• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.363-372
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• 2015

Recent some SoC FPGA Releases that integrate ARM processor and FPGA fabric show better performance compared to the ASIC SoC used in typical embedded image processing system. In this study, using the above advantages, we implement a SoC FPGA-based Real-Time Object Recognition and Tracking System. In our system, the video input and output, image preprocessing process, and background subtraction processing were implemented in FPGA logics. And the object recognition and tracking processes were implemented in ARM processor-based programs. Our system provides the processing performance of 5.3 fps for the SVGA video input. This is about 79 times faster processing power than software approach based on the Nios II Soft-core processor, and about 4 times faster than approach based the HPS processor. Consequently, if the object recognition and tracking system takes a design structure combined with the FPGA logic and HPS processor-based processes of recent SoC FPGA Releases, then the real-time processing is possible because the processing speed is improved than the system that be handled only by the software approach.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.162-167
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• 2003

In this paper, a novel feasible real-time system was researched for a differential driven wheeled autonomous mobile robot so that the mobile robot can move in a smooth, safe and elegant way. Least Square Minimum Path Planning was well used for the system to generate a smooth executable path for the mobile robot, and the point-to-point tracking algorithm was presented as well as its application in arbitrary path tracking. In order to make sure the robot can run elegantly and safely, trapezoidal speed was integrated into the point-to-point path tracking algorithm. The application to guest following for the autonomous mobile robot shows its wide application of the algorithm. The novel design was successfully proved to be feasible by our experiments on our mobile robot Interactive Robot Usher (IRU) in National University of Singapore.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.70.1-70
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• 2001

Recently, research of visual control is getting more essential in robotic application, and acquiring 3D informations from the 2D images is becoming more important with development of vision system. For this application, we propose the effective way of controlling stereo vision tracking system for target tracking and calculating distance between target and camera. In this paper we address improved controller using dual-loop visual servo which is more effective compared with using single-loop visual servo for stereo vision tracking system. The speed and the accuracy for realizing a real time tracking are important. However, the vision processing speed is too slow to track object in real time by using only vision feedback data. So we use another feedback data from controller parts which offer state feedback ...

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2016

The camera based object detection systems should satisfy the recognition performance as well as real-time constraints. Particularly, in safety-critical systems such as Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB), the real-time constraints significantly affects the system performance. Recently, multi-core processors and system-on-chip technologies are widely used to accelerate the object detection algorithm by distributing computational loads. However, due to the advanced hardware, the complexity of system architecture is increased even though additional hardwares improve the real-time performance. The increased complexity also cause difficulty in migration of existing algorithms and development of new algorithms. In this paper, to improve real-time performance and design complexity, a task scheduling strategy is proposed for visual object tracking systems. The real-time performance of the vision algorithm is increased by applying pipelining to task scheduling in a multi-core processor. Finally, the proposed task scheduling algorithm is applied to crosswalk detection and tracking system to prove the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권4C호
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• pp.401-410
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 비젼 카메라와 다중 객체 추적 방법을 이용한 실시간 수질 감시 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 시스템은 기존의 센서 방식의 감시 시스템과 달리 비젼 카메라를 이용해 객체를 개별적으로 분석한다. 비젼 카메라를 이용한 시스템은 영상에서 개별 객체를 분리해 내는 방법과, 연속하는 두 프레임간의 상관관계에 의해서 다수의 객체를 추적하는 방법으로 구성된다. 실시간 처리를 위해 비모수 예측을 사용하여 배경 영상을 생성하고 이를 이용해 객체를 추출한다. 비모수 예측을 이용하면 연산량을 줄이는 동시에 비교적 정확하게 객체를 추출 할 수 있다. 다중 객체 추적 방법은 개별 객체가 움직이는 방향, 속도 및 가속도를 이용해 다음 움직임을 예측하고 이를 기반으로 추적을 수행하였다. 또한 추적 성공률을 향상시키기 위해 예외처리 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 다양한 환경에서 실험한 결과 제안한 시스템은 처리 시간이 짧고 정확하게 다중 객체를 추적할 수 있어 실시간 수질 감시 시스템에 사용이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권9호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2009

