• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.49-56
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• 2008

Image registration is one of the critical techniques of image mosaic which has many applications such as generating panoramas, video monitoring, image rendering and reconstruction, etc. The fundamental tasks of image registration are point features extraction and tracking which take much computation time. KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) feature tracker has proposed for extracting and tracking features through image sequences. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the usage of effective and robust KLT feature detector and tracker for an image registration using the sequence image frames captured by UAV video camera. In result, by using iterative implementation of the KLT tracker, the features extracted from the first frame of image sequences could be successfully tracked through all frames. The process of feature tracking in the various frames with rotation, translation and small scaling could be improved by a careful choice of the process condition and KLT pyramid implementation.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.11
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• pp.495-502
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• 2014

An effective solution to the variation on scale and rotation is required to recognize contactless palmprint. In this study, we firstly minimize the variation by extracting a region of interest(ROI) according to the size and orientation of hand and normalizing the ROI. This paper proposes a contactless palmprint recognition method based on KLT(Kanade-Lukas-Tomasi) feature points. To detect corresponding feature points, texture in local regions around KLT feature points are compared. Then, we recognize palmprint by measuring the similarity among displacement vectors which represent the size and direction of displacement of each pair of corresponding feature points. An experimental results using CASIA public database show that the proposed method is effective in contactless palmprint recognition. Especially, we can get the performance of exceeding 99% correct identification rate using multiple Gabor filters.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.661-664
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 특징기반 물체추적을 위해 많이 사용되고 있는 KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) 알고리즘을 소개하고, 이 알고리즘을 이용한 특징점(corner) 추출시, 영상에서 잡음의 영향이 KLT 알고리즘의 성능에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 잡음이 포함된 영상과 포함되지 않은 영상을 이용하여 안정된 특징점 추출을 위한 실험을 실시하고 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.35-42
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• 2012

In this study, a feature-points-tracking algorithm is suggested using a particle filter for vision based navigation system. By applying a dynamic model of the feature point, the tracking performance is increased in high dynamic condition, whereas a conventional KLT (Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) cannot give a solution. Futhermore, the particle filter is introduced to cope with irregular characteristics of vision data. Post-processing of recorded vision data shows that the tracking performance of suggested algorithm is more robust than that of KLT in high dynamic condition.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.93-97
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• 2010

This paper presents the improved KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) of registration of Image sequence captured by camera mounted on unmanned helicopter assuming without camera attitude information. It consists of following procedures for the proposed image registration. The initial interested points are detected by characteristic curve matching via dynamic programming which has been used for detecting and tracking corner points thorough image sequence. Outliers of tracked points are then removed by using Random Sample And Consensus(RANSAC) robust estimation and all remained corner points are classified as inliers by homography algorithm. The rectified images are then resampled by bilinear interpolation. Experiment shows that our method can make the suitable registration of image sequence with large motion.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.57-64
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• 2009

This paper presents the hardware implementation of the pyramidal KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) feature tracker. Because of its high computational complexity, it is not easy to implement a real-time KLT feature tracker using general-purpose processors. A hardware implementation of the pyramidal KLT feature tracker using FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array) is described in this paper with emphasis on 1) adaptive adjustment of threshold in feature extraction under diverse lighting conditions, and 2) modification of the tracking algorithm to accomodate parallel processing and to overcome memory constraints such as capacity and bandwidth limitation. The effectiveness of the implementation was evaluated over ones produced by its software implementation. The throughput of the FPGA-based tracker was 30 frames/sec for video images with size of $720{\times}480$.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.108-111
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) 추적기에서 특징점의 개수를 일정하게 유지시키기 위해 존재하는 특징점의 관리 부분을 FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array)에 구현하기 위한 구조를 제안한다. FPGA 에 구현하기 위해 한정된 자원을 효과적으로 사용하도록 하는 것을 목표로 연산량이 많은 부분을 적은 연산량으로 구현 가능한 것으로 대체하고, 메모리의 크기와 접근 회수를 줄이기 위한 방법을 고려했다. 구현이 간단한 Harris 코너 검출기를 이용하여 특징점을 선택하고, 나눗셈 연산이 필요 없는 히스토그램을 이용하여 임계값을 설정해 특징점을 관리했다. C 언어로 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 제안한 방법을 확인했고, 기존의 특징점 관리 방법과의 비교를 통해 검증했다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.11-16
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• 2008

The goal of this study is to evaluate the KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) for extracting and tracking the features using various data acquired from UAV. Sequences of images were collected for Jangsu-Gun area to perform the analysis. Four data sets were subjected to extract and track the features using the parameters of the KLT. From the results of the experiment, more than 90 percent of the features extracted from the first frame could successfully track through the next frame when the shift between frames is small. But when the frame to frame motion is large in non-consecutive frames, KLT tracker is failed to track the corresponding points. Future research will be focused on feature tracking of sequence frames with large shift and rotation.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.1000-1005
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 실물체의 3차원 모델을 복원하기 위해 거리영상 카메라에서 획득된 3차원 점군에 대한 온라인 정합 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 거리영상 카메라를 사용하여 연속된 거리영상과 사진영상을 획득하고 문턱값(threshold)을 이용하여 물체와 배경에 대한 정보를 분류한다. 거리영상에서 특징점을 선택하고 특징점에 해당하는 거리영상의 3차원 점군을 이용하여 투영 기반 정합을 실시한다. 초기정합이 종료되면 사진영상간의 대응점을 추적하여 거리영상을 정제하는 과정을 거치는데 대응점 추적에 사용되는 KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) 추적기를 수정하여 초기정합의 결과를 대응점 탐색에 이용함으로써 탐색의 속도와 성공률을 증가시켰다. 특징점과 추적된 대응점에 해당하는 3차원 점군을 이용하여 거리영상의 정제를 수행하고 정합이 완료되면 오프라인에서 3차원 모델을 합성하였다. 제안한 알고리듬을 적용하여 2개의 실물체에 대하여 실험을 수행하고 3차원 모델을 생성하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.7
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• pp.493-502
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• 2007

An on-line registration technique is presented to register multi-view range images for the 3D reconstruction of real objects. Using a range camera, we first acquire range images and photometric images continuously. In the range images, we divide object and background regions using a predefined threshold value. For the coarse registration of the range images, the centroid of the images are used. After refining the registration of range images using a projection-based technique, we use a modified KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) tracker to match photometric features in the object images. Using the modified KLT tracker, we can track image features fast and accurately. If a range image fails to register, we acquire new range images and try to register them continuously until the registration process resumes. After enough range images are registered, they are integrated into a 3D model in offline step. Experimental results and error analysis show that the proposed method can be used to reconstruct 3D model very fast and accurately.