• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.224-241
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• 2015

Multiview plus depth (MVD) videos are widely used in free-viewpoint TV systems. The best-known technique to determine depth information is based on stereo vision. In this paper, we propose a novel local stereo matching algorithm which is radiometric invariant. The key idea is to use a combined matching cost of intensity and gradient based similarity measure. In addition, we realize an adaptive cost aggregation scheme by constructing an adaptive support window for each pixel, which can solve the boundary and low texture problems. In the disparity refinement process, we propose a four-step post-processing technique to handle outliers and occlusions. Moreover, we conduct stereo reconstruction tests to verify the performance of the algorithm more intuitively. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective and robust against local radiometric distortion. It has an average error of 5.93% on the Middlebury benchmark and is compatible to the state-of-art local methods.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 D
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• pp.747-749
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• 2000

In this paper, we proposed color stereo matching algorithm using dynamic programming. The conventional gray stereo matching algorithms show blur at depth discontinuities and non-existence of matching pixel in occlusion lesions. Also it accompanies matching error by lack of matching information in the untextured region. This paper defines new cost function makes up for the problems happening in conventional gray stereo matching algorithm. New cost function contain the following properties. I) Edge points are corresponded to edge points. ii) Non-edge points are corresponded to non-edge points. iii) In case of exiting the amount of edges, the cost function has some weight in proportion to path distance. Proposed algorithm was applied in various images obtained by parallel camera model. As the result, proposed algorithm showed improved performance in the aspect of matching error and processing in the occlusion region compared to conventional gray stereo matching algorithms.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2013

스테레오 매칭 과정에 있어서 매칭 비용을 구하는 것은 매우 중요한 과정이다. 이러한 스테레오 매칭 과정의 성능을 살펴보기 위하여 본 논문에서는 기존에 제안된 매칭 비용 함수들에 대한 기본 개념들을 소개하고 각각의 성능 및 장점을 분석하고자 한다. 가장 간단한 매칭 비용 함수는 매칭 되는 영상의 일관된 밝기를 이용하여 좌, 우 영상 간 서로 대응하는 대응점을 추정하는 과정으로, 본 논문에서 다루는 매칭 비용함수는 화소 기반과 윈도우 기반의 매칭 비용 방법으로 크게 두 가지로 나눌 수 있다. 화소 기반의 방법으로는 절대 밝기차(the absolute intensity differences: AD)와 sampling-intensitive absolute differences of Birchfield and Tomasi (BT) 방법이 있고, 윈도우 기반의 방법으로는 차이 절대 값의 합(sum of the absolute differences: SAD), 차이 제곱 값의 합(sum of squred differences: SSD), 표준화 상호상관성(normalized cross-correlation: NCC), 제로 평균 표준화 상호 상관성(zero-mean normalized cross-correlation: ZNCC), census transform, the absolute differences census transform (AD-Census) 이 있다. 본 논문에서는 앞서 언급한 기존에 제안된 매칭 비용 함수들을 정확도와 시간 복잡도를 측정했다. 정확도 측면에서 AD-Census 방법이 평균적으로 가장 낮은 매칭 율을 보여줬고, 제로 평균 표준화 상호 상관성 방법은 non-occlusion과 all 평가 항목에서 가장 낮은 매칭 오차율을 보여 주지만, discontinuities 평가 항목에서는 블러 효과 때문에 높은 매칭 오차율을 보여 주었다. 시간 복잡도 측면에서는 화소 기반인 절대 밝기차 방법이 낮은 복잡도를 보여 주였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2007

In this paper we proposed multi-directional matching windows combined by multi-dimensional feature vector matching, which uses not only intensity values but also multiple feature values, such as variance, first and second derivative of pixels. Multi-dimensional feature vector matching has the advantage of compensating the drawbacks of area-based stereo matching using one feature value, such as intensity. We define matching cost of a pixel by the minimum value among eight multi-dimensional feature vector distances of the pixels expanded in eight directions having the interval of 45 degrees. As best stereo matches, we determine the two points with the minimum matching cost within the disparity range. In the experiment we used aerial imagery and IKONOS satellite imagery and obtained more accurate matching results than that of conventional matching method.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.671-675
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• 2011

DVC (Distributed Video Coding) and FRUC (Frame Rate Up Conversion) techniques need to have an efficient motion compensated frame interpolation algorithms. Conventional works of these applications have mainly focused on the performance improvement of overall system. But, in some applications, it is necessary to evaluate how well the MCI (Motion Compensated Interpolation) frame matches the original frame. For this aim, this paper deals with the modeling methods for evaluating the block-based matching cost. First, several matching criteria, which have already been dealt with the motion compensated frame interpolation, are introduced and then combined to make estimate models for the size of MSE (Mean Square Error) noise of the MCI frame to original one. Through computer simulations, it is shown that the block-based matching criteria are evaluated and the proposed model can be effectively used for estimating the MSE noise.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

