• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.88-96
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• 2021

In surface image velocimetry, a wide area of a river is photographed at an angle to measure its velocity, inevitably causing image distortion. Although a distorted image can be corrected into an orthogonal image by using 2D projective coordinate transformation and considering reference points on the same plane as the water surface, this method is limited by the uncertainty of changes in the water level in the event of a flood. Therefore, in this study, we developed a tilt image correction technique that corrects distortions in oblique images without resetting the reference points while coping with changes in the water level using the geometric relationship between the coordinates of the reference points set at a high position the camera, and the vertical distance between the water surface and the camera. Furthermore, we developed a distortion correction method to verify the corrected image, wherein we conducted a full-scale river experiment to verify the reference point transformation equation and measure the surface velocity. Based on the verification results, the proposed tilt image correction method was found to be over 97% accurate, whereas the experiment result of the surface velocity differed by approximately 4% as compared to the results calculated using the proposed method, thereby indicating high accuracy. Application of the proposed method to an image-based fixed automatic discharge measurement system can improve the accuracy of discharge measurement in the event of a flood when the water level changes rapidly.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.421-437
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• 2003

In order to calculate the position of parcel boundary points, the area of the Parcel, and the length of the parcel boundary lines using a digitalized cadastral map or maps, the distortion of the map has to be corrected. The correction methods, such as the method of 2D affine transformation using 4 comer points of the edge lines, the method of tessellation into 9 subregions, the method of using the original surveying sheets, and the method of straightening the 4 edge lines, have been developed. In this Paper, the four methods were programed and applied to some sample cadastral maps and the correction accuracies were obtained and analysed. No method could prefectly correct the distortions because the distortions were irregular throughout the maps. However, it is found that tile method of straightening the 4 edge lines is the one which can minimize the distortions when the method is applied after applying the 2D projective transformation on the maps using the 4 comer points of the edges.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.829-832
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• 2004

실제영상으로 가상환경을 구축해서 사용자가 가상환경을 돌아다님으로써 보다 큰 몰입감과 현실감을 제공하는 영상기반 가상현실 기술은 최근 들어 웹 기반 가상현실시스템을 구축하기 위해서 많이 사용된다. 이 기술은 가상환경 구축에 있어 항해를 쉽게 하기 위한 한 방법으로 넓은 시각 영역(field of view)을 얻을 수 있는 wide-angle 렌즈를 흔히 사용한다. 어안렌즈(fish-eye lens)는 전형적인 넓은 시각 영역을 가진 렌즈로서, 매우 큰 radial distortion 을 가진다. 왜곡을 없앤 영상을 얻기 위해 본 논문에서는 구면기하(spherical geometry) 및 사영기하(projective geometry)를 사용하여 어안영상을 보정하는 non-metric기법을 제안한다. 제안한 이 방법은, 기존의 방법들 보다는 쉽고 빠른 속도로 왜곡을 보정할 수 있으므로 어안영상의 왜곡을 보정하는 하드웨어를 효율적으로 구현할 수 있다. 그리고 spheroid 를 이용해 좀 더 왜곡을 정확히 보정방법과 별도의 서보 모터 없이 pan/title 를 가능케 하는 시점이동에 따른 왜곡 보정 방법을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.27-37
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• 2004

The detection of foreground objects in a projection display using color information can be hard due to changing lighting conditions and complex backgrounds. Accordingly, the current paper proposes a foreground object detection method using color information that is obtained from the input image to the Projector and an image captured by a camera above the projection display. After pixel correspondences between the two images are found by calibrating the geometry distortion and color distortion, the natural color variations are estimated for the projection display. Then, any pixel that has another variation not resulting from natural geometry or color distortion is considered a part of foreground objects, because a foreground object in a projection display changes the values of pixels. As shown by experimental results, the proposed foreground detection method is applicable to an interactive projection display system such as the DigitalDesk

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.24 no.4 s.175
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• pp.991-1000
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• 2000

Previous area-based stereo matching algorithms find the disparity by first computing the sum of squared differences (SSD) between corresponding points using a rectangular window, and then searching the position of the minimum SSD within the disparity range. These algorithms generate relatively many matching errors around depth discontinuities, since the SSD function may fail to search for the minimum because of varying disparity profiles in such areas. In this paper, in order to improve the matching accuracy around the depth discontinuities, a new correlation function based on robust estimation technique is proposed for stereo matching. In addition, while previous stereo algorithms utilize a single rectangular window for computing the correlation function, the proposed matching algorithm utilizes 4-directional line masks additionally to reduce the matching errors further. It has been turned out that the proposed algorithm reduces matching errors around depth discontinuities significantly. Experimental results are presented in this paper, comparing the performance of the proposed technique with those of previous algorithms using both synthetic and real images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.78-81
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• 2012

In this paper, we proposed the new vehicle license plates detection method which is available in a various fields, including vehicle access control, illegal parking and speeding vehicle crack down. First, we binarize an image by using difference of gaussian filter to find a sequence of numbers of plates. Second, we determine the plate region by labeling repeatedly using the morphological characteristics of the plates. Finally, we use a projective transformation for correcting the distortion that occurs because of the camera or the location of the vehicle.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.13-24
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• 2011

This paper deals with a 3D-pose (orientation and position) estimation problem of a circular object in 3D-space. Circular features can be found with many objects in real world, and provide crucial cues in vision-based object recognition and location. In general, as a circular feature in 3D space is perspectively projected when imaged by a camera, it is difficult to recover fully three-dimensional orientation and position parameters from the projected curve information. This paper therefore proposes a 3D pose estimation method of a circular feature using a coplanar point. We first interpret a circular feature with a coplanar point in both the projective space and 3D space. A procedure for estimating 3D orientation/position parameters is then described. The proposed method is verified by a numerical example, and evaluated by a series of experiments for analyzing accuracy and sensitivity.