• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2000

In this paper, a vision-based roadway detection algorithm for an automated vehicle control system, based on roadway sign information on roads, is proposed. First, in order to detect roadway signs, the color scene image is enhanced under hue-invariance. Fuzzy logic is employed to simplify the enhanced color image into a binary image and the binary image is morphologically filtered. Then, an effective algorithm of locating signs based on binary rank order transform (BROT) is utilized to extract signs from the image. This algorithm performs better than those previously presented. Finally, the inner shapes of roadway signs with curving roadway direction information are recognized by neural networks. Experimental results show that the new detection algorithm is simple and robust, and performs well on real sign detection. The results also show that the neural networks used can exactly recognize the inner shapes of signs even for very noisy shapes.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2019

We propose an active color model based method for tracking motions of multiple human using a networked multiple-camera system in IoT space as a human-robot coexistent system. An IoT space is a space where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors(color CCD cameras for example), are distributed. Human beings can be a part of IoT space as well. One of the main goals of IoT space is to assist humans and to do different services for them. In order to be capable of doing that, IoT space must be able to do different human related tasks. One of them is to identify and track multiple objects seamlessly. In the environment where many camera modules are distributed on network, it is important to identify object in order to track it, because different cameras may be needed as object moves throughout the space and IoT space should determine the appropriate one. This paper describes appearance based unknown object tracking with the distributed vision system in IoT space. First, we discuss how object color information is obtained and how the color appearance based model is constructed from this data. Then, we discuss the global color model based on the local color information. The process of learning within global model and the experimental results are also presented.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.165-171
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• 2004

Robots will be able to coexist with humans and support humans effectively in near future. One of the most important aspects in the development of human-friendly robots is to cooperation between humans and robots. In this paper, we proposed a method for multi-object identification in order to achieve such human-centered system and robot localization in intelligent space. The intelligent space is the space where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors, are distributed. The Intelligent Space achieves the human centered services by accelerating the physical and psychological interaction between humans and intelligent devices. As an intelligent device of the Intelligent Space, a color CCD camera module, which includes processing and networking part, has been chosen. The Intelligent Space requires functions of identifying and tracking the multiple objects to realize appropriate services to users under the multi-camera environments. In order to achieve seamless tracking and location estimation many camera modules are distributed. They causes some errors about object identification among different camera modules. This paper describes appearance based object representation for the distributed vision system in Intelligent Space to achieve consistent labeling of all objects. Then, we discuss how to learn the object color appearance model and how to achieve the multi-object tracking under occlusions.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2014

Usually, the skin pigmentation detection and diagnosis are made by clinicians. In this process it is subjective and non-quantitative. We develop an approach to detect and measure the different pigmentation lesions base on computer vision technology. In the paper we study several usually used skin-detecting color space like HSV, YCbCr and normalized RGB. We compare their performance with illumination influence for detecting the pigmentation lesions better. Base on a relatively stable color space, we propose an approach which is RGB channels vector difference characteristic for the detection. After the object region detection, we also use the difference to measure the difference between the lesion and the surrounding normal skin. From the experiment results, our approach can effectively detect the pigmentation lesion, and perform robustness with different illumination.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2007년도 하계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.365-366
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• 2007

Micro jetting drop inspection system is essential to measuring micro drop volume. Measuring pico-liter drop volume is useful for new LCD color filter product process that is based on inkjet printing technology. To upgrade the reliability in drop measurement system, we use the auto focusing & multi drop reiteration & blurring average algorism. First of all we used standard mark for gage R&R in the vision system. Finding the most suitable threshold for multi blurring drop, is the main key of this research. Sensitivity of vision system is a standard in measuring the upgrade system level. So, suitable threshold can upgrade the performance of jetting drop inspection system.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.716-725
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• 2007

