• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.41-52
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• 2012

Purpose: Triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline. This point can be fixed as the third point of a triangle with one known side and two known angles. The aim of this study was to find a clinically adaptable method for applying an optical tracking navigation system to orthognathic surgery and to estimate its accuracy of measuring the bone displacement by use of triangulation methods. Methods: In orthognathic surgery, the head position is not fixed as in neurosurgery, so that a head tracker is needed to establish the reference point on the head surface byusing an optical tracking system. However, the operation field is interfered by its bulkiness that makes its clinical use difficult. To solve this problem, we designed a method using an Aquaplast splinting material and a mini-screw in applying a head tracker on a patient's forehead. After that, we estimated the accuracy of measuring displacements of the ball marker by an optical tracking system with a conventional head tracker (Group A) and with a newly designed head tracker (Group B). Measured values of ball markers' displacements by each optical tracking system were compared with values obtained from fusion CT images for an estimation of accuracy. Results: The accuracy of the optical tracking system with a conventional head tracker (Group A) is not suitable for clinical usage. Measured and predictable errors are larger than 10 mm. The optical tracking system with a newly designed head tracker (Group B) shows 1.59 mm, 6.34 mm, and 9.52 mm errorsin threeclinical cases. Conclusion: Most errors were brought on mainly from a lack of reproducibility of the head tracker position. The accuracy of the optical tracking system with a newly designed head tracker can be a useful method in further orthognathic navigation surgery even though the average error is higher than 2.0 mm.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1218-1230
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• 2019

This study proposes a novel video traffic flow detection method based on machine vision technology. The three-frame difference method, which is one kind of a motion evaluation method, is used to establish initial background image, and then a statistical scoring strategy is chosen to update background image in real time. Finally, the background difference method is used for detecting the moving objects. Meanwhile, a simple but effective shadow elimination method is introduced to improve the accuracy of the detection for moving objects. Furthermore, the study also proposes a vehicle matching and tracking strategy by combining characteristics, such as vehicle's location information, color information and fractal dimension information. Experimental results show that this detection method could quickly and effectively detect various traffic flow parameters, laying a solid foundation for enhancing the degree of automation for traffic management.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.84-95
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• 2009

The ubiquitous smart home is the home of the future, which exploits context information from both the human and the home environment, providing an automatic home service for the human. Human location and motion are the most important contexts in the ubiquitous smart home. In this paper, we present a real-time human tracker that predicts human location and motion for the ubiquitous smart home. The system uses four network cameras for real-time human tracking. This paper explains the architecture of the real-time human tracker, and proposes an algorithm for predicting human location and motion. To detect human location, three kinds of images are used: $IMAGE_1$ - empty room image, $IMAGE_2$ - image of furniture and home appliances, $IMAGE_3$ - image of $IMAGE_2$ and the human. The real-time human tracker decides which specific furniture or home appliance the human is associated with, via analysis of three images, and predicts human motion using a support vector machine (SVM). The performance experiment of the human's location, which uses three images, lasted an average of 0.037 seconds. The SVM feature of human motion recognition is decided from the pixel number by the array line of the moving object. We evaluated each motion 1,000 times. The average accuracy of all types of motion was 86.5%.

• 산업공학
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.114-126
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• 2012

This study describes a real-time location monitoring system developed for efficient operation of workplace in plant equipment maker. This monitoring system can be applied for indoor and outdoor working environment respectively. By using the real-time tracking system based on RTLS, it is possible to track worker's movement and location of working object under indoor working environment. For outdoor working environment, the real-time monitoring system based on IDGPS is applied for work safety and balanced workload. A case study is provided to evaluate the performance of the real-time monitoring system.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.85-91
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• 2013

In this paper, the parabolic antenna aims to the precise location of a moving ship or car that can be designed system using the gyro sensor. The parabolic antenna has controlled by stepping motor that is a lot of noise and slow response of speed. It has solved the problem which is noise and slow response using the BLDC motor. Also, in order to suppress the noise two-axis control and a separate encoder to the six degrees of freedom motion system was implemented in a precise location. Generally, the gyro sensor is not required to system that doesn't move the six degrees of freedom motion system. But the system will be applied to the moving such as ships or cars. Finally, we presented the position control algorithm at the sometimes controlled both gyro sensor and BLDC motor. This system was tracking that the location of the antenna to the desired angle and errors almost didn't happen when the system was moved 6 degrees of freedom.