사람의 얼굴 추적은 디지털 캠코더, 디지털 카메라, 휴대폰 등과 같은 휴대용 멀티미디어 장치에 대해 점차 중요한 이슈가 되어 왔다. 갈수록 확대되어 가는 얼굴 추적 응용 서비스 요구에 대해 소프트웨어 구현 대응은 성능 및 전력 소모 면에서 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 실시간으로 동작할 수 있는 하드웨어 기반의 저전력 얼굴 추적 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 시스템은 FPGA 프로토타이핑과 삼성 65nm CMOS 공정으로 구현하여 검증하였고, 8.4 msec 미만의 추적 속도와 15만 게이트의 크기를 가지며 평균 20 mW의 동작 전력소모를 보여 실시간으로 동작하는 저전력 휴대용 멀티미디어 기기에 적합함을 입증하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제36S권7호
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• pp.34-42
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• 1999

다중표적 추적시스템은 여러 개의 표적물을 동시에 추적한다. 표적물의 추적에는 일반적으로 칼만필터를 사용하게 된다. 칼만필터는 최적의 특성을 지니고 있지만, 많은 계산량을 요구하는 단점이 있다. 따라서 여러 개의 표적물을 동시에 추적하는 다중표적 추적시스템의 실시간 구현을 위하여 칼만필터 대신에 계산량이 적은 다른 예측기를 사용하기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 계산량을 줄이기 위하여 칼만필터에서 사용하는 시스템의 모델을 줄이는 방법을 사용하여 보았다. 표적물의 운동을 등속운동으로 가정하여 사용된 모델은 표적물의 추적능력을 지니면서도 그 계산량을 줄일 수 있었다. 간단한 시뮬레이션과 실제의 영상정보에 적용한 결과는 등속운동을 가정한 칼만필터가 원래의 좋은 특성을 유지하면서 계산량을 줄일 수 있어 다중표적 추적시스템에 유리하게 사용될 수 있음을 보여주었다.

• Journal of Ubiquitous Convergence Technology
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.3-8
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• 2007

This paper presents a set of techniques used in a real-time visual surveillance system. The system is implemented on a low-cost embedded DSP platform that is designed to work with stationary video sources. It consists of detection, a tracking and a classification module. The detector uses a statistical method to establish the background model and extract the foreground pixels. These pixels are grouped into blobs which are classified into single person, people in a group and other objects by the dynamic periodicity analysis. The tracking module uses mean shift algorithm to locate the target position. The system aims to control the human density in the surveilled scene and detect what happens abnormally. The major advantage of this system is the real-time capability and it only requires a video stream without other additional sensors. We evaluate the system in the real application, for example monitoring the subway entrance and the building hall, and the results prove the system's superior performance.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.15-24
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• 2000

Stand-alone global position system receiver based on C/A code tracking generates position error of 100m mainly due to the selective availability and ionospheric and tropospheric delay errors. The differential GPS is the most commonly used method for removing those bias range error components. The relative GPS, although somewhat restrictive in its use, is ideally suited to the car monitoring system for improved Automatic Vehicle location, especially where the DGPS infrastructure is not available. The RGPS does not require any additional hardware, facility or external infrastructure and can be operated within the system with existing host computer and communication link. This paper presents detailed description of the RGPS concept and its implementation for real-time data processing. Performance of RGPS is evaluated with real data and is compared with DGPS.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2017

As technology related to digital imaging equipment is developed and generalized, digital imaging system is used for various purposes in fields of society. The object tracking technology from digital image data in real time is one of the core technologies required in various fields such as security system and robot system. Among the existing object tracking technologies, cam shift technology is a technique of tracking an object using color information of an object. Recently, digital image data using infrared camera functions are widely used due to various demands of digital image equipment. However, the existing cam shift method can not track objects in image data without color information. Our proposed tracking algorithm tracks the object by analyzing the color if valid color information exists in the digital image data, otherwise it generates the lightness feature information and tracks the object through it. The brightness feature information is generated from the ratio information of the width and the height of the area divided by the brightness. Experimental results shows that our tracking algorithm can track objects in real time not only in general image data including color information but also in image data captured by an infrared camera.