• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new algorithm for detecting and recognizing overlapped objects among a stack of arbitrarily located objects using a signature representation scheme. The proposed algorithm consists of two processes of detecting overlap of objects and of determining the boundary between overlapping objects. To determine overlap of objects, in the first step, the edge image of object region is extracted and those areas in the object region are considered as the object areas if an area is surrounded by a closed edge. For each object, its signature image is constructed by measuring the distances of those edge points from the center of the object, along the angle axis, which are located at every angle with reference to the center of the object. When an object is not overlapped, its features which consist of the positions and angles of outstanding points in the signature are searched in the database to find its corresponding model. When an object is overlapped, its features are partially matched with those object models among which the best matching model is selected as the corresponding model. The boundary among the overlapping objects is determined by projecting the signature to the original image. The performance of the proposed algorithm has been tested with the task of picking the top or non-overlapped object from a stack of arbitrarily located objects. In the experiment, a recognition rate of 98% has been achieved.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.247-257
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• 2003

This paper proposes a three-dimensional (3D) segmentation algorithm for extracting a diagnostic object from ultrasound images by using a LoG operator In the proposed algorithm, 2D cutting planes are first obtained by the equiangular revolution of a cross sectional Plane on a reference axis for a 3D volume data. In each 2D ultrasound image. a region of interest (ROI) box that is included tightly in a diagnostic object of interest is set. Inside the ROI box, a LoG operator, where the value of $\sigma$ is adaptively selected by the distance between reference points and the variance of the 2D image, extracts edges in the 2D image. In Post processing. regions of the edge image are found out by region filling, small regions in the region filled image are removed. and the contour image of the object is obtained by morphological opening finally. a 3D volume of the diagnostic object is rendered from the set of contour images obtained by post-processing. Experimental results for a tumor and gall bladder volume data show that the proposed method yields on average two times reduction in error rate over Krivanek's method when the results obtained manually are used as a reference data.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.574-578
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• 2009

정지 영상이나 비디오 영상 시퀀스에서 배경 영상으로부터 움직이는 관심 물체를 구별하기 위한 실시간 물체 검출은 물체의 위치 추적과 인식에 있어 필수적인 단계이다. 물체 분할 후에 그림자 영역이 움직이는 물체 영역에 포함되어지기 때문에 그림자는 물체의 일부분 혹은 움직이는 물체로 오분류될 수 있다. 이러한 이유로 그림자 제거 알고리즘은 움직이는 물체 검출 및 추적 시스템의 결과에 중요한 역할을 한다. 이 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 움직이는 물체의 특징과 색상공간에서 그림자의 특징에 기반을 둔 정확한 물체 검출과 그림자 제거 알고리즘을 제안한다. 실험결과는 제안 알고리즘이 실험 영상에서 물체 검출과 그림자 제거에 대해 효과적인 것을 알 수가 있다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2015

In this paper, a novel scheme for correcting rotated region in medical images using SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm is presented. Using the feature extraction function of SIFT, the rotation angle of rotated object in medical images is calculated as follows. First, keypoints of both reference and rotated medical images are extracted by SIFT. Second, the matching process is performed to the keypoints located at the predetermined ROI(Region Of Interest) at which objects are not cropped or added by rotating the image. Finally, degrees of matched keypoints are calculated and the rotation angle of the rotated object is determined by averaging the difference of the degrees. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme has excellent performance for correcting the rotated region in medical images.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2011

본 논문은 자체 생성된 기준 히스토그램 템플릿을 이용하여 잠망경으로부터 획득되는 영상에 존재하는 관심 물체영역을 배경영역으로부터 분할하는 기법을 제안한다. 먼저, 수평선을 추출하고, 추출된 수평선을 기준으로 하여 하늘과 바다 영역으로 분할한다. 분할된 각각의 영역에서 배경 영역을 대표할 수 있는 영역의 블록들을 지정하여 기준 히스토그램 템플릿으로 설정한다. 여기서 전체 영상을 동일한 크기의 블록들로 나누어, 이미 설정된 기준 히스토그램 템플릿과의 멀티 정합을 통해 물체 영역과 배경 영역으로 분할한다. 본 연구에서 제안한 물체 영역 분할 알고리즘은 배경이 하늘과 바다인 환경에서 물체가 존재하는 다양한 영상에 대해 적용되었고, 사전에 주어진 학습영상이 없는 상태에서도 영상 분할이 원활하게 수행됨을 확인하였다. 또한 입력 영상에서 수평선의 기울기와 수평선에 대한 물체의 위치에 상관없이 물체 영역을 적절히 분할함을 확인하였다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.167-172
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 단일 프레임 영상에 존재하는 객체를 Active Contour 기반의 영역 분할 과정을 거쳐 분할하였다. Active Contour는 영상에서 객체의 윤곽 형태를 검출해내는 것으로 다중 객체 분할을 위해 각 객체의 윤곽 형태를 검출해 낼 수 있도록 다중 탐색 시작점을 갖도록 하였다. 생성된 객체 별 윤곽 정보를 기반으로 이진화하여 초기 객체 영역을 생성하였다. 초기 객체 영역 내부의 홀 영역과 픽셀 값의 변화로 인한 내부 분할을 hole filling을 수행하여 보정함으로써 최종 객체 영역을 생성하였다. 제안한 기법은 기존 영역 기반 분할의 문제점인 잡음이나 경계선 부근에서 객체 분할이 정확히 이루어지지 않는 부분을 보완하였다. 제안 방법을 비교하기 위해 실제 영상에 기존에 제안된 객체 분할 방법과 제안한 방법을 각각 적용하여 비교하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제19B권2호
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• pp.107-112
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• 2012

