• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.313-320
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• 2018

The importance of sensors on a self-driving vehicle has rising since it act as eyes for the vehicle. Lidar sensors based on laser technology tend to yield better image quality with more laser channels, thus, it has higher detection accuracy for obstacles, pedistrians, terrain, and other vechicles. However, incorporating more laser channels results higher unit price more than ten times, and this is a major drawback for using high channel lidar sensors on a vehicle for actual consumer market. To come up with this drawback, we propose a method of integrating multiple low channel, low cost lidar sensors acting as one high channel sensor. The result uses four 16 channels lidar sensors with small form factor acting as one bulky 64 channels sensor, which in turn, improves vehicles cosmetic aspects and helps widespread of using the lidar technology for the market.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.849-856
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• 2020

Recently, as the number of high-height vehicles such as double-decker buses has increased, collision accidents have occurred in bridges and tunnels due to the deviation from the designated routes and driver's carelessness. In the case of the existing front collision warning system, it is limited to vehicles and pedestrians, so it is difficult to use it as a pass height warning system for the high height vehicles. In this paper, we propose a system that generates a warning by determining the correlation and time series characteristics of data for each segment using multiple lidar sensors and then determining the possibility of collision in the upper part of the vehicle. Also, the proposed system confirmed the proper operation through a real-time driving test and a system performance evaluation by the Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.101-103
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• 2022

CCTV is mainly used as a real-time detection system for critical facilities. In the case of CCTV, although the accuracy is high, the viewing angle is narrow, so it is used in combination with a sensor such as a radar. LiDAR is a technology that acquires distance information by detecting the time it takes to reflect off an object using a high-power pulsed laser. In the case of lidar, there is a problem in that the utilization is not high in terms of cost and technology due to the limitation of the number of simultaneous processing sensors in the server due to the data throughput. The detection method by the optical mesh sensor is also vulnerable to strong winds and extreme cold, and there is a problem of maintenance due to damage to animals. In this paper, by using the 1550nm wavelength band instead of the 905nm wavelength band used in the existing lidar sensor, the effect on the weather environment is strong and we propose to develop a system that can integrate and control multiple sensors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.07a
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• pp.159-160
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 최근 주요시설의 경계에 주로 사용되기 시작한 라이다 센서를 여러대 사용할때 보다 효율적으로 사용하기 위해서 통합된 3차원 좌표계에서 시각화하는 방법에 대해 설명한다. 주로 카메라 기반 CCTV의 경우 정확성은 높지만 시야각(Field of View)이 좁기 때문에 레이더(RADAR)센서와 같은 센서와 함께 혼용되는 경우가 많다. 레이더 센서의 데이터는 넓은 범위에 대한 감지를 할 수 있지만 노이즈가 많고 물체의 형상을 정확하게 측정하기 힘들다. 라이다(LiDAR) 센서는 레이져를 이용하여 멀고 넓은 범위를 정교하게 측정할 수 있다. 이러한 라이다 센서는 정교한 만큼 처리해야할 데이터의 양이 많으며, 다수의 센서를 이용하더라도 하나의 화면에서 처리하기 힘들다는 단점이 있다. 제안하는 논문은 여러개의 라이다 센서에서 측정한 데이터를 실시간에 하나의 좌표계로 통일하여 하나의 영상을 보일 수 있도록 통합 뷰잉 환경을 제공한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.587-598
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• 2021

This study aims to develop a multi-camera based MMS (Mobile Mapping System) technology for building a HD (High Definition) map for autonomous driving and for quick update. To replace expensive lidar sensors and reduce long processing times, we intend to develop a low-cost and efficient MMS by applying multiple cameras and real-time data pre-processing. To this end, multi-camera storage technology development, multi-camera time synchronization technology development, and MMS prototype development were performed. We developed a storage module for real-time JPG compression of high-speed images acquired from multiple cameras, and developed an event signal and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) time server-based synchronization method to record the exposure time multiple images taken in real time. And based on the requirements of each sector, MMS was designed and prototypes were produced. Finally, to verify the performance of the manufactured multi-camera-based MMS, data were acquired from an actual 1,000 km road and quantitative evaluation was performed. As a result of the evaluation, the time synchronization performance was less than 1/1000 second, and the position accuracy of the point cloud obtained through SFM (Structure from Motion) image processing was around 5 cm. Through the evaluation results, it was found that the multi-camera based MMS technology developed in this study showed the performance that satisfies the criteria for building a HD map.