• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.29-38
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• 2001

A navigation system was developed for autonomous guidance of a combine. It consisted of a DGPS, a machine vision system, a gyro sensor and an ultrasonic sensor. For an autonomous operation of the combine, target points were determined at first. Secondly, heading angle and offset were calculated by comparing current positions obtained from the DGPS with the target points. Thirdly, the fuzzy controller decided steering angle by the fuzzy inference that took 3 inputs of heading angle, offset and distance to the bank around the rice field. Finally, the hydraulic system was actuated for the combine steering. In the case of the misbehavior of the DGPS, the machine vision system found the desired travel path. In this way, the combine traveled straight paths to the traget point and then turned to the next target point. The gyro sensor was used to check the turning angle. The autonomous combine traveled within 31.11cm deviation(RMS) on the straight paths and harvested up to 96% of the whole rice field. The field experiments proved a possibility of autonomous harvesting. Improvement of the DGPS accuracy should be studied further by compensation variations of combines attitude due to unevenness of the rice field.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.738-747
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• 2021

오늘날 딥러닝 기술의 향상으로 영상 분류, 객체 탐지, 객체 분할, 객체 추적 등 컴퓨터 비전 분야 또한 큰 발전을 이루고 있다. 지능적 감시, 로봇, 사물 인터넷, 자율주행 자동차 등 딥러닝 기술이 결합된 다양한 응용 기술들은 실제 산업에 적용되고 있으며, 이에 따라 사람의 소비를 위한 영상 데이터 뿐만 아니라 머신 비전을 위한 영상 데이터의 효율적인 압축 방식에 대한 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 머신 비전을 위한 열 적외선 영상의 객체 기반 압축 기법을 제안한다. 효율적인 영상 압축과 신경망의 좋은 성능을 유지하기 위해 본 논문에서는 신경망의 객체 탐지 결과와 객체 크기에 따라 입력 영상을 객체 부분과 배경 부분으로 나누어 서로 다른 압축률로 부호화를 수행하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 VVC로 영상 전체를 압축하는 방식보다 BD-rate 값이 최대 -19.83%로 압축 효율이 뛰어나다는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.112-116
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• 2024

Gas-sensor technology for volatile organic compounds (VOC) biomarker detection offers significant advantages for noninvasive diagnostics, including rapid response time and low operational costs, exhibiting promising potential for disease diagnosis. Colorimetric gas sensors, which enable intuitive analysis of gas concentrations through changes in color, present additional benefits for the development of personal diagnostic kits. However, the traditional method of visually monitoring these sensors can limit quantitative analysis and consistency in detection threshold evaluation, potentially affecting diagnostic accuracy. To address this, we developed a machine vision platform based on metal-organic framework (MOF) for colorimetric gas sensor arrays, designed to accurately detect disease-related VOC biomarkers. This platform integrates a CMOS camera module, gas chamber, and colorimetric MOF sensor jig to quantitatively assess color changes. A specialized machine vision algorithm accurately identifies the color-change Region of Interest (ROI) from the captured images and monitors the color trends. Performance evaluation was conducted through experiments using a platform with four types of low-concentration standard gases. A limit-of-detection (LoD) at 100 ppb level was observed. This approach significantly enhances the potential for non-invasive and accurate disease diagnosis by detecting low-concentration VOC biomarkers and offers a novel diagnostic tool.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.184-193
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• 2014

Machine vision systems is applied for various industries such as optimize your spending, automate your production and maximize your efficiency. This research is effective for most optimal light condition of machine vision that technology was applied bald outside human visual acuity. Image processing converts a target image captured by a CCD camera into a digital signal and then performs various arithmetic operations on the signal to extract the characteristics of the target, such as points, lines, circles, area and length. The mathematical concepts of convolution and the kernel matrix are used to apply filters to signals, to perform functions such as extracting edges and reducing unwanted noise. This research analyze and compares matching ratio with reference image and search for optimal lighting condition in accuracy that user wants coming input image according to brightness change of lighting.

