• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.542-551
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• 2005

A new distance measurement method with the use of a single camera and a rotating mirror is presented. A camera in front of a rotating mirror acquires a sequence of reflected images, from which distance information is extracted. The distance measurement is based on the idea that the corresponding pixel of an object point at a longer distance moves at a higher speed in a sequence of images in this type of system setting. Distance measurement based on such pixel movement is investigated. Like many other image-based techniques, this presented technique requires matching corresponding points in two images. To alleviate such difficulty, two kinds of techniques of image tracking through the sequence of images and the utilization of multiple sets of image frames are described. Precision improvement is possible and is one attractive merit. The presented approach with a rotating mirror is especially suitable for such multiple measurements. The imprecision caused by the physical limit could be improved through making several measurements and taking an average. In this paper, mathematics necessary for implementing the technique is derived and presented. Also, the error sensitivities of related parameters are analyzed. Experimental results using the real camera-mirror setup are reported.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.454-460
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• 2016

Unlike conventional visible light communications (VLC) adopting photo detectors (PD), optical camera communications (OCC) employs cameras in detecting the transmitted data. Especially, the data rate of OCC can be enhanced by using the principle of rolling-shutter, which is the operating scheme of a CMOS image sensor. In this study, we consider a novel OCC system for high-speed real time video processing to transmit high speed data from LED and to acquire image utilizing rolling-shutter effect of CMOS image sensor. Also, we demonstrate the improved performance of proposed system using a test-bed.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.15-21
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• 2013

In this paper, sensor system and inspection algorithm in order to inspect steel balance weight for automobile is described. Steel balance weight is composed of clip and weight, which is joined by press process. The defective one has a gap between clip and weight. To detect whether there is a gap, sensor system is simply configured with laser line projector and USB camera, which make it possible to measure the height difference of clip and weight area. Laser line pattern which is made on the surface of a balance weight is captured by USB camera. In case that USB camera is used in machine vision, barrel distortion caused by wide angle lens makes the captured image distorted. Image warping function is applied to correct the distortion. Simple image processing algorithm is applied to extract the laser line information and whether it is good or not is judged through the extracted information.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.495-502
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• 2003

This paper focuses on the implementation of an efficient tracking method of a moving object using optimal representative blocks by way of a pan-tilt camera. The key idea is derived from the fact that when the image size of a moving object is shrunk in an image frame according to the distance between the mobile robot camera and the object in motion, the tracking performance of a moving object can be improved by reducing the size of representative blocks according to the object image size. Motion estimations using Edge Detection (ED) and Block-Matching Algorithm (BMA) are regularly employed to track objects by vision sensors. However, these methods often neglect the real-time vision data since these schemes suffer from heavy computational load. In this paper, a representative block able to significantly reduce the amount of data to be computed, is defined and optimized by changing the size of representative blocks according to the size of the object in the image frame in order to improve tracking performance. The proposed algorithm is verified experimentally by using a two degree-of- freedom active camera mounted on a mobile robot.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.169-177
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• 2014

It is essential to support the image and video analysis technology such as motion detection since the DVR and NVR storage were adopted in the real time visual surveillance system. Especially the network camera would be popular as a video input device. The traditional CCTV that supports analog video data get be replaced by the network camera. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of video surveillance system that provides the real time motion detection by the video storage server. The mobile application also has been implemented in order to provides the retrieval functionality of image analysis results. We develop the video analysis server with open source library OpenCV and implement the daemon process for video input processing and real-time image analysis in our video surveillance system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.7-8
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• 2014

The smart fire detection and automatic extinguish device interface platform based on thermal imaging camera that early monitors fire is designed and implemented in this paper. If a fire occurs in some area, the developed system can detect and automatically extinguish the fire. The major functions for developing the system are: Image system and Viewer for fire detection based on Thermal imaging camera and Megapixel camera; Automatic extinuish device for early fir detection; Interface platform between monitoring systems and automatic extinguish device.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.118-129
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• 2011

In this paper, we suggest a new camera capturing and synthesizing algorithm with the multi-captured left and right images for the better comfortable feeling of 3D depth and also propose 3D image capturing hardware system based on the this new algorithm. We also suggest the simple control algorithm for the calibration of camera capture system with zooming function based on a performance index measure which is used as feedback information for the stabilization of focusing control problem. We also comment on the theoretical mapping theory concerning projection under the assumption that human is sitting 50cm in front of and watching the 3D LCD screen for the captured image based on the modeling of pinhole Camera. We choose 9 segmentations and propose the method to find optimal alignment and focusing based on the measure of alignment and sharpness and propose the synthesizing fusion with the optimized 9 segmentation images for the best 3D depth feeling.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.816-818
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• 2017

In this paper, we perform a performance analysis of a surveillance camera network system with an image recognition server based on frame discard rate and server utilization. Surveillance camera states are divided into recognition states and silence states to analyze the various parameters such as the optimum number of image frames and the optimum number of cameras based on the processing capacity of the server. The analyzed results will be useful for efficient operation of the evolving surveillance camera network systems.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.1691-1701
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• 2006

The scan type magnetic camera is proposed to improve the limited spatial resolution due to the size of the packaged magnetic sensor. An image of the scan type magnetic camera, ${\partial}B/{\partial}x$ image, is useful for extracting the crack information of a specimen under a large inclined mag netic field distribution due to the poles of magnetizer. The ${\partial}B/{\partial}x$ images of the cracks of different shapes and sizes are calculated by using the improved dipole model proposed in this paper. The improved dipole model uses small divided dipole models, the rotation and relocation of each dipole model and the principle of superposition. Also for a low carbon steel specimen, the experimental results of nondestructive testing obtained by using multiple cracks are compared with the modeling results to verify the effectiveness of ${\partial}B/{\partial}x$ modeling. The improved dipole model can be used to simulate the LMF and ${\partial}B/{\partial}x$ image of a specimen with complex cracks, and to evaluate the cracks quantitatively using magnetic flux leakage testing.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.40-47
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• 2014

This paper proposes a matching method of GIS lane information with a vehicle position using camera image to reduce DGPS error. Images of straight road are taken using a camera that is installed on the front center of the vehicle, and the distance between the vehicle and the lane are estimated using the images. The current GIS lane data is matched by comparing the estimated distance and the measured distance using a DGPS. Inverse perspective mapping is used to minimize the error of image processing from the heading angle, and single buffering method is applied to decide the exact moment of GIS match. Through practical test on the highway, feasibility of the GIS matching using camera image is confirmed.