• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.87-94
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• 2007

Imbalances in focus, luminance and color between stereo Pairs could cause disparity vector estimation error and increment of transmission data. If the distribution of errors in residual image is large, it may influence to lowering of compression performance. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an efficient balancing method between stereo pairs to reduce the effect. For this, we registrated stereo images using a FFT based method to consider the pixels in the occluded region, we eliminated the pixels of blocks which has large error of disparity vector estimation in balancing function estimation. The balancing function has estimated using histogram specification, local information of target image and residual image between stereo images. Experiments show that the proposed method is effective in error distribution, PSNR and disparity vector estimation. We expect that our method can be improving compression efficiency in stereo coding system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.286-289
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• 2009

This paper presents an effective approach to minimize recursive computations for balancing stereo pairs by using disparity vector errors and its directional histogram. A stereo balancing function is computed from the correspondent pixels between two images, and a simple approach is to find the matching blocks of two images. However, this procedure requires recursive operation, and its computation cost is very high. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an efficient balance method using structural similarity index and a partial re-searching scheme to reduce the computation cost considerably. For this purpose, we determine if re-searching for each block is necessary or not by using the errors and the directional histogram of disparity vectors. Experiment results show that the performance of the proposed approach can save the computations significantly with ignorable image quality degradation compared with full re-search approach.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2016

Keeping a system in stable state is one of the important issues of control theory. The main goal of our basic research is stability of unmanned aerial vehicle (quadrotor). This type of system uses a variety of sensors to stabilize. In control theory and automatic control system to stabilize any system it is need to apply feedback control based on information from sensors. Our aim is to provide balance based on the 3D spatial information in real time. We used PID control method for stabilization of a seesaw balancing system and the article presents our experimental results. This paper presents the possibility of balancing of seesaw system based on feedback information from stereo vision system only.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.131-134
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 스테레오 좌.우 영상간의 휘도 불균형 보정에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 좌영상과 우영상의 관계를 선형관계 $(I_L = aI_R +b)$로서 가정하고 휘도 불균형을 보정한 기존 알고리듬(global balancing)의 문제점을 분석하였다. 또한 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 방법으로 두 가지 방법을 제안하는데 히스토그램 균일화를 통한 방법과 영상의 국부적 특징을 이용하여 선형변환을 적용하는 방법(local balancing)이 보다 정확한 변이벡터를 찾는 전처리 과정임을 모의실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.750-760
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• 2010

We propose a homology between thermodynamic systems and images for the treatment of time-varying imagery. A physical system colder than its surroundings absorbs heat from the surroundings. Furthermore, the absorbed heat increases the entropy of the system, which is closely related to its disorder as given by the definition of Clausius and Boltzmann. Because pixels of an image are viewed as a state of lattice-like molecules in a thermodynamic system, the task of reckoning the entropy variations of pixels is similar to estimating their degrees of disorder. We apply this homology to the uncalibrated stereo matching problem. The absence of calibrations alleviates user efforts to install stereo cameras and enables users to freely modify the composition of the cameras. The proposed method is also robust to differences in brightness, white balancing, and even focusing between stereo image pairs. These peculiarities enable users to estimate the depths of interesting objects in practical applications without much effort in order to set and maintain a stereo vision setup. Users can consequently utilize two webcams as a stereo camera.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.161-170
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• 2012

This paper presents an efficient and robust approach for determining the correspondence between unbalanced stereo images. The disparity vectors were used instead of feature points, such as corners, to calculate a correspondence relationship. For a faster and optimal estimation, the vectors were classified into several regions, and the homography of each region was calculated using the RANSAC algorithm. The correspondence image was calculated from the images transformed by each homography. Although it provided good results under normal conditions, it was difficult to obtain reliable results in an unbalanced stereo pair. Therefore, a balancing method is also proposed to minimize the unbalance effects using the histogram specification and structural similarity index. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach outperformed the baseline algorithms with respect to the speed and peak-signal-to-noise ratio. This work can be applied to practical fields including 3D depth map acquisition, fast stereo coding, 2D-to-3D conversion, etc.

