• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.227-232
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• 2018

In a Hough transform that is a representative algorithm for the straight line detection, a great number of edge pixels generated from noisy or complex images cause enormous amount of computation and pseudo straight lines. This paper proposes a two step straight line detection algorithm to improve the conventional Hough transform. In the first step, the proposed algorithm divides an image into non-overlapping blocks and detects the information related to the straight line of the edge pixels in the block using a principal component analysis (PCA). In the second step, it detects the straight lines by performing the Hough transform limited slope area to the pixels associated with the straight line. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm reduces average of ${\rho}$ computation by 94.6% and prevents the pseudo straight lines although some additional computation is needed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.9
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• pp.773-781
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• 2013

The Hough transform for line detection is widely used in many machine vision applications due to its robustness against data loss and distortion. However, it is not appropriate for real-time embedded vision systems, because it has inefficient computation structure and demands a large number of memory accesses. Thus, this paper proposes an improved voting scheme of the Hough transform, and then applies this scheme to a Hough transform hardware architecture so that it can provide real-time performance with less hardware resource. The proposed voting scheme reduces computation overhead of the voting procedure using correlation between adjacent pixels, and improves computational efficiency by increasing reusability of vote values. The proposed hardware architecture, which adopts this improved scheme, maximizes its throughput by computing and storing vote values for many adjacent pixels in parallel. This parallelization for throughput improvement is accomplished with little hardware overhead compared with sequential computation.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.3710-3717
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• 1999

For the development of unmanned autonomous vehicle, it is essential to detect obstacles, especially vehicles, in the forward direction of navigation. In order to reliably exclude regions that do not contain obstacles and save a considerable amount of computational effort, it is often necessary to confine computation only to ROI(region of interest)s. A ROI is usually chosen as the interior region of the lane. We propose a computationally simple and efficient method for the detection of lanes based on Hough transform and quadratic curve fitting. The proposed method first employs Hough transform to get approximate locations of lanes, and then applies quadratic curve fitting to the locations computed by Hough transform. We have experimented the proposed method on real outdoor road scene. Experimental results show that our method gives accurate detection of straight and curve lanes, and is computationally very efficient.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.119-126
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• 2003

The problem of tracking moving objects in a video stream is discussed in this pa-per. We discussed the popular technique of optical flow for moving object detection. Optical flow finds the velocity vectors at each pixel in the entire video scene. However, optical flow based methods require complex computations and are sensitive to noise. In this paper, we proposed a new method based on the Hough transform and on voting accumulation for improving the accuracy and reducing the computation time. Further, we applied the Boo-lean based edge detector for edge detection. Edge detection and segmentation are used to extract the moving objects in the image sequences and reduce the computation time of the CHT. The Boolean based edge detector provides accurate and very thin edges. The difference of the two edge maps with thin edges gives better localization of moving objects. The simulation results show that the proposed method improves the accuracy of finding the optical flow vectors and more accurately extracts moving objects' information. The process of edge detection and segmentation accurately find the location and areas of the real moving objects, and hence extracting moving information is very easy and accurate. The Combinatorial Hough Transform and voting accumulation based optical flow measures optical flow vectors accurately. The direction of moving objects is also accurately measured.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.511-519
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• 1997

This paper presents the automatic recognition algorithm of the license number in on vehicle image. The proposed algorithm uses the correlation coefficient and Hough transform to detect license plate. The m/n ratio reduction is performed to save time and memory. By the correlation coefficient between the standard pattern and the target pattern, licence plate area is roughly extracted. On the extracted local area, preprocessing and binarization is performed. The Hough transform is applied to find the extract outline of the plate. If the detection fails, a smaller or a larger standard pattern is used to compute the correlation coefficient. Through this process, the license plate of different size can be extracted. Two algorithms to each separate number are proposed. One segments each number with projection-histogram, and the other segments each number with the label. After each character is separated, it is recognized by the neural network. This research overlomes the problems in conventional methods, such as the time requirement or failure in extraction of outlines which are due to the processing of the entire image, and by processing in real time, the practical application is possible.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.383-386
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 Hough 변환을 이용하여 도로 차선의 핵심 정보를 추출하고 차선을 인식하는 방법을 제안하고 실시간으로 차선 인식이 용이 하도록 차선 검출의 고속화 방법을 제안한다. 고속화를 위해 이미지를 작은 영역(Interest Zone)으로 분할하고 분할된 영역에 대해 Hough 변환을 수행하여 영역내의 차선을 검출한다. 검출된 차선의 패턴 정보를 이용하여 다음 Step의 Interest Zone을 결정하고 Hough 변환의 수행을 반복하여 차선 검출을 시도 하였다. 또한 실험 영상을 대상으로 시뮬레이션 수행한 결과를 제시하고 제안 방법의 유효성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.195-198
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 Hough 변환을 이용하여 도로 차선의 핵심 정보를 추출하고 차선을 인식하는 방법을 제안하고 실시간으로 차선 인식이 용이 하도록 차선 검출의 고속화 방법을 제안한다. 고속화를 위해 이미지를 작은 영역(Interest Zone)으로 분할하고 분할된 영역에 대해 Hough 변환을 수행하여 영역내의 차선을 검출한다. 검출된 차선의 패턴 정보를 이용하여 다음 Step의 Interest Zone을 결정하고 Hough 변환의 수행을 반하여 차선 검출을 시도 하였다. 또한 실험 영상을 대상으로 시뮬레이션 수행한 결과를 제시하고 제안 방법의 유효성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.11
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• pp.60-67
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• 1999

This paper proposes a robust oriented Hausdorff measure (ROHM) for 20D object matching. The ROHM is introduced by replacing the distance concept of the conventional Hausdorff distance (HD) algorithm by the accumulation scheme of the Hough transform (HT). The proposed algorithm can be considered as the modified directed HT using the distance transform (DT). The orientation information at each pixel is also used for removing incorrect correspondences. Experiments with various test images show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than that of conventional HD algorithms considered.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.105-112
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• 1999

Image Processing Technique has been used as an efficient method to collect traffic information on the road such as vehicle counts, speed, queues, congestion and incidents. Most of the current methods which have been used to detect vehicles by the image processing are based on point processing, dealing with the local gray level of each pixel in the small window. However, these methods have some drawbacks. Firstly, detection is restricted by image quality. Secondly, they can not deal with occlusion and perspective projection problems, In this research, a new method which possibly deals with occlusion and perspective problems will be proposed. It extracts spatial information such as the position, the relationship of vehicles in 3-dimensional space, as well as vehicle detection in the image. The main algorithm used in this research is based on an extension of the Hough Transform. The Hough Transform which is proposed to estimates parameters of vertices and directed edges analytically on the Hough Space, is a valuable method for the 3-dimensional analysis of static scenes, motion detection and the estimation of viewing parameters.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.80-83
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• 2005

A binocular robot vision system having an autonomously moving active viewpoint is proposed. By using this active viewpoint, the system constructs a correspondence between the images of a feature points on the right and left retinas and calculates the spatial coordinates of the feature points. The system incorporates a function of detecting straight lines in an image. To detect lines the system uses Hough transform. The system searches a region surrounded by 4 straight lines. Then the system recognizes the region as a quadrangle. The system constructs a correspondence between the quadrangles in the right and left images. By the use of the result of the constructed correspondence, the system calculates the spatial coordinates of an object. An experiment shows the effect of the line detection using Hough transform, the recognition of the surface of the object and the calculation of the spatial coordinates of the object.