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An Recognition and Acquisition method of Distance Information in Direction Signs for Vehicle Location

차량의 위치 파악을 위한 도로안내표지판 인식과 거리정보 습득 방법

  • Received : 2016.08.08
  • Accepted : 2016.12.13
  • Published : 2017.01.25
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Abstract

This study proposes a method to quickly and accurately acquire distance information on direction signs. The proposed method is composed of the recognition of the sign, pre-processing to facilitate the acquisition of the road sign distance, and the acquisition of the distance data. The road sign recognition uses color detection including gamma correction in order to mitigate various noise issues. In order to facilitate the acquisition of distance data, this study applied tilt correction using linear factors, and resolution correction using Fourier transform. To acquire the distance data, morphological operation was used to highlight the area, along with labeling and template matching. By acquiring the distance information on the direction sign through such a processes, the proposed system can be output the distance remaining to the next junction. As a result, when the proposed method is applied to system it can process the data in real-time using the fast calculation speed, average speed was shown to be 0.46 second per frame, with accuracy of 0.65 in similarity value.

본 논문에서는 도로안내표지판 내의 거리정보를 빠르고 정확하게 획득하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 표지판의 인식, 거리를 획득하기 용이한 전 처리 과정, 거리정보를 습득하는 것으로 구성된다. 표지판의 인식은 여러 가지 잡음을 해결하기 위해 감마 보정을 포함한 색상검출을 사용하였으며, 거리정보를 용이하게 획득하기 위해서 직선 인자를 이용한 기울기 보정과 고속 푸리에변환을 이용한 해상도 보정을 적용하였다. 거리정보를 습득하는 과정은 모폴로지 연산을 통해 영역을 부각하고 레이블링, 템플릿 매칭을 사용하였다. 이러한 과정을 통해 도로안내표지판의 거리정보를 습득하여 분기점까지 남은 거리를 출력하는 시스템을 제안하였다. 결과적으로 연산속도 개선에 중점을 두어 실시간으로 처리할 수 있는 시스템에 사용 가능하며, 그 결과 프레임 당 평균 0.46초의 속도를 가지며, 정확도에서도 유사도 0.65의 수치를 갖는다.

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