• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 스테레오 적외선 카메라를 이용하여 소형 및 고온으로 날아가는 이동체의 거리를 실시간으로 측정하는 시스템을 제안한다. 이동체와 주변 환경의 온도 차이를 측정하고 고속으로 이동하는 소형 이동체의 거리를 자동으로 측정하기 위하여 적외선 스테레오 카메라 시스템을 구축하였다. 우선 적외선 카메라를 이용하여 취득한 고온의 이동체 영상으로부터 주변의 온도분포와 이동체간의 온도차를 이용하여 이동체영역을 검출하고, 이동체의 움직임 정보와 적외선 카메라 영상의 밝기정보를 결합하여 이동체를 추적한다. 좌우 적외선 카메라 영상에 대하여 각각 추출된 이동체 영역을 중심으로 스테레오 정합을 수행하여 시차정보를 추정하고, 카메라 파라미터와 시차정보를 이용하여 실시간으로 이동하는 이동체의 거리를 추정한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 적외선 스테레오 카메라 시스템을 검증하기 위하여 고온의 이동체를 촬영할 때, 3차원 궤적(x,y,z) 측정기를 함께 가동하여 이동체가 이동하는 거리를 측정하여 이를 기준 거리(ground truth)로 설정하였다. 3차례의 비디오 데이터로부터 실험한 결과, 적외선 스테레오 카메라를 이용한 고온/소형 이동체의 거리오차 측정 결과는 평균적으로 9.68%로 추정되었다. 스테레오 적외선 카메라의 타이밍 문제(jitter)를 고려하면, 실제로 추정 오차는 줄어들 것으로 판단되기 때문에, 향후 적외선 카메라를 이용하는 다양한 이동체의 거리 및 위치를 측정하는데 응용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.239-246
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 입체 카메라의 자동 초점 제어에 필요한 제어 변수 추출 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 카메라로 획득한 입체 영상에서 관심 있는 피사체가 영상의 중심부에 있다고 가정을 한다. 이 경우에 획득된 영상에서 특정한 크기의 중심 영역에 대해서만 2D 웨이블릿 변환을 한다. 변환을 거친 신호 중에서 고역 성분 (HH)에 대한 Ll Norm을 이용하여 필요한 초점제어 변수를 추출한다. 실험결과를 통해 제안된 방식이 기존의 DCT를 이용한 방식에 비해 입체카메라의 자동 초점 제어에 효과적으로 적용될 수 있음을 보인다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.121-127
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a distance measurement system for automatic berthing control using a stereo camera mounted on a rotation control device, and a radial pattern target. Automatically controlling the position and attitude of a ship aims to prevent maritime accidents due to human error. Our goal is to measure the relative distance between a ship and an onshore or offshore target for berthing. Therefore, the distance should be continuously measured while tracking a fixed point on a target. To this end, we developed a stereo camerabased distance measurement system that satisfied these requirements. This paper describes the structure and principle of the measurement system. We validate the distance error for target incline due to the relative position and attitude between a camera and a target in miniature scale. In addition, the findings of an experiment in an outdoor environment demonstrate that the proposed measurement system has accuracy within 1 m at a range of 20-100 m which is the acceptable accuracy for automatic berthing.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.224-229
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• 2007

This paper presents a camera calibration method using several images for three dimensional measurement applications such as stereo systems, mobile robots, and visual inspection systems in factories. Conventional calibration methods that use single image suffer from errors related to reference point extraction in image, lens distortion, and numerical analysis of nonlinear optimization. The camera parameter values obtained from images of same camera is not same even though we use same calibration method. The camera parameters that are obtained from several images of different view for a calibration target is usaully not same with large error values and we can not assume a special probabilistic distribution when we estimate the parameter values. In this paper, the median value of camera parameters from several images is used to improve estimation of the camera values in an iterative step with nonlinear optimization. The proposed method is proved by experiments using real images.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.871-875
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• 2003

