• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.36-48
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• 2010

This paper is concerned with stereo vision-based approach to detect obstacles and to generate the path of destination from the start. The hexapod robot in the experiment is cable of walking by legs and driving by wheels simultaneously. The hexapod robot operates under the driving mode normally, and it changes driving mode to walking mode to overcome obstacles using its legs. Disparity map, which is the correlation between two images taken by stereo camera, is employed for calculation of the distance between the robot and obstacles. When the obstacles information is extracted from the disparity map, the potential field algorithm is applied to create the obstacle-avoidance path. Simulator, based on OpenGL, is developed to generate the graphical path, and the experimental results are shown for the verification of the proposed algorithm.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.01a
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• pp.79-80
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• 2000

General stereo vision system shows things in 3D, using two visions of left and right side. When the viewpoints of left/right sides are not in accord with each other, it gives fatigue to human eyes and prevents them from having the 3-D feeling. Also, it would be difficult to track mobile objects that are not in the middle of a screen. Therefore, the object tracking function of stereo vision system is to control tracking objects to always be in the middle of a screen while controlling convergence angles of mobile objects in the input image of the left/right cameras. In this paper, object-tracker in stereo vision system is presented which would track mobile objects by using block matching algorithm of preprocessing and JTC.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.79-85
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• 2004

In this paper, an iterative algorithm for stereo registration is proposed. The proposed algorithm is used for reconstructing virtual environment in a virtual studio. The second order error function is employed for stereo registration. The disparity information is obtained by minimizing the error function in an iterative manner. The variable window sizes are used to cope with the projection error and occlusion problem in the stereo vision. The depth information obtained from two pairs of stereo images is used for creating virtual environment by Z-Mixing. The experiment results proves the possibility of applying the proposed algorithm to virtual studio.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.36-42
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• 2002

This paper presents the way of building an occupancy grid map which a mobile robot needs to autonomously navigate in the unknown environment. A disparity map resulting from stereo matching can be converted into the 2D distance information. If the stereo matching has some errors, however, the subsequent map becomes unreliable. In this paper, a new morphological filter is proposed to reject 'spikes' of the disparity map due to stereo mismatch by considering the fact that these spikes occur locally. The new method has advantages that it is simpler and more easily realized than existing similar algorithms. Several occupancy grid maps based on stereo vision using the proposed algorithm have been built and compared with the actual distance information to verify the validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.83-88
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• 2011

Abstract. Image segmentation is always a challenging task in computer vision as well as in pattern recognition. Nowadays, this method has great importance in the field of stereo vision. The disparity information extracting from the binocular image pairs has essential relevance in the fields like Stereoscopic (3D) Imaging Systems, Virtual Reality and 3D Graphics. The term 'disparity' represents the horizontal shift between left camera image and right camera image. Till now, many methods are proposed to visualize or estimate the disparity. In this paper, we present a new technique to visualize the horizontal disparity between two stereo images based on image segmentation method. The process of comparing left camera image with right camera image is popularly known as 'Stereo-Matching'. This method is used in the field of stereo vision for many years and it has large contribution in generating depth and disparity maps. Correlation based stereo-matching are used most of the times to visualize the disparity. Although, for few stereo image pairs it is easy to estimate the horizontal disparity but in case of some other stereo images it becomes quite difficult to distinguish the disparity. Therefore, in order to visualize the horizontal disparity between any stereo image pairs in more robust way, a novel stereo-matching algorithm is proposed which is named as "Quadtree Segmentation of Pixels Disparity Estimation (QSPDE)".

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.30B no.6
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• pp.59-66
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• 1993

Stereo vision is useful in obtaining three dimensional depth information from two images taken from different view points. Neural network modeling for stereo matching, the key step in stereo vision, is defined by an energy function satisfying with three constraints proposed by Marr and Poggio. Stereo matching is then carried out through the network to find minimum energy corresponding to the optimized solution of the problem. An algorithm for stereo matching using an analog neural network is presented here. The network can reduce errors in initial state an early iteration steps by adoption of continuous sigmoid function in stead of binary state. The experimental results show good matching performance for sparse random dot stereogram and real image.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.26-27
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• 2012

Reflection considered as the view disturbing noise in optical systems, such as stereo camera in autonomous vehicles especially in night. Reflection caused by the street light or due to rainwater under adverse weather conditions. A blur image detected by the camera that results in wrong guidance to vehicle for detecting its track. A vehicle guidance approach through stereo vision can be same in day and night time. However it cannot be guided with same image analysis due to diverse illumination conditions. We develop the technique that shows its efficacy with illustrations of reflection removal off the camera lens and vehicle tracking control.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.224-228
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• 1997

Computer vision system become more important as the researches on inspection systems, intelligent robots , diagnostic medical systems is performed actively. In this paper, 3D measuring system is developed by using stereo vision. The relation between left image and right image is obtained by using 8 point algorithm, and fundamental matrix, epipole and 3D reconstruction algorithm are used to measure 3D dimensions. 3D measuring system was developed by Visual Basic, in which 3D coordinates would be obtained by simple mouse clicks. This software would be applied to construction area, home interior system, rapid measuring system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.41.2-41
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• 2002

The stereo correspondence of two retinal images is one of the most difficult problems in stereo vision because the reconstruction of 3-D scene is a typical visual ill-posed problem. So far there still have been many unsolved problems, one of which is to reconstruct 3-D scene for a monochromatic surface because there is no clue to make a correspondence between two retinal images. We consider this problem with two layered self-organization neural network to simulate the competitive and cooperative interaction of binocular neurons. A...

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1991.10a
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• pp.663-668
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• 1991

In order to navigate, mobile robot needs to avoid obstacles on his way. We describe a stereo vision method for detecting obstacles on the floor ground. With the knowledge of floor geometry, stereo images are transformed so that the relative views of obstacle to the floor are seen. After comparing the transformed images, obstacles information such as location and size are extracted and determined from the local disparities. Some experimental results are shown.