• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.463-470
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• 2015

When a camera installed on a vehicle is used, estimation of the camera pose including tilt, roll, and pan angle with respect to the world coordinate system is important to associate camera coordinates with world coordinates. Previous approaches using huge calibration patterns have the disadvantage that the calibration patterns are costly to make and install. And, previous approaches exploiting multiple vanishing points detected in a single image are not suitable for automotive applications as a scene where multiple vanishing points can be captured by a front camera is hard to find in our daily environment. This paper proposes a camera pose estimation method. It collects multiple images of lane markings while changing the horizontal angle with respect to the markings. One vanishing point, the cross point of the left and right lane marking, is detected in each image, and vanishing line is estimated based on the detected vanishing points. Finally, camera pose is estimated from the vanishing line. The proposed method is based on the fact that planar motion does not change the vanishing line of the plane and the normal vector of the plane can be estimated by the vanishing line. Experiments with large and small tilt and roll angle show that the proposed method outputs accurate estimation results respectively. It is verified by checking the lane markings are up right in the bird's eye view image when the pan angle is compensated.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2015

We present a robust power transmission lines detection method based on vanishing point estimation. Vanishing point estimation can be helpful to detect power transmission lines because parallel lines converge on the vanishing point in a projected 2D image. However, it is not easy to estimate the vanishing point correctly in an image with complex background. Thus, we first propose a vanishing point estimation method on power transmission lines by using a probabilistic voting procedure based on intersection points of line segments. In images obtained by our system, power transmission lines are located in a fan-shaped area centered on this estimated vanishing point, and therefore we select the line segments that converge to the estimated vanishing point as candidate line segments for power transmission lines only in this fan-shaped area. Finally, we detect the power transmission lines from these candidate line segments. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to noise and efficient to detect power transmission lines.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.1430-1441
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• 2012

In this paper, we present an algorithm that quickly and effectively estimates orthogonal vanishing points in equirectangular images of urban environment. Our algorithm is based on the RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm and on the characteristics of the line segment in the spherical panorama image of the $360^{\circ}$ longitude and $180^{\circ}$ latitude field of view. These characteristics can be used to reduce the geometric ambiguity in the line segment classification as well as to improve the robustness of vanishing point estimation. The proposed algorithm is validated experimentally on a wide set of images. The results show that our algorithm provides excellent levels of accuracy for the vanishing point estimation as well as line segment classification.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권5호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 사용자의 입력을 포함한 반자동 카메라 교정 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 사용자가 정의한 기준선을 소실점 추정을 위한 정보로 사용하는 동시에, 추정 과정에서 발생하는 아웃라이어 제거를 위한 추가 제약 조건으로 사용한다. 제안된 카메라 교정 방법은 대수적, 기하학적 방법을 모두 사용하여 기존 방법으로는 불가능한 조건에서 교정이 가능하도록 성능을 확장하였다. 교정 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 방법이 기존 자동 교정보다 교정 정확도가 높은 것을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.161-167
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• 2001

Camera calibration is very important problem in 3D measurement using vision system. In this paper is proposed the simple method for camera calibration. It is designed that uses the principle of vanishing points and the concept of corresponding points extracted from the parallel line pairs. Conventional methods are necessary for 4 reference points in one frame. But we proposed has need for only 2 reference points to estimate vanishing points. It has to calculate camera parameters, focal length, camera attitude and position. Our experiment shows the validity and the usability from the result that absolute error of attitude and position is in $10^{-2}$.

• 전자공학회지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.115-125
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• 1996

This paper presents a new algorithm for the self-localization of a mobile robot using one degree perspective Invariant(Cross Ratio). Most of conventional model-based self-localization methods have some problems that data structure building, map updating and matching processes are very complex. Use of a simple cross ratio can be effective to the above problems. The algorithm is based on two basic assumptions that the ground plane is flat and two locally parallel sloe-lines are available. Also it is assumed that an environmental map is available for matching between the scene and the model. To extract an accurate steering angle for a mobile robot, we take advantage of geometric features such as vanishing points. Feature points for cross ratio are extracted robustly using a vanishing point and intersection points between two locally parallel side-lines and vertical lines. Also the local position estimation problem has been treated when feature points exist less than 4points in the viewed scene. The robustness and feasibility of our algorithms have been demonstrated through real world experiments In Indoor environments using an indoor mobile robot, KASIRI-II(KAist Simple Roving Intelligence).

