• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.293-300
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• 2023

The Shape Preferred Orientation (SPO) method has been used to analyze the orientation of fault motion, which is utilized as basic data for fault kinematics studies. The rigid grains, which as quartz, feldspar, and rock fragments, in the fault gouge are arranged in the P-shear direction through rigid body rotation by a given shear stress. Using this characteristic, the fault motion can be estimated from the SPO inversely. Recently, a method for securing precision and reliability by measuring 3D-SPO using X-ray CT images and examining the shape of a large number of particles in a short time has been developed. As a result, the SPO method analyzes the orientation of thousands to tens of thousands of particles at high speed, suggests the direction of fault motion, and provides easy accessibility and reliable data. In addition, the shape information and orientation distribution data of particles, which are by-products obtained in the SPO analysis process, are expected to be used as basic data for conducting various studies such as the local deformation of fault rocks and the fault generation mechanism.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.35-44
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• 2007

Since the omnidirectional camera system with a very large field of view could take many information about environment scene from few images, various researches for calibration and 3D reconstruction using omnidirectional image have been presented actively. Most of line segments of man-made objects we projected to the contours by using the omnidirectional camera model. Therefore, the corresponding contours among images sequences would be useful for computing the camera transformations including rotation and translation. This paper presents a novel two step minimization method to estimate the extrinsic parameters of the camera from the corresponding contours. In the first step, coarse camera parameters are estimated by minimizing an angular error function between epipolar planes and back-projected vectors from each corresponding point. Then we can compute the final parameters minimizing a distance error of the projected contours and the actual contours. Simulation results on the synthetic and real images demonstrated that our algorithm can achieve precise contour matching and camera motion estimation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.78-84
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• 2015

Depth estimation is often required for robot vision, 3D modeling, and motion control. Previous method is based on the focus measures which are calculated for a series of image by a single camera at different distance between and object. This method, however, has disadvantage of taking a long time for calculating the focus measure since the mask operation is performed for every pixel in the image. In this paper, we estimates the depth by using the focus measure of the boundary pixels located between the objects in order to minimize the depth estimate time. To detect the boundary of an object consisting of a straight line and a circle, we use the Hough transform and estimate the depth by using the focus measure. We performed various experiments for PCB images and obtained more effective depth estimation results than previous ones.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.129-136
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• 2009

The estimation of muscle force is important to understand the roles of the muscles. The static optimization method can be used to figure out the individual muscle forces. However, muscle forces during the movement including muscle co-contraction cannot be considered by the static optimization. In this study, a hybrid static optimization method was introduced to find the well-matched muscle forces with EMG signals under muscle co-contraction conditions. To validate the developed algorithm, the 3D motion analysis and its corresponding inverse dynamics using the musculoskeletal modeling software (SIMM) were performed on heel-rise movements. Results showed that the developed algorithm could estimate the acceptable muscle forces during heel-rise movement. These results imply that a hybrid numerical approach is very useful to obtain the reasonable muscle forces under muscle co-contraction conditions.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.403-404
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• 2008

In this paper, a new 4-way search window is developed for H.264 Motion Estimation(ME) to improve the memory bandwidth. The proposed 4-way(up, down, left, right) search window could improve the reuse of overlapped window data to reduce the redundancy access factor by 1.4, though the 1/3-way search window requires $7.7{\sim}11$ times of data retrieval redundantly. In experiments, the new implementation of 4-way search window on Altera Stratix-III could deal with CIF ($352{\times}288$) video of 3 reference frame, $48{\times}48$ search area and $16{\times}16$ macroblock by 30fps real time at 55.2MHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8B
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• pp.1141-1151
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 효과적으로 선택된 초기 탐색 위치를 이용한 움직임 추정의 고속 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 2$\times$2화소 블록 평균으로 부표본화 영상에서 움직임 벡터를 얻어 원영상 비율로 확대하고, 주위 블록의 움직임으로부터 예측 움직임 벡터를 구하여, 이 중에서 정합오차가 작은 것을 초기 탐색 위치로 선택한다. 그리고 선택된 초기 탐색 위치를 중심으로 회전 탐색을 시작하여, 연속 소거 알고리즘으로 탐색할 후보 블록을 선택하고, 부분 정합 왜곡 소거법을 사용하여 블록간 정합오차 계산량을 줄이면서, 고속으로 움직임 벡터를 추정한다. 알고리즘의 실제 적용에 있어서는 선택된 초기 탐색 위치를 중심으로 회전 탐색 패턴의 탐색 범위를 조절하거나, 매크로 블록 당 복잡도를 제한하여 계산량을 줄일 수 있다. 실험 결과, 제안된 알고리즘은 전역탐색 블록정합 알고리즘에 대하여 0.2dB 이하의 미소한 평균 PSNR 저하만을 발생하면서, FBMA 복잡도의 3% 이하의 평균 복잡도를 소요하였다. 이것은 3단계 탐색법에 대하여 40% 이하의 계산량이다. 그리고 실험 영상들의 각 프레임에 대해서도 비슷한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.437-438
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• 2006

Virtual view synthesis is essential for 3DTV systems, which utilizes the motion parallax cue. In this paper, we propose a multi-step view synthesis algorithm to efficiently reconstruct an arbitrary view from limited number of known views of a 3D scene. We describe an efficient image rectification procedure which guarantees that an interpolation process produce valid views. This rectification method can deal with all possible camera motions. The idea consists of using a polar parameterization of the image around the epipole. Then, to generate intermediate views, we use an efficient dense disparity estimation algorithm considering features of stereo image pairs. Main concepts of the algorithm are based on the region dividing bidirectional pixel matching. The estimated disparities are used to synthesize intermediate view of stereo images. We use computer simulation to show the result of the proposed algorithm.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.39-49
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• 2002

This paper presents a robust tracker design method that is specific to the trajectories of target aircraft. This method assumes that representative trajectories of the target aircraft are available. The exact trajectories known to the tracker enables the incorporation of the exact data in the tracker design instead of the measurement data. An estimator is designed to have acceptable performance in tracking a finite number of different target trajectories with a capability to trade off the mean and maximum errors between the exact trajectories and the estimated or predicted trajectories. Constant estimator gains that minimize the cost functions related to the estimation or prediction error are computed off-line from an iterative algorithm. This tracker design method is applied to the longitudinal motion tracking of target aircraft.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.95-103
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• 2008

Knowledge of expected losses in terms of physical, economic, and social damages due to a potential earthquake will be helpful in the effort to mitigate seismic hazards. In this study, losses due to a magnitude 6.7 scenario earthquake in the Gyeongju area have been estimated using the deterministic method in HAZUS. The attenuation relation proposed by Sadigh et al.(1997) for site classes B, C, and D, which are assumed to represent the characteristics of the strong-motion attenuation in the Korean Peninsula, has been applied. Losses due to the hypothetical earthquake have been also calculated using other attenuation relationships to examine their roles in the loss estimation. The findings indicate differences among the estimates based on various attenuation relationships. Estimated losses of the Gyeongju area by a scenario earthquake using HAZUS should be seriously considered in the planning of disaster response and hazard mitigation.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.641-646
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• 2010

This paper presents algorithms for real-time navigation of a humanoid robot with a stereo vision but no other sensors. Using the algorithms, a robot can recognize its 3D environment by retrieving SIFT features from images, estimate its position through the Kalman filter, and plan its path to reach a destination avoiding obstacles. Our approach focuses on estimating the robot’s central walking path trajectory rather than its actual walking motion by using an approximate model. This strategy makes it possible to apply mobile robot localization approaches to humanoid robot localization. Simple collision free path planning and motion control enable the autonomous robot navigation. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.