• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.493-504
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• 2007

This paper proposes a stereo vision-based forward obstacle detection and distance measurement method. In general, stereo vision-based obstacle detection methods in automotive applications can be classified into two categories: IPM (Inverse Perspective Mapping)-based and disparity histogram-based. The existing disparity histogram-based method was developed for stop-and-go applications. The proposed method extends the scope of the disparity histogram-based method to highway applications by 1) replacing the fixed rectangular ROI (Region Of Interest) with the traveling lane-based ROI, and 2) replacing the peak detection with a constant threshold with peak detection using the threshold-line and peakness evaluation. In order to increase the true positive rate while decreasing the false positive rate, multiple candidate peaks were generated and then verified by the edge feature correlation method. By testing the proposed method with images captured on the highway, it was shown that the proposed method was able to overcome problems in previous implementations while being applied successfully to highway collision warning/avoidance conditions, In addition, comparisons with laser radar showed that vision sensors with a wider FOV (Field Of View) provided faster responses to cutting-in vehicles. Finally, we integrated the proposed method into a longitudinal collision avoidance system. Experimental results showed that activated braking by risk assessment using the state of the ego-vehicle and measuring the distance to upcoming obstacles could successfully prevent collisions.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.2370-2372
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• 1998

Recently we have developed an active stereo head-eye system with vergence, name it KIST HECter(Head-Eye System with Colored Stero Vision), based on the analysis of human's neck and eye motion at visual behavior. Our HECter is a five degree-of-freedom system composed of pan and tilt motion in neck part and independent vergence motion of binocular cameras and commonly shared elevation axis in eye part. And stereo vision Provides two color image, which are processed by powerful each TMS32080 vision board. The shape and size are designed to be almost same as human face. The ability to vergence has significant importance and gives many beneficial merits. On its mechanical implementation we adapt a non-parallelogram 4-bar linkage mechanism since it provides high accuracy in transfering motion and enables compact and flexible design.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.1011-1020
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• 2013

In this paper, we present a method for obtaining a high-quality 3D depth. The advantages of active pattern projection and passive stereo matching are combined and a system is established. A diffractive optical element (DOE) is developed to project the active pattern. Cross guidance (CG) and auto guidance (AG) are proposed to perform the passive stereo matching in a stereo image in which a DOE pattern is projected. When obtaining the image, the CG emits a DOE pattern periodically and consecutively receives the original and pattern images. In addition, stereo matching is performed using these images. The AG projects the DOE pattern continuously. It conducts cost aggregation, and the image is restored through the process of removing the pattern from the pattern image. The ground truth is generated to estimate the optimal parameter among various stereo matching algorithms. Using the ground truth, the optimal parameter is estimated and the cost computation and aggregation algorithm are selected. The depth is calculated and bad-pixel errors make up 4.45% of the non-occlusion area.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.766-771
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• 2004

In this paper, new exploration mobile robot is presented. This mobile robot, called Robhaz-6W, is able to overcome hazardous terrains, recognize three dimensional terrain information and generate a path toward the destination by itself. We develop the passive four bar linkage mechanism adoptable to such terrain without any active control and the real time stereo vision system for obstacle avoidance, a remote control and a path planning method. And the geometrical information is transmitted to the operator in the remote site via wireless LAN equipment. And finally, experimental results for the passive mechanism, the real time stereo vision system, the path planning are reported, which show the versatility of the proposed mobile robot system to carry out some tasks.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.871-875
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• 2003

To detect and avoid obstacles is one of the important tasks of mobile navigation. In a real environment, when a mobile robot encounters dynamic obstacles, it is required to simultaneously detect and avoid obstacles for its body safely. In previous vision system, mobile robot has used it as either a passive sensor or an active sensor. This paper proposes a new obstacle detection algorithm that uses a stereo camera as both a passive sensor and an active sensor. Our system estimates the distances from obstacles by both passive-correspondence and active-correspondence using laser slit. The system operates in three steps. First, a far-off obstacle is detected by the disparity from stereo correspondence. Next, a close obstacle is acquired from laser slit beam projected in the same stereo image. Finally, we implement obstacle avoidance algorithm, adopting the modified Dynamic Window Approach (DWA), by using the acquired the obstacle's distance.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.118-125
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 얼굴 영역 수술용 네비게이션을 위한 스테레오 비전과 CT 영상을 이용하여 환자-영상 간 정합(Image to patient registration) 알고리즘의 성능을 평가한다. 환자 영상 간 정합은 스테레오 비전 영상의 특징점 추출과 이를 통한 3차원 좌표 계산, 3차원 좌표와 3차원 CT 영상과의 정합 과정을 거친다. 스테레오 비전 영상에서 3가지 얼굴 특징점 추출 방법과 3가지 정합 방법을 사용하여 생성될 수 있는 5가지 조합 중 정합 정확도가 가장 높은 방법을 평가한다. 또한 머리의 회전에 따라 환자 영상 간 정합의 정확도를 비교한다. 실험을 통해 머리의 회전 각도가 약 20도의 범위 내에서 Active Appearance Model과 Pseudo Inverse Matching을 사용한 정합의 정확도가 가장 높았으며, 각도가 20도 이상일 경우 Speeded Up Robust Features와 Iterative Closest Point를 사용하였을 때 정합 정확도가 높았다. 이 결과를 통해 회전각도가 20도 범위 내에서는 Active Appearance Model과 Pseudo Inverse Matching 방법을 사용하고, 20도 이상의 경우 Speeded Up Robust Features와 Iterative Closest Point를 이용하는 것이 정합의 오차를 줄일 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.935-940
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• 2002

