• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.242-244
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• 2004

In this paper, we design and implement an integrated management system for geographic data and vehicular images using a Geographic Information System (GIS). Integrated management of geographic data and vehicular images is very important to manage and to provide them to users effectively because of a large volume of vehicular images. To manipulate these data together, we consider a vehicular image as a polygon which is a type of popular geographic data types. The polygon represents a region in which spatial objects appear the vehicular image.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.5522-5540
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• 2018

Vehicular license plate (LP) recognition system has risen as a significant field of research recently because various explorations are currently being conducted by the researchers to cope with the challenges of LPs which include different illumination and angular situations. This research focused on restricted conditions such as using image of only one vehicle, stationary background, no angular adjustment of the skewed images. A real time vehicular LP recognition scheme is proposed for the skewed images for detection, segmentation and recognition of LP. In this research, a polar co-ordinate transformation procedure is implemented to adjust the skewed vehicular images. Besides that, window scanning procedure is utilized for the candidate localization that is based on the texture characteristics of the image. Then, connected component analysis (CCA) is implemented to the binary image for character segmentation where the pixels get connected in an eight-point neighbourhood process. Finally, optical character recognition is implemented for the recognition of the characters. For measuring the performance of this experiment, 300 skewed images of different illumination conditions with various tilt angles have been tested. The results show that proposed method able to achieve accuracy of 96.3% in localizing, 95.4% in segmenting and 94.2% in recognizing the LPs with an average localization time of 0.52s.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.855-856
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• 2008

In this paper, we studied the performance evaluation of a vehicular rear-view camera through quantifying the image quality based on several objective criteria from the ISO (International Organization for Standardization). In addition, various experimental environments are defined considering the conditions under which a rear-view camera may need to operate. The process for evaluating the performance of a rear-view camera is composed of five objective criteria: noise test, resolution test, OECF (opto-electronic conversion function) test, color characterization test, and pincushion and barrel distortion tests. The proposed image quality quantification method then expresses the results of each test as a single value, allowing easy evaluation.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.76-79
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• 2009

This paper investigates the performance of a vehicular rear-view camera through quantifying the image quality based on several objective criteria from the ISO (International Organization for Standardization). In addition, various experimental environments are defined considering the conditions under which a rear-view camera may need to operate. The process for evaluating the performance of a rear-view camera is composed of five objective criteria: noise test, resolution test, OECF (opto-electronic conversion function) test, color characterization test, and pincushion and barrel distortion tests. The proposed image quality quantification method then expresses the results of each test as a single value, allowing easy evaluation. In experiments, the performance evaluation results are analyzed and compared with those for a regular digital camera.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.843-850
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• 2016

This paper introduces a novel modulation scheme for vehicular communication in taking advantage of existing LED lights available on a car. Our proposed 2-Phase Shift Keying (2-PSK) is a spatial modulation approach in which a pair of LED light sources in a car (either rear LEDs or front LEDs) is used as a transmitter. A typical camera (i.e. low frame rate at no greater than 30fps) that either a global shutter camera or a rolling shutter camera can be used as a receiver. The modulation scheme is a part of our Image Sensor Communication proposal submitted to IEEE 802.15.7r1 (TG7r1) recently. Also, a neural network approach is applied to improve the performance of LEDs detection and decoding under the noisy situation. Later, some analysis and experiment results are presented to indicate the performance of our system

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권7호
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• pp.622-628
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• 2016

IT 기술의 발전과 각종 관련 규제가 해결되어 드론으로 불리는 무인비행체(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; UAV)에 대한 수요가 증가하고 있다. 하지만, 현재까지 개발된 UAV는 무선조종 혹은 영상인식 기반의 자율비행에 의해 비행경로가 설정되므로, 안전사고에 대한 대책이 없다면 UAV에 대한 수요 증가는 UAV 간 혹은 UAV와 주변 사물 간의 충돌을 야기할 것이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 차량 통신 시스템을 활용한 UAV 비행경로 설정 방안을 제안한다. 제안된 방식에서는 차량 통신 시스템 인프라를 이용하여 UAV의 충돌을 방지하고 효율적인 비행이 가능하도록 하였으며, 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 방식의 효율성을 검증하였다. 그리고 제안된 방식은 차량 통신 규격을 준수하면서 약간의 오버헤드만 추가되어, 상용 차량 통신 시스템에 적용이 용이하도록 설계하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권10호
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• pp.957-966
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• 2014

