• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.371-376
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• 2002

본 논문은 영역 분할에 기반한 스테레오 정합에 있어서, 분할영역 내부에 존재하는 단계적인 변위의 변화를 추정할 수 있는 스테레오 정합 알고리즘에 관한 것이다. 우선, 분할영역을 효과적으로 표현할 수 있는 복수의 샘플점들을 선정한 다음에 각 샘플점 주위에 인접한 영역 내부의 미소영역을 취하여 스테레오 정함을 수행한다. 이후, 획득된 각 샘플점들의 변위를 이용하여 평면의 방정식을 통해 내부 변위를 보간함으로써 연산 시간을 감축함과 동시에 영역 내부의 단계적인 변위의 변화를 추정할 순 있다. 제안된 방법에 따르면, 분할된 영역을 사용함으로써 분할영역 자체가 구속 조건이 되어 특징 기반 기법들의 단점인 변위 보간의 문제점을 해결할 수 있다. 특히, 복수의 샘플점들 간의 변위차를 이용함으로써 영상 평면에 대해 깊이 방향으로 기울어진 영역 평면에 대한 변위의 기울기를 보간할 수 있음에 기인하여 조밀한 변위 맵을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.257-263
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• 2004

This paper is related to the object-based stereo matching algorithm which makes it possible to estimate inner-region disparities for each segmented region. First, several sample points are selected for effectively representing the segmented region, Next, stereo matching is applied to the small area within segmented region which existed in the neighborhood or each sample point. Finally, inner-region disparities are interpolated using a plane equation with disparity of each selected sample. According to the proposed method, the problem of feature-based method that the depth estimation is possible only in the feature points can be solved through the propagation of the disparity in the sample point into the inside of the region. Also, as selecting sample points in contour of segmented region we can effectively suppress obscurity which is occurred in the depth estimation of the monotone region in area-based methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.12C
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• pp.1147-1153
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• 2009

We propose a novel image segmentation and segment-based stereo matching technique using color, depth, and motion information. Proposed technique firstly splits reference images into foreground region or background region using depth information from depth camera. Then each region is segmented into small segments with color information. Moreover, extracted segments in current frame are tracked in the next frame in order to maintain depth consistency between frames. The initial depth from the depth camera is also used to set the depth search range for stereo matching. Proposed segment-based stereo matching technique was compared with conventional one without foreground and background separation and other conventional one without motion tracking of segments. Simulation results showed that the improvement of segment extraction and depth estimation consistencies by proposed technique compared to conventional ones especially at the static background region.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.69-83
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• 2006

This paper describes an image disparity estimation method using a segmented-region based stereo matching. Segmented-region based disparity estimation yields a disparity map as the unit of segmented region. However, there is a problem that it estimates disparity imprecisely. The reason is that because it not only have matching errors but also apply an identical way to disparity estimation, which is not considered each type of matched regions. To solve this problem, we proposes a disparity estimation method which is considered the type of matched regions. That is, the proposed method classifies whole matched regions into similar-matched region, dissimilar-matched region, false-matched region and miss-matched region by analyzing the type of matched regions. We then performs proper disparity estimation for each type of matched regions. This method minimizes the error in estimating disparity which is caused by inaccurate matching and also improves the accuracy of disparity of the well-matched regions. For the purpose of performance evaluations, we perform tests on a variety of scenes for synthetic, indoor and outdoor images. As a result of tests, we can obtain a dense disparity map which has the improved accuracy. The remarkable result is that the accuracy of disparity is also improved considerably for complex outdoor images which are barely treatable in the previous methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.303-306
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 인물 위주의 스테레오 영상으로부터 깊이 정보를 추출하기 위한 영역분할 스테레오 정합 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 기법에서는 두 대의 스테레오 카메라로부터 획득된 영상에서 임계값을 이용하여 전경을 제외한 배경을 먼저 제거하고, 배경이 제거된 영상으로부터 초기 변이지도(disparity map)와 R, G, B, white 4개의 색상 성분으로 분할한 영상을 생성하게 된다. 각 색상 정보로 분할된 영상의 경계(edge) 성분을 추출하고, 추출된 경계에서 정합 창을 이용하여 변이를 추정하고 각 색상 정보의 변이지도를 적절히 조합하여 최종 변이지도를 생성하게 된다. 실험 결과 제안한 기법이 기존의 영역기반(window based) 정합기법 등보다 인물 위주의 스테레오 영상에서 더 우수한 성능을 가지는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.2 s.40
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• pp.83-92
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• 2006

This paper describes an image disparity estimation method using region-based stereo matching. Region-based disparity estimation yields a disparity map as the unit of segmented region. However it estimates disparity imprecisely because it not only has matching errors but also applies an identical way to disparity estimation, which does not consider each type of matched regions. To solve this problem, we proposes a disparity estimation method which considers the type of matched regions. That is, the proposed method classifies whole matched regions into a similar-matched region, a dissimilar-matched region, a false-matched region and a miss-matched region. We then performs proper disparity estimation for each type of matched regions. This method minimizes the error in estimating disparity which is caused by inaccurate matching and also improves the accuracy of disparity of the well-matched regions. The experimental results show the improved accuracy of the proposed method.

• The Journal of Engineering Research
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.99-107
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• 2004

In stereo matching system, it is efficient using segment patch, which divides the image into homogeneous region in color or similar intensity, because it preserves the disparity boundary and disparity continuity in low textured region. But many miss matching occur in the highly textured region because of the over segmentation that makes patch small and ambiguous. In this paper, in order to solve problems, we propose adaptive patch matching based on the watershed image segmentation. Performance was verified in experimental results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.8C
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• pp.680-688
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a dynamic programming(DP)-based stereo matching method using image segmentation algorithm. DP has been a classical and popular optimization method for various computer vision problems including stereo matching. However, the performance of conventional DP has not been satisfactory when it is applied to the stereo matching since the vertical correlation between scanned lines has not been properly considered. In the proposed algorithm, accurate edge information is first obtained from segmented image information then we considers the discontinuity of disparity and occlusions region based on the obtained edge information. The experimental results applied to the Middlebury stereo images demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has better performances in stereo matching than the previous DP based algorithms.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.809-812
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• 2005

본 논문은 세그멘테이션 기반의 스테레오 정합에서 복잡한 장면 정합 시 발생되는 오 정합을 최소화 하는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위하여, 스테레오 영상의 좌측 영상에 대해 워터쉐드 영상 분할을 이용하여 정합을 위한 feature 를 생성한 다음, 베이지언 프레임웍을 적용하여, 각각의 영역을 비슷한 변이 정보를 가진 것들로 병합한다. 생성되는 정합 패치들은 정합의 모호성이 작게 되어 오 정합이 현저히 줄어 들 뿐만 아니라, 영역간의 콘트라스트가 적은 영상에서도 신뢰할 만한 변이 영상을 생성하게 된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.407-415
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a new stereo matching algorithm by using color information especially for stereo images containing human beings in the applications such as tele-presence system. In the proposed algorithm, we first remove the background regions by using a threshold value for stereo images obtained by stereo camera and then find an initial disparity map and segment a given image into R, G, B and white color components. We also obtain edges in the segmented image and estimate the disparity from the extract boundary regions. Finally, we generate the final disparity map by properly combining the disparity map of each color component. Experiment results show better performance compared with the window based method and the dynamic programing method especially for stereo images with human being.