• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.24-32
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 Optical Flow Method의 추적 성능을 향상시키기 위한 전처리 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 Median Filter, Binarization, Morphology, Canny Edge, Contour Detecting 및 Approximation Method를 기반으로 개발되었다. Optical Flow 추적 성능 향상 여부를 평가하기 위해 Lucas-Kanade Optical Flow 알고리즘에 개발된 전처리 알고리즘을 적용하고, 전처리 알고리즘이 적용되지 않은 Optical Flow 영상과 추적 결과를 비교 분석하였다. 또한, Median Filter와 Histogram Equalization으로 구성된 기존 전처리 알고리즘과의 결과 비교를 통해, 개발된 전처리 알고리즘의 추적 성능 향상여부를 평가하였다. 실험결과, 전처리 알고리즘을 적용하지 않은 영상과 기존 전처리 알고리즘을 적용한 영상은 특징영역의 분할이 이루어지지 않아, Optical Flow의 추적 정확도가 매우 낮게 나타났다. 반면, 개발된 전처리 알고리즘을 적용한 영상에서는 외곽선이 내외부로 세분화되고, 외곽선 트리가 구성됨에 따라 Optical Flow의 추적 성능이 매우 높게 나타났다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.300-308
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• 2001

Tracking of moving objects within video streams is a complex and time-consuming process. Large number of moving objects increases the time for computation of tracking the moving objects. Because of large computations, there are real-time processing problems in tracking of moving objects. Also, the change of environment causes errors in estimation of tracking information. In this paper, we present a new method for tracking of moving objects using optical flow motion analysis. Optical flow represents an important family of visual information processing techniques in computer vision. Segmenting an optical flow field into coherent motion groups and estimating each underlying motion are very challenging tasks when the optical flow field is projected from a scene of several moving objects independently. The problem is further complicated if the optical flow data are noisy and partially incorrect. Optical flow estimation based on regulation method is an iterative method, which is very sensitive to the noisy data. So we used the Combinatorial Hough Transform (CHT) and Voting Accumulation for finding the optimal constraint lines. To decrease the operation time, we used logical operations. Optical flow vectors of moving objects are extracted, and the moving information of objects is computed from the extracted optical flow vectors. The simulation results on the noisy test images show that the proposed method finds better flow vectors and more correctly estimates the moving information of objects in the real time video streams.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.1680-1691
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• 2004

One of the representative methods of optical flow is a gradient method which estimates the movement of an object based on the differential of image brightness. However, the method is ineffective for large displacement of the object and many improved methods have been proposed to copy with such limitations. One of these improved techniques is the multigrid processing, which is used in many optical flow algorithms. As an alternative novel technique we have been proposing an orthogonal functional expansion method, where whole displacements are expanded from low frequency terms. This method is expected to be applicable to flow estimation with large displacement and deformation including expansion and contraction, which are difficult to cope with by conventional optical flow methods. In the orthogonal functional expansion method, the apparent displacement field is calculated iteratively by a projection method which utilizes derivatives of the invariant constraint equations of brightness constancy. One feature of this method is that differentiation of the input image is not necessary, thereby reducing sensitivity to noise. In this paper, we apply our method to several real images in which the objects undergo large displacement and/or deformation including expansion. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the orthogonal functional expansion method by comparing with conventional methods including our optimally scaled multigrid optical flow algorithm.

• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.12-17
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• 2015

Aero-optical effects induced by the flow around the optical window degrade the performance of the IR seeker, especially for the hypersonic flow. For the thermochemical non-equilibrium flow, index of refraction model and optical transmission calculation method are developed to predict the aero-optical effects. The optical distortion is discussed for the typical optical widow shape and flow condition. The influence on aero-optical effects is analyzed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.56-59
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• 1997

Vision system is mainly consist of three parts of perception, action. One of these parts, perception system detects visual target in surrounding environment. Block-based motion estimation with compensation is one of the popular approaches without accuracy. The hierarchical method the optical flow with gradient is used to improve optical flow time delay.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.372-374
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• 2003

The optical flow theory can be utilized for automatically tracking and positioning homologous points in digital video (DV) image sequences. In this paper, the Lucas-Kanade optical flow estimation (LKOFE) method and the normalized cross-correlation (NCC) method are compared and analyzed using the DV image sequences acquired by our SONY DCRPC115 DV camera. Thus, an improved optical flow estimation procedure, called 'Iterated Optical Flow Estimation (IOFE)', is presented. Our test results show that the trackable range of 3${\sim}$4 pixels in the LKOFE procedure can be apparently enlarged to 30 pixels in the IOFE.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); 포항공과대학교, 포항; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.12-15
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• 1996

The purpose of image sequence coding is to reduce the spatio-temporal redundancies. The transform coding such as DCT is used for the spatial redundancies. In this paper, the optical flow method is applied to solve the problem of temporal redundancies. So far, pixel intensity conservation has been used to solve the optical flow. We used the neighborhood information as well as pixel intensity conservation. And we compared the merits and demerits of the conventional method and the proposed method in this paper.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.539-544
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• 2009

An estimation of 3D velocity field including occluded parts without maxing tracer to the fluid had not only never been proposed but also impossible by the conventional computer vision algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new method of three dimensional optical flow of the fluid based on physical model, where some boundary conditions are given from a priori knowledge of the flow configuration. Optical flow is obtained by minimizing the mean square errors of a basic constraint and the matching error terms with visual data using Euler equations. Here, Navier-Stokes motion equations and the differences between occluded data and observable data are employed as the basic constrains. we verify the effectiveness of our proposed method by applying our algorithm to simulated data with partly artificially deleted and recovering the lacking data. Next, applying our method to the fluid of observable surface data and the knowledge of boundary conditions, we demonstrate that 3D optical flow are obtained by proposed algorithm.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 2D 동영상을 3D 입체영상으로 변환하기 위해서 머신러닝에 의한 학습기반의 객체분할과 객체의 optical flow를 활용하는 방법을 제안한다. 성공적인 3D 변환을 가능하게 하는 객체분할을 위해서, 객체의 칼라 및 텍스쳐 정보는 학습을 통해 반영하고 움직임이 있는 영역 위주로 객체분할을 수행할 수 있도록 optical flow를 도입한 새로운 에너지함수를 설계하도록 한다. 분할된 객체들에 대해 optical flow 크기에 따른 깊이맵을 추출하여 입체영상에 필요한 좌우 영상을 합성하여 생성하도록 한다. 제안한 기법으로 인해 효과적인 객체분할과 깊이맵을 생성하여 2D 동영상에서 3D 입체동영상으로 변환됨을 실험결과들이 보여준다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2008

This paper describes the recognition method of moving objects in mobile robot with an omnidirectional camera. The moving object is detected using the specific pattern of an optical flow in omnidirectional image. This paper consists of two parts. In the first part, the pattern of an optical flow is investigated in omnidirectional image. The optical flow in omnidirectional image is influenced on the geometry characteristic of an omnidirectional camera. The pattern of an optical flow is theoretically and experimentally investigated. In the second part, the detection of moving objects is presented from the estimated optical flow. The moving object is extracted through the relative evaluation of optical flows which is derived from the pattern of optical flow. In particular, Focus-Of-Expansion (FOE) and Focus-Of-Contraction (FOC) vectors are defined from the estimated optical flow. They are used as reference vectors for the relative evaluation of optical flows. The proposed algorithm is performed in four motions of a mobile robot such as straight forward, left turn, right turn and rotation. Experimental results using real movie show the effectiveness of the proposed method.