• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.579-584
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• 2016

When surgical instruments are tracked in an image-guided surgical navigation system, a stereo vision system with high accuracy is generally used, which is called optical tracker. However, this optical tracker has the disadvantage that a line-of-sight between the tracker and surgical instrument must be maintained. Therefore, to complement the disadvantage of optical tracking systems, an internal vision sensor is attached to a surgical instrument in this paper. Monitoring the target marker pattern attached on patient with this vision sensor, this surgical instrument is possible to be tracked even when the line-of-sight of the optical tracker is occluded. To verify the system's effectiveness, a series of basic experiments is carried out. Lastly, an integration experiment is conducted. The experimental results show that rotational error is bounded to max $1.32^{\circ}$ and mean $0.35^{\circ}$, and translation error is in max 1.72mm and mean 0.58mm. Finally, it is confirmed that the proposed tool tracking method using an internal vision sensor is useful and effective to overcome the occlusion problem of the optical tracker.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.355-361
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• 2008

스테레오 정합은 스테레오 시각 분야에서 가장 활발히 연구되는 분야이다. 본 논문에서는 물체의 위치 인식을 위한 유전 알고리즘을 이용한 스테레오 정합을 제안한다. 정합 환경을 최적화 문제로 간주하고 진화 전략을 이용하여 최적해를 탐색한다. 따라서, 유전 연산자는 스테레오 정합에 맞게 설계하였고 개체는 변위집단을 대표한다. 영상의 수평화소라인을 염색체로 간주하였다. 비용함수는 스테레오 정합에서 사용하는 일반적인 제약조건들의 조합이다. 비용함수가 명암도, 유사도, 변위 평활성으로 구성되었기 때문에 정합을 시도할 때 매 세대마다 이 모든 요소들을 한번에 다룬다. 염색체를 정의하기 위해 LoG연산자로 경계선을 추출하였으며 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법을 검증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.871-875
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• 2003

To detect and avoid obstacles is one of the important tasks of mobile navigation. In a real environment, when a mobile robot encounters dynamic obstacles, it is required to simultaneously detect and avoid obstacles for its body safely. In previous vision system, mobile robot has used it as either a passive sensor or an active sensor. This paper proposes a new obstacle detection algorithm that uses a stereo camera as both a passive sensor and an active sensor. Our system estimates the distances from obstacles by both passive-correspondence and active-correspondence using laser slit. The system operates in three steps. First, a far-off obstacle is detected by the disparity from stereo correspondence. Next, a close obstacle is acquired from laser slit beam projected in the same stereo image. Finally, we implement obstacle avoidance algorithm, adopting the modified Dynamic Window Approach (DWA), by using the acquired the obstacle's distance.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.519-524
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• 2009

This paper describes a new sensor system for 3D environment perception using stereo structured infrared light sources and a camera. Environment and obstacle sensing is the key issue for mobile robot localization and navigation. Laser scanners and infrared scanners cover $180^{\circ}$ and are accurate but too expensive. Those sensors use rotating light beams so that the range measurements are constrained on a plane. 3D measurements are much more useful in many ways for obstacle detection, map building and localization. Stereo vision is very common way of getting the depth information of 3D environment. However, it requires that the correspondence should be clearly identified and it also heavily depends on the light condition of the environment. Instead of using stereo camera, monocular camera and two projected infrared light sources are used in order to reduce the effects of the ambient light while getting 3D depth map. Modeling of the projected light pattern enabled precise estimation of the range. Two successive captures of the image with left and right infrared light projection provide several benefits, which include wider area of depth measurement, higher spatial resolution and the visibility perception.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.101.1-101
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• 2001

This paper describes a grid mapping for a vision based mobile robot in uncertain indoor environment. The map building is a prerequisite for navigation of a mobile robot and the problem of feature correspondence across two images is well known to be of crucial Importance for vision-based mapping We use a stereo matching algorithm obtained by singular value decomposition of an appropriate correspondence strength matrix. This new correspondence strength means a correlation weight for some local measurements to quantify similarity between features. The visual range data from the reconstructed disparity image form an occupancy grid representation. The occupancy map is a grid-based map in which each cell has some value indicating the probability at that location ...