To detect and avoid obstacles is one of the important tasks of mobile navigation. In a real environment, when a mobile robot encounters dynamic obstacles, it is required to simultaneously detect and avoid obstacles for its body safely. In previous vision system, mobile robot has used it as either a passive sensor or an active sensor. This paper proposes a new obstacle detection algorithm that uses a stereo camera as both a passive sensor and an active sensor. Our system estimates the distances from obstacles by both passive-correspondence and active-correspondence using laser slit. The system operates in three steps. First, a far-off obstacle is detected by the disparity from stereo correspondence. Next, a close obstacle is acquired from laser slit beam projected in the same stereo image. Finally, we implement obstacle avoidance algorithm, adopting the modified Dynamic Window Approach (DWA), by using the acquired the obstacle's distance.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.716-725
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• 2007

In this paper we describe a motion tracking algorithm for 3D human animation using stereo vision system. This allows us to extract the motion data of the end effectors of human body by following the movement through segmentation process in HIS or RGB color model, and then blob analysis is used to detect robust shape. When two hands or two foots are crossed at any position and become disjointed, an adaptive algorithm is presented to recognize whether it is left or right one. And the real motion is the 3-D coordinate motion. A mono image data is a data of 2D coordinate. This data doesn't acquire distance from a camera. By stereo vision like human vision, we can acquire a data of 3D motion such as left, right motion from bottom and distance of objects from camera. This requests a depth value including x axis and y axis coordinate in mono image for transforming 3D coordinate. This depth value(z axis) is calculated by disparity of stereo vision by using only end-effectors of images. The position of the inner joints is calculated and 3D character can be visualized using inverse kinematics.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.2012-2015
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• 2003

This paper proposes a pose-invariant face recognition method using cylindrical model and stereo camera. We divided this paper into two parts. One is single input image case, the other is stereo input image case. In single input image case, we normalized a face's yaw pose using cylindrical model, and in stereo input image case, we normalized a face's pitch pose using cylindrical model with estimated object's pitch pose by stereo geometry. Also, since we have advantage that we can utilize two images acquired at the same time, we can increase overall recognition rate by decision-level fusion. By experiment, we confirmed that recognition rate could be increased using our methods.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2729-2731
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• 2001

In this paper, we studied on the real-time environment map building for the mobile robot navigation using the stereo camera system. Distance measurement are necessary to build the environment map. We used a area-based stereo matching for the distance measurement with the stereo camera system. To reduce the computation time, we used DSP processor on the vision board, took a suitable area size for stereo matching, and used hierarchical search method. Using the fast acquired distance values, the environment map was built.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.83-83
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• 2004

The analysis of relative pose(position and rotation) between stereo cameras is very important to determine the solution that provides three-dimensional information for an arbitrary moving target with respect to robot-end. In the space of free camera-model, the rotational parameters act on non-linear factors acquiring a kinematical solution. In this paper the general solution of active stereo that gives a three-dimensional pose of moving object is presented. The focus is to achieve a derivation of linear equation between a robot′s end and active stereo cameras. The equation is consistently derived from the vector of quaternion space. The calibration of cameras is also derived in this space. Computer simulation and the results of error-sensitivity demonstrate the successful operation of the solution. The suggested solution can also be applied to the more complex real time tracking and quite general and are applicable in various stereo fields.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.89-90
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• 2004

The analysis of relative pose(position and rotation) between stereo cameras is very important to determine the solution that provides three-dimensional information for an arbitrary moving target with respect to robot-end. In the space of free camera-model, the rotational parameters act on non-linear factors acquiring a kinematical solution. In this paper the general solution of active stereo that gives a three-dimensional pose of moving object is presented. The focus is to achieve a derivation of linear equation between a robot's end and active stereo cameras. The equation is consistently derived from the vector of quaternion space. The calibration of cameras is also derived in this space. Computer simulation and the results of error-sensitivity demonstrate the successful operation of the solution. The suggested solution can also be applied to the more complex real time tracking and quite general and are applicable in various stereo fields.