• 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.1-12
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• 2005

Image registration is a process to establish the spatial correspondence between images of the same scene, which are acquired at different view points, at different times, or by different sensors. This paper presents a new algorithm for robust registration of the images acquired by multiple sensors having different modalities; the EO (electro-optic) and IR(infrared) ones in the paper. The two feature-based and intensity-based approaches are usually possible for image registration. In the former selection of accurate common features is crucial for high performance, but features in the EO image are often not the same as those in the R image. Hence, this approach is inadequate to register the E0/IR images. In the latter normalized mutual Information (nHr) has been widely used as a similarity measure due to its high accuracy and robustness, and NMI-based image registration methods assume that statistical correlation between two images should be global. Unfortunately, since we find out that EO and IR images don't often satisfy this assumption, registration accuracy is not high enough to apply to some applications. In this paper, we propose a two-stage NMI-based registration method based on the analysis of statistical correlation between E0/1R images. In the first stage, for robust registration, we propose two preprocessing schemes: extraction of statistically correlated regions (ESCR) and enhancement of statistical correlation by filtering (ESCF). For each image, ESCR automatically extracts the regions that are highly correlated to the corresponding regions in the other image. And ESCF adaptively filters out each image to enhance statistical correlation between them. In the second stage, two output images are registered by using NMI-based algorithm. The proposed method provides prospective results for various E0/1R sensor image pairs in terms of accuracy, robustness, and speed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.42-47
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• 2005

In this papcr, we address the 3D reconstruction of the indoor circumstance using what the data is extracted by a pall of image from Stereo Camera. Generally sucaking, there arc three methods to extract 3-Dimensional data using IR sensor, Laser sensor and Stereo camera sensor. The best is stereo camera sensor which can show a high performance at a reasonable price. We used 'Window Correlation Matching Method' to extract 3-Dimensional data in stereo image. We proposed new Method to reduce error data, said 'Histogram Weighted Hough Transform'. Owing to this mettled, we reduced error data in each stereo image. So reconstruction is well done. 3-Dimensional Reconstruction is accomplished by using the DirectX that is well known as 3D-Game development tool. We show that the stereo camera can be not only used to extract 3-dimensional data but also applied to reconstruct the 3-Dimensional circumstance. And we try to reduce the error data using various method.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.982-990
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• 2010

In a target tracking system using image information from a CCD (Charged Couple Device) or an IIR (Imaging Infra-red) sensor, occluded targets can result in track losses. If the target is occlued by background objects such as buildings or trees, probability of track existence will be reduced sharply and track will be terminated due to track maintenance algorithms. This paper proposes data association algorithm based on target existence for the robust tracking performance. we suggest the HPDA (Highest Probability Data Association) algorithm based on target existence and the tracking performance is compared with the established method based on target perceivability. Image tracking simulation that utilizes virtual 3D images and real IR images is employed to evaluate the robustness of the proposed tracking algorithm.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.646-649
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• 2009

최근 가정에서 사용되고 기기 중 원격제어기(Remote controller)로 제어가 가능한 기기가 늘어나고 있다. 이에 따라 여러 기기들이 있는 경우 사용자는 기기들을 동시 제어하려 할 때 제어하고자 하는 제어대상에 맞는 원격제어기를 찾기 위해 많은 시간을 소비하는 경우가 일반적이다. 이러한 불편함이 증가함에 따라 통합원격제어기(Universal remote controller)의 보급이 증가하고 있으나, 여전히 여러 기기를 동시제어하고자 할 경우 제어코드의 입력 등 복잡한 절차를 걸쳐 사용할 수 밖에 없으며, 이러한 점은 결국 통합원격제어기의 사용성을 현저히 약화시킨다. 본 고에서는 인간이 제어대상기기를 제어하고자 하는 의도를 원격제어기에 전달하는 여러 방법 중 인간이 물체를 인식하는 것과 동일한 메타포인 직관적인 '지시(Pointing)'법을 사용하여 실시간으로 다중기기를 통합 제어하는 방법, 즉 지시통합제어방법(Point and Control)에 대한 센서 및 하드웨어구조를 설명하고, 구동방식을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.262-263
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• 2012

