• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.300-309
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• 2018

Detection of vanishing point is a challenging task in the situations where there are several structures with straight lines. Commonly used approaches for determining vanishing points involves finding the straight lines using edge detection and Hough transform methods. This approach often fails to perform effectively when there are a lot of straight lines found. The lines not meeting at a vanishing point are considered to be noises. In such situation, finding right candidate lines for detecting vanishing points is not a simple task. This paper proposes to use reference objects for vanishing point detection. By analyzing a reference object, it identifies the contour of the object, and derives a polygon from the contour information. Then the edges of the detected polygon are used to find the vanishing points. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach can detect vanishing points with comparable accuracy to the existing edge detection based method. Our approach can also be applied effectively even to complex situations, where too many lines generated by the existing methods make it difficult to select right lines for the vanishing points.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.118-124
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• 1996

수동 소나 시스템에서 표적을 탐지, 식별하는데 가장 중요한 인자는 표적소음에서 나타나는 신호 주파수선 성분이다. 수중의 주변잡음과 표적소음이 복합된 환경에서 표적의 신호 주파수선 성분을 정확히 추출하는데는 신호 탐지 문턱값 설정이나 주변잡음의 변화 때문에 어려움이 따른다. 이 연구에서는 자동 연상 기억장치 신경망을 이용하여 신호 탐지 문턱값 설정이나 주변잡음의 변화에 강인한 음향 표적의 신호 주파수선 탐지 방식을 제안한다. 모의 실험 및 실제 표적 신호에 적용하여 제안한 방식이 우수한 신호 주파수선 탐지성능을 나타냄을 보인다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1217-1228
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• 2014

A method for faulted line detection of four parallel lines on the same tower is presented, based on four-summing and double-differential sequences of one terminal current. Four-summing and double-differential sequences of fault current can be calculated using a certain transformation matrix for parameter decoupling of four parallel transmission lines. According to fault boundary conditions, the amplitude and phase characteristics of four-summing and double-differential sequences of fault current is studied under conditions of different types of fault. Through the analysis of the relationship of terminal current and fault current, a novel methodology for fault line detection of four parallel transmission line on the same tower is put forward, which can pick out the fault lines no matter the fault occurs in single line or cross double lines. Simulation results validate that the methodology is correct and reliable under conditions of different load currents, transient resistances and fault locations.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.87-95
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• 2006

이 논문은 에지 검출을 위해 다른 컬러 영역사이의 테두리선을 삽입한 효과를 분석한다. 컬러코드를 인식하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안하지는 않는다. RFID 방식을 보상하고, 디지털 카메라의 이용률이 높아져서 컬러코드에 대한 관심이 매우 증가하고 있다. 그러나 컬러의 왜곡이 심해지면 컬러코드의 확산을 저하시키게 된다. 왜곡된 컬러의 효과를 감소시키기위해서 영역내 화소 각각의 특성보다 각 영역 전체의 화소를 통계적으로 처리하는 방법이 바람직하다. 이 처리를 위해서 영상 영역화가 필요하다. 연결되지 않은 에지를 검출하기 위해 인접 컬러 영역사이에 2 화소 크기의 테두리선을 삽입한다. 테두리선은 흰색, 검은색 경계선이 사용된다. 2 종류의 테두리선이 삽입된 영상에 대한 에지 검출이 수행되고, 그 결과가 테두리선이 삽입되지 않은 에지 검출 결과와 비교한다. 검은 테두리선을 삽입한 결과는 지퍼효과에 의해 에지 검출 능력이 저하되고, 흰 테두리선을 삽입한 결과는 삽입하지 않은 경우보다 에지 검출 능력이 향상되었다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2015

We present a robust power transmission lines detection method based on vanishing point estimation. Vanishing point estimation can be helpful to detect power transmission lines because parallel lines converge on the vanishing point in a projected 2D image. However, it is not easy to estimate the vanishing point correctly in an image with complex background. Thus, we first propose a vanishing point estimation method on power transmission lines by using a probabilistic voting procedure based on intersection points of line segments. In images obtained by our system, power transmission lines are located in a fan-shaped area centered on this estimated vanishing point, and therefore we select the line segments that converge to the estimated vanishing point as candidate line segments for power transmission lines only in this fan-shaped area. Finally, we detect the power transmission lines from these candidate line segments. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to noise and efficient to detect power transmission lines.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.642-651
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• 2015

