• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.23-31
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• 2010

Due to the fact that fisheye lens can provide super wide angles with the minimum number of cameras, field-of-view over 180 degrees, many vehicles are attempting to mount the camera system. Not only use the camera as a viewing system, but also as a camera sensor, camera calibration should be preceded, and geometrical correction on the radial distortion is needed to provide the images for the driver's assistance. In this thesis, we introduce a geometric correction technique to minimize the loss of the image data from a vehicle fish-eye lens having a field of view over $180^{\circ}$, and a asymmetric distortion. Geometric correction is a process in which a camera model with a distortion model is established, and then a corrected view is generated after camera parameters are calculated through a calibration process. First, the FOV model to imitate a asymmetric distortion configuration is used as the distortion model. Then, we need to unify the axis ratio because a horizontal view of the vehicle fish-eye lens is asymmetrically wide for the driver, and estimate the parameters by applying a non-linear optimization algorithm. Finally, we create a corrected view by a backward mapping, and provide a function to optimize the ratio for the horizontal and vertical axes. This minimizes image data loss and improves the visual perception when the input image is undistorted through a perspective projection.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.463-466
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• 2011

증강현실이 주목받고 있는 시점에서 현실세계를 3차원으로 가상현실화 하고자 하는 연구가 최근 활발히 진행되고 있다. 현실세계를 CCTV카메라에 담기 위해서는 넓은 시야각을 가진 렌즈가 필요한데, 대안으로써 보통 어안렌즈를 많이 사용한다. 어안렌즈는 시야각을 넓게 하여 정해진 범위 내에 많은 양의 데이터를 활용할 수 있기 때문에 CCTV를 이용한 감시 시스템에 사용된다. 그러나 어안렌즈는 직선성분을 왜곡하여 곡선성분으로 나타내는 경향이 발생하며, 심할 경우 대상을 식별하기가 힘들 수도 있다는 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 원 영상이 왜곡된 영상보다 직선성분이 많다는 것에 착안하여 Hough Transform에 의한 직선검출을 이용해 왜곡을 자동으로 보정하고, Calibration 파라미터를 산출하는 기법을 본 논문에서 제안하고, 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.829-832
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• 2004

실제영상으로 가상환경을 구축해서 사용자가 가상환경을 돌아다님으로써 보다 큰 몰입감과 현실감을 제공하는 영상기반 가상현실 기술은 최근 들어 웹 기반 가상현실시스템을 구축하기 위해서 많이 사용된다. 이 기술은 가상환경 구축에 있어 항해를 쉽게 하기 위한 한 방법으로 넓은 시각 영역(field of view)을 얻을 수 있는 wide-angle 렌즈를 흔히 사용한다. 어안렌즈(fish-eye lens)는 전형적인 넓은 시각 영역을 가진 렌즈로서, 매우 큰 radial distortion 을 가진다. 왜곡을 없앤 영상을 얻기 위해 본 논문에서는 구면기하(spherical geometry) 및 사영기하(projective geometry)를 사용하여 어안영상을 보정하는 non-metric기법을 제안한다. 제안한 이 방법은, 기존의 방법들 보다는 쉽고 빠른 속도로 왜곡을 보정할 수 있으므로 어안영상의 왜곡을 보정하는 하드웨어를 효율적으로 구현할 수 있다. 그리고 spheroid 를 이용해 좀 더 왜곡을 정확히 보정방법과 별도의 서보 모터 없이 pan/title 를 가능케 하는 시점이동에 따른 왜곡 보정 방법을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.31-38
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• 2009

Lens distortion is inevitable phenomenon in machine vision system. More and more distortion phenomenon is occurring in order to choice of lens for minimizing cost and system size. As shown above, correction of lens distortion is critical issue. However previous lens correction methods using camera model have problem such as nonlinear property and complicated operation. And recent lens correction methods using neural network also have accuracy and efficiency problem. In this study, I propose new algorithms for correction of lens distortion. Distorted image is divided based on the distortion quantity using k-means. And each divided image region is corrected by using neural network. As a result, the proposed algorithms have better accuracy than previous methods without image division.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.260-272
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a simple auto calibration method for a CCD camera with wide an91e lens that causes high degree of distortion. We formulate a cubic warping equation for the relationship between the cross points on the distorted calibration target and the corresponding points from the standard grid image, and calibrate distorted images using the computed parameters. The experiment has been performed with the distorted images resulted from wide angle CCD camera. The experimental results show that the proposed method, in terms of the average and maximum distorted error, has higher accuracy than the existing methods because of maintaining the calibration ratio more than 95 percent. The proposed method is applicable to wide variety of images regardless a type of lens or distortion.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.355-360
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• 2010

