• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.78-87
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• 1995

Specular reflection appears with metals, plastics, glasses and many other solid objects which are required to be inspected, assembled, moved, or processed automatically. Recongnizing such shiny objects with specular reflections is a hard problem for computer vision, since specular reflections appear, disappear, or change their shapes abruptly, due to tiny movements of the view. Traditionally, such specular reflections are discarded as annoying noise for recongnition purposes. In this paper a technique is represented for obtaining shapes of specular objects. The ring illumin- ation system employes a ring source which is positioned on the axis of the camera. The concept of the proposed method is that if specular objects are illuminated by the ring they show their own dis- tinctive specularity features in surface from which we can infer the shape of the object. A series of experiments are performed to evaluate the performance of this system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.379-382
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• 1997

This paper introduces a new vision technique for extracting roof edges of polyhedra having specularly reflecting surfaces. There have been many previous works on object recognition using edge information. But they can not be applied to specular objects since it is hard to acquire reliable camera images of specular objects. If there is a method which can extract the edges of specular objects, it is possible to apply edge-based recognition algorithms to specular objects. To acquire the reliable edge images of specular objects, scanned double pass retroreflection method is proposed, whose main physical characteristic is curvature-sensitive. This utility of the physical characteristic is motivated by the idea that roof edges can be characterized as local surfaces of high curvature. In this paper, the optical characteristics of double pass retroreflection are discussed and a series of simulation studies are performed to verify and analyze the sensor characteristics. The results from a series of simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.64-72
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• 1996

This paper is aimed to develop an optical method for measuring 3-dimensional shapes of specular objects having curved surfaces. The existing methods measuring the shapes of specular objects have several common disadvantages: they may not work properly if the surface is highly specular like mirror surface or if the reflectance property is not uniform over the surface. And, they often require the a priori knowledege about the surface reflectance. To overcome these disadvantages, the measurement using double pass retroreflection method is proposed in this paper. For this measurement principle, an experimental measuring system is designed and prepared which is composed of a galvanometer scanner, a beam splitter, a laser source, a CCD camera, and a reflector made of retroreflective material. To verify the effectiveness of the measurement system a series of experiments are performaed for various specular objects. The results observed from the experiments show that the developed optical sensing system can be an effective mean of measuring the 3-D shapes of specular objects.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1991년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국제학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 22-24 Oct. 1991
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• pp.1758-1763
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• 1991

This paper describes a new method to determine the 3D-shape of objects consisting of specular planar surfaces. This method exploits a light source which is made of a diffuse plane with a grid pattern encoded in an M-sequence and uses a single image of the light source reflected by the objects to acquiring orientations and positions of the surfaces of the objects. When grid lines of the light source are reflected by a specular planar surface and perspectively projected on an image plane, a set of lines vanishing at a point are obtained on the image plane. The orientation of the specular planar surface is determined by using the vanishing point, and the position is determined by using the correspondence between lines on the image and lines on the light source, which is obtained by employing a characteristic regularity of the M-sequence. Before the vanishing points are calculated, the lines on the image are classified and correlated with the surfaces of objects by using slopes and positions of the lines and the regularity of the M-sequence. This method requires only a single image.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); 포항공과대학교, 포항; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.93-96
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• 1996

Structured laser light is a widely used method for obtaining 3D range information in Machine Vision. However, The structured laser light method is based on assumption that the surface of objects is Lambertian. When the observed surfaces are highly specularly reflective, the laser light can be detected in various parts on the image due to a specular reflection and secondary reflection. This makes wrong range data and the image sensor unusable for the specular objects. To discriminate wrong range data from obtained image data, we have proposed a new algorithm by using the cross section of image block. To show the performance of the proposed method, a series of experiments was, carried out on: the simple geometric shaped objects. The proposed method shows a dramatic improvement of 3D range data better than the typical structured laser light method.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2008년도 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.107-108
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• 2008

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.1132-1140
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• 1997

컴퓨터 버젼의 많은 용용 분야에서 매끄러운 표면으로부터 반사되어 발생하는 하이라이트는 물체의 오인식에 주요 원인으로 작용한다. 본 논문에서는 물체의 기하 학적인 구조에 의해 광원의 위치가 다르면 하이라이트 위치도 달라진다는 측광입체 시법의 원리를 이용하여 하이라이트를 검출하고 물체의 복원하는 효과긴알고리즘을 제안한다. 광원의 위치가 다르게 물체의 두 화상을 시분할로 입력받아 기준 화상과 참조 화상으로 정하고, 두 화상의 평균을 구해서 참조 화상의 밝기가 기준 화상과 같게 정규화한다. 두 화상의 농담 차이를 구하고 농담 차이 화상을 이치화하여 하이 라이트의 전반사 스파이크를 검출한 후, 전반사 스파이크 주위의 전반사 로브를 검출하고 물체로 복원한다. 본 논문에서는 제안하는 방법은 물체 표면의 특성에 관계 없이 금속체 및 절연체에도 적용할 수 있으며 배경의 밝기가 물체보다 밝은 경우에도 효과적으로 적용할 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1993년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); Seoul National University, Seoul; 20-22 Oct. 1993
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• pp.106-112
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• 1993

A new model for the construction of a sonar map in a specular environment has been developed ad implemented. In a real world where most of the object surfaces are specular ones, a sonar sensor suffers from a multipath effect which results in a wrong interpretation of an objects's location. To reduce this effect and hence to construct a reliable map of a robot's surroundings, a probabilistic approach based on Bayesian reasoning is adopted to both evaluation of object orientations and estimation of an occupancy probability of a cell by an object. The usefulness of this approach is illustrated with the results produced by our mobile robot equipped with ultrasonic sensors.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.600-602
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• 2005

Recently image display devices have become large and high quality. To control the qualities of the component, measurements of the shape and thickness of a plate glass has been required. In order to measure the shape of the specular objects, Non-Contact Optical Sensor using Hologram laser unit was proposed. The sensor has a optical system that is composed of a Hologram laser and objective lens used for CD Player, and the sensor showed high performance for measuring the shape and thickness of transparent plates. In the sensor, the temperature of the sensor body is controlled by TEC(Thermoelectric Cooler). In this paper, we proposed the measuring method to make better performance of sensor using focus error signal of a hologram laser unit. It can measure the shape and the thickness of transparent objects with the s-type focus error signal which is generated by the sensor while it goes to the object.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.675-683
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• 1992

본 연구에서는 저자에 의해 유도된 바 있는 베이지안 업데이트 모델을 초음파 센서를 갖는 실제 로봇에 주입하여 실험하였다. 초음파센서는 비교적 큰 빔(beam)구 경 때문에 단독의 측정치로도 넓은 영역을 감지하는데는 효율적이다. 그러나 실제상 황에서는 거울효과(specular reflection effect)라는 매우 심각한 문제점을 갖고 있으 며, 이는 지도의 질을 매우 저하시킨다. 이 효과를 상당히 줄일 수 있는, 단순하면 서도 실질적인 방법이 제안된다. 또한 본 논문에서는 이동로봇의 실시간 장애물 회 피를 위한 새로운 방법이 소개된다. 이 방법은 로봇의 현재 위치와, 점령영역과 비 점령 여역 사이의 경계선과 목표지점의 교차점까지의 거리를 이용하며, 점들이 실제 상황에서의 실험을 통해 입증된다.