• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1949-1952
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• 2004

GPS is widely used for outdoor positioning in many applications. But it is not suitable for positioning in an obstacle environment such as urban area, tunnels and so on, due to variable signal level. So new technology of the positioning is required to provide the consistent error level regardless of any changes in any environment. Abrupt changes of GPS signal can be detected by various fault detection and isolation methods. Conventional FDI (Fault Detection and Isolation) methods are categorized into two approaches. One approach is the snapshot method that uses measurements only at present step. The other approach is the filtering method that uses measurements stacked from previous step to present step. The FDI result of the snapshot method can be considered reliable independently with previous results and the FDI result of the filtering method is more reliable and detection time is a little longer. Therefore combining approach of two methods is proposed for increasing FDI performance in this paper. Three approaches that are the snapshot method, the filtering method and the combining method are compared to show the probability of correct FDI in simulations. The combining approach presents best result of FDI among them and shows the consistent accuracy irrespective of any changes in outdoor environment.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.6
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• pp.705-717
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a rapid lane detection method to extract a preceding vehicle from sequential images captured by a single monocular CCD camera. We detect positions of lanes for an individual image within the limited area that would not be hidden and thereby compute the slopes of the detected lanes. Then we find a search area where vehicles would exist and extract the position of the preceding vehicle within the area with edge component by applying a structured method. To verify the effects of the proposed method, we capture the road images with a notebook PC and a CCD camera for PC and present the results such as processing time for lane detection, accuracy and vehicles detection against the images.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.183-190
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• 2016

This paper proposes algorithm to reduce the computing time in a neural network that reduces transmission of data for tracking mobile objects in surveillance networks in terms of detection and communication load. Object Detection can be defined as follows : Given image sequence, which can forom a digitalized image, the goal of object detection is to determine whether or not there is any object in the image, and if present, returns its location, direction, size, and so on. But object in an given image is considerably difficult because location, size, light conditions, obstacle and so on change the overall appearance of objects, thereby making it difficult to detect them rapidly and exactly. Therefore, this paper proposes fast and exact object detection which overcomes some restrictions by using neural network. Proposed system can be object detection irrelevant to obstacle, background and pose rapidly. And neural network calculation time is decreased by reducing input vector size of neural network. Principle Component Analysis can reduce the dimension of data. In the video input in real time from a CCTV was experimented and in case of color segment, the result shows different success rate depending on camera settings. Experimental results show proposed method attains 30% higher recognition performance than the conventional method.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.178-184
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• 2016

This paper proposes a new path-finding scheme using viewpoint-invariant landmarks. The scheme introduces the concept of landmark detection in images captured with a vision sensor attached to a mobile robot, and provides landmark clues to determine a path. Experiment results show that the scheme efficiently detects landmarks with changes in scenes due to the robot's movement. The scheme accurately detects landmarks and reduces the overall landmark computation cost. The robot moves in the room to capture different images. It can efficiently detect landmarks in the room from different viewpoints of each scene. The outcome of the proposed scheme results in accurate and obstacle-free path estimation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.276-277
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 효율성 높은 차선 인식 및 장애물 검출을 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 입력된 영상을 배경영상과 도로 영상으로 나눈 후 도로영역에서 Hough 변환을 이용하여 차선을 검출 하도록 한다. 또한 자동차의 그림자와 같은 특징 정보를 활용하여 주행 중인 차량을 검출한다. 영상의 잡음을 최소화하기 위한 알고리즘을 적용하여 파선 인식률을 높일 수 있는 방법을 연구한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1757_1758
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 철도차량의 능동조향시스템 연구를 위한 축소 조향대차의 장애물 검지시스템 구축에 대여 연구하였다. 철도차량에서 능동조향이란 곡선부 주행 시 차륜/레일 접촉에 의한 승차감 저하 및 차륜/레일의 마모와 소음을 줄이고, 고속주행을 위한 조향성능 및 주행안정성을 확보하기 위한 휠셋의 제어기술이다. 따라서 논문에서는 조향제어전략 및 제어기법을 연구하기 위한 축소 차량모델(견인대차와 조향대차로 구성)의 개발과정으로서 자동운전을 위한 장애물 검지시스템에 대한 연구를 수행하였으며 주행실험을 통해 그 성능을 검증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1991.10a
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• pp.773-778
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• 1991

In this paper we describe a road following method for an autonomous vehicle. From a road image in gray level, a road boundary is detected using a gradient operator, and then the road boundary is converted to orthogonal view of the road showing the vehicle position and heading direction. In this research an efficient road boundary search technique is developed to support real time vehicle control. Also, an obstacle detection method, using images taken from two different positions, has been developed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1987.10b
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• pp.83-86
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• 1987

A vision algorithm is presented for the separation of near objects from distant objects. In the algorithm, a difference field of a stereo pair of images is computed to obtain the range information and the median filter is used for the suppression of distant objects. The objects within a given distance is segmented by thresholding the gray scale cross-section of the median filtered difference field. The experiment is performed in a laboratory setting.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.167-174
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• 2002

This study describes a fetal heart rate(FHR) estimation algorithm using phonogram. Using a phonogram amplifier, various fetal heart sounds are collected in a university hospital. The FHR estimation algorithms consists of a lowpass filter, decimation, envelop detection, pitch detection, and post-processing. The post-processing is the FHR decision procedure using all informations of fetal heart rates. Using the algorithm and other parameters of fetal heart sound, a fetal monitoring software was developed. This can display the original signals, the FFT spectra, FHR and its trajectory. Even though the fetal phonogram amplifier detects the fetal heart sounds well, the sound quality is not so good as the ultrasonography. In case of very week fetal heart sound, autocorrelation of it showed clear periodicity. But two main peaks in one period is an obstacle in pitch detection and peaks are not so vivid. The proposed FHR estimation algorithm showed very accurate and stable results. Since the developed software displays multiple parameters in real time and has convenient functions, it will be useful for the phonogram-style fetal monitoring device.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.139-152
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a ground area detection technique based on region segmentation in the spherical image. We modified the Watershed planar image segmentation method to segment spherical images. After regions are segmented, the ground area is detected by comparing colors and textures of pixels of the assumed ground region with the pixels of other regions. The ground detection technique for planar images cannot be used for spherical images due to the spherical distortion. Considering the spherical distortion, we designed the ground shape detection algorithm to detect the ground area in the spherical images. Our experimental results show that the proposed technique properly detects ground areas both for the flat ground and the obstacle-filled ground environments.