• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.155-161
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• 2013

PURPOSES: This study is to develop a road traffic sign recognition and automatic positioning for road facility management. METHODS: In this study, we installed the GPS, IMU, DMI, camera, laser sensor on the van and surveyed the car position, fore-sight image, point cloud of traffic signs. To insert automatic position of traffic sign, the automatic traffic sign recognition S/W developed and it can log the traffic sign type and approximate position, this study suggests a methodology to transform the laser point-cloud to the map coordinate system with the 3D axis rotation algorithm. RESULTS: Result show that on a clear day, traffic sign recognition ratio is 92.98%, and on cloudy day recognition ratio is 80.58%. To insert exact traffic sign position. This study examined the point difference with the road surveying results. The result RMSE is 0.227m and average is 1.51m which is the GPS positioning error. Including these error we can insert the traffic sign position within 1.51m CONCLUSIONS: As a result of this study, we can automatically survey the traffic sign type, position data of the traffic sign position error and analysis the road safety, speed limit consistency, which can be used in traffic sign DB.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.252-263
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• 2016

Road sign is an important street furniture that gives some information such as road conditions, driving direction and condition for a driver. Thus, road sign is a major target of image recognition for self-driving car, ADAS(autonomous vehicle and intelligent driver assistance systems), and ITS(intelligent transport systems). In this paper, an enhanced road sign recognition system is proposed for MMS(Mobile Mapping System) using the single camera and GPS. For the proposed system, first, a road sign recognition scheme is proposed. this scheme is composed of detection and classification step. In the detection step, object candidate regions are extracted in image frames using hybrid road sign detection scheme that is based on color and shape features of road signs. And, in the classification step, the area of candidate regions and road sign template are compared. Second, a Geo-marking scheme for geo-content that is consist of road sign image and coordinate value is proposed. If the serious situation such as car accident is happened, this scheme can protect geographical information of road sign against illegal users. By experiments with test video set, in the three parts that are road sign recognition, coordinate value estimation and geo-marking, it is confirmed that proposed schemes can be used for MMS in commercial area.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1088-1095
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• 2009

In this paper, we describe the reorientation method of distorted road sign by using projection transformation for improving recognition rate of road sign. RSR (Road Sign Recognition) is one of the most important topics for implementing driver assistance in intelligent transportation systems using pattern recognition and vision technology. The RS (Road Sign) includes direction of road or place name, and intersection for obtaining the road information. We acquire input images from mounted camera on vehicle. However, the road signs are often appeared with rotation, skew, and distortion by perspective camera. In order to obtain the correct road sign overcoming these problems, projection transformation is used to transform from 4 points of image coordinate to 4 points of world coordinate. The 4 vertices points are obtained using the trajectory as the distance from the mass center to the boundary of the object. Then, the candidate areas of road sign are transformed from distorted image by using homography transformation matrix. Internal information of reoriented road signs is segmented with arrow and the corresponding indicated place name. Arrow area is the largest labeled one. Also, the number of group of place names equals to that of arrow heads. Characters of the road sign are segmented by using vertical and horizontal histograms, and each character is recognized by using SAD (Sum of Absolute Difference). From the experiments, the proposed method has shown the higher recognition results than the image without reorientation.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.1375-1378
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• 1997

In this paper, we presents the algorithm which is to recognize the traffic sign on the road the traffic signal in a video image for autonomous navigation. First, the rocognition of traffic sign on the road can be detected using boundary point estimation form some scan-lines within the lane deducted. For this algorithm, index matrix method is used to detemine what sign is. Then, the traffic signal recognition is performed by usign the window minified by several scan-lines which position may be expected. For this algoritm, line profile concept is adopted.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.233-237
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• 2013

이미지 인식은 패턴인식의 중요한 한 연구 분야이다. 본 논문은 이미지 세그멘테이션 알고리즘을 소개하고, 이의 응용으로 도로 Sign 인식시스템에 적용하여 그 결과를 고찰하였다. 본 논문에서, 우리는 이미지 프로세싱 기술의 도움으로 도로 Sign 의 체계적인 연구를 하였고, 이에 해당하는 알고리즘을 만들었다. 도로 Sign을 인식하기 위하여, 본 논문은 이미지 세그멘테이션 알고리즘 파트와 이미지 인식파트의 두 부분으로 나누어서 기술하였다. 인식실험은 도로 Sign 인식 알고리즘 모델이 스마트 폰에 유용하게 사용될 것과, 그 외 여러분야에 사용될 수 있음을 보여 준다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2014

