• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.65-68
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a method to interpolate two images obtained from two parallel cameras. The proposed method uses BDM(Bidirectional Disparity Map) to prevent hole generation due to occlusion. Furthermore, we use the block-based DM(Disparity Map) to decrease the amount of computation, and also use the adaptive block size to minimize the error of the block-based DM.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

본 논문은 스테레오 영상에서 물체영역을 추출하기 위하여 변위정보와 밝기정보를 함께 사용하는 개선된 물체 추출 알고리즘을 제안한다. 변위정보와 밝기정보를 이용하여 물체를 추출하는 기법은 Ping과 Chaohui에 의해 연구된 바 있으며 이들의 기법은 입력영상 밝기기반으로 분할하고 분할된 영역 내의 변위정보를 고려하여 분할영역을 병합한다. 그러나 물체와 배경의 밝기 값이 비슷한 경우, 분할영역은 물체영역과 배경영역을 동시에 포함하게 됨으로써 분할영역 단위의 병합은 물체영역 추출의 오류를 야기한다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해서 제안된 기법에서는 화소단위의 병합을 수행한다. 또한 변위정보의 신뢰도를 높이고 단방향 정합의 부족한 변위정보를 보완하기 위하여 양방향 스테레오 정합을 구현하며, 변위 탐색의 진행 여부는 입력영상의 기울기 성분, 즉 물체의 경계정보로부터 결정한다. 제안된 물체추출 알고리즘은 기존 방법에서 추출되지 않은 변위정보를 탐색함으로써 우수한 물체추출 성능을 보인다. 최종적으로 스테레오 카메라를 이용하여 획득한 실사영상에 대한 실험으로 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.752-760
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• 2014

This paper proposes a conditional replenishment algorithm (CRA) to improve the visual quality (where spatial resolutions of the left and right views are mismatched) of a hybrid stereoscopic 3DTV that is based on the ATSC-M/H standard. So as to generate an enhanced view, the CRA is to choose the better substitute among a disparity-compensated view with high quality and a simply interpolated view. The CRA generates a disparity map that includes modes and disparity vectors as additional information. It also employs a quad-tree structure with variable block size by considering the spatial correlation of disparity vectors. In addition, it takes advantage of the disparity map used in a previous frame to keep the amount of additional information as small as possible. The simulation results show that the proposed CRA can successfully improve the peak signal-to-noise ratio of a poor-quality view and consequently have a positive effect on the subjective quality of the resulting 3D view.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.1411-1422
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• 2003

The detection of free spaces between obstacles in a scene is a prerequisite for navigation of a mobile robot. Especially for stereo vision-based navigation, the problem of correspondence between two images is well known to be of crucial importance. This paper describes multi-range approach of area-based stereo matching for grid mapping and visual navigation in uncertain environment. Camera calibration parameters are optimized by evolutionary algorithm for successful stereo matching. To obtain reliable disparity information from both images, stereo images are to be decomposed into three pairs of images with different resolution based on measurement of disparities. The advantage of multi-range approach is that we can get more reliable disparity in each defined range because disparities from high resolution image are used for farther object a while disparities from low resolution images are used for close objects. The reliable disparity map is combined through post-processing for rejecting incorrect disparity information from each disparity map. The real distance from a disparity image is converted into an occupancy grid representation of a mobile robot. We have investigated the possibility of multi-range approach for the detection of obstacles and visual mapping through various experiments.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.403-404
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• 2006

In this paper, we proposed muli-dimensional feature vector matching method combined with disparity smoothness constraint. The smoothness constraint was calculated using the difference between disparity of center pixel and those of 4-neighbor pixels. By applying proposed algorithm to IKONOS satellite stereo imagery, we obtained robust stereo matching result in urban areas.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 제14회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.121-124
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• 2001

For efficient transmission of 3DTV video signals, it is necessary to eliminate the inherent redundancy between the stereo image pairs. Though disparity estimation provides a powerful tool for eliminating the redundancy, it is very time consuming. This paper presents a novel disparity estimation scheme based on the human visual property. The disparity vectors of image blocks spatially adjacent to the current block are used as initial guesses fur the disparity vector of the current block. In addition, mixed-resolution coding is applied to reduce the computational complexity of disparity estimation. Through computer simulations on a stereoscopic sequence we show that the proposed method gives rise .to visually pleasing results with much reduced computational complexity.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.2189-2196
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• 2015

Stereo matching algorithm is usually used to obtain a disparity map from a pair of images. However, the disparity map obtained by using stereo matching contains lots of noise and error regions. In this paper, we propose a virtual-view synthesis algorithm using disparity refinement in order to improve the quality of the synthesized image. First, the error region is detected by examining the consistency of the disparity maps. Then, motion information is acquired by applying optical flow to texture component of the image in order to improve the performance. Then, the occlusion region is found using optical flow on the texture component of the image in order to improve the performance of the optical flow. The refined disparity map is finally used for the synthesis of the virtual view image. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves the quality of the generated virtual-view.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.904-907
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• 2002

In this paper, we describe an algorithm to automatically generate an intermediate scene using the bidirectional disparity morphing from the parallel stereopair. To compute the disparity between two reference images, we use the 2-step fast block matching algorithm that restricts the searching range and accelerates the speed of the computation of the disparity. We also define three occluding patterns so as to smooth the computed disparities, especially for occluded regions. They are derived from the peculiar properties of the disparity map. The smoothed disparity maps present that the false disparities are well corrected and the boundary between foreground and background becomes sharper. We discuss the advantages of this algorithm compared to the commonly used schemes and we show some experimental results with real data.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2004

In this paper, an effective method for reconstruction of stereoscopic image pair through the regularized adaptive disparity estimation is proposed. Although the conventional adaptive disparity window matching can sharply improve the PSNR of a reconstructed stereo image, but there still exist some problems of overlapping between the matching windows and disallocation of the matching windows, because the size of the matching window tend to changes adaptively in accordance with the magnitude of the feature values. In the proposed method, the problems relating to the conventional adaptive disparity estimation scheme can be solved and the predicted stereo image can be more effectively reconstructed by regularizing the extimated disparity vector with the neighboring disparity vectors. From the experimental results, it is found that the proposed algorithm show improvements the PSNR of the reconstructed right image by about 2.36${\sim}$2.76 dB, on average, compared with that of conventional algorithms.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.407-415
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 화상회의 시스템 등 인물 위주의 스테레오 영상으로부터 깊이 정보를 추출하기 위한 스테레오 정합 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 기법에서는 두 대의 스테레오 카메라로부터 획득된 영상에서 임계값을 이용하여 배경을 먼저 제거하고, 배경이 제거된 영상과 카메라 보정을 거친 영상을 이용하여 초기 변이지도(disparity map)와 R, G, B, white 4개의 색상 성분으로 분할한 영상을 생성하게 된다. 각 색상 정보로 분할된 영상의 경계(edge) 성분을 추출하고, 추출된 경계에서 정합 창을 이용하여 변이를 추정하고 각 색상 정보의 변이지도를 적절히 조합하여 최종 변이지도를 생성하게 된다. 실험 결과 제안한 기법이 기존의 영역기반(window based) 정합기법과 동적계획법(dynamic programing method) 등보다 인물 위주의 스테레오 영상에서 더 우수한 성능을 가지는 것을 확인하였다.