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2008

점유맵은 3차원 공간상에서 장애물이 놓인 부분과 빈 공간을 구분해서 2차원 평면상에 표현하는 방식으로 자율 내비게이션이나 물체 인식 등을 위해 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 스테레오 영상에서 추출된 깊이 정보를 활용하여 3차원 공간의 점유맵을 구축하고 그 정보를 물체 영역 추출에 활용하는 기법을 제안한다. 스테레오 깊이 영상에서 기반 평면을 추출한 다음, 각 정합점들을 기반 평면 중심 좌표계로 투사하여 점유맵을 추출한다. 본 연구에서는 이렇게 추출된 점유맵을 활용하여 실내외의 다양한 환경에서 움직임 물체 영역을 추출하였는데, 실제 실험 영상을 홍해 제안된 방식의 유용성을 확인한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.63.6-63
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• 2001

For robot navigation and visual reconstruction , structure from motion (SFM) is an active issue in computer vision community and its properties are also becoming well understood. As a drawback in SFM, it is well known that the SFM methods, using small motion model such as optical flow and direct method, have inevitably motion ambiguity between translation and rotation, which is called bas-relief ambiguity. In this paper based on the robust direct method using stereo image sequence, we present a new method for improving those ambiguities. Basically, the direct method uses nearly all image pixels for estimating motion parameters and depths, and global optimization techniques are adopted for finding its solution ...

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2008

Accurate extraction of traversable region is a critical issue for autonomous navigation of unmanned ground vehicle(UGV). This paper introduces enhanced extraction of traversable region by combining scene clustering with 3D world modeling using CCD(Charge-Coupled Device)/IR(Infra Red) image. Scene clustering is developed with K-means algorithm based on CCD and IR image. 3D world modeling is developed by fusing CCD and IR stereo image. Enhanced extraction of traversable regions is obtained by combining feature of extraction with a clustering method and a geometric characteristic of terrain derived by 3D world modeling.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.429-441
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• 2002

본 논문은 실시간으로 3차원 공간상에서의 움직임 정보를 추출할 수 있는 입력 장치를 제안한다. 제안하는 3차원 입력 장치는 스테레오 카메라의 기하학적 구조와 색상, 움직임, 형태상의 특성을 이용하여 복잡한 환경에서 사전 카메라 캘리브레이션 없이 3차원 움직임 정보를 추출할 수 있다. 움직임 추출을 위해서 perspepctive projection 행렬과 perspective distortion 행렬을 이용한 스테레오 카메라의 기하학적 특성을 이용하며, 효과적인 좌우 영상의 특징점 추적 및 추출을 위해 색상 변환(Color transform)과 UPC(Unmatched Pixel Count) 및 이산 칼만 필터(Discrete Kalman Filter)의 효과적인 결합으로 이루어진 MAWUPC(Motion Adaptive Weighted Pixel Count)과 PCA(Principal Component Analysis)로 구성된 알고리즘을 제안한다. 추출된 3차원 공간상에서의 움직임은 가상환경에서의 가상 물체를 제어하거나 사용자 시점의 이동을 나타내는 인터페이스로 사용한다. 스테레오 비전을 이용한 입력 장치는 선으로 연결되지 않기 때문에 사용자가 가상환경에서 작업하기가 편리하며 몰입감을 높일 수 있는 등 보다 효율적인 상호작용을 가능하게 해준다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.1005-1013
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• 2008

This paper describes a new sensor system for 3D range measurement using the structured infrared light. Environment and obstacle sensing is the key issue for mobile robot localization and navigation. Laser scanners and infrared scanners cover $180^{\circ}$ and are accurate but too expensive. Those sensors use rotating light beams so that the range measurements are constrained on a plane. 3D measurements are much more useful in many ways for obstacle detection, map building and localization. Stereo vision is very common way of getting the depth information of 3D environment. However, it requires that the correspondence should be clearly identified and it also heavily depends on the light condition of the environment. Instead of using stereo camera, monocular camera and the projected infrared light are used in order to reduce the effects of the ambient light while getting 3D depth map. Modeling of the projected light pattern enabled precise estimation of the range. Identification of the cells from the pattern is the key issue in the proposed method. Several methods of correctly identifying the cells are discussed and verified with experiments.