Purpose: Analysis performance for spectacle lens which sales in domestic market and optimization design a spectacle lens which is corrected aberration. Methods: Measured center thickness, radius and aspherical surface coefficient for spherical and aspherical lenses which were ${\pm}$5.00D. Refractive index for every lens was 1.6 and they came from 4 different companies. I used 3 types of equipment to measure lenses. ID-F150 (Mitutoyo) : Center Thickness, FOCOVISION (SR-2, Automation Robotics) : Radius, PGI 1240S (Taylor Hobson) : Aspherical surface coefficient. Designed a lens which had 27 mm of distance from lens rear surface to center of eye, 4 mm of pupil diameter and small aberration on center vision $30^{\circ}C$. To shorten axial distance compared with the measured lens rise merits for cosmetic. Lens Design tool was CODE V (Optical Research Associates). Results: -5.00D aspherical lens had somewhat high astigmatism and distortion compared with the spherical lens. But it had a merit for cosmetic because of short axial height and decrease edge thickness. Improved a performance of distortion and ascertain merits for cosmetic due to short axial height and decrease edge thickness same as (-) lens in case of +5.00 aspherical lens. Though an optimization process front surface aspherical lens had a good performance for astigmatism and distortion and the merit for beauty compared with measured spherical lens. Conclusions: Design trend for domestic aspherical lens is decrease axial height and thickness to increase a merit for cosmetic not but increase performance of aberration. From design theory for optimization design front surface aspherical spectacle lens which has improved performance of aberration and merit for cosmetic at the same time compared with the measured lens. Expect an improved performance from design back aspherical lens compared with front aspherical lens.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.93-100
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• 2008

The parameters of lens such as focal length, focus, and aperture stop changes while shooting the scenes with zoom lens. Especially, zooming action dramatically changes the geometry of lens system that causes significant change of lens model. We investigated how the lens model changes while zooming in general shooting condition. Each parameters of lens model was estimated and checked whether they can be modeled well in the condition of auto-controlling focus, aperture and vibration reduction. In order to do this, calibration images were taken, modeled in different fecal length setting. And changing patterns of models were inspected to find out if there is some elements that have some particular pattern in changing with respect to focal length. The result showed us that although we didn't control the focus and aperture setting, there's specific changing patterns in radial and do-centering distortion. Especially, the strong linear correlation was found between coefficient of $r^2$ and focal length. It is expected that many parts of distortion can be eliminated without additional self calibration even if zoom operation is done when shooting the scenes if we know its fecal length and model of this coefficient.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.7-15
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• 1998

In this paper a calibration method is proposed for calibrating distorted image from lens and various factors. The similar origin image can be generated by the proposed method that calculate a calibration coefficient by modeling third transformation between standard image and distorted image and then apply the coefficient to distorted image The coefficient is effective until camera position is changed or lens is exchanged. This research consists of processes to calculate calibration coefficient and to set similar real image by the coefficient. Proposed method especially is applied to a system to obtain a real image from a distorted image causing effects of special system environment and camera lens The advantage of this method is verified by experiment using distorted images from a CCD camera that will attach atomic pile.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.431-445
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• 2003

In this paper, we experimentally investigated the precision of 3D positioning using 4S-Van images in photograrmmetric perspective. The 3D calibration target was built over building facade outside and was captured separately by two CCD cameras installed in 4S-Van. After then, we determined the interior orientation parameter for each CCD camera through self-calibration technique. With the interior orientation parameter computed, the bundle adjustment was performed to obtain the exterior orientation parameters simultaneously for two CCD cameras using calibration target image and object coordinates. The reverse lens distortion coefficients were computed and acquired by least squares method so as to introduce lens distortion into epipolar line. It was shown that the reverse lens distortion coefficients could transform image coordinates into lens distorted image coordinates within about 0.5 pixel. The proposed semi-automatic matching scheme incorporated with lens distorted epipolar line was implemented with scene images captured by 4S-Van in moving. The experimental results showed that the precision of 3D positioning from 4S-Van images in photograrmmetric perspective is within 2cm in the range of 20m from the camera.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.410-416
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• 2010

This paper presents the auto-extraction method that searches for the Mapping points in the calibration algorithm of the image acquired by the wide angle CCD camera. In this algorithm, we remove the noise from the distorted image and then obtain the edge image. Proposed method extracts the distortion point, comparing the threshold value of the histogram of the horizontal and vertical pixel lines in edge image. This processing step can be directly applied to the original image of the wide angle CCD camera output. Proposed method results are compared with hand-worked result image using the two wide angle CCD cameras having different angles with the difference value of the result images respectively. Experimental results show that proposed method can allocate the distortion-calibration constant of the wide angle CCD camera regardless of lens type, distortion shape and image type.