소실점(vanishing point)이란 카메라 렌즈를 통해 3차원 공간을 2차원 영상으로 투영하는 과정에서 평행한 직선들이 수렴하는 점을 의미한다. 소실점 검출은 영상 내의 정보를 이용하여 소실점의 위치를 파악하는 것을 의미하며, 영상 내 지점들의 상대적인 거리를 파악하거나 장면 전체의 3차원 구조를 파악하는데 활용된다. 일반적으로 영상 내 평행한 직선들은 인공 구조물 내에 존재하는 경우가 많으므로 직선 검출 기반 소실점 검출 기법들은 인공 구조물 내의 직선들을 찾아 이들이 수렴하는 점을 소실점으로서 검출하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이 때, 영상 내에서 직선을 검출하기 위하여 먼저 에지 검출(edge detection)을 통해 에지 픽셀을 검출하고 그 결과를 허프 변환(Hough transform)하여 직선들을 찾아낸다. 그러나 각종 텍스쳐 및 노이즈 등 여러 원인들로 인해 위 과정에서 검출된 직선들이 모두 소실점을 지나지는 않는다. 따라서 검출된 직선들로부터 소실점을 정확히 검출하기 위해서는 각 직선에 대하여 소실점을 지날 가능성에 따라 다른 가중치를 부여하는 것이 필요한데 기존의 연구들은 가중치를 동일하게 부여하거나 단순한 수준의 가중치 계산을 적용해 왔다. 본 논문에서는 소실점을 지나는 직선들은 대부분 인공 구조물 내의 직선들임에 착안하여 직선에 가중치를 부여하는 새로운 방법을 제안하고 이를 이용한 소실점 검출 결과를 몇 가지 기존 방법들과 비교하였다. 그 결과, 기존 방법들에 비하여 소실점 추정 오류가 약 65% 감소하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.137-141
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• 2018

Detecting the ego-lane of a vehicle (the lane on which the vehicle is currently running) is one of the basic techniques for a smart car. Vision sensing is a widely-used method for the ego-lane detection. Existing studies usually find road lane lines by detecting edge pixels in the image from a vehicle camera, and then connecting the edge pixels using Hough Transform. However, this approach takes rather long processing time, and too many straight lines are often detected resulting in false detections in various road conditions. In this paper, we find the lane lines by scanning only a limited number of horizontal lines within a small image region of interest. The horizontal image line scan replaces the edge detection process of existing methods. Automatic thresholding and spatiotemporal filtering procedures are also proposed in order to make our method reliable. In the experiments using real road images of different conditions, the proposed method resulted in high success rate.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.799-806
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• 2011

This paper proposes an algorithm to detect the stop line and crosswalk on the road surface using edge information and blob coloring. The detection has been considered as an important area of autonomous vehicle technologies. The proposed algorithm is composed of three phases: 1) hypothesis generation of stop lines, 2) hypothesis generation of crosswalks, and 3) hypothesis verification of stop lines. The last two phases are not performed if the first phase does not provide a hypothesis of a stop line. The last one is carried out by the combination of both hypotheses of stop lines and crosswalks, and determines the stop lines among stop line hypotheses. The proposed algorithm is proven to be effective through experiments with various images captured on the roads.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권11호
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• pp.1879-1886
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a real-time recognition algorithm of lanes, stop lines and speed bumps on roads for autonomous vehicles. First, we generate a top-view using the image transmitted from a camera that is installed to see the front of a vehicle. To speed up the processing, we simplify the mapping algorithm in constructing a top-view wherein the region of interest (ROI) is concerned. The features of lanes, stop lines and speed bumps, which are composed of lines, are searched in the edge image of the top-view, then followed by labeling and clustering specialized to detect straight lines. The width of lines, distances from the center of a vehicle, and curvature of each cluster are considered to select final candidates. We verify the proposed algorithm on real roads using the commercial car (KIA K7) which is converted into an autonomous vehicle.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2017

Purpose: The aims of the present study were to compare the image quality and visibility of tooth cracks between conventional methods and swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) and to develop an automatic detection technique for tooth cracks by SS-OCT imaging. Methods: We evaluated SS-OCT with a near-infrared wavelength centered at 1,310 nm over a spectral bandwidth of 100 nm at a rate of 50 kHz as a new diagnostic tool for the detection of tooth cracks. The reliability of the SS-OCT images was verified by comparing the crack lines with those detected using conventional methods. After performing preprocessing of the obtained SS-OCT images to emphasize cracks, an algorithm was developed and verified to detect tooth cracks automatically. Results: The detection capability of SS-OCT was superior or comparable to that of trans-illumination, which did not discriminate among the cracks according to depth. Other conventional methods for the detection of tooth cracks did not sense initial cracks with a width of less than $100{\mu}m$. However, SS-OCT detected cracks of all sizes, ranging from craze lines to split teeth, and the crack lines were automatically detected in images using the Hough transform. Conclusions: We were able to distinguish structural cracks, craze lines, and split lines in tooth cracks using SS-OCT images, and to automatically detect the position of various cracks in the OCT images. Therefore, the detection capability of SS-OCT images provides a useful diagnostic tool for cracked tooth syndrome.