• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.377-380
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 실내에서 액티브 카메라를 사용하여 다중 인물의 얼굴의 위치를 검출하고. 추적할 수 있으며 조명과 배경 등의 영향에 강인한 추적 알고리즘을 제시하고자 한다. 알고리즘은 얼굴영역 검출, 추적의 2단계로 구성되며, 빠르고 효율적인 얼굴영역 검출은 추적 알고리즘의 성능향상으로 이어지므로, 이를 위해 독특한 색상영역 분포를 갖는 피부 색상 특징을 이용하였다. 표본영상에서 추출된 피부색상 픽셀들을 바탕으로 YCbCr 색상계를 사용하여 얼굴 색상모델을 구축한 후, Gaussian 함수를 사용하여 입력 영상의 픽셀과 얼굴색상모델과의 유사도를 결정하였다. 최종 얼굴 영역은 추출된 영역에 대한 얼굴의 타원특징, 해부학적 특징을 이용하여 결정된다. 추적은 추출된 얼굴영역과 temporal Gaussian 필터를 적용한 움직임 추정을 통한 움직임 검출의 조합으로 이루어진다. 또한, 예측버퍼의 사용으로 탐색영역의 축소로 인한 계산량 감소와 처리 속도의 증가시켰으며, pan/tilt가 가능한 카메라를 사용하여 상호 피드백이 가능하도록 하였다. 제시된 알고리즘은 PC 상에서 시뮬레이션되었으며, 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.34-37
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• 2012

초점거리, 노출 및 백색 평형이 자동으로 조절되는 PTZ 카메라에서는 회전각도에 따라 각 장면의 조명이 변화하기 때문에 각 장면에서 부동한 노출과 백색평형 값을 가지게 되며 때로는 인접 이미지의 색상도 큰 차이가 있을 수 있다. 그러므로 파노라마 배경에서 현재 입력영상의 대응 배경을 추출하여 픽셀 차분하면 에러가 많이 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 조도변화에 강인한 Haar-Like 특징을 이용하여 넓은 시야 범위를 감시할 수 있는 PTZ 카메라에서 이동 객체를 검출하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.721-723
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• 2007

Recently, the size and location of the acquired container image while the container is loading and unloading in Harbors is not fixed. And it is difficult to get a good image for recognition because of the variation of external environment as those the size of container and where the yard-tractor stop is. In this paper, we estimate where the container ISO-code set is using Top-hat transform from realtime images and get an image to recognize container ISO-code using PAN/TILT/ZOOM camera. We extract the container ISO-code using Top-hat transform and Histogram projection. After binarization, we extract each character from complex background using labeling. We use BP(Backpropagation Network) to recognize extracted characters.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.396-400
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• 2004

In this study, we have proposed the tracking system of single moving object. The tracking system was estimated motion using differential image, and than track the moving object by controlled Pan/Tilt device of camera. Proposed tracking system is devided into image acquisition and preprocessing phase, motion estimation phase and object tracking phase. To estimation the motion, differential image method was used. In the binary differential image, decision of threshold value was used adaptive method. And in grouping the object area, block_based recursive labeling algorithm was used. As a result of experiment, motion of moving object can be estimated. The result of tracking, object was not lost and object was tracked correctly.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.349-354
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• 2005

The study on computer vision is aimed on creating a system to substitute the ability of human visual sensor. Especially, moving object tracking system is becoming an important area of study. In this study, we have proposed the tracking system of single moving object based on motion estimation. The tracking system performed motion estimation using differential image, and then tracked the moving object by controlling Pan/Tilt device of camera. Proposed tracking system is devided into image acquisition and preprocessing phase, motion estimation phase and object tracking phase. As a result of experiment, motion of moving object can be estimated. The result of tracking, object was not lost and tracked correctly.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.650-657
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• 2012