In this paper we describe a motion tracking algorithm for 3D human animation using stereo vision system. This allows us to extract the motion data of the end effectors of human body by following the movement through segmentation process in HIS or RGB color model, and then blob analysis is used to detect robust shape. When two hands or two foots are crossed at any position and become disjointed, an adaptive algorithm is presented to recognize whether it is left or right one. And the real motion is the 3-D coordinate motion. A mono image data is a data of 2D coordinate. This data doesn't acquire distance from a camera. By stereo vision like human vision, we can acquire a data of 3D motion such as left, right motion from bottom and distance of objects from camera. This requests a depth value including x axis and y axis coordinate in mono image for transforming 3D coordinate. This depth value(z axis) is calculated by disparity of stereo vision by using only end-effectors of images. The position of the inner joints is calculated and 3D character can be visualized using inverse kinematics.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.843-849
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• 2006

Intelligent Space defines an environment where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors, are distributed. As a result of the cooperation between smart devices, intelligence emerges from the environment. In such scheme, a crucial task is to obtain the global location of every device in order to of for the useful services. Some tracking systems often prepare the models of the objects in advance. It is difficult to adopt this model-based solution as the tracking system when many kinds of objects exist. In this paper the location is achieved with no prior model, using color properties as information source. Feature vectors of multiple objects using color histogram and tracking method are described. The proposed method is applied to the intelligent environment and its performance is verified by the experiments.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제37권12호
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• pp.1209-1216
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 실내 공간에 설치된 복수의 카메라로부터 획득한 영상정보를 소형무인기의 자세 추정 및 제어에 이용하는 시스템에 대한 연구를 기술하였다. 제안된 시스템은 실외 비행시험의 제한을 극복하고 효율적인 비행시험 환경을 구축하기 위한 것으로 무인기의 위치 및 자세를 측정하기 위해 별도의 센서를 탑재할 필요가 없어 저가의 장비로 테스트베드를 구성할 수 있다는 장점을 갖는다. 시스템 구현을 위해 요구되는 카메라 보정, 마커 검출, 자세 추정 기법을 소개하였으며 테스트베드를 이용한 실험 결과를 통해 제안된 방법의 타당성 및 성능을 보였다.

• 인지과학
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.51-71
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 도로 주행에서 취득한 영상을 개선하는 방법을 제안한다. 일반적인 도로주행 영상은 다양한 조명 환경과 날씨 상태로 인하여 선명하지 못한 영상이 취득되기도 한다. 특히 역광이나 야간에는 품질이 좋은 선명한 영상을 얻기가 더욱 어려우며, 이는 비전기반 지능형 자동차 기술의 응용에 많은 어려움을 준다. 인간의 시각 인지방법은 여러 가지조명 조건을 고려하여 색을 지각한다. 하지만 기존의 영상 개선 방법들은 광원의 위치와 광도, 기하학적 관계를 고려하지 않기 때문에 완벽한 결과를 얻기가 어려우며, 오히려 영상의 질이 떨어지는 경우도 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 1) 주어진 입력 영상의 전처리 과정을 수행한 후, 2) 선명도를 추정하여 색채의 대비를 평가하고, 3) 과대 및 과소평가 결과를 전처리된 영상과 혼합하여 사람이 지각하는 색상과 같이 개선된 영상을 얻는 효과적인 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 시각적으로 개선된 결과를 보여줄 뿐만 아니라 비전기반 지능형 자동차 기술의 한 응용분야인 교통표지판 검출의 전처리 과정으로 적용되어 성능이 향상됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.2179-2184
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 인간과 환경사이의 물리적 또는 심리적 인터액션을 통한 인간중심의 적절한 서비스를 제공하는 공간지능화(iSpace: Intelligent Space) 구현하고자 네트웍 센서 인식공간을 소개하고 있다. 영상 데이터 처리 및 정보 네트웍 기능을 갖는 다수의 컬러 CCD 카메라를 iSpace 공간에 분산 배치하였다. iSpace내의 정보획득을 위한 네트웍 센서를 분산 지능형 네트웍 디바이스(DIND: Distributed Intelligent Network Devices)라고 명명하고 있으며, 각 DIND는 일종의 클라이언트 역할을 수행하도록 하였으며, DIND는 카메라 센서를 이용하는 이른바 카메라 네트워크를 구성한 것으로 이를 통해 실내 환경을 인식하고 모델링 하며 공간 내 거주자의 의도를 인식하기 위한 시스템을 구축하였다.