• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.188-191
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• 2010

스테레오 매칭은 Robot Vision 분야에서 가장 활발하게 연구가 진행되어온 주제이다. 과거 많은 연구들은 스테레오 매칭 알고리즘의 정확도를 높이거나 처리속도를 개선하는 것 중 어느 한 쪽에만 집중하고 있었으며, 두 가지를 동시에 고려한 연구는 상대적으로 연구가 미흡한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 영상의 공간적 중복 성질을 이용하여 스테레오 매칭 알고리즘의 처리속도를 획기적으로 개선하는 방법을 제안하고, 처리 속도 감소에 따라 증가되는 disparity map 추정 오차를 보상하는 기술을 제안한다. 구체적으로 Dynamic Programming (DP) 기반 스테레오 매칭 알고리즘에 제안한 속도 개선 방법을 적용하고, 개선된 Adaptive Support Weight Filter를 사용하여 보다 효과적인 오차 보상을 실현 하였다. 체계적인 실험을 통해, 본 논문에서 제안 하는 스테레오 매칭 알고리즘은 처리속도와 정확도를 동시에 개선할 수 있음을 검증하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.5506-5521
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• 2017

Three-dimensional video (3DV), as the new generation of video format standard, can provide the viewers with a vivid screen sense and a realistic stereo impression. Meanwhile the view synthesis has become an important issue for 3DV application. Differently from the conventional methods based on depth, in this paper we propose a new view synthesis algorithm, which can employ the correlation among views and warp in the image domain only. There are mainly two contributions. One is the incorporation of sobel edge points into feature extraction and matching, which can obtain a better stable homography and then a visual comfortable synthesis view compared to SIFT points only. The other is a novel image blending method proposed to obtain a better synthesis image. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can improve the synthesis quality both in subjectivity and objectivity.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.97-124
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• 2012

This paper analyzes qualitatively the stereo 3D content factors causing viewer's discomfort. For this, we perform a subjective test that each subject strokes a specific key whenever he (she) feels discomfort during watching a stereo 3D contents. Also we extract the data for the factors in the 3D contents to obtain their quantitative values and the amounts of the temporal changes. Those two sets of data are used to analyze the contents to find the factors which cause viewer's discomfort. The factors to be considered are the amount and the frequency of the disparity changes, story of the contents, situation or environments of a scene, movement and the position of the camera, color and luminance information as well as disparities themselves. We analyse the various strong and weak factors and their composites to find how much discomfort each factor or composite causes. We also show the situations and their related factors that causes less discomfort than the amount of their disparities.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.1150-1160
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new 3D video coding method for heterogeneous display systems and network infrastructure over enhanced Access Grid (e-AG) using spatio-temporal scalability defined in MPEG-2. The proposed encoder produces several bit-streams for providing temporally and spatially scalable 3D video service. The generated bit-streams can be nelivered with proper spatio-temporal resolution according to network bandwidths and processing speeds, visualization capabilities of client systems. The functionality of proposed spatio-temporal scalability can be exploited for construction of highly scalable 3D video service in heterogeneous distributed environments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.53-61
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• 2012

This paper proposes a real-time distance measurement system of high temperature and high speed target using infrared stereo camera. We construct an infrared stereo camera system that measure the difference between target and background temperatures for automatic target measurement. First, the proposed method detects target region based on target motion and intensity variation of local region using difference between target and background temperatures. Second, stereo matching by left and right target information is used to estimate disparity about real-time distance of target. In the proposed method using infrared stereo camera system, we compare distances in three dimension trajectory measuring instrument and in infrared stereo camera measurement. In this experiment from three video data, the result shows an average 9.68% distance error rate. The proposed method is suitable for distance and position measurement of varied targets using infrared stereo system.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.684-694
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• 2012

In the underwater environment, light is absorbed and scattered by water and floating particles, which makes the underwater images suffer from color degradation and limited visibility. Physically, the amount of the scattered light transmitted to the image is proportional to the distance between the camera and the object. In this paper, the proposed visibility enhancement. method utilizes depth images to estimate the light transmission and the degradation factor by the scattered light. To recover the scatter-free images without unnatural artifacts, the proposed method normalizes the degradation factor based on the value of each pixel of the image. Finally, the scatter-free images are obtained by removing the scattered components on the image according to the estimated transmission. The proposed method also considers the color discrepancies of underwater stereo images so that the stereo images have the same color appearance after the visibility enhancement. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves the color contrast more than 5% to 14% depending on the experimental images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.127-130
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• 2000

스테레오 카메라로부터 획득된 좌/우 영상의 시차를 통해 사람들은 입체감을 느낄 수 있다. 일반적으로 스테레오 영상을 전송하기 위해서는 2 개의 전송 장비 및 채널이 필요하며, 이를 저장하기 위해서는 추가적인 저장 장치가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 고선명 스테레오 영상을 한 채널 또는 한 프레임으로 다중화하는 스테레오 비디오 다중화기의 설계에 대해 설명한다. 스테레오 비디오 다중화기를 이용함으로써 기존의 저장 및 전송 장비를 이용하여 스테레오 영상을 저장, 전송할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.35-38
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• 2011

최근 3DTV 의 급격한 활성화로 스테레오 영상 콘텐츠 제작이 크게 증가하고 있다. 스테레오 영상은 일반 2D 영상과 달리 깊이(depth)가 존재하므로 자막과 같은 그래픽의 삽입에서 그 깊이를 반드시 고려해야 한다. 또한 시각피로를 줄이기 위해 스테레오 촬영 시 영상의 변이맵(disparity map)을 실시간 관찰할 필요성도 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 최신의 그래픽 하드웨어를 이용하여 듀얼스트림 HD 영상을 실시간으로 스테레오 정합하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.121-124
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• 2001

For efficient transmission of 3DTV video signals, it is necessary to eliminate the inherent redundancy between the stereo image pairs. Though disparity estimation provides a powerful tool for eliminating the redundancy, it is very time consuming. This paper presents a novel disparity estimation scheme based on the human visual property. The disparity vectors of image blocks spatially adjacent to the current block are used as initial guesses fur the disparity vector of the current block. In addition, mixed-resolution coding is applied to reduce the computational complexity of disparity estimation. Through computer simulations on a stereoscopic sequence we show that the proposed method gives rise .to visually pleasing results with much reduced computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.437-441
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• 1997

In the conventional remote monitoring system, a user in front of a computer monitor can acquire only 2 dimensional visual information in a passive way. Thus, even thoght the user finds an interesting object from the video image, helshe can hardly acquire additional information on the object such as name. 311 shape, etc. In this paper, an active monitoring system that shows additional information on the selected object is proposed. The active remote monitoring system can calculate the 3D position of the object that is selected in the video images. Then, using the 3D position of the object, other information on the object can be retrieved from the database and shown on the screen. To calculate the 3D position of the object, 2 CCD cameras that can be tilted and panned using 3 stepping motors are used. The algorithm of 3D position calculation and the result of experiments are explained.