• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.602-608
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• 2015

This paper proposes an algorithm for precise detection of corner points on a coplanar checkerboard in order to perform stereo camera calibration using a single frame. Considering the conditions of automobile production lines where a stereo camera is attached to the windshield of a vehicle, this research focuses on a coplanar calibration methodology. To obtain the accurate values of the stereo camera parameters using the calibration methodology, precise localization of a large number of feature points on a calibration target image should be ensured. To realize this demand, the idea with respect to a checkerboard pattern design and the use of a Homography matrix are provided. The calibration result obtained by the proposed method is also verified by comparing the depth information from stereo matching and a laser scanner.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.755-758
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• 2002

스테레오스코픽 영상은 스테레오스코픽 카메라를 이용하여 좌 영상(left image)과 우 영상(right image)을 동시에 획득하는 것으로 사람의 눈으로 보는 것과 같은 입체감을 얻을 수 있는 것을 특징으로 한다. 스테레오스코픽 영상에서 객체의 깊이값을 구하기 위해서는 영상의 정합점을 찾는 것이 중요한데, 본 논문에서는 일반화 대칭변환(generalized symmetry transform) 알고리즘을 적용하여 스테레오스코픽(stereoscopic) 영상의 정합점(correspond points)을 찾는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 먼저 좌 영상과 우 영상에 대해 에지(edge), 코너 검출 방법을 통해 특징점(feature point)을 검출하고 각 특징점들을 중심으로 사각 영역을 설정하고 이 범위내의 에지들이 갖는 대칭도(symmetry magnitude)를 특징점의 위치에 누적 시킨다. 좌영상의 대칭도를 구한 결과를 우 영상의 에지들의 대칭도와 비교를 수행해 임계치(threshold) 이하의 값을 가진 점들을 정합 후보로 선택한다. 이 정합 후보들을 영역내의 반지름 단위의 대칭도 비교를 통해 더욱 세분화된 비교를 수행하고 만약 이와 같은 과정을 통해서도 정합점을 찾지 못한다면 정합 후보들에 대해 칼라 정합도를 측정하여 최종적으로 정합점을 검출한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 이용한다면 특징점만을 이용하여 검색을 수행했을 때보다 더욱 정확한 정합점을 구할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.687-690
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• 2003

지식 정보화 시대에 들어서면서부터 정보는 개인이나 일부 기관에 국한됨이 없이 중요시되고 있지만, 그 경계는 나날이 모호해지고 정보의 양은 급속하게 늘어가고 있는 것이 오늘날의 현실이다. 이러한 시대적 환경은 보안의 중요성이 크게 부각되어 생체인식 기술에 대한 관심을 높아지게 만들었다. 생체인식(Biometrics)분야 중에서도 지문 인식(Recognition)은 많은 연구가 이루어졌으나 개선할 점이 여전히 남아있다. 특히, 정확성 및 속도향상이라는 측면이 그렇다고 할 수 있겠다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 지문 인증(Authentication)시스템의 지문 영상(Image)의 식별 능력을 증가시키고 다수의 지문 영상에서도 좋은 결과를 가져올 수 있는 고유한 특징이 될 수 있는 요소들(Factor)을 추출하여 진보된 지문인식 시스템을 구현하는 것을 궁극적인 목표로 하고 있다. 따라서, 지금까지의 관련 연구를 바탕으로 지문 인식 시스템을 구현하는 것을 궁극적인 목표로 하고 있다. 따라서. 지금까지의 관련 연구를 바탕으로 지문 인식 시스템의 성능 향상을 위해서 핵심적인 minutiae reference point, 방향 정보의 추출 방법을 제안하고 인식의 종결부라고 할 수 있는 정합(matching)에 관에서 논한 다음, 마지막으로 결론 및 향후 과제로서 개선할 부분을 제시한다.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose an algorithm that estimates the location of lunar rover using IMU and vision system instead of the dead-reckoning method using IMU and encoder, which is difficult to estimate the exact distance due to the accumulated error and slip. First, in the lunar environment, magnetic fields are not uniform, unlike the Earth, so only acceleration and gyro sensor data were used for the localization. These data were applied to extended kalman filter to estimate Roll, Pitch, Yaw Euler angles of the exploration rover. Also, the lunar module has special color which can not be seen in the lunar environment. Therefore, the lunar module were correctly recognized by applying the HSV color filter to the stereo image taken by lunar rover. Then, the distance between the exploration rover and the lunar module was estimated through SIFT feature point matching algorithm and geometry. Finally, the estimated Euler angles and distances were used to estimate the current position of the rover from the lunar module. The performance of the proposed algorithm was been compared to the conventional algorithm to show the superiority of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.861-877
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• 2016

