• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2018

Recently, the use of image stitching technology has been increasing as the number of contents based on virtual reality increases. Image Stitching is a method for matching multiple images to produce a high resolution image and a wide field of view image. The image stitching is used in various fields beyond the limitation of images generated from one camera. Image Stitching detects feature points and corresponding points to match multiple images, and calculates the homography among images using the RANSAC algorithm. Generally, corresponding points are needed for calculating conversion relation. However, the corresponding points include various types of noise that can be caused by false assumptions or errors about the conversion relationship. This noise is an obstacle to accurately predict the conversion relation. Therefore, RANSAC algorithm is used to construct an accurate conversion relationship from the outliers that interfere with the prediction of the model parameters because matching methods can usually occur incorrect correspondence points. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that extracts more accurate inliers and computes accurate transformation relations by using correspondence point relation information used in RANSAC algorithm. The correspondence point relation information uses distance ratio between corresponding points used in image matching. This paper aims to reduce the processing time while maintaining the same performance as RANSAC.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.252-266
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• 2006

Many problems in computer vision are mainly based on mathematical models. Their optimal solutions can be found by estimating the parameters of each model. However, provided an input data set is involved outliers which are relative]V larger than normal noises, they lead to incorrect results. RANSAC is a representative robust algorithm which is used to resolve the problem. One major problem with RANSAC is that it needs priori knowledge(i.e. a percentage of outliers) of the distribution of data. To solve this problem, we propose a FRANSAC algorithm which improves the rejection rate of outliers and the accuracy of solutions. This is peformed by categorizing all data into good sample set, bad sample set and vague sample set using a fuzzy classification at each iteration and sampling in only good sample set. In the experimental results, we show that the performance of the proposed algorithm when it is applied to the linear regression and the calculation of a homography.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.505-516
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• 2005

The Communications, Oceanography and Meteorology Satellite(COMS) will be launched in 2008. Ground processing for COMS includes the process of automatic image navigation. Image navigation requires landmark detection by matching COMS images against landmark chips. For automatic image navigation, a matching must be performed automatically However, if matching results contain errors, the accuracy of Image navigation deteriorates. To overcome this problem, we propose use of a robust estimation technique called Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) to automatically detect erroneous matching. We tested GOES-9 satellite images with 30 landmark chips that were extracted from the world shoreline database. After matching, mismatch results were detected automatically by RANSAC. All mismatches were detected correctly by RANSAC with a threshold value of 2.5 pixels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06b
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• pp.318-320
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• 2012

증강현실 콘텐츠를 2D 이미지기반으로 저작할 때, 작성된 증강현실 콘텐츠를 카메라 시점과 일치시켜 합성하기 위해 호모그래피를 이용한다. 이때 증강현실 콘텐츠를 이질감 없이 합성하기위해 정확한 호모그래피 행렬을 추정해야 한다. 그러나 호모그래피 행렬 추정 시 사용되는 특징점들이 선형을 이루거나, 특정 영역에 군집을 이루는 경우 정확한 호모그래피 행렬을 추정하지 못하는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 선형제약, 거리제약을 적용한 CSP 기반의 RANSAC 알고리즘을 제안한다. 실험결과 호모그래피 행렬 추정 시 CSP를 적용한 RANSAC 알고리즘이 기존의 랜덤샘플링 또는 삼각형의 넓이를 이용한 샘플링을 적용한 RANSAC 알고리즘보다 정확도가 향상됨을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.9-14
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• 2015

Outlier detection and removal is a crucial step needed for various image processing applications such as image registration. Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) is known to be the best algorithm so far for the outlier detection and removal. However RANSAC requires a cosiderable computation time. To drastically reduce the computation time while preserving the comparable quality, a outlier detection and removal method based on modified K-means is proposed. The original K-means was conducted first for matching point pairs and then cluster merging and member exclusion step are performed in the modification step. We applied the methods to various images with highly repetitive patterns under several geometric distortions and obtained successful results. We compared the proposed method with RANSAC and showed that the proposed method runs 3~10 times faster than RANSAC.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.53-62
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• 2013

