• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.428-435
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a novel motion field estimation algorithm for which a U-disparity map and forward-and-backward error removal are applied in a vehicular environment. Generally, a motion exists in an image obtained by a camera attached to a vehicle by vehicle movement; however, the obtained motion vector is inaccurate because of the surrounding environmental factors such as the illumination changes and vehicles shaking. It is, therefore, difficult to extract an accurate motion vector, especially on the road surface, due to the similarity of the adjacent-pixel values; therefore, the proposed algorithm first removes the road surface region in the obtained image by using a U-disparity map, and uses then the optical flow that represents the motion vector of the object in the remaining part of the image. The algorithm also uses a forward-backward error-removal technique to improve the motion-vector accuracy and a vehicle's movement is predicted through the application of the RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) to the previously obtained motion vectors, resulting in the generation of a motion field. Through experiment results, we show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is superior to that of an existing algorithm.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제35S권3호
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• pp.131-143
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• 1998

This paper presents a high performance disparity extraction algorithm that generate a dense and accurate disparity map using low-resolution disparity histogram. Disparity distribution of background and object areas can besegmented from low-resolution disparity histogram. These information can be used to reduce the search area and search range of the high-resolution image resulting reliable disparity information in high speed. The computationally efficient matching pixel count(MPC) similarity measure technique is useed extensively toremove the redundancies inherent in the area-based matching method, and also results robust matching at the boundary region. Resulting maches are further improved using iterative support algorithm and post processing. We have obtained good results on randomdot stereogram and real images obtained in our carmera system.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.83-91
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• 2011

본 논문에서 최근 다양한 로봇에 기존에 개발된 소프트웨어를 쉽게 적용하기 위한 플랫폼 개발에 기여하고 있는데, 국내에서 개발한 지능형로봇 개발을 위한 공통기반 플랫폼(OPRoS)에서 동작하는 3차원 물체 인식 컴포넌트 개발한 내용을 기술하였다. 컴포넌트 구성 내용과 3차원 공간 인식을 위해 사용한 기존 시각차 맵과 깊이 맵에 대한 알고리즘에 대한 언급을 했으며, 또한 시각차 맵을 만들기 위해 스테레오 매칭 방법과 블럭 매칭 방법을 표현했다. 기존 알고리즘으로 만들어진 컴포넌트는 OPRoS가 탑재된 컴퓨터에서 동작을 시켜 실험을 하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.209-210
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• 2007

Obtained disparity map from the stereo camera by using the several stereo matching algorithms carries lots of noise because of various causes. In our approach, mode filtering and noise elimination technique using the histogram and projection-based region merging methods are adopted for improving the quality of disparity map and image segmentation. The proposed algorithms are implemented in VHDL and the real-time experimentation shows the accurately divided objects.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권7호
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• pp.36-48
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• 2010

This paper is concerned with stereo vision-based approach to detect obstacles and to generate the path of destination from the start. The hexapod robot in the experiment is cable of walking by legs and driving by wheels simultaneously. The hexapod robot operates under the driving mode normally, and it changes driving mode to walking mode to overcome obstacles using its legs. Disparity map, which is the correlation between two images taken by stereo camera, is employed for calculation of the distance between the robot and obstacles. When the obstacles information is extracted from the disparity map, the potential field algorithm is applied to create the obstacle-avoidance path. Simulator, based on OpenGL, is developed to generate the graphical path, and the experimental results are shown for the verification of the proposed algorithm.

• 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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권5C호
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• pp.530-535
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• 2007

변이공간영상(Disparity space image, DSI) 방법은 스테레오 영상간의 정합을 찾는 방법이다. 이 방법은 각 화소 단위로 변이값을 계산해 내는 장점이 있다. DSI 방법은 비용함수를 최소화시키는 정합을 찾는 방법이다. 이 비용함수에서 폐색영역비용 값과 정합 보상값을 경험적으로 정하여왔다. 본 논문에서는 변이공간영상 방법에서 폐색영역비용과 정합보상값이 영상 잡음과 물체와 배경간의 차이에 영향을 받는 것을 이론적으로 분석하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2005

본 논문에서 우리는 추정된 시차지도에서 가려짐 영역의 시차를 교정하는 새로운 스무딩 필터인 가려짐 패턴 (occluding patterns)을 제안한다. 영상은 몇 개의 계층으로 구성되어 있고, 각각의 계층은 유사한 시차를 나타낸다. 그리고 추정된 시차들은 가려짐 영역의 경계 주변에서 특정한 방향성을 갖고 분포하며, 이러한 시차 분포의 방향성은 좌우 시차지도에 대해서 서로반대이다. 그러나 평균값 필터 또는 중간값 필터와 같은 기존의 스무딩 필터는 이러한 시차의 분포 특성을 고려하지 않고 스무딩을 수행하기 때문에 오차는 줄일 수 있으나, 교정된 시차의 정확성은 보장되지 않았다. 이와 반대로, 본 논문에서 제안하는 가려짐 패턴은 좌우 영상에서 각각 추정된 시차지도에 대해서 가려짐 영역이 발생하는 특성과 가려짐 영역에서의 시차 분포 특성을 함께 고려하여 정확하게 가려짐 영역의 시차를 교정한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 가려짐 패턴은 다양한 실험 영상에 적용하여 실험하였고, 그 결과 기존의 스무딩 방법에 비해서 정확하게 시차를 교정하는 것을 확인하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.175-182
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• 2017

In this paper, we present a multi-depth generation method using a time-of-flight (ToF) fusion camera system. Multi-view color cameras in the parallel type and ToF depth sensors are used for 3D scene capturing. Although each ToF depth sensor can measure the depth information of the scene in real-time, it has several problems to overcome. Therefore, after we capture low-resolution depth images by ToF depth sensors, we perform a post-processing to solve the problems. Then, the depth information of the depth sensor is warped to color image positions and used as initial disparity values. In addition, the warped depth data is used to generate a depth-discontinuity map for efficient stereo matching. By applying the stereo matching using belief propagation with the depth-discontinuity map and the initial disparity information, we have obtained more accurate and stable multi-view disparity maps in reduced time.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권12호
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• pp.1591-1602
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• 1995

A hybrid approach which includes edge- and region-based methods is considered. The modified non-linear Laplacian(MNL) filter is used for feature extraction. The matching algorithm has three steps which are edge, signed region, and residual region matching. At first, the edge points are matched using the sign and direction of edges. Then, the disparity is propagated from edge to inside region. A variable window is used to consider the local method which give accurate matched points and area-based method which can obtain full-resolution disparity map. In addition, a new relaxation algorithm for considering matching possibility derived from normalized error and regional continuity constraint is proposed to reduce the mismatched points. By the result of simulation for various images, this algorithm is insensitive to noise and gives full- resolution disparity map.