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.642-651
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• 2015

소실점(vanishing point)이란 카메라 렌즈를 통해 3차원 공간을 2차원 영상으로 투영하는 과정에서 평행한 직선들이 수렴하는 점을 의미한다. 소실점 검출은 영상 내의 정보를 이용하여 소실점의 위치를 파악하는 것을 의미하며, 영상 내 지점들의 상대적인 거리를 파악하거나 장면 전체의 3차원 구조를 파악하는데 활용된다. 일반적으로 영상 내 평행한 직선들은 인공 구조물 내에 존재하는 경우가 많으므로 직선 검출 기반 소실점 검출 기법들은 인공 구조물 내의 직선들을 찾아 이들이 수렴하는 점을 소실점으로서 검출하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이 때, 영상 내에서 직선을 검출하기 위하여 먼저 에지 검출(edge detection)을 통해 에지 픽셀을 검출하고 그 결과를 허프 변환(Hough transform)하여 직선들을 찾아낸다. 그러나 각종 텍스쳐 및 노이즈 등 여러 원인들로 인해 위 과정에서 검출된 직선들이 모두 소실점을 지나지는 않는다. 따라서 검출된 직선들로부터 소실점을 정확히 검출하기 위해서는 각 직선에 대하여 소실점을 지날 가능성에 따라 다른 가중치를 부여하는 것이 필요한데 기존의 연구들은 가중치를 동일하게 부여하거나 단순한 수준의 가중치 계산을 적용해 왔다. 본 논문에서는 소실점을 지나는 직선들은 대부분 인공 구조물 내의 직선들임에 착안하여 직선에 가중치를 부여하는 새로운 방법을 제안하고 이를 이용한 소실점 검출 결과를 몇 가지 기존 방법들과 비교하였다. 그 결과, 기존 방법들에 비하여 소실점 추정 오류가 약 65% 감소하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제34S권11호
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• pp.126-137
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• 1997

This paper describes the algorithm which can estimate road following direction and deetect obstacle using a monocular vision system. This algorithm can estimate the course of vehicle using the vanishing point properties and detect obstacle by statistical method. The proposed algorithm is composed of four steps, which are lane prediction, lane extraction, road following parameter estimation and obstacle detection. It is designed for high processing speed and high accuracy. The former is achieved by a small area named sub-windown in lane existence area, the later is realized by using connected edge points of lane. We would like to present that the new mehod can detect obstacle using the simple statistical method. The paracticalities of the processing speed, the accuracy of the algorithm and proposing obstacle detection method, have been justified through the experiment applied VTR image of the real road to the algorithm.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.302-306
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• 2021

Indoor localization is one of the basic elements of Location-Based Service, such as indoor navigation, location-based precision marketing, spatial recognition of robotics, augmented reality, and mixed reality. We propose a Voxel Labeling-based visual positioning system using object simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Our method is a method of determining a location through single image 3D cuboid object detection and object SLAM for indoor navigation, then mapping to create an indoor map, addressing it with voxels, and matching with a defined space. First, high-quality cuboids are created from sampling 2D bounding boxes and vanishing points for single image object detection. And after jointly optimizing the poses of cameras, objects, and points, it is a Visual Positioning System (VPS) through matching with the pose information of the object in the voxel database. Our method provided the spatial information needed to the user with improved location accuracy and direction estimation.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2004년도 봄 학술발표논문집 Vol.31 No.1 (B)
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• pp.742-744
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 두 개의 직교하는 소실점(Orthogonal Vanishing Points)을 이용하여 카메라의 내부 파라미터를 추정하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 카메라 보정(camera calibration)은 2차원 영상으로부터 3차원 정보를 얻기 위한 중요한 단계이다. 기존의 소실점을 이용한 대부분의 방법들은 세 개의 직교하는 소실점을 사용하여 파라미터론 추정하지만, 실제 영상에서는 세 개의 직교 소실점을 포함하는 영상을 획득하는 것은 어려운 문제이다 따라서 본 논문에서는 2개의 직교 소실점을 사용하여 카메라 U부 보정을 위한 기하적이고 직관적인 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 주점(principal point)과 초점거리(focal length)는 Thales의 이론을 기초한 기하학적 제약사항으로부터 다중 반구(multiple hemispheres)들의 관계로부터 유도된다.