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An Accurate Moving Distance Measurement Using the Rear-View Images in Parking Assistant Systems

후방영상 기반 주차 보조 시스템에서 정밀 이동거리 추출 기법

  • 김호영 (광운대학교 컴퓨터공학과 미디어프로세서 연구실) ;
  • 이성원 (광운대학교 컴퓨터공학과 미디어프로세서 연구실)
  • Received : 2012.09.13
  • Accepted : 2012.12.10
  • Published : 2012.12.28
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Abstract

In the recent parking assistant systems, finding out the distance to the object behind a car is often performed by the range sensors such as ultrasonic sensors, radars. However, the installation of additional sensors on the used vehicle could be difficult and require extra cost. On the other hand, the motion stereo technique that extracts distance information using only an image sensor was also proposed. However, In the stereo rectification step, the motion stereo requires good features and exacts matching result. In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm that extracts the accurate distance information for the parallel parking situation using the consecutive images that is acquired by a rear-view camera. The proposed algorithm uses the quadrangle transform of the image, the horizontal line integral projection, and the blocking-based correlation measurement. In the experiment with the magna parallel test sequence, the result shows that the line-accurate distance measurement with the image sequence from the rear-view camera is possible.

최근 출시되는 주차보조시스템에서 후방물체와의 거리정보를 알아내는 방법으로는 초음파 센서나 레이더 등의 추가 센서장비를 활용하는 방법들이 있다. 하지만, 추가적인 장비의 사용은 추가적인 비용과 함께 기존 차량에서의 도입이 쉽지 않은 문제점을 가지고 있다. 다른 방법으로는 움직임 스테레오 기법이 제안되었다. 하지만, 스테레오 조정(Stereo Rectification) 단계에서 좋은 특징점의 검출과 정확한 매칭결과가 필요하다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 후방카메라 1대만을 사용하여 취득한 연속영상정보를 바탕으로 평행주차상황에서 영상의 사각화 변환과 라인단위 적분 사영화 및 블록화 기반 유사도 조사를 통하여 연속거리정보를 추출하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 실험에는 Magna Parallel 영상을 사용하였으며, 수행한 실험결과 후방공간에 대한 화면의 라인단위 연속거리의 측정이 가능함을 보였다.

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Supported by : 정보통신산업진흥원

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