다중 센서의 영상, 예를 들어 가시광 영상과 적외선 영상은 서로 다른 특징을 가지고 있기 때문에 본 논문에서는 IR 영상의 특징을 보존한 새로운 혼합기법을 제안하다. 이러한 혼합기법은 의료 영상, 보안 영상 등에서 매우 중요하고 다양하게 다루어진다. 일반적인 혼합기법을 사용하게 되면 영상간의 특색 때문에 혼합 시 조화롭지 못하는 문제점을 가진다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 중요도 맵을 추출하고 그 영역에 대하여 포아송 블랜딩을 통해 두 개의 다른 특징을 가시광 영상을 혼합한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 기존의 연구와 다르게 혼합할 영역을 수동으로 지정하는 것이 아니라 자동적으로 추출하고, 가시광 영상에 IR 영상에서만 검출되는 영역을 결합한 새로운 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.19-26
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose an efficient design method for a thermal camera with continuous zoom based on the research and manufacturing experience of the thermal camera. In addition, it is divided into system design method, optical design method, mechanical design method, and electronic design method. First, we propose an effective NUC compensation method and a lens-specific sensitivity design method in terms of system. Second, we propose a zoom trajectory design method considering the temperature effect on the optical aspect. Third, it suggests the minimization of optical axis shaking between magnification conversion in terms of mechanism. Finally, we propose a lens-specific temperature compensation method and a speed conversion algorithm according to the zoom interval as an electronic aspect.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.868-875
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• 2006

The localization is one of the most important issues for mobile robot. This paper describes a novel localization system for the development of a location sensing network. The system comprises wirelessly controlled infrared landmarks and an image sensor which detects the pixel positions of infrared sources. The proposed localization system can operate irrespective of the illumination condition in the indoor environment. We describe the operating principles of the developed localization system and report the performance for mobile robot localization and navigation. The advantage of the developed system lies in its robustness and low cost to obtain location information as well as simplicity of deployment to build a robot location sensing network. Experimental results show that the developed system outperforms the state-of-the-art localization methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.485-494
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• 2017

This study focuses on automatic image registration between multiple IR images using simple preprocessing method and modified local feature extraction algorithm. The input images were preprocessed by using the median and absolute value after histogram equalization, and it could be effectively applied to reduce the brightness difference value between images by applying the similarity of extracted features to the concept of angle instead of distance. The results were evaluated using visual and inverse RMSE methods. The features that could not be achieved by the existing local feature extraction technique showed high image matching reliability and application convenience. It is expected that this method can be used as one of the automatic registration methods between multi-sensor images under specific conditions.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.31-36
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• 2017

In this paper, designed infrared (IR) emitter device for infrared scene projector (IRSP) which is used for evaluating the performance of IR sensor systems was simulated by using finite element analysis (FEA) tool and fabricated by using MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical System) technology. The performance of the fabricated IR emitter unit device was characterized in the vacuum chamber by using IR image microscope for MWIR($3{\sim}5{\mu}m$), which showed 423K apparent temperature (Tapp) and 22msec time constant (${\tau}$).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.12
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• pp.1097-1104
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• 2016

The infrared camera is difficult to satisfy the RE-102 specification of Mil-Std-461. Especially, in the case of UAV electronics, shielded cable is not used, so it is difficult to meet the electromagnetic compatibility standard. In the RE-102 test of the IR camera for UAV, radiated noise exceeding 30 dBuV/m was observed in the range of 50 MHz to 200 MHz. As a result of pcb em scan, peak noise which caused by the harmonic frequency of the digital control signal clock was observed. Radiated noise was reduced by up to 22.9 dBuV/m by applying the spread spectrum clock generator(SSCG) with 3 % down spreading method to the camera control clock.