• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅲ
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• pp.1279-1282
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• 2003

Estimation of human motion states is important enabling technologies for realizing a pervasive computing environment. In this paper, an improved method fur estimating human motion state from accelerometer data is introduced. Our method fur estimating human motion state utilizes various statistics of accelerometer data, such as mean, standard variation, skewness, kurtosis, eccentricity, as features for classification, and therefore is expected to be more robust than other existing methods that rely on only a few simple statistics. A series of experiments fur testing the effectiveness of the proposed method has been performed, and its result is presented.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.277-285
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• 2016

Moving object detection system has been an emerging research field in various advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and surveillance system. In this paper, we propose two optical flow based moving object detection methods at dynamic scenes. Both proposed methods consist of three successive steps; pre-processing, foreground segmentation, and post-processing steps. Two proposed methods have the same pre-processing and post-processing steps, but different foreground segmentation step. Pre-processing calculates mainly optical flow map of which each pixel has the amplitude of motion vector. Dense optical flows are estimated by using Farneback technique, and the amplitude of the motion normalized into the range from 0 to 255 is assigned to each pixel of optical flow map. In the foreground segmentation step, moving object and background are classified by using the optical flow map. Here, we proposed two algorithms. One is Gaussian mixture model (GMM) based background subtraction, which is applied on optical map. Another is adaptive thresholding based foreground segmentation, which classifies each pixel into object and background by updating threshold value column by column. Through the simulations, we show that both optical flow based methods can achieve good enough object detection performances in dynamic scenes.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.836-846
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• 2023

Mobile robots are used in modern life; however, object recognition is still insufficient to realize robot navigation in crowded environments. Mobile robots must rapidly and accurately recognize the movements and shapes of pedestrians to navigate safely in pedestrian-rich spaces. This study proposes real-time, accurate, three-dimensional (3D) multi-pedestrian detection and tracking using a 3D light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point cloud in crowded environments. The pedestrian detection quickly segments a sparse 3D point cloud into individual pedestrians using a lightweight convolutional autoencoder and connected-component algorithm. The multi-pedestrian tracking identifies the same pedestrians considering motion and appearance cues in continuing frames. In addition, it estimates pedestrians' dynamic movements with various patterns by adaptively mixing heterogeneous motion models. We evaluate the computational speed and accuracy of each module using the KITTI dataset. We demonstrate that our integrated system, which rapidly and accurately recognizes pedestrian movement and appearance using a sparse 3D LiDAR, is applicable for robot navigation in crowded spaces.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.681-684
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• 2008

We proposed a method to improve moving object detection capability of Gaussian Mixture Model by suggesting shape adaptive bidirectional block matching algorithm. This method achieves more accurate detection and tracking performance at various motion types such as slow, fast, and bimodal motions than that of Gaussian Mixture Model. Experimental results showed that the proposed method outperformed the conventional methods.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권9호
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• pp.1120-1131
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• 2016

본 논문은 흡연으로 인한 화재사고 방지를 위해, 비디오 영상에서 흡연자를 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 흡연자의 행동을 인식하기 위해 행동 인식 기법의 계층적 방법 중 서술 기반 접근 방법을 기반으로 제안하는 알고리즘은 배경 영역 분리, 객체 검출, 이벤트 탐지, 이벤트 판단 과정으로 구성된다. 배경 영역 분리 과정으로 학습률이 다른 두 개의 가우시안 혼합 모델을 이용하여 입력 영상으로부터 고속 움직임 전경, 저속 움직임 전경 영상을 생성하고, 저속움직임 전경 영상을 chain-rule 기반 외곽선 검출 알고리즘을 통하여 객체의 위치를 추출해낸다. 위치 정보를 기반으로 흡연자의 세 가지 특징인 얼굴, 연기, 손의 움직임을 이벤트 탐지 과정에서 검출한다. Haar-like feature를 이용하여 얼굴을 검출하며, 고속 움직임 전경에서 연기의 발생 빈도수와 방향성을 반영하여 연기를 검출한다. 움직임 추정을 통해 반복적인 손의 움직임을 검출한다. 일정 구간의 비디오 시퀀스 내 객체들에 대하여, 검출된 특징들의 서술적 관계를 반영하여 각각의 객체가 흡연자인지 판단한다. 제안하는 방법은 실시간으로 여러 다른 객체들 사이에서 강인하게 흡연자를 검출한다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2018