For robot navigation and visual reconstruction, structure from motion (SFM) is an active issue in computer vision community and its properties arc also becoming well understood. In this paper, when using stereo image sequence and direct method as a tool for SFM, we present a new method for overcoming bas-relief ambiguity. We first show that the direct methods, based on optical flow constraint equation, are also intrinsically exposed to such ambiguity although they introduce robust methods. Therefore, regarding the motion and depth estimation by the robust and direct method as approximated ones. we suggest a method that refines both stereo displacement and motion displacement with sub-pixel accuracy, which is the central process f3r improving its ambiguity. Experiments with real image sequences have been executed and we show that the proposed algorithm has improved the estimation accuracy.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.256-267
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• 2017

An active research area in computer vision, stereo matching is aimed at obtaining three-dimensional (3D) information from a stereo image pair captured by a stereo camera. To extract accurate 3D information, a number of studies have examined stereo matching algorithms that employ adaptive support weight. Among them, the adaptive census transform (ACT) algorithm has yielded a relatively strong matching capability. The drawbacks of the ACT, however, are that it produces low matching accuracy at the border of an object and is vulnerable to noise. To mitigate these drawbacks, this paper proposes and analyzes the features of an improved stereo matching algorithm that not only enhances matching accuracy but also is also robust to noise. The proposed algorithm, based on the ACT, adopts the truncated absolute difference and the multiple sparse windows method. The experimental results show that compared to the ACT, the proposed algorithm reduces the average error rate of depth maps on Middlebury dataset images by as much as 2% and that is has a strong robustness to noise.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 실내 환경에서 동적 스테레오 카메라(active stereo camera)를 이용한 새로운 인체 실루엣 추출 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘의 주된 응용분야는 이동 로봇 플랫폼에서의 인체 실루엣을 이용한 제스처 인식이다. 먼 거리에서 움직이는 객체를 분할(segmentation)하는 데에는 저해상도, 그림자, 스테레오 정합의 불확실성, 배경과 객체의 색 분포의 불안정성 등과 같은 다양한 문제를 내포한다. 우리는 먼저 이미지 분할 기법과 스테레오 정보를 이용하여 신뢰도 높은 객체와 배경 영역을 추정하였다. 이렇게 추정된 영역을 적절히 그래프 컷(graph cut)에 활용하는 방식을 고안함으로써 주변 환경의 변화에 강인한 인체 실루엣 추출을 가능하게 하였다. 제안한 방식은 실내에서 펜-틸트(pan-tilt) 스테레오 카메라로 획득된 비디오 데이타를 대상으로 실험하였으며, 색, 색과 스테레오, 색과 대비 정보를 기반으로 한 방법들과 비교 실험한 결과 정확도가 많이 향상된 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 레이저 슬릿 빔을 이용한 능동 스테레오 정합 기법과 모자이크 기법을 결합한 3차원 형상 복원 기법을 제안한다. 능동 스테레오 정합 기법은 레이저 슬릿 빔이 조사된 좌, 우 영상에서 색상과 밝기 변화를 분석하여 레이저 라인의 위치정보를 검출하고, 등극선(epipolar line)에서 이를 비교하여 깊이 정보를 획득하는 방법이다. 모자이크 기법은 해리스 코너 검출 방법(harris corner detection)을 이용하여 영상의 특징점을 검출하고, 특징점 기술자(keypoint descriptor) 색인 분류 방법으로 연속 영상 간 특징점의 대응쌍을 찾고 상호 변환 관계를 추정하는 방법이다. 능동 스테레오 정합기법과 모자이크 기법을 이용하여 전체 연속 영상의 깊이 정보를 계산하였다. 이와 같은 방법으로 획득한 연속 영상의 깊이 정보를 영상의 색상, 질감 정보와 융합(blending)과정을 거쳐 최종 3차원 형상 정보로 복원하였다. 제안한 복원기법은 레이저 슬릿 빔과 스테레오 카메라를 사용함으로써 장소와 거리 제약 조건을 극복하여 용이하면서도 강인한 3차원 거리 정보를 획득할 수 있었다.