• 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.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.25-35
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• 2016

Since a sophisticated location determination technology (LDT) is necessary for accurate positioning in urban area environments, numerous studies related to the LDT using the RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology have been implemented for real-time positioning and data transferring. However, there are still lots of unsolved questions especially regarding what to use as base stations and what are corresponding results under the intrinsic complexity of alignment and configuration of components used for the RFID positioning. This study proposes the street light fixtures as base stations where the RFID receivers will be embedded for the mobile tracking scheme. As street light fixtures are usually installed at a certain distance interval, they can be used as base stations for the RFID receiver installation. Using the principle of the single row triangle network, the RFID receiver organization is determined based on the experiments such as recognition distance measurement and tag position accuracy estimation at inside and outside of the single row triangle network. The results verify that the mobile tracking scheme which uses RFID-embedded street light fixtures, suggested and configured in this study, is effective for the real-time outdoor positioning.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.781-787
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• 2015

This paper proposes a hybrid visual servoing algorithm for the object tracking by a mobile robot with the stereo camera. The mobile robot with the stereo camera performs an object recognition and object tracking using the SIFT and CAMSHIFT algorithms for the hybrid visual servoing. The CAMSHIFT algorithm using stereo camera images has been used to obtain the three-dimensional position and orientation of the mobile robot. With the hybrid visual servoing, a stable balance control has been realized by a control system which calculates a desired angle of the center of gravity whose location depends on variations of link rotation angles of the manipulator. A PID controller algorithm has adopted in this research for the control of the manipulator since the algorithm is simple to design and it does not require unnecessary complex dynamics. To demonstrate the control performance of the hybrid visual servoing, real experiments are performed using the mobile manipulator system developed for this research.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.90-94
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 지능형 교통정보 시스템에서 활용할 수 있는 차량의 연관 추적 방법에 관하여 제안한다. 차량의 연관 추적과정에서 발생하는 차량 간 겹침 문제를 해결하기 위하여 위치 평균값과 시공간 연관 정보를 이용한 연관 추적 방법을 제안하였고 배경영상의 신뢰도를 향상시키기 위하여 배경영상 갱신 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법의 성능 평가를 위하여 다양한 위치의 교통 정보 수집 CCTV에서 촬영된 영상을 사용하였고 평균 96% 이상의 추적 성공률을 보였다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제4권12호
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• pp.3211-3218
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• 1997

기존의 화상 회의 시스템에서는 카메라가 고정되어 있어서 사용자의 움직임에 제약을 주어 사용자를 부자연스럽게 한다. 이러한 부자연스러움을 해갈하기 위해서는 얼굴의 움직임을 추적해야 하는데, 이때 얼굴 전체를 정보로 추적하는 것은 얼굴 전체를 하나의 특징으로 규정짓기도 힘들고 연산 시간이 많이 걸린다는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서, 얼굴의 움직임을 효율적으로 추적하기 위해서는 얼굴상의 몇 개의 특징점을 이용하는 것 이 바람직하다. 본 논문은 화상 회의에서 자연스러운 사용자 인터페이스를 위한 자동 얼굴 추적 시스템의 필수적인 요소인 눈 위치 검출의 효과적인 방법에 대하여 논한다. 눈은 얼굴 내에서 가장 뚜렷하며 단순한 특징을 가지고 있으므로 얼굴을 추적하기 위한 가장 중요한 정보가 된다. 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘은 얼굴 후보 영역 추출 단계를 거친 얼굴 후보 영역들에 대해 적용되며, 기존 방법들에 비해 조명에 특별한 제약을 받지 않으며 얼굴 크기와 안경에 대한 제약도 가지고 있지 않다. 또한, 화상 회의 환경에 대한 on－line 실험에서 좋은 결과를 나타냈다.