• KSCI Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.173-177
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• 2007

3D 디스플레이 기술이 발전함에 따라 스테레오 영상의 전송시 요구되는 비트레이트의 감소가 절실히 필요하다. 하지만, 스테레오 영상은 서로 다른 카메라에 의해 취득되기 때문에 잠재적으로 서로 차이가 있고, 이것은 디스패리티 추정시 큰 오차를 유발할 수 있으며 전송될 비트레이트에 영향을 줄 수 있다. 따라서 스테레오 영상들 사이의 밸런싱이 필요하다. 스테레오 영상의 밸런싱을 위해, 본 논문에서는 히스토그램 Specification 방법과 타깃 영상의 국부정보, 스테레오 영상간의 오차 분포를 이용한다. 히스토그램 Specification 방법은 그레이레벨의 맵핑관계를 정의한다. 따라서 이를 통해 맵핑될 레벨의 맵핑 구간을 구할 수 있다. 그 구간에서, 맵핑될 기준영상의 히스토그램 분포와 스테레오 오차값의 분포는 서로 모양이 유사할 것이다. 그러나, 폐색된 영역이나 노이즈에 의해 그 모양이 변하므로 우리는 맵핑될 픽셀들을 오차영상에서 그 픽셀들의 근방에서 구한 평균들과 오른쪽 영상(타깃 영상)에서 맵핑될 픽셀의 근방에서 구한 평균이 최소 값을 갖는 위치 값으로 맵핑한다. 제안된 방법은 실험에서 기존 방법보다 향상된 결과를 나타내는 것을 보여 준다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.595-601
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• 2011

This paper presents balancing control of inverted pendulum on the ROBOKER arm using visual information. The angle of the inverted pendulum placed on the robot arm is detected by a stereo camera and the detected angle is used as a feedback and tracking error for the controller. Thus, the overall closed loop forms a visual servoing control task. To improve control performance, neural network is introduced to compensate for uncertainties. The learning algorithm of radial basis function(RBF) network is performed by the digital signal controller which is designed to calculate floating format data and embedded on a field programmable gate array(FPGA) chip. Experimental studies are conducted to confirm the performance of the overall system implementation.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.359-366
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• 2015

TMJ(TemporoMandibular Joint) is considered as the most important articulation in human body for maintaining the balance. Thus it is one of the main treatment areas in Chiropractic. Instead of Chiropractic treatment, NOSICK, a TMJ balancing device, can be used. As there is no such device to quantify the effect of NOSICK, a system was developed to measure the effect of NOSICK. This system is composed of stereo vision, infrared lights, and infrared through filter, etc. It requires optical markers for the measurement. 8 land markers were selected from the face which will show different displacement as NOSICK is applied. 11 test subjects were measured with the system developed with and without NOSICK applied. Quantifiable displacement of markers before and after applying NOSICK was successfully measured with the system developed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.2251-2259
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• 2009

We propose an algorithm and system which generates 3D stereo image by composition of 2D image from 4 multiple clusters which 1 cluster was composed of 4 multiple cameras based on network. Proposed Schemes have a network-based client-server architecture for load balancing of system caused to process a large amounts of data with real-time as well as multiple cluster environments. In addition, we make use of JPEG compression and RAM disk method for better performance. Our scheme first converts input images from 4 channel, 16 cameras to binary image. And then we generate 3D stereo images after applying edge detection algorithm such as Sobel algorithm and Prewiit algorithm used to get disparities from images of 16 multiple cameras. With respect of performance results, the proposed scheme takes about 0.05 sec. to transfer image from client to server as well as 0.84 to generate 3D stereo images after composing 2D images from 16 multiple cameras. We finally confirm that our scheme is efficient to generate 3D stereo images in multiple view and multiple clusters environments with real-time.