This paper proposes a method of automatically predicting the vanishing point for the purpose of detecting the road region from natural images. The proposed method stably detects the vanishing point in the road environment by analyzing the dominant orientation of the image and predicting the vanishing point to be at the position where the feature components of the image are concentrated. For this purpose, in the first stage, the image is partitioned into sub-blocks, an edge sample is selected randomly from within the sub-block, and RANSAC is applied for line fitting in order to analyze the dominant orientation of each sub-block. Once the dominant orientation has been detected for all blocks, we proceed to the second stage and randomly select line samples and apply RANSAC to perform the fitting of the intersection point, then measure the cost of the intersection model arising from each line and we predict the vanishing point to be located at the average point, based on the intersection point model with the highest cost. Lastly, quantitative and qualitative analyses are performed to verify the performance in various situations and prove the efficiency of the proposed algorithm for detecting the vanishing point.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.4 s.316
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• pp.44-50
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• 2007

In this paper, we proposed the algorithm for the extraction of the corresponding points from images. The proposed algorithm EMSAC is based on RANSAC and EM algorithms. In the RANSAC procedure, the N corresponding points are randomly selected from the observed total corresponding points to estimate the homography matrix, H. This procedure continues on its repetition until the optimum H are estimated within number of repetition maximum. Therefore, it takes much time and does not converge sometimes. To overcome the drawbacks, the EM algorithm was used for the selection of N corresponding points. The EM algorithm extracts the corresponding points with the highest probability density to estimate the optimum H. By the experiments, it is demonstrated that the proposed method has exact and fast performance on extraction of corresponding points by combining RANSAC with EM.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.345-353
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• 2010

A general solution in global self-position location of robot is to generate multiple hypothesis in self-position of robot, which is to look for the most positive self-position by evaluating each hypothesis based on features of observed landmark. Markov Localization(ML) or Monte Carlo Localization(MCL) to be the existing typical method is to evaluate all pairs of landmark features and generated hypotheses, it can be said to be an optimal method in sufficiently calculating resources. But calculating quantities was proportional to the number of pairs to evaluate in general, so calculating quantities was piled up in wide environments in the presence of multiple pairs if using these methods. First of all, the positive and promising pairs is located and evaluated to solve this problem in this paper, and the newly locating method to make effective use of calculating time is proposed. As the basic method, it is used both RANSAC(RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm and preemption scheme to be efficiency method of RANSAC algorithm. The calculating quantity on each observation of robot can be suppressed below a certain values in the proposed method, and the high location performance can be determined by an experimental on verification.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.427-429
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 실시간으로 주행 중인 차량의 영상을 대상으로 ROI 영역을 추출하고 추출된 ROI 영역에 Warping 기법과 RANSAC 알고리즘을 적용하여 곡선 차선을 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 실시간 영상에서 관심 영역을 ROI 영역으로 설정하고 영상의 원근감을 제거하기 위하여 Warping을 적용한다. Warping이 적용된 영상에서 차선의 밝기는 도로의 밝기보다 높다는 특징을 이용하여 노란색과 흰색 차선의 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 차선의 영역에서 곡선을 검출하기 위하여 RANSAC 알고리즘을 적용하여 곡선을 검출하기 위한 기준점을 설정한 후, 스플라인 기법을 적용하여 곡선을 검출한다. 실시간적으로 주행 중인 차량에서 촬영한 동영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 곡선 차선이 효과적으로 검출되었다. 따라서 제안된 방법이 자율 주행에 효율적으로 적용될 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.7 s.110
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• pp.671-678
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a method for robustly estimating camera motion using fuzzy classification from the correspondences between two images. We use a RANSAC(Random Sample Consensus) algorithm to obtain accurate camera motion estimates in the presence of outliers. The drawback of RANSAC is that its performance depends on a prior knowledge of the outlier ratio. To resolve this problem the proposed method classifies samples into three classes(good sample set, bad sample set and vague sample set) using fuzzy classification. It then improves classification accuracy omitting outliers by iteratively sampling in only good sample set. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is very effective for computing a homography.