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A traffic flow measurement system at night by using image processing

  • Miyazaki, Michio;Tanaka, Kenji;Akizuki Kageo;Kawamura, Mamoru
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.589-592
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    • 1997
  • In this paper, we propose a simple algorithm to calculate the number of passing cars at night by using an image processing sensor for digital black and white images with 256 tone levels. To recognize cars, we capture their head lamps. The reflection of the head lamps is one of the most troublesome factors in recognizing cars. The main problem in this paper is how to recognize cars under the influence of the reflection of the head lamps especially in rainy days. In general, the image of a head lamp is nearly circular and the reflection is long and narrow. On the difference of these forms, we can exclude the reflection in our proposed algorithms For real-time operation and simple calculation, we recognize the existence of cars using fifteen lines with 256 tone levels. In the experimental application on a road, the recognition rate of a real-time operation is more than 90%. Moreover, we will also explain briefly how to recognize passing cars for 24 hours.

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Antiblurry Dejitter Image Stabilization Method of Fuzzy Video for Driving Recorders

  • Xiong, Jing-Ying;Dai, Ming;Zhao, Chun-Lei;Wang, Ruo-Qiu
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.3086-3103
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    • 2017
  • Video images captured by vehicle cameras often contain blurry or dithering frames due to inadvertent motion from bumps in the road or by insufficient illumination during the morning or evening, which greatly reduces the perception of objects expression and recognition from the records. Therefore, a real-time electronic stabilization method to correct fuzzy video from driving recorders has been proposed. In the first stage of feature detection, a coarse-to-fine inspection policy and a scale nonlinear diffusion filter are proposed to provide more accurate keypoints. Second, a new antiblurry binary descriptor and a feature point selection strategy for unintentional estimation are proposed, which brought more discriminative power. In addition, a new evaluation criterion for affine region detectors is presented based on the percentage interval of repeatability. The experiments show that the proposed method exhibits improvement in detecting blurry corner points. Moreover, it improves the performance of the algorithm and guarantees high processing speed at the same time.

Extraction of the Road Facility Information Using Digital Ortho-Image (정사투영영상을 활용한 도로시설 정보 추출)

  • 함창학;김원대
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.219-228
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    • 2001
  • The research into the field of managing urban utility information (such as gas pipes, power line, telecommunication utilities) is growing ever more important as the efficient management of social infra-structure gets higher and also with the fast technological progress made in nationwide scale of geo-spatial information systems. This research is focused on the collection of street utilities information in urban areas using aerial ortho-images. Until now this has been carried out by on site investigation and ground surveying methods. The result of this research shows that the geometric accuracy was obtainable within 12 cm referenced to 1/1,000 digital map. It was also possible to collect the street utilities which were described in the digital map as well as other information which were not.

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Vehicle Detection and Classification Using Textural Similarity in Wavelet Domain (웨이브렛 영역에서의 질감 유사성을 이용한 차량검지 및 차종분류)

  • 임채환;박종선;이창섭;김남철
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.24 no.6B
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    • pp.1191-1202
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    • 1999
  • We propose an efficient vehicle detection and classification algorithm for an electronic toll collection using the feature which is robust to abrupt intensity change between consecutive frames. The local correlation coefficient between wavelet transformed input and reference images is used as such a feature, which takes advantage of textural similarity. The usefulness of the proposed feature is analyzed qualitatively by comparing the feature with the local variance of a difference image, and is verified by measuring the improvements in the separability of vehicle from shadowy or shadowless road for a real test image. Experimental results from field tests show that the proposed vehicle detection and classification algorithm performs well even under abrupt intensity change due to the characteristics of sensor and occurrence of shadow.

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A Study on the Semiology and Quantitative Psychological Analysis of Sequence Landscape of National Park (국립공원 Sequence 경관의 기호학과 계량심리학적 분석에 관한 연구)

  • 김세천
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.55-71
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    • 1991
  • The purpose of this thesis is to suggest objective basic data for the environmental design through the quantitative analysis of the visual quality included in the physical environment of Basemsagol valley sequence landscape. For this, visual volumes of physical elements have been evaluated by using the mesh analysis, spatial images structure of physical elements have been analyzed by factor analysis algorithm, and degree of visual quality have been measured mainly by questionnaires. Also, this study aims to understand semiotics and to grope the possibility of application to the sequence landscape assessment. A semiological approach suggests a new dimension in sequence landscape assessment, which is a contrast to the existing scientific evaluation methods. Result of this thesis can be summarized as follows. Visual volumes of the immediate vegetation, rock, bridge, road and distant vegetation are found to be the main factor determining the visual quality. Factors covering the spatial image of natural park sequence landscape have been found to be the overall synthetic evaluation, potentiality, natural quality, spatial, appeal and dignity. By using the control method for the number of factors, T.V. has been obtained as 40.22%. The characteristics of the semiological approach is qualitative, open, holistic, and experiential, whereas that of the scientific approach is quantitative, closed, reductive, and experimental.

