• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.6-8
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• 2007

In this paper, We propose reasoning system for object recognition and space classification using not only visual features but also contextual information. It is necessary to perceive object and classify space in real environments for mobile robot. especially vision based. Several visual features such as texture, SIFT. color are used for object recognition. Because of sensor uncertainty and object occlusion. there are many difficulties in vision-based perception. To show the validities of our reasoning system. experimental results will be illustrated. where object and space are inferred by bi -directional rules even with partial and uncertain information. And the system is combined with top-down and bottom-up approach.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.16-25
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• 2020

Vegetation segmentation in a field color image is a process of distinguishing vegetation objects of interests like crops and weeds from a background of soil and/or other residues. The performance of the process is crucial in automatic precision agriculture which includes weed control and crop status monitoring. To facilitate the segmentation, color indices have predominantly been used to transform the color image into its gray-scale image. A thresholding technique like the Otsu method is then applied to distinguish vegetation parts from the background. An obvious demerit of the thresholding based segmentation will be that classification of each pixel into vegetation or background is carried out solely by using the color feature of the pixel itself without taking into account color features of its neighboring pixels. This paper presents a new pixel-based segmentation method which employs a multi-layer perceptron neural network to classify the gray-scale image into vegetation and nonvegetation pixels. The input data of the neural network for each pixel are 2-dimensional gray-level values surrounding the pixel. To generate a gray-scale image from a raw RGB color image, a well-known color index called Excess Green minus Excess Red Index was used. Experimental results using 80 field images of 4 vegetation species demonstrate the superiority of the neural network to existing threshold-based segmentation methods in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and harmonic mean.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.65-74
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• 2012

Purpose: An autonomous robot was developed for harvesting strawberries cultivated in bench-type systems. Methods: The harvest robot consisted of four main components: an autonomous vehicle, a manipulator with four degrees of freedom (DOF), an end effector with two DOFs, and a color computer vision system. Strawberry detection was performed based on 3D image and distance information obtained from a stereo CCD color camera and a laser device, respectively. Results: In this work, a Cartesian type manipulator system was designed, including an intermediate revolute axis and a double driven arm-based joint axis, so that it could generate collision-free motions during harvesting. A DC servomotor-driven end-effector, consisting of a gripper and a cutter, was designed for gripping and cutting the strawberry stem without damaging the strawberry itself. Real-time position tracking algorithms were developed to detect, recognize, trace, and approach strawberries under natural light conditions. Conclusion: The developed robot system could harvest a strawberry within 7 seconds without damage.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.59-66
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• 2011

오늘날 자동차 수의 폭증으로 인하여 사회 인프라 구축에 있어서 도로 사정, 확충이나 교통 정책의 수립이 매우 중요한 요소가 되었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 교통 정책 수립 및 도로 인프라 확충에 대한 예측 정보를 제공할 수 있는 영상시스템 기반의 자동화된 교통량 측정 기술을 제안한다. 사거리나 도로에 설치된 CCTV로부터 실시간으로 영상을 입력받고 입력된 영상에서 다양한 칼라, 기하학적 특징 등을 추출하여 차량의 이동 방향을 활용하여 차량의 종류가 소형(개인용), 대형(산업용)으로 구별하는 분석 기술을 개발하며, 이를 데이터베이스화 하여 실제 일정 시간 동안 통행한 자료를 제공하도록 개발한다. 이러한 자료를 바탕으로 해당 도로의 활용성과 확충에 대한 기본 정보를 제공할 수 있을 것이며, 본 논문에서 개발된 기술을 통하여 차량의 통행량을 인식 실험한 결과 약 90.1%의 인식률을 나타내었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.36.4-36
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• 2001

A robust and reliable path recognition system is one necessary component for the autonomous navigation of a mobile robot to help determining its current position in its navigation map. This paper describes a computer visual path-recognition system using on-board video camera as vision-based driving assistance for an autonomous navigation mobile robot. The common problem for a visual system is that its reliability was often influenced by different lighting conditions. Here, two different image processing methods for the path detection were developed to reduce the effect of the luminance: one is based on the RGB color model and features of the path, another is based on the HSV color model in the absence of luminance.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2006

