• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.226-233
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• 2015

Pose estimation is an important operation for many vision tasks. This paper presents a method of estimating the camera pose, using a known landmark for the purpose of autonomous vertical takeoff and landing(VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) landing. The proposed method uses a distinctive methodology to solve the pose estimation problem. We propose to combine extrinsic parameters from known and unknown 3-D(three-dimensional) feature points, and inertial estimation of camera 6-DOF(Degree Of Freedom) into one linear inhomogeneous equation. This allows us to use singular value decomposition(SVD) to neatly solve the given optimization problem. We present experimental results that demonstrate the ability of the proposed method to estimate camera 6DOF with the ease of implementation.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.950-956
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• 2014

In this paper, the real-time detection method of a DDP (Driving Direction Point) is proposed for an unmanned vehicle to safely follow the center of the road. Since the DDP is defined as a center point between two lanes, the lane is first detected using a web camera. For robust detection of the lane, the binary thresholding and the labeling methods are applied to the color camera image as image preprocessing. From the preprocessed image, the lane is detected, taking the intrinsic characteristics of the lane such as width into consideration. If both lanes are detected, the DDP can be directly obtained from the preprocessed image. However, if one lane is detected, the DDP is obtained from the inverse perspective image to guarantee reliability. To verify the proposed method, several experiments to detect the DDPs are carried out using a 4 wheeled vehicle ERP-42 with a web camera.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2014

Video from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is influenced by natural environments due to the light-weight UAV, specifically by winds. Thus UAV's shaking movements make the video shaking. Objective of this paper is making a stabilized video by removing shakiness of video acquired by UAV. Stabilizer estimates camera's motion from calculation of optical flow between two successive frames. Estimated camera's movements have intended movements as well as unintended movements of shaking. Unintended movements are eliminated by smoothing process. Experimental results showed that our proposed method performs almost as good as the other off-line based stabilizer. However estimation of camera's movements, i.e., calculation of optical flow, becomes a bottleneck to the real-time stabilization. To solve this problem, we make parallel stabilizer making average 30 frames per second of stabilized video. Our proposed method can be used for the video acquired by UAV and also for the shaking video from non-professional users. The proposed method can also be used in any other fields which require object tracking, or accurate image analysis/representation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.491-498
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• 2018

As unmanned aerial vehicle(UVA), drone means a flying object that could aviate the route entered by a program in advance or remotely-controlled when a pilot is not on board. Drone that has been initially developed for the military purpose is currently used for diverse areas such as agricultural industry, leisure activity, logistics service, and life-saving area. Out of these areas, the shooting drone equipped with a camera is actively used for diverse image contents production areas including film and broadcasting area. This paper examines the characteristics of drone for the purpose of shooting, and also handles the shooting techniques using drone. Especially, this study aims to suggest and discuss the methods to shoot diverse camera working used by the existing image shooting with the use of drone after examining the operation of shooting drone used for the image contents production area.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.254-260
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• 2019

Recently, a self-camera that generates and distributes a large amount of moving images has been rapidly increasing due to the appearance of SNS such as Facebook, Instagram, and Tweet using mobile. In particular, the amount of SNS connections using mobile phones is significantly increasing in terms of usage, number of connections, and usage time. However, the use of a self-recording system using a smartphone by itself is extremely limited not only in terms of usage but also in frequency of use. In addition, the conventional unattended recording system is a very expensive system that automatically records and tracks an object to be photographed using an infrared signal. Therefore, this paper developed a low cost unmanned recording system using mobile phone. The system consists of a commercial mobile camera, a servomotor for moving the camera from side to side, a microcontroller for controlling the motor, and a commercial wireless Bluetooth earset for video audio input. And it is an unmanned automation system using mobile, and anyone can record image by self image tracking.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.868-871
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• 2016

Recently, Unmanned vehicle and Wearable Technology using iot research is being carried out. The unmanned vehicle is the result of it technology. Robots, autonomous navigation vehicle and obstacle avoidance, data communications, power, and image processing, technology integration of a unmanned vehicle or an unmanned robot. The final goal of the unmanned vehicle manual not autonomous by destination safely and quickly reaching. This paper managed to cover One of the key skills of unmanned vehicle is to image processing. Currently battery technology of unmanned vehicle can drive for up to 1 hours. Therefore, we use the Raspberry Pi 3 to reduce power consumption to a minimum. Using the Raspberry Pi 3 and to develop an image recognition system. The goal is to propose a system that recognizes all the objects in the image received from the camera.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.69-74
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• 2001

Detection of operation lines in farm works, object recognition and obstacle avoidance are essential pre-requisite technologies for unmanned agricultural machinery. A CCD camera, which has been largely used for these functions, is expensive and has difficulty in real-time signal processing. In this study, a laser range sensor was selected as the guiding vision for unmanned agricultural machinery such as a tractor. To achieve this capability, algorithms for distance measurement, signal filtering, object recognition, and obstacle avoidance were developed. Computer simulations were carried out to evaluate performance of the algorithms. Experiments were also conducted with various materials and shapes, Laser beam lost its intensity for poor reflective materials, resulting in less range value than actual, so a compensation technique was considered to be necessary. Object detection system was fabricated on an agricultural tractor and the performance was evaluated. As test result for obstacle detection and avoidance in field, to detect and avoid obstacle for path finding with guiding system for unmanned agricultural machinery was enable.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.26-30
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• 2020

First, if we want to design and construct a robotic camera, we need to understand the parallax errors between adjacent images, caused by rotation and movement of the robotic camera system. In this paper, we try to derive the mathematical formulation of parallax error and connect it to a conventional lens system, to obtain a useful, generalized, analytic algebraic expression for the parallax error. Utilizing this expression, we can structurally design a robotic camera, and study the Google ART camera as an example of a robotic camera.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.1130-1133
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• 2003

The goal of this research is developing advanced lane detecting algorithm for unmanned vehicle. Previous lane detecting method to bring on error become of the lane loss and noise. Therefore, new algorithm developed to get exact information of lane. This algorithm can be used to AGV(Autonomous Guide Vehicle) and LSWS(Lane Departure Warning System), ACC(Adapted Cruise Control). We used 1/10 scale RC car to embody developed algorithm. A CCD camera is installed on top of vehicle. Images are transmitted to a main computer though wireless video transmitter. A main computer finds information of lane in road image. And it calculates control value of vehicle and transmit these to vehicle. This algorithm can detect in input image marked by 256 gray levels to get exact information of lane. To find the driving direction of vehicle, it search line equation by curve fitting of detected pixel. Finally, author used median filtering method to removal of noise and used characteristic part of road image for advanced of processing time.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.89-93
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• 2009

This paper deals with obstacle avoidance for unmanned vehicle using stereo system. The "DARPA Grand Challenge 2005" shows that the robot can move autonomously under given waypoint. RADAR, IMS (Inertial Measurement System), GPS, camera are used for autonomous navigation. In this paper, we focus on stereo system for autonomous navigation. Our approach is based on Singh et. al. [5]'s approach that is successfully used in an unmanned vehicle and a planetary robot. We propose an improved algorithm for obstacle avoidance by modifying the cost function of Singh et. al. [5]. Proposed algorithm gives more sharp contrast in choosing local path for obstacle avoidance and it is verified in experimental results.