• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.1431-1442
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• 2003

A new method of estimating the pose of a mobile-task robot is developed based upon an active calibration scheme. The utility of a mobile-task robot is widely recognized, which is formed by the serial connection of a mobile robot and a task robot. To be an efficient and precise mobile-task robot, the control uncertainties in the mobile robot should be resolved. Unless the mobile robot provides an accurate and stable base, the task robot cannot perform various tasks. For the control of the mobile robot, an absolute position sensor is necessary. However, on account of rolling and slippage of wheels on the ground, there does not exist any reliable position sensor for the mobile robot. This paper proposes an active calibration scheme to estimate the pose of a mobile robot that carries a task robot on the top. The active calibration scheme is to estimate a pose of the mobile robot using the relative position/orientation to a known object whose location, size, and shape are known a priori. For this calibration, a camera is attached on the top of the task robot to capture the images of the objects. These images are used to estimate the pose of the camera itself with respect to the known objects. Through the homogeneous transformation, the absolute position/orientation of the camera is calculated and propagated to get the pose of a mobile robot. Two types of objects are used here as samples of work-pieces: a polygonal and a cylindrical object. With these two samples, the proposed active calibration scheme is verified experimentally.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2009

This paper presents a new shape-based algorithm using affine category shape model for object category recognition and model learning. Affine category shape model is a graph of interconnected nodes whose geometric interactions are modeled using pairwise potentials. In its learning phase, it can efficiently handle large pose variations of objects in training images by estimating 2-D homography transformation between the model and the training images. Since the pairwise potentials are defined on only relative geometric relationship betweenfeatures, the proposed matching algorithm is translation and in-plane rotation invariant and robust to affine transformation. We apply spectral matching algorithm to find feature correspondences, which are then used as initial correspondences for RANSAC algorithm. The 2-D homography transformation and the inlier correspondences which are consistent with this estimate can be efficiently estimated through RANSAC, and new correspondences also can be detected by using the estimated 2-D homography transformation. Experimental results on object category database show that the proposed algorithm is robust to pose variation of objects and provides good recognition performance.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2011

To make a robust object tracking and identifying system for an intelligent robot and/or home system, heterogeneous sensor fusion between visible ray system and infrared ray system is proposed. The proposed system separates the object by combining the ROI (Region of Interest) estimated from two different images based on a heterogeneous sensor that consolidates the ordinary CCD camera and the IR (Infrared) camera. Human's body and face are detected in both images by using different algorithms, such as histogram, optical-flow, skin-color model and Haar model. Also the pose of human body is estimated from the result of body detection in IR image by using PCA algorithm along with AdaBoost algorithm. Then, the results from each detection algorithm are fused to extract the best detection result. To verify the heterogeneous sensor fusion system, few experiments were done in various environments. From the experimental results, the system seems to have good tracking and identification performance regardless of the environmental changes. The application area of the proposed system is not limited to robot or home system but the surveillance system and military system.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2018

최근 영상 감시 분야에서는 지능형 영상 감시 시스템에 딥 러닝 기반 학습 방법이 적용되어 범죄, 화재, 이상 현상과 같은 다양한 이벤트들을 강건하게 탐지 할 수 있게 되었다. 그러나 3차원 실세계를 2차원 영상으로 투영시키면서 발생하는 3차원 정보의 손실로 인하여 폐색 문제가 발생하기 때문에 올바르게 객체를 탐지하고, 자세를 추정하기 위해서는 폐색 문제를 고려하는 것이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존 RGB 정보에 깊이 정보를 추가하여 객체 탐지 과정에서 나타나는 폐색 문제를 해결하여 움직이는 객체를 탐지하고, 탐지된 영역에서 컨볼루션 신경망을 이용하여 인간의 관절 부위인 14개의 키포인트의 위치를 예측한다. 그 다음 자세 추정 과정에서 발생하는 자가 폐색 문제를 해결하기 위하여 2차원 키포인트 예측 결과와 심층 신경망을 이용하여 자세 추정의 범위를 3차원 공간상으로 확장함으로써 3차원 인간 자세 추정 방법을 설명한다. 향후, 본 연구의 2차원 및 3차원 자세 추정 결과는 인간 행위 인식을 위한 용이한 데이터로 사용되어 산업 기술 발달에 기여 할 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automatic Control Conference, 11th (KACC); Pohang, Korea; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.1-7
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• 1996

This paper addresses the control problem of a mobile robot supporting a task robot with needs to be positioned precisely. The main difficulty residing in the precise control of a mobile robot supporting a task robot is providing an accurate and stable base for the task robot. That is, the end-plate of the mobile robot which is the base of the task robot can not be positioned accurately without external position sensors. This difficulty is resolved in this paper through the vision information obtained from the camera attached at the end of a task robot. First of all, the camera parameters were measured by using the images of a fixed object captured by the camera. The measured parameters include the rotation, the position, the scale factor, and the focal length of the camera. These parameters could be measured by using the features of each vertex point for a hexagonal object and by using the pin-hole model of a camera. Using the measured pose(position and orientation) of the camera and the given kinematics of the task robot, we calculate a pose of the end-plate of the mobile robot, which is used for the precise control of the mobile robot. Experimental results for the pose estimations are shown.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.223-229
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• 2017

