• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2021년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.219-222
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 시각-관성 측위시스템(Visual-Inertial Odometry, VIO)에서 광학 문자 인식(Optical Character Recognition, OCR)을 활용해 문자의 영역을 찾아내고, 그 위치를 기억해 측위시스템에서 다시 인식되었을 때 비교하기 위해 위치와 특징점을 저장하고자 한다. 먼저, 실시간으로 움직이는 카메라의 영상에서 문자를 찾아내고, 카메라의 상대적인 위치를 이용하여 문자가 인식된 위치와 특징점을 저장하는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 저장된 문자가 다시 탐색되었을 때, 문자가 재인식되었는 지 판별하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 인공적인 마커나 미리 학습된 객체를 사용하지 않고 상황에 따른 문자를 사용하는 이 방법은 문자가 존재하는 범용적인 공간에서 사용이 가능하다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.238-244
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• 2021

Image mosaicking is a common and useful technique to visualize a global map by stitching a large number of local images obtained from visual surveys in underwater environments. In particular, visual inspection of underwater structures using underwater robots can be a potential application for image mosaicking. Feature-based pairwise image registration is a commonly employed process in most image mosaicking algorithms to estimate visual odometry information between compared images. However, visual features are not always uniformly distributed on the surface of underwater structures, and thus the performance of image registration can vary significantly, which results in unnecessary computations in image matching for poor-conditioned image pairs. This study proposes a pairwise registrability measure to select informative image pairs and to improve the overall computational efficiency of underwater image mosaicking algorithms. The validity and effectiveness of the image mosaicking algorithm considering the pairwise registrability are demonstrated using an experimental dataset obtained with a full-scale ship in a real sea environment.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.349-355
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• 2015

Underwater robots generally show better performances for tasks than humans under certain underwater constraints such as. high pressure, limited light, etc. To properly diagnose in an underwater environment using remotely operated underwater vehicles, it is important to keep autonomously its own position and orientation in order to avoid additional control efforts. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to assist in the operation for the various disturbances of a remotely operated vehicle for the diagnosis of underwater structures. The conventional AHRS-based bearing estimation system did not work well due to incorrect measurements caused by the hard-iron effect when the robot is approaching a ferromagnetic structure. To overcome this drawback, we propose a sensor fusion algorithm with the camera and AHRS for estimating the pose of the ROV. However, the image information in the underwater environment is often unreliable and blurred by turbidity or suspended solids. Thus, we suggest an efficient method for fusing the vision sensor and the AHRS with a criterion which is the amount of blur in the image. To evaluate the amount of blur, we adopt two methods: one is the quantification of high frequency components using the power spectrum density analysis of 2D discrete Fourier transformed image, and the other is identifying the blur parameter based on cepstrum analysis. We evaluate the performance of the robustness of the visual odometry and blur estimation methods according to the change of light and distance. We verify that the blur estimation method based on cepstrum analysis shows a better performance through the experiments.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제37권5_1호
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• pp.1095-1109
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• 2021

안전한 자율주행을 위해 정확한 자기위치 측위와 주변지도 생성은 무엇보다 중요하다. 고가의 고정밀위성항법시스템(Global Positioning System, GPS), 관성측정장치(Inertial Measurement Unit, IMU), 라이다(Light Detection And Ranging, LiDAR), 레이더(Radio Detection And Ranging, RADAR), 주행거리측정계(Wheel odometry) 등의 많은 센서를 조합하여 워크스테이션급의 PC장비를 사용하여 센서데이터를 처리하면, cm급의 정밀한 자기위치 계산 및 주변지도 생성이 가능하다. 하지만 과도한 데이터 정합비용과 경제성 부족으로 고가의 장비 조합은 자율주행의 대중화에 걸림돌이 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 단안카메라를 사용하는 Monocular Visual SLAM을 발전시켜 RTK가 지원되는 GPS를 센서 융합하여 정확성과 경제성을 동시에 확보하였다. 또한 HD Map을 활용하여 오차를 보정하고 임베디드 PC장비에 포팅하여 도심 도로상에서 RMSE 33.7 cm의 위치 추정 및 주변지도를 생성할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 제안한 방법으로 안전하고 저렴한 자율주행 시스템 개발과 정확한 정밀도로지도 생성이 가능할 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2023