Case-based reasoning (CBR) method can make estimators understand the estimation process more clearly. Thus, CBR is widely used as a methodology for cost estimation. In CBR, the quality of case retrieval affects the relevance of retrieved cases and hence the overall quality of the reminding capability of CBR system. Thus, it is essential to retrieve relevant past cases for establishing a robust CBR system. Case retrieval needs the following tasks to obtain appropriate case(s); indexing, search, and matching (Aamodt and Plaza 1994). However, the previous CBR researches mostly deal with matching process that has limits such as accuracy and efficiency of case retrieval. In order to address this issue, this research presents a CBR cost model for building projects that has two-step retrieval process: decision tree and nearest neighbor methods. Specifically, the proposed cost model has indexing, search and matching modules. Features in the model are divided into shape-based and scale-based attributes. Based on these, decision tree is established for facilitating the search task and nearest neighbor method was utilized for matching task. In regard to applying nearest neighbor method, attribute weights are assigned using GA optimization and similarity is calculated using the principle of distance measuring. Thereafter, the proposed CBR cost model is developed using 174 cases and validated using 12 test cases.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.473-479
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• 2019

본 연구는 ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)에서 제공하는 스페인 Terrassa 지역의 WorldView-1 고해상도 스테레오 위성영상으로부터 DSM (Digital Surface Model) 제작을 위해 SGM을 적용하였다. SGM (Semi Global Matching)은 스테레오 영상에 대한 매칭 Cost를 여러 방향에서 계산하고, 계산된 Cost를 순차적으로 누적시킨 후, 누적된 Cost의 최소(또는 최대) 값에 해당하는 시차를 계산하는 영상매칭 알고리즘이다. SGM 적용을 위한 Cost는 MI (Mutual Information, NCC (Normalized Cross-Correlation), CT (Census Transform)를 적용하였으며, 각각의 Cost별 DSM에서 지형지물의 외곽선 표현결과 정확도와 그 성능을 제시하였다. 사용 영상과 실험 대상지역을 토대로, CT Cost 결과 정확도가 가장 우수하였으며, 외곽선 표현 또한 가장 선명하게 묘사되었다. 아울러 SGM 방법은 기존 소프트웨어에 비해 보다 세밀한 외곽선을 표현한 반면 수계지역에서는 많은 오류가 발생하였다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 1999년도 KOBA 방송기술 워크샵 KOBA Broadcasting Technology Workshop
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• pp.171-176
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• 1999

Template matching is one of the most often used techniques for machine vision applications to find a template of size M$\times$M or subimage in a scene image of size N$\times$N. Most template matching methods, however, require pixel operations between the template and the image under analysis resulting in high computational cost of O(M2N2). So in this thesis, we present a two stage template matching method. In the first stage, we use a novel low cost feature whose complexity is approaching O(N2) to select matching candidates. In the second stage, we use conventional template matching method to find out the exact matching point. We compare the result with other methods in terms of complexity, efficiency and performance. Proposed method was proved to have constant time complexity and to be quite invariant to noise.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제17B권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2010

최근 스테레오 정합 기술은 정합하고자 하는 픽셀을 포함한 국부적인(local) 영상의 정합 비용과 시차의 변화 비용을 누적하는 전역적(global)인 방법을 많이 사용하고 있다. 특히 전역적 스테레오 정합에서도 비용누적 (cost accumulation)의 방향을 일반적인 수평방향이 아닌 다수의 방향을 사용하는 연구가 늘고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 스테레오 정합 기술을 다중 방향성 정합 기술로 확장하는 방법을 제안한다. 픽셀의 국부적인 정합 비용은 단순한 NCC (Normalized Cross Correlation)를 사용하였고 전역적 정합 기술의 하나인 정합선 최적화(Scan-line Optimization) 방법을 다중 방향으로 확장하는 기술을 제안하였다. 우선 정합선 최적화를 다중 방향으로 실행한 후 이들 결과를 이용하여 신뢰도가 높은 시차영상 (disparity image)을 획득한다. 반복적인 다중 방향 정합선 최적화 시행 후, 시차영상에서 남은 공백은 홀 복원 방법으로 계산한다. 시차가 구해진 픽셀에 대해서는 신뢰도 점수를 매긴 다음 이 점수를 확산하여 신뢰도 점수 테이블에서 가장 높은 값을 가지는 시차값으로 홀을 복원하였다. 제안하는 기술을 미들버리(Middlebury)의 스테레오 영상을 사용하여 오차를 분석하였다. 기존의 전역적 방법과 제안 기술을 이용하여 시차영상을 계산하고 그 오차를 비교하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2015

Template matching is used for many applications in image processing. One of the most researched topics is object tracking. Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC) is the basic statistical approach to match images. NCC is used for template matching or pattern recognition. A template can be considered from a reference image, and an image from a scene can be considered as a source image. The objective is to establish the correspondence between the reference and source images. The matching gives a measure of the degree of similarity between the image and the template. A problem with NCC is its high computational cost and occasional mismatching. To deal with this problem, this paper presents an algorithm based on the Sum of Squared Difference (SSD) and an adaptive template matching to enhance the quality of the template matching in object tracking. The SSD provides low computational cost, while the adaptive template matching increases the accuracy matching. The experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm is quite efficient for image matching. The effectiveness of this method is demonstrated by several situations in the results section.