• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2001년도 기술교육위원회 창립총회 및 학술대회 의료기기전시회
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• pp.23-27
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• 2001

Making the safety situation from the various work system is very important in the industrial fields. The proposed neural network technique is the real titre computation method based theory of inter-node diffusion for searching the safety distances from the sudden appearance-objests during the work driving. The main steps of the distance computation using the theory of stereo vision like the eyes of man is following steps. One is the processing for finding the corresponding points of stereo images and the other is the interpolation processing of full image data from nonlinear image data of obejects. All of them request much memory space and titre. Therefore the most reliable neural-network algorithm is drived for real time recognition of obejects, which is composed of a dynamic programming algorithm based on sequence matching techniques. And the real time reconstruction of nonlinear image information is processed through several simulations. I-D LIPN hardware has been composed, and the real time reconstruction is verified through the various experiments.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제16B권2호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 스테레오 영상 기반에서 능동 특징점 모델(active feature model)과 광류(optical flow)를 이용한 객체 추적 기술을 제안한다. 스테레오의 기하학적 정보와 변위를 이용하여 관심 객체와 특징점의 2.5차원 이동 정보(translation information)를 계산한다. 이 정보를 이용하여 폐색 객체의 특징점의 이동 정보를 예측하여 추적 성능을 개선하였다. 정형(rigid) 및 비정형(non-rigid) 객체에 실험을 하였다. 실험 결과 복잡한 배경 속에서의 실시간 객체 추적이 가능하였다. 또한 정형, 비정형 객체에 관계없이 추적이 가능 하였으며 폐색 상황에 향상된 결과를 보였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.209-210
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• 2007

Obtained disparity map from the stereo camera by using the several stereo matching algorithms carries lots of noise because of various causes. In our approach, mode filtering and noise elimination technique using the histogram and projection-based region merging methods are adopted for improving the quality of disparity map and image segmentation. The proposed algorithms are implemented in VHDL and the real-time experimentation shows the accurately divided objects.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.1061-1066
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• 2013

In the steel industry, the detection of tiny defects including its 3D characteristics on steel surfaces is very important from the point of view of quality control. A multi-spectral photometric stereo method is an attractive scheme because the shape of the defect can be obtained based on the images which are acquired at the same time by using a multi-channel camera. Moreover, the calculation time required for this scheme can be greatly reduced for real-time application with the aid of a GPU (Graphic Processing Unit). Although a more reliable shape reconstruction of defects can be possible when the numbers of available images are increased, it is not an easy task to construct a camera system which has more than 3 channels in the visible light range. In this paper, a new 6-channel camera system, which can distinguish the vertical/horizontal linearly polarized lights of RGB light sources, was developed by adopting two 3-CCD cameras and two polarized lenses based on the fact that the polarized light is preserved on the steel surface. The photometric stereo scheme with 6 images was accelerated by using a GPU, and the performance of the proposed system was validated through experiments.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.201-210
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new binocular stereo correspondence method by maximizing a fitness formulated by integrating two constraints of edge similarity and disparity smoothness simultaneously. The proposed stereopsis focusing to measure distances to leading vehicles on roads uses intensity gradients as matching attribute. In contrast to the previous work of area-based stereo matching, in which matching unit is a pixel, the matching unit of the proposed method becomes an area itself which is obtained by selecting a series of pixels enclosed by two pixels on the left and right boundaries of an object. This approach allows us to cope with real-time processing and to avoid window size selection problems arising from conventional area-based stereo.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.397-404
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• 2011

This paper proposes an algorithm capable of extracting corresponding points between a pair of stereo images based on dynamic programming. The purpose of extracting the corresponding points is to provide the stereo disparity data to a road-slope estimation algorithm with high accuracy and in real-time. As the road-slope estimation algorithm does not require dense disparity data, the proposed stereo matching algorithm aims at extracting corresponding points accurately and quickly. In order to realize this contradictory goal, this paper exploits dynamic programming, and minimizes matching candidates using vertical components of color edges. Furthermore, the typical occlusion problem in stereo vision is solved. The proposed algorithm is proven to be effective through experiments with various images captured on the roads.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.3965-3983
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• 2017

