• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.525-527
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• 2003

Recently, the spatial resolution of earth observation satellites is significantly increased to a few meters. Such high spatial resolution images definitely will provide lots of information for detail-thirsty remote sensing users. However, it is more difficult to develop automated image algorithms for automated image feature extraction and pattern recognition. In this study, we propose a two-stage procedure to extract road information from high resolution satellite images. At first stage, a watershed segmentation technique is developed to classify the image into various regions. Then, a knowledge is built for road and used to extract the road regions. In this study, we use panchromatic and multi-spectral images of the IKONOS satellite as test dataset. The experiment result shows that the proposed technique can generate suitable and meaningful road objects from high spatial resolution satellite images. Apparently, misclassified regions such as parking lots are recognized as road needed further refinement in future research.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제23권6_2호
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• pp.1025-1032
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a method to classify road weather conditions into rain, fog, and sun using a SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier after extracting weather features from images acquired in real time using an optical sensor installed on a roadside post. A multi-dimensional weather feature vector consisting of factors such as image sharpeness, image entropy, Michelson contrast, MSCN (Mean Subtraction and Contrast Normalization), dark channel prior, image colorfulness, and local binary pattern as global features of weather-related images was extracted from road images, and then a road weather classifier was created by performing machine learning on 700 sun images, 2,000 rain images, and 1,000 fog images. Finally, the classification performance was tested for 140 sun images, 510 rain images, and 240 fog images. Overall classification performance is assessed to be applicable in real road services and can be enhanced further with optimization along with year-round data collection and training.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a license plate detection method of running cars in various road images. The proposed method first classifies the road image into day and night images to improve detection accuracy, and then the tail-light regions are detected by finding red color areas in RGB color space. The candidate regions of the license plate areas are detected by using symmetrical property, size, width and variance of the tail-light regions, and to find the license plate areas of the various sizes the morphological operations with adaptive size structuring elements are applied. Finally, the plate area is verified and confirmed with the geometrical and image features of the license plate areas. The proposed method was tested with the various road images and the detection rates (precisions) of 84.2% of day images and 87.4% of night images were achieved.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.95-105
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• 2021

도로 노면 파손 탐지는 쾌적한 주행 환경과 안전사고의 예방을 위해 필요하다. 도로 관리 기관은 자동화 기술 기반의 검사 장비와 시스템을 활용하고 있다. 이러한 자동화 기술 중에서도 도로 노면의 파손을 탐지하는 기술은 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 최근 들어 딥러닝을 이용한 기술에 대한 연구가 활발하게 진행 중이다. 이러한 딥러닝 기술 개발을 위해서는 도로 영상과 라벨 영상이 필요하다. 하지만 라벨 영상을 확보하기 위해서는 많은 시간과 노동력이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 준지도 학습 기법 중 하나인 적대적 학습 방법을 제안했다. 이를 구현하기 위해서 5,327장의 도로 영상과 1,327장의 라벨 영상을 사용하여 경량화 심층 신경망 모델을 학습했다. 그리고 이를 400장의 도로 영상으로 실험한 결과 80.54%의 mean intersection over union과 77.85%의 F1 score를 갖는 모델을 개발하였다. 결과적으로 라벨 영상 없이 도로 영상만을 학습에 추가하여 인식 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 기술을 개발하였고, 향후 도로 노면 관리를 위한 기술로 활용되길 기대한다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.147-159
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• 2002

This paper proposes a method to recognize the noisiness of road images connected with the extraction of lane-related information in order to prevent the usage of erroneous information. The proposed method uses a fuzzy neural network(FNN) with the back-Propagation loaming algorithm. The U decides road images good or bad with respect to visibility of lane marks on road images. Most input parameters to the FNN are extracted from an edge distribution function(EDF), a function of edge histogram constructed by edge phase and norm. The shape of the EDF is deeply correlated to the visibility of lane marks of road image. Experimental results obtained by simulations with real images taken by various lighting and weather conditions show that the proposed method was quite successful, providing decision-making of noisiness with about 99%.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 1999년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.405-410
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• 1999