This paper proposes a robust digital video stabilization algorithm to extract and track an object, which uses a phase correlation-based motion correction. The proposed video stabilization algorithm consists of background stabilization based on motion estimation and extraction of a moving object. The motion vectors can be estimated by calculating the phase correlation of a series of frames in the eight sub-images, which are located in the corner of the video. The global motion vector can be estimated and the image can be compensated by using the multiple local motions of sub-images. Through the calculations of the phase correlation, the motion of the background can be subtracted from the former frame and the compensated frame, which share the same background. The moving objects in the video can also be extracted. In this paper, calculating the phase correlation to track the robust motion vectors results in the compensation of vibrations, such as movement, rotation, expansion and the downsize of videos from all directions of the sub-images. Experimental results show that the proposed digital image stabilization algorithm can provide continuously stabilized videos and tracking object movements.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.191-198
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• 2013

본 논문은 스테레오 동영상에서 깊이 정보와 움직임 정보를 이용하여 좌영상과 우영상이 바뀐 것을 검출하는 기법을 제안한다. 스테레오 정합 기법을 통해 깊이 정보를 얻어 영상을 전경과 배경 영역으로 나누고 움직임 추정 기법을 이용해 움직임 벡터를 얻는다. 제안 기법은 전경이 인접한 배경 쪽으로 움직이거나 배경이 인접한 전경 쪽으로 움직였을 때 가려짐이 발생하는 영역이 배경이라는 것을 이용한다. 그러나 좌영상과 우영상이 바뀐 경우에는 깊이 정보가 반대로 얻어져 전경과 배경 영역도 반대로 얻어지므로 위와 같은 움직임이 있을 경우에 가려짐이 발생하는 영역은 전경이다. 따라서 좌영상과 우영상이 바뀐 것을 검출할 수 있다. 모의실험을 통해 제안 기법이 전경에 의해 배경 영역이 충분히 가려지는 경우 높은 검출률을 보임을 알 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.82-86
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• 2004

A fuzzy rule-based hand-motion estimation algorithm is proposed for a 6 dimensional spatial tracker in which low cost accelerometers and gyros are employed. To be specific, beginning and stopping of hand motions needs to be accurately detected to initiate and terminate integration process to get position and pose of the hand from accelerometer and gyro signals, since errors due to noise and/or hand-shaking motions accumulated by integration processes. Fuzzy rules of yes or no of hand-motion-detection are here proposed for rules of accelerometer signals, and sum of derivatives of accelerometer and gyro signals. Several experimental results and shown to validate our proposed algorithms.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.383-388
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• 2005

Depth recovery in robot vision is an essential problem to infer the three dimensional geometry of scenes from a sequence of the two dimensional images. In the past, many studies have been proposed for the depth estimation such as stereopsis, motion parallax and blurring phenomena. Among cues for depth estimation, depth from lens translation is based on shape from motion by using feature points. This approach is derived from the correspondence of feature points detected in images and performs the depth estimation that uses information on the motion of feature points. The approaches using motion vectors suffer from the occlusion or missing part problem, and the image blur is ignored in the feature point detection. This paper presents a novel approach to the defocus technique based depth from lens translation using sequential SVD factorization. Solving such the problems requires modeling of mutual relationship between the light and optics until reaching the image plane. For this mutuality, we first discuss the optical properties of a camera system, because the image blur varies according to camera parameter settings. The camera system accounts for the camera model integrating a thin lens based camera model to explain the light and optical properties and a perspective projection camera model to explain the depth from lens translation. Then, depth from lens translation is proposed to use the feature points detected in edges of the image blur. The feature points contain the depth information derived from an amount of blur of width. The shape and motion can be estimated from the motion of feature points. This method uses the sequential SVD factorization to represent the orthogonal matrices that are singular value decomposition. Some experiments have been performed with a sequence of real and synthetic images comparing the presented method with the depth from lens translation. Experimental results have demonstrated the validity and shown the applicability of the proposed method to the depth estimation.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 제39회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1735-1736
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• 2008

In this research, a riding robot system named as "RideBot" is developed for health-care and entertainments. The developed riding robot can follow the intention of horseman and can simulate the motion of horse. The riding robot mechanisms are used for many functions of attitude detection, motion sensing, recognition, common interface and motion-generations. This riding robot can react on health conditions, bio-signals and intention informations of user. One of the objectives of this research is that the riding robot could catch user motion and operate spontaneous movements. In this paper, we develope the saddle mechanism which can generate 3 degrees-of-freedom riding motion based on the intention of horseman. Also, we develope reins and spur mechanism for the recognition of the horseman's intention estimation and the bio-signal monitoring system for the health care function of a horseman. In order to evaluate the performance of the riding robot system, we tested several riding motions including slow and normal step motion, left and right turn motion.