This paper proposes a gradation image processing method for the development of a Road Sign Recognition Platform (RReP), which aims to facilitate the rapid and accurate management and surveying of approximately 160,000 road signs installed along the highways, national roadways, and local roads in the cities, districts (gun), and provinces (do) of Korea. RReP is based on GPS(Global Positioning System), IMU(Inertial Measurement Unit), INS(Inertial Navigation System), DMI(Distance Measurement Instrument), and lasers, and uses an imagery information collection/classification module to allow the automatic recognition of signs, the collection of shapes, pole locations, and sign-type data, and the creation of road sign registers, by extracting basic data related to the shape and sign content, and automated database design. Image division and merging, which were applied in this study, produce superior results compared with local binarization method in terms of speed. At the results, larger texts area were found in images, the accuracy of text recognition was improved when images had been gradated. Multi-threshold values of natural scene images are used to improve the extraction rate of texts and figures based on pattern recognition.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.378-383
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• 2012

This paper presents the implementation of an automatic road sign recognizer for an intelligent transport system. In this system, lists of road signs are processed with actions such as line segmentation, single sign segmentation, and storing an artificial sign in the database. The process of taking the video stream and extracting the road sign and storing in the database is called the road sign recognition. This paper presents a study on recognizing traffic sign patterns using a segmentation technique for the efficiency and the speed of the system. The image is converted from one scale to another scale such as RGB to grayscale or grayscale to binary. The images are pre-processed with several image processing techniques, such as threshold techniques, Gaussian filters, Canny edge detection, and the contour technique.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to determine the economical standard of road signs by verifying the difference of driver's recognition and reaction time according to the space rate of letters on the road signs. For this reason, indoor simulations was conducted to confirm difference of recognition and reaction time on six sign-targets having different space rate. Also, a negative binomial regression model was used to find the main factors which could lower the rate of misreading. For this model, increasing of legibility of sign is not only simple enlargement of sign, but also suitable match of letters and sign. The result of this study is capable of verifying the importance of the space rate in road signs, and being utilized as a effective method to determine the standard of the road signs.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2013

도로표지는 운전자들에게 유용한 정보들을 제공함으로서 안전하고 원활한 교통을 확보하기 위한 중요한 시설물이다. 도로표지를 체계적으로 관리하기 위해서는 도로표지 내용에 대한 DB구축이 필요하며 이를 위한 작업은 거의 수동으로 진행되고 있어 많은 시간과 비용이 소요된다. 본 연구에서는 도로표지 영상에서 방향정보를 자동으로 인식 추출하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 또한 OpenCV를 이용해 이를 구현하였으며 도로표지 영상에 적용하였다. 방향정보의 자동추출을 위해, 영상 개선, 영상 이진화, 방향지시 도형 영역 추출, 특징점 추출, 템플릿 영상정합 등의 영상처리 기법을 코딩하여 적용하였으며 이를 통해 방향정보 자동 인식의 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2012

도로의 확장 및 신규 도로의 설치로 인하여 도로교통시설물의 변경 및 신규설치는 매년 꾸준히 증가하고 있다. 또한, 자동차 및 운전자의 증가와 함께 교통안전을 위한 도로 및 교통안전표지는 지속적인 증설과 관리가 요구된다. 도로 시설물 중 교통안전표지판을 신속하게 갱신하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 교통안전표지판에 대하여 자동인식기능을 개발하고 위치정확도를 분석하여 수치지형도의 도로시설물 효율적 갱신방안 제시를 목적으로 하였다. 이를 위하여 좌표측정을 위한 전방위 카메라 표정요소 산출, GPS/IMU/DMI 통합시스템 구축 및 영상처리기법을 적용하여 수치지형도의 도로시설물 DB의 효율적 갱신방법을 제시하였다.