• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.2050-2056
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• 2008

A realization for moving object sensing and tracking system in two dimensional plane using stereo line CCDs and lighting source is presented in this paper. The system is realized that instead of processing camera images directly, two line CCD sensor and input line image is used to measure two dimensional distance by comparing the brightness on line CCDs. The algorithms are used the moving object sensing, path tracking and coordinate converting method. To ensure the effective detection of moving path, a detection algorithm to evaluate the reliability of each measured distance is developed. The realized system results are that the performance of moving object recognizing shows 5mm resolution, and enables to track a moving path of object per looms period.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.603-616
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• 2021

Over the last few years, autonomous vehicles have progressed very rapidly. The odometry technique that estimates displacement from consecutive sensor inputs is an essential technique for autonomous driving. In this article, we propose a fast, robust, and accurate odometry technique. The proposed technique is light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-based direct odometry, which uses a spherical range image (SRI) that projects a three-dimensional point cloud onto a two-dimensional spherical image plane. Direct odometry is developed in a vision-based method, and a fast execution speed can be expected. However, applying LiDAR data is difficult because of the sparsity. To solve this problem, we propose an SRI generation method and mathematical analysis, two key point sampling methods using SRI to increase precision and robustness, and a fast optimization method. The proposed technique was tested with the KITTI dataset and real environments. Evaluation results yielded a translation error of 0.69%, a rotation error of 0.0031°/m in the KITTI training dataset, and an execution time of 17 ms. The results demonstrated high precision comparable with state-of-the-art and remarkably higher speed than conventional techniques.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.155-162
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• 2019

To reduce the secondary damage caused by leakage accidents in plant piping systems, a constant surveillance system is necessary. To ensure leaks are promptly addressed, the surveillance system should be able to detect not only the leak itself, but also the location of the leak. Recently, research to develop new methods has been conducted using cameras to detect leakage and to estimate the location of leakage. However, existing methods solely estimate whether a leak exists or not, or only provide two-dimensional coordinates of the leakage location. In this paper, a method using multiple cameras to detect leakage and estimate the three-dimensional coordinates of the leakage location is presented. Leakage is detected by each camera using MADI(Moving Average Differential Image) and histogram analysis. The two-dimensional leakage location is estimated using the detected leakage area. The three-dimensional leakage location is subsequently estimated based on the two-dimensional leakage location. To achieve this, the coordinates (x, z) for the leakage are calculated for a horizontal section (XZ plane) in the monitoring area. Then, the y-coordinate of leakage is calculated using a vertical section from each camera. The method proposed in this paper could accurately estimate the three-dimensional location of a leak using multiple cameras.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.292-300
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• 2018

The modeling of 3D finite elements based on CAD data has been used to detect sites of corrosion defects in buried pipes. The results generated sophisticated profiles of electrolytic potential and vectors of current distributions on the earth surface. To identify the location of defects in buried pipes, the current distribution on the earth surface was projected to a plane of incidence that was identical to the pipe locations. The locations of minimum electrolytic potential value were found. The results show adequate match between the locations of real and expected defects based on modeling. In addition, the defect size can be calculated by integrating the current density curve. The results show that the defect sizes were $0.74m^2$ and $0.69m^2$, respectively. This technology may represent a breakthrough in the detection of indirect damage in various cases involving multiple defects in size and shape, complex/cross pipe systems, multiple anodes and stray current.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.601-604
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 모바일 디바이스의 카메라로부터 얻은 RGB이미지를 분석하여 장애물을 안정적으로 탐지할 수 있는 프레임워크를 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 장애물을 안정적으로 찾기 위해 RANSAC(Random Sample Consensus)기반의 다중 평면 방식을 이용한 위험감지 시스템을 제안한다. 우리의 접근 방식은 RGB영상으로부터 특징점(Feature point)을 추출하고, 특징점을 분석(Feature point analysis)하여 영상내의 평면을 감지한다. 복잡한 지형으로 인해 생성되는 다수의 평면을 RANSAC을 통해 단일 평면으로 정규화하고, 이로부터 특징점을 분류하기 위한 기준점을 계산한다. 모바일 디바이스의 위치와 회전 제약 없이 효과적으로 기준평면(Reference plane)을 탐색할 수 있고, 영상 내 특징점을 실시간으로 계산한다. 다양한 실험을 통해 기준평면과 장애물과의 거리를 파악하여 장애물을 효과적으로 분류하는 결과를 얻었다. 우리의 기법은 실세계에서의 위험요소를 감지하고 모바일 디바이스 사용자의 안전성 확보에 활용할 수 있을 거라 기대한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.764-781
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a highly precise vehicle detection method with low false alarm using billboard sweep stereo matching and multi-stage hypothesis generation. First, we capture stereo images from cameras established in front of the vehicle and obtain the disparity map in which the regions of ground plane or background are removed using billboard sweep stereo matching algorithm. And then, we perform the vehicle detection and tracking on the labeled disparity map. The vehicle detection and tracking consists of three steps. In the learning step, the SVM(support vector machine) classifier is obtained using the features extracted from the gabor filter. The second step is the vehicle detection which performs the sobel edge detection in the image of the left camera and extracts candidates of the vehicle using edge image and billboard sweep stereo disparity map. The final step is the vehicle tracking using template matching in the next frame. Removal process of the tracking regions improves the system performance in the candidate region of the vehicle on the succeeding frames.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.23-35
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• 2002

