• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.651-662
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• 2010

This paper describes a method to identify objects for autonomous navigation of an outdoor mobile robot. To identify objects, the robot recognizes the object from an image taken by moving robot on outdoor environment. As a beginning, this paper presents the candidates for a segment of region to building of artificial object, sky and trees of natural objects. Then we define their characteristics individually. In the process, we segment the regions of the objects included by preprocessing using multiple features. Multiple features are HSI, line segments, context information, hue co-occurrence matrix, principal components and vanishing point. An analysis of building identifies the geometrical properties of building facet such as wall region, windows and entrance. The building as intersection in vertical and horizontal line segment of vanishing point extracts the mesh. The wall region of building detect by merging the mesh of the neighbor parallelograms that have similar colors. The property estimates the number of story and rooms in the same floors by merging skewed parallelograms of the same color. We accomplish the result of image segmentation using multiple features and the geometrical properties analysis of object through experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.265-268
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• 2011

본 논문은 시각 장애인 및 보도 보행에 어려움을 갖는 사람들에게 안전한 보도 보행을 돕기 위한 보도 및 차도 영역 추출을 위해 보도 및 차도의 라인검출 기법을 제안한다. 사람의 눈높이에서 영상을 취득, 자연영상에서 입력된 잡음 및 노이즈를 제거하고, 캐니 에지 맵 추출, 허프 변환을 통해 보도/차도의 라인을 추출한다. 추출된 라인은 본 논문에서 제안한 방법으로 유효라인을 얻게 되며, 얻어진 유효 라인의 교점을 통해 소실점 영역을 생성, 이후 추출되는 라인의 기준이 된다. 제안된 방법은 자연영상의 보도 위치에서 보도와 차도의 올바른 라인을 추출하는데 강인함을 실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.121-124
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• 2010

본 논문은 시각 장애인 및 보도 보행에 어려움을 갖는 사람들에게 안전한 보도 보행을 돕기 위한 보도 및 차도 영역 추출을 위해 보도 및 차도의 라인검출 기법을 제안한다. 사람의 눈높이에서 영상을 취득, 자연영상에서 입력된 잡음 및 노이즈를 제거하고, 캐니 에지 맵 추출, 허프 변환을 통해 보도/차도의 라인을 추출한다. 추출된 라인은 본 논문에서 제안한 방법으로 유효라인을 얻게 되며, 얻어진 유효 라인의 결합으로 삼각 표본을 생성하여 보도의 영역을 추출 하게 된다. 제안된 방법은 자연영상의 보도 위치에서 보도와 차도의 올바른 라인을 추출하는데 강인함을 실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.329-338
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• 2011

Recent augmentation reality demands more realistic multimedia data with the mixture of various media. High-technology for multimedia data which combines existing media data with various media such as audio and video dominates entire media industries. In particular, there is a growing need to serve augmentation reality, 3-dimensional contents and realtime interaction system development which are communication method and visualization tool in Internet. The existing services do not correspond to generate depth value for 3-dimensional space structure recovery which is to form solidity in existing contents. Therefore, it requires research for effective depth-map generation using 2-dimensional video. Complementing shortcomings of existing depth-map generation method using 2-dimensional video, this paper proposes an enhanced depth-map generation method that defines the depth direction in regard to loss location in a video in which none of existing algorithms has defined.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.52-57
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• 2006

One of the important functions of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is to classify vehicle types using a vision system. We propose a method using machine-learning algorithms for this classification problem with 3-D object model fitting. It is also necessary to detect road lanes from a fixed traffic surveillance camera in preparation for model fitting. We apply a background mask and line analysis algorithm based on statistical measures to Hough Transform (HT) in order to remove noise and false positive road lanes. The results show that this method is quite efficient in terms of quality.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.125-135
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• 1997

This paper is concerned with realistic mainpulation of content in video sequences. Manipulation of content in video sequences is one of the content-based functionalities for MPEG-4 Visual standard. We present an approach to synthesizing video sequences by using the intermediate outputs of three-dimensional (3D) motion and depth analysis. For concreteness, we focus on video showing 3D motion of an observer relative to a scene containing planar runways (or roads). We first present a simple runway (or road) model. Then, we describe a method of identifying the runway (or road) boundary in the image using the Point of Heading Direction (PHD) which is defined as the image of, the ray along which a camera moves. The 3D motion of the camera is obtained from one of the existing 3D analysis methods. Then, a video sequence containing a runway is manipulated by (i) coloring the scene part above a vanishing line, say blue, to show sky, (ii) filling in the occluded scene parts, and (iii) overlaying the identified runway edges and placing yellow disks in them, simulating lights. Experimental results for a real video sequence are presented.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.49-54
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• 2002

In this paper we propose the methodology for 3D background image construction in computer games. This methodology was developed based on TIP (Tour Into the Picture) using a vanishing line Proposed by Kang et at. The methodology Proposed in this study can simply implement a 3D background for a computer game with a background model which is very complex or based on a real picture. Compared to the graphics technologies generally used, the proposed methodology does not need the process of modeling elaborate 3D information of a background, and hence can display the background even on a low grade personal computer using a small reference image. TIP technology was successfully applied to the implementation of a background model for a computer game and was found to be appropriate especially for real time games.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.1855-1862
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• 2010

In virtual reality, there are increasing qualitative development in service technologies for realtime interaction system development, 3- dimensional contents, 3D TV and augment reality services. These services experience difficulties to generate depth value that is essential to recover 3D space to form solidity on existing contents. Hence, research for the generation of effective depth-map using 2D is necessary. This thesis will describe a shortcoming of an existing depth-map generation for the recovery of 3D space using 2D image and will propose an enhanced depth-map generation algorithm that complements a shortcoming of existing algorithms and utilizes the definition of depth direction based on the vanishing point within image.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• no.38
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• pp.48-56
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• 2003

This study is purposed to find the transition of the perspective connected with visual modality. The perspective based on Greek optics and euclidean geometry and rediscovered in Renaissance represents the object according to the particular moment and the point of view, is a principal fact which affect architecture, the form of a city and the spatial organization and symbolizes an ideal of the times. It embodied perception which treats the space rationally on the basis of realism and became visual modality based on the separation of the seeing subject and the world of the object. The point of view became one with the vanishing point which made up the shape and after Renaissance for four hundred years a straight line, a right angle and a circle got to be favorite geometrical choices in architecture. A fixed point of view of the subject is getting to change and break up fundamentally by the new visual technologies of the modem times.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1996.10b
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• pp.97-100
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• 1996

In this paper, we describe an algorithm which estimate road following direction using the vanishing point property and obstacle detection. This method of detecting the lane markers in a set of continuous lane highway images using linear approximation is presented. This algorithm is designed for accurate and robust extraction of this data as well as high processing speed. Also, this algorithm reckon distance and chase about an obstacle. It include four algorithms which are lane prediction, lane extraction, road following parameter estimation and obstacle detection algorithm. High accuracy was proven by quantitative evaluation using simulated images. Both robustness and the practicality of real time video rate processing were then confirmed through experiment using VTR real road images.