An effective dual-mode camera system(a passive wide-angle camera and a pan-tilt-zoom camera) is proposed in order to improve the performance of visual surveillance. The fixed wide-angle camera is used to monitor large open areas, but the moving objects on the images are too small to view in detail. And, the PTZ camera is capable of increasing the monitoring area and enhancing the image quality by tracking and zooming in on a specific moving target. However, its FOV (Field of View) is limited when zooming in on a specific target. Therefore, the cooperation of wide-angle and PTZ cameras is complementary. In this paper, we propose an automatic initial set-up algorithm and coordinate transform method from the wide-angle camera coordinate to the PTZ one, which are necessary to achieve the cooperation. The automatic initial set-up algorithm is able to synchronize the views of two cameras. When a moving object appears on the image plane of a wide-angle camera after the initial set-up positioning, the obtained values of the wide-angle camera should be transformed to the PTZ values based on the coordinate transform method. We also develope the PTZ control method. Various in-door and out-door experiments show that the proposed dual-camera system is feasible for the effective visual surveillance.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.463-470
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• 2015

When a camera installed on a vehicle is used, estimation of the camera pose including tilt, roll, and pan angle with respect to the world coordinate system is important to associate camera coordinates with world coordinates. Previous approaches using huge calibration patterns have the disadvantage that the calibration patterns are costly to make and install. And, previous approaches exploiting multiple vanishing points detected in a single image are not suitable for automotive applications as a scene where multiple vanishing points can be captured by a front camera is hard to find in our daily environment. This paper proposes a camera pose estimation method. It collects multiple images of lane markings while changing the horizontal angle with respect to the markings. One vanishing point, the cross point of the left and right lane marking, is detected in each image, and vanishing line is estimated based on the detected vanishing points. Finally, camera pose is estimated from the vanishing line. The proposed method is based on the fact that planar motion does not change the vanishing line of the plane and the normal vector of the plane can be estimated by the vanishing line. Experiments with large and small tilt and roll angle show that the proposed method outputs accurate estimation results respectively. It is verified by checking the lane markings are up right in the bird's eye view image when the pan angle is compensated.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.40-47
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• 2013

In case of wild fire, early detection of wild fire is the most important factor in minimizing the damages. In this paper, we suggest an effective system that detects wild fire using a panoramic image from a single camera with PAN/TILT head. This enables the system to detect the size and the location of the fire in the early stages. After converting RGB image input to color YCrCb image, the differential image is used to detect changes in movement of the smoke to determine the regions which may be prone to forest fire. Histogram analysis of fire flame is used to determine the possibility of fire in the predetermined regions. In addition, image matching and SURF were used to create the panoramic image. There are many advantages in this system. First of all, it is very economical because this system needs only a single camera and a monitor. Second, it shows the live image of wide view through panoramic image. Third, this system can reduce the quantity of saved data by storing panoramic images.

• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.84-88
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• 2010

Recently, it is essential to have the system which can track down and identity the random object in the space in which security is a high priority. Due to the fact that we mentioned above, in this paper. We suggest the intelligent video surveillance system effective image-process-education in this paper. The experiment was conducted to check and track down the entering vehicle. And, Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera was used to obtain the enlarged image of the object while a vehicle was making stop in target area. As a result, the experiment has shown the data as following. When the object is in motion, success rate is 97.4%, while success rate is 91% when the object is motionless. By using the suggested system, effective image-process-education is should be achieved because the students who participate in the class can have simultaneous access to the system for real time image data and camera control.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.1C
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• pp.47-55
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• 2003

This paper proposes a composition method of mosaic image from the compressed MPEG-2 video stream, in which the displacement between successive frames according to the camera operation is estimated directly from the information involved in the stream. In the proposed method. the approximated optical flow is constructed from motion vectors of macro blocks, and it is used to determine the parameters of the displacements according to the camera operation associated with pan and tilt. The extracted parameters are used to determine the geometric transform of successive video frames in order to construct a mosaic image. The construction of mosaic uses several blending techniques including the one proposed by Nichols in which an analytic weight is used to determine pixel values. Through the experiment, the blending technique based on analytic weights was superior to the others such as averaging and median-based techniques. It provided more smooth changes in background and made use of instantaneous frame information to construct a mosaic. The mosaic in the paper puts the emphasis on the reduction of computation because it is constructed from the motion vectors included in the compressed video without decoding and recalculating exact optical flows. The constructed mosaic can be used in the retrieval of the compressed video as the representative frame of a shot.