• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.277-285
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• 2010

This paper describes an approach to analyze geometrical information of building images for understanding outdoor environment of autonomous navigation robot. Line segments and color information are used to classily a building with the other objects such as sky, trees, and roads. The line segments and their two neighboring regions are extracted from detected edges in image. The model of line segment (MLS) consists of color information of neighbor regions. This model rules out the line segments of non-building face. A building face converges into dominant vanishing points (DVPs) which include one vertical point and one of five horizontal points in maximum. The intersection of vertical and horizontal lines creates a facet of building. The geometrical characteristics such as the center coordinates, area, aspect ratio and aligned coexistence are used for extracting the windows in the building facet. In experiments, 150 building faces and 1607 windows were detected from the database of outdoor environment. We found that this result shows 94.46% detection rate. These experimental images were all taken in Ulsan metropolitan city in Korea under difference of viewpoints, daytime, camera system and weather condition.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.21-30
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose lane detection and trackinB algerian using B-Snake as robust algorithm. One of chief virtues of Lane detection algorithm using B-Snake is that it is possible to specify a wider range of lane structure because B-Spline conform an arbitrary shape by control point set and that it doesn't use any camera parameter. Using a robust algorithm called CHVEP, we find the vanishing point, width of lane and mid-line of lane because of the perspective parallel line and then we can detect the both side of lane mark using B-snake. To demonstrate that this algorithm is robust against noise, shadow and illumination variations in road image, we tested this algorithm about various image divided by weather-fine, rainy and cloudy day. The percentage of correct lane detection is over 95$\%$.

• 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.

• 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 Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.321-329
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• 2015

This paper addresses a new algorithm for a stereo visual odometry to measure the ego-motion of a vehicle. The new algorithm introduces an inlier grouping method based on Delaunay triangulation and vanishing point computation. Most visual odometry algorithms rely on RANSAC in choosing inliers. Those algorithms fluctuate largely in processing time between images and have different accuracy depending on the iteration number and the level of outliers. On the other hand, the new approach reduces the fluctuation in the processing time while providing accuracy corresponding to the RANSAC-based approaches.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1891-1894
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 분할 영상 좌보계 (split image coordinate: SIC)를 제안하여 3차원 영상의 주요 특징 중의 하나인 유, 무한 소실점을 그 위치의 무한성이나 카메라의 보정과 관계없이 정확하게 자동 추출하였다. 제안한 방법에서는 가우시안 구 (Gaussian sphere) 기반의 기존 방법들과는 달리 영상 공간을 누적 공간으로 활용함으로써 카메라 보정이나 영상의 사전정보가 없어도 원 영상의 정보 손실 없이 소실점을 추출할 수 있고, 영상을 무한대까지 확장한 후 분할하여 재정의 함으로써 유, 무한 소실점을 모두 추출할 수 있도록 하였다. 정확한 소실점의 검출을 위하여 직선 검출 과정에서는 방향성 마스크 (mask)를 사용하였으며, 직선들의 군집화 (clustering) 과정에서는 기울기 히스토그램 방법과 수평/수직 군집화 방법을 적응적으로 적용하였다. 제안한 방법을 합성 영상 및 건축물 (man-made environment) 영상에 적용시켜 유, 무한 소실점들을 효과적이고 정확하게 찾을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.465-472
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• 2009

This paper proposes a multimodal information transformation system that converts the image information to the voice information to provide the sight impaired people with walking area and obstacles, which are extracted by an acquired image from a single CCD camera. Using a chain-code line detection algorithm, the walking area is found from the vanishing point and boundary of a sidewalk on the edge image. And obstacles are detected by Gabor filter of extracting vertical lines on the walking area. The proposed system expresses the voice information of pre-defined sentences, consisting of template words which mean walking area and obstacles. The multi-modal information transformation system serves the useful voice information to the sight impaired that intend to reach their destination. The experiments of the proposed algorithm has been implemented on the indoor and outdoor environments, and verified its superiority to exactly provide walking parameters sentences.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.797-807
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• 2008

This paper proposes a new algorithm of extracting forward vehicle areas using the acquired lanes and road area information on road images with complex background to improve the efficiency of the vehicle detection. In the first stage, lanes are detected by taking into account the connectivity among the edges which are determined from a method of chain code. Once the lanes proceeding to the same direction with the running vehicle are detected, neighborhood roadways are found from the width and vanishing point of the acquired roadway of the running vehicle. And finally, vehicle areas, where forward vehicles are located on the road area including the center and neighborhood roadways, are extracted. Therefore, the proposed scheme of extracting forward vehicle area improves the rate of vehicle detection on the road images with complex background, and is highly efficient because of detecting vehicles within the confines of the acquired vehicle area. The superiority of the proposed algorithm is verified from experiments of the vehicle detection on road images with complex background.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.19B no.4
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• pp.209-220
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an adaptive pavement region detection method that is robust to changes of structural patterns in a natural scene. In order to segment out a pavement reliably, we propose two step approaches. We first detect the borderline of a pavement and separate out the candidate region of a pavement using VRays. The VRays are straight lines starting from a vanishing point. They split out the candidate region that includes the pavement in a radial shape. Once the candidate region is found, we next employ the adaptive multi-seed region growing(A-MSRG) method within the candidate region. The A-MSRG method segments out the pavement region very accurately by growing seed regions. The number of seed regions are to be determined adaptively depending on the encountered situation. We prove the effectiveness of our approach by comparing its performance against the performances of seed region growing(SRG) approach and multi-seed region growing(MSRG) approach in terms of the false detection rate.