• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.463-469
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• 2010

Since MOLA(Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter) data, which provides altimetry data for Mars, does not cover the whole Mars area, image matching with MOC imagery should be implemented for the generation of DEM. However, automatic image matching is difficult because of insufficient features and low contrast. In this paper, we present the area based semi-automatic image matching algorithm with MOC-NA(Mars Orbiter Camera ? Narrow Angle) imagery. To accomplish this, seed points describing conjugate points are manually added for the stereo imagery, and interesting points are automatically produced by using such seed points. Produced interesting points being used as initial conjugate points, area based image matching is implemented. For the points which fail to match, the locations of initial conjugate points are recalculated by using matched six points and image matching process is re-implemented. The quality assessment by reversing the role of target and search image shows 97.5 % of points were laid within one pixel absolute difference.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.5
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• pp.88-95
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• 1999

스테레오 정합에서 가장 중요하고도 어려운 문제는 대응점 추출 문제와 폐색 영역에 대한 처리이다. 특히 폐색 영역의 점들은 대응점이 존재하지 않기 때문에 변이 정보 획득에 많은 어려움이 있다. 이러한 문제에 대한 효과적인 접근을 위해 본 논문에서는 쌍방향 정합 알고리즘을 기반으로 폐색 영역의 정합 정도를 향상 시키는 방법을 제안한다. 즉 좌,우 영상 각각의 기준에 대해 독립적인 변이 정보를 구하고, 이를 바탕으로 정합의 타당성 여부를 검토하여 그 결과를 다음 처리에서 반영하는 상호 보완적인 반복 처리 기법을 적용하였다. 이 과정에서 구해진 폐색 영역에 대한 변이 정보는 스테레오 영상 모델의 기하학적 구조를 적용하여 좌, 우측 기준 정합에 대해 그 좌, 우측 점들의 변이 정보들로 대체함으로써 불연속점들의 무뎌짐(blurring)현상을 개선하였다. 한편, 실험 결과를 보다 객관적으로 비교하기 위해 정합율과 에러율이라는 파라메터를 정의하여 개선된 결과를 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.203-211
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• 1998

A traditional method to produce three dimensional orthophoto map has been studied by digital photogrammetry which decides a height by digitally searching conjugate points on the stereo image. Many researches in digital photogrammetric field are still in progress to determine conjugate points automatically. In this study, we analyze the effect of accuracy of area-based image matching with changing eight types of target area size using four types of image pyramid. The result of image matching to each method compared with 1/5,000 digital mapping data. We decided a optimal size of target area on a percentage of image matching. Digital elevation model is generated by matching results and bundle method. As a result, three dimensional orthophoto map is made in terms of digital elevation model and orthophoto.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.1D
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• pp.153-160
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• 2009

In relation to digital elevation model(DEM) production using high resolution satellite imagery, existing studies present that DEM accuracy differently show according to land cover property. This study therefore proposes auto-selection method of window size for correlation matching according to land cover property of IKONOS Geo-level stereo image. For this, land cover classified image is obtained by IKONOS color image with four bands. In addition, correlation-coefficients are computed at regular intervals in pixels of the window-search area to shorten of matching time. As the results, DEM by the proposed method showed more accurate than DEM using the fixed window-size matching. We estimate that accuracy of the proposed DEM improved more than DEM by digital map and ERDAS in agricultural land.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.143-152
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• 2012

It is well-known that image matching is necessary for automatic generation of 3D data such as digital surface data from aerial images. Recently developed aerial digital cameras allow to capture multi-strip images with higher overlaps and less occluded areas than conventional analogue cameras and that much of researches on multi-image matching have been performed, particularly effective methods of measuring a similarity among multi-images using point features as well as linear features. This research aims to investigate similarity measuring methods such as SSD and SNCC incorporated into a area based multi-image matching method based on vertical line locus. In doing this, different similarity measuring entities such as grey value, grey value gradient, and average of grey value and its gradient are implemented and analyzed. Further, both dynamic and pre-fixed adaptive-window size are tested and analyzed in their behaviors in measuring similarity among multi-images. The aerial images used in the experiments were taken by a DMC aerial frame camera in three strips. The over-lap and side-lap are about 80% and 60%, respectively. In the experiment, it was found that the SNCC as similarity measuring method, the average of grey value and its gradient as similarity measuring entity, and dynamic adaptive-window size can be best fit to measuring area-based similarity in area based multi-image matching method based on vertical line locus.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.3 no.2 s.6
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• pp.159-172
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• 1995

