• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.328-335
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• 2022

With the advance of robot capabilities and functionalities, construction robots assisting construction workers have been increasingly deployed on construction sites to improve safety, efficiency and productivity. For close-proximity human-robot collaboration in construction sites, robots need to be aware of the context, especially construction worker's behavior, in real-time to avoid collision with workers. To recognize human behavior, most previous studies obtained 3D human poses using a single camera or an RGB-depth (RGB-D) camera. However, single-camera detection has limitations such as occlusions, detection failure, and sensor malfunction, and an RGB-D camera may suffer from interference from lighting conditions and surface material. To address these issues, this study proposes a novel method of 3D human pose estimation by extracting 2D location of each joint from multiple images captured at the same time from different viewpoints, fusing each joint's 2D locations, and estimating the 3D joint location. For higher accuracy, the probabilistic representation is used to extract the 2D location of the joints, considering each joint location extracted from images as a noisy partial observation. Then, this study estimates the 3D human pose by fusing the probabilistic 2D joint locations to maximize the likelihood. The proposed method was evaluated in both simulation and laboratory settings, and the results demonstrated the accuracy of estimation and the feasibility in practice. This study contributes to ensuring human safety in close-proximity human-robot collaboration by providing a novel method of 3D human pose estimation.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.535-544
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• 2024

In the rapidly advancing landscape of computer vision (CV) technology, there is a burgeoning interest in its integration with the construction industry. Camera calibration is the process of deriving intrinsic and extrinsic parameters that affect when the coordinates of the 3D real world are projected onto the 2D plane, where the intrinsic parameters are internal factors of the camera, and extrinsic parameters are external factors such as the position and rotation of the camera. Camera pose estimation or extrinsic calibration, which estimates extrinsic parameters, is essential information for CV application at construction since it can be used for indoor navigation of construction robots and field monitoring by restoring depth information. Traditionally, camera pose estimation methods for cameras relied on target objects such as markers or patterns. However, these methods, which are marker- or pattern-based, are often time-consuming due to the requirement of installing a target object for estimation. As a solution to this challenge, this study introduces a novel framework that facilitates camera pose estimation using standardized materials found commonly in construction sites, such as concrete forms. The proposed framework obtains 3D real-world coordinates by referring to construction materials with certain specifications, extracts the 2D coordinates of the corresponding image plane through keypoint detection, and derives the camera's coordinate through the perspective-n-point (PnP) method which derives the extrinsic parameters by matching 3D and 2D coordinate pairs. This framework presents a substantial advancement as it streamlines the extrinsic calibration process, thereby potentially enhancing the efficiency of CV technology application and data collection at construction sites. This approach holds promise for expediting and optimizing various construction-related tasks by automating and simplifying the calibration procedure.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.2720-2736
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• 2013

Multi-view face detection has become an active area for research in the last few years. In this paper, a novel multi-view human face detection algorithm based on improved real Adaboost is presented. Real Adaboost algorithm is improved by weighted combination of weak classifiers and the approximately best combination coefficients are obtained. After that, we proved that the function of sample weight adjusting method and weak classifier training method is to guarantee the independence of weak classifiers. A coarse-to-fine hierarchical face detector combining the high efficiency of Haar feature with pose estimation phase based on our real Adaboost algorithm is proposed. This algorithm reduces training time cost greatly compared with classical real Adaboost algorithm. In addition, it speeds up strong classifier converging and reduces the number of weak classifiers. For frontal face detection, the experiments on MIT+CMU frontal face test set result a 96.4% correct rate with 528 false alarms; for multi-view face in real time test set result a 94.7 % correct rate. The experimental results verified the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2018

Recently, the safety in vehicle also has become a hot topic as self-driving car is developed. In passive safety systems such as airbags and seat belts, the system is being changed into an active system that actively grasps the status and behavior of the passengers including the driver to mitigate the risk. Furthermore, it is expected that it will be possible to provide customized services such as seat deformation, air conditioning operation and D.W.D (Distraction While Driving) warning suitable for the passenger by using occupant information. In this paper, we propose robust vehicle occupant detection algorithm based on RGB-Depth-Thermal camera for obtaining the passengers information. The RGB-Depth-Thermal camera sensor system was configured to be robust against various environment. Also, one of the deep learning algorithms, OpenPose, was used for occupant detection. This algorithm is advantageous not only for RGB image but also for thermal image even using existing learned model. The algorithm will be supplemented to acquire high level information such as passenger attitude detection and face recognition mentioned in the introduction and provide customized active convenience service.

