• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.376-386
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• 2013

This paper proposes an improved Maximum Power Point Tracking method and design methods of unmanned solar vehicle system by parts of hardware, unmanned driving control and power conversion. The hardware design is offered on the weight reduction and structural reliability by using structural analysis software. The technique of curve fitting is applied to unmanned control system due to minimizing the vehicle's behavior. Furthermore, lateral controller applying actuator dynamics is robust enough to prevent performance degradation by measurement noise regarding position and heading angle. The power conversion system contains battery charger system and tapped-inductor boost converter. In the battery charger system, variable step-size MPPT is conducted for quick response of maximum power point tracking. The validity of the proposed algorithm are verified by simulations and experiments.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.876-887
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an robust CAMShift method to track stage objects with a camera. In order to solve the problem of tracking object misdetection in existing CAMShift technique, MBR region is detected to separate the background and the subject, and the subject size of the region of interest is calculated to solve the problem of erroneously detecting a large region having a similar color distribution ratio. Also, by applying the color corelogram and MB-LBP to the part that can not be solved by the color ratio and the size limitation, accurate texture tracking is enabled by reflecting the texture characteristics. Experimental results show that the proposed method has good tracking performance for objects that do not deviate from the size of the subject set in the area of interest and accurately extracts the texture characteristics of different subjects with similar color distribution ratios.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제48권5호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 배경 차분에 의해 객체를 검출하고 확률적으로 표본화된 입자 필터링(particle filtering)기법을 사용한 다중객체 추적 기법을 제안한다. 확률적으로 표본화된 입자들을 사용하여 다중 객체에 독립적으로 적용할 때 발생하는 계산 복잡도(computational complexity)를 감소시키는 동시에 안정적인 추적을 가능하게 하였다. 객체의 색상정보를 사용한 히스토그램 분포에 의한 관측 모델(observation model)을 구성하고 객체의 움직임 정보를 위해 동적 모델을 공식화하여 영상을 해석하였다. 전체적인 추적 시스템은 베이시언 최대 우도 기법(Bayesian maximum likelihood method)을 근간으로 하되, 입자 필터링을 객체 추적에 적용하여 실용적인 현실 객체 추적 상황에도 강건하게 대처할 수 있음을 실험을 통해서 증명하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2011

To make a robust object tracking and identifying system for an intelligent robot and/or home system, heterogeneous sensor fusion between visible ray system and infrared ray system is proposed. The proposed system separates the object by combining the ROI (Region of Interest) estimated from two different images based on a heterogeneous sensor that consolidates the ordinary CCD camera and the IR (Infrared) camera. Human's body and face are detected in both images by using different algorithms, such as histogram, optical-flow, skin-color model and Haar model. Also the pose of human body is estimated from the result of body detection in IR image by using PCA algorithm along with AdaBoost algorithm. Then, the results from each detection algorithm are fused to extract the best detection result. To verify the heterogeneous sensor fusion system, few experiments were done in various environments. From the experimental results, the system seems to have good tracking and identification performance regardless of the environmental changes. The application area of the proposed system is not limited to robot or home system but the surveillance system and military system.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.315-318
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• 2008

In this paper proposed the solar tracking system to use a fuzzy control order to increase an output of the PV(Photovoltaic) array. The solar tracking system operated two DC motors driving by signal of photo sensor. The control of dual axes is not an easy task due to nonlinear dynamics and unavailability of the parameters. Recently, artificial intelligent control of the fuzzy control, neural-network and genetic algorithm etc. have been studied. The fuzzy control made a nonlinear dynamics to well perform and had a robust and highly efficient characteristic about a parameter variable as well as a nonlinear characteristic. Hence the fuzzy control was used to perform the tracking system after comparing with error values of setting-up, nonlinear altitude and azimuth. In this paper designed a fuzzy controller for improving output of PV array and evaluated comparison with efficient of conventional PI controller. The data which were obtained by experiment were able to show a validity of the proposed controller.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.694-701
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 능동카메라 환경에서 카메라의 움직임에 의해 유발되는 광역움직임(global motion)과 이동물체에 의해 발생하는 지역움직임(local motion)을 분리한 후, 카메라 팬틸트를 제어하여 물체를 추적하는 특징기반의 추적 시스템을 제안했다. 제안한 시스템은 블록기반 움직임 계측을 통해 연속한 2 프레임 사이의 이동 움직임을 찾고, 이 움직임에서 카메라의 움직임으로 인한 광역 움직임을 제거함으로써 전경물체의 지역 움직임만을 추적한다. 이때, 배경만의 움직임만으로 카메라 움직임을 강건하게 계측하기 위하여, 블록기반 움직임에서 배경움직임을 분류하기 위한 지배적인 움직임 추출방법을 제시한다. 또한 분리된 지역움직임으로부터 잡음물체의 움직임을 제거하기 위하여 꼭지점 특징의 추적궤적 속성에 따른 군집화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 추적시스템은 여러가지 실험에서 좋은 결과를 보였다.

• 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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.305-326
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• 2019

Discriminative correlation filter (DCF) based tracking algorithms have recently shown impressive performance on benchmark datasets. However, amount of recent researches are vulnerable to heavy occlusions, irregular deformations and so on. In this paper, we intend to solve these problems and handle the contradiction between accuracy and real-time in the framework of tracking-by-detection. Firstly, we propose an innovative strategy to combine the template and color-based models instead of a simple linear superposition and rely on the strengths of both to promote the accuracy. Secondly, to enhance the discriminative power of the learned template model, the spatial regularization is introduced in the learning stage to penalize the objective boundary information corresponding to features in the background. Thirdly, we utilize a discriminative multi-scale estimate method to solve the problem of scale variations. Finally, we research strategies to limit the computational complexity of our tracker. Abundant experiments demonstrate that our tracker performs superiorly against several advanced algorithms on both the OTB2013 and OTB2015 datasets while maintaining the high frame rates.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1744-1760
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• 2021

Since correlation filter appeared in the field of object tracking, it plays an increasingly vital role due to its excellent performance. Although many sophisticated trackers have been successfully applied to track the object accurately, very few of them attaches importance to the scale and rotation estimation. In order to address the above limitation, we propose a novel method combined with Fourier-Mellin transform and confidence evaluation strategy for robust object tracking. In the first place, we construct a correlation filter to locate the target object precisely. Then, a log-polar technique is used in the Fourier-Mellin transform to cope with the rotation and scale changes. In order to achieve subpixel accuracy, we come up with an efficient surface fitting mechanism to obtain the optimal calculation result. In addition, we introduce a confidence evaluation strategy modeled on the output response, which can decrease the impact of image noise and perform as a criterion to evaluate the target model stability. Experimental experiments on OTB100 demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves superior capability in success plots and precision plots of OPE, which is 10.8% points and 8.6% points than those of KCF. Besides, our method performs favorably against the others in terms of SRE and TRE validation schemes, which shows the superiority of our proposed algorithm in scale and rotation evaluation.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.606-614
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• 1991

A robust direct adaptive controller with respect to additive and multiplicative unmodeled dynamics is designed. A new term, proportional to the product of the bounded tracking error and normalizing signal, is added to the conventional control input for improvement of robustness and performances of an adaptive system. It is shown by the mathematical analysis and simulation results that the stability of the closed loop system is guaranteed and the performance of the system is improved.