• 한국건설관리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건설관리학회 2004년도 제5회 정기학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.625-628
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• 2004

타워크레인은 최근 증가되고 있는 고층 건축물의 시공에 핵심적인 장비임에도 불구하고, 지난 수십년간 이를 개선하기 위한 연구가 매우 부족하였다. 본 연구는 기존의 T형 타워크레인에 머신비전, RFID 및 GPS 기술 등을 접목한 지능형 타워크레인 개발 Framework을 제시하고, 제시된 Framework의 하위 모듈인 머신비젼 모듈의 프로토타입을 개발하였다. 머신비전 모듈은 CCTV와 LCD 모니터를 이용하여 현장 및 자재관련 멀티미디어 정보를 크레인 운전원과 현장 자업자가 실시간으로 공유학 수 있으므로 작업 생산성과 안전성을 의게 향상시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.486-491
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• 2016

Disturbance/vibration reduction is critical in many applications using machine vision. The off-focusing or blurring error caused by vibration degrades the machine performance. In line with this, real-time disturbance estimation and avoidance are proposed in this study instead of going with a more familiar approach, such as the vibration absorber. The instantaneous motion caused by the disturbance is sensed by an attitude heading reference system module. A periodic vibration modeling is conducted to provide a better performance. The algorithm for vibration avoidance is described according to the vibration modeling. The vibration occurrence function is also proposed, and its parameters are determined using the genetic algorithm. The proposed algorithm is experimentally tested for its effectiveness in the vision inspection system.

• 월간포장계
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• 통권252호
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• pp.45-49
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• 2014

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.1109-1114
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• 2015

This paper presents an improved learning-based visual inspection method for auto parts inspection in severe lighting changes. Automobile sunroof frames are produced automatically by robots in most production lines. In the sunroof frame manufacturing process, there is a quality problem with some parts such as volts are missed. Instead of manual sampling inspection using some mechanical jig instruments, a learning-based machine vision system was proposed in the previous research[1]. But, in applying the actual sunroof frame production process, the inspection accuracy of the proposed vision system is much lowered because of severe illumination changes. In order to overcome this capricious environment, some selective feature vectors and cascade classifiers are used for each auto parts. And we are able to improve the inspection accuracy through the re-learning concept for the misclassified data. The effectiveness of the proposed visual inspection method is verified through sufficient experiments in a real sunroof production line.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.142-147
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• 2012

Machining tool conditions directly affect to quality of product and productivity of manufacturing. Many researches performed for tool condition monitoring in machining process to improve quality and productivity. Conventional methods use characteristics of signal for cutting force, motor current consumption, vibration of machine tools and machining sound. Recently, diameter of machining tool is become smaller for minimizing of mechanical parts. Tool condition monitoring using conventional methods are relatively difficult because micro machining using small diameter tool has low machining load and high cutting speed. These days, the direct monitoring for tool conditions using vision system is performed actively. But, vision system is affected by external conditions such as back ground of image and illumination. In this study, minimizing technology of external conditions using distribution analysis of image data are developed in micro machining using small diameter drill and tap. The image data is gathered from vision system. Several sets of experiment results are performed to verify the characteristics of the proposed machining technology.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.70-75
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• 2016

머신비전을 사용하여 사람의 얼굴을 인식하는 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 머신비전은 기계에 시각을 부여하여 이미지를 분류 혹은 분석하는 기술을 의미한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 머신비전 기술을 적용한 얼굴을 분류하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이 얼굴 분류 알고리즘을 구현하기 위해 컨볼루셔널 신경망(Convolution neural network)과 Cascade 안면 검출기를 사용하였고, 피험자들의 얼굴을 분류하였다. 구현한 얼굴 분류 알고리즘의 학습을 위해 한 피험자 당 이미지 2,000장, 3,000장, 40,00장을 10회와 20회 컨볼루셔널 신경망에 각각 반복하여 학습과 분류를 진행하였고, 학습된 컨볼루셔널 신경망과 얼굴 분류 알고리즘의 실효성을 테스트하기 위해 약 6,000장의 이미지를 분류하였다. 또한 USB 카메라 영상을 실험 데이터로 입력받아 실시간으로 얼굴을 검출하고 분류하는 시스템을 구현하였다.