We propose a novel eye tracking method that can estimate 3D world coordinates using an infrared (IR) stereo camera for indoor and outdoor environments. This method first detects dark evidences such as eyes, eyebrows and mouths by fast multi-level thresholding. Among these evidences, eye pair evidences are detected by evidential reasoning and geometrical rules. For robust accuracy, two classifiers based on multiple layer perceptron (MLP) using gradient local binary patterns (GLBPs) verify whether the detected evidences are real eye pairs or not. Finally, the 3D world coordinates of detected eyes are calculated by region-based stereo matching. Compared with other eye detection methods, the proposed method can detect the eyes of people wearing sunglasses due to the use of the IR spectrum. Especially, when people are in dark environments such as driving at nighttime, driving in an indoor carpark, or passing through a tunnel, human eyes can be robustly detected because we use active IR illuminators. In the experimental results, it is shown that the proposed method can detect eye pairs with high performance in real-time under variable illumination conditions. Therefore, the proposed method can contribute to human-computer interactions (HCIs) and intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) applications such as gaze tracking, windshield head-up display and drowsiness detection.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.297-304
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• 1997

In stereo vision, camera modeling is very important because the accuracy of the three dimensional locations depends considerably on it. In the existing stereo camera models, two camera planes are located in the same plane or on the optical axis. These camera models cannot be used in the active vision system where it is necessary to obtain two stereo images simultaneously. In this paper, we propose four kinds of stereo camera models for active stereo vision system where focal lengths of the two cameras are different and each camera is able to rotate independently. A single closed form solution is obtained for all models. The influence of the stereo camera model to the field of view, occlusion, and search area used for matching is shown in this paper. And errors due to inaccurate focal length are analyzed and simulation results are shown. It is expected that the three dimensional locations of objects are determined in real time by applying proposed stereo camera models to the active stereo vision system, such as a mobile robot.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.1194-1199
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• 2009

스테레오 비전 시스템(stereo vision system)은 2차원 영상정보를 이용하여 3차원 깊이 정보를 획득하는 데 유용한 방법으로, 그동안 많은 연구가 진행되었다. 3차원 깊이 정보를 획득하기 위해서는 영상의 대응점을 찾아야 하는데, 속도와 정확성을 동시에 만족시키기가 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 적응적 가중치(weight)를 적용한 cost aggregation 기반의 스테레오 정합 기법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 스테레오 영상의 특징을 이용하여 가중치를 획득하고, 색상정보, 밝기정보에 거리정보를 이용하여 가중치를 적용한 후, 이를 이용하여 대응점을 찾아 깊이 정보를 추출한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 ground truth가 존재하는 다양한 스테레오 영상을 이용하여 실험하였으며, 실험 결과 다양한 영상에서도 향상된 결과를 보였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.396-399
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• 2009

스테레오 비전 시스템(stereo vision system)은 2차원 영상정보를 이용하여 3차원 깊이 정보를 획득하는 데 유용한 방법으로, 그동안 많은 연구가 진행되었다. 3차원 깊이 정보를 획득하기 위해서는 영상의 대응점을 찾아야 하는데, 속도와 정확성을 동시에 만족시키기가 어렵다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 적응적 가중치(weight)를 적용한 cost aggregation 기반의 스테레오 정합 기법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 스테레오 영상의 특징을 이용하여 가중치를 획득하고, 색상정보, 밝기정보, 거리정보에 가중치를 적용한 후, 이를 이용하여 대응점을 찾아 깊이 정보를 추출한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 ground truth가 존재하는 다양한 스테레오 영상을 이용하여 실험하였으며, 실험 결과 다양한 영상에서도 향상된 결과를 보였다.