• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.519-530
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• 2011

A Snake is an active contour for representing object contours. Traditional snake algorithms are often used to represent the contour of a single object. However, if there is more than one object in the image, the snake model must be adaptive to determine the corresponding contour of each object. Also, the previous initialized snake contours risk getting the wrong results when tracking multiple objects in successive frames due to the weak topology changes. To overcome this problem, in this paper, we present a new snake method for efficiently tracking contours of multiple objects. Our proposed algorithm can provide a straightforward approach for snake contour rapid splitting and connection, which usually cannot be gracefully handled by traditional snakes. Experimental results of various test sequence images with multiple objects have shown good performance, which proves that the proposed method is both effective and accurate.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.69-81
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• 2006

In this paper, an adaptive algorithm is proposed in streaming MPEG-4 contents with fluctuating resource amount such as throughput of network conditions. In the area of adaptive streaming issue, a lot of researches have been made on how to represent encoded media(such as video) bitstream in scalable way. By contrast, MPEG-4 supports object-based multimedia content which is composed of various types of media streams such as audio, video, image and other graphical elements. Thus, it can be more effective to provide individual media streams in scalable way for streaming object-based content to heterogeneous environment. The proposed method provides the multiple media streams corresponding to an object with different qualities and bit rate in order to support object based scalability to the MPEG-4 content. In addition, an optimal selection of the multiple streams for each object to meet a given constraint is proposed. The selection process is adopted a multiple choice knapsack problem with multi-step selection for the MPEG-4 objects with different scalability levels. The proposed algorithm enforces the optimal selection process to maintain the perceptual qualities of more important objects at the best effort. The experimental results show that the set of selected media stream for presenting objects meets a current transmission condition with more high perceptual quality.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2012

최근 보안 감시 분야에서 영상처리를 이용한 객체 추적에 관한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 기존 여러 대의 카메라를 이용한 보안 감시 시스템은 각각 독립적으로 운영되었다. 따라서 추적 객체가 다른 카메라의 감시영역으로 이동 시 계속해서 추적이 어려웠다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문은 다중 카메라에서 객체의 이동방향에 따라 자동으로 카메라의 제어권을 변경하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 객체를 검출하고 객체의 색상 정보와 방향 정보로 객체를 추적한다. 색상 정보는 hue를 이용하고 방향 정보는 광류를 이용하여 획득한다. 이때 광류는 전체 영상이 아닌 객체가 검출된 영역에만 적용하여 계산량을 줄여 실시간 추적이 가능하게 한다. 또한, 자동으로 객체를 추적함으로써 기존 카메라를 이용한 보안 감시 시스템의 불편함을 해결할 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.17-20
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• 2000

This paper describes a shape-based object recognition algorithm using multiple distance images. For the images containing dense edge points and noise, previous Hausdorff distance (HD) measures yield a high ms error for object position and many false matchings for recognition. Extended version of HD measure considering edge position and orientation simultaneously is proposed for accurate matching. Multiple distance images are used to calculate proposed matching measure efficiently. Results are presented for visual images and infrared images.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.110-114
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• 2019

Recently, video monitoring system technology has been rapidly developed to monitor and respond quickly to various situations. In particular, computer vision and related research are being actively carried out to track objects in the video. This paper proposes an efficient multiple objects detection method based on convolutional neural network (CNN) for multiple objects tracking. The results of the experiment show that multiple objects can be detected and tracked in the video in the proposed method, and that our method is also good performance in complex environments.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.106-111
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• 2011

영상 기반의 움직이는 객체의 검출 및 추적은 실시간 감시 시스템이나 영상회의 시스템 등에서 널리 사용되어지고 있다. 또한 인간-컴퓨터 상호 작용(Human-Computer Interface)이나 인간-로봇 상호 작용(Human-Robot Interface)으로 확장되어 사용할 수 있기 때문에 움직이는 객체의 추적 기술은 중요한 핵심 기술 중에 하나이다. 특히 다중 객체의 움직임 환경에서 특정 객체의 움직임만을 추적할 수 있다면 다양한 응용이 가능할 것이다. 본 논문에서는 파티클 필터를 이용한 특정 객체의 움직임 추적에 관하여 연구 하였다. 실험 결과들로부터 파티클 필터를 이용한 단일 객체의 움직임 추적과 다중 객체의 움직임 환경에서 특정 객체의 움직임 추적에서 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국ITS학회 2003년도 제2회 정기총회 및 추계학술대회
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• pp.76-80
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• 2003

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.358-379
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• 2010

Multiple object association is an important capability in visual surveillance system with multiple cameras. In this paper, we introduce locally initiating line-based object association with the parallel projection camera model, which can be applicable to the situation without the common (ground) plane. The parallel projection camera model supports the camera movement (i.e. panning, tilting and zooming) by using the simple table based compensation for non-ideal camera parameters. We propose the threshold distance based homographic line generation algorithm. This takes account of uncertain parameters such as transformation error, height uncertainty of objects and synchronization issue between cameras. Thus, the proposed algorithm associates multiple objects on demand in the surveillance system where the camera movement dynamically changes. We verify the proposed method with actual image frames. Finally, we discuss the strategy to improve the association performance by using the temporal and spatial redundancy.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.1400-1420
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• 2012

Object detection and tracking using visual sensors is a critical component of surveillance systems, which presents many challenges. This paper addresses the enhancement of object detection and tracking via the combination of multiple visual sensors. The enhancement method we introduce compensates for missed object detection based on the partial detection of objects by multiple visual sensors. When one detects an object or more visual sensors, the detected object's local positions transformed into a global object position. Local and global information exchange allows a missed local object's position to recover. However, the exchange of the information may degrade the detection and tracking performance by incorrectly recovering the local object position, which propagated by false object detection. Furthermore, local object positions corresponding to an identical object can transformed into nonequivalent global object positions because of detection uncertainty such as shadows or other artifacts. We improved the performance by preventing the propagation of false object detection. In addition, we present an evaluation method for the final global object position. The proposed method analyzed and evaluated using case studies.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.773-777
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• 2016

In this paper, a novel multi-object tracking method to track an unknown number of objects is proposed. To handle multiple object states and uncertain observations efficiently, a probability hypothesis density (PHD) filter is adopted and modified. The PHD filter is capable of reducing false positives, managing object appearances and disappearances, and estimating the multiple object trajectories in a unified framework. Although the PHD filter is robust in cluttered environments, it is vulnerable to false negatives. For this reason, we propose to exploit local observations in an RFS of the observation model. Each local observation is generated by using an online trained object detector. The main purpose of the local observation is to deal with false negatives in the PHD filtering procedure. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method robustly tracked multiple objects under practical situations.