results from the obtained 3D reconstruction results are presented as applications.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2016

In this paper we present (1) analysis of imaging sonar measurement for two-view relative pose estimation of an autonomous vehicle and (2) bundle adjustment and 3D reconstruction method using imaging sonar. Sonar has been a popular sensor for underwater application due to its robustness to water turbidity and visibility in water medium. While vision based motion estimation has been applied to many ground vehicles for motion estimation and 3D reconstruction, imaging sonar addresses challenges in relative sensor frame motion. We focus on the fact that the sonar measurement inherently poses ambiguity in its measurement. This paper illustrates the source of the ambiguity in sonar measurements and summarizes assumptions for sonar based robot navigation. For validation, we synthetically generated underwater seafloor with varying complexity to analyze the error in the motion estimation.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.214-220
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• 2016

Imaging sonars such as side-scanning sonar or forward-looking sonar are becoming fundamental sensors in the underwater robotics field. However, using sonar images for underwater perception presents many challenges. Sonar images are usually low resolution with inherent speckled noise. To overcome the limited sensor information for underwater perception, we investigated preprocessing methods for sonar images and feature detection methods for a nonlinear scale space. In this paper, we focus on a comparative analysis of (1) preprocessing for sonar images and (2) the feature detection performance in relation to the scale space composition.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.218-225
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• 2011

Dual frequency identification sonar (DIDSON) is an imaging sonar that has been used for numerous fisheries investigations in a diverse range of freshwater and marine environments. The main purpose of DIDSON is fish counting, fish sizing, and fish behavioral studies. DIDSON records video-quality data, so processing power for handling the vast amount of data with high speed is a priority. Therefore, a semiautomated analysis of DIDSON data for fish counting, sizing, and fish behavior in Echoview (fisheries acoustic data analysis software) was accomplished using testing data collected on the Rakaia River, New Zealand. Using this data, the methods and algorithms for background noise subtraction, image smoothing, target (fish) detection, and conversion to single targets were precisely illustrated. Verification by visualization identified the resulting targets. As a result, not only fish counts but also fish sizing information such as length, thickness, perimeter, compactness, and orientation were obtained. The alpha-beta fish tracking algorithm was employed to extract the speed, change in depth, and the distributed depth relating to fish behavior. Tail-beat pattern was depicted using the maximum intensity of all beams. This methodology can be used as a template and applied to data from BlueView two-dimensional imaging sonar.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.273-281
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• 2013

The movement patterns of fish aggregations swimming freely near artificial reefs on August 24, 2006, at Suyeong Man, Busan, Korea, were acoustically investigated and analyzed. Acoustic surveys were conducted using a 70kHz split-beam echo sounder, 330 kHz side-scan sonar and a 310 kHz imaging sonar. Algorithms for tracking the movement of fish aggregations swimming in response to artificial reefs were developed. The travel direction and the swimming speed for two aggregations of fish were estimated from the trajectory orientations of echo responses recorded by the imaging sonar.The first group was floating just above the reef structure, while remaining in the midwater column, and the second group was swimming through and around artificial reefs near the seabed. The mean swimming speed was estimated to be 0.40 m/s for the midwater fish aggregation and 0.17 m/s for the bottom aggregation close to artificial reefs. These results suggest that the swimming behavior of fish aggregations passing close to artificial reefs near the seabed displayed a slower moving pattern than fish floating just above the reef structure in the midwater column.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.182-189
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• 2014

본 논문은 탁도의 영향으로 사용이 제한적인 수중 광학 카메라의 대안으로 수중 영상 소나(imaging sonar)를 사용하여 수중 물체를 인식하여 추종하는 구조를 제안한다. Part 1에서, 영상 소나의 현실적인 성능을 고려한 2차원 인공 표식의 설계 방법과 인식 방법을 제안한다. 특히 영상 소나와 초음파의 특성을 분석하여 피인식성을 극대화 할 수 있는 재료를 선택하였으며, 물체의 모델링이 쉬운 무지향성이며 단순한 외형을 채택하고, 표식으로 사용이 가능한 영역 기반 특징 요소를 포함한 내부 형태를 제안하였다. 또한 제안한 인공 표식을 실시간으로 인식할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 외곽선 추출, 허프-원-검출기에 의한 유사도 및 위치 추정, 형상 행렬의 비교에 의한 표식의 분류하는 알고리즘을 포함하고 있다. 제안한 인공 표식과 인식 알고리즘의 유용함을 DIDSON (영상 소나)를 사용한 수조 실험으로 검증하였다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.232-241
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• 2014

This paper proposes an underwater localization algorithm using probabilistic object recognition. It is organized as follows; 1) recognizing artificial objects using imaging sonar, and 2) localizing the recognized objects and the vehicle using EKF(Extended Kalman Filter) based SLAM. For this purpose, we develop artificial landmarks to be recognized even under the unstable sonar images induced by noise. Moreover, a probabilistic recognition framework is proposed. In this way, the distance and bearing of the recognized artificial landmarks are acquired to perform the localization of the underwater vehicle. Using the recognized objects, EKF-based SLAM is carried out and results in a path of the underwater vehicle and the location of landmarks. The proposed localization algorithm is verified by experiments in a basin.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.116-122
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• 2016

본 논문은 수중에서 사용되는 영상 소나를 이용하여 수중 물체의 외형 복원을 수행하여 보고 그 결과를 분석한다. 일반적으로 해양 측량에 많이 사용되는 다중빔 해양 측심기(Multi-beam echo sounder, MES)보다 더 자세한 수중 환경 관찰이 가능한 영상 소나는 상하 방사영역 정보의 불확실성으로 인해 3차원 복원 연구로 활용되기에 어려움이 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 소나 영상에서 얻는 물체에 대한 3차원 높이 정보의 불확실성을 줄이기 위해 영상 소나의 상하 방사영역을 좁게 조정하여 영상 소나의 3차원 물체 외형 복원의 어려움을 극복하고자 한다. 또한, 음향 채널별 잡음 제거 필터를 적용하고, 음향 채널별 상호보완 거리값 검출 방법의 적용을 통해 3차원 위치 정보의 정확도를 높이고자 한다. 제안한 수중 물체 외형 복원 방법은 3가지 물체(원뿔, 구, 기둥)에 대해 3차원 복원 실험을 수행하여 보고 그 결과를 분석하였다.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.435-449
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• 2020

This paper proposes a method to estimate the underwater target object's yaw angle using a sonar image. A simulator modeling imaging mechanism of a sonar sensor and a generative adversarial network for style transfer generates realistic template images of the target object by predicting shapes according to the viewing angles. Then, the target object's yaw angle can be estimated by comparing the template images and a shape taken in real sonar images. We verified the proposed method by conducting water tank experiments. The proposed method was also applied to AUV in field experiments. The proposed method, which provides bearing information between underwater objects and the sonar sensor, can be applied to algorithms such as underwater localization or multi-view-based underwater object recognition.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1984년도 추계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.96-99
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• 1984

In this study, the underwater acoustic images were obtained by ultrasonicwave. The experiment was performed in the anechoic watertank, using a passive sonar array for one and two sound source respectively by X-Y scanning technique. The receiving array was consist of 8 disc type transducers with 1.5cm diameter at 25KHz resonance frequency. The scanned data were processed by the FORTRAN IV algorithm for the reconstruction of image, and the image had some noise due to the surface reflected waves. As the result, it was found that the acoustic imaging by electrical deflection and dynamic focusing technique is applicable to SONAR with the suppression of surface reflected wave.