Topographic maps can be made and updated with satellite images, but it requires many human interactions that are inefficient and costly. Therefore, the automatizing of the road extraction procedures could increase efficiency in terms of time and cost. Although methods of extracting roads, railroads and rivers from satellite images have been developed in many studies, studies on the road extraction from satellite images of urbanized area are still not relevant, because many artificial components In the city makes the delineation of the roads difficult. So, to extract roads from high resolution satellite images of urbanized area, this study has proposed the combined use of wavelet transform and multi-resolution analysis. In consequence, this study verifies that it is possible to automatize the road extraction from satellite images of urbanized area. And to realize the automatization more completely, various algorithms need to be developed.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2012

우천시 도로에 내린 비로 인해 도로 표면에 수막현상이 일어나서 맑은 날의 도로 보다 제동력이 떨어져 빗길 사고가 빈번하게 발생한다. 이러한 빗길의 주의정보를 포함한 안전운전을 위해 운전자에게 도로 상황 안내판에 도로의 상황 및 기후정보를 제공하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 안내 정보는 국부적이고 세부적인 도로상태 정보를 제공하지 못하고 범용적이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 도로에 설치되어 있는 CCVT의 영상을 활용하여 도로 표면의 영상을 비교하여 안전운전을 저해하는 요소를 영상으로 판별하는 메커니즘을 제안한다. 영상 비교는 평상시 맑은 날의 도로 영상을 원본 영상으로 활용하여 우천시 발생하는 도로의 상태를 상황별로 나누어 판별하여 조기에 운전자에게 주의 정보를 제공하여 안전운전을 할 수 있도록 하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1998년도 제13차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.226-231
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• 1998

This paper describes how a priori road geometry and its estimation may be used to detect road boundaries and lane markings in road scene images. We assume flat road and road boundaries and lane markings are all Bertrand curves which have common principal normal vectors. An active contour is used for the detection of road boundary, and we reconstruct its geometric property and make use of it to detect lane markings. Our approach to detect road boundary is based on minimizing energy function including edge related term and geometric constraint term. Lane position is estimated by pixel intensity statistics along the parallel curve shifted properly from boundary of the road. We will show the validity of our algorithm by processing real road images.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1996년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1398-1400
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• 1996

In this paper, a method of the decision of the road direction for ALV(Autonomous Land Vehicle) road following by region-based segmentation is presented. The decision of the road direction requires extracting road regions from images in real-time to guide the navigation of ALV on the roadway. Two thresholds to discriminate between road and non-road region in the image are easily decided, using knowledge of problem region and polygonal approximation that searches multiple peaks and valleys in histogram of a road image. The most likely road region of the binary image is selected from original image by these steps. The location of a vanishing point to indicate the direction of the road can be obtained applying it to X-Y profile of the binary road region again. It can successfully steer a ALV along a road reliably, even in the presence of fluctuation of illumination condition, bad road surface condition such as hidden boundaries, shadows, road patches, dirt and water stains, and unusual road condition. Pyramid structure also saves time in processing road images and a real-time image processing for achieving navigation of ALV is implemented. The efficacy of this approach is demonstrated using several real-world road images.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.53-63
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• 2005

We propose a fuzzy neural network (FNN) theory capable of deciding the quality of a road image prior to extracting lane-related information. The accuracy of lane-related information obtained by image processing depends on the quality of the raw images, which can be classified as good or bad according to how visible the lane marks on the images are. Enhancing the accuracy of the information by an image-processing algorithm is limited due to noise corruption which makes image processing difficult. The FNN, on the other hand, decides whether road images are good or bad with respect to the degree of noise corruption. A cumulative distribution function (CDF), a function of edge histogram, is utilized to extract input parameters from the FNN according to the fact that the shape of the CDF is deeply correlated to the road image quality. A suitability analysis shows that this deep correlation exists between the parameters and the image quality. The input pattern vector of the FNN consists of nine parameters in which eight parameters are from the CDF and one is from the intensity distribution of raw images. Experimental results showed that the proposed FNN system was quite successful. We carried out simulations with real images taken in various lighting and weather conditions, and obtained successful decision-making about $99\%$ of the time.