실시간으로 입력되는 영상으로부터 지역정보 및 색 정보의 단계적 적용에 의한 Pan, Tilt 카메라를 이용한 능동객체추적방법을 제안한다. 환경 잡음을 제거하기 위하여 가우시안 필터링으로 전처리를 행한다. 적응적인 가우시안 혼합 모델링을 이용하여 배경과 객체를 분리한다. 객체가 분할되면 객체의 중심에 가깝게 탐색 윈도우를 설정하고 객체의 색 정보를 추출한다. 추출된 색 정보를 카메라가 이동하는 동안에도 추적이 가능한 CAMShift 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 객체를 실시간으로 추적한다. 추적에 있어서 객체의 중심점이 화면의 중앙에 놓이도록 Pan, Tilt를 제어함으로써 적합한 추적이 이루어지도록 한다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법이 기존의 수동 영역 설정 방법보다 효과적임을 보였다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.118-123
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• 2011

Video based object tracking normally deals with non-stationary image streams that change over time. Robust and real time moving object tracking is considered to be a problematic issue in computer vision. Multiple object tracking has many practical applications in scene analysis for automated surveillance. In this paper, we introduce a specified object tracking based particle filter used in an environment of multiple moving objects. A differential image region based tracking method for the detection of multiple moving objects is used. In order to ensure accurate object detection in an unconstrained environment, a background image update method is used. In addition, there exist problems in tracking a particular object through a video sequence, which cannot rely only on image processing techniques. For this, a probabilistic framework is used. Our proposed particle filter has been proved to be robust in dealing with nonlinear and non-Gaussian problems. The particle filter provides a robust object tracking framework under ambiguity conditions and greatly improves the estimation accuracy for complicated tracking problems.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2009

This article describes the analysis of stable grasping for multi-fingered robot. An analysis method of stable grasping, which is based on the three-dimensional acceleration convex polytope, is proposed. This method is derived from combining dynamic equations governing object motion and robot motion, force relationship and acceleration relationship between robot fingers and object's gravity center through contact condition, and constraint equations for satisfying no-slip conditions at every contact points. After mapping no-slip condition to torque space, we derived intersected region of given torque bounds and the mapped region in torque space so that the intersected region in torque space guarantees no excessive torque as well as no-slip at the contact points. The intersected region in torque space is mapped to an acceleration convex polytope corresponding to the maximum acceleration boundaries which can be exerted by the robot fingers under the given individual bounds of each joints torque and without causing slip at the contacts. As will be shown through the analysis and examples, the stable grasping depends on the joint driving torque limits, the posture and the mass of robot fingers, the configuration and the mass of an object, the grasp position, the friction coefficients between the object surface and finger end-effectors.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2008

This paper presents a new approach of recognizing a 3D object using a single camera, based on the extended convex hull of its silhouette. It aims at minimizing the DB size and simplifying the processes for matching and feature extraction. For this purpose, two concepts are introduced: extended convex hull and measurable region. Extended convex hull consists of convex curved edges as well as convex polygons. Measurable region is the cluster of the viewing vectors of a camera represented as the points on the orientation sphere from which a specific set of surfaces can be measured. A measurable region is represented by the extended convex hull of the silhouette which can be obtained by viewing the object from the center of the measurable region. Each silhouette is represented by a relation graph where a node describes an edge using its type, length, reality, and components. Experimental results are included to show that the proposed algorithm works efficiently even when the objects are overlapped and partially occluded. The time complexity for searching the object model in the database is O(N) where N is the number of silhouette models.