This paper first discusses the disadvantages of the existing CamShift Algorithm for real time face tracking, and then proposes a new Camshift Algorithm that performs better than the existing algorithm. The existing CamShift Algorithm shows unstable tracking when tracing similar colors in the background of objects. This drawback of the existing CamShift is resolved by using Kinect’s pixel-by-pixel depth information and the Skin Detection algorithm to extract candidate skin regions based on HSV color space. Additionally, even when the tracking object is not found, or when occlusion occurs, the feature point-based matching algorithm makes it robust to occlusion. By applying the improved CamShift algorithm to face tracking, the proposed real-time face tracking algorithm can be applied to various fields. The results from the experiment prove that the proposed algorithm is superior in tracking performance to that of existing TLD tracking algorithm, and offers faster processing speed. Also, while the proposed algorithm has a slower processing speed than CamShift, it overcomes all the existing shortfalls of the existing CamShift.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.5C
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• pp.632-641
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• 2004

In this paper, a new intermediate view reconstruction method employing a stereo image rectification algorithm by which an uncalibrated input stereo image can be transformed into the calibrated one is suggested and its performance is analyzed. In the proposed method, feature point are extracted from the stereo image pair though detection of the corners and similarities between each pixel of the stereo image. And then, using these detected feature points, the moving vectors between stereo image and the epipolar line is extracted. Finally, the input stereo image is rectified by matching the extracted epipolar line between the stereo image in the horizontal direction and intermediate views are reconstructed by using these rectified stereo images. From some experiments on synthesis of the intermediate views by using three kinds of stereo image; a CCETT's stereo image of 'Man' and two stereo images of 'Face' ＆ 'Car' captured by real camera, it is analyzed that PSNRs of the intermediate views reconstructed from the calibrated image by using the proposed rectification algorithm are improved by 2.5㏈ for 'Man', 4.26㏈ for 'Pace' and 3.85㏈ for 'Car' than !hose of the uncalibrated ones. This good experimental result suggests a possibility of practical application of the unposed stereo image rectification algorithm-based intermediate view reconstruction view to the uncalibrated stereo images.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.579-587
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• 1988

Conventional methods of automatic recognition of Korean characters consist of the thinning processing, the segmentation of connected fundamental phonemes and the recognition of each fundamental character. These methods, however require the thinning processing which is complex and time consuming. Also several noise components make worse effects on the recognition of characters than in the case of no thinning. This paper describes the extraction method of the feature components of Korean fundamental characters of the Gothic Korean letter without the thinning. We regard line-components of the contour which describes the character's external boundary as the feature-components. The line-component includes the directional code, the length and the start point in the image. Each fundamental character is represented by the string of directional codes. Therefore the recognition process is only the string pattern matching. We use the Gothic-hangul in the experiment. The ecognition rate is 92%.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.919-927
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose an accurate camera calibration method for acquiring multiview stereoscopic images. Generally, camera calibration is performed by using checkerboard structured patterns. The checkerboard pattern simplifies feature point extraction process and utilizes previously recognized lattice structure, which results in the accurate estimation of relations between the point on 2-dimensional image and the point on 3-dimensional space. Since estimation accuracy of camera parameters is dependent on feature matching, accurate detection of checkerboard corner is crucial. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the method that performs accurate camera calibration method through accurate detection of checkerboard corners. Proposed method detects checkerboard corner candidates by utilizing 1-dimensional gaussian filters with succeeding corner refinement process to remove outliers from corner candidates and accurately detect checkerboard corners in sub-pixel unit. In order to verify the proposed method, we check reprojection errors and camera location estimation results to confirm camera intrinsic parameters and extrinsic parameters estimation accuracy.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.407-414
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• 2015

Interest points are generally located at the pixels where height changes occur. So, interest points can be the significant pixels for DSM generation, and these have the important role to generate accurate and reliable matching results. Manual operation is widely used to extract the interest points and to match stereo satellite images using these for generating height information, but it causes economic and time consuming problems. Thus, a tie point extraction method using Harris-affine technique and SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) descriptors was suggested to analyze height information of buildings in this study. Interest points on buildings were extracted by Harris-affine technique, and tie points were collected efficiently by SIFT descriptors, which is invariant for scale. Searching window for each interest points was used, and direction of tie points pairs were considered for more efficient tie point extraction method. Tie point pairs estimated by proposed method was used to analyze height information of buildings. The result had RMSE values less than 2m comparing to the height information estimated by manual method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.6
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• pp.1259-1268
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• 2004

To organize training in limited training area for an actuai combat, realistic training simulation plugged in by various battle conditions is essential. In this paper, we propose a virtual target overlay technique which does not use a virtual image, but Projects a virtual target on ground-based CCD image by appointed scenario for a realistic training simulation. In the proposed method, we create a realistic 3D model (for an instructor) by using high resolution Geographic Tag Image File Format(GeoTIFF) satellite image and Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED), and extract the road area from a given CCD image (for both an instructor and a trainee). Satellite images and ground-based sensor images have many differences in observation position, resolution, and scale, thus yielding many difficulties in feature-based matching. Hence, we propose a moving synchronization technique that projects the target on the sensor image according to the marked moving path on 3D satellite image by applying Thin-Plate Spline(TPS) interpolation function, which is an image warping function, on the two given sets of corresponding control point pair. To show the experimental result of the proposed method, we employed two Pentium4 1.8MHz personal computer systems equipped with 512MBs of RAM, and the satellite and sensor images of Daejoen area are also been utilized. The experimental result revealed the effective-ness of proposed algorithm.