Video Stabilization For Vehicular Applications Is An Important Method Of Removing Unwanted Shaky Motions From Unstable Videos. In This Paper, An Improved Video Stabilization Method With Image Stitching Has Been Proposed. Scale Invariant Feature Transform (Sift) Matching Is Used To Calculate The New Position Of The Points In Next Frame. Image Stitching Is Done In Every Frame To Get Stabilized Frames To Provide Stable Video As Well As A Better Understanding Of The Previous Frame'S Position And Show The Surrounding Objects Together. The Computational Complexity Of Sift (Scale-Invariant Feature Transform) Is Reduced By Reducing The Sift Descriptors Size And Resticting The Number Of Keypints To Be Extracted. Also, A Modified Matching Procedure Is Proposed To Improve The Accuracy Of The Stabilization.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.5978-5999
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• 2018

Pedestrian detection is a challenging area in the intelligent vehicles domain. During the last years, many works have been proposed to efficiently detect motion in images. However, the problem becomes more complex when it comes to detecting moving areas while the vehicle is also moving. This paper presents a variational optical flow-based method for motion estimation in vehicular traffic scenarios. We introduce a framework for detecting motion areas with small and large displacements by computing optical flow using a multilevel architecture. The flow field is estimated at the shortest level and then successively computed until the largest level. We include a filtering parameter and a warping process using bicubic interpolation to combine the intermediate flow fields computed at each level during optimization to gain better performance. Furthermore, we find that by including a penalization function, our system is able to effectively reduce the presence of outliers and deal with all expected circumstances in real scenes. Experimental results are performed on various image sequences from Daimler Pedestrian Dataset that includes urban traffic scenarios. Our evaluation demonstrates that despite the complexity of the evaluated scenes, the motion areas with both moving and static camera can be effectively identified.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권7호
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• pp.878-883
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• 2018

This paper proposes a method for transmitting instruction between vehicles in a moving situation using RC Car having camera. Information of preceding RC Car was transmitted by LED using Optical Camera Communication(OCC). Rear RC Car follows the preceding one by analyzing transmitted OCC data based on image processing. Through this procedure, the information reception ratio according to the distance change of two RC Cars is confirmed. Through experiments, we showed that our proposed scheme enables the possibility of vehicle platooning.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.181-192
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• 2017

최근 첨단 운전자 보조 시스템에 대한 활발한 연구가 이루어지고 있으며 특히 도로 영상을 활용한 도로 상황 분석에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 도로 상황 분석 성능을 높이기 위해 좋은 품질의 영상이 필요하고, 이를 위해 적절한 노출 시간으로 영상을 획득할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 온보드 카메라와 다양한 센서들로 주변의 정보를 습득하고 분석하여 운전자에게 정보를 제공해 줄 수 있는 다중 노출 차량용 스마트 카메라를 설계 및 구현하였다. 그리고 도로 환경에 적합한 자동 노출 조절 알고리즘을 고안하여 영상 처리 성능을 높이고자 하였다. 추가적으로 임베디드 장치의 제한된 계산 성능을 보완할 뿐만 아니라 영상 분석의 성능을 더 높일 수 있는 기존 관심 영역 기법을 응용한 관심 영역 전환 기법에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 제안한 다중 노출 차량용 스마트 카메라의 프로토타입을 구현하여 실제 도로 환경에서 노출 조절 알고리즘과 관심 영역 전환 기법의 성능을 평가하였으며 실험을 통해 제안하는 노출 조절 알고리즘과 관심 영역 전환 기법을 사용하였을 때, 영상 인식의 정확도가 평균 13.45% 증가함을 확인하였다.