• 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.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.127-133
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• 2021

낙상 판단을 위한 최근 발표되는 연구는 RNN(Recurrent Neural Network)을 이용한 낙상 동작 특징 분석과 동작 분류에 집중되어 있다. 웨어러블 센서를 기반으로 한 접근 방식은 높은 탐지율을 제공하나 사용자의 착용 불편으로 보편화 되지 못했고 최근 영상이나 이미지 기반에 딥러닝 접근방식을 이용한 낙상 감지방법이 소개 되었다. 본 논문은 2D RGB 저가 카메라에서 얻은 영상을 PoseNet을 이용해 추출한 인체 골격 키포인트(Keypoints) 정보로 머리와 어깨의 키포인트들의 위치와 위치 변화 가속도를 추정함으로써 낙상 판단의 정확도를 높이기 위한 감지 방법을 연구하였다. 특히 낙상 후 자세 특징 추출을 기반으로 Convolutional Neural Networks 중 Gated Recurrent Unit 기법을 사용하는 비전 기반 낙상 감지 솔루션을 제안한다. 인체 골격 특징 추출을 위해 공개 데이터 세트를 사용하였고, 동작분류 정확도를 높이는 기법으로 코, 좌우 눈 그리고 양쪽 귀를 포함하는 머리와 어깨를 하나의 세그먼트로 하는 특징 추출 방법을 적용해, 세그먼트의 하강 속도와 17개의 인체 골격 키포인트가 구성하는 바운딩 박스(Bounding Box)의 높이 대 폭의 비율을 융합하여 실험을 하였다. 제안한 방법은 기존 원시골격 데이터 사용 기법보다 낙상 탐지에 보다 효과적이며 실험환경에서 약 99.8%의 성공률을 보였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.267-274
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 PTZ 카메라를 이용한 머리자세추정 방법에 대하여 서술한다. 회전 또는 이동에 의하여 카메라의 외부인자가 변경되면, 추정된 얼굴자세도 변한다. 본 논문에는 PTZ 카메라의 회전과 위치 변화에 독립적으로 머리자세를 추정하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 얼굴검출, 특징추출 그리고 자세추정으로 이루어진다. 얼굴검출은 MCT특징을 이용해 검출하고, 얼굴 특징추출은 회귀트리 방법을 이용해 추출하고, 머리자세 추정은 POSIT 알고리즘을 사용한다. 기존의 POSIT 알고리즘은 카메라의 회전을 고려하지 않지만, 카메라의 외부인자 변화에도 강건하게 머리자세를 추정하기 위하여 본 논문은 원근투영법에 기반하여 POSIT를 개선한다. 실험을 통하여 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법이 기존의 방법 보다 RMSE가 약 $0.6^{\circ}$ 개선되는 것을 확인했다.

• 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.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.299-305
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• 2021

In this study, the task of robotic tidy-up is to clean the current environment up exactly like a target image. To perform a tidy-up task using a robot, it is necessary to estimate the pose of various objects and to classify the objects. Pose estimation requires the CAD model of an object, but these models of most objects in daily life are not available. Therefore, this study proposes an algorithm that uses point cloud and PCA to estimate the pose of objects without the help of CAD models in cluttered environments. In addition, objects are usually detected using a deep learning-based object detection. However, this method has a limitation in that only the learned objects can be recognized, and it may take a long time to learn. This study proposes an image matching based on few-shot learning and Siamese network. It was shown from experiments that the proposed method can be effectively applied to the robotic tidy-up system, which showed a success rate of 85% in the tidy-up task.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.83-92
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• 2020

A recent study to determine the fall is focused on analyzing fall motions using a recurrent neural network (RNN), and uses a deep learning approach to get good results for detecting human poses in 2D from a mono color image. In this paper, we investigated the improved detection method to estimate the position of the head and shoulder key points and the acceleration of position change using the skeletal key points information extracted using PoseNet from the image obtained from the 2D RGB low-cost camera, and to increase the accuracy of the fall judgment. In particular, we propose a fall detection method based on the characteristics of post-fall posture in the fall motion analysis method and on the velocity of human body skeleton key points change as well as the ratio change of body bounding box's width and height. The public data set was used to extract human skeletal features and to train deep learning, GRU, and as a result of an experiment to find a feature extraction method that can achieve high classification accuracy, the proposed method showed a 99.8% success rate in detecting falls more effectively than the conventional primitive skeletal data use method.