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A Study of the Defect Detection Method of Vision Technology via Camera Image Analysis on 4-col 7-row LED Screen Module (4단 7열 LED 사이니지 전면부 설치형 카메라기반 불량 LED 소자 검출 Vision 기술에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Young ki;Im, Sang il;Jo, Ik hyeon;Cha, Jae sang
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.11
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    • pp.1383-1387
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    • 2020
  • Recently, a 4-col 7-row LED Screen that provides various information of major roads and local governments has been installed and operated. However, due to deterioration due to changes in temperature and humidity, deterioration due to static electricity, and mechanical stress, partial module failure of the display may occur, which is a major cause of missing information of vitally given to citizens. However, there have been frequent cases where the 4-col and 7-row LED Screen that have failed due to reasons such as installed location where the signboards are installed on the road and outdoor, the lack of monitoring means at all times, and the lack of manpower is often neglected for a long time. Following this flow, this paper proposes a method to detect defective modules by analyzing the images collected through the camera fixed to the front part of the LED display.

Vehicle tracking algorithm using the hue transform in HIS color model (HIS 칼라모델에서 색상 변환을 이용한 자동차 추적 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Joo-Shin
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.130-139
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, vehicle tracking algorithm using hue transformation in HIS color model is proposed. the proposed algorithm is installed on the road of the two horizontal virtual data sampling lines. The difference images are detected between the frame and the frame, respectively and also detected in the vehicle by using the hue color distribution to determine identity and lane changes. To examine the effectiveness of proposed algorithm, identification and velocity measurement for driving vehicle are evaluated. this evaluated results is shown by hue data of vehicle passing of two virtual data sample lines, and the velocity measurement for driving vehicle is less than 0.4% comparing with existing vehicle speed meter system.

Lane detection method using the Retinex algorithm in foggy roads (Retinex 알고리즘을 사용한 안개 구간에서의 차선 검출 방법)

  • Kang, ji-hun;Choi, seo-hyuk;Kim, chang-dae;Ryu, sung-pil;Kim, dong-woo;Ahn, jae-hyeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.376-380
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes new recognition method of road lanes misty day. The method enables autonomous-driving of cars and the safety of the drivers while driving with bad visibility in foggy roads. The proposed method, firstly, determines whether the foggy or not according to pixel number distributions and starting point of the fog period from input images. If it is foggy then the median filter's size of the Retinex algorithm is set to 1000 or more and it performs histogram equalization and normalization. The computer simulation results show that the proposed method can recognize better long distances and fine detection than earlier methods.

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A Study on Rule-Based Vehicle Tracking in Video Images (비디오 영상에서 규칙기반 차량추적에 관한 연구)

  • Park Eun-Jong;Lee Joon-Whan
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.4 no.2 s.7
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2005
  • Automatic tracking of vehicles is important to accurately estimate the vehicle speeds in video-based traffic measurement systems and to analyze traffic flows for road construction. This paper proposes a carefully designed rule-based tracking scheme that considers the possible cases that can be appeared in the video-based vehicle racking. The proposed scheme is fast and outperforms the Mean-Shift scheme in terms of accuracy. The accuracy and the speed of the scheme would be increased by combining it with color-based searching and Kalman filters.

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A Study on Improving the Reality of the Vehicle Simulator Based on the Virtual Reality (가상현실 기반의 차량 시뮬레이터의 현실감 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Choi Young-Il;Kwon Seong-Jin;Jang Suk;Kim Kyu-Hee;Cho Ki-Yong;Suh Myung-Won
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.28 no.8 s.227
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    • pp.1116-1124
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    • 2004
  • In these days, a vehicle simulator has been developed with a VR(Virtual Reality) system. A VR system must provide a vehicle simulator with natural interaction, sufficient immersion and realistic images. In addition, a VR system must present a driver with the realistic driving situation. To achieve these, it is important to obtain a fast and uniform rendering performance regardless of the complexity of virtual worlds. In this paper, the factors to improve the reality for the VR based vehicle simulator have been investigated. For the purpose, the modeling and the rendering methods which offer an improved performance for complex VR applications as the 3D road model have been implemented and verified. Then, we experiment on the influence of graphic and sound factors to the driver, and analyze each result for improving the reality such as the driver's viewport, the form of texture, the lateral distance of the side object, and the sound effect. These factors are evaluated on the driving system which is constructed for qualitative analysis. The research results could be used for improving the reality of the VR based vehicle simulator.