Autonomous driving systems are likely to be operated in various complex environments. However, the well-known integrated Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS), which is currently the major source for absolute position information, still has difficulties in accurate positioning in harsh signal environments such as urban canyons. To overcome these difficulties, integrated Visual/Inertial/GNSS (VIG) navigation systems have been extensively studied in various areas. Recently, a Compressed-State Constraint Kalman Filter (CSCKF)-based VIG navigation system (CSCKF-VIG) using a monocular camera, an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and GNSS receivers has been studied with the aim of providing robust and accurate position information in urban areas. For this new filter-based navigation system, on the basis of time-propagation measurement fusion theory, unnecessary camera states are not required in the system state. This paper presents a performance evaluation of the CSCKF-VIG system compared to other conventional navigation systems. First, the CSCKF-VIG is introduced in detail compared to the well-known Multi-State Constraint Kalman Filter (MSCKF). The CSCKF-VIG system is then evaluated by a field experiment in different GNSS availability situations. The results show that accuracy is improved in the GNSS-degraded environment compared to that of the conventional systems.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.457-461
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• 2013

This paper proposes an image feature-based real-time RGB-D (Red-Green-Blue Depth) 3D SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system. RGB-D data from Kinect style sensors contain a 2D image and per-pixel depth information. 6-DOF (Degree-of-Freedom) visual odometry is obtained through the 3D-RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm with 2D image features and depth data. For speed up extraction of features, parallel computation is performed with GPU acceleration. After a feature manager detects a loop closure, a graph-based SLAM algorithm optimizes trajectory of the sensor and builds a 3D point cloud based map.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.164-170
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• 2011

This paper proposes a novel monocular vision-based SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) method using both position and orientation information of ceiling lamps. Conventional approaches used corner or line features as landmarks in their SLAM algorithms, but these methods were often unable to achieve stable navigation due to a lack of reliable visual features on the ceiling. Since lamp features are usually placed some distances from each other in indoor environments, they can be robustly detected and used as reliable landmarks. We used both the position and orientation of a lamp feature to accurately estimate the robot pose. Its orientation is obtained by calculating the principal axis from the pixel distribution of the lamp area. Both corner and lamp features are used as landmarks in the EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) to increase the stability of the SLAM process. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme works successfully in various indoor environments.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.968-978
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• 2014

Autonomous vehicle technology based on information technology and software will lead the automotive industry in the near future. Vehicle localization technology is a core expertise geared toward developing autonomous vehicles and will provide location information for control and decision. This paper proposes an effective vision-based localization technology to be applied to autonomous vehicles. In particular, the proposed technology makes use of numerical maps that are widely used in the field of geographic information systems and that have already been built in advance. Optimum vehicle ego-motion estimation and road marking feature extraction techniques are adopted and then combined by an extended Kalman filter and particle filter to make up the localization technology. The implementation results of this paper show remarkable results; namely, an 18 ms mean processing time and 10 cm location error. In addition, autonomous driving and parking are successfully completed with an unmanned vehicle within a $300m{\times}500m$ space.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2014년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.825-828
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 3차원 공간에서 6자유도로 움직이는 카메라의 실시간 포즈를 추적하기 위해, RGB-D 입력 영상들로부터 카메라의 실시간 주행 거리를 효과적으로 계산할 수 있는 시각 주행 거리 측정기를 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시각 주행 거리 측정기에서는 컬러 영상과 깊이 영상의 풍부한 정보를 충분히 활용하면서도 실시간 계산량을 줄이기 위해, 특징점 위주의 저밀도 주행 거리 계산 방법을 사용한다. 또한, 본 시스템에서는 정확도 향상을 위해, 정합된 특징점들에 대한 추가적인 정상 집합정제 과정과 이들을 이용한 주행 거리 정제 작업을 반복하도록 설계하였다. TUM 대학의 벤치마크 데이터 집합을 이용하여 다양한 성능 분석 실험을 수행하였고, 이를 통해 본 논문에서 제안하는 시각 주행 거리 측정기의 높은 성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2018년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.454-456
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• 2018

주율 주행과 로봇 시스템의 기술이 발전하면서 이와 관련된 영상 알고리즘들의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 제안 네트워크는 단일 영상을 이용하여 비주얼 오도메트리를 예측하는 시스템이다. 딥러닝 네트워크로 KITTI 데이터 세트를 이용하여 학습과 평가를 하며 네트워크의 입력으로는 연속된 두 개의 프레임이 들어가고 출력으로는 두 프레임간 카메라의 회전과 이동 정보가 된다. 이를 통하여 대표적으로 자동차의 주행 경로를 알 수 있으며 여러 로봇 시스템 등에서 활용할 수 있다.