Recently, robotic bin-picking tasks have drawn considerable attention, because flexibility is required in robotic assembly tasks. Generally, stereo camera systems have been used widely for robotic bin-picking, but these have two limitations: First, computational burden for solving correspondence problem on stereo images increases calculation time. Second, errors in image processing and camera calibration reduce accuracy. Moreover, the errors in robot kinematic parameters directly affect robot gripping. In this paper, we propose a method of correcting the bin-picking error by using trinocular vision system which consists of two stereo cameras andone hand-eye camera. First, the two stereo cameras, with wide viewing angle, measure object's pose roughly. Then, the 3rd hand-eye camera approaches the object, and corrects the previous measurement of the stereo camera system. Experimental results show usefulness of the proposed method.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권4호
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• pp.672-681
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• 2017

This paper is concerned with the design methodology of face recognition system based on pose estimation. In 2-dimensional face recognition, the variations of facial pose cause the deterioration of recognition performance because object recognition is carried out by using brightness of each pixel on image. To alleviate such problem, the proposed face recognition system deals with Learning Vector Quantizatioin(LVQ) or K-Nearest Neighbor(K-NN) to estimate facial pose on image and then the images obtained from LVQ or K-NN are used as the inputs of networks such as Convolution Neural Networks(CNNs) and Radial Basis Function Neural Networks(RBFNNs). The effectiveness and efficiency of the post estimation using LVQ and K-NN as well as face recognition rate using CNNs and RBFNNs are discussed through experiments carried out by using ICPR and CMU PIE databases.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권5호
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• pp.766-778
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• 2015

In this paper, we design a hybrid system for recognition and tracking realized with the aid of polynomial based RBFNNs pattern classifier and particle filter. The RBFNN classifier is built by learning the training data for diverse pose images. The optimized parameters of RBFNN classifier are obtained by Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO). Testing data for pose image is used as a face image obtained under real situation, where the face image is detected by AdaBoost algorithm. In order to improve the recognition performance for a detected image, pose estimation as preprocessing step is carried out before the face recognition step. PCA is used for pose estimation, the pose of detected image is assigned for the built pose by considering the featured difference between the previously built pose image and the newly detected image. The recognition of detected image is performed through polynomial based RBFNN pattern classifier, and if the detected image is equal to target for tracking, the target will be traced by particle filter in real time. Moreover, when tracking is failed by PF, Adaboost algorithm detects facial area again, and the procedures of both the pose estimation and the image recognition are repeated as mentioned above. Finally, experimental results are compared and analyzed by using Honda/UCSD data known as benchmark DB.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2022

컴퓨터 비전 연구에서 2차원 인체 자세는 매우 광범위한 연구 방향으로 특히 자세 추적과 행동 인식에서 유의미한 분야다. 인체 자세 표적 획득은 이미지에서 인체 목표를 정확히 찾는 방법을 연구하는 것이 핵심이며 인체 자세 인식은 인공지능(AI)에 적용하는 한편 일상생활에 활용되고 있어서 매우 중요한 연구의의가 있다. 인체 자세 인식 효과의 우수성의 기준은 인식 과정의 성공률과 정확도에 의해 결정된다. 본 연구의 인체 자세 인식에서는 딥러닝 전용 데이터셋인 MS COCO를 기반하여 인체를 17개의 키 포인트로 구분하였다. 다음으로 주요 특징에 대한 세분화 마스크(segmentation mask) 방법을 사용하여 인식률을 개선하였다. 최종적으로 신경망 모델을 설계하고 간단한 단계별 학습부터 효율적인 학습에 이르기까지 많은 수의 표본을 학습시키는 알고리즘을 제안하여 정확도를 향상할 수 있었다.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.21-48
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• 2002

ebXML is the international technical framework specification that enables Internet-based B2B electronic business using XML, It was standardized by UN/CEFACT and OASIS on May 2001. Registry and Repository is the core of ebXML. It supports registry services which is composed of object management service and object query management service. The object management service manages the object's life cycle and the object query management service provides a mechanism to approach metadata of stored objects. Up to now, implementations of ebXML Registry object query management system don't support full functions of the specification completely. We implemented all the functions of ebXML Registry Service Specification vl.0. This system supports Browse ＆ Drilldown Query, Filter Query, SQL Query, and Object Retrieval Query services. And it also supports Content-based Query service which is not specified in the ebXML RS specification. The Content-based Query service is a repository service which makes it possible In pose content based queries of repository items and which will be specified on the RS specification v2.0.