Gaze detection is to locate the position on a monitor screen where a user is looking. In our work, we implement it with a computer vision system setting a single camera above a monitor and a user moves (rotates and/or translates) his face to gaze at a different position on the monitor. To detect the gaze position, we locate facial region and facial features(both eyes, nostrils and lip corners) automatically in 2D camera images. From the movement of feature points detected in starting images, we can compute the initial 3D positions of those features by camera calibration and parameter estimation algorithm. Then, when a user moves(rotates and/or translates) his face in order to gaze at one position on a monitor, the moved 3D positions of those features can be computed from 3D rotation and translation estimation and affine transform. Finally, the gaze position on a monitor is computed from the normal vector of the plane determined by those moved 3D positions of features. As experimental results, we can obtain the gaze position on a monitor(19inches) and the gaze position accuracy between the computed positions and the real ones is about 2.01 inches of RMS error.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.570-576
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• 2010

This paper can be used for GPS air navigation study on integrity monitoring algorithm as, the projected horizontal plane using GPS pseudorange residuals for fault detection satellites were suspected. Failure to remove the detected suspicious satellite, compare with threshold which is calculated using satellite deployment (PDOP) and determine whether the failure is presented. The theory that horizontal projection of the satellite failure residuals greater than residual of normal satellite is proved mathematically. Comparison with horizontal projection residuals are likely to malfunction in the satellite were presented. To evaluate the proposed algorithm, bias fault insert into GPS pseudorange, and compare with conventional parity space method about fault detection and isolation capability.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.81-87
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• 2006

In this paper, an experimental optical head tracker system is designed and constructed. The system is composed of the infrared LEDs and two infrared CCD cameras to filter out the interference of another light in the limited environment like the cockpit. Then the optical head tracker algorithm is designed by using the feature detection algorithm and the 3D motion estimation algorithm. The feature detection algorithm, used to obtain the 2D position coordinates of the features on the image plane, is implemented by using the thresholding and the masking techniques. The 3D motion estimation algorithm which estimates the motion of a pilot's head is implemented by using the extended Kalman filter (EKF). Also, we used the precise rate table to verify the performance of the experimental optical head tracker system and compared the rotational performance of this system with the inertial sensor.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.210-217
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• 2016

Damage caused by FOD which is a foreign substance at the movement area in airports around the world has reached 200 million every year. In 2000, the casualties occurred 133 people at charles de gaulle airport due to FOD. The occurrence of damage by FOD has continuously influenced in domestic also it makes equipment repair indirectly or directly. Accordingly, One of the solutions to the problem is the development of FOD automatic detection system. That is ongoing for plane movement area in airport. As the analyzed result, the military airport prefered mobile type and the civil airport prefered fixed type due to the characteristics of the operating type. In this paper, we analyzed the minimum performance specifications meeting the domestic requirements by investigating military and private FOD detection systems.