교통신호등 검출과 인식 시스템은 운전자에게 경고와 보조시스템으로 필요한 장치이다. 본 논문에서는 칼라 비젼시스템을 이용한 주행중 실시간 교통신호등의 검출과 인식법에 대해 제안하고 있다. 제안하는 방법은 크게 네 가지로 구분된다 유사색 환경에서도 신호등 빛 검출이 용이하도록 HSI 색 공간에서 채도와 밝기값의 차를 이용하여 신호등의 빛을 검출하는 신호등 검출, 신호등 외곽검출과 검출된 신호 빛을 바탕으로 교통신호등 외곽 후보영역 설정과 세 검출 결과를 토대로 교통신호등을 인식하는 부분이다. 주행중 영상을 비디오 카메라로 녹화하여 제안하는 방법에 적용하여 결과를 제시하였다. 녹화시 카메라의 줌기능을 이용하여 줌에 의한 입력 영상변화시에도 신호등을 검출 및 인식한 결과를 제시하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.190-207
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• 2015

In the combustion engineering, to decrease pollution and increase production efficiency, and to optimally keep solid burning material amount constant in a burner online, it needs a smart method to detect the amount variation of the burning materials in a high temperature environment. This paper presents an online machine vision system for automatically measuring and detecting the burning material amount inside a burner or a boiler. In the camera-protecting box of the system, a sub-system for cooling is constructed by using the cooling water circulation techqique. In addition, the key and intelligent step in the system is to detect the pile profile of the variable burning material, and the algorithm for the pile profile tracing was studied based on the combination of the gey level (color) discontinuity and similarity based image segmentation methods, the discontinuity based sub-algorithm is made on the quaternion convolution, and the similarity based sub-algorithm is designed according to the region growing with multi-scale clustering. The results of the two sub-algoritms are fused to delineate the final pile profile, and the algorithm has been tested and applied in different industrial burners and boilers. The experiements show that the proposed algorithm works satisfactorily.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.281-284
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• 2010

본 논문은 카메라를 통해 입력받은 컬러 영상에서 손동작을 인식하여 실제 컴퓨팅 환경에 적용하는 방법으로, 입력받은 영상을 YCbCr 색상모델을 기반으로 영상을 이진화하여 레이블링 한 후 각각의 레이블 영역 내에서 Voronoi Diagram을 활용한 최대 내접원(Maximum Inscribed Circle)을 탐색하여 손의 중심점을 찾는다. 이때 탐색된 최대 내접원과 인접한 타원 성분을 분석하여 손 영역을 추출할 수 있다. 본 연구에서 찾아진 최대 내접원과 타원 성분을 손동작 인식의 특징점으로 사용하여 원거리에서 프리젠테이션을 제어하는 시스템을 제안한다. 본 알고리즘은 다양한 환경에서 손을 인식할 때 문제가 되는 배경에서의 유사한 색상을 가진 물체를 효과적으로 제거할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2006년도 하계 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.440-446
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• 2006

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2000

The development of bio-response feedback control system known as the speaking plant approach has been a challenging task for plant production engineers and scientists. In order to achieve the aim of developing such a bio-response feedback control system, the primary concern should be to develop a practical non-invasive technique for monitoring plant growth. Those who are skilled in raising plants can sense whether their plants are under adequate water conditions or not, for example, by merely observing minor color and tone changes before the plants wilt. Consequently, using machine vision, it may be possible to recognize changes in indices that describe plant conditions based on the appearance of growing plants. The interpretation of image information of plants may be based on image features extracted from the original pictorial image. In this study, the performance of a finite element retina was optimized by a genetic algorithm. The optimized finite element retina was evaluated based on the performance of neural plant growth monitor that requires input data given by the finite element retina.