• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2009

Visual occlusion method is a visual demand measuring technique which uses periodic vision/occlusion cycle to simulate driving environment. It became one of the most popular techniques for the evaluation of in-vehicle interfaces due to its robustness and cost-effectiveness. However, it has a limitation in that the vision/occlusion cycle forces the user to use the IVIS at a predetermined pace, while a driver decides when to use the device on his/her own in actual driving. This paper proposes a user-driven visual occlusion method for measuring the visual demand of in-vehicle interfaces. An experiment was conducted to examine the visual demand of an in-vehicle interface prototype using both the existing (system-driven) occlusion method and the proposed (user-driven) one. Two in-vehicle tasks were evaluated: address input and radio tuning. The results showed that, for the radio tuning task, there were significant differences in total shutter open time and resumability ratio between the methods. The user-driven visual occlusion method not only allows a better representation of drivers' behavior, but it also seems to provide more information on the chunkability of a task.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.589-595
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• 2011

Objective: This study compares two visual occlusion methods for the evaluation of in-vehicle interfaces. Background: Visual occlusion is a visual demand measuring technique which uses periodic vision/occlusion cycle to simulate a driving(or mobile) environment. It has been widely used for the evaluation of in-vehicle interfaces. There are two major implementation methods for this technique: (1) occlusion using PLATO(portable liquid crystal apparatus for tachistoscopic occlusion) goggles; (2) occlusion using a software application on a touchscreen device. Method: An experiment was conducted to examine the visual demand of an in-vehicle interface prototype using the goggle-based and the touchscreen-based occlusion methods. Address input and radio tuning tasks were evaluated in the experiment. Results: The results showed that, for the radio tuning task, there were no significant differences in total shutter open time and resumability ratio between the two occlusionconditions. However, it took longer for the participants to input addresses with the touchscreen-based occlusion. Conclusion & Application: The results suggest that touchscreen-based method could be used as an alternative to traditional, gogglebased visual occlusion especially in less demanding visual tasks such as radio tuning.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.1711-1725
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• 2014

Multi-target tracking is the main purpose of many video surveillance applications. Recently, multi-target tracking based on the particle filter method has achieved robust results by using the data association process. However, this method requires many calculations and it is inadequate for real time applications, because the number of associations exponentially increases with the number of measurements and targets. In this paper, to reduce the computational cost of the data association process, we propose a novel multi-target tracking method that excludes particle samples in the overlapped predictive region between the target to track and marginal targets. Moreover, to resolve the occlusion problem, we define an occlusion mode with the normal dynamic mode. When the targets are occluded, the mode is switched to the occlusion mode and the samples are propagated by Gaussian noise without the sampling process of the particle filter. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness of the proposed multi-target tracking method even in occlusion.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a novel tracking method using target separation and detection that are based on discriminative correlation filter (DCF), which is studied a lot recently. 'Retainability' is one of the most important factor of tracking. There are some factors making retainability of tracking worse. Especially, fast movement and occlusion of a target frequently occur in image data, and when it happens, it would make target lost. As a result, the tracking cannot be retained. For maintaining a robust tracking, in this paper, separation of a target is used so that normal tracking is maintained even though some part of a target is occluded. The detection algorithm is executed and find new location of the target when the target gets out of tracking range due to occlusion of whole part of a target or fast movement speed of a target. A variety of experiments with various image data sets are conducted. The algorithm proposed in this paper showed better performance than other conventional algorithms when fast movement and occlusion of a target occur.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.2108-2111
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• 2003

This paper introduces a new local feature extraction method and image matching method for the localization and classification of targets. Proposed method is based on the block-by-block projection associated with directional pattern of blocks. Each pattern has its own eigen-vertors called as CEBs(Classified Eigen-Blocks). Also proposed block-based image matching method is robust to translation and occlusion. Performance of proposed feature extraction and matching method is verified by the face localization and FLIR-vehicle-image classification test.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.334-338
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• 2022

In visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM), the correct recognition of a place benefits in relocalization and improved map accuracy. However, its performance is significantly affected by the environmental conditions such as variation in light, viewpoints, seasons, and presence of dynamic objects. This research addresses the problem of feature occlusion caused by interference of dynamic objects leading to the poor performance of visual place recognition algorithm. To overcome the aforementioned problem, this research analyzes the role of scene semantics in correct detection of a place in challenging environments and presents a semantics aided visual place recognition method. Semantics being invariant to viewpoint changes and dynamic environment can improve the overall performance of the place matching method. The proposed method is evaluated on the two benchmark datasets with dynamic environment and seasonal changes. Experimental results show the improved performance of the visual place recognition method for vSLAM.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.573-583
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 가상 시점 영상을 생성하는 과정에서 발생하는 가려짐 영역(occlusion region)을 보상하는 기법을 제안한다. 기존에 제안되었던 가려짐 영역 보상 기법들이 가려짐 영역이 발생한 주변 화소를 그대로 이용하거나, 평균값 또는 중간값을 이용하여 보상하기 때문에 시차의 분포 특성을 고려하기 어렵고 따라서 보상된 영역에서 시차의 정확성이 보장되지 않는다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 에너지 편향치 또는 특징점 기반의 영상 크기 조절 방법인 심카빙(seam carving) 기법의 기본 원리를 응용하여 가려짐 영역을 보상하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 기법에서는 먼저 소벨 마스크(Sobel mask)를 사용해 영상의 에지 맵을 검출하고, 이진화 과정과 세선화 과정을 거친 후 심카빙 기법을 응용하여 원 영상과 세선화 된 에지 맵의 에너지 패턴을 구한다. 구한 에너지 패턴으로 가려짐 영역을 보상하게 된다. 다양한 영상에 적용하여 제안된 기법의 성능을 실험하였고, 그 결과 기존의 보상 방법에 비해 영상의 중요 정보를 손상시키지 않고 가려짐 영역을 비교적 정확하게 보상하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제13B권7호
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• pp.663-670
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• 2006

실 세계 영상에 가상표적을 효과적으로 전시하여 현실감을 높이려면 먼저 두 세계를 정합한 후 폐색영역을 산출하여 가상객체의 위치를 결정하는 것이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 실 영상위에 지정된 경로에 따라 가상표적을 이동시킬 때 발생하는 폐색문제를 해결하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 먼저 실험 영역의 DEM을 이용하여 3차원 가상세계를 생성하고 이를 CCD 카메라 영상과 시각적 단서를 이용하여 정합한다. 또한 스네이크 알고리즘과 픽킹 알고리즘을 이용하여 영상에서 폐색 처리될 지점의 3차원 정보를 산출하고 표적이동시 이를 이용하여 폐색문제를 해결하는 방법을 제안하였다 실험에서는 부분적 폐색이 발생하는 환경에서 제안한 방법의 유효성을 입증하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.871-891
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• 2019

Visual tracking is a challenging task that needs learning an effective model to handle the changes of target appearance caused by factors such as pose variation, illumination change, occlusion and motion blur. In this paper, a novel tracking algorithm based on weighted local sub-space reconstruction error is presented. First, accounting for the appearance changes in the tracking process, a generative weight calculation method based on structural reconstruction error is proposed. Furthermore, a template update scheme of occlusion-aware is introduced, in which we reconstruct a new template instead of simply exploiting the best observation for template update. The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed algorithm are verified by comparing it with some state-of-the-art algorithms quantitatively and qualitatively.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.2094-2112
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• 2019

Focusing on the issue that the conventional Kernel Correlation Filter (KCF) algorithm has poor performance in handling scale change and obscured objects, this paper proposes an anti-occlusion and scale adaptive tracking algorithm in the basis of KCF. The average Peak-to Correlation Energy and the peak value of correlation filtering response are used as the confidence indexes to determine whether the target is obscured. In the case of non-occlusion, we modify the searching scheme of the KCF. Instead of searching for a target with a fixed sample size, we search for the target area with multiple scales and then resize it into the sample size to compare with the learnt model. The scale factor with the maximum filter response is the best target scaling and is updated as the optimal scale for the following tracking. Once occlusion is detected, the model updating and scale updating are stopped. Experiments have been conducted on the OTB benchmark video sequences for compassion with other state-of-the-art tracking methods. The results demonstrate the proposed method can effectively improve the tracking success rate and the accuracy in the cases of scale change and occlusion, and meanwhile ensure a real-time performance.