• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.13-16
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• 2000

This paper presents a robust method to combine a collection of images with small fields of view to obtain an image with a large field of view. In the previous works, there are two main areas which one is a cross correlation-based method and the other is a feature-based method. The former is based on motion estimation from video sequences. so there are a problem on rotating a camera about optical axis. In the latter method, it is difficult to match correspondence feature points correctly.'re find correct correspondences, we proposed the geometrical feature model and correspondence filters and the Gaussian distribution weight function to blend the images smoothly. The experiments show that our method is robust and effective.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.3
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• pp.311-318
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 중첩되는 영상사이의 평면 투영 변환을 구하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법은 정규상관과 직사각형-사변형 평면 투영 변환에 기반 한다. 블록 정합을 이용하여 전역 이동을 계산하고, 중첩되는 영역의 정규 상관 계수 값을 최대로 하는 4개의 대응점을 찾기 위하여 가우시안 영상 피라미드에서 SA(simulated annealing) 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 이들 대응점에서 직사각형-사변형으로의 사상을 이용하여 평면 투영 변환을 계산하고, 마지막으로 중첩되는 영역의 RGB 컬러 값을 선형 가중치에 의해 혼합하였다. 실험으로 세 장의 영상을 한 장읠 큰 모자익 영상으로 합성하는 결과를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.65-66
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• 2014

좁은지역에 대한 지형정보의 획득은 저고도 UAV시스템을 이용하는 것이 경제적이다. 최근 자동항법 UAV의 발전은 저고도 고해상도 영상을 원하는 주기로 얻을 수 있어 많은 분야에 응용하고 있다. 이러한 UAV시스템은 지상관제센터와 비행체 간의 긴밀한 통신이 이루어져야 하며 촬영 중 영상의 획득 여부를 모니터링할 수 있어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 NASA가 개발한 Worldwind를 커스터마이징하여 실시간 영상획득 모니터링 s/w를 개발하였다. 또한 개발시스템을 이용하여 정사영상 모자익을 실시하였으며 이에대한 정확도 분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과 검사점에 대해 정사모자익영상의 수평위치 정확도를 분석한 결과 X좌표에서 평균 0.181m, Y좌표에서 평균 0.203m의 편차를 보임으로써 1:1,000~5,000축척의 수치지도제작이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.124-127
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• 1997

In this paper, we propose the new face detection and tracking angorithm in sequential images which have complex background. In order to apply face deteciton algorithm efficently, we convert the conventional RGB coordiantes into CIE coordonates and make the input images insensitive to luminace. And human face shapes and colors are learned using ueural network's backpropagation. For variable face size, we make mosaic size of input images vary and get the face location with various size through neural network. Besides, in sequential images, we suggest face motion tracking algorithm through image substraction processing and thresholding. At this time, for accurate face tracking, we use the face location of previous. image. Finally, we verify the real-time applicability of the proposed algorithm by the simple simulation.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.221-227
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• 2007

We present an analysis of urban development and growth with reconnaissance satellite photographs of Columbus metropolitan area acquired by the Corona program in 1965. A two-dimensional polynomial linear transformation was used to rectify the photos against United State Geological Survey (USGS) Large-scale Digital Line Graph (DLG) data georeferenced to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates. The boundaries of the Columbus metropolitan area were extracted from the rectified Corona image mosaic using a Bayesian approach to image segmentation. The inferred 1965 urban boundaries were compared with 1976 USGS Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) data and boundaries derived from 1988 and 1994 Landsat TM images. The urban area in and around Columbus approximately doubled from 1965 to 1994 (${\sim}110%$) along with population growth from 1960 to 1998 (${\sim}50%$). Most of the urban expansion results from development of residential units.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.665-672
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• 2023

Purpose: Underground utility tunnel is facility that is jointly house infrastructure such as electricity, water and gas in city, causing condensation problems due to lack of airflow. This paper aims to prevent electricity leakage fires caused by condensation by detecting whether the control panel door in the underground utility tunnel is open using a deep learning model. Method: YOLO, a deep learning object recognition model, is trained to recognize the opening and closing of the control panel door using video data taken by a robot patrolling the underground utility tunnel. To improve the recognition rate, image augmentation is used. Result: Among the image enhancement techniques, we compared the performance of the YOLO model trained using mosaic with that of the YOLO model without mosaic, and found that the mosaic technique performed better. The mAP for all classes were 0.994, which is high evaluation result. Conclusion: It was able to detect the control panel even when there were lights off or other objects in the underground cavity. This allows you to effectively manage the underground utility tunnel and prevent disasters.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.37-54
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• 1996

In this thesis, a new superimposition scheme using a computer vision system was proposed with 7 pairs of skull and ante-mortem photographs, which were already identified through other tests and DNA fingerprints at the Korea National Institute of Scientific Investigation. At this computer vision system, an unidentified skull was caught by video-camcoder with the MPEG and a ante-mortem photograph was scanned by scanner. These two images were processed and superimposed using pixel processing. Recognition of the individual identification by anatomical references was performed on the two superimposed images. These results were as followings. 1. For the enhancement of skull and ante-mortem photographs, various image processing schemes, such as SMOOTH, SHARPEN, EMBOSS, MOSAIC, ENGRAVE, INVERT, NEON and COLOR TO MONO, were applied using 3*5 window processing. As an image processing result of these methods, the optimal techniques were NEON, INVERT and ENGRAVE for the edge detection of skull and ante-mortem photograph. 2. Using various superimposition image processing techniques (SRCOR, SRCAND, SRCINVERT, SRCERASE, DSTINVERT, MERGEPAINT) were compared for the enhancement of image recognition. 3. By means of the video camera, the skull image was inputed directly to a computer system : superimposing it on the ante-mortem photograph made the identification more precise and time-saving. As mentioned above, this image processing techniques for the superimposition of skull and ante-mortem photographs simply used the previous approach, In other wrods, taking skull photographs and developing it to the same size as the ante-mortem photographs. This system using various image processing techniques on computer screen, a more precise and time-saving superimposition technique could be able to be applied in the area of individual identification in forensic practice.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.7
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• pp.1178-1188
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• 2003

In this paper, we describe image mosaicing techniques for constructing a large high-resolution image with images taken by a video camera in hand. we propose the method which is automatically retrieving the exact matching area using color information and shape information. The proposed method extracts first candidate areas which have similar form using a Voronoi Distance Matching Method which is rapidly estimating the correspondent points between adjacent images, and calculating initial transformations of them and finds the final matching area using color information. It is a method that creates Voronoi Surface which set the distance value among feature points and other points on the basis of each feature point of a image, and extracts the correspondent points which minimize Voronoi Distance in matching area between an input image and a basic image using the binary search method. Using the Levenberg-Marquadt method we turn an initial transformation matrix to an optimal transformation matrix, and using this matrix combine a basic image with a input image.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.49-56
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• 2008

Image registration is one of the critical techniques of image mosaic which has many applications such as generating panoramas, video monitoring, image rendering and reconstruction, etc. The fundamental tasks of image registration are point features extraction and tracking which take much computation time. KLT(Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) feature tracker has proposed for extracting and tracking features through image sequences. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the usage of effective and robust KLT feature detector and tracker for an image registration using the sequence image frames captured by UAV video camera. In result, by using iterative implementation of the KLT tracker, the features extracted from the first frame of image sequences could be successfully tracked through all frames. The process of feature tracking in the various frames with rotation, translation and small scaling could be improved by a careful choice of the process condition and KLT pyramid implementation.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.29-35
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• 2001

In general, image-based virtual environment is represented by panoramic images created by image mosaic algorithm. The cylindrical panoramic image supports the fixed-viewpoint navigation due to the constraints of construction. Shum proposed concentric mosaics to allow users to navigate freely within a circular area[10]. It is constructed by a sequence of images which is acquired from a regularly rotating camera. Concentric mosaics technique, proposed by Shum, is considered as 3D plenoptic function which is defined three parameters : distance, height and angle. In this paper, we suggest an effective method for creating concentric mosaics, in which we first align a set of strip images on the cylinder plane and stitch the aligned strips to build a panoramic image. The proposed method has no constraints such as regular panning motion of camera. Furthermore, our proposed method minimizes the use of interpolation image to create a novel view images from the concentric mosaics. It allows the result image on a novel view to have better quality with respect to the number of input images.