This study aims to apply digital photogrammetric methods on the close range photogrammetry. To get a three dimensional position with digital photogrammetric method, scanning, image matching, and bundle adjustment are performed. Comparing the three dimensional position computed by digital photogrammetric methods with ground survey values, the errors can be detected. Analyzing the errors, it is possible to present a new digital photogrammetric method for the close range photogrammetry. Image matching method used in this study is area-based pixel unit and subpixel unit method. As a result of the study, three dimensional position error is 3.32mm and the error in the single coordinate axis direction is 0.76mm in pixel unit and in subpixel unit, respective error is 3.98mm and 0.73mm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.262-265
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 그래픽 하드웨어와 그래픽 프로그램 기술을 이용하여 고속으로 스테레오 영상의 시차를 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 우선, 컬러 스테레오 영상에 대하여 mean-shift 기법을 이용하여 컬러를 이용한 영역분할을 수행한다. 분할된 컬러 영역 단위로 가중치를 계산함으로써, 화소단위로 가중치를 계산하는 기존의 방식에 비하여 속도를 높일 수 있다. 블록정합함수를 계산하는 과정에서는 슬라이딩 윈도우 방식을 채택하여, 새로 블록안으로 들어오는 화소열과 빠져나가는 화소열의 정합함수값을 가감하여 화소마다 반복적으로 합산되는 정합함수의 계산량을 크게 줄인다. Middlebury 스테레오 영상을 이용하여 실험 및 평가를 수행한 결과, VGA 급 스테레오 영상을 기준으로 10 프레임 이상을 처리하면서도 기존의 적응적인 가중치를 갖는 블록정합 방식의 성능과 유사한 결과를 확인하였다. 이러한 고속화 방법을 통하여, 기존의 적응적인 가중치를 이용한 블록정합 방식에 비하여 훨씬 고속으로 스테레오 정합을 수행할 수 있으며, 실시간 시차추정이 필요한 시스템에 적용하는 것이 가능하다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.7
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• pp.1178-1188
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• 2003

In this paper, we describe image mosaicing techniques for constructing a large high-resolution image with images taken by a video camera in hand. we propose the method which is automatically retrieving the exact matching area using color information and shape information. The proposed method extracts first candidate areas which have similar form using a Voronoi Distance Matching Method which is rapidly estimating the correspondent points between adjacent images, and calculating initial transformations of them and finds the final matching area using color information. It is a method that creates Voronoi Surface which set the distance value among feature points and other points on the basis of each feature point of a image, and extracts the correspondent points which minimize Voronoi Distance in matching area between an input image and a basic image using the binary search method. Using the Levenberg-Marquadt method we turn an initial transformation matrix to an optimal transformation matrix, and using this matrix combine a basic image with a input image.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.559-561
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 스테레오 영상으로부터 변위를 추정할 수 있는 다양한 방법들 중 특정 기반 방식과 영역 기반 방식의 각각의 장점들을 살리고 단점들을 보완하기 위한 방법은 제안한다. 영상의 경계선을 이루는 특징점들은 전체 영상의 5% 내외의 소수로 추출되면서도 많은 양의 영상 정보를 가지고 있으므로, 이 점들에 대해 일정한 매칭 과정을 통해 대응점을 구하고, 이 중 90% 이상의 정확성 매칭 확률을 가진 대응점들을 영상으로 기준점으로 설정한다. 그리고 이러한 기준점 이외의 점들에 대해서는 추출된 기준점들의 순서에 맞추어 Ordering Constraint를 적용시키고 기준점에 따라 블록의 크기가 달라지는 영역 기반 방식을 적용하여 조밀한 변위를 추정하였다. 이렇게 함으로써 영역 기반 방식과 특징 기반 방식의 각각의 장점들을 이용하면서도 특정기반 방식의 문제점인 보간법 문제를 해결하였고, 또한 블록의 크기 따라 계산 시간과 정합 오차가 많이 좌우되는 영역 기반 방식의 단점들을 해결하였다. 또한 기준점을 이용하여 Ordering constraint 기반하에 영역 정보를 이용하므로 좀 더 올바른 순서 조건에 맞추어 대응점을 찾을 수 있고 또한 폐쇄 영역 부분도 쉽게 찾을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.2 s.46
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• pp.123-130
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• 2007

The aim of this study was to propose a fusion and registration method with heterogeneous small animal acquisition system in small animal in-vivo study. After an intravenous injection of $^{18}F$-FDG through tail vain and 60 min delay for uptake, mouse was placed on an acryl plate with fiducial markers that were made for fusion between small animal PET (microPET R4, Concorde Microsystems, Knoxville TN) and Discovery LS CT images. The acquired emission list-mode data was sorted to temporally framed sinograms and reconstructed using FORE rebining and 2D-OSEM algorithms without correction of attenuation and scatter. After PET imaging, CT images were acquired by mean of a clinical PET/CT with high-resolution mode. The microPET and CT images were fusion and co-registered using the fiducial markers and segmented lung region in both data sets to perform a point-based rigid co-registration. This method improves the quantitative accuracy and interpretation of the tracer.