• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.21-30
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• 2011

In this paper, an effective method to detect the laser pointer on the screen using the neural network algorithm for implementing the human-computer interaction system. The proposed neural network algorithm is used to train the patches without a laser pointer from the input camera images, the trained neural network then generates output values for an input patch from a camera image. If a small variation is perceived in the input camera image, amplify the small variations and detect the laser pointer spot in the camera image. The proposed system consists of a laser pointer, low-price web-camera and image processing program and has a detection capability of laser spot even if the background of computer monitor has a similar color with the laser pointer spot. Therefore, the proposed technique will be contributed to improve the performance of human-computer interaction system.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.211-216
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• 2012

There are two kinks of processes could detect the laser pointer. One is the process which detects the location of the pointer. the other one is a possibility of dividing with the process which converts the coordinate of the laser pointer which is input in coordinate of the monitor. The previous Mean-Shift algorithm is not appropriately for real-time video image to calculate many quantity. In this paper, we proposed the context driven real-time laser pointer detection and tracking. The proposed method is a possibility of getting the result which is fixed from the situation which the background and the background which are complicated dynamically move. In the actual environment, we can get to give constant results when the object come in, when going out at forecast boundary. Ultimately, this paper suggests empirical application to verify the adequacy and the validity with the proposed method. Accordingly, the accuracy and the quality of image recognition will be improved the surveillance system.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.216-220
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• 2018

In this paper, we present visual sensing techniques that can be used to teach a robot using a laser pointer. The light spot of an off-the-shelf laser pointer is detected and its movement is tracked on consecutive images of a camera. The three-dimensional position of the spot is calculated using stereo cameras. The light spot on the image is detected based on its color, brightness, and shape. The detection results in a binary image, and morphological processing steps are performed on the image to refine the detection. The movement of the laser spot is measured using two methods. The first is a simple method of specifying the region of interest (ROI) centered at the current location of the light spot and finding the spot within the ROI on the next image. It is assumed that the movement of the spot is not large on two consecutive images. The second method is using a Kalman filter, which has been widely employed in trajectory estimation problems. In our simulation study of various cases, Kalman filtering shows better results mostly. However, there is a problem of fitting the system model of the filter to the pattern of the spot movement.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.69-76
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• 2007

The main stream of presentation is interrupted because of the direct manipulation of their PC frequently so as to control the screen and file open and so on. A variety of products have been developed to solve these inconveniences of the conventional laser beam pointer [LBP] by simply adding a mouse function to the previous LBP. However. the LBPs fully supporting a mouse function are not yet appeared. In this paper. we developed the LBP fully fulfilling a mouse function using mono-camera as well as a robust image processing and analyzed the position detection accuracy. Finally we verified the developed LBP does not only fulfill a mouse function but also solve the defects of the current laser pointer such as inconvenient installation and Position detection errors due to the illumination and viewing direction changes.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.42-49
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• 2015

In laser pointer interaction systems, laser spot detection is one of the most important technologies, and most of the challenges in this area are related to the varying backgrounds, and the real-time performance of the interaction system. In this paper, we present a robust dictionary construction and update algorithm based on a sparse model of background subtraction. In order to control dynamic backgrounds, first, we determine whether there is a change in the backgrounds; if this is true, the new background can be directly added to the dictionary configurations; otherwise, we run an online cumulative average on the backgrounds to update the dictionary. The proposed dictionary construction and update algorithm for laser spot detection, is robust to the varying backgrounds and noises, and can be implemented in real time. A large number of experimental results have confirmed the superior performance of the proposed method in terms of the detection error and real-time implementation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.617-620
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• 2010

최근 고성능 모바일 단말기와 다양한 컨텐츠가 등장하면서 유비쿼터스 환경에서의 사용자 인터페이스에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 특히 모바일 프로젝터는 장소의 제한을 받지 않고 큰 화면을 다른 사람과 공유할 수 있는 장점이 있는 반면에 단말기를 직접 제어해야 하는 불편함이 있다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 환경에서 카메라를 통해 입력된 영상 정보만으로 사용자가 스크린에 비추는 레이저 포인터를 실시간으로 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 색상 감지와 움직임 감지로 나뉜다. 단일 프레임에서 영상 성분의 평균을 이용한 조건을 검사하여 레이저 포인터 색상 영역을 검출하고, 인접한 프레임과 현재 프레임과의 차를 구하며 그 차이가 임계값보다 큰 영역을 움직임 영역으로 검출한다. 마지막으로 색상 검출 영역과 움직임 검출 영역을 동시에 만족하는 영역을 최종적으로 레이저 포인터 영역으로 인식한다. 본 기법은 영상 정보만 사용하기 때문에 센서나 불필요한 장비를 착용할 필요가 없고 영상 성분 평균을 이용하므로 프로젝터 성능에 따른 조도의 변화에 강건하여 효과적인 레이저 포인터 검출이 가능하다. 실험결과는 주변 조명의 밝기에 따라 차이가 있지만 대부분 80% 이상의 검출률과 16% 미만의 오검출률의 성능으로 나타났고, 이 같은 결과는 사용자의 주관적인 만족을 보장하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1225-1235
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• 2016

This paper presents a method for computer-assisted slide presentation using vision-based gesture recognition. The proposed method consists of a sequence of steps, first detecting a hand in the scene of projector beam, then estimating the smooth trajectory of a hand or a pointing finger using Kalman Filter, and finally interfacing to an application system. Additional slide navigation control includes moving back and forth the pages of the presentation. The proposed method is to help speakers for an effective presentation with natural improved interaction with the computer. In particular, the proposed method of using finger pointing is believed to be more effective than using a laser pointer since the hand, the pointing or finger are more visible and thus can better grab the attention of the audience.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.161-167
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• 2008

This article describes the methods of a decision of the location which user points to move by an optical device like a laser pointer and a moving to that location. Using a conic mirror and CCD camera sensor, a robot observes a spot of user wanted point among an initiative, computes the location and azimuth and moves to that position. This system offers the brief data to a processor with simple devices. In these reason, we can reduce the time of a calculation to process of images and find the target by user point for carrying a robot. User points a laser spot on a point to be moved so that this sensor system in the robot, detecting the laser spot point with a conic mirror, laid on the robot, showing a camera. The camera is attached on the robot upper body and fixed parallel to the ground and the conic mirror.