• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.135-145
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• 2006

This paper presents a novel approach to real-time recognition of 3D environment and objects for intelligent robots. First. we establish the three fundamental principles that humans use for recognizing and interacting with the environment. These principles have led to the development of an integrated approach to real-time 3D recognition and modeling, as follows: 1) It starts with a rapid but approximate characterization of the geometric configuration of workspace by identifying global plane features. 2) It quickly recognizes known objects in environment and replaces them by their models in database based on 3D registration. 3) It models the geometric details on the fly adaptively to the need of the given task based on a multi-resolution octree representation. SIFT features with their 3D position data, referred to here as stereo-sis SIFT, are used extensively, together with point clouds, for fast extraction of global plane features, for fast recognition of objects, for fast registration of scenes, as well as for overcoming incomplete and noisy nature of point clouds. The experimental results show the feasibility of real-time and behavior-oriented 3D modeling of workspace for robotic manipulative tasks.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.353-359
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose the automatic image-to-image registration of high resolution satellite images using local properties of tie points to improve the registration accuracy. A spatial distance between interest points of reference and sensed images extracted by Scale Invariant Feature Transform(SIFT) is additionally used to extract tie points. Coefficients of affine transform between images are extracted by invariant descriptor based matching, and interest points of sensed image are transformed to the reference coordinate system using these coefficients. The spatial distance between interest points of sensed image which have been transformed to the reference coordinates and interest points of reference image is calculated for secondary matching. The piecewise linear function is applied to the matched tie points for automatic registration of high resolution images. The proposed method can extract spatially well-distributed tie points compared with SIFT based method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.116-122
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• 2010

This paper proposes a method for classifying targets robust to geometric transformations of targets such as rotation, scale change, translation, and pose change. Targets which have rotation, scale change, and shift is firstly classified based on CM(Confidence Map) which is generated by similarity, scale ratio, and range of orientation for SIFT(Scale-Invariant Feature Transform) feature vectors. On the other hand, DB(DataBase) which is acquired in various angles is used to deal with pose variation of targets. Range of the angle is determined by comparing and analyzing the execution time and performance for sampling intervals. We experiment on various images which is geometrically changed to evaluate performance of proposed target classification method. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has a good classification performance.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1152-1162
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• 2019

With the rapid development of the VR industry, many VR contents are produced and circulated, and the need for copyright protection is increasing. In this paper, we propose a method of embedding and extracting watermarks in consideration of VR production process. In embedding, SIFT is performed by selecting the region where distortion is minimized in VR production, and transformed into frequency domain using DWT and embedded into the QIM method. In extracting process, in order to correct the distortion in the projection process, the top and bottom regions are changed to different projection methods and some middle regions are rotated using 3DoF to extract the watermark. After this processing, extracted watermark has higher accuracy than the conventional watermark method, and the validity of the proposed watermark is shown by showing that the accuracy is maintained even in various attacks.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.555-560
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• 2010

The geoscientists are very interested in a volcanic reactivity of Mt. Baekdu. Periodical observation and monitoring are thus needed to detect the topographic and environmental changes of Mt. Baekdu. It is, however, very restrictive to survey with difficulty of observer's accessibility in the field due to political problems. This study therefore is to produce digital elevation model (DEM) of Mt. Baekdu using SPOT-5 stereo images. The produced DEM is very not accurate because of using without ground control points (GCP). To correct the previously generated DEM, scale-invariant feature transform(SIFT) matching method is adopted with shuttle radar topography mission(SRTM) DEM of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL). The results of the produced DEM to SRTM DEM matching indicate that the corrected DEM from SPOT-5 stereo images has more detail topographic structures. In addition, difference of spatial distances between the corrected DEM and SRTM DEM are much smaller than non-corrected DEM.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.105-106
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• 2008

영상을 이용한 물체인식은 컴퓨터 비젼분야의 주요한 관심분야중 하나이다. 이중 특정기반 물체인식은 영상이 가지고 있는 특징점을 이용하는 방법으로 입력영상과 물체에 대한 질의 영상의 특징점을 검출하고 매칭을 수행하여 물체를 인식하게 된다. 특징점은 스케일, 회전, 어파인 변화 등에 변하지 않는 특징을 가지고 있는 점을 말한다. 이러한 특징점을 구하기 위하여 사용하는 방범으로는 SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform)가 있다. SIFT는 스케일, 회선, 어파인 변화에 우수한 성능을 보여주기는 하나 많은 연산으로 인하여 처리속도가 느리다는 단점이 존재한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 SIFT를 사용한 특징기반 물체인식에서 속도 개선 방법에 대하여 제안하였다. 제안한 방법을 사용하였을 경우 물체인식을 위한 특징점을 검출하고 매칭을 수행하는데 소모된 시간이 줄어드는 것을 실험을 통하여 확인 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.06a
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• pp.309-312
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• 2016

최근 실세계에 존재하는 물체의 3차원 형상과 색상을 디지털화하는 3차원 객체 복원에 대한 관심이 날로 증가하고 있다. 3차원 객체 복원은 영상 획득, 영상 보정, 점군 획득, 반복적 점군 정합, 무리 조정, 3차원 모델 표현과 같은 단계를 거처 통합된 3차원 모델을 생성한다. 그 중 반복적 점군 정합 방법은 카메라 궤적의 초기 값을 획득하는 방법으로서 무리 조정 단계에서 전역 최적 값으로의 수렴을 보장하기 위해 중요한 단계이다. 기존의 반복적 점군 정합 (iterative closest points) 방법에서는 시간이 지남에 따라 누적된 궤적 오차 때문에 발생하는 객체 표류 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 색상 영상에서 SIFT 특징점을 획득하고 3차원 점군을 얻은 뒤 가중치를 부여함으로써 점 군 간의 더 정확한 정합을 수행한다. 실험결과에서 기존의 방법과 비교하여 제안하는 방법이 절대 궤적 오차 (absolute trajectory error)가 감소하는 것을 확인 했고 복원된 3차원 모델에서 객체 표류 현상이 줄어드는 것을 확인했다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.193-196
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• 2009

여러 개의 영상으로부터 스케일, 조명, 시점 등의 환경변화를 고려하여 대응점을 찾는 일은 쉽지 않다. SURF는 이러한 환경변화에 불변하는 특징점을 찾는 알고리즘중 하나로서 일반적으로 성능이 우수하다고 알려진 SIFT와 견줄만한 성능을 보이면서 속도를 크게 향상시킨 알고리즘이다. 하지만 SURF는 그레이공간 상의 정보만 이용함에 따라 컬러공간상에 주어진 많은 유용한 특징들을 활용하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 강인한 컬러특정정보를 포함하는 확장된 SURF알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법의 우수성은 다양한 조명환경과 시점변화에 따른 영상을 SIFT와 SURF 그리고 제안하는 컬러정보를 적용한 SURF알고리즘과 비교 실험을 통해 입증하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.5750-5757
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• 2014

This paper proposes an image stabilization method for arbitrary disturbances, such as rotation, translation and zoom movement, using the SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform). In addition, image stabilization was carried out using the image division and merge technique when moving objects appear on the scene. Finally, the experimental results showed that the suggested image stabilization scheme produced superior performance compared to the previous ones.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.24-31
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• 2017

Face-based video retrieval has become an active and important branch of intelligent video analysis. Face profiling and matching is a fundamental step and is crucial to the effectiveness of video retrieval. Although many algorithms have been developed for processing static face images, their effectiveness in face-based video retrieval is still unknown, simply because videos have different resolutions, faces vary in scale, and different lighting conditions and angles are used. In this paper, we combined content-based and semantic-based image analysis techniques, and systematically evaluated four mainstream local features to represent face images in the video retrieval task: Harris operators, SIFT and SURF descriptors, and eigenfaces. Results of ten independent runs of 10-fold cross-validation on datasets consisting of TED (Technology Entertainment Design) talk videos showed the effectiveness of our approach, where the SIFT descriptors achieved an average F-score of 0.725 in video retrieval and thus were the most effective, while the SURF descriptors were computed in 0.3 seconds per image on average and were the most efficient in most cases.