• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.307-312
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• 2016

Markerless tracking for augmented reality using Homography can augment virtual objects correctly and naturally on live view of real-world environment by using correct pose and direction of camera. The RANSAC algorithm is widely used for estimating Homography. CS-RANSAC algorithm is one of the novel algorithm which cooperates a constraint satisfaction problem(CSP) into RANSAC algorithm for increasing accuracy and decreasing processing time. However, CS-RANSAC algorithm can be degraded performance of calculating Homography that is caused by selecting feature points which estimate low accuracy Homography in the sampling step. In this paper, we propose feature point filtering method based on CS-RANSAC for efficient planar Homography estimating the proposed algorithm evaluate which feature points estimate high accuracy Homography for removing unnecessary feature point from the next sampling step using Symmetric Transfer Error to increase accuracy and decrease processing time. To evaluate our proposed method we have compared our algorithm with the bagic CS-RANSAC algorithm, and basic RANSAC algorithm in terms of processing time, error rate(Symmetric Transfer Error), and inlier rate. The experiment shows that the proposed method produces 5% decrease in processing time, 14% decrease in Symmetric Transfer Error, and higher accurate homography by comparing the basic CS-RANSAC algorithm.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.315-320
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• 2017

Estimating the correct pose of augmented objects on the real camera view efficiently is one of the most important questions in image tracking area. In computer vision, Homography is used for camera pose estimation in augmented reality system with markerless. To estimating Homography, several algorithm like SURF features which extracted from images are used. Based on extracted features, Homography is estimated. For this purpose, RANSAC algorithm is well used to estimate homography and DCS-RANSAC algorithm is researched which apply constraints dynamically based on Constraint Satisfaction Problem to improve performance. In DCS-RANSAC, however, the dataset is based on pattern of feature distribution of images manually, so this algorithm cannot classify the input image, pattern of feature distribution is not recognized in DCS-RANSAC algorithm, which lead to reduce it's performance. To improve this problem, we suggest the KCS-RANSAC algorithm using K-means clustering in CS-RANSAC to cluster the images automatically based on pattern of feature distribution and apply constraints to each image groups. The suggested algorithm cluster the images automatically and apply the constraints to each clustered image groups. The experiment result shows that our KCS-RANSAC algorithm outperformed the DCS-RANSAC algorithm in terms of speed, accuracy, and inlier rate.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.830-833
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• 2014

This paper proposes dynamic constraint parameter to filter out degenerate configurations (i.e. set of collinear or adjacent features) in RANSAC algorithm. We define five different groups of image based on the feature distribution pattern. We apply the same linear and distance constraints for every image, but we use different constraint parameter for every group, which will affect the filtering result. An evaluation is done by comparing the proposed dynamic CS-RANSAC algorithm with the classic RANSAC and regular CS-RANSAC algorithms in the calculation of a homography matrix. The experimental results show that dynamic CS-RANSAC algorithm provides the lowest error rate compared to the other two algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.388-393
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• 2019

As a fiiting method to data with outliers, RANSAC(RANdom SAmple Consensus) based algorithm is widely used in fitting of line, circle, ellipse, etc. CUDA is currently most widely used GPU with massive parallel processing capability. This paper proposes an efficient CUDA implementation of multiple planes fitting using RANSAC with 3d points data, of which one set of 3d points is used for one plane fitting. The performance of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated compared with CPU implementation using both artificially generated data and real 3d heights data of a PCB. The speed-up of the algorithm over CPU seems to be higher in data with lower inlier ratio, more planes to fit, and more points per plane fitting. This method can be easily applied to a wide variety of other fitting applications.

• 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.

• 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.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.195-204
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• 2018

Lane keeping assist and departure prevention system are the key functions of ADAS. In this paper, we propose lane detection method which uses Gaussian function based RANSAC. The proposed method consists mainly of IPM (inverse perspective mapping), Canny edge detector, and Gaussian function based RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus). The RANSAC uses Gaussian function to extract the parameters of straight or curved lane. The proposed RANSAC is different from the conventional one, in the following two aspects. One is the selection of sample with different probability depending on the distance between sample and camera. Another is the inlier sample score that assigns higher weights to samples near to camera. Through simulations, we show that the proposed method can achieve good performance in various of environments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.632-635
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• 2016

증강현실에서 영상과 증강된 콘텐츠 간의 이질감을 줄이기 위해서 정확한 호모그래피 행렬을 추정해야 하며, 정확한 호모그래피 행렬을 추정할때 RANSAC 알고리즘이 널리 사용된다. 그러나 RANSAC 알고리즘은 랜덤 샘플링 과정을 반복적으로 거치기 때문에 불필요한 연산 과정이 발생하고 이로 인해 알고리즘의 효율이 저하된다. 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위해 DCS-RANSAC 알고리즘이 제안되었다. 제안된 DCS-RANSAC 알고리즘은 이미지를 특징점 분포 패턴에 따라 그룹으로 분류하고 각 그룹에 제약조건 문제를 적용하여 불필요한 연산 과정을 줄이고 정확도를 향상시킨 알고리즘이다. 그러나 DCS-RANSAC 알고리즘에서 사용된 이미지 그룹 데이터는 수동적인 방법을 통해 직관적으로 분류되어 있지만 특징점 분포 패턴이 다양하지 않아 분류시 정확도가 저하되는 경우가 있다. 위의 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 머신러닝 기법을 통해 이미지들을 자동으로 분류하고 각 그룹마다 각기 다른 제약조건을 적용하는 MCS-RANSAC 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 머신러닝 기법을 사용하여 전처리 단계에서 이미지를 분류하고 분류된 이미지에 제약조건을 적용시켜 알고리즘의 처리시간을 줄이고 정확도를 향상시켰다. 실험 결과 본 논문에서 제안하는 MCS-RANSAC은 DCS-RANSAC 알고리즘에 비해 수행시간이 약 6% 단축되었고 호모그래피 오차율은 약 15% 줄어들었으며 참정보 비율은 2.8% 증가한 것으로 확인되었다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.1430-1441
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• 2012

In this paper, we present an algorithm that quickly and effectively estimates orthogonal vanishing points in equirectangular images of urban environment. Our algorithm is based on the RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm and on the characteristics of the line segment in the spherical panorama image of the $360^{\circ}$ longitude and $180^{\circ}$ latitude field of view. These characteristics can be used to reduce the geometric ambiguity in the line segment classification as well as to improve the robustness of vanishing point estimation. The proposed algorithm is validated experimentally on a wide set of images. The results show that our algorithm provides excellent levels of